The Monster Research Emporium

There is always ideas floating around about a shadowy government group made to cover up strange things. Magic, aliens, super-science, it doesn't matter, they do it all. the MRE is my attempt.

What makes this different you might ask? Firstly, it's not a secret. In fact, they are trying to warn the world of these impending dangers. the worst thing is an unknowing public, bungling up what could be an easy task if they were informed. As well, there is a lot of misinformation that needs to be cleared up about how to handle things like zombies, vampires, and demons. Yeah there is some truth to the old stories, but some of them either have things that can't be repeated and therefore should be discounted, or are flat out wrong and could lead to someone getting into trouble.

Second, they aren't really a government organization. They have some funding from different governments, hoping to win sway with them but ultimately, it's privately owned and operated. Some of the founder's motivations aren't necessarily on the up and up, but most the people driving the whole place tend to have their head int he right place.

Third, scope. Typically, the men in black show up and they are running the show, and they have crazy resources, and super weapons that could only come from limitless funding. The MRE doesn't have this. Magic weapons sure, but largely it's people fighting monsters with things you could go out and by right now. As well, the bulk of the origination is a loose network of people sharing information spending their own money to keep evil at bay. Though some of these people later become agents and what not, the bulk is free lance hunters.

So they operate more like Dr Van Helsing from Dracula. Experts in a field, but no one really believes them, and thinks they are nuts. Until they are completely right and save the day.

Fourth, they are more the department of fire safety then a police force. They do have teams of people for assault missions, and even have ties to private security firms to handle large scale threats that need to be handled discreetly, but they would much rather teach the world the dangers of demon summoning or how to handle giant attacks then try to cage away these things for all time. There is a certain balance to things, and to actively attempt to disrupt that would be bad in ways not currently known, as well keeping demons, vampires, giants, and dragons in one location would be A) Costly, and B) bad if that place ever gotten broken into.

They do have research labs across the world, but it is more a short term research station then it is a prison for the unearthly. 

So yeah, there you have it, the MRE, a loose band of people scraping by to educate the world on monsters. Trying to look like a shadowy all powerful government agency.