Mediation: Deep State Meddling in Manikewan Provincial Election

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BRIEF
LOCATION: Miskatch, Manikewan, Galros

DISPATCH: Western Galrosian Office; Morley Erickson, Director of Operations.

CLIENT: Pierre "Pee-Wee" Turgeon, Manikewan Party Leadership Candidate.

AGENTS CONSIDERED: Brad Tungis, Dan Guy, Scott Bagley.

SUMMARY: Now normally LARS isn't in the business of getting involved in minor league political malarkey. However, one of the candidates running for the leadership of the Manikewan Party, Pee-Wee Turgeon, is alleging that his fellow competitors are being controlled by a secret cabal of vampires, who have been operating out of Miskatch and Levina for the past 20 years. He alleges that he has witnessed several of his competitors, including Ken Redekopp, Erin Raven-Wilson, and Terry Cooke, engaged in late night meetings with a dark figure he calls The Grey Man. He is offering us an upfront payment of $40,000 GAD, as well as an additional $160,000 GAD if we can solve the mystery and get the bottom of this yuckaflux. Information is limited on a case like this due to the political sensitivity, so your agents are gonna have to do a bit of muckraking on location if they hope to solve this mess.

Surrounding the case in question, there's be significant political upheaval in the region due to the double header of farmers squaring off against Confederates over access rights to native sites, and general mistreatment of the Confederates over the years, as well as continued alienation from the government in Oshaweaga due to what are perceived as unfair taxes on Manikewan resource extraction. Of the candidates in the Leadership race, most have been campaigning to fight the taxes imposed, with the exception of Pee-Wee. On the issue of Confederate vs Farmer Rights, Pee-Wee has not sided with either party, Erin Raven-Wilson, as a member of the Chacktaney Band, has sided with the Confederates, and Ken Redekopp and Terry Cooke have both sided with the farmers.

Looking at Pee-Wee's chancing of winning; polls have him placed dead last with a 13% chance of getting past the first round, nevermind winning. So don't be too quick to ignore that he might just be sounding the alarm to knock a few of his party-mates out of the race.

POTENTIAL THREATS: Vampires, Human Actors.