The Cookie Jar

"If you would take a moment to pull your collective heads from your asses you would realize that there has always been a Reynolds in this group since its inception. We have been hiding the existence of Exim since back when they were discovered and the church thought they were demons! Damn it! You can't kick Me out yo- you bastards! I am- get your goddamn hands off me, don't you dare forget who the hell I am; I am the Cookie Jar!"
-Douglas Reynolds, former Council member of the Cookie Jar

Public Agenda

The Cookie Jar members are motivated by greed and fear; same as the rest of the world. They have lied, cheated, stolen, bribed, killed and manipulated on a global scale to hide Exim from the world. All to give them as much time as possible to gather, train and ensure their Exim’s loyalty to them first and foremost. In the past, before focus shifted to gathering Exim like collectibles, the Cookie Jar was focused on the refinement of Hypertech in a wide field of sciences from ballistics and warfare to economics and medicine.
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Exim have infiltrated the Cookie Jar. At least two of the leaders are Exim and they both may have reached the theoretical Threat Level 4. They were the deciding votes that cast Reynolds out from the group and while he is unaware of their true nature he does hold a particular hatred for them because of their callous disregard of most people and worst for his families history in this group.
The Cookie Jar members all believe they exist to straddle the zenith of science and technology in addition to capturing and recruiting new Exim. Few of them suspect that their territorial infighting over where, how and what Exim to recruit has created blind-spots which are allowing Exim to slip through. It has created an environment that allows Exim to sharpen their understanding of their talents, to increase their potency faster than any Exim before them. Even Reynolds, who has begun to undermine the Cookie Jar's efforts with his collection of Exim in his knock-off Advocacies, helps to further this.

History

In its current form, the Cookie Jar seeks to hide the existence of Exim from the rest of the world in an effort to corner the market on them before others learn of this "commodity". An organization without borders or morals, iterations of which existed in the shadows for centuries. Made up of high ranking individuals in; governments, criminal organizations and businesses they are not allies or friends but enemies forced into a convenient detente that they all know cannot last. Though their individual goals differ and the groups shared motivations are dictated by the current leaders, The Cookie Jar adheres to a few golden, unbreakable rules.
A potential applicant must have already worked with the Cookie Jar through; proxies, shell and dummy corporations for some time in order to be vetted. This would be member must also be endorsed (vouched for) by an established member, before being given the opportunity to provide the minimum 500 million dollar buy in. There is no limit to the buy in because the information and access granted to the new member is proportional the amount of money spent.
This test of wealth is also part of the vetting process and has kept many potential members at bay. But There are no exceptions and this is one of the golden rules.
The Cookie Jar is a conglomerate of individual groups and is aware that each comes with their own enemies and agendas. The politics of the “outside world” is a constant, even with their influence, power and wealth. Sometimes this can be an inescapable disruption to them.
Leaders from opposing nations, groups or ideologies may find themselves strange bedfellows in The Cookie Jar and this could lead to positive resolutions outside the shadow organization. But sometimes rivalries are far too deep, this leads to another Golden Rule:
So long as the rivalries and disruptive actions stay outside and do not affect the efforts or resources of the Cookie Jar, then all is well and all parties may go about their business as usual. In the long history of the Cookie Jar, all sides know what is at stake and at most a warning has always proven to be enough.
This leads to another and possibly the most important golden rule. Once a member’s collateral/buy-in money is gone, so is their membership. A person’s collateral is used to; pay off other members that have been inconvenienced, pay for cleaning up (sublimating) “messes” left by Exim in the member’s employ and for "recruiting" Exim to work for that person.
These costs serve as a check against gross recklessness (because if you need to spend a lifetime fortune to cover up messes over and over, you’re a burden). This was made abundantly clear when one of the former leaders of this incarnation of The Advocacy, Douglas Reynolds became the first member to ever burn through their collateral funds and as such was exiled.

Type

Secret, Brotherhood

Alternative Names

The Advocacy