Astral Space Preservation Society

While Chicago was famous for its universities’ Awakened studies long before the bug breakout, the fallout of the Cermak Blast, Bug City, and Operation: Extermination really turned the city into a magical hot spot. Even today, pseudo-arcane think tanks and Awakened organizations continue their research on the Zone. Foremost among them is the Astral Space Preservation Society.
The ASPS is based out of Elemental Hall, a four-story complex that used to be part of the University of Chicago’s magical studies program, half a kilometer off the shore of Lake Michigan. Th eory has it that Elemental Hall is the only place in Downtown unaff ected by the FAB III outbreak, but of course, that can’t be confi rmed, because nobody can get close to the place in the astral.
Nominally dedicated to the restoration of the damaged astral fabric in Chicago, they don’t do a lot that’s visible on the mundane plane. Th e head researcher is Prof Dr. Eric Kersh— former dean of the University of Chicago—and he’s supported by a live-in cadre of ASPS thaumaturgists. About a month ago, I saw Kersh meet with Jason Two-Spirits, who was accompanied by a powerful free spirit by the name of Seeks-the-Moon— neither of whom had been seen since the walls came down aft er
Operation: Extermination. At a guess, I’d say the ASPS is remotely monitoring Chicago’s astral from a safe distance.