The New World is a vast, wonderful and dangerous place. Ever since settlers made landfall, they have had to contend with its glories and its horrors. Spurred onwards by the thrill of adventure or the wheel of colonization, men have beheld the beauty of the great sequoia forests and the majesty of the imposing mountain ranges, the sheer dread of wendigos and skin-demons roaming the untamed land. There are some who seek to dominate this continent, exploit it for all its worth and expunge its every ancient memory to pave the way for growth, progress and wealth. There are some who hunger for holy meaning, erecting bastions of burning faith and casting the stones of sin upon the pagan and the animist. Then there are those who want for nothing but to live with the world, to embrace it instead of oppress it, integrating their way of life with the traditions of the ancient tribes and the wisdom of the shamans. Beyond all of them, there are cultivators - those for whom mortality is not enough. Be it for fame, eternity or purpose, thousands rise from amidst the masses to seek and claim the power of their dreams and make them into reality - but all must beware, for dreams can quickly become nightmares... While the gods await on Earth, a thousand lidless eyes stare from beyond the veil of reality, a million claws scratching at the border between the tangible and the impossible. Riding across the wild frontier and the settled cities, the agents of the Cultivation Response OverWatch fight and die to keep the gate closed shut. Gunslingers and investigators, they oppose monsters and cultists who would bring madness into the world - whatever the cost. This is the story of the "Blackbird Bureau", the agents of C.R.OW. ----- THIS IS A NANOWRIMO PROJECT AND DOES NOT HAVE A FIXED UPDATE SCHEDULEIT MAY OR MAY NOT CONTINUE PAST NOVEMBER