International Contract Agency

Exclusive. Reliable. Discreet. The world's most elite assassination agency employs only top talent and is considered the gold standard of the field.

The International Contract Agency is a global conglomerate of professional hitmen and assassins, whose services are extended to wealthy and influential clients around the world.

It is a multinational, extremely well-funded neutral (yet criminal) organization independent of the world's governments, with ties to various groups and individuals, providing assassination and mercenary services. Credited assassinations have taken place across multiple nations on the main continent of Kai. The Agency enjoys the cooperation of affiliates such as the law enforcement and military forces of different empires. Although politically neutral and ethically amoral, the Agency avoids accepting hits ordered by enemies of its allies in government bureaus to ensure cooperation from their allies. In addition, most of assigned assassination targets are professional criminals.

The Agency offers not only assassinations, but also intelligence on the suspects. The initial price for scheduled assassination depends on the target, the target's importance, the amount of security that the target enjoys, and the chosen asset. The Agency can be contacted by virtually anyone, from wealthy international companies and other agencies to even individuals seeking vendetta.

The Agency uses "handlers", as the middle-man with its agents. They provide professional freelance operatives with magical, encypted correspondence and mission briefings. Contractors also sell intelligence briefings on the subjects of missions to their agents for the fee of 15gp per file. Controllers in the Agency are not supposed to liaise with their assets in person.

In 4886, the Agency made an exception to their rule of not killing former clients when they wer contracted to kill [Sergei Zavorotko] for his possession of a powerful, weaponized magical artifact.

Structure

Leadership

The ICA is run by a board of directors. Their chairman is an unidentified male with a deep voice, who does not show his face (also demanding of middle management to show their faces as little as possible), and as of 4887 their board of directors consisted of;

• Aheem Shbot (Former Malgian minister, with over 240,000gp in stolen fortune from war)
• Jose Sosa (Zillbien oil minister)
• Frank Tang (High-ranking member of a Nessian crime ring)
• Lalu Khan (Leader of the Undersun's biggest prostitute network)
• Dr. Natalia Luka (Arms dealer selling Undersun magical weapons to other nations)
• Hans Beck (Tangloveen industrialist and aspiring politician)
• Mary Minnarr (Ulzdra blood diamond mogul)
• Mustapha Nour (Malgian arms dealer, selling to terrorists)
• Goto Osami (Nessian crime ring member)
• Aristotle Thorakis (Thagian shipping mogul)

Joe Sosa and Aristotle Thorakis are known to use their board positions to request assassinations. More than one of Sosa's rivals have died in caravan accidents, while Thorakis ordered at least three hits - Jose Alvarez (a Cain shipping owner rivaling Thorakis, who drowned in his pool even though he was an competitive swimmer 15 years ago. Harry Meyers (a journalist who did an expose on Thorakis dumping toxic magical waste into the ocean, and seemingly killed himself two days before his wedding) and Countess Maria Sarkov (who was trampled by a horse when walking the streets, after calling Mrs. Thorakis "an ugly pig" in a Gothum newspaper column).

Angus Pritchard, and former field agent and training director Erich Soders are currently board members.

Assets

Names	Organization	Occupation	Roles	Status
Carlton Smith	Moricanna Intelligence Agency (Formerly)	MIA Agent	Spy	Alive
Tommy Clemenza	Tommy Clemenza Sartoria	Tailor Tommy Clemenza Sartoria Owner	Supplier	Alive
Yurishka	Undersun State Security (Formerly) Undersun Army	USS agent (Formerly)	Spy	Alive
Malgian Agency Contact	N/A	Unknown	Courier	Alive
High Nogg Agency Contact	N/A	Unknown	Messenger	Alive
Knight	N/A	Contract Killer	Sniper	Alive/Recruited
Stone	N/A	Contract Killer Convict (Formerly)	Sniper	Alive/Recruited
Dave Ready	Kron Industries	Kron Industries Employee	Informant	Alive

Lethal Trade

Type

Corporation, Conglomerate

Alternative Names

ICA, The Agency