Watcher's Uniform

A slim top hat, goggles, a long cloak, and black boots.
These are the uniforms of a Watcher.
They protect against the elements such as rain, snow, sun and wind, but whatever other purpose they serve has been and always will remain unknown, unless a Watcher speaks.
The Watchers are thought to be people who simply walk around the city during the day and during the night, observing the daily goings-on's and keeping an eye on the people of those towns and cities to keep them safe from harm. Some people believe that they belong to a secret society of extra-terrestrial beings sent to the planet to watch them on behalf of an unknown race of aliens who are seeking to discover new life. Other still believe that they are a secret society bent on world domination. Whatever the truth, no-one knows it, and the Watchers aim to keep it that way.
The Watchers were seemingly observed as far back as the fifteen-hundreds, as far apart across the world as Olgath and even the cities of Opron in the early years of their people's expansion of knowledge and power across the country. They have been seen at meetings and court sessions, even at important company mergers and other public events, always dressed in the same top hat, goggles and cloak with the same black boots strapped tightly to their feet. They speak to the people but are vague and elusive in doing so, and when asked direct questions they tend to give indirect answers, preferring to answer in tenses or simply not openly at all, as though they do not have the answers or simply can't give them at all. 
They are especially common during the night however, and if one is lucky enough they can happen upon one of these strange individuals walking the streets from one place to the next. Some believe them to be governmental messengers, others think that they are a neighborhood watch. Rumors and speculation have been thrown around for years, but no-one ever seems to know the truth. The only thing that is known is that they seem to precede events of great merit or importance such as elections, law-making and even the charging or releasing of criminals to and from prison. When the Good Intent sank in the nineteen-hundreds, the night of the sinking, at least five passengers of importance recall seeing men and women in cloaks, top hats and strange goggles wandering about the ship as if nothing was wrong, before losing track of them when lifeboats were launched that same night to save passengers. One was seen at each inquiry into the disaster, but afterwards, no-one remembered seeing anyone that fit that description. None at the docks, none on the ship, none at the inquiry and none anywhere at all. The captain had gone down with the ship, but due to the strange nature of the appearance and disappearance of these people, he wouldn't have known.
They are also known for not removing their clothing, even in the heat of a bright summer's day when it is extremely and uncomfortably hot. The cloaks they wear cover their torso's and arms completely, hiding them from view. One woman who had eaten lunch with one of these figures remembered that, every time she would look away and then back again, even if it were for a moment, something on the plate would be gone, or the cup would appear emptier than it had been before. 
And yet despite all of this, no-one knows who they are.
If you see someone walking down the street one day and wearing a cloak, goggles, a top hat and black boots, be all the more wise and keep your distance. You never know what could happen around the next corner.

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