Amazing! Co. appears on the surface as a company specializing in the mass production of commercial products accessible to civilians in public stores. In truth, it is an anomalous organization infamous for its unashamedly off-brand products, invasive commercializing and an independent approach to safety measures in its anomalous merchandise. These products present a danger to its buyers that is only overshadowed by the one presented to those in their immediate vicinity. Amazing! Co.’s country of origin is presumably from Central America, unless the company mascot’s nationalist appearance is merely another symptom of the group’s humorist, emulative nature.
Current Authority efforts are focused on containing the numerous duplicate anomalies Amazing! Co. has managed to sell in every continent, barring Antarctica, and an unknown landmass only found in their promotional material. Agents are trained to recognize Amazing! Co. presence not only on the field, but also in their everyday lives. Household items, everyday products and mass-produced goods are all under threat of being emulated by Amazing! Co., and with them the wider world at large.
Anomaly Documentation
RPC-013 - STRESS BUDDY™ by Amazing! Co.
RPC-027 - History's Game by Amazing! Co.
RPC-029 - The Blue Woodsman
RPC-050 - Some Color in Your Life
RPC-125 - Retro Vision by Amazing! Co.
RPC-138 - Distracted Dairy
RPC-158 - A Mixed Bag
RPC-170 - Amazing! Co. Adorabugs
RPC-181 - Soup Extender
RPC-186 - Hope Balloon
RPC-193 - The Amazing! Co. Kidz-Frendly STAPLOR!™
RPC-237 - Caersephyr, the Lich™
RPC-277 - Amazing! Co. Shampoo Prototype
RPC-298 - Amazing! Co. Jello-O
RPC-358 - The Love Interest
RPC-444 - Interdimensional Infowars
RPC-451 - Amazing!… Co. "Chewy" Bars
RPC-492 - The Sense of Right Alliance
RPC-536 - KAKE KNIFE™ by Amazing! Co.
RPC-541 - Kraft Machina
RPC-572 - Heroes of Justice™
RPC-635 - Christmas with Amazing! Co.
RPC-715 - InstaDinos! Grow Your Prehistoric Pals!
RPC-744 - Your Local Anomalous Fast Food Chain
RPC-746 - Sweet Tooths
RPC-759 - P(r)ickled Pickles
RPC-773 - Lil' Ms.Amazing!
RPC-774 - The Wonders of Science with Dr. Amazing
RPC-810 - Amazing! Co. Superbest Teethwasher!
RPC-812 - "Perfect" Pans
RPC-926 - Amazing! Co.'s Everyday Christmas Tree
RPC-977 - Madam Mystical
RPC-986 - Amazing! Co. Wonderful Notebook
Non-Canon Anomalies
Miscellaneous Documentation
Amazing and Co.
FalsTV Episode 1 - Harold Ruins Object Classes
La Vergüenza
Peppermint Daydream
PT-100
Modus Operandi
"Amazing Lymes" 2002 Accident.
Amazing! Co. officially operates as a privately-owned, multinational manufacturing corporation of consumer goods. Contrary to what the erratic nature of their products and advertisement may imply, Amazing! Co. attempts to be a law-abiding legal entity, paying corporate tax roughly equivalent to the worldwide product density in the countries in which it operates. As a result, Amazing! Co. has become Bhutan's third-largest source of income over the past decade. How they turn in a profit despite short-lived, niche product lines remains a mystery.
From toys to power tools, foods and drinks, vehicles, and even furniture, Amazing! Co. products are always clearly branded as such, featuring large logos somewhere on their surface or packaging. Their production cost, manufacturing time, and required workforce (if any) are unknown, as products appear on shelves and in trucks1 and storerooms worldwide the moment the company officially advertises them.
Occasionally, vehicles and people bearing Amazing! Co-branding can be seen before and after such product placements, although its purpose is purely cosmetic. Employees are hired by third parties or through online commissions with instructions to "do the work", which involves standing around stores and products, or to drive empty trucks between different locales. At the same time, it was initially thought to be a distraction tactic by Amazing! Co., it quickly became apparent that it was the result of the company's understanding (or lack thereof) of the distribution pipeline for consumer goods and its attempts to imitate it.
Regardless of the contents and functionality of their goods, all Amazing! Co. is properly patented, licensed, and, when necessary, approved by various food & safety organizations. Certifications do not imply Amazing! Co. products are safe for consumption, as this is the result of a legal loophole regarding the disclosure of anomalous ingredients in consumer goods originating from UNAAC's 1988 hearing on acceptable levels of amnestics in drinking water and food for veil conservation.
Legal tender used to acquire Amazing! Co. products vanish shortly after purchase, although they are not removed from the economy, as indicated by inflation monitoring of small regions where Amazing! Co. goods are sold. While this obviously indicates that Amazing! Co. does collect earnings; analysis by experts at the Office of Financial Affairs insists that any profit earned would be insufficient to cover the company's manufacturing costs and logistics, putting it in bankruptcy several times over.
I've always had a great deal of respect for Amazing! Co. and their… let's say "pure" view of neoliberal free-market capitalism. Almost child-like in nature. And while they are and will always be a threat to normalcy, I believe UNAAC and our fellow veil-keepers in the international theater take them too seriously. Far too many resources are devoted to analyzing their financial stability and future trends, and to tracking down bank accounts. None of that will ever pay off. They don't have them. Never will.
The money one spends on their products may as well vanish from existence. Seeing their delivery rates and the perfectly symmetrical quality of their goods, I sincerely doubt anything but dreams go into their manufacturing. They turn in as much profit as they think they should, and say they spend whatever they think a reasonable number may be. It's all play-pretend.
What you should do is take them as they are: a worldwide anomaly producing even more anomalies. Once you get that - internalize it -, dealing with their new product lines will become that much easier.
– [REDACTED], GD-EURA "Halfpenny",
The 21st Chicago Economic Occult International, 2019
Known History
There are no internal company documents or archives regarding Amazing! Co.'s history currently available to the Authority. Instead, we rely on our own decades-long cross-referencing of third-party written records, eyewitness testimony, and archival footage. The following facts stand as the most concise information currently available to the Authority:
1840-1850: First confirmed appearance of Amazing! Co, linked to the Conquest of Alta California by Mexico. Known at the time as "Maravillas Mexicanas de La Laguna Pacifia!"2, products of this brand appeared in the region in the form of steel shovels. Digging with them would create an explosive release of energy as metamorphic rock was transmuted into pyrite. Following the Compromise of 1850 and California's admission to the Union, the brand was renamed "The Amazing Corporation!"
1860-1870: Construction of the Pacific Railroad is completed. "The Amazing Corporation!" rebrands to "Amazing! Co." and expands to the rest of the United States. First sightings of company buildings in the form of Chinese-style soybean oil factories housing a large variety of Southeast Asian snakes. Samples of Amazing! Co's "Viper Oil" reveals a CBV3 of ~80%, with the remaining percentage consisting of unidentified muscle relaxants and Norotropic drugs.
1881-1884: Señor Amazing starts appearing in the New Mexico area. Initially believed to be the company's owner, it is now widely accepted to be a physical manifestation of the company's mascot. Amazing! Co. begins advertising through the newspaper, and the first Catalog(ue) is released.
Amazing! Co.'s "Sokie Cooler" street vendor.
1914-1918: The Great War begins. Amazing! Co. distributes "Bashing Boshers", modular toys made out of a cotton-like material that emulate the stylized appearance of countries on contemporary propaganda posters. Marketed as being "Made of HATE!, sown with VITRIOL! and painted with LIES! and DECEPTION!", these toys caused multiple violent incidents at homes and schools between children through heightening aggression.4
1920-Today: After World War One, the demand for military hardware spiked. Many established nations could easily develop their own in-house equipment, but the less developed and desperate were still left wanting. The request for advanced military assets was met, and the Third World would then on be forever marked by the Amazing! brand. Rebels armed child soldiers with lethal toy guns. Regimes would broadcast brainwashing jingles on public TV. Even overinflated fiat money was replaced with Amazing! Co. dollars backed by confetti. Behind the veil of war and censorship was a surreal landscape crafted by the partnership of Amazing! Co. and the despotic.
1929-1939: Despite claims of "financial uncertainty", Amazing! Co. remains one of the few companies in the West to pay pre-depression wages to its employees, primarily street vendors and door salesmen. While officials have refused to comment on this, it is believed that the U.S. government took out an unspecified loan from Amazing! Co. during this time to ease the economic crisis. Following the Great Depression, the USA became the largest per-capita holder of Amazing! Co. goods and has remained as such since.
1933-1938: Amazing! Co. attracts GARD notice. Both entities arrange a short-lived manufacturing deal in exchange for lower taxes and preferential treatment. "Der Spektakuläre! Jewdar" proves to be a failure, as the device can pick up trace genome strands at less than <0.5% presence, leading to infighting in the Nazi Party. Amazing! Co is promptly kicked from the German market.
1947-1968: Several spy-themed product lines5 are released over the course of the Cold War, with a few deemed useful enough for purchase by several NATO government organizations. However, at the turn of the 60s and coinciding with Amazing! Co's anniversary, they release a special promotion "once in a lifetime!" line of domestic nuclear weaponry for both small and large-scale house conflict resolution. Both UNAAC and the Iron Initiative call for a momentary cease-fire under DEFCON 2 alert. Over the next two months, intelligence agencies all over the world covertly prevent the purchase of any Amazing! Co. products, leading to them all being pulled from the market due to "lack of customer interest".
Amazing Co's 9/11 Anniversary Postcard.
1985: Amazing! Co. successfully trademarks its name, resulting in the worldwide populace being unable to utter the words "Amazing!" and its variations. Authority legal specialists, with the help of anomalous legal consultants, quickly reach an agreement with Amazing! Co. It is argued that as long as no one uses the exclamation point, the brand's trademark is not infringed. The Authority then agrees to pay a license agreement fee of $27.83 (taxes included) each time a non-employee correctly pronounces the brand. Efforts to argue about the exact Unicode pronunciation of the exclamation point are underway by the Presidium.
11.9.2001-2004: The Twin Towers fall in a terrorist attack. Amazing! Co. begins producing "Never forget" memorial cards mourning the death of the Twin Towers and berating terrorist planes. All cards visibly lack human victims and treat the towers and planes as individuals. Amazing! Co. begins producing "Anti-plane home DE-FENCE™ systems". During a US-Canada flight, a passenger activates one of these mid-flight, causing an immediate fall. Due to the nature of the anomaly, the plane could not crash into or near any populated area. Consequently, the plane skips across the ground for 50km and crashes into Lake Superior with no structural damage, but also no survivors.
Amazing! Co. Advertisements
As any other company, Amazing! Co. regularly promotes itself and its products through advertising. While rarely dangerous, they pose a threat in destabilizing the veil of normalcy as they're often broadcast publicly and on short notice. Be it public access television, physical locales, or private channels, commercials often target areas with a high density of anomalous-aware individuals. Anomalous locations, advertised to by Amazing! Co, include anything from Authority compounds and Malthus cells to sites of Nihilic worship. The Presidium has, in recent years, taken to studying Amazing! Co.'s surprising skills at demographic targeting for Authority-run front companies.
It is also possible for Amazing! Co. to target individuals for advertisement, reaching them through Catalogs, spam email, and fax at their residences. While often intimidating, they are ultimately benign if handled properly. Staff are trained to ignore these adverts and isolate them to prevent accidents. If one so chooses to make a purchase, instructions are usually provided in the advert itself, most commonly by mail orders - the contents of which vanish when placed in a mailbox. Products appear ~24 hours after purchase at the client's home or place of work.
The primary threat when ordering products is the "CUSTOMER LOYALTY PROGRAM™". Following an unspecified sum of money spent in Amazing! Co. goods customers will receive a letter thanking them for their continued financial support and welcoming them into the program, which includes special gifts, early access to product lines, and special promotions and offers. What makes someone a fit candidate is unclear. First-time customers have been added to the program, while lifelong clients have yet to receive any letters of notice from the company.
I never wanted this to happen, I swear I didn't. I just… I always loved collecting little doodads and doohickeys, you know? Finding that Catalog was like a dream come true. Crazy toys, fancy tools, awesome deals. Cheap, too! I was already building up a little collection when I got it. Just a red hat reading "I'm Amazing! Too." and a rainbow letter thanking me for my support. Man, I was over the moon. I love novelty hats!
The next day, I got another one. "Women fish Me & Fear Love Me", it said. Next hour, another one. This time I found it on my night desk. Another one in the bathroom. In my closet. Under the pillows. I almost choked on my dinner that night. It was a finger-hat with a single "A!" in my pudding.
I was scared. I-I ran away from my apartment. I thought someone was following me - a killer, or something. When I came back, I learned the whole building had collapsed. They were spilling out, man. Out from the doors, from the windows. Hats. So many hats. No matter where I go, they're there. I wake up, and I'm wearing one. I don't know how long I can keep doing this.
- 2006, excerpt from police report on suspect of building collapse, A.J. (25), shortly before his death.6
It is currently impossible, bar death, to unsubscribe from the CUSTOMER LOYALTY PROGRAM™. Isolation, seizure of assets, and legal disappearance still result in deliveries. The only method to temporarily halt this stream of goods is incarceration, as Amazing! Co. does not deliver inmates due to "possible transport issues," as stated in their Catalog. This means CSD cannot be used for CUSTOMER LOYALTY PROGRAM™ related testing. Requests to temporarily "release" CSD for testing are prohibited, as Amazing! Co. is known for "bulk mailing" to compensate for missed deliveries, a practice that often leads to accidents.
Physical advertisements
By far the oldest, best-known, and most varied form. Ranging from posters and pamphlets to branded cars and advertising inflatable tube men, each of these indicates the current or future presence of Amazing! Co. anomalies in the area. Many of these are classified as Lesser Objects or fully cataloged anomalies.
Amazing! Co. advertisements all share the same loud color palette and size 11.3pt (or multiples thereof) Comic Sans font. They will also engage in thematic cross-merchandising (or competitive advertising) with surrounding venues or promotions. Posters for "AMAZING! CO. BYE-CYCLES - OUTRUN DAY AND NIGHT!" have been found near bike shops running summer discounts, while "AMAZING! CO. THEATER BINDOCULARS - CAST YOUR EYES ONTO THE SCENE!" is recorded to have appeared twice on Broadway, New York, during the debuts of "Beetlejuice: The Musical" and "A Wrinkle in Time: The Musical".
Similar to product releases, advertisements manifest without human involvement. However, joint Research and Containment investigations have found that the rate of manifestation of Amazing! Co. physical advertisements in any given community can be roughly approximated through the following equation:
(1)P: Current inches of wall taken up by advertisements
E: Number of anomalous-aware groups in the area
t: Time since last advertisement manifested
r: Number of Amazing! Co. products sold (in pennies)
K: Maximum available public-facing walls (in inches)
As P approaches K, advertisements will eventually start to "cannibalize" each other, becoming incoherent and blending into tertiary, local promotions. Amazing! Co. signage will then rapidly vanish from adverts, causing them to discolor and decompose quickly.
The Catalog(ue)
The Catalog(ue)7 is the second most widespread method of promotion, whose primary purpose is to further pull in existing "customers" in the Amazing! Co. ecosystem.
The Authority has in its possession 132 issues of the yearly-release Catalog, as well as 64 copies of the early-release8 Catalog for "CUSTOMER LOYALTY PROGRAM™" members. Catalogs are typically 20 pages long, with older issues being much thicker thanks to "Luck-shuck Lingerie" pages that contain no actual products for sale. Issues, and the products therein, are usually themed: home appliances, toys, food, sports, etc. Themes can also be far more specific, such as the 2020 "EASY breadth" Catalog, which featured several air-themed items, including air canisters, inhalers, planes, and lung replacements.
Use of the Catalog to purchase LOs/RPCs that could prove useful for research is allowed under the direct supervision of the Office of Financial Affairs. Authority agents embedded within different EoIs have reported finding unique versions of the Catalog, promoting "High Quality Review Assurance!" products with Authority researchers posing next to commonly bought items from the Catalog.
Advertisement Campaigns
Occasionally, Amazing! Co. will engage in large-scale advertising before the release of an important product line, often coinciding with Catalog releases. While typically inoffensive, it is often confused with those of public companies. Amazing! Co. has been known to make very extensive use of anomalies in several of its campaigns.
Two of the most notable Amazing! Co. advertisement campaigns are:
Ape Affair
Preceding: 2022's "Monkey Manias!" Catalog
On the 14th of December, 20 different primates disappeared from their enclosures at the San Diego Zoo, USA. Over the next six months, 19 of the apes were recovered by civilians through sudden emergence when sealed peanut cans were opened. Each ape was found alive, although disoriented, wearing a shirt reading "That's Amazing! But where is the gorilla?" This camping is estimated to have resulted in 14 ape-related casualties.
Missing 700lbs silverback "Dango" is yet to be recovered.
Loony for Balloonies!
Preceding: 2002's Second Amazing! Co. Yearniversary
Multiple Amazing! Co. stands for leashed helium "Balloonies" that appeared in different cities across the western hemisphere. Cords quickly fastened around the wrist/finger of passersby and were reportedly impossible to cut, as were the balloons.
During the next 24 hours, these balloons would quickly accelerate to escape velocity if unimpeded. One particular balloon, tied to a tower crane in Venezuela, caused millions of dollars in property damage when it popped at an altitude of ~10 km above sea level. Amazing! Co. has since sent several "apologetic letters" to survivors.
One of the biggest tells of an Amazing Co. product apart from its logo is the rough, poorly translated text that decorate its packaging. No matter the language it's in the text is always off, a detail that has made it difficult to track this GOI and one that the Authority has quickly dismissed as manufacturing blunders, but with every collected anomalous item a pattern started to emerge from its titles, rulebooks, instructions and the rare safety warning.
Every misspelled word, every awkward sentence, every strange grammatical slip on these anomalous products were more than cheap packaging, they were a code hidden in plain sight. The errors begin to form patterns, turning bargain-bin labels into secret messages. Messages the Authority has yet been unable to crack as all attempts to decode have been disastrous. Decrypting programs crash, the systems they’re hosted on shut down and even physical attempts to decode end with tools breaking down and paper becoming frail.
The rare instance of decrypting something resembling readable text has only been done mentally, leaving the decoder absent-minded or witless. The result produces at most a few words, somehow being more esoteric in plaintext than how it was when encrypted. Revealing no answers, only more questions. What are these messages saying, who are they from? and who are they for?
Another marketing memetic agent? A whistle-blower on the design team? Some cognitohazardous remnant of whatever language Amazing Co. operates with?
There's only one thing to expect with this trail and it's the same thing to always remember when it comes to Amazing Co:
The 'C' in "Co." does not stand for consistency.
Enterprise Interactions
Remember, keep an eye out for the star. Just 'cause a store chain isn't flying their colors everywhere, it doesn't mean all their locations are clear. Sometimes they don't even know it! I mean, sure, there are sweatshops hanging chintzy yellow banners and all, and sometimes it does get ugly with union meeting spaces, but that's only when we're lucky. You'll have to look through whole shelves. Sometimes the packaging might give it away. Other times, not so much. Check the back of noodle packs from time to time. Oh, and the entire toy aisle for sure. You're looking for the star. Red, blue, and yellow are your lucky colors.
— Filipe Sidney, Echo-9 ("Toy Soldiers") MST Captain
Amazing! Co.'s erratic and hazardous nature becomes all the more apparent as it involves regular companies in its activities.
At the time of writing, the Authority has not yet identified any office, factory, or warehouse created by Amazing! Co. Questions regarding logistics, production, and storage have remained mostly unanswered for almost 200 years of the group's known history. In contrast, they have collaborated with, taken over, and promptly imploded a large number of independent companies that offered such services.
Attempts by Amazing! Co. to contact and collaborate with other companies is vastly ignored due to their unprofessional appearance and lack of nuance understanding their recipient's activities.9 Incessant spamming of such offers and repeated invitations to non-existent golf courses may eventually cause a company employee to relent an answer.
Business deals with Amazing! Co. follow a consistent escalation of integration and assimilation:
First, Amazing! Co. will being outsourcing to the target company. While initially thought to require a mutual agreement, this process has been known to start inside firms with no prior history of communication. It was later discovered that, in such cases, employees were unknowingly using toiletries and office supplies belonging to companies in an existing partnership with Amazing! Co., thus beginning the process. There is no proof of Amazing! Co. ever making use of the material it outsources. Over the years, Authority agents have found undisclosed landfills containing products that companies hired by Amazing! Co. once developed.
Entrance to sewer blocked by Amazing! Co. underground landfill
The next step is partnership. While usually initiated by Amazing! Co., they will eagerly accept any deals from their business partners. Such offers are overtly enthusiastic, featuring wordy and often illegible emails and letters praising the victim company's work ethic and product quality. Collaborative products lines, advertisement projects and margins are typically the focal point of the offer's terms and timelines.
Despite its nature, Amazing! Co. holds a perfect work ethic regarding deadlines and contractual obligations. This convinces future partners that, despite its eccentricities, future collaboration is beneficial. The main benefit of such partnership is Amazing! Co.'s seemingly endless funds, vastly improving company margins and expenses. Employees welcome sudden improvements in the workplace, unknowingly inviting an increasingly large number of anomalous influences. Continued interaction will eventually lead to violent and explosive results for the victim company. Those more willingly to "go along" with Amazing! Co.'s eccentricities and its anomalous nature will become subsidiaries. Alternatively, Amazing! Co. might force a takeover by seizing majority ownership.
While the company's relationship with Amazing! Co. flourishes, all other fronts degrade. Companies become unable to communicate with partners other than Amazing! Co. as messaging turns unintelligible. All company expenses are diverted from basic necessities into partnership projects. Workers disappear from premises in the middle of work, with reports of sightings through open windows and unlit areas propping up in the following weeks. All employees that remain in the company past this point will fully integrate into the Amazing! Co. ecosystem as the merger finalizes.
Locale changes
The exteriors of acquired locales rarely change, barring "subsidiary of Amazing! Co." labels around the premises. Agents are trained to notice less obvious signs of anomalous influence, such as abandoned cars, a lack of waste, or the presence of employees through windows despite records of entering the building. Subsidiary companies will slowly experience an architectural shift, as well as adverse psychological effects on its employees.
Interiors will often present cognitohazards and areas of altered reality of varying severity. An example can be drawn from the Swedish motor vehicle company Jungfrudans: The building remained unchanged, but the doors to the offices and assembly lines would lead to random rooms. Windows with no access to natural light would still emit sunshine, whether it was day or night, or if they even pointed to the outside. Motivational posters filled with ads and unidentifiable animals prevented staff from harming themselves through memetic sedation. Many of the rooms were either left in absolute darkness or were brightly illuminated with no light visible source.
Abettor playtester of the Amazing! Co. "INFINICADE" prototype
Amazing! Co has also been recorded converting other businesses, assuming its appearance and function while concealing the Amazing! Co. ownership. The reason for this behavior is still poorly understood but is theorized to be a form of covert marketing or product testing in a public environment. A majority of these conversion results in a facsimile of a McDonalds fast food restaurant. It's unclear why McDonalds was chosen for this role, however it's assumed the chain's worldwide popularity is a major factor. Of note, these "fake" restaurants often become very popular both with clients and employees, with glowing praises of quality, cleanliness and a positive atmosphere.
Work at an a subsidiary is cyclical, senseless, and autotelic. Previous company goals are warped, terminated, or replaced by projects Amazing! Co. deems more relevant, if any. Tasks become increasingly ill-defined; employees are always given work but never get to finish it, or are suddenly forced to switch projects midstream. Many cases have CEOs stuck in office rooms hundreds of meters above ground, regardless of the actual height of the building, middle managers giving PowerPoint presentations to an ever-shifting crowd with the number of slides increasing with each misspoken detail or word, and IT personnel forced to fight off large insectoid creatures inside sprawling server rooms. At this point, the company has stopped producing any profits.
As physical and mental health drops, behaviors adapt to their surroundings. Departmental tribalization, barcode divination, bureaucratic set theory, and sick leave nomadism have been recorded as emergent coping mechanisms inside subsidiaries. Extracted subjects rarely recover and risk becoming the source for a future takeover should they be hired at a new company.
Once the company is completely absorbed into Amazing! Co., it loses its previous branding and moves location. All equipment, products, and employees disappear seemingly overnight, with only posters for a closure sale indicating a store was once present. These lots naturally return to the real state market with no issues, and new commercial buildings are built. In rare cases, they may be subject to to illegible email with no sender, off-brand packs of soap manifested in their storage rooms, or the brief manifestation of additional office rooms.
Preventing mergers
Companies might, at any point in this process, change their minds and break off from Amazing! Co. Depending on their position in the timeline, it will come more or less easily. Amazing! Co. will repeatedly attempt to discourage and persuade the company to return to its fold by sending complementary, invasive, and lethal products that either change the decision or lead to the replacement of the individual making it.
The most efficient method to slow down or halt Amazing! Co. integration is to remove the "assistant abettor": An individual or group of liaisons that represent Amazing! Co. to third-party companies. Primarily, employees in administrative positions or those who initially initiated a partnership with Amazing! Co. through which the group enacts its will.
You don’t understand, you have to buy this. I just can't live without it. When I was still in my scavenging days, living off scraps of mystery meat and hiding from the others in candy kiosks, this is what kept me alive. I found it myself, sold it to the others, got more, and sold more. I proved myself, and when the others couldn't take it anymore, I was transferred, and they stayed. But you don't want this here. You don't buy it. And I can feel my contract terminating, I can feel myself liquidating, I can see the transfer coming. Please, I beg you, I can't live without this - You have to buy it from me.
— † Jane "Ms Bright-Eyes" Doe, ALTR-D2AJ refugee
Assistant abettors suffer the greatest psychological and physical changes. Positive and negative leadership characteristics will become pronounced to an extreme. "Benefit packages" of anomalous items will be granted to them, and their bodies will slowly shift into something more "practical" forms.10 This anomalization process is slow and oftentimes lethal to the subject. Survivors will continue down one of the production lines: subservience through loss of self, or promotion through cooperation.
Assistant abettors who unwillingly accept these changes are themselves anomalies. Modified beyond recognition, in physical and/or mental terms, they are forever stuck as facilitators for Amazing! Co. projects until terminated. They act as symbolic representatives of Amazing! Co., as they interact with regular human beings, direct workshops of non or less-modified victims, or simply fill out the roles that a company is deemed to be lacking. It is unknown how much self-awareness they have, or whether they are even the original victims and not simply a (collection of) Amazing! Co. products parodying the original.
In the case an abettor does not resist the influence of Amazing! Co. and forsakes their own wishes and goals for the sake of the company's, they will see a meteoric rise in status. These subjects retain a sense of self, remain sapient, and gain freedom within the bounds of the company. Jobs requiring finesse, guidance, or a personality will be given to them, alongside an entire arsenal of anomalous tools. Coordinators should not be mistaken for sane or cooperative. These PoIs pose a much greater danger, precisely by personifying the deceptively hazardous nature of the company they have come to embody. Many of them have the freedom to expand. Amazing! Co.'s horizons in new endeavors, and hold personal projects they gladly include others in.