Glendale Tool Company
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Glendale Tool Company
The Glendale Tool Company is a small 501(c)3 educational non-profit corporation in Glendale, California. Shrouded by trees, and established in a Cold War-era aerospace hangar, it is known for such things as tutoring youth in math and science, as well as producing amazing fireworks shows.
Traditions Mage Information
The above is all public information. This is not.
Montague Labs is a global-scale hub of the Sons of Ether and employees of that Foundation created the Glendale Tool Company in 2010. Founded as a front for the Phantom Current — a local organization of Etherites and Virtual Adepts/Mercurial Elites — the purpose of the Company was to help local Etherites put the pieces back together after a decade of the consequences of Avatar Storm left many of them alone, confused, and with their works destroyed.
A local group (cabal) of Sons of Ether mages created the company to give themselves a space to work free of the culture of the greater Montague Labs. The Foundation is great, mind you, and operates with the forms of the finest traditions of the Sons of Ether, but Avatar Storm was a unique crisis and brought questions that needed answers.
- Avatar Storm was devastating to the Etherites, especially those doing work with Etheric and Mimetic Dimensions. The Ethernauts, a huge faction of the Sons of Ether in the aerospace-heavy San Fernando Valley, were hit hard. How do the Etherites save the lost and then rebuild after?
- Is the Ascension War over? Can the Etherites can still fight back?
- The Technocratic Union claimed victory. Did they win, or were they hurt just as badly as the Traditions?
- What is the Union doing now, and are the Traditions in danger?
- What is going on at New Horizon? Is it good for Los Angeles? Is it a threat?
- Same questions regarding the Sphinx
Once the Company (chantry) was founded though, the scope of the group grew beyond the Sons of Ether. Any ally of the cause, who was comfortable enough with Etheric paradigms and views, was welcome to join and to help.
Virtual Adepts have joined. House Verditius and Xaos Hermetics have joined. Alexandrian Society members, Joybringers or Klubwerkers, the Shi Ren and the Li Hai, Ghost Wheelers and Spirit Smiths, Lhaksmists, and more have been known to be around. The Company truly is a pillar of the post-Storm Traditions community in Los Angeles.
Membership
Chairman Emeritus principal funder: Harold Montague
President, Chairman, and Founder: Dr. Nash Smith
Chief Executive Officer: Dr. Frank Wolfe
Departments
The Company is a free-form center of Fortean research, there is little in the form of high-level organization within the Company. Individual members and fellows take on their own tasks as they see fit. However collaboration on a few high-level departments is ongoing:
Media
Bad Wolf Media and Ro-brat Industries are two companies founded by members, which engage in popular and social media. They seek to fight the Ascension War culturally by shaping minds and moving the Overton Window of the consensus.
Digital Web
Digital Web research at the GTC is active, centering on the building and use of the Phantom Tollbooth center in the building.
War
The GTC is also a crack commando unit operating in the Los Angeles underground, ready to fight the Ascension War by any means necessary.
Space
