Cupid Intelligence Institute

The Cupid Intelligence Institute, or C.I.I., was the organisation internal to the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids which was made up of all its specialised Departments. It was overseen by the Supreme Quaestor from the C.I.I. Headquarters building. (PROSE: The Winter Quests)

List of Departments

The Crew's Cupid Intelligence Institute included a number of Departments with specific purposes, each of which was led by a Prefect. The Prefects, alongside a few other “Cupids of Importance” such as the head operatives of the Scarlet Wings and Blue Feather, made up the Cupid Parliament. New Departments were typically opened on the authority of the Copper-Colored Council of Elders to shunt away debates which were going in circles in the Parlimanet; as a result many were largely useless in practice, existing only to ensure that the Parliamentary Cupids would stop arguing about their topics rather than because a Department was actually expected to yield real answers. The Supreme Quaestor, however, seemed to genuinely believe the Intelligence Institute's destiny was to produce true, absolute knowledge. He had the authority to disband Departments if he deemed them to be disappointing or even counter-productive. (PROSE: Magic Trick)

Known Departments included:

• the Department of Alchemy. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, etc.)
• the Department of Applied Contrafibulation. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)
• the Department of Applied Mathematics. (PROSE: The Szaclowk & the Halfworld)
• the Department of Architecture. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
• the Department of Art. (PROSE: Plagiarism of the SavageMen)
• the Department of Artistry. (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians)
• the Department of Boxing & Fistfighting. (PROSE: Plagiarism of the SavageMen)
• the Department of Celestial Bodies. (PROSE: Magic Trick)
• the Department of Chemistry. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)
• the Department of Chronology. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving)
• the Department of Cinematography. (PROSE: The Labors of Juliet)
• the Department of Communication. (PROSE: Magic Trick)
• the Department of Completed Assignments. (PROSE: Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race)
• the Department of Conspiracy Theories. (PROSE: Of Romeos and Juliets)
• the Department of Construction. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
• the Department of Corners. (PROSE: The Companions of Doctor Curious)
• the Department of Cupid Anatomy. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
• the Department of Cutlery. (PROSE: The Szaclowk & the Halfworld)
• the Department of Departments. (PROSE: Of Romeos and Juliets, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)
• the Department of Destiny. (PROSE: Of Romeos and Juliets)
• the Department of Discipline. (PROSE: The Labors of Juliet, The Case Against Conspiracy)
• the Department of Documentation. (PROSE: The Faction of the Fooling Fish, The Case Against Conspiracy, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)
• the Department of Festivities. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)
• the Department of Forestry. (PROSE: The Winter Quests)
• the Department of Gender Studies. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving)
• the Department of Impossible Things. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving)
• the Department of Interpretation. (PROSE: Conspiracy-1263 Publicly Accuses the Gang of the Green Gorillas)
• the Department of Journalism. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)
• the Department of Linguistics. (PROSE: The Szaclowk & the Halfworld)
• the Department of Literature. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)
• the Department of Mathematics. (PROSE: Of Romeos and Juliets)
• the Department of Meteorology. (PROSE: The Ghosts and the Machine)
• the Department of Motivational Speaking. (PROSE: New Warehouse To Be Constructed In The Homeworld)
• the Department of Obituaries. (PROSE: The Book of Evil)
• the Department of Paradoxes. (PROSE: Plagiarism of the SavageMen)
• the Department of Permits. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery
• the Department of Phenomena. (PROSE: The Szaclowk & the Halfworld)
• the Department of Philosophy. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, Magic Trick)
• the Department of Physics. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
• the Department of Plumbing. (PROSE: Family Business)
• the Department of Postal Services. (PROSE: The Society of the Rhyming Dove)
• the Department of Problem-Solving. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving)
• the Department of Psychology. (PROSE: Of Romeos and Juliets)
• the Department of Quasireligious Obsequiousness. (PROSE: The Labors of Juliet)
• the Department of Redundancy Department. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)
• the Department of Rifts. (PROSE: The Faction of the Fooling Fish)
• the Department of Scrivening. (PROSE: Magic Trick)
• the Department of Sleep. (PROSE: Magic Trick)
• the Department of Space-Time Anomalies. (PROSE: Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race)
• the Department of Supplies. (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians)
• the Department of Taxes. (PROSE: The Green Gorillas)
• the Department of Technological Advancement. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)
• the Department of Theology. (PROSE: [[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)
• the Department of Transportation. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)
• the Department of Vehicles. (PROSE: The Labors of Juliet)
• the Department of Wizardry. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids), The Winter Quests)
• the Department of Zoology. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)

History

“Top researchers” at the Institute attempted to figure out how Octasers' fearsome “eye-beams” functioned, coming up with a theory that it was not a natural ability but actually stemmed from special, weaponized contact lenses. However, this theory could not be tested due to no Cupids managing to get close enough to an Octaser to check. (PROSE: The Euclidean Plane)

In 1978, a Mind Probe was used by the Cupid Intelligence Institute to try and determine why the batch of abductees believed gorillas to be green.

In 1986, the C.I.I. observed Christmas celebrations through the Celestial Telescopes and dispatched a team of Cupids to the Vanityville Supermarket in the hope that the locals, already being in a cheerful Christmas mood, would be more easily romanticised. This led to the Skirmish at the Vanityville Supermarket when they clashed with Green Gorillas who had taken it over. (PROSE: The Green Gorillas)

Following the 1986 discovery of the Society of the Rhyming Dove by the Crew, members of the Institute speculated about how theDoves achieved their constant rhyming, with some speculating that it was a magical effect maintained by some unknown Atlantean artefact. (PROSE: The Society of the Rhyming Dove)

Investigation-464 was the Institute's head researcher regarding the Szaclowk. (PROSE: New Warehouse To Be Constructed In The Homeworld)

At some point prior to 2019, the Supreme Quaestor disbanded the Institute's Department of Philosophy for heretically questioning whether there was such a thing as absolute knowledge in the first place. This led to Department-member Valerius-1497's transfer to the Department of Problem-Solving. (PROSE: Magic Trick)