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. These included:

• the Department of Journalism. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)
• the Department of Transportation. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)
• the Department of Technological Advancement. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)
• the Department of Discipline. (PROSE: The Labors of Juliet, The Case Against Conspiracy)
• the Department of Festivities. (PROSE: 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 Literature. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)
• the Department of Zoology. (PROSE: The Case Against Conspiracy)
• 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 Alchemy. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, etc.)
• the Department of Chemistry. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)
• the Department of Theology. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)
• the Department of Philosophy. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)
• the Department of Applied Contrafibulation. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids
• the Department of Redundancy Department. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)
• the Department of Departments. (PROSE: Of Romeos and Juliets, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)
• the Department of Taxes. (PROSE: The Green Gorillas)
• 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 Gender Studies. (PROSE: Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving)
• the Department of Chronology. (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 Rifts. (PROSE: The Faction of the Fooling Fish)
• the Department of Linguistics. (PROSE: The Szaclowk & the Halfworld)
• the Department of Phenomena. (PROSE: The Szaclowk & the Halfworld)
• the Department of Cutlery. (PROSE: The Szaclowk & the Halfworld)
• the Department of Applied Mathematics. (PROSE: The Szaclowk & the Halfworld)
• the Department of Cinematography. (PROSE: The Labors of Juliet)
• the Department of Quasireligious Obsequiousness. (PROSE: The Labors of Juliet)
• the Department of Vehicles. (PROSE: The Labors of Juliet)
• the Department of Space-Time Anomalies. (PROSE: Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race)
• the Department of Completed Assignments. (PROSE: Marksmanship-522 and the Multi-Dimensional Race)
• the Department of Destiny. (PROSE: Of Romeos and Juliets)
• the Department of Mathematics. (PROSE: Of Romeos and Juliets)
• the Department of Psychology. (PROSE: Of Romeos and Juliets)
• the Department of Construction. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
• the Department of Cupid Anatomy. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
• the Department of Physics. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
• the Department of Architecture. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
• the Department of Permits. (PROSE: Acquaintanceship-982 and the Missing Mail Mystery)
• the Department of Motivational Speaking. (PROSE: New Warehouse To Be Constructed In The Homeworld)
• the Department of Supplies. (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians)
• the Department of Artistry. (PROSE: The Resurrection of the Wellsians)

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 the Doves 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)