[ WP ] Mages from another plane have been summoning the creatures in yours to extinction , you 've been tasked with stopping it .

`` Another eventful day, hmm?'' 
 
 The voice from behind me was cheerful, pulling me out of my sulking and back into the world. I wished it would go away as I reached up to twist my pendant back to its neutral setting. 
 
 `` What's that now, four cases already?'' 
 
 Of course not. I swore, less quietly than maybe I should have, then turned and said, `` Five, actually. Bastards are getting greedy.'' 
 
 The man behind me kept his middle management smile in place as I spoke, but I could tell by the pained expression around his eyes my cursing was getting to him. Maybe another few and he would leave me alone. Then again, what with him being one of the worst managers I've had to date, maybe he'd just write me up for it. I was willing to risk it. 
 
 `` James.'' He was using his patronizing tone. My hand twitched, but I kept my fingers loose, and pushed past him to the refilling station across the room. 
 
 `` Just because we're here to put a stop to what they're doing does n't make them bad people.'' 
 
 `` No, Bob, the fact that they're pulling creatures from our world into theirs to die without a thought to what they're doing here makes them fucking idiots. The fact that they do n't have anything scary enough or big enough out there so they pull what the hell ever they want from here and break the damn ecosystem in both places makes them thoughtless fools. And the fact that they're going it more now than ever before is what makes them greedy assholes. But I guess you're right, they are n't'bad people'.'' 
 
 Bob rubbed the bridge of his nose, ordering his thoughts for the next volley in our unending argument. Before he could start, though, a light began pulsing dully on the opposite wall. I finished at the refilling station, got my bag in order, and walked over to the summoning circle under the light. 
 
 `` Looks like they're trying to order up a Kruth.'' Noticing Bob's confused look, I clarified. `` Big, purple and green, more claws and spikes than you have teeth, and more teeth than I have parking tickets.'' 
 
 The look on his face went from confused to horrified. At my description, or blatant disregard for proper parking, I was n't sure, and I was n't in a hurry to find out. I reached up and twisted my pendant into position, feeling a chill sweep through my body as it modified my aura to match a Kruth's, followed by agony as the summoning circle turned every particle of my being into incandescent fire. 
 
 After an eternity of pain passed in the space of an instant, I found myself standing in the middle of a different summoning circle, this one much more elaborate, with incense and candles sitting at precise increments, and swirling patterns filling the spaces between. 
 
 `` Great and mighty Kruth!'' A voice began, and without bothering to look up, I immediately knew everything I needed to. Number one, they did n't know the difference between me and a vicious carnivore, and number two, they thought a Kruth was smart enough to talk to. So diplomacy was n't worth bothering with. If I'm honest, which I try not to be, I preferred it this way. Nice and straightforward. 
 
 As the voice rambled on about what he had summoned'me' for, I reached into my bag and pulled out the most important tool of my trade, then took aim at a nice big, important looking swirl and pulling the trigger. 
 
 Hss- BOOM. 
 
 The voice cut off with a yelp, and there was a whoosh as smoke filled the room. I heard the voice start a muttered incantation, and fired into the smoke with reflex honed by long hours of practice, cutting him off with a gurgle. Stepping forward, I found a scrawny man on his hands and knees, trying unsuccessfully to cough up enough water to start his spell again. I smiled inwardly, enjoying the fact that all it took was a squirt gun to shut down even a fairly high level spell due to the technicality that it is, in fact, running water. 
 
 `` You. Have made a grave mistake.'' I intoned as seriously as I could. The man goggled up at me, giving me a perfect angle to punch him square in the face. So I did. `` By attempting to summon a creature from my world, you have caught the attention of a very dangerous agency. We are in charge of making sure that the sanctity of world's is unsullied, the barriers unbroken, and the beings remain where they belong.'' 
 
 Not precisely true, but wizard types like this do n't seem to respond to anything less than officious pomp and bullshit, so I figured a little ad libbing would n't hurt. 
 
 I crouched to put my eyes on level with his. `` This breach in protocol has been documented, and any other incursions will be met with significant force. You will no longer attempt to summon or dominate any beings from other worlds, or you will face the consequences.'' 
 
 Again, not strictly true. We do n't document any of these visits, nor can we stop them all, but we do have a large enough ward to catch the majority of the summoning spells sent to our plane and redirect then to our headquarters in a deserted little corner of the world. Then one of our agents shifts their aura to match the target of the spell and get sucked up in place of whatever beastie the summoners were after. 
 
 I stood, and looked down at the now thoroughly terrified wizard at my feet, glowering at him until he squeaked a terrified acknowledgement. `` This is your only warning.'' 
 
 I reached up and tapped the center of my pendant, activating the recall spell, or'phone home' as most of us called it. Another wave of fiery pain and I was back in the comforting concrete box of headquarters. 
 
 `` You look like you're having a fun day.'' 
 
 My shoulders involuntarily tightened as I turned, expecting a new argument with Bob. Instead, I found another operative, eyeing me appraisingly. I sighed and turned the pendant back to neutral, and tossing it at him. 
 
 `` I'm going on break. Back in thirty.'' 
 
 `` What? Why the hell do you get a-'' 
 
 I cut him off with a shot from my squirt gun, before slipping out the door before he could protest again. It had been a long day, and I needed to decompress before diving back into it, instead of simply beating the piss out of the next poor sap that summoned me. Hell, maybe that's not a bad idea.Might actually get the point across for once.
