Agency of Respectable Individuals

The Agency of Respectable Individuals (ARI) is the main focus of the series "Respectable". Legally, it operates as a "voluntary" association of "couriers" whose duties are to "collect" and deliver "goods" for "clients". Its agents are commonly referred to as Respectables in the field. In truth, it is an almost-black ops group whose agents are recruited from every disreputable walk of life you can think of. Their mission, their new purpose of life, is the same as that of the Agency itself: to travel across the Universal Bubbles acquiring various items (however metaphysical) to act as funds. These funds are then put to use for the purpose of paying off Great Old One- or Outer God-level beings from casually destroying all of our reality because they happen to feel like it.