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Save our spirits and free our souls.

Redemption Inc is a modern paranormal roleplay on the forums of Gaia Online. The main thread can be found here. Also has a character sheet here.

Inspired by Ghost Hunt and following a typical ghost-hunting Who You Gonna Call? storyline, RedInc features an incredibly diverse Psychic Powers-wielding cast. There's a couple Onmyoji (including one who's pretending to be something else), a incredibly mismatched teacher-student Clairvoyant pair, an ex-Bhikkhu and his wannabe-monk apprentice, some vastly powerful Psychokinetics, a pair of hardworking Mediums, and two super-smart telepaths. The roleplay follows a case-by-case storyline with a connecting arc of training the new recruits to follow in the veterans' footsteps.

This roleplay contains examples of:

All Work vs. All Play : Hue and Micah
Asian Rune Chant : With monks around, it's to be expected.
Authority Equals Asskicking : Salem and Terry, full stop.
- By extension, any of the veterans as well.
Badass : Pretty much the entire cast in one way or another, but a special mention goes to the veterans.
Badass Crew : Nuff said.
Blessed With Suck : Salem.
Beware the Nice Ones : Rui, Cody, among others.
Bromantic Foil : Micah and Cody are heading that way.
Character Development : The rookies mostly, and the veterans to some degree.
Combat Medic : Terry.
Creepy Child : St. Elizabeth's is full of them. Creepy ghost children. Almost six hundred of them, to be exact.
Everyone Can See It : Heather and Hue.
Ghostly Chill : Pretty obvious.
Ghost Lights
Home Base : The Redemption Inc. office.
Ho Yay: Terry and Hue, bro.
Meaningful Name : Redemption Inc.
Multinational Team : Several part-American varieties, plus Rui (Chinese) and Sae Byul (Korean).
Mythology Gag : All over the place to several different roleplays.
Naive Newcomer : Some of the rookies (Cody especially) have no idea what is going on.
Non-Idle Rich : It's heavily implied Salem has a lot of money, but continues to run the company because she wants to make a difference.
Obfuscating Stupidity : Salem, Terry, Rui.
Older Than They Look : Salem, Rui.
Only Known By Their Nickname : Hue's given name isn't Hue.
Onmyodo : Formally Salem and Effy, Rui on the down-low.
Portmanteau Series Nickname : Red Inc.
Power At a Price : Salem's super-powered psychic abilities come from the sacrifice of twelve people when she was born; Rui had to kill all her siblings and cousins to earn the right to be the Onmyodo practioner of her generation.
Psychic Powers : The entire cast, in various flavors.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits : Red Inc and sane cannot co-exist in the same sentence.
Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers : The psychokinetics especially.
Seers : Heather and Cody
The Smart Guy : Andrei and Kilmer.
Smart People Play Chess : Salem and Terry.
The Stoic : Micah
Sufficiently Analyzed Magic : Sure they're a cast of psychics of various powers, but they tote a ton of technology and background knowledge, too.
Training From Hell : It's implied Salem and Rui both suffered through it at Xue's hands.
- And Cody is clearly next.
Trickster Archetype : Rui, though it's unclear whether she's doing this specifically to be mean or if it's just her true nature.
Who You Gonna Call? : Exactly what Redemption Inc. is.
Why Couldn't You Save Them? : Has happened before, unfortunately.