Redemption Inc.
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Save our spirits and free our souls. |
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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.