"In the absence of light, darkness prevails. There are things that go bump in the night, Agent Myers. Make no mistake about that. And we are the ones who bump back."
-Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, Hellboy
Mutants. Freaks. Creatures from other worlds, from other dimensions in space and time. Ancient evils and modern occults. The new, the scary, the unknown. These are the things that go bump in the night. But what is man but a creature smart enough to defy its fate in the face of all reason? We will not go quietly into that good night. And it is for that reason that the PCMC was born. The Paranatural Countermeasure Conglomerate.
The PCMC
The Paranatural Countermeasure Conglomerate was created in 1948 after a joint result of the military's poor cover-up of the UFO incident in Roswell, New Mexico and cultish rumors of paranormal methods used by the Nazis in WWII. Both of these events were under-reported in their severity, with Hitler relying heavily on paranormal methods in his attack strategies and Roswell Army Air Field coming under attack from creatures from outer space. These occurrences weren't new: for years the various governments and letter agencies had been doing their best to keep the majority of these events from the public eye, and had been meeting them with various levels of success. But it wasn't until shortly after the Roswell Incident that it became apparent that with the rise of innovation and availability with communications technology that there needed to be a centralized agency for this type of problem. Thus the Bureau of Paranormal Activity (BPA) was founded. Situated in the United States of America, this agency was kept under the radar, acting on various intel supplied by the FBI, CIA, and DoD to quickly intercept and cover up anything that might frighten or endanger the general public. But this was not very effective in its implementation.
In 1951 it was adopted internationally as a shadow service of the United Nations. With this wider operational range and more funds and resources from countries around the globe, the BPA became much more useful. More countries and more backing from agencies around the world meant more intelligence and incidents to respond to, leading to better training for its agents and higher output in quality and reaction time from the BPA. But with the release of the Freedom of Information Act in 1967 came more change. The Bureau of Paranormal Activity became the Paranatural Countermeasure Conglomerate, or the PCMC. This new agency was technically privately funded, although through a single source funded by multiple sources funded by multiple governments through multiple agencies. This made the PCMC a company by legal terms, and served a dual purpose in its ability to be tracked and government plausible deniability. They work outside the governments of the world, but are both a part of them and above them. Their level of secrecy entails caveats outside of most world leaders. They hold governments and nations in their pockets, all for the continued existence of mankind how man knows it. It is said that they could control the globe in a day if they wished. More say that they already do.
The Agents
A PCMC Agent is specially selected through expertly trained recruiters from a wide pool of potential candidates ranging from military, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, defense contractors, and other avenues. The criteria for this is vast, including mental fortitude, willpower, physical aptitude, knowledge, compliance, personality, family of candidate, and other areas. A candidate agent of the PCMC is always the cream of the crop of what humanity has to offer, and only the best of them become an agent of the PCMC. All agents undergo a rigorous six month training phase involving adaptation to stress, psychological tests, physical training, live fire exercises, academic study, and more. All agents are trained to be the epitome of disciplined, all are capable of killing any opponent with any weapon, and all are intelligent enough to conduct analytical research at an advanced level. Certain agents who also show compatibility with certain programs are also enhanced through drugs or technology, becoming supersoldiers capable of reading minds or breaking the limits of human physical ability.
The Technology
The PCMC has access to technology much superior than the rest of the world is even aware of. They have reverse-engineered advanced weaponry and machinery coming from other planets, dimensions, and times, and not even all agents are aware of what level of technology the PCMC has access to. New designs, blueprints, and knowledge is slowly leaked to keep the rest of the world and humanity as a whole advancing in brand new ways, but stays well behind the PCMC.
(much more will be covered in the OOC, to include examples)
The Danger
So the PCMC is advanced, powerful, and secretive. But why? What do they do? The Paranatural Countermeasure Conglomerate is in charge of response, elimination/capture/, containment, classification, and control of information regarding foreign entities to the human race. This includes alien beings, hauntings, demons, monsters, and anything else that goes unexplained and presents a danger to humanity through its existence or knowledge of its existence. They work to intercept these incidents before they happen, to eliminate or apprehend the danger, to keep positive control of the subject or knowledge of the subject, and to cover up its existence completely. The PCMC has prevented Armageddon on more occasions than any average person would find realistic, and without them the humanity would be extinct or endangered.
Howdy y'all. Right now the details are kind of sparse, but I'm looking to do some kind of supernatural task force kind of RP. Somewhere along the lines of a combination between XCOM, the SCP Foundation, X-Files, Men In Black, and Hellboy all wrapped into one. It would consist of both gumshoe detective work and SWAT Team-like combat in various supernatural scenarios. No character sheet yet and the info will be more detailed once the OOC comes around, but I wanted to see who'd want to start playing when this one came up.
So who's interested?
-Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, Hellboy
Mutants. Freaks. Creatures from other worlds, from other dimensions in space and time. Ancient evils and modern occults. The new, the scary, the unknown. These are the things that go bump in the night. But what is man but a creature smart enough to defy its fate in the face of all reason? We will not go quietly into that good night. And it is for that reason that the PCMC was born. The Paranatural Countermeasure Conglomerate.
The PCMC
The Paranatural Countermeasure Conglomerate was created in 1948 after a joint result of the military's poor cover-up of the UFO incident in Roswell, New Mexico and cultish rumors of paranormal methods used by the Nazis in WWII. Both of these events were under-reported in their severity, with Hitler relying heavily on paranormal methods in his attack strategies and Roswell Army Air Field coming under attack from creatures from outer space. These occurrences weren't new: for years the various governments and letter agencies had been doing their best to keep the majority of these events from the public eye, and had been meeting them with various levels of success. But it wasn't until shortly after the Roswell Incident that it became apparent that with the rise of innovation and availability with communications technology that there needed to be a centralized agency for this type of problem. Thus the Bureau of Paranormal Activity (BPA) was founded. Situated in the United States of America, this agency was kept under the radar, acting on various intel supplied by the FBI, CIA, and DoD to quickly intercept and cover up anything that might frighten or endanger the general public. But this was not very effective in its implementation.
In 1951 it was adopted internationally as a shadow service of the United Nations. With this wider operational range and more funds and resources from countries around the globe, the BPA became much more useful. More countries and more backing from agencies around the world meant more intelligence and incidents to respond to, leading to better training for its agents and higher output in quality and reaction time from the BPA. But with the release of the Freedom of Information Act in 1967 came more change. The Bureau of Paranormal Activity became the Paranatural Countermeasure Conglomerate, or the PCMC. This new agency was technically privately funded, although through a single source funded by multiple sources funded by multiple governments through multiple agencies. This made the PCMC a company by legal terms, and served a dual purpose in its ability to be tracked and government plausible deniability. They work outside the governments of the world, but are both a part of them and above them. Their level of secrecy entails caveats outside of most world leaders. They hold governments and nations in their pockets, all for the continued existence of mankind how man knows it. It is said that they could control the globe in a day if they wished. More say that they already do.
The Agents
A PCMC Agent is specially selected through expertly trained recruiters from a wide pool of potential candidates ranging from military, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, defense contractors, and other avenues. The criteria for this is vast, including mental fortitude, willpower, physical aptitude, knowledge, compliance, personality, family of candidate, and other areas. A candidate agent of the PCMC is always the cream of the crop of what humanity has to offer, and only the best of them become an agent of the PCMC. All agents undergo a rigorous six month training phase involving adaptation to stress, psychological tests, physical training, live fire exercises, academic study, and more. All agents are trained to be the epitome of disciplined, all are capable of killing any opponent with any weapon, and all are intelligent enough to conduct analytical research at an advanced level. Certain agents who also show compatibility with certain programs are also enhanced through drugs or technology, becoming supersoldiers capable of reading minds or breaking the limits of human physical ability.
The Technology
The PCMC has access to technology much superior than the rest of the world is even aware of. They have reverse-engineered advanced weaponry and machinery coming from other planets, dimensions, and times, and not even all agents are aware of what level of technology the PCMC has access to. New designs, blueprints, and knowledge is slowly leaked to keep the rest of the world and humanity as a whole advancing in brand new ways, but stays well behind the PCMC.
(much more will be covered in the OOC, to include examples)
The Danger
So the PCMC is advanced, powerful, and secretive. But why? What do they do? The Paranatural Countermeasure Conglomerate is in charge of response, elimination/capture/, containment, classification, and control of information regarding foreign entities to the human race. This includes alien beings, hauntings, demons, monsters, and anything else that goes unexplained and presents a danger to humanity through its existence or knowledge of its existence. They work to intercept these incidents before they happen, to eliminate or apprehend the danger, to keep positive control of the subject or knowledge of the subject, and to cover up its existence completely. The PCMC has prevented Armageddon on more occasions than any average person would find realistic, and without them the humanity would be extinct or endangered.
Howdy y'all. Right now the details are kind of sparse, but I'm looking to do some kind of supernatural task force kind of RP. Somewhere along the lines of a combination between XCOM, the SCP Foundation, X-Files, Men In Black, and Hellboy all wrapped into one. It would consist of both gumshoe detective work and SWAT Team-like combat in various supernatural scenarios. No character sheet yet and the info will be more detailed once the OOC comes around, but I wanted to see who'd want to start playing when this one came up.
So who's interested?
