INEPTT FUNDING MEETING

It is my intention to write more and more on INEPTT (to be honest I am thinking of doing either a graphic novel or novelettes or essays. My hope is that the stories are usable for you as scenarios (though I intend writing scenarios as well). I think the back ground gives some good context to the game. Please let me know if you see these as positive or just meh :)

**A portion of an INEPTT Funding Meeting held in Prague, June 2017.

*Russian delegate*
Let me get this right Commander, you are saying that Paranormal activity in the way of Demons, Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves and so on are as real a threat as our growing conflict with the Aliens?

*INEPTT’s Commander*
Ma’am, yes, that is correct, in fact we now believe the old ancient evils and at least some of our Alien enemies today are indeed one and the same!

*Japanese delegate*
Commander, how can this be? Has not parapsychology and all the ghost hunting proven to be a hoax?

**INEPTT’s Commander*
I would ask our Chief scientist at INEPTT, Dr. Elizabeth Morin, to answer that if I may. Doctor?

**Dr. Morin**
Good morning all.
In answer to your question delegate Yakimoto, quite the opposite is true.
Many have tried to make mockery and debunk ghost hunters, possession and other such paranormal happenings. But there is good evidence to back up that as much as 8 percent of all reported paranormal incidents are indeed true. This evidence has grown to approximately 12 percent now that we have uncovered new advanced techniques to correctly identify the normal and the paranormal

In 2016 at a conference held at Berkley California, a combined panel of archeologists, neurologists, sociologists, psychiatrists and psychologists put forth a convincing argument that opened the eyes of the scientific community. They had conducted approximately 3 years of field testing on hauntings, possession and other such activities and concluded that more of these were noticed in 3rd world or under-developed countries not out of ignorance but because their brains were not electronically saturated and therefore blind to the paranormal around them!

They went further by taking volunteers from the countries of Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain and the United States and isolated them for six months away from the electronic world that these countries are now raising their youth in.

They found that by month four the receptors of these volunteers were open, and they were just as likely to be able to quote see unquote a ghost or apparition as were people from underdeveloped nations. Further, their ability to notice dark presences in their surroundings that were not identified as known life forms was higher than they had been before. This opens the whole field of research now being worked on by INEPTT scientists as to what these dark presences are. We know that most if not all are malevolent, but are they aliens or are they life forms native to our earth and present since life started on this earth?

**Delegate from South Korea*
Doctor, that is simply fascinating and to me begs the question. How did we not see this earlier?

**Dr Morin**
Delegate Yong, I think that is best answered by our drive to understand and learn. Science leapt our societies forward at a rate unimaginable in the 19th century and through this process we unknowingly shut down some of our own neural receptors. In fact, the panel from Berkley put forward the idea that these dark presences were supporting the types of science that helped block our receptors. For all intense and purposes making them radar invisible to us.

**Gasps across the 140 delegates**
**Canadian delegate**
Doctor, I can see the connection, but honestly so what? They haven’t been affecting us in any way?

**Dr Morin**
Sadly, that is not true. Look at the number of cases of mental illness across the developed world. We think it is because we know how to better diagnose these illnesses, and while some of this is true, the overall number of mentally ill has gone up exponentially since the middle of the 20th Century. Oddly this corresponds to the same time when electronics became more and more common. The same is not true in underdeveloped nations. The link, in the opinion of the Berkley panel were the dark presences. Call them what you want, demons, ghosts, boogie men, they are there, and they are whittling away at the foundation of our societies. They are working against us and we don’t even see them any more because our receptors have been turned off. Not unlike the virus that working on you invisible to the eye when you catch a cold or flu!

**Numerous conversations break out across the assembly**
**Chair person**
Delegates please, you have heard the plea from INEPTT’s command teams about funding and combined research projects. I need you to input your vote, yea or nay. Thank you.

**Pause, the Chair speaks again**
Unanimous! The funding and joint research will proceed.
Thank you all for your time.
This concludes our business for now.