VRAD. The Metaversal Men In Black

=VRAD: The Metaversal Men In Black =
==Who Are We?==
That depends who’s asking! If you’re a civilian or an anomaly, we’re nobody. There’s nothing to see here. Forget you ever saw us and close this document. For anyone else, VRAD was first established in 1752. VR didn’t exist back then, so we sat around for 262 years doing nothing. Then on the eve of January 16th 2014, VRChat was brought online for the first time, and when the developers play-tested it for the first time, we were already there, waiting…
The Virtual Reality Anomaly Division.
Back in those days the Metaverse was pretty intense, a wild west of 1’s and 0’s, and gradually more weird stuff started to happen. But we were there, watching, collecting data and protecting the handful of citizens from the metaversal oddities. Cast your mind back, do you remember those annoying Ugandan Knuckles guys? Running around, accusing people of not knowing "de wae". You don’t see many of them anymore do you? You’re welcome!
That’s what we do. Bad memes don’t die of natural causes, they die because we punch them out of existence. To be honest, you've probably already seen us in VRC. You won't remember though because we wipe your memory of the events that occured. Leave no witnesses. The inhabitants of the Metaverse are better off not knowing about the crazy things that exist around them.
We don’t always want to destroy the anomalies we find though. Sometimes we just want to observe them and collect data. Some metaversal oddities are harmless. Those are the ones we like to rip open and examine. Our main focus is data extraction. Our goal is to catalogue every anomaly within the metaverse and study it to find out it’s capabilities, threat levels and sometimes even what flavour it is!
By reading this, you just became the property of VRAD. The life you once knew is behind you. Nobody can know you exist. By reading this, you chose to let go of your friends, family, spouse, kids. Everything. Don’t worry though, we’ll make sure to give you an epic fake death so the people you once knew get some closure.
The TL:DR version is that we’re like a “drawn from memory” version of the Men In Black, X-Files, SCP and Ghostbusters. To the citizens of the metaverse, we are nobody. We don’t exist. We move in the shadows... and by reading this, we own you now.
= Our Activities=
===AOTW Surveilance Missions===
Anomaly of the week events happen every week on a Saturday. Agents will be tasked with patrolling VRChat to search for the anomaly of the week. They will team up in groups of up to five and patrol public VRChat worlds interacting with members of the public in character. We use improv skills to engage with other VRC players and try to give them a few minutes of entertainment. Our Avatars are equiped with various props and equipment that can be used to inspire improv ideas, such as our Neuralyser, a device used to erase people's memories.
===Urgent Assignments===
These can be initiated in two ways. 
1) Pings will be sent out to the discord server when a new assignment is active. The first agents to respond will attend the event.
2) During a surveillance event the operator will contact a team that is currently on duty and ask them if they are available for an Urgent Assignment.
Urgent assignments are mini stories that have been pre-planned. They involve actors and a set objective. The agents will all meet at a predetermined location and react to the events that unfold around them. It is up to the agents themselves to figure out how they would like to complete the mission. Some of these missions will add to our lore. Urgent Assignments can take place in private worlds, or in public worlds where the agents will have to figure out what is going on, and attempt to resolve it.
===Incursions===
These are massive pre-written events that take place under a structured setting with tons of moving parts and actors. They can span over many worlds. Our Agents will enter an area where an event is taking place and they will have to use their avatar equipment and Abilities to resolve the situation. The antagonists in the situation are played by other VRAD members to give the Agents an emmersive and exciting experience. During organised missions, the Agents have a lot more tools and abilities available to them. More on abilities below.
=Equipment and abilities=
===Equipment===
We provide our agents with high quality avatars with tons of weapons, props and equipment on. The avatars and props look great, with cool animations and sound effects... and the best part is that all avatars are medium performance rank so automatically shown by default for many players.
Upon joining VRAD you will be issued the following equipment:
*Pistol: With torch, laser, single fire, burst fire, and fully auto firing options
*Neuralyser: For wiping peoples memories.
*Sunglasses: To protect yourself from memory wipe, and to look cool.
*Tinfoil hat: This is our armour. They cant probe our brains if they can't get to them.
*Gripper multitool: A cool little gadget that can hack computers, scan anomalies, act as a sentry guard among other stuff.
*ID Badge: For those time's when you get "I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to see some ID"
*Cash: For bribing people
*Stealth tech: ...Its a cardboard box to hide in.
*Tablet: Preloaded with improv prompts, like a picture of a stickman "Hi sir, we're looking for this man, have you seen him around?"
* Barricade: For controlling an area, and to make a bigger scene.
*Banner: It's just an advertising banner. Drop it in a world when you enter to try and recruit people.
*A style menu for cusomising the appearance of your avatar.
===Abilities===
Upon joining VRAD, each agent is injected with nanomachines which unlock a special ability that can be used to help the team towards achieving their goal. Kind of like the X-Men. During the medical questionaire, the Agent will write down what ability was unlocked for them. This can not be changed. These abilities can be used in Private Missions, however there is a catch. Each ability has a 50% chance of corrupting, and you can only attempt to activate it once per mission. 
During a recent example a team of four had to infiltrate a base. The first thing Agents do when they arrive at a scene is find out what each others ability is, and how they can be used to achieve the goal. An Agent that had mind control decided he wanted to use his ability to get a guard to jump off a building. He rolled for activation, but the ability got corrupted, and instead, one of his team mates jumped off the building instead. All abilities have a 50% chance of negative consequence. We call these corruptions.
In another example, an Agent wanted to shapeshift into an anomaly to blend in. She rolled for it and again it got corrupted. Instead she shifted into an 8bit frog in a car and had no control of the car while it was driving. This alerted the anomalies to the agents presence.
= VRAD HQ=
We initially had the entrance to our base hidden in a random wardrobe in someones house. However one day, one of the occupants of that house found our HQ and it caused a whole thing, tons of paperwork, massive headache. One day while PinkButterfly was walking her pet rock, she stumbled upon a derelict bathroom which seemed to be unused. She immediately had the HQ entrance routed to one of the toilets in this bathroom. The best place to hide a secret base is in plain sight. So now, to enter the HQ, you simply flush yourself down the toilet.
The HQ is Quest friendly and constantly being updated. It is filled with cool easter eggs from fantasy and sci-fi tropes. We even have a quantum kitchen, the entrance of which appears based on probability. You're welcome to use the kitchen if you can find it.
It has the following facilities:
*Reception
*Deneuralyser station for Agents that forgot to put their sunglasses on
*Staging area for mission briefings.
*Shooting range
*Server room for storing agent backups
*Staff room with a suspicious view of Earth from the window. There's also something else out there.
*Quantum Kitchen. The probability of finding it is very small.
*Training wing [coming soon]
*Lab [coming soon]
*Vehicle garage [coming soon]__INDEX__
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=Community and Diversity=
The community is Desktop/Quest compatible, and is 100% LGBTQ+ supportive. We strive to be as inclusive as possible. Our goal is to have all avatars visible to Quest players, even if this requires some creative thinking and a ton more work. Although some features of the avatars wont function properly on Quest (such as sound effects, as quest does not support avatar Sound FX), we are looking at ways to circumvent this, for example, instead of guns making a "bang" noise, a big "bang" sign appears briefly, hey it's cheesey, but our options are very limited. 
We would also like to offer different skin colours for our base avatars. During her years in VRC, Pink had witnessed many people complain about the lack of diverse ethnicities on avatars within VRChat, so she has a goal to ensure that people's own identities can be reflected in whichever VRAD avatar they choose. The v1 avatars had skin colour sliders, and the goal is for all avatars going forward to have them too, however, as a white woman, Pink would like to seek guidance from people who could benefit from this feature to ensure that it is not implemented in an insulting way.
===Founding Members ===
The first 100 people to join VRAD will get a role called "Founding Members". As VRAD grows, we will be offering more perks, the first of which is a custom limited edition Avatar and a private "founders only" room in the HQ with their names on the wall somewhere.
=Teams=
====Public Relations====
Team Lead: 64ozP0rkch0p
====Development ====
Team Lead: Risge3000
====Propaganda ====
Team Lead: Gamma
====Lore Creation====
Team Lead: Takeoff
==== Disciplinary ====
Team Lead: AlixandraGalaxy
==== Moderation ====
Team Lead: Fefras
Members: TBC
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