Fairly Normal Inspectors

Fairly Normal Inspectors (Goku futsū no kensakan ごく普通の検査官) or Fairly Normal Home Inspectors are a group of fanatical freelance Paranormal Investigators and Exorcists that oversee potentially paranormal reports across the United States. Originally formed by a small crew of self proclaimed professionals, the group has dubbed the organization off of its "fairly normal" experiences with the paranormal.
While many take the investigation seriously, others use the excuse of an investigation to break and enter into others homes and vandalize and steal from the premises.
== History ==
During an occult research investigation, two professional paranormal groups known as the Obsideo Religious Sect and the Society of Spiritual Demonologists began a long and arduous joint exorcism of the Holy Roman Catacombs. During said investigation, many of the exorcists were brutally slaughtered by the long dormant spirits held within, two particular individuals surviving the ordeal by the name of Travis Mason and Murphy Townsend began 
archeological investigator Alex Sunderland of the Forewarned Egyptian Research foundation and spiritual maintenance technician Murphy Townsend of the Obsideo Religious sect
== Notable Members ==
=== Primary Members ===
There are many Paranormal Investigation groups as well as many that join their ranks, however few are willing to stay with the group due to the dangers faced within each investigation. While all of their occupations and skills vary, all of the primary members of the group are skilled Exorcists, Photographers and Investigators using the equipment approved by the Vatican to identify and commune with.
While they are able to identify and report their findings of paranormal activity, the group are never explicitly given equipment to defend themselves or remove the ghost from the premises with the exclusion of Smudge Sticks. So each investigator is tasked with their own means of recognizing the layout of each location and both forming and practicing their own escape routes.
Name 	Status	Role
Henry Shepard (Signas) 	Active	Exorcism Advisor
Murphy Townsend (Tanemane)	Active	Investigative Maintenance
Alex Sunderland (Zirian) 	Active	Occult Researcher
* Henry Shepard is the confident and professional defacto leader of the Fairly Normal Inspectors and a former rookie journalist that trained under Travis Mason and Murphy Townsend prior to the groups equipment overhaul. Despite the groups affiliations going unnoticed, Henry has gained a reputation for investigating and overcoming near impossible feats alone, and has formed the groups philosophy around his survival skills.
* Murphy Townsend is the analytical and charismatic former attorney at law and founder of Fairly Normal Inspectors as a concept after years of working for the Obsideo Priest sect, initially being the recruiter and trainer but has since distanced himself from the forefront ghost hunting due to the frustrations of complicated investigations and the equipment overhaul in order to act as the groups legal backbone for insurance and legal policies.
* Alex Sunderland is the reserved jack of all college archeologist formerly working for the Forewarned Archeological Research Foundation, trading in logistics and analyst temp jobs for the Fairly Normal Inspectors, and is the least active member of the group.
=== Reserve Members ===
Despite the competence of the primary members, a secondary reserve of members have been seen to loosely associate as close friends of the primary members response team in the early day the Fairly Normal Inspectors.
The reserve members have been shown to contribute signs of thievery and vandalizing property, as well as mischievous tendencies that have put the investigation at risk as well as the lives of numerous inspectors to coincide with their own ideologies and philosophies that often contradict that of the normal members. 
Name 	Status	Role
Maria Pendleton (UndeadReality)	Active	Information Broker
Travis Mason (Owen Boro) 	Active	Curse Analyst
Harry Grady (Shin) 	Active	Paranormal Rouser
== Notable Cases ==
* Halloween 2022 followed the Halloween collectathon event from 2022, which revolved around setting the difficulty to Nightmare and the collection of numerous buckets of candy, followed by lighting Jack-O-Lanterns and then obtaining a photo of the ghost, who's model would then change to feature a pumpkin on their head.
* Holiday 2022 followed the Holiday event from 2022, which revolved around setting the difficulty to Intermediate and the collection of several cookies, and placing a plate filled with them in the ghosts room while also correctly identifying the ghost. Upon the ghost interacting and eating the plate of cookies in its room, the ghost model would change to appear as Santa Claus.
* Apocalypse Challenge is a special case which was believed to originally be an impossible feat by the games creators, setting all of the games custom difficulty settings to 24x (Now 15x due to the games custom difficulty rework) and playing alone throughout Sunny Meadows Mental Institution while correctly identifying the ghost and completing all three objectives.
* Easter 2023 followed the Easter event from 2023, which revolved around the collection of various Easter Eggs through numerous investigations. The difficulty could vary, so much as long as the ghost was not set to friendly.
* Halloween 2023 followed the Halloween event from 2023, which prompted investigators to search for Recipe Notes scattered throughout nine locations and then dumping the listed ingredients found in the Maple Lodge Campsite into a cauldron.
* Holiday 2023 followed the Holiday event from 2023, which primarily entailed gathering Toy Gun parts to build a Snowball Gun in Sunny Meadows Mental Institution, in order to shoot various Dancing Snowmen found throughout eight locations.
* Easter 2024 followed the Easter event from 2024, which entailed the trailing of various Forest Spirit Minions throughout several locations, taking photos of them in order to summon and identify the ghost type of the Forest Spirit in Camp Woodwind.
== Philosophy ==
Operating under the ideology of "Better Safe than Sorry" the groups ultimate priority is the safety of its members and keeping the potential risk to a minimum while investigating. Using personal experience to recognize the geography, layout and environment of each potential location for slight changes and allocating equipment, pinpointing the general vicinity of the paranormal influence and its evidence is differentiated into three stages: Preparation-Quarantine-Analysis.
Upon their arrival, the group scours the premises primarily to prepare their operations by turning on any source of power available to conserve sanity and pinpoint the Ghosts Room using most effectively, Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Readers, Spirit Boxes and more preferably, Thermometers to find the coldest location and prepare it accordingly. Upon finding the Ghosts Room, the team will quarantine the general vicinity and keep their distance in order to not get caught in the middle of a potential hunt and analyze any potential evidence given.
While the group are no strangers to personal challenges amongst themselves much like solo investigations and Optional Objective completion, it is of the utmost importance within the ranks of the groups philosophy to recognize an escape plan and coordinate the safest action to ensure the groups survival. This normally entails banning the usage of Cursed Objects and ensuring a safe route to smudge a ghost.
== Strategies ==
* Escape Plan is normally employed when a paranormal entity is considered belligerent, too hostile or uncooperative in certain objectives. Primarily, an Escape Plan is formed to summon, smudge or take a photo of a ghost and then retreat to a safer area with the usage of pre-planned items along the way in order to throw off or distract the ghost while allowing the electronics scattered throughout the area to create audible electronic interference, giving investigators an queue to recognize whether or not a hunt is still in progress.
* Safety Net is a safe zone or connection of firelight light sources capable of sustaining the sanity of those investigating and is also capable of preventing a ghost from performing major interactions outside of its own room.
* Power Saving is a strategy coinciding the faults of Breakers, making it a habit to automatically find and turn off the breaker in the investigative zone upon entering as to allow the house to freeze and more easily emit freezing breathes in the ghosts room.
* Door Check is a simple strategy to more effectively gauge a ghosts exact location by closing every door in the building upon each individual check and waiting for a ghost interaction with a door for an auditory que.
* Switch Check is a strategy to gauge whether or not a hunt is in progress due to the shortcomings and vulnerability of those unsure if it is safe to come out of hiding. Light switches can only be toggled before and after a hunt, and cannot be interacted with while a hunt is still active.
== Roles ==
Among the largest and most important aspects of the group are its roles. 
* Investigators are the scouts and most broad of the group, analyzing the environment and reporting various findings to narrow down searches such as the breaker, bone and Ghost Room location, as well as evidences.
* Photographers are the financial backbone of the group, taking photos of various changes in the environment such as Interactions, Bones, Cursed Objects, Handprints, Feet prints, Dirty Water and Ghost photos.
* Exorcists are the defensive daredevils of the group, preventing ghost aggression by using crucifixes, smudging areas in order to prolong investigations and daze/ward off ghosts, and salt to hinder and weaken the ghost.
== Trivia ==
* All of the former organizations that the primary members have worked alongside are all Phasmophobia-like video game references:
** Ghost Hunters Corp. later rebranded as the Ghost Exorcism Inc. is a ghost hunting game which revolves around larger player lobbies finding various environmental evidence and occult items scattered throughout the investigation site to exorcise the entity.
** Obsideo is a ghost hunting game revolving around several priests investigating haunted locations and using environmental equipment to correctly identify an entity and exorcise it.
** Forewarned is an Egyptian archeological investigation game which revolves around collecting various evidence of environmental interactions to enter the tomb of a Mejai, collect gold and artifacts, and potentially delve deeper in to exorcise the entity.
** Demonologist is a ghost hunting game which primarily entails a group of ghost hunters applying various contraptions to identify evidence and later exorcise the ghost as the house warps and mysterious ghostly visages appear around them.
* The term Flood Light Man was coined during a game between Signas, Tanemane and Zirian in which Tanemane had equipped himself in VR with 4 flashlights post investigation and ran around Ridgeview with his arms outstretched with all of them on.
* All of the central cast members are named after randomly assorted first and last names of Silent Hill Protagonists.
* Fairly Normal Inspectors was originally formed as an inside joke on March 19th, 2021 during a test game of Grafton Farmhouse with Owen. By this point in time, there were only 11 ghosts (Before the Yokai) and 7 maps. (Before the Willow Street House) It wouldn't be until Tanemane had begun tutoring in July 10th, 2021 that Signas would play a larger part in playing major updates.