OPIA

OPIA is an organization based in Fuse City. It is a pharmaceutical company and hospital that assists with Coda-related medical emergencies alongside supporting research into the Coda and related otherworld phenomena. Its name is an acronym for "Otherworld Physiopathology Investigation Academy".

## Structure

OPIA is separated into several departments. Known departments include:

* ESP Research And Development, a department focusing on otherworld studies and the development of ESP-enhancing technology. They were also the department behind the development of OPIA's AI.
* OPIA Hospital, OPIA's most well-known department, a large emergency ward where those who have taken wounds from Demons, contracted Codan disease, or are exhibiting other non-standard ailments are treated by OPIA's doctors.
* The Academy, an institution that trains medical professionals in treating Codan injuries and illnesses so that they can apply OPIA's techniques in other hospitals.
* FLOW, a company of Reflection-wielding soldiers trained to fight against the Coda. Since separating from GEIST, FLOW has become wholly an OPIA subgroup.

OPIA has a board of directors, which includes figures such as Dr. Verona, Ridill Arondite, and Treble. Originally, OPIA's administration was subject to the will of its GEIST overseers, but following large internal changes within GEIST, OPIA was granted far more independence as an organization.

## History

### Founding

OPIA was born out of Station One, a strung-together team of Coda divers, mercenaries, and medics desperately attempting to push back against the Demonic incursion. Originally, Station One was constantly suppressed by GEIST's own anti-Codan initiatives. However, following the discovery of Reflections and Dr. Verona's rise to prominence following her miraculous rescuing of a wealthy man from a Demon-incurred wound, Station One became too much of a household name for GEIST to afford suppressing it. Instead, they began giving Station One large amounts of funding, essentially binding them to GEIST oversight if they wanted to expand their operations and remain afloat.

### Expansion Period

Following the influx of funds, Station One renamed itself to OPIA and constructed a massive hospital and research facility on the arm of Upwind. In the next two years, OPIA made great strides in learning more about the Coda and developmed many new technologies. Some advancements include the creation of artificial intelligence, the development of Burn-reducing pills, and the production of simulacrums. At some time during this period, GEIST had tasked OPIA with keeping watch over the Flame of Creation, which they had placed beneath the hospital.

Alongside OPIA, Station One's former mercenary corp had been retrofitted into a Reflection-wielding mass media sensation known as Front Line, Otherworld Weapon (FLOW). FLOW continued to go on regular missions into the Coda, retrieving more Reflections and learning more about the nature of the Demonic threat. However, even with Reflections and the best equipment money could buy, fighting against the Demonic horde was still an incredibly lethal affair, and after two years, only three agents of FLOW's original team, retroactively called "Wave One", remained.

### FLOW Wave Two

Soon after OPIA began its expansion period, it began laying the groundwork for a second Wave of FLOW. Unlike the first Wave, these agents would be trained thoroughly in otherworld science, physical fitness, and other important skills before being officially admitted into FLOW. During the training period, GEIST forcibly submitted Basilisk Id, the "Absolute Free Will Project", as a member of FLOW under unique circumstances. The other six Wave Two recruits trained in the desert outside of Fuse City at a training camp for over a year.

On their first official day on the job, OPIA greeted Wave Two at the hospital, where they were led by Verona and several AI to OPIA's hall of Reflections to choose their own. However, upon finalizing their choices, the coffin that Basilisk Id was transported to OPIA within began to release a strange signal that caused the nearby GEIST soldiers that had carry it to melt. At Ace Galatine's suggestion, Willow Wisp shattered the coffin, which caused everyone in the Reflection hall to be teleported elsewhere. Additionally, every unbound Reflection in the hall disappeared from containment and was scattered across Fuse City and beyond.

The following day, GEIST reprimanded OPIA for its inability to handle the coffin incident. After Ridill refused to acquiesce to their demands, she was fired from both OPIA and FLOW, although OPIA managed to use a legal loophole to bring her on as a "freelance consultant" until she was rehired. Backed against a wall, OPIA decided to go on the offensive, and began forcing GEIST into a lengthy series of contract renegotiations.

Following the AI Cam's binding to the First Water, Ridill attempted to reupload to the AI's charging base to recharge. However, due to intaking large amounts of otherworld information due to the First Water's ability, the Flame network of OPIA was disrupted, leading to rudimentary Flames possessing several of the AI's failed simulacrums. Wave Two was tasked with quelling the outbreak under the nose of a GEIST investigation masquerading as an interview. After successfully pulling the rug under Number Five, the GEIST CEO undertaking the investigation, OPIA was tasked with installing several probes on the first layer of the Coda.

### The Court of Death

After programming a hidden backdoor into the GEIST probes, OPIA was able to use the information from the probes to pinpoint the location of Ruth Galatine, a former Wave One fighter who had gone missing two years ago. Before they could plan out an operation to retrieve her, Basilisk disappeared into the Coda. At the same time, GEIST abruptly closed neogtiations and revoked all funding. Left with no other options, OPIA evacuated the hospital in preparation for a GEIST attack. Regrouping at Station One alongside various allies from the Undercity and a contingent of rogue ESPers, OPIA intiated a last ditch mission to retrieve both Basil and Ruth. As a forward team of FLOW agents made their way to the third layer of the Coda, Station One was attacked by a joint force of GEIST simulacrums and Demons under the command of the Demonic Court of Death. At the same time, OPIA HQ was assaulted by a legion of GEIST soldiers commanded by the GEIST AI. OPIA was defended by the AIs Cast and Serve, alongside FLOW agents Ascalon and Lyst Solais. However, after the GEIST AI used his own Reflection, Signal, to completely knock out Ascalon with a single attack, the defenders were pushed into the Reflection hall as GEIST began pillaging the facility. Left with no other options, Cast communed with their own Reflection, Season of Silenus, which granted them the power to encase the entirety of OPIA and everyone inside in a massive sheet of crystals.

The remaining forces of OPIA, having recovered both Ruth and Basil, returned to Upwind's arm to liberate OPIA and fend off the final attack of the Court of Death. After a lengthy battle with several FLOW agents and their allies, the Court's Stranger, the Hunter of Mortals, assumed a monstrous form and caved in the OPIA lobby beneath him, sending it crashing to the ground. The broken floor was kept aloft temporarily by Fio and Treble, which gave OPIA enough time to kill the Hunter of Mortals once and for all.

### Rebuilding

Following the battle against GEIST and the Court of Death, OPIA entered a state of rebuilding as construction immediately began on restoring the hospital. GEIST, which had undergone a massive shift in its internal balance of power during the conflict, backed off from domineering OPIA and increased some of its funding. After two months of reconstruction, OPIA began plans to intiate Wave Three of FLOW, with the aim of hiring a massive influx of new recruits, creating a force several orders of magnitude greater than Wave Two in terms of manpower.

## Assets

### Technology

As a research center, OPIA is a technological powerhouse in Fuse City. It uses many of its products to improve itself, both in terms of instractrure and defense against malicious parties. Alongside the hospital, OPIA has several other state of the art facilities, including multiple virtual reality chambers, a large ESP lab, and a massive containment ward for storing Reflections. OPIA also has its own self-contained information sharing network powered by Flame. In addition to its Reflections, OPIA has also acquired over the years an assortment of miscellaneous items and materials from the Coda that can be used to process otherworld Elements for various experiments and technologies. These Elements are primarily used to create new bodies for people who have died but had their Flames retrieved, and as ammo for Echo Weapons, powerful armaments that inject their opponents with harmful Elements to deal large amounts of damage.

### Reflections

OPIA's main asset its its stockpiling of over one hundred Reflections, mysterious glass portals harvested from the Coda that, when interacted with, allow people to "bind" to them and summon powerful artifacts representing legends from previous worlds lost to the Coda. These artifacts are some of the only instruments capable of reliably harming Demons, besides Echo Weapons or heavy bombardment. As such, OPIA is able to use their possession of so many of them as political leverage and as a means of defense by arming its paramilitary departments with them.

### ESPer Corp

During OPIA's battle against the Court of Death and GEIST, several members of Fuse City's official ESPer Corp disobeyed direct orders and assisted OPIA in the conflict. Several of them were armed with Reflections by Ridill, a strategy which allowed OPIA to turn the tide of the battle in their favor. After the battle concluded, OPIA acquired ownership of the entire ESPer Corp during its severance from GEIST. This has greatly bolstered their active combat and medical personnel as well as the depth and ease of OPIA's ESP research.

### OPIA HQ

Located on the hand of the dead god Upwind, OPIA's headquarters is a state of the art hospital and research facility. The organization's Reflections are stored here, and FLOW agents live and train in its facilities. Many doctors studying the Coda learn and work at OPIA as well.

The hospital is incredibly large, and is well-kept and cleanly. Its location in upper Fuse City allows it access to nearby prosperous financial districts and a degree of safety from the Coda below.

Following the destruction of most of OPIA HQ by the Hunter of Mortals, OPIA was quickly reconstructed and improved over the course of three months. The main addition to the new OPIA was a massive tower in the center acting as a dormitory for several FLOW agents and other figures of interest. Several wings such as the Reflection hall were also moved and rebuilt with increased capacity. A massive lobby was also installed in the center of the facility.

### Station One

While mostly depopulated following OPIA's founding, Station One remains under the organization's ownership and control. During active missions into and around the Coda itself, the old bunker is still used as a forward base.

## Members

### Administration

* Director
* Dr. Verona
* Ridill Arondite
* Treble

### AI

* Circuit
* Cam
* Mic
* Cast
* Danger
* Serve
* Cursor

### Other

* Satyr
* Solace
* Isabeaux

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Above and Below
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dear Sweetest Me
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bedside Manners
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Beachside Burn
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 For Tomorrow
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Forgotten Hero
7. ↑ https://www.patreon.com/posts/reflection-dr-71171070
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sum of Experiences
9. ↑ https://www.patreon.com/posts/reflection-67093789
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Neon Sparks
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Light Inside
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chasing Ghosts
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Tumbling Down
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 For Today
15. ↑ For Tomorrow
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Crossing Threads
17. ↑ Superhero