DEPARTMENT: APPLIED ONTOLOGY
Reality is merely a consensus. Applied Ontology deals with the most dangerous threats: Reality Benders and narrative anomalies that threaten to rewrite our existence. Their job is not to contain, but to prevent the very fabric of reality from unraveling.
Primary Function: Intervention and containment of Reality Benders (Green Type Entities).
Operational Specifics: A team of specialists trained in psychology and non-confrontational tactics to de-escalate and contain individuals capable of altering reality.
Primary Function: Deconstruction and analysis of anomalies based on stories or narratives.
Operational Specifics: A team of literary critics and pataphysicians analyzing the "rules" of an anomalous narrative to find a way to "conclude it" favorably.
Primary Function: Tactical manipulation of Hume fields to counter Reality Benders.
Operational Specifics: A team of elite operators who do not perform maintenance, but use SRAs as precision instruments. They specialize in 'fine-tuning' the Hume field to create dynamic barriers, targeted stabilizing pulses, or 'pockets' of altered reality to deceive or contain a Green Type Entity during a direct confrontation.
Primary Function: Identification of tropes, clichés, and "plot holes" in an altered reality.
Operational Specifics: A narratology expert capable of identifying the rules of the story that an anomaly is imposing, in order to exploit them to our advantage.
Primary Function: Study of the interaction between reality and the upper/lower levels of fiction.
Operational Specifics: A theoretical researcher who studies the nature of fiction itself, a highly esoteric and dangerous field for understanding the most complex narrative anomalies.
Primary Function: Therapy and psychological de-escalation of Reality Benders.
Operational Specifics: A psychologist specializing in the unique mindset of individuals capable of altering reality, often afflicted by solipsism or delusions of omnipotence.
Primary Function: Profiling of the ontological capabilities of reality-altering entities.
Operational Specifics: A specialized technician who uses Kant's Counters to analyze the specific Humean imprint of a Green-Type Entity. Their role is to provide a real-time analysis of its ontological capabilities, predict its moves, and identify vulnerabilities or fluctuations in its control of reality.
Primary Function: Analysis and correction of paradoxes and breaks in the causal chain.
Operational Specifics: A philosopher and physicist specializing in identifying and, where possible, resolving events that violate causality (e.g., an effect that precedes its cause).
Primary Function: A dossier on all known Reality Benders.
Operational Specifics: A database cataloging every known Green-Type Entity, its power level (four-axis classification), its psychological profile, and effective containment methods.
Primary Function: A database of clichés and narrative structures of every kind.
Operational Specifics: A vast library of literary and cinematic tropes, used by analysts to predict the direction of a narrative anomaly and find a genre-appropriate "solution".
Primary Function: Real-time monitoring of the stability of reality within the Site.
Operational Specifics: A 3D map of the Site that shows Hume levels in real-time, immediately highlighting drops or peaks that indicate an alteration of reality.
Primary Function: Collection of all research on the nature of fiction and reality.
Operational Specifics: A highly restricted archive containing the most dangerous and advanced theories on the relationship between our existence and other possible "narrative realities."
Primary Function: Measurement of the level of reality (Hume) of an area or an entity.
Operational Specifics: A portable device that provides a numerical reading of reality stability, essential for identifying and classifying Reality Benders.
Primary Function: Maintaining the psychological stability of the operator in unstable realities.
Operational Specifics: A device (or a physical notebook) on which the operator constantly records basic facts about himself and the mission, to resist rewrites of reality.
Primary Function: An ink that slightly increases the probability that an event occurs.
Operational Specifics: An anomalous ink that, if used to describe a future event, marginally increases its probability of occurrence. Its use is strictly controlled.
Primary Function: Obtain information by consulting a contained narrative entity.
Operational Specifics: Formal authorization to interact with a contained entity whose anomaly is narrative-based (pataphysical, metanarrative, etc.). It allows one to "interview the story" to obtain clues on how to defeat another narrative anomaly, with the high risk that the consulted entity may in turn attempt to manipulate reality.
Primary Function: Temporary stabilization of reality in a limited area.
Operational Specifics: A field version of the SRA that can be activated to "shield" a small area against reality alterations for a limited period.
Primary Function: Introduction of logical paradoxes to destabilize a narrative.
Operational Specifics: A device that generates random and illogical events (e.g., a phone rings in the Middle Ages) to "confuse" a narrative anomaly and weaken its coherence.
Primary Function: Reinforcement of standard physical laws in a localized area.
Operational Specifics: A device that emits a field that makes it more "difficult" for reality to deviate from the normal laws of physics, acting as a weak but wide-ranging countermeasure.
Primary Function: Introducing new elements into an anomalous narrative.
Operational Specifics: An holographic/psionic projector that can insert a "character" or a "prop" into an altered reality, hoping that the narrative integrates it and is modified by it.
Primary Function: De-escalation and psychological containment of a Reality Bender.
Operational Specifics: A doctrine that prioritizes negotiation, psychological deception, and the satisfaction of the entity's narcissistic needs to guide it into containment.
Primary Function: Determine whether the Foundation is within an anomalous narrative.
Operational Specifics: A series of tests and observations to verify the existence of an "author" or a "fourth wall", to understand at what level of fiction one is operating.
Primary Function: Playing by the rules of a narrative anomaly to defeat it.
Operational Specifics: A protocol that authorizes agents to play a role within an anomalous story, using the genre's clichés to reach a favorable conclusion.
Primary Function: Attempting to forcefully insert a single "fact" into a locally unstable reality.
Operational Specifics: A risky pataphysical protocol that allows exploiting a narrative anomaly to attempt introducing a new element into the story (e.g., "And the monster suddenly developed a vulnerability to salt water"). The outcome is unpredictable and can backfire on the user, but it offers a creative solution to otherwise insurmountable problems.
Primary Function: Coordinated activation of all fixed SRAs of the Site.
Operational Specifics: An emergency protocol that transforms the entire Site into a "fortress of reality" to resist a large-scale ontological alteration.
Primary Function: Approval to perform an action that could generate a paradox.
Operational Specifics: The authorization, granted only by the Site Director and the Ethicist, to perform an action (e.g., sending information into the past) to resolve a major crisis.
Primary Function: Safe study of objects that distort spacetime.
Operational Specifics: A laboratory whose walls are lined with miniaturized Scranton Reality Anchors, ensuring that the physics within it remain stable regardless of the object being studied.
Primary Function: A database of terminated alternative realities.
Operational Specifics: A quantum server that stores residual data from deleted timelines or failed narratives, to study them without risk of contamination.
Primary Function: An area protected from every conceptual or narrative influence.
Operational Specifics: A screened room, not only physically, but also ontologically, in which it is impossible to tell stories or lie. Used for the most delicate debriefings.
Primary Function: Reinforcement of the laws of cause and effect in the Site.
Operational Specifics: A Site-level system that, when activated, renders statistically improbable illogical or paradoxical events, acting as a passive defense against ontological threats.