The Institute of Natural Occurrences (INO)

Information
The Institute of Natural Occurrences, or more commonly referred to as the Institute or (INO), is the government-funded project to create modified humans to political, military, and everyday gains.

Setting
The border of Pennsylvania, New York and Lake Erie holds a large subcompact center called the Institute of Natural Occurrences. The Institute is a sub-government funded research and testing facility used to engineer people with special abilities (PSA). They planned to use PSAs for war, street protection, influence, and practically integrate PSAs into society to better it for the “people” (This mainly meant the wealthy). Mister Wilson was set in charge of this facility and effectively ran it until his death. The INO started with a few subdivisions -- Health, Security, Administration, and Patients. (Gen 1) It later added the Second World Researchers, Ability Trainers, and multiple focused Health and Security groups.

Goals
For a long period their original goal was to break children's minds to become complicit to their duties and then test the human body to see its limits and abilities (ie. using more parts of your brain at once, muscles staying at their strongest point, rewiring body parts, testing the limits of a mind broken person). It stayed this way until tinkering with one patient’s body allowed them to see the Second World. This led to the Second World Researchers who figured out how to contact these Second World beings and use them to their advantage in the INO. (Gen 2) The beings provided alliances to the patients and enhanced their powers in certain ways depending on the being. They spent long periods of time finding the most powerful second worlders and build up enough trust to form an alliance with a patient.

More Info
As of Carmilla’s takeover of the INO, things have reverted back to how it used to be. She cut the use of the SWRs and spent more time into effectively using the First World’s natural resources to further the patients. Carmilla feared a Second World v First World war if they continued to use their beings for their own personal gain. She actively sought to preserve the original foundation of the INO.

Patients were usually no older than 10 years old when taken in. The first round of patients were spied upon and then dealt out into INO’s clutches. They would take orphans or make deals with pregnant people to have their baby when it was born. They often paid large sums for these kids. They also bought out kids from CT rings as a way to “save” them. In the beginning they did trials and let some patients out into the real world to see how they would react but after Tomoda’s escape, they never did this again.