Tim thrashes on the ground and attempts to fight off his attackers.
"Help! They're stealing my PDC! And dirtying my jumpsuit! Treason!"
Tim, you should try to get to the briefing, being late for debrief is treasonous!
<Horton fires a laser blast into the crowd mobbing Tim.>
Boris runs..."Those are orange citizens Horton!...you must be crazy...being crazy is treasonous!!!!"
Horton's laser blast takes out one of the reporters taking him down. It gets the attention of the others. A couple of them scream and start to run. A couple of others spin around and put their hands up.
"Don't shoot! Don't shoot! We can do the interview at a later time."
Tim you can get to you feet if you want. One of the reporters still has your PDC, but he's standing beside you with his hands in the air, peeing his pants, hoping that Horton doesn't shoot him. The PDC is in one hand, held above his head.
Tim gets to his feet, draws his laser and points it at the Orange citizen with his PDC.
"That contains important information that needs to be delivered to a Blue citizen. Hand it over and you won't be the next exclusive your buddies report on."
"Let's go TIM. Shoot any commies that interfere with our mission."
The man gingerly hands back the PDC to Tim.
The man gingerly hands back the PDC to Tim.
Ginger Ly...that's a acrobat star right?
The man gingerly hands back the PDC to Tim.Ginger Ly...that's a acrobat star right?
Tim grabs his PDC, smiles at the man, and hustles off after the rest of the team.
"Have a nice day, citizen!" Tim waves his laser at him in emphasis.
The trip back is surprisingly uneventful. When you arrive back in the briefing area you are all seated in a waiting room. One at a time you are called into a private confession booth by a stern looking yellow citizen from Int Sec. The man hooks each individual up to a lie detector, and a camera in the booth films the individual debriefing. The door is closed and it begins. The booth is sound proof, so no else can see or hear what is going on with each troubleshoot.
During the mission, some citizens went berserk, they really wanted these new chippies, I talked to the citizens, here is an actual quote of the words I said: "People, people, people, just Calm down...there are enough chippies to go around...you just have to buy them like good capitalists...you are destroying the computer's faith in you...vendobots are our friends, they allow us to buy things from them, commies hate to buy things! Buy buy buy...capitalism works" but they went completely insane. When 2 IntSec Goo...Good guys arrived and tried to contain the riot, the citizens attacked the yellow IntSec officers and killed them, so I did what I felt was necessary and called a Vulture Squad to control the murderous riot. Also I suspect Logan-R-RUN is in possession of contraband, but I can't be sure, I think there was a yellow item in his bag..
I returned with a full box of Chippies, and all my gear intact.
GM EYES ONLY:
GM:
Boris attempted to calm the crowd, but his speech mentioned the word "commies" many, many times. In fact, I'd suspect that using the word "commies" that many times without "kill all" or "death to" before it is likely treasonous. Also, he was the unhappiest Happiness Officer I've ever served with. He dispensed adequate amounts of pills, but I don't recall seeing him ever take any.
Wantru did not take his appointed turn to stock chippies, violating a direct order from our Team Leader, Horton. He did not defend the chippies, rescue Logan from the vendobot, or assist me when Orange level citizens attempted to stop me from returning for debriefing and attempted to steal my PDC.
Bob attempted to convince me to stay and clean up the mess, counter to the direct order from the Computer to return for debriefing. He attempted to convince the team leader to run rather than defend the snacks and the vendobot against unauthorized and unpaid consumption. He also claims that the Happy Shapey Chippies were infected with communism. This can't be true, since the chippies came from Miss B-JOB, a loyal citizen of high rank. Obviously, Bob is simply spreading communist propoganda in a treasonous attempt to slander her and the rest of our loyal team by association. On the slim chance he is correct, I can only assume that they chippies were infected by a traitor or traitors in our midst. Given my prior reports, the only plausible suspects are Wantru and Boris, as they were not directly involved in the stocking or the primary objective of running diagnostics on the 'bots, which I was doing as per orders.
Logan served well and died in the line of duty. However, I must report that he died after making a horrible mess of the vendobot and was fired upon by a Yellow IntSec citizen. He was also chronically unhygenic.
Horton disobeyed a direct order from a Yellow IntSec member, but otherwise served admirably as Team Leader.
GM EYES ONLY:** spoiler omitted **
Thank you for your cooperation citizens. Your reports are being analyzed and cross checked with the various video footage with have received. In the mean time, you are all to report to our briefing room where team leader Horton-R-TPK will make his full report. Further questions may be asked of you in the near future.
Moments later you are all seated in the main briefing room. The room is empty except for your team, but you are sure that many eyes are on you.
Citizen Horton, please make your full mission report.
"I fear that this team may well be a hive of commie traitors but have no evidence other than the fact that my last clone was corrupted by some evil influence. As you can see from this sack of traitorous articles I found in his possession (he drops the bag on the floor), he was quite deserving of his untimely death."
"As for the mission. The machine appears to have been loaded with Chippies as ordered but the additional chippies that these citizens were carrying have been torn to pieces by a riot in the cafeteria which I'm sure you have on video record oh great computer. Thus, the chippies that we were ordered to return are slightly less in number than they should be. Luckily, the firefight eliminated what I'm sure were traitorous elements seeking to hoard chippies for themselves and their perverted commie cadres, or perhaps for their insidious anti-computer overlords. So perhaps that will balance out."
"Just thinking of the twisted acts of... ummm... acrobatics that they engage in makes me want to puke. But I shall not sully this fair complex floor with such filth. I love it so!"
"Additionally, it is worth noting that several no doubt subversive elements in the media tried to prevent us from returning to this meeting, no doubt to cast the computer's leadership in a bad light. My team members have recorded their wrong-doings which we submit as evidence."
GM EYES ONLY:
Thank you for your Report Citizen Horton it has been recorded and is taken into full consideration. Would anyone like to add anything to team leader Horton's account of the success of your mission?
"That's Horton, ummm, sir."
Yes, that is what I said. "Team leader Horton." Does your hearing need to be checked citizen?"
"Clearly the defect is my own. But perhaps it's just a short term decanting problem and it will clear up. Can I give it a few days?"
Fear not citizen Horton, I will see to it that all your cavities are thoroughly inspected to make sure that your new clone is functioning at full capacity.
Given that no one else seems to have anything to add, and that I've taken into account your individual reports, I have come to the following conclusions. There was no treasonous programming in the vendobots when you first inspected them; therefore there was no real mission objective to complete. However, after the chippie incident treasonous programming was detected in the vendobot. Thus, there is a 98.76 % probability that one or more members of your team was responsible for introducing the program into the vendobot. Therefore, at least one member of your team is a traitor. I would like each one of you to go back to the confession booth and report which member of your team is responsible for this act of treason. If you have evidence to prove your suspicion please forward it during your confession. If you are the one responsible please confess any and all treasonous activities you have engaged in. Thank you for your compliance troubleshooters.
Let me know what you want to do after we wrap up this debriefing. Both the missions I've tried to run ended up going off the rails and ending a prematurely, which I'm not at all concerned about given that it's paranoia and that's what tends to happen. If people are still interested, I can look at trying to run another mission, possibly with new troubleshooters. If you want to end it after this, that works for me too (at least we had a chance to give it a try). Either way, share your thoughts.
By the way Horton/Krulaid, I was just browsing some of the maps you did. They look great. I especially like the Sothis one. I was a little bummed out that the pathfinder companion I just received didn't have one, so if I end up running Entombed with pharaohs your map would be real handy.
By the way Horton/Krulaid, I was just browsing some of the maps you did. They look great. I especially like the Sothis one. I was a little bummed out that the pathfinder companion I just received didn't have one, so if I end up running Entombed with pharaohs your map would be real handy.
Happiness Officer Boris-R-LOF-3 Reporting to confession booth as ordrered.
GM:
Let me know what you want to do after we wrap up this debriefing. Both the missions I've tried to run ended up going off the rails and ending a prematurely, which I'm not at all concerned about given that it's paranoia and that's what tends to happen. If people are still interested, I can look at trying to run another mission, possibly with new troubleshooters. If you want to end it after this, that works for me too (at least we had a chance to give it a try). Either way, share your thoughts.
It's been great! Best Paranoia games I've ever played, the backstabbing is hilarious...I suggest if we start a new one, we all go back and look at all the spoilers...
It's been great! Best Paranoia games I've ever played, the backstabbing is hilarious...I suggest if we start a new one, we all go back and look at all the spoilers...
I think we might have lost Logan, somewhere along the way, which is too bad. However, we might be able to recruit another. I think 5-6 players is ideal for this. I'm glad to hear you've enjoyed this. That inspires me to want to continue it. I'll have a look at a few scenarios and see if I can brew up something (an old classic perhaps). It'd be nice to run something that comes close to running its course. Not that the premature endings have been been bad, but I'm feeling a bit like an 18 year old having sex for the first time.
The game is great, it's fun to backstab people, and really is a relief to play a game sometimes where you don't care if one of the other players pops a nade in the elevator. That really was funny.
It's like going to the improv.
And, it's great since you have to outthink more than one person, individually, not one person collectively...I love it!
I haven't heard much from Logan, Tim or Wantru lately. It will be hard to keep this going with only 3 players. Hopefully they will chime in shortly to let us know if they want to keep it going.
Sorry, I've been busy with school/work lately. It's been a blast, but I don't think I'll be much of an asset with how sporadically I've been posting lately. I'll just bow out after this last debrief (which I'll post later tonight) and hopefully I can catch another game or latch back onto this one when I've got the free time again.
hey guys
first off all i really hate posting this in the middle of your game, although i did find the discussion thread for this game the last post there was october '08 so i thought i'd post here instead, in case that thread had been abandoned.
i'm an experienced dnd player (both pbp and rl) who has managed to play a few paranoia games in my time and always love them... i logged onto paizo for the first time in a couple of months just out boredom and found this game. that was roughly 3 hours ago and i've been laughing almost non stop.
now as it seems you guys are just doing the finishing touches on your 2cnd mission and contemplating a 3rd i'd like to sign up if possible.
of course if you guys think the game couldn't fit another person i understand, but if you are willing to have me, keep in mind: i already know how to play paranoia, i have pbp experience, i know how to use invis castle and i can post a minimum of twice a day, lots more on weekends.
regards,
Rickyflame.
I hate to interrupt, but I don't know how else to get in touch with you guys.
I have just spent the last couple hours reading these posts from the beginning(I got through 600 or so) and have been laughing and quoting to my wife.
I haven't played Paranoia since high school (almost 20 years ago) and don't seem to have any of my Paranoia books anymore, but I think I remember enough to play with some refreshers. If you are planning to continue playing and need another player, please consider me. I'd love to play. If you don't need me, please keep playing, just to give me something fun to read.
Thanks.
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Awesome! We need some new blood/meat. I'll wrap up this mission debrief in tomorrow, and try and get a new mission going. The discussion thread has a link to a character generator that will make you a paranoia character in about 5 seconds. Don't worry too much about background, as I will likely be providing that for you.
Excellent! Of course I'm gonna stay, welcome to the new troubleshooters!
And TIM, hate to see you go, had a blast with you and everyone in this last game! heh.
Having analyzed the reports filed by each team member, I have concluded that there is a 85.678% chance that there are multiple traitors on this troubleshooting team. As a result, all troubleshooters will be receiving a full brainscrub, followed by a demotion to infrared status. You shall be removed from your service firms to serve exciting new and fun positions as target holders for our troubleshooter cadet firing range. Thank you for your cooperation, and enjoy your new opportunity to serve Alphacomplex.
For the next mission, I will be randomly assigning you pregenerated troubleshooters. You can name them and flesh them out, but your backgrounds, secret societies and such will be assigned for you. See the discussion thread for updates.
Having analyzed the reports filed by each team member, I have concluded that there is a 85.678% chance that there are multiple traitors on this troubleshooting team. As a result, all troubleshooters will be receiving a full brainscrub, followed by a demotion to infrared status. You shall be removed from your service firms to serve exciting new and fun positions as target holders for our troubleshooter cadet firing range. Thank you for your cooperation, and enjoy your new opportunity to serve Alphacomplex.
"Thank you!"
<Points his laser at Boris and fires.>