Paranoia RPG - Trope Complex

Mission: Bunch of W-N-Kers

You few, you lucky few. No longer are you among the heavily drugged, near mindless masses of INFRARED class citizens. Now you are among the elite. The lowest of the elite, mere RED class trouble shooters, but still elite. Now having tasted actual food instead of just the various forms of chemical glop fed to INFRARED citizens and with slightly fewer mood adjusting drugs pumping through your blood stream, you actually can plan for the future. You can even dream of the chance, slim that it might be, that you or one of your clones might live to become VIOLET class.

You and your new coworkers have been outfitted with each of you having one red jumpsuit, one red laser pistol, and one red cred stick. According to your cred sticks, you each have 100 XP. You are all still so new to your new status that the constant presence of bright, bold color red is still new to you. You are all at the red cafeteria, eating Soylent Gluten Waffles (which are still the gray, tasteless discs you can remember from when you were infrared) and drinking Near Caf. Now that you are no longer INFRARED class, you have had the privilege of actually paying for your food and been charged 5 XP, leaving 95 XP on the cred stick. You are in mid-bite when you each suddenly have the sensation of an air horn going off inside your auditory canals.

The air horn cuts off suddenly, and is replaced by the voice of Friend Computer.

Attention, citizen. I hope you are enjoying your nutritious and scientifically engineered breakfast. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I did want to let you know that you have been selected as part of a team of trouble shooters, being sent on an important reconnaissance mission to WNK sector. Please report to briefing rom N-R-1-7-R once you have finished your breakfast. Failure to report in the next ten minutes to that briefing room will be considered treason. Thank you and have a nice day.

OOC: If you want to walk to the briefing room, you will need to find a route to the briefing room. Two suggested methods: You can 'remember' a route by getting two or more successes on a Alpha Complex Knowledge Skill + Brains Field + Computer Die roll, or by asking at an Info Terminal. Using an Info Terminal costs 5 XP per question. Feel free to come up with your own method if you prefer.

edited 13th Feb '15 9:02:43 AM by Nodrog

BRAINS - Bureaucracy. Silence pays 5 XP to the info terminal for a direct route to the briefing room.

Silence-R-104-1 abandons his waffle and goes to an Info Terminal on the wall.

Greetings, Citizen! Would you like to hear about an exciting new flavor experience from Bubbly, Bouncy Beverages?

3,4,3,3,6,5 = two successes.

Silence-R-104-1 navigates through the maze of pop-up ads using his knowledge of beuracracy and asks for the direct route to the briefing room.

Certainly, citizen! The direct route to that room would be turning 37.24 degrees to your left, 12 degrees up, and then traveling in a straight line for 23 point 713 meters. You have 90 expenditure points remaining on your cred stick.

Silence glances to the left and realizes this route requires the ability to travel through air, walls, and floors. Still, at least Silence now knows the briefing room is up one level and to the left. The difficulty for Silence to find a route on his own is reduced by one.

edited 13th Feb '15 10:00:09 AM by Nodrog

Brains - Alpha Complex Knowledge. Wolf tries to remember where exactly the briefing room could be.

Wolf-R-WAG-1 takes a bite of waffle, thinking.

((In the future, feel free to roll for yourself. Your Field is 2, your skill is 2, so computer die(1)+Field(2)+Skill(2) = 5. I roll five dice and get 3,6,1,3,4 for 1 success. Not enough))

Wolf-R-WAG-1 knows that the briefing room is probably on the floor above this one, but otherwise doesn't know where it is.

edited 13th Feb '15 10:43:38 AM by Nodrog

Lt.B Gob wakes up, smells the soylet and realizes she slept through the first 5 posts of the game. Dammit AEST!

Brains - Alpha Complex Knowledge. Teslaa-R-Coi-1 attempts to remember how to get the the briefing room in time.

Chuztpah - Stealth. WOLF will attempt to follow SILENCE to the briefing room without being seen.

((6, 4. 3. 4. 1))

((Rolling for Teslaa-R-Coi-1: 4,2,2,2,2 )) Teslaa-R-Coi-1 has no clue where the briefing room is; perhaps she need to drink some more Near Caf.

Wolf-R-WAG - 1 is just standing up when Friend Computer notices Wolf trying to sneak away. (the first die roll is a six, which means Friend Computer automatically notices)

As trouble shooters, each of you has a neural implant installed in your head. This implant has some important features: First, it allows Friend Computer to use your eyes, eyes, nose, and tongue to sense whenever it wants. (Friend Computer has no comprehension of touch). Second, if something happens to your current body, your memories can be transferred from the neural implant into the head of your next clone. Third, Friend Computer can project images and sounds into your head whenever you are in a Wi-Fi area, such as the cafeteria.

Wolf-R-Wag-1 suddenly hears the voice of Friend Computer in his head. "Citizen! While I appreciate your eagerness to report for your new duties, you are leaving a mess on the table. Remember, Sanitation is important! Ignoring sanitary basics as treasonous. I will be watching as you clean up your Soylent Gluten Waffles and Near Caf."

Anyone looking at Wolf-R-Wag-1 will see '   Wolf-R-WAG-1 * _ _ _ _   ' floating above his head. (First treason star of the game has been awarded!)

edited 13th Feb '15 6:12:04 PM by Nodrog

Teslaa-R-Coi-1 mutters something explicit, takes a swig of Near Caf and asks the info terminal for a Red accessible path to the briefing room (Mechanics - Program. I figure this is applicable, but if it's not I'll happily change)

edited 13th Feb '15 6:19:07 PM by Lt.BGob

Brains - Alpha Complex Knowledge. WOLF disposes of his trash and pays 5xp at the terminal, asking specifically how a physical human can get to the briefing room. ((5, 6, 1, 2, 1))

edited 16th Feb '15 8:10:34 AM by WolfAmongGods

((Teslaa's roll: 5,6,3,5,6 ))

Teslaa-R-Coi-1 manages to word her request EXACTLY correct. The Info Terminal reveals that all Teslaa-R-Coi-1 needs to do is to walk out of the cafeteria, enter the nearby RED clearance elevator, go up one floor, walk down the corridor, and then go into the conference room door. The information is automatically sent to Teslaa's HUD so she will see a trail of arrows to the briefing room.

Wolf-R-WAG - 1 inserts his cred stick and gets to see the same information Teslaa got.

Silence offers his knowledge to his coworkers to get to the briefing room. And hopefully compare it and get a more complete image of how exactly to get there. Just like how the capitalist scientists worked together to put a proud patriot on the moon.

WOLF complies while praising Friend Computer and Alpha Complex.

edited 13th Feb '15 7:31:31 PM by WolfAmongGods

Teslaa-R-Coi-1 thanks Friend Computer, and the info terminal, then asks the other two RE Ds to follow her as she complies to the directions and walks briskly after the arrows.

WOLF follows TESLAA to the briefing room.

You [[strike three]] five all reach briefing room N-R-1-7-R with absolutely no problems, thanks to Teslaa-R-Coi-1.

The briefing room is a rectangular room featuring a row of six red chairs facing a giant wall screen. As soon as all of you are seated, Friend Computer begins speaking.

->Welcome, trouble shooters. How are you? All happy, I hope?

Your responses here

->Good! Good! Unhappiness is treasonous, after all. Comfortable? Do any of you need any more Near Caf?

Your responses here

->Now, as you all should know, Alpha Complex is divided into multiple sectors. Sector WNK is supposed to be completely shut down, but recently I have received reports showing signs of people and machinery moving in that sector. I can only assume that WNK has been infected by Comunists Terrorists. Your mission will be to enter Sector WNK, find out what is going on there, and capture whoever is trying to reactivate that sector.

->Normally, any citizen found in a shut down sector would be found TREASONOUS. However, since I am ordering you all to go, you will each be issued a special pass allowing you access to Sector WNK.

Five passes, printed on gold-colored foil, emerges from a slot.

->Teslaa-R-Coi-1, for your excellent job of leading the team here, I am appointing you Team Leader for this mission. Wolf-R-WAG-1, you are appointed as Second in Command and as Sanitation Officer. Silence-R-104-1, you are Science Officer and third in command. Integ-R-ITY-1, you are Demolitions Public Relations Officer and fourth in command. Ava-R-ICE-1, you are the Loyalty Officer and last in command.

A box of Lemon-Lite Scented Cleaning Wipes ^TM appear in front of Wolf. A red level Med Kit appears in front of Silence. A box labelled 'Grenades, 6x' appear in front of Integ-R-ITY-1-]. A Multi-Recorder appears in front of Ava-R-ICE-1. (A Multi-Recorder is a black handheld device, about the size of a Gameboy. It can record what the holder is seeing and hearing, then play it back. On playback the footage can be modified, to compensate for low lighting, high speed movement, or distance)

-> Please remember, disobeying the order of a superior officer is TREASON, so it is important to know which officers are above you in the chain of command.

->Teslaa-R-Coi-1, is there any other equipment you would like to requisition for your team?

edited 14th Feb '15 7:45:59 AM by Nodrog

Teslaa-R-Coi-1 ceases silently celebrating and somewhat regretting her promotion to consider the question. She asks for Laser Armor for the team.

-> One Laser Armor Upgrade Kit, on it's way!

A chute opens, dropping a roll of aluminum foil in the middle of the room.

-> The cost of the Laser Armor Upgrade Kit has been deducted from your potential mission reward. Is there anything else you would like?

-> To help you get to WNK Sector, your group has been assigned the use of a Multi-Mode Truck. A Multi-Mode Truck works in three modes: Indoors, On Water, and    INFORMATION REDACTED   . I suggest you select someone as Driving Officer.

edited 13th Feb '15 11:01:36 PM by Nodrog

Ava sits with a silent smile looking over the room. She knew exactly what her position meant and her only regret was not finishing her Waffle, also maybe not getting a gun. Guns were pretty cool.

She assumed speaking now would be treason and so instead opted to mentally insert her responses to the [YOUR RESPONSES HERE] prompt, as to obey the signals without saying anything potentially treasonous by speaking out of what not be her turn.

A hidden panel on the ceiling opens. A padded glove, attached to a robot arm, descends from the opening, pats Ava gently on the head, and then retracts into the ceiling. Please treat this as a completely random event. It has nothing to do with Friend Computer liking Ava more then Friend Computer likes the rest of you, since any overt display of favoritism would obviously be something Friend Computer would never do.

Teslaa-R-Coi-1 gives the late Ava a quizzical look before thanking friend computer for the gracious supply of aluminum foi- Laser Armor and silently declines any further supplies. Looking about the assembled 'team' she points to Silence-R-104-1, "Congratulations, you're our new appointed driving officer."

Silence salutes, "Very well. If you'll excuse me I must put on the laser armor," and he quickly leaves.

About 5 minutes later he walks back in. The crinkling of the armor can be heard but it is covered by his large coat.

INTEG grins upon seeing the box labeled "Grenades, 6x".
Now this was much more to his liking than all the things he had to go through to get here from the caferteria.
Demolitions Officer. Now this was bound to be fun. Three people were above him in the chain of command. He had six grenades. Well, hopefully he had. With Friend Computer you could never be sure.

OOC question: What colour is the box labeled "Grenades, 6x"?

Ava smiled greatfully for what was certainly a fairly distributed and egalitarian pat from the friend computer. Certainly, it was a gesture of friendship which a leader as friendly as friend computer would give to all loyal citizens on a biweekly basis.

Ava smiled gently at both her commander and third commander as she took the tin foil from the table and began to rap herself, careful not to conceal the proud Red of her uniform.

She paused for a moment to turn on her recorder; "Note to self: Who is Ook? Also, Fourth in Command... Colourblind?"

She slid the recorder back into her pocket and continued to don the armour.

edited 14th Feb '15 7:24:15 AM by Fauxlosophe

The Grenade Box is brown cardboard. Any color not on the spectrum chart (Infrared (black), Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, Ultra-Violet (white) ) is considered to have a default value of INFRA-RED. However, such colors are only used sparingly to try to prevent confusion in the heavily drugged INFRA-RED citizens.

If you open the grenade box, you find: Six cans of Cave Johnson's Special Lemonade Flavored Bubbly Bouncy Beverage, each with a 'WARNING: EXTREMELY HIGH PRESSURE. DO NOT GIVE TO ORANGE LEVEL CLEARANCE OR ABOVE' label. You also now have a treason star for not trusting the label on the box.

If you open the Med Kit, you find: Twelve bandages, six sets of ear plugs, one scalpel, one hypodermic needle, one worrying large bottle of ' Happy Juice ', and four ' Insta-Limb Regrowing Pills '

-> Well, citizens! It is time you were on your way! Sanitation Officer, please make sure that no one leaves any items behind.

Above Silence's head now floats the label    Silence-R-104-1, Science and Driving Officer, * _ _ _ _   

Silence (but no one else) can also see an arrow pointing to the door reading 'This way to vehicle'.

edited 14th Feb '15 8:11:57 AM by Nodrog