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Call of (Alpha) Complex - An Icky First Mission

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This may be the first of several campaigns, intending to combine the flavors of two classic roleplaying games - Paranoia and Call of Cthulu. In the game, you are troubleshooters for Alpha Complex, an underground complex in a post apocalyptic future run by the AI, Friend Computer. Friend Computer has assigned your group to investigate a mystery that will have supernatural elements.

The roleplaying system is a tweaked version of a homebrew I've used successfully twice in TV Tropes, based on a play test set of rules for the rebooted Paranoia, coming out in 2015. If I do run multiple missions, any survivors of the first mission will be welcome to join in later missions.

To create a character, copy the form at the end of this post and then follow theses steps:

Step 1:

Select a name. Your name will be in the form of a name, the letter R, a three letter designation to showing your initial sector and the number 1. Examples: Cup-R-JOE-1, Strip-R-GAL-1, John Jacob Jingleheim-R-SMT-1. Anyone who has had a character in my earlier campaign may use 'O' instead of 'R' when updating their character.

Step 2:

Look through the twenty possible skills. Assign a '3' to two skills, '2' to three skills, and '1' for to four skills. These will be your nine main skills, where 3 is for the skills you are best at.

Step 3:

For each of the five stats, count the number of skills you have marked. This will be your total for those stats. For example, in Violence, if your have a 3 in Melee, a 1 in Athletics, and a zero in both guns and duck, your Violence Stat is '2'.

Step 4:

Set your sanity to 1D20+60. In other words, roll a twenty sided dice (or use a random number generator, such as http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/ ), then add 60 to the result. This number is your starting sanity; as the mission proceeds, your sanity will change. If your sanity drops below one, you are permanently insane and off the mission.

Step 5:

Post your form to this thread, so that I can review and either approve as is or explain what corrections I would like you to make.

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EXPLANATAION OF SKILLS:

You have five stats: VIOLENCE, MECHANICAL, BRAINS, CHUTZPAH, and ARCANEA

Each stat has four skills assigned to it. ARCANEA has been added for this system.

SKILLS:

VIOLENCE

Melee (Your character's ability to fight, either in unarmed combat or with melee weapons.)

Guns (Your character's ability to fight with ranged weapons, especially DEADLY LASERS!)

Athletics (Your character's ability to move, run, carry large loads, etc. )

Duck (Your character's ability to quack, waddle, or... oh, wait. Your character's ability to avoid damage. Any knowledge of animals known as ducks is not available at your level.)

MECHANICS

Program (Your character's ability to use, fix, and manipulate non-sentient computers.)

Engineer (Your character's ability to use, fix, and modify machines such as robots.)

Drive (Your character's ability to operate vehicles.)

Demolitions (Your character's ability to use explosives.)

BRAINS

Bureaucracy (Your character's ability to understand and manipulate the hundreds of civil servants working for Friend Computer.)

Science (Your character's ability to operate scientific equipment such as medical kits. )

Psychology (Your character's ability to analyze what other people are thinking by what they are doing, such as detecting when they are lying through their teeth. )

Alpha Complex Knowledge: (Your character's ability to navigate through Alpha Complex's physical structure. )

CHUTZPAH

Lie (Your character's ability to state the truth from a certain point of view and be believed, without your nose growing.)

Scare (Your character's ability to get what you want from other characters, by making them fear you. )

Charm (Your character's ability to get what you want from other characters, by making them love you. Citizen Machia-V-eli can tell you which is better. )

Stealth (Your character's ability to get what you want from other characters, by going around their backs without them detecting you.)

ARCANEA

Perceive (Your character's ability so see what is really there. )

Rationalize (Your character's ability to come up with personal rational explanations for bat-crazy events)

Other Language (Understanding of Latin, glyphs, etc)

Arcane Knowledge (Knowledge of magic and magical rituals)

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Trouble Shooter Evaluation Form

NAME: ________-R-___ - 1 Number of clones remaining: 5 Your Sanity:

VIOLENCE:

Melee:

Guns:

Athletic:

Duck:

MECHANICAL:

Program:

Engineer:

Drive:

Demolition:

BRAINS:

Bureaucracy:

Science:

Psychology:

Alpha Complex Knowledge:

CHUTZPAH:

Lie:

Scare:

Charm:

Stealth:

ARCANEA:

Perception:

Rationalization:

Other Languages:

Arcane Knowledge:

edited 30th Sep '15 1:22:41 AM by Nodrog

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YES. Haven't even finished reading your intro post but YES.

EDIT: TESLAA has returned!

NAME: TESLAA-O-COI-2

Sanity: 67 (It was a meh roll, but let's assume dealing with WOLF-R-WAG in previous campaigns lowered it.)

VIOLENCE: 1

Melee: 0

Guns: +1

Athletic: +1

Duck: +1

MECHANICAL: 2

Program: +2

Engineer: +3

Drive: 0

Demolition: 0

BRAINS: 3

Bureacracy: 0

Science: +3

Psychology: +2

Alpha Complex Knowledge: +2

CHUTZPAH: 1

Lie: 0

Scare: 0

Charm: +1

Stealth: 0

ARCANEA: 0

Perception: 0

Rationalization: 0

Other Languages: 0

Arcane Knowledge: 0

Mutant Power: Brains - Hypersenses

Mutant Power Strength: 3

Appearance: i59.tinypic.com/2d6waht.jpg

edited 30th Sep '15 2:09:31 PM by Lt.BGob

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

This is new, let me try.

NAME: Rocky-R-MOR - 1 Number of clones remaining: 5 Your Sanity: 79 (Whew, got lucky.)

Link: http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4878559/

VIOLENCE: 4 Melee:3 Guns:3 Athletic:2 Duck:2

MECHANICAL: 1 Program:0 Engineer:0 Drive:2 Demolition:0

BRAINS: 1 Bureaucracy:0 Science:0 Psychology:0 Alpha Complex Knowledge:1

CHUTZPAH: 1 Lie:0 Scare:0 Charm:0 Stealth:1

ARCANEA: 1 Perception:1 Rationalization:1 Other Languages:0 Arcane Knowledge:0

Mutant Power: Brains - Crisis Adrenaline Mutant Power Strength: 4

-I sort of tend to make mistakes... I'm new here.

edited 2nd Oct '15 4:16:02 AM by Victor_Skye

"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."

NAME: Silence-O-106 - 1

• Number of Clones Remaining: 5
• Sanity: 79. He's doing not so bad sanity wise.
• Appearance: The masked Bureaucrat returns!◊

VIOLENCE: 1

• Melee: 0
• Guns: +1
• Athletic: 0
• Duck:

MECHANICAL: 3

• Program: +1
• Engineer: +2
• Drive: +3
• Demolition: 0

BRAINS:

• Bureacracy: +3
• Science: +2
• Psychology: 0
• Alpha Complex Knowledge: 0

CHUTZPAH: 2

• Lie: +1
• Scare: 0
• Charm: 0
• Stealth: +2

Arcanea: 1

• Perception: 0
• Rationalization: +1
• Other Languages: 0
• Arcane Knowledge: 0

Mutant Power Name: Machine Empathy

• Mutant Power strength: 3

It is good to be back!

edited 30th Sep '15 9:44:33 AM by EchoingSilence

Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bnpPlu9WM5MEYz2qP2LKsyi5MF-E3t9cMSDGEnlLfuk/edit?usp=sharing

Teslaa, you are missing a +2 skill

Rocky, See below.

Silence, you have the option to be orange clearance if you'd prefer.

I forgot to list Mutant Powers. I have listed two mutant powers for each stat. You can pick one of these mutant powers, where your strength in that power will be equal to the power of that stat.

MUTANT POWERS

Violence

-Crisis Adrenaline (You can use this power to try to briefly do near-super-human physical acts, at the cost of intense physical pain as your body recovers from the strain.)

-Mental Blast (Cause agonizing brain activity in other living creatures in close range.)

Brains

-Hyper Senses (You naturally have keener senses then others, but can also temporarily enhance one of your senses to super human levels. )

-Levitation (Use your mental powers to lift yourself in the air. )

Chutzpah

-Charm (You can produce pheremones that make people instinctively like you and want to please you. )

-Polymorphism (You can change your face to appear like someone else.)

Mechanics

-Electroshock (You are immune to minor electrical shocks. You can produce electrical shocks which can range from mild shocks up to frying people's bodies or destroying non-insulated machines.)

-Machine Empathy (You can use your power to make machines want to obey or please you. Warning: This is the mutant power Friend Computer fears the most. )

Arcanea:

-Magick (If you find a spell or ritual, you can attempt to cast it.)

-Touch Read (You can get psychic impressions when you touch an object.

Any use of a mutant power may result in sanity loss.

edited 30th Sep '15 8:29:44 AM by Nodrog

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I would like to be a Orange clearsnce yes please.

What about Tessla does she get to be Orange?

Yes, I just didn't mention it because Teslaa had already went with Orange.

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• NAME: Integ-O-ITY - 2
• Your Sanity: 61. Seriously?
  • VIOLENCE: 1
    • Melee: 0
    • Guns: 0
    • Athletic: 2
    • Duck: 0
  • MECHANICAL: 0
    • Program: 0
    • Engineer: 0
    • Drive: 0
    • Demolition: 0
  • BRAINS: 1
    • Bureaucracy: 0
    • Science: 0
    • Psychology: 3
    • Alpha Complex Knowledge: 0
  • CHUTZPAH: 4
    • Lie: 3
    • Scare: 1
    • Charm: 2
    • Stealth: 1
  • ARCANEA: 3
    • Perception: 1
    • Rationalization: 1
    • Other Languages: 0
    • Arcane Knowledge: 2
• Mutant Power: Polymorphism
• Mutant Power Power: 4

edited 30th Sep '15 10:28:30 AM by Savato

Go ahead and list the char abilities you want to use for the game, Integ. I you want to be orange, you will be starting on clone 2

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I'd do my sheet, but I'm on vacation with no access to a computer, which would make it a pain to type up. I should have it up by the end of the week.

“Not a promise, not an oath, or a malediction or a curse. Inevitable." - Taylor Hebert

That's fine, I'll probably wait till the weekend or later before I start the actual mission.

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Take all the time you need Nodrog. We won't worry about asking to many questions about    CLASSIFIED    and    ULTRAVIOLENT LEVEL VERIFICATION NEEDED   .

Edited my sheet.

Glad to have you back, SILENCE!

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

Glad to be back Tessla!

This will be fun!

Silence: That's good, because actually asking about    REDACTED    would be considered an automatic act of treason.

I look forward to another exciting adventure. We still have plenty of room for anyone curious to join in; you don't have to know much (or anything) about Paranoia or Call of Cthulu to enjoy this game. I try to make my games very light, accessable, and fun.

I'm sure Rocky would like to have another Red class citizen on the team. I will probably start the adventure sometime late Friday Evening or Saturday.

Paranoia - The Most Fun You Can Have With Deadly Lasers!

Yes, the more interns the better! We always need bai- a helping hand.

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

Trouble Shooter Evaluation Form

NAME: Fenix-R-MOR - 1

Number of clones remaining: 5

Your Sanity: 73. Decent enough, I guess

VIOLENCE: 1

Melee:

Guns: 1

Athletic:

Duck:

MECHANICAL: 2

Program: 3

Engineer: 1

Drive:

Demolition:

BRAINS: 2

Bureaucracy:

Science: 1

Psychology: 1

Alpha Complex Knowledge:

CHUTZPAH:

Lie:

Scare:

Charm:

Stealth:

ARCANEA: 4

Perception: 2

Rationalization: 2

Other Languages: 2

Arcane Knowledge: 3

Mutant Power : Magick

• Mutant Power strength: 4

Appearance: Coming soon!

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Am I doing it right?

edited 1st Oct '15 7:07:47 AM by UndyingPhoenix

Fenix: Looks fine to me, welcome to the team. Glad to have you on the team; one of the possible ways to resolve the adventure I have planned requires having a magic user.

Please check https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bnpPlu9WM5MEYz2qP2LKsyi5MF-E3t9cMSDGEnlLfuk/edit?usp=sharing and let me know if you have any questions or if there's a particular spell effect you'd like to start with.

edited 1st Oct '15 10:52:17 AM by Nodrog

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Welcome to Alpha Complex! Failure to feel welcome is treason! Treason is unwelcome!

Oh, in the sheet (though you updated Teslaa's skills) you need to change her mutant power from 2 to 3, I think.

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

Wait, I'll be adding the mutant powers...

Ok, I've added Crisis Adrenaline.

Ok, I'll change it.

edited 2nd Oct '15 4:15:43 AM by Victor_Skye

"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."

His Mutant power level would be 4, not 0.

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

I updated the mutant power information to the spreadsheet.

Friend Computer would like to remind all loyal citizens that being a mutant is treason and that any sign of mutant activity should be immediately reported to Genetic Quality Control in order for termination to be scheduled.

Still waiting on one person's character info, then we can start. There's still time for anyone who wants to sign up as a new player.

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Rules thread here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14438785370A80596500&page=1#1

Rules thread I used for my first Paranoia roleplaying game on this board here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14238419630A60307600 in case you wanted to compare the two.

I plan to start the game late this afternoon / evening. There will be time before the action really gets started for any late comers who want to join in or if anyone wants to update their stats. Once combat begins, all stats will be as listed on my spread sheet.

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Starting now: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14438872120A05643200&page=1#1

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Apologies for my lateness.

NAME: Lanius-O-USS-1

Number of clones remaining: 5 Your Sanity: 63. I guess Wolf depleted it by quite a bit.

VIOLENCE:

Melee: 2

Guns: 3

Athletic: 2

Duck:

MECHANICAL:

Program:

Engineer:

Drive:

Demolition:

BRAINS:

Bureaucracy:

Science:

Psychology:

Alpha Complex Knowledge: 1

CHUTZPAH:

Lie: 1

Scare:

Charm:

Stealth: 3

ARCANEA:

Perception: 2

Rationalization: 1

Other Languages: 1

Arcane Knowledge:

MUTANT:

Mutant power: Polymorphism (basically shapeshifting)

Strength: 2

“Not a promise, not an oath, or a malediction or a curse. Inevitable." - Taylor Hebert