Paranoia-Live :: View topic - Ep 5 – Out the Outdoor -- BACKGROUND & CODA

The GM · Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:27 pm Post subject:

Please refer to these rules.

http://www.paranoia-live.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5611

Explicitly the changes for the purpose of Ep 5 are:

1/Do not powerplay.

This seems to be what causes players the most difficulty. Consider your actions in the context of how it effects others. Beyond that, do what you feel is necessary to promote your character's narrative.

2/Do not use what you don't own.

We will not be using the main Compconony for this Episode (Ep 5). This specific issue will be outlined in the main exposition.

3/No multiple accounts, except for ONE permitted Gray Subnet account -- see here for details.

Gray subnet is N/A for the purposes of this Episode (Ep 5).

4/You must be GREEN or above to run an NPC.

No change.

5/Respect the clearance structure.

No change.

6/You may only purchase a maximum of three items in any 24 hour period.

The Compconomy will not be in operation for this Episode (Ep 5)

7/24 hour rule. If you don't post, 24 hours after a post you could have reacted to an event, you are deemed to have left the location and forfiet all right to a reaction.

As above except for 'left the location' substitute 'gone insane (and are now a GM controlled NPC until you snap out of it and post again)'

8/In the event of a lack of clarity, you are deemed to be in the location of your latest post.

Except as rule 7 may effect where your last posted location may be, no change.

9/Codes and Cyphers. Either post in clear and explain the nature of the code/cypher or post the full and correct translation to the GM.

Probably not relevant but no change.

10/The GM's word is final.

Yes, but WHEN YOU HAVE AN ISSUE THAT IS MAKING YOU UNHAPPY IN ANY EPISODE OR GAME OR EVEN ON THE GENERAL FORUMS PLEASE PM A GM. I really can't emphasis how much performing this step would have made in improving player's enjoyment and participation in the past. A PM to the GM allows you to address complex issues that aren't in the narrative flow of the game and should therefore be avoided in IC posts as an intrusion to the game.

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BACKGROUND

You are leaving the latest PLN vs. PLM funball match. A swirling multi coloured sea of IR's, REDs, ORANGEs, YELLOWs and even the occassional GREEN. There might be higher clearance citizens but they aren't obvious from within the huge sea of bodies streaming away from the match.

Unknown to all is the nefarious work of one known (to a limited few) as the Mighty Vole. The use of a number of specially tailored 'door stops' has funnelled the whole crowd through a switchback of tunnels and out into a dimly lit auditorium of truly huge dimensions.

A large siren wails and behind you a huge (and omminously UV) blast door slams down. Lasers begin to thud into the floor around you from auto turrets near the blast doors. Your legs decide to try and outrun as many fellow citizens as possible. Eventually you pass beyond the range of the lasers in a much thinner crowd than originally left the blast doors. Your PDC doesn't work, giving a constant 'No Signal' and beyond this you have what you had in your jumpsuit for the Funball match.

Just as you start to take stock of this a huge Spotlight starts to fall upon you. It is brighter than the brightest light you have ever seen and you have to turn your head away from it. Wails of anguish go up from all around you.

You now feel very hungry and thirsty from your long sprint to safety.

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PossiblyFAQ

1/ So just what is in my inventory? Well consider it a very limited "mallet space". You can have concievably anything. It won't be in your actual inventory (which is closed for the purpose of this Episode {Ep 5}) and as a result may be subject to heavy handed revision.

2/ What about my clearance status? So you were a big name BLUE in the IC game? You still are. Go nuts. Order people around, crack your Neurowhip till it needs recharging. Plug it into... Oh... Promotions and demotions are of course potentially possible, once we find a data terminal to log... For the purposes of the Episode (Ep 5) rules 4 and 5 hold. Rule 4 pretty strictly, less so for Rule 5.

3/ What effect will it have upon my main IC character if and when the perpetual game restarts? Effectively none. You can count your clone deaths or not and include this part of the narrative in your 'actual' history, or not, up to you.

4/ Speaking of clone deaths what if I die? Due to The Computer's enormous Paranoia it allows for the full functioning of the clone system anywhere on the entire planet. How it does this is a mystery. New clones covered in synth cabbage leaves appear at a safe distance from their previous clone's slowly cooling remains. How you manage to retrieve your personal possessions is a mystery to all decent clones who have shut their eyes because the last cabbage leaf dropped off.

5/ Hormone surpressants anyone? I hope you brought enough for everyone!

6/ What about all those tedious insanity rolls? You didn't like them so we abolished them! You only go insane if you go AWOL! Depending on what you were doing at the time being an NPC run by the GM might even be an improvement.

7/ What about food and water? The Computer detects clone deaths from all causes. Rejoice!

8/ How many escaped? Lots. Plenty of narratively expedient IRs, REDs etc to fill out your increasingly desperate posts.

9/ How many died? Lots. Want to go back and count?

10/ Well yes, Yes I do! What's stopping me? Rolling Eyes

Nothing. Seriously there is nothing preventing you attempting anything. The Computer detects clone deaths from all causes. Rejoice!

11/ OK I attempt to get back in through the blast doors. What happens? You are blown to smithereens, your clone replacement appears just out of laser range. Mysteriously your possessions apear to have been blown to a location now at your feet. When you put them on your boots are uncomfortably warm.

12/ Holy fuseboxes after the whole Ep 4 fiasco you'd think you could be a little less cryptic. What the HEL sector am I supossed to be doing? Hey now calm down and take some medica... Erm you might want to confess your unhappiness at the nearest.. Err. Yes well I suppose the overall goal is returning to the warmth and (relative) safety of dear old AC. That may not be entirely your clone's goal. At the end of the day what you do is entirely (as ever) up to you. Band together, go it alone, run futiley into the lasers for all eternity, strike out to create a new and perfect society, hunt for food, look for the nearest bathroom to pass a note to your Secret Society.

13/ What about my secret society? Still alive and well and going strong! If it was/is the Seirra Club you may gain some benefit from this association. If it wasn't then I'm sure help is on its way any day now.

14/ What about my favorite NPCs (Doctor Docbot, Scrubby..) ? Cameos are probably inevitable given the cheap and crass nature of the GM team.

15/ So are the outdoors just one big location or can I make a seperate thread for my own purposes? Well yes and no. The outdoors is just one big location but your particular place in it can be a seperate area. Please use the naming convention:- "Ep 5 - {A Useful Description}" and make the OP as descriptive as possible. This will work for inside AC as well (should you every get back in there). Whether the OP includes any action by your character or not is up to you.

16/ What if I really don't want to use my IC character or some other special snowflake arrangement? You are ALL special snowflakes. WHEN YOU HAVE AN ISSUE THAT IS MAKING YOU UNHAPPY IN ANY EPISODE OR GAME OR EVEN ON THE GENERAL FORUMS PLEASE PM A GM.

The fun starts here.
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