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Elle-R-KNO · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 3:49 pm Post subject:

First off, my extended lack of posts around here must be forgiven as I've only recently finished being subjected to many monthcycles of Manditory Extra Brain Enhancement Training (and loved it, dankee!...actualy, I just graduated from college.)

Anyway, there's a good chance this may have already been discussed so forgive my treason for not having read old posts well enough.

Anyway...in my mind, I've long dreamed of writing a Paranoia adventure set in a NYC sector. (think of the obvious meaning, citizen.) My original idea for that adventure involved not only multiple references to the Big Apple within the complex, but a chance to go Outside into the remains of post-Oops Manhattan.

There was of course the obvious problem that I only became aware of later: Alpha Complex being about as far from Manhattan island as you can get.

There is, of course, the first edition trick of there being "other alpha complexes", a 1st edition concept which would make the solution to the problem obvious. So the first question is whether this particular concept has already been considered for Paranoia XP.

The second issue is Outside itself. (The following information is SECURITY CLEARANCE ULTRAVIOLET, citizen! Don't read further if you don't want to have a lot of background information spoiled for you!) I don't think it was ever particularly developed in earlier editions besides being more or less open wasteland with the occaional building, savages or giant mutant bugs...which doesn't really make a lot of sense if the Alpha Complexes were built under Old Reckoning cities. There ought to be rubble. Towering skeletons of the better constructed buildings. The climate ought to be weird (take your pick of global warming or metioric Ice Age). Parts of coastal areas ought to be under water, or other parts should be dried out swampland where you can walk between islands. Any trees that somehow got left standing ought to be either HUGE (after 200 years, ya know) or scrawny, stunted and twisted. And, I think, they ought to at least partialy resemble the Old Reconing cities they once were. (Immagine a mission Outside where the Troubleshooters must cross a large stretch of water using the broken ruins of the Golden Gate Bridge. Or where they have to retrieve the torch of the Statue of Liberty because its broken off her arm and lodged itself in the Complex dome.)

Do I smell a supplement, by chance?
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