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Allen Varney

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:58 am Post subject: Extreme PARANOIA needs duties for all clearances!

Gamma Very High Programmer

Joined: 22 Feb 2004
Posts: 997

Citizens! I am putting together enormous quantities of text for Extreme PARANOIA, the big 128-page rules supplement due this August. Extreme PARANOIA gives rules for playing characters of all security clearances from ORANGE through VIOLET. Among many features of life at all clearance levels, I'd like to include a small text box at each clearance giving typical occupations and duties you might encounter at that clearance. I'd like your help coming up with typical duties.

For example, the PARANOIA rulebook includes this list in Chapter 4, "Spending your credits" (I have moved some entries that reflect changed thinking):

I'd like to expand this list to encompass a lot of neat or funny occupations. I need your help! Please post your duty ideas here, with the clearance you think appropriate for them. If I use your ideas in Extreme PARANOIA, Mongoose Publishing won't pay you anything or send you a free copy of anything, but if you include your real name, I'll try to credit you in the book. Thanks!
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-- Allen Varney
PARANOIA (2004 edition) principal writer
http://www.allenvarney.com
PARANOIA development blog: http://paranoiarpg.blogspot.com/

Burg-R-KNG-1

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:02 am Post subject:

YELLOW

Joined: 13 Mar 2005
Posts: 566

Service Group: Technical Services

One I could think off right off the cuff is Hydroponic Food Growth Technician (i.e. Gardener).

This would, of course, be a GREEN-clearance position, both because of the obvious color considerations and because having YELLOWS and below tending to the growth of real food would be way to much of a temptation to them. But, since GREENs get real food each meal, a GREEN Thumb (as they're sometimes called) sneaking off with a plate of GREEN-beans isn't such a big deal (and is something of a job perk, actually.)

Hydroponic Food Growth Technician would be a logical advancement for PLC clones who used to work in the vats.
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Works at: PLN Sector Technical Services Brigade
Clone Number: 1
Location: Roaming the complex, citizen.

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Burg-R-KNG-1

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:42 am Post subject:

YELLOW

Joined: 13 Mar 2005
Posts: 566

Service Group: Technical Services

Okay. Here's another one.

In order to Comply with Computer Mandate 04C9.3LF (Chronological-Specific Happiness Enhancement Periods) and Mandate 19.99 (The Capitalism Enforcement Act of NAS & DAQ Sectors), HPD&MC teamed up with PLC to create the Seasonal Joyfulness Improvement Technicians*. SJITechs are used to promote Approved Holiday Period #11 which falls onto the 25th day of the 12th month. For some reason, FCCC-P members call Approved Holiday Period #11 "Computer-Christ-Mass".

SJITechs are usually overweight clones who don their ritual RED coats and pants with black fur trim, RED floppy cone hats with fuzzy black ball on the top, and shiny black boots. SJITechs are authorized to forgo the usual shaving requirement and are allowed to grow their facial hair during the assignments.

Their primary duties are to cheer citizens up during the Holiday Period with seasonal songs and anthems, and to go around greeting clones with a hardy "Ho Ho Ho!". Other duties involve promoting the Alpha Complex economy by encouraging clones to purchase items to give away as "Computer-Christ-Mass Gifts" and letting Junior Citizens sit on his lap so that they could fink on their creche-mates' treason.

Being a SJITech is a dangerous job, especially around Internal Security and Troubleshooters (well, more then usual around Troubleshooters, anyway). The RED costume, hat, and fuzzy beard is often mistaken as a Commie uniform by trigger-happy clones. Senior SJITechs tend to be heavily armored under their happy, jolly coats and a little twitchy as well.

There is a strong Free Enterprise and Romantics taint. The position is, obviously, security clearance RED.

(* - I'm too tired to think up an acronym for "SANTA" that doesn't sound like complete crap)
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Works at: PLN Sector Technical Services Brigade
Clone Number: 1
Location: Roaming the complex, citizen.

Burg-R-KNG-1

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:32 am Post subject:

YELLOW

Joined: 13 Mar 2005
Posts: 566

Service Group: Technical Services

And, finally, before I go to bed...

...I would imagine that some positions that we, in real-life, consider not-to-glamorous would be positions fit for only higher-clearance citizens in Alpha Complex.

Painters / Interior Decorators: Probably at least BLUE, most likely INDIGO. By painters, I mean the guys who go around re-painting the hallways, rooms, and other areas of Alpha Complex so that the security clearance of an area is obvious. Why such a high clearance? Well, first of all, handling paint of a high clearance is something that the computer would let it's highly trusted citizens do, right? Otherwise, every commie, mutant, and traitor would be running around changing the executive ULTRAVIOLET washrooms into the communal INFRARED hygiene closet. Additionally, BLUEs and INDIGOs would be able to legally access most of the areas requiring re-painting or re-decorating without having to get a temporary pass. Sure, bots do most of the painting, but somebody has to supervise them and keep an eye on them, right? (for repainting VIOLET and ULTRAVIOLET areas, it's done exclusively by Jackobots under direct Computer supervision).

Security Camera Repair Technicians: At least GREEN, more likely BLUE. Why? Security Cameras are the eyes of Friend Computer, and their repair and upkeep are only entrusted to those citizens that Friend Computer knows it can trust. It's not going to let some RED or ORANGE flunky access these highly security-sensitive devices, as the lure of treason is just to great.

Aquatic Recreation Area Hydro-Specialists: Impressive sounding, huh? These guys do one thing and one thing only: tend to the ULTRAVIOLET's private swimming pools. They are, essentially, the UV's private pool boys (and pool girls). They're BLUE because (1) the obvious color connection and (2) UV's wouldn't deal with common riff-raff of GREEN or below when they're trying to relax.
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Works at: PLN Sector Technical Services Brigade
Clone Number: 1
Location: Roaming the complex, citizen.

Territan

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:41 am Post subject: Monkey-wrench!

YELLOW

Joined: 13 Aug 2004
Posts: 266

I'm going to throw this line of thought a curve, and suggest that some jobs are inherently targeted at specific clearances, and that occupation within those jobs is strictly relative.

Consider: what self-respecting ULTRAVIOLET would want anyone less than a BLUE or INDIGO washing his unmentionables?

For instance, on a sufficiently important and Complex-shaking job (like Memo-Max Backup, Restoration, and Tuning), you might actually have clerks and secretaries at BLUE-level supporting INDIGO technicians, overseen by a staff of VIOLET middle-managers and project leaders, under an ULTRAVIOLET department head. (That'd be Tech Services, right?)

Don't forget why Alpha Complex has security clearances in the first place: to keep citizens who can't be trusted from tinkering with systems that, if tinkered with, would have dire consequences on the functioning of groups of sectors, The Computer, and perhaps even Alpha Complex as a whole! (It doesn't work that way typically because Paranoia is supposed to be a comedic game, and breaking stuff, well, that's funny! Just ask any Death Leopard you come across.)

What I came up with above looks like a reasonable guideline: assume clerks and support personnel at one level ("the first line of defense" against the rabble), the people who actually do the work at a second level, managers at a third level, and the overseer of the whole operation at the fourth.

Think not so much about the clearance of a particular type of position as the clearance of a particular job, and then let the range of clearances spring from that.

And I'm telling this to Allen Varney, Famous Game Designer, in a thread that he started. For my next trick, I'm going to teach my grandmother how to suck eggs!
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Burg-R-KNG-1

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:01 pm Post subject:

YELLOW

Joined: 13 Mar 2005
Posts: 566

Service Group: Technical Services

Heh. I'm having fun with this.

Historical Archive Accuracy Technician – The CPU counterpart to History Purifiers, they work for History Accuracy Agencies (such as “FileScrub! CPU” and “We’ll Forget It For You Wholesale”) that go through all the records in Alpha Complex and make sure that they comply with the most current copy of the Official Revised History of Alpha Complex (a set of books the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica).

There are two levels of HAAT, the first being ORANGE citizens who are nicknamed “Erasers”. Their job is to painstakingly search through the historical database and expunge the records of information that has been deemed as being “Unhistory”. This is easier said then done, as there is a lot of data floating around. Registered Mutants with the “Bureaucratic Intuition” power tend to get assigned here.

For example: Let’s say they got an assignment to eliminate all references to an unhistorical figure known only as “Elizabeth-R”. Since the myriad databases and archive records aren’t even remotely cross-indexed, it’s not as simple as doing a Complex-wide search-and-delete. And even if they were cross-indexed, they have to make sure they’re purging the correct “Elizabeth-R”, and not some innocent PLC clerk who just happens to have the same name.

One also must remember that their target may not actually be mentioned by name in all references, so the HAATs have to then go through old archives and search that way. It’s a very time-consuming process.

The second level of HAAT, Senior Historical Archive Accuracy Technicians, are YELLOW citizens who then go into the holes created by the Erasers and re-write history to conform to the Official Version.

History Accuracy Agencies tend to have the unfortunate distinction of being one of the few CPU service firms with a high body count. It’s not uncommon for HAA offices to have their own dedicated termination booths and brainscrub station. You see, after the clones are done excising unhistory from the records, the only known source of such treasonous information is the clones themselves.

Logan-O-RUN-5: (with a flourish, finishes typing on his keyboard) Whew! I'm finally done with the "Transdimensional Collapsatron" assignment. No more record of it anywhere!
(a security camera with mounted laser turret swings around and focuses on Logan-O)
The Computer: I'M SORRY, CITIZEN, BUT KNOWLEDGE OF THAT TOPIC IS NOW FORBIDDEN FOR ALL CITIZENS OF SECURITY CLEARANCE ULTRAVIOLET AND BELOW. PLEASE REPORT FOR TERMINATION.
Francis-O-RUN-7: Wow, tough break there.
(camera refocuses on Francis-O)
The Computer: CITIZEN! YOU HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO TREASONOUS INFORMATION! FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION, PLEASE REPORT FOR IMMEDIATE BRAINSCRUB!

HAA administrators have discovered that it is usually more economical to just buy replacement clones for their staff instead of having to deal with the expense of finding, hiring, and training replacements. But they’re too cheap to pay to clean up and correct the clones’ templates, so genetic drift becomes a problem. Walking into a HAA office that has been operating for a while is akin to wandering into Dr. Moreau’s island laboratory.

Of course, the clones working there know all of this. They tend to work out their frustrations in little ways, like changing historical databases into something they consider “funny”, or by erasing entire identifies of people they don’t like, who pushed them around in the transtube, or just looked at them funny. This can lead to interesting situations.

Evan-I: Friend Computer! The reactor has started to melt down! Scram the system immediately!
(nothing happens)
Evan-I: Uh, Friend Computer? Initiate Contingency 17319 before all of PEN sector is irradiated!
The Computer: THERE IS NO RECORD OF YOU. YOU DO NOT EXIST. YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A RUNAWAY PROCCESS IN MY IMAGINATION SUBROUTINE.
Evan-I: Friend Computer, please! Hurry! I don't think the core should be venting green flame like that!
The Computer: LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA...

Another side effect of the all the brainscrubs they’re forced to endure is that they’ve taken to leaving little clues and notes to themselves in the official archival database so that they can more easily “get back on track”. Think Memento or Tommy Lee Jones’ character in Men In Black 2.

(Christopher-R feeds form into slot)
The Computer: FORM SCANNED SUCCESSFULLY. THANK YOU, CITIZEN CHRISTOPHER-R-KTZ-3. WHAT IS THE REASON FOR YOUR REQUEST FOR A NEW HOUSING ASSIGNMENT?
Christopher-R: It appears that the nuclear reactor in the area of my old barracks in PEN Sector had a mishap, and now my current place is currently glowing a color above my security clearance, Friend Computer.
The Computer: MOST UNFORTUNATE. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVIENANCE. PLEASE SWIPE YOUR M.E. CARD IN THE SLOT FOR IDENTIFY VERIFICATION.
(Christopher-R swipes card)
The Computer: THANK YOU. YOUR NEW HOUSING ASSINGMENT IS (pause) LOOKUP TABLE REDIRECT (pause) AUTOCAR KEYS ARE IN THE SOCK DRAWER.
Christopher-R: I'm sorry?
The Computer: (sterner tone of voice) YOU ARE NOW ASSIGNED TO (pause) AUTOCAR KEYS ARE IN THE SOCK DRAWER.
Christopher-R: I don't understand. What does that have to do with autocar keys?
The Computer: I NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT AUTOCAR KEYS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. YOU ARE HOLDING UP THE QUEUE. NEXT PLEASE.
Christopher-R: But...
The Computer: WHAT PART OF "NEXT PLEASE" DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?
(Christopher-R leaves, and Amelia-R walks up to the terminal and feeds a form into the slot.)
The Computer: THANK YOU, AMELIA-R-SDZ-1. WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU (pause) DON'T FORGET TO FEED THE CATBOT WHEN YOU GET HOME.
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IC notes
Works at: PLN Sector Technical Services Brigade
Clone Number: 1
Location: Roaming the complex, citizen.

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Mush-R-OOM-1

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:44 pm Post subject:

YELLOW

Joined: 22 May 2005
Posts: 239

Service Group: R&D

Vidshow stunt actors: At red clearance citizens may find themselves drafted into vidshows where they can work on camera in the exciting job of performing stunts. Clones are usualy trained in all manner of camera trickery and how to fool friend citizen at home. Or sometimes not as the grisly reality of provides a much more realistic feel.

Another good one would be "Lightbulb technician", maybe mixed with a small info box where you could stick in a little bit about the "How many troubleshooters does it take to change a lightbulb" joke and just rip something out of that topic on the forum last week which appeals to your sinister needs.

"Clonan Resources" (human resources) at Yellow clearance. These citizens are responsible for keeping track of the body count for various tasks.

"Food Tasters": These hardy yellow clearance citizens are tasked with the honerous duty of making sure that all HotStuff passes a stringent stomach test before being released into the general population, a favoured duty for registered mass eater mutants.

Burg-R-KNG-1

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:33 am Post subject:

YELLOW

Joined: 13 Mar 2005
Posts: 566

Service Group: Technical Services

Wee! This is fun!

First, I would like to make a note about the Seasonal Joyfulness Improvement Technician (from my earlier post). The Romantics tried to bring back the Easter Bunny for Approved Holiday Period #4, but the experiment ended in disaster. The SJITechs in their bunny costumes kept getting terminated for being suspected Sierra Clubbers and/or unregistered mutants. And the Computer Phreaks completely misunderstood the entire concept of “Easter Eggs”.

Anyway, a couple of ideas, arranged by security clearance.

Medical Doctor (BLUE) & Surgeon (INDIGO): C’mon. Do you really think that VIOLETS and ULTRAVIOLETS would allow a Docbot to get within 5 kilometers of them?

Extremely High Altitude Outdoors Scout (read: “Astronaut”) (BLUE): Even Friend Computer has to keep up with his interests orbiting the Earth, usually in the form of communication and spy satellites. Just like in real life, Astronauts in Alpha Complex are highly trained and highly conditioned specialists. They’ve received training in Zero-G survival, Shuttlebot Piloting, Electrical Engineering, and other skills. They’re also cleared to enter the security clearance BLUE part of Outdoors known as “sky”.

Night Club Manager (BLUE) & Assistant Manager (GREEN): Some enterprising persons decided to open dance clubs so that the higher clearances could kick back, relax, and dance the night away. The clubs are located in GREEN neighborhoods to keep out the riff-raff, so there’s usually a good mix of GREEN to VIOLET clubbers hanging out. Of course, there are more exclusive “gentleclone” clubs catering to the higher clearances, but they tend to be considerably more sedate affairs. The latest trend is to start up the clubs in the “grungy” retro INFRARED and RED areas of Alpha Complex (much like the famous club The Vat) but to get in you still need to be at least GREEN. While most club-goers outrank the management, the Manager and Assistant Manager tend to receive an unusual amount of respect and deference from INDIGO’s and VIOLET’s for fear of getting banned from the club or (even worse) making an enemy of the club’s ULTRAVIOLET owner for “making trouble”.

Internal Security Officer Recruit (read: “Green Goon Trainee”) (YELLOW): What, you don’t think Green IntSec Goons are promoted straight to GREEN, do you? They actually get promoted first to YELLOW, where they go through a brief but intense training period to prepare them for the lives as Goons. They receive training in Truncheon Tactics, Advanced Receiving Bribes, and The Principles & Theorems of Thuggery.

Pornography Publisher (YELLOW): Of course, in a society with suppressed sexual drives, “pornography” isn’t quite what we would envision it. Larry-Y-FLT-6 was the pioneer who started to publish “porn mags” for general consumption. Each particular publication was aimed towards a specific “fetish” (such as shiny, well-oiled bots for those who were fans of Corpore Metal or Pro-Tech, and stern-looking clones standing around wearing tight winter gear with fuzzy babushkas for those of a more revolutionary bent). Larry-Y was arrested and tried for treason (as chronicled in the movie “The Complex vs. Larry-Y-FLT-6”). After he was found guilty and the Larry-Y clone template was erased, The Computer had second thoughts about it and decided that such publications were harmless outlets for clone’s more base curiosities. As such, “pornography” is now an approved (but looked-down-upon) item in the Complex, restricted to “mature” citizens of RED clearance or higher.

Famous Game Designer (ORANGE): A relatively new occupation, pioneered by (then INFRARED) Gary-DND-1 who, during his spare time as a Sanitation Technician (read: “Janitor”), designed a pen-and-pencil “role-playing game” where he and his fellow INFRARED’s pretended they were in the dangerous Outdoors, slaying mythical Commie mutants with primitive weapons, and taking their possessions. The current favorite “role-playing game” was designed by Greg-O-CST, Eric-O-GDB, and Dan-O-GBR, and is called “Sanity: The Role-playing Game of a Darkly Humorous Past”. In this game, players pretend to be citizens in a pre-Whoops society where they spend most of their time hanging out on “web-sites” talking about amusing dystopian future societies. Strange, indeed.

Professional Entertainment Advocate (read: “Fanboy”) (RED to ORANGE): Hired by cagey vidshow producers to give the illusion of fan support for sub-par and barely-tolerated shows (such as “What’s That Smell In The Food Vat?” and “Watching INFRARED Paint Dry”). Professional Entertainment Advocates will go around and loudly talk about “last night’s episode” to anybody who will stand still for more then five seconds. They also (very obviously and quite noisily) loiter outside of their patron’s studio for the purposes of getting a glimpse of their “favorite star”. They are generally despised by everybody.

Crime Simulation Protagonist (INFRARED to RED): Remember the listing above for Internal Security Officer Recruit? Well, somebody has to play the part of the “bad guy”, the Commie, the Mutant, the Traitor. After all, the trainees won’t learn anything unless they can actually practice their skills on somebody. And we don’t want to use the trainees themselves for this purpose, because sometimes they get a little, well, rough.

Involuntary Extremely High Altitude Outdoors Scout (INFRARED): Traveling into the depths of deep space is extremely dangerous, and somebody has to test the life-support systems of the latest Shuttlebots before sending somebody important out to the Final Frontier. While the sky is security clearance BLUE, deep space itself is obvious black, so INFRARED Astronauts are sedated until they get into orbit. Think “Russian Monkey in a Rocket” here.
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IC notes
Works at: PLN Sector Technical Services Brigade
Clone Number: 1
Location: Roaming the complex, citizen.

Adam-R-LON-1

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject:

BLUE

Joined: 23 Aug 2004
Posts: 3715

Service Group: HPD&MC

Burg-R-KNG-1 wrote:

Medical Doctor (BLUE) & Surgeon (INDIGO): C’mon. Do you really think that VIOLETS and ULTRAVIOLETS would allow a Docbot to get within 5 kilometers of them?

This raises an interesting point; I don't think VIOLETs and ULTRAVIOLETs would let an anythingbot get within 5 kilometres of them. The high-colours, unless they are with Corpore Metal or something, are always more inclined to show off to their peers with expensive, non-automated servants. They don't call scrubots: they call a GREEN Clearance Major Sanitation Technician Team (a Troubleshooter team with mops instead of lasers). They don't hire funbots: they have real live BLUE Upright Entertainment Specialists (read: 'stand-up comedians'). Continue ad nauseum.
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Burg-R-KNG-1

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject:

YELLOW

Joined: 13 Mar 2005
Posts: 566

Service Group: Technical Services

Adam-R-LON-1 wrote:

They don't hire funbots: they have real live BLUE Upright Entertainment Specialists (read: 'stand-up comedians').

You know, I was thinking of stand-up comedians, and what their clearance would be the other day. I finally decided that it would be GREEN. Why? Termination Specialists are YELLOW, right? And, as Sir Donald Wolfit so famously said, "Dying is easy... Comedy is hard."
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IC notes
Works at: PLN Sector Technical Services Brigade
Clone Number: 1
Location: Roaming the complex, citizen.

Gor-R-ILA

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject:

YELLOW

Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Posts: 578

Service Group: Technical Services

Adam-R-LON-1 wrote:

Of course, letting lower clearance citizens into VIOLET or ULTRAVIOLET quarters is a security risk. The servants are likely to be heavily medicated, endure regular brainscrubs (maybe even daily, depending on how careless/paranoid/malicious that particular High Programmer is), subject to lengthly security checks on their way to and from work, and possibly surgically disabled (blinded, deafened, hands/tongues removed, etc.) to reduce the incidence of treason as much as possible so long as it doesn't interfere with their duties. Since they need to follow orders it's unlikely for them to be both blinded and deafened, but maybe the ultraviolets can get creative - or they could reduce hearing and eyesight without going all the way to blindness/deafness.

And that raises another question - ULTRAVIOLET security. To be responsible for security requires the highest trust, but once a citizen's trusted enough to evengo near ULTRAVIOLET quarters, he's got better things to do than to stand about on guard all day. There are Combots and Guardbots, but they would be just too common for an ULTRAVIOLET-and there are laser turrets in the INFRARED mess halls - a UV would die of shame if he had to rely on those. What would the highest clearance that could be expected to do bodyguard duty be? And how would the clearance problem be handled - A blind security guy's a lot less useful than a blind butler. Maybe they could borrow a trick from Corpore Metal and fit the guards with remote controlled bombs.

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saulres

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject:

UV Master Programmer

Joined: 18 Oct 2004
Posts: 5681

Unless it's changing from the base rulebook, INDIGOs have a "full staff of humans and bots <and can> go a month without seeing an ORANGE citizen." VIOLETs have a "Full human staff <and> hardly ever encounter anyone YELLOW or lower."

Burg-R-KNG-1

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject:

YELLOW

Joined: 13 Mar 2005
Posts: 566

Service Group: Technical Services

Some more ideas. Allen, let me know when enough is enough.

INFRARED
Biological Infestation Removal Specialists (Exterminators) - Their job is to go into the deep parts of Alpha Complex and exterminate the critters that lurk there. Since they’re not cleared for lasers, they are issued nets and pointy sticks. Think Ben Hur vs. the lions.

Transtube Janitors – Somebody has to keep the transtubes clean of trash. Not the transtube stations, the actual transtubes themselves. Actually closing the transtubes during these cleaning periods is inefficient and results in loss of productivity and profit. As such, nobody’s going to risk expensive scrubots for this kind of work.

Junior Electrician Apprentices – They lug around the Electrician’s tools and help him with “diagnostic” work.
Julio-R: “So, if your multimeter is broken, how do you know if that line is energized or not?”
Tony-R: “Easy. You have youse ‘prentice lick it. If steam starts comin’ out of his ears, it’s energized.”

Junior Plumbing Apprentices – They also lug around the Plumber’s tools and help him with “diagnostic” work.
Joe-R: “Hmmm, I wonder what’s clogging up this raw sewage line.” (turns to INFRARED assistant) “Well, ‘youse better dive in and find out.”
Jeff-WRD: “Huh? What?!? I’ll drown!”
Joe-R: “Geeze. Here.” (pulls straw out of his B3 can and gives it to Jeff-WRD) “Use ‘dis as a snorkel. Now get goin’!”
Additionally, they are taught the uncommon skill of Show Butt-crack. How they do this through a set of coveralls is left to your imagination.

Web Page Designer – The lowest of the low. Laughing

RED
Autocar Driving Licenses Examiner / Clerk – While they’re only RED’s, they have the attitude of INDIGO’s. Anybody from RED to BLUE who wants to get an Autocar Driving License has to go through these clowns. Surly, rude, and generally unpleasant.

ORANGE
Postal Worker – “Neither excessive cryogenics nor water main break nor reactor meltdown nor gloom of power failure stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” These are not private couriers. The Alpha Complex Postal Service is responsible for the delivery of routine mail. If you want to send an Approved Holiday Period #11 card to your buddy from the crèche, or renew your Autocar registration, you would send it via the ACPS. For reasons which nobody can remember (not even The Computer!), it is traditional for all Postal Workers to be armed with Sonic Pistols.

GREEN
Nurse – Nurses in Alpha Complex could be Doctors-In-Training. Doctors have to have somebody to say “Nurse! Scalpel!” to and to bead the sweat off their foreheads during surgery. (And, of course, to take the blame when something goes wrong)
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IC notes
Works at: PLN Sector Technical Services Brigade
Clone Number: 1
Location: Roaming the complex, citizen.

greymist08

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:46 am Post subject:

HPD&MC Coordinated Executive Officer

Joined: 03 Aug 2003
Posts: 916

Service Group: HPD&MC

Just as a side note, I am making "Wallbots" as a variation on a paintbot, but as a major catagory. Related to "Jobs".
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Wearing : Violet Two Piece Suit, Indigo Shoes, Goggles, Orange tie, Green Travel Bag, and a Bullhorn. There are four robots following. There is a scent of Approved Scent #15.

Burg-R-KNG-1

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject:

YELLOW

Joined: 13 Mar 2005
Posts: 566

Service Group: Technical Services

Tailor (GREEN) – By “tailor”, I’m not talking about some grumpy PLC clerk who hands out ill-fitting jumpsuits to the lower clearance masses. No, I’m talking about the artisan who actually hand-makes custom clothing for the elite citizens. Do you really think that a VIOLET will show up for that important board meeting wearing a standard-issue jumpsuit? Hardly! He shows up wearing the finest amethyst-and-black double-breasted suit jacket with matching trousers, purple suede shoes, real cotton dark-eggplant shirt with English wide collar and French cuffs, and a silk tie with a striking wisteria and plum pattern. And do you think he got that from a PLC warehouse?
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IC notes
Works at: PLN Sector Technical Services Brigade
Clone Number: 1
Location: Roaming the complex, citizen.

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