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[Silent_Thunder]

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Well me and some of the mates down at DFC were playing Paranoia, and our game ended with one injured PC getting hallucinogens and medical pills shoved down his throat and subsequently going insane and causing the deaths of about 240 InfraReds in a rampage. by the end of his rampage every PC was dead, including him, save one poor bastard who only had his left arm and leg vaporized. So anyway I was wondering if anyone here had any interesting Paranoia stories. Hell any interesting Pen & Paper stories really.

Well it appears that this thread has instead mutated into the thread for our Paranoia games. We play at least once a week through Steam, and are always looking for more players and GMs... Especially GMs 

We organize our games through this group, and announcements of games are usually a game or two in advance.

[vagel7]

I'm most certainly interested in Paranoia, though I can only play starting from the 5th of November.

[gimlet]

Heh the few I remember are taking a medkit but absolutely no medical skills and being the "Doctor" heh.  Oh or finding a tube of poison pills, and putting one of the Minty Breath-o-Fresheners on the end, then casually pulling out the tube, eating the mint, and courteously offering the rest to the other Troubleshooters...  Ahh, good times...

[Draco18s]

Oh yes.  I have some.

They're above your security level.

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Once I completed my secret mission by tricking a orange level PC (I was red still) into handing over a tape of victorian music (she hadn't done her job as communications officer).  Someone else convinced the ultra violet that the tape should be played to all of Alpha Complex because our mission was that awesome (we blew up an orphanage, no it was not full of commies or mutants).  She was executed for treason and couldn't say anything in her own defense without further implicating herself.

The GM that ran our games is the only person I know who has a mission that supports up to 256 PC troubleshooters: escort a VIP down a hallway.  That's all I know.  He's also the only person I know who actually has the security clearance to read the rules.

Another game, another GM, almost everyone completed their secret missions, and as a result we made a nuclear reactor (in another section of alpha complex) go critical and explode, while ours got disco lights (individually completed and it'd have been in reverse).  Also, everyone got dissolved by bouncy bubbly beverage concentrate early in that mission.

[Spaghetti7]

I've never played Paranoia, but it sounds awesome. Firstly, is there anywhere I can get an overview of the general rules, or does it mutate so much no-one knows what's going on?
Secondly, I'd be up for a game at some point.

[Silent_Thunder]

Let me put it simply.

In one RL game, our GM told the new, rule-lawyering player that to succeed he'd need a 5 or lower

He rolled 1d10, it was a 2. he then said "Oh look a 7, you died!" he did this just to point out how nebulous the rules can be, and that the Rule-Laywer should just shut up from now on..

[Draco18s]

I've never played Paranoia, but it sounds awesome. Firstly, is there anywhere I can get an overview of the general rules, or does it mutate so much no-one knows what's going on?

The rules are thus:

There are security clearences from Infrared (black) to Ultra Violet (white).  You start at Red, you can touch things that are of your security clearance and lower, and are otherwise not an infrared commoner who is pumped full of happy drugs.

Friend Computer is always right.
Not obeying Friend Computer is treason.
Friend Computer says "Trust Friend Computer"
Friend Computer says "Be happy" (Not being happy is treason)
Friend Computer says that Secret Societies are treasonous, they want to overthrow Friend Computer.
Friend Computer says that mutants are treasonous, as they have powers that can hurt Friend Computer.
Treason is punishable by summary execution.

You're a mutant that belongs to a secret society.  So is the rest of your team.  You also come in a 6-pack (of clones), and any crimes committed by one are assumed forgiven, as that clone "clearly had errors."

Now go out.

Find trouble.

And shoot it.

(That is: that's all you're allowed to know, it's about 8 pages worth of the rulebook of over 200)

By the way, clever GMs will extend these rules to RL objects.  If he throws pens down on the table DON'T pick up the wrong color.  I made this mistake once.

[warhammer651]

I still take pride in "Accidentally"*^tm killing my team leader while driving to the objective.




*_{by which I mean telekinteically shoving him into traffic}

[Rift]

i highly suggest even those with minimal to no experience in Pen and paper rpgs try out paranoia with us. Its amazing, and its pretty quick to pick up [i never played it before, and got it pretty quick, and i dont play many].
Really fun though

..play
..with
..us.

[Draco18s]

Oh yes, Paranoia takes almost no knowledge of RPGs to play.  Just an understanding of what one needs to do.  If the GM says "roll dice" you roll dice.  A little on knowing what skills you have, but that's fairly strait forward.
Almost anything else is made up on the fly.

[DrPoo]

i highly suggest even those with minimal to no experience in Pen and paper rpgs try out paranoia with us. Its amazing, and its pretty quick to pick up [i never played it before, and got it pretty quick, and i dont play many].
Really fun though

..play
..with
..us.

Im in! Always wanted to try out a good PnP. Never played any, though other than homebrew no-gm ones.

[Spaghetti7]

i highly suggest even those with minimal to no experience in Pen and paper rpgs try out paranoia with us. Its amazing, and its pretty quick to pick up [i never played it before, and got it pretty quick, and i dont play many].
Really fun though

..play
..with
..us.

Im in! Always wanted to try out a good PnP. Never played any, though other than homebrew no-gm ones.

I said earlier, but for clarification:
I'M VERY MUCH IN

[nuker w]

I'm in for paranoia game.

[Silent_Thunder]

If you want in, we run the group here

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/FriendDwarf

[HLBeta]

I would love to play some Paranoia. A friend of mine bought the troubleshooter book awhile back and had me read through the player section, but never started a game. Here's hoping I can "luck" out and be a double-secret-triple-agent. Because nothing says fun like mutually exclusive personal secret assignments.