Paranoia

[DeZmond]

Paranoia
It's behind you...

Paranoia is a hilarious multiplayer game set in a dark future (1984 anyone?), where society is ruled by 'The Computer'. A better introduction, from wikipedia:

Paranoia is a humorous role playing game set in a dystopian future similar to 1984, Brazil, Brave New World and especially Logan's Run; however, the tone of the game is rife with black humor, frequently tongue-in-cheek rather than dark and heavy. The game is set in Alpha Complex, an immense and futuristic domed city controlled by The Computer, a schizophrenic civil service AI. The Computer has made happiness mandatory. Failure to be happy is punishable by summary execution.

The Computer fears a number of threats to its 'perfect' society, such as The Outdoors, mutants, secret societies and of course communists. Ironically, Alpha Complex is, itself, a communist state, inhabited solely by mutant secret society members. To deal with these threats, The Computer employs Troubleshooters, whose job is to find trouble and then shoot it. These are usually the player characters (PCs) (although later game supplements offered other roles for player characters, such as robots), and they are invariably traitors of the very sort feared by The Computer. The PCs are given incomprehensible or self-contradicting mission goals, faulty or experimental futuristic gizmos as equipment, and sent off to their (usually humorous) deaths.
The Troubleshooter's credo is, "Stay Alert! Trust No One! Keep Your Laser Handy!"
The Computer's credo is, "Trust The Computer. The Computer is Your Friend."

Okay, so where do I fit in, you ask? Well, at http://www.paranoia-live.net there is an online version of this game, where anyone with the program can jump in. Given the level of humour and, er, 'wit' in #thehaven IRC channel, I think we'd be perfect for playing this game.

If you want to find out more, check the wikipedia entry on the game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(game) and if there is enough interest then maybe we could start making this a regular event? ​

 

[Ronin Storm]

This started life as a tabletop RPG, of course...

 

[DeZmond]

Naturally, but getting all the members of THN round one table is a pretty hard thing to do... firstly it'd have to be a very large table to seat all the regulars, and secondly it'd probably have to be pan-dimensional since some of us live quite far apart .

 

[DocBot]

You don't look very happy... Die, commie mutant bastard!

ah... those were the days...

 

[Yngvar]

long live the computer. the computer makes me happy. I am happy.

I am not a commie mutant traitor bastard.

Quote from TRAIT - R - US before his trouble shooter 'friend' COMA - R - AD blasted him for calling his friend by his full name.


Hehehehehehe It always brought out the most evil twisted side in me.