Sector Zero Suggestions...

[Ray]

OK, just finished a Demo of Paranoia XP, where the group screwed up.

Badly.

Very badly.

TRILLIONS of credits badly.

So, I had to explain to the group just how badly they messed up the adventure.

So, I described their new job:

"You are no longer Troubleshooters. You are no longer Red Clearance. You are going to be Infrareds, but you'll be LOWER than Infrareds. You are going to be assigned to the most horrendous, degrading job imaginable.

"You will now be... PHONE AND FIELD TECH SUPPORT AGENTS. Phone and Field Tech Work... AT THE SAME TIME!

"Please go into the next room where Doctor-O-DOA-2 will install your headset phones. Hopefully, he'll remember to clean the cordless drill this time."

Let's hear your Sector Zeros.

 

[Allen Varney]

For those who haven't yet seen the PARANOIA mission collection Sector Zero, "being sent to Sector Zero" is Alpha Complex slang for punishment duty -- the kind of thing even more undesirable than the usual Troubleshooter mission.

I yearn to hear how a single group of Troubleshooters screwed up to the tune of TRILLIONS of credits. Let's see, garnishing a Troubleshooter salary of 1,000cr a month, times 4-6 PCs, with compound interest.... I could easily see this leading the steeply indebted Troubleshooters into territory covered by the campaign "The Sweep of Unhistory," in Alpha Complex Nights -- a millennia-spanning mission that sends the PCs hopping across many far future eras to the eventual endtime of Giant Radioactive Mutant Cockroaches.

 

[Ray]

Thanks Allen! Guess I should have informed them what a Sector Zero is. (I figured that the description of the sourcebook would be good. But that's Figuring, which is thinking. And we all know where THINKING leads to, eh Citizens?).

And your calculations are off. They're no longer Red Troubleshooters. They're Infrared Tech Support Personel. Lower than the other Infrareds, they aren't even drugged into a stupor! (Need to be coherant while on the phone and explaining to a Blue Clearance person that the TV needs to be on Channel 3 in order to get any signals from The Computer!)

They make One Credit a day, and have to pay for their own Clone Replacements.

With no limit to how many Clones they get.

Tech Support Hell... FOR ETERNITY!

And, yes, I have ideas of what the Clones are doing through "Sweep of Unhistory", too!

Well, all save the last bit.

 

[darth_azabrush]

On the mutant registration form under "How will your mutation be of any use to the complex" a pyrotechnic on my 9 strong Troubleshooter group wrote "for cleaning toilets." CPU thought this was a brilliant idea and announced to the whole complex that citizen Godfery-R-SOL's brilliant idea of Registered pyrotechnics being given 4 hours a week toilet cleaning duty would be effected imediatly.

He's now on Clone 17 and counting.

 

[AKAramis]

My Sector 0:
"Citizen, You are being stricken from the complex's genetic registry. Please report for gender neutralization therapy and happiness assistance implants."

What they aren't told is that, after the work order is complete, without their genetics profile in the system, the computer forgets they exist in the present; they are zeroed completely, and the computer now thinks they are foreign (read commie) infiltrators....

And worse, they've been neutered, with radical mastectomies or phallusectomies, and have random shocks sent through their pleasure centers by the implant, triggered by stress hormones. And no more clones, save the remainder of their current batch, who are just as zeroed as they are.

 

[Ray]

On the mutant registration form under "How will your mutation be of any use to the complex" a pyrotechnic on my 9 strong Troubleshooter group wrote "for cleaning toilets."

And just wait until he gets stuck in a backed-up bathroom with a malfunctioning exhaust fan. Methane makes such a nice "Foom"!