<strong>The Date</strong>: Today. It is always Today.<br/><strong>The Place</strong>: Alpha Complex, the last remaining bastion of civilization in a world destroyed by Traitors and Communists<br/><br/>Each of you is busily at work for Friend Computer, performing your essential duties as a loyal and valued member of your Service Firm. Whether you're scrubbing out toilets, helping to test the effects of radiation on the human nervous system, or collating copies of Form 34UI0O7: "Requisition Form for Supplemental Form Storage Receptacles", you are a happy healthy cog in the vast machinery that enables Alpha Complex to move forward smoothly toward a brighter future. Not that there's anything wrong with the present, either. Things are plenty bright right now, Mister, I tell you what.<br/><br/>But you're not a mere Infrared clone with no higher aspirations in life. You are a newly minted and untested Troubleshooter! Ever since passing your Troubleshooter entrance exam and being assigned your snazzy Red uniform you have been waiting for the call. The summons. The opportunity to serve Friend Computer! To serve Friend Computer more, that is. And now it has come.<br/><br/>Your Series 1300 PDC (Personal Digital Companion) starts to beep! Even if you had turned it to vibrate. Even if you had turned it off, but why would you ever do that? It beeps loudly and insistently, and after having gotten your attention it begins to speak in the voice of The Computer Itself!<br/><br/>"ATTENTION INSERT TROUBLESHOOTER NAME HERE. YOU ARE BEING SUMMONED TO REPORT FOR DUTY IMMEDIATELY. PROCEED TO BRIEFING ROOM B37VATGRUB POPULATION WILL BE MONITORED CAREFULLY TO ENSURE THAT PARTS PER MILLION FALL UNDER RECOMMENDED ADVISED THAT NEXT WEDNESDAY WILL FEATURE THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC STYLINGS OF ZAMFIR-O-PAN BROADCAST THROUGHOUT SECTORS AAA, AAB, AAC, AAD, A---"<br/><br/>The transmission then ends with a squelch of electronic noise. Hmm. Seems as if there was some cross communication there. Not sure if it's a problem with your PDC or with Friend Com--- Nope, definitely a problem with your PDC. The question is, what do you do now? Wouldn't want to be late for your first day of work, but "B37" is hardly a unique room designation. There must be thousands of B37's throughout the Complex.<br/><br/>It's a puzzler, all right.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">Okay, welcome to the game.<br/><br/>A couple of notes:<br/>1) Anything in an OOC box like this is me talking as the GM. You can trust these things that I say, not in the way that your characters "trust" the Computer, but for real. I'll play it straight in the OOC box.<br/>2) You should begin by describing what you're doing in your day job when the call comes in, and how you react. All of you are separate right now except for the two on Blast Shield Maintenance. It's up to all of you exactly what's going on when the summons occurs. Genre-wise, it ought to be as inconvenient as possible.<br/>3) There's a whole lot of world stuff that your characters would know but you don't. You can either ask or make something up. If you make something up that really invalidates something else that I know to be true then I might redirect things, but in general once you're up on the spirit of things I'm sure you'll do fine. Think big repressive ridiculous bureacracy; I hope the character notes you've gotten will convey a lot of that. If you're stuck, think of 1984, Brazil or any of the other source materials mentioned in the original game interest thread.<br/>4) If at any time you want to ask Secret Questions or take Secret Actions, please feel free to PM me. Please just put "Paranoia" in the subject line somewhere so I can keep things straight.<br/>5) Have fun!<br/><br/></div></div><br/>Oh, and please use this header for your posts. You can (quote) this post and chop out all of the other stuff to get started.<br/><br/><hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/1/17/Scsmileyface.png)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Your-N-AME<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Anything special. Are you dead? On fire? Deeply perturbed at your position in the universe?<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Where you are at<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Who you are with. If the PC's are all together, just say "All PC's", or "Troubleshooter Team" or what have you.<br/><hr/>