Paranoia The EverCandy Story.pdf

A 4-6 HOUR CONVENTION ADVENTURE FOR

With Jumpsuit, Badge, and Laser IV:

The EverCandy Story

With Jumpsuit, Badge, and Laser IV:

The EverCandy Story

Michael Miller

Charlie / Design and Layout

Jeff Felson

Mike Teevee / Cover Art

WARNING!

Joel Baker, Jack Brown, Shawn DeLoach, Christian

Nelson, Eric O’Denius, and Paul Rubenis

Oompa-Loompas / Playtesting

This document is classified

Ultraviolet. Reading of this

document by those of Violet

clearance or below is Treason,

punishable by being test

subjects for the latest HPD&MC

snack food commercials!

The Computer

Willy Wonka

Typical Silly Paranoia Introduction™

Greetings, Citizen! Congratulations on

downloading this ﬁne Adventurelyke document.

While I’m not one of the High Programmers from

Honesdale, hopefully you will enjoy this mission as

much as I’ve enjoyed creating it.

If any of you still reading are less than

Ultraviolet clearance, shame on you! Turn yourself

in right now at that confession booth across the way.

Get a move on! Hup, 2, 3, 4, hup, 2, 3, 4. That’s a

good clone.

The “With Jumpsuit, Badge, and Laser” series

of adventures have been run at Con of the North for

the last four years. Here’s to a much longer run than

that.

Paranoia

, the All-Seeing Eye of the Computer,

and other such things are trademarks of West End

Games, and are used without permission. This

product was not made by and is not authorized by

West End Games.

Mentos is a trademark of Van Melle USA.

This document was made with Multi-Ad

Creator2™ 1.5.

0. Introduction

Sevenday Morning, 20-02-209 AC : Two clones

return from that mission glowing Ultraviolet. They

appear to be immune to weapons, and they have

strange powers over the Citizens of Alpha Complex.

0.0

Welcome!

Welcome back to the wonderful, wacky world of

Paranoia

, Honored Citizen! This adventure is

designed to ﬁt within a four hour time slot at most

conventions, or a six hour slot with some time to

spare for breaks, secret dealings, and other such

typical

0.2

The Adventure

happenings.

This document is not intended for use alone;

you will also need the pack of handouts found at the

same place you found this one. They include the

forms for use in the adventure, plus form data from

Parody-U-MAN-4 and the MAN sector clones, in

case you don’t want to use your own set of brieﬁng

ofﬁcers, R&D techs, and ﬂunkies.

They also include a list of suggested props for

use during the adventure. Props make every

adventure more fun, right? You may notice the lack

of weapons in the list. The convention I’ve run this

at doesn’t allow weapons or weapon-like objects

(keeps down on the potential liability claims, that

sort of thing). Besides, they’re easy to add.

Paranoia

This leaves us at the adventure, which proceeds

as follows:

Section 1: Breakfastcycle at Tiff-I-ANY’s.

The Troubleshooters are sent home after a long

Sixthday of working. Waking up the next day, they

can eat or go to a Computer Rally, then are called in

for another mission. They then survive getting to

the subsector they are sent to.

Section 2: R&D Surprise

Having arrived at the subsector, they must

ﬁgure out how to get in, assign MBDs without

killing too many clones, and escape the Complex

before amassing many multiple millions of

mandatory monetary ﬁnes.

Section 3: Another Bad Trip

Outside the Troubleshooters encounter Big

MICs, Infrared roads, two tribes reliving past glories,

and ﬁnally the Stop ‘N’ Rob ® . Inside the Stop ‘N’

Rob ® they ﬁnd some Mentos, dead clones, their

equipment, and other fun items. On their way back,

they can try out new weapons against another Big

MIC or whatever is left of the tribes.

0.1

Backstory

Fifthday Evening, 18-02-209 AC : A High

Programmer (Clean-U-MAN) in HPD&MC found a

cache of information about the Old Reckoning

device known as an “Automatic Car Wash”. The

description of the device lead him to believe that it

could easily be adapted to serve Infrareds,

increasing their Hygiene statistics tenfold.

Section 4: Hostile Takeover

Upon returning to Alpha, the Troubleshooters

discover that the two clones they saw before are

leading a mob towards CPU Central. Hopefully

they will have ﬁgured out what to do and can stop

the traitors with a minimum of destruction to The

Computer’s valuable property and Citizens. Yeah,

right.

Sixthday Morning, 19-02-209 AC : An Armed

Forces Vulturecraft is sent out to ﬁnd a building

matching the description given by Clean-U. After a

couple hourcycles of ﬂying around Alpha, they ﬁnd

one. The Vulture reports back to base.

Sixthday Afternoon, 19-02-209 AC : A mission

was formed to adventure out into the Outdoors to that

site and bring back any knowledge of the “Automatic

Car Wash”. Instead, they ﬁnd a few rolls of Mentos,

which have absorbed radiation for years and have

become the EverCandy. Eating one bestows extreme

power upon the clone who does (or maybe death, but

that’s not that unusual for pills in Alpha).

Section 5: Debrieﬁng and Exeunt

Finally, the Troubleshooters are brought back to

Troubleshooter Headquarters and are questioned

about their mission. Hopefully they brought back

everything they left with.

1. Breakfastcycle at Tiff-I-ANY’s

3, 4, and rest! Have a great day, Citizens!”

Before we continue, I need to know if your

Troubleshooter is going to:

1. Go eat ﬁrst, then hit a Serve the Computer

rally, or

2. Have fun at the rally, then have breakfast.

1.1

Morning

As always, Bold Text is for reading to your

players.

“What a daycycle,” you think to yourself as

you stumble back to your Red dormitory and

collapse into your bunk. Your team spent the

entire daycycle chasing Commies around a

heavily-trafﬁcked PLC shopping area, only to

have them caught by Blue Troopers. They were

gracious enough to allow you to ﬁll out all the

paperwork, though. It’s good to be back in your

nice bunk, and you quickly drop into slumber.

Troubleshooters who go to the rally ﬁrst won’t

get breakfast. Troubleshooters who go eat will be

penalized at the debrieﬁng for not going to the

mandatory rally. You may also have some wise

Troubleshooters who sneak out on the way to check

Secret Society messages. There’s a sidebar at the end

of this section for them.

After your Troubleshooters decide where they’re

going, break them up into two groups and run them

through their respective encounters:

(Get your group to make sleepy-sleepy noises of

different types. Once they have a nice loud snore

chorus going, continue on with the text.)

Ahh, Sevenday. Every Citizen loves Sevenday

because it is the daycycle clones are given time to

relax, watch some Live-Action Commie Combat,

and go to the mandatory Serve the Computer

rallies. Friend Computer even gives Clones the

option of sleeping in on Sevenday for almost 10

whole minutecycles!

1.1.1

Breakfast

Heading out early to the Red level cafeterias is

always a good idea on Sevenday, as they ﬁll up fast

with clones coming from the Serve the Computer

rallies.

As usual, it’s pretty busy. The food line

stretches out of the Cafeteria a ways. After a wait,

you get your food and sit. Munch munch munch.

(Egg your players on to ooh, ahh, and praise the

wisdom of The Computer. Scribble some on a

notepad while looking sternly at anyone not

participating.)

(Hand out the breakfast cereal packets and

watch them eat like good little clones.)

The only bad thing about this Sevenday is that

you were randomly assigned “on call” status, in

case there’s some kind of emergency. Nothing

much to worry about there, as you’ve never been

called in on your daycycle off.

At ten minutecycles after your normal Wakey-

Wakey time...EHHHNT! EHHHNT! EHHHNT!

The Wakey-Wakey alarm goes off. A tape of Teela-

O-MLY, beloved symbol of all of Alpha, ﬁres up as

it does every daycycle.

“OK Citizens, time for your morningcycle

Troubleshooter Calisthenics! Everyone out of bed

and on your feet! Arms up! Index Finger Out, and

Curl, 2, Two, 2, Three, 2, Four, 2, Five, 2, Six, 2,

Seven, 2, Eight, 2, Nine, 2, Ten, 2! All right! Now

shake those hands out and prepare for Laser Draw

practice! Hands at your sides, ready, and, Draw, 2,

3, 4, Again, 2, 3, 4, That’s right, 2, 3, 4, Last time, 2,

Mmmmmm, good. As you’re cleaning your

hands, you notice something written on your

hygiene packet.

Hand each of the Troubleshooters one of the

prefab notes from their Secret Society. Then tell this

group to wait while you continue with the other

group.

1.1.2

Serve the Computer Rally

Friend Computer is always appreciative of

clones who go to the mandatory Serve the

Computer Rallies on Sevenday. You sit down in

one of the benches and open the Songbook to

today’s song.

Section 1

WJBL4: The EverCandy Story

Strange...inside this book is a note.

Parody-U-MAN continues: “These two clones

were Rule-R-ALL and Lame-R-GUY. They were

part of an expedition sent to the Outdoors to obtain

information about a device rumored to [freeecx

garble formbale bleck] which would be a boon in

the Infrared quarters. We are unsure what

happened to them as their mission unfolded, as we

do not have their mission records available. We do

know that the other four members of the mission

team have had replacements activated, so

something did happen out there.”

Now the Blue Troopers open ﬁre. Ordinance of

all types ﬂies at the two, who stand there waiting.

You’re not sure, but before explosions ﬁll the hall

you think you can see a cone riﬂe shell bounce off

one of them. Your view of them and the troopers is

blocked by smoke as he continues.

“These two returned to Alpha as you see them.

They have been walking through Security

checkpoints with very little trouble. I need your

team to go out and see what it was that this group

found, and ﬁnd some way to stop it. On this end,

we shall do what we can to slow them down before

they threaten all of Alpha Complex.”

The smoke has cleared enough to see what

remains of the two. You gasp to see that the entire

Blue Trooper squad has been reduced to smoking

boots, while the two glowing clones continue

down the corridor.

“There is a vehicle awaiting you at subsector

TBG-WNO-HGB. You will also ﬁnd a map and

whatever equipment we can get there in time.

Unfortunately, there’s not enough time for a run to

PLC and R&D. There should be a mission

summary sheet printing from your booth now.

Good luck, Troubleshooters! All of Alpha

Complex is relying on you!”

(Hand out more prefab notes)

The music begins to play from every

loudspeaker in the area, and you all begin to sing:

I recommend the song from the back of the 2nd

Edition GM Screen, which is also in the Red Ready

Reference Sheets. Whatever you give them to sing,

near the end of the song continue to Section 1.2.

1.2

Interruption!

Wherever the Troubleshooters are, they receive a

page. Of course, an Alpha Complex Com Unit page

goes something like:

“ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT”

at the top of its electronically-generated voice.

The page tells them to report to a confession booth

for a private message, and gives them the mission

code MAN-WJBL.IV.

All the clones around them are looking at them

funny for disturbing their breakfastcycle or song.

Hopefully the Troubleshooters back out gracefully

and head to the nearest confession booth.

Convincing Friend Computer that you don’t have

anything to confess may be an interesting

experience.

Eventually they’ll report in and give the mission

code from their Com Units. Continue on with:

Upon giving the code shown on your Com

Unit, Friend Computer says “Please wait.”

A minutecycle or so later, a High Programmer’s

image appears on the screen. There is a ton of

interference, and every so often the picture blinks

to static and back, like a transmission from a

damaged ship on Star Trek:The Next Generation.

“Troubleshooters, thank you for responding

quickly to my message. I am Parody-U-MAN-4,

Head of Troubleshooter Operations for MAN

Sector. This is a mission of the utmost importance

and urgency.”

At this point the screen changes to show two

other clones dressed as Troubleshooters. However,

they have Ultraviolet jumpsuits and seem to be

glowing Ultraviolet. Even their lasers are squeaky

clean, and glowing. A team of Blue Troopers is

huddled behind a barricade. They have cone riﬂes,

laser cannons, and some larger weaponry you’ve

never seen before.

Said mission summary sheet does print out from

all the confession booth’s printers. Make printing

noises and hand each Troubleshooter one. However,

the last one gets caught in the printer. Rip it in half

before handing it to the Troubleshooter.

Troubleshooters now have an opportunity to

leave messages with their Secret Societies on the way

to the mission. Once they’re (un) happy with the

situation, proceed to Section 2.

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