He nodded to himself. He stood up from behind the box and took two shots at the warscrubber before immediately dropping back behind the boxes, breathing a bit heavily.

OOC: Anyone care to give a description of the room for the new guy? (i.e, Me)

"I am a -registered- mutant being a registered mutant is not a Treason. And As loyalty officer my accusations go straight to the computer. Reading what the loyalty officer writes during the mission is treason, going against your loyalty officer is treason, as the loyalty officer is the computer's eyes on the team leader. And anyone shooting me will recieve a note of traitor like our traitorous leader, and will have to answer to the computer on debriefling. In fact anyone not firing at Ginger-R will be accused of cooperating with a traitorous act!"

Peter-R-WQR-1:

He nodded to himself. He stood up from behind the box and took two shots at the warscrubber before immediately dropping back behind the boxes, breathing a bit heavily.

OOC: Anyone care to give a description of the room for the new guy? (i.e, Me)

Please look at the synopsis thread.  There is a basic map of the facility.

You are currently in the storage room (via the reactor room), unless you chose not to get out of the workshop.  The warscrubber is in the workshop right now, so you wouldn't be shooting at him unless you stayed there.  So most likely, the warscrubber will move through the reactor room around to the storage room before discovering the troubleshooters.

My understanding was the Rob was the only one left in there, along with Vicsis.  Rob is on the Warscrubber's back pushing a red button.  Vicsis is shooting the warscrubber.
If anyone wants to add perversity points to Ginger or Gunther's rolls, now is the time to do it...before I resolve the treason charges.

Here is the basic description of the treason charges to review again:  link to a message in "Paranoia: They Really Are All Out to Get You"

In reply to Peter-R-WQR-1 (msg #93):

OOC: There is a room, there are boxes and there is a traitorous team leader in the middle of the room trying to hide behind the boxes :-P

Ginger says, "I know you're registered," *although she had forgotten* "but you've been eating robot parts!  Destroying robots is a treasonous act and proof that you are...A FRANKENSTEIN DESTROYER.  You must be a member of that treasonous group.  Computer?  COMPUTER?"

Still dodging Gunther's shots, she runs back into the workshop.  She always believed that YELLOW was the color of courage anyway.

"I never ate any computer parts. You must be refering to one of my Dead clone brothers."
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Dexter states calmly, "FYI Loyalty Bot, it is every Troubleshooter's duty to maintain and upkeep his own equipment.  However, I will retrieve your PDA for you and take this opportunity to perform an RSI, but FYI, in the future you need to take better care of your equipment or I'll have to report you."  Dexter moves carefully over to the offending PDA, picks it up, moves to the safest place available, and begins to inspect the PDA.  When done with the inspection, Dexter returns the PDA to Gunther.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:20, Fri 15 Aug 2008.

In reply to Dexter-R-FCP-1 (msg #99):

"Thanks!"

(Minor edit made to indicate the PDA will be returned when the inspection is complete.)

CL fires at an approaching scrubot.  It had been sticking its hand through the window of the entry doors.  He hits something in that mass of metal.  However, the scrubots are just piling up outside the door, unable to open it because it is locked (i.e., they primarily just block your way out).  Your primary enemy is the giant warscrubber before you.

Those in the storage room have been looking through boxes:

Ginger found a RED laser barrel.

Gunther finds IR Goggles.

Dexter throws the umbrella on the ground, and some stinky gas emanates from the end of it.  He keeps looking and finds a thermos full of some kind of liquid.  It's either acid or the latest brand of Circuit Cola.

Vicsis enters the storage room and looks in the nearest box.  She finds a fully automatic hammer.

Ginger and Gunther get into a heated debate about who is a traitor.  With perversity points flying, and much of them being canceled out by others, Ginger's bid to find Gunther a traitor fails.  Gunther's bid is mildly successful.  His shot hits Ginger's leg, and she stumbles out into the workshop where the warscrubber is.

The Computer says, "Make sure all paperwork on traitors is straight, along with statements from all the witnesses there.  If this was just a gunfire mishap, please inform."

Meanwhile in the workshop area with the warscrubber, Peter fires two shots at the robot.  One of them hits the robot in the head and does some minor damage.  The other hits...Rob, wounding him in the shoulder as he is on the back of the robot.

Rob pushes the red button on the warscrubber just as Ginger stumbles in.  The button appears to be the toggle switch for the warscrubber's flamethrower because one of its hands begins to spurt flame that reaches out about 10 feet.

The boxes behind which Peter was hiding catch fire.

The Warscrubber begins to turn about.  It reaches a hand back and punches Rob hard in the face.  Rob is...snafued...and he is knocked from the warscrubber's back.  From all appearances, the warscrubber is about to turn around, which means not only will its gunfire be in range of Rob and Ginger, but its flamethrower will too.
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"Get the traitor! I'll handle the paperwork." He says to the rest of the team still in the storage room, (Vicsis and Dexter I believe) as he starts to scribble on his loyalty officer notepad.

Rob oofs as the WarScrubber knocks him down. He is filled with utter terror as the thing turns around, putting him in the line of fire. He drops to the ground, pulling something from his belt and reaching under the bot momentarily. He then rolls out of the way, going for the nearest safe place that is far away.

Dexter has the thermos in one hand and Gunther's PDA in the other, still assessing the PDA.

OOC: For those of you who have played Paranoia before, the new XP Rules are a little different regarding what to do to a traitor.  In the old version, it was common to accuse someone of being a traitor and then shooting him.  That was fun and all, but the new rules get rid of such quick summary executions.

As such, be careful about what level of "correction" you give to those you believe do something traitorous.  If the punishment does not fit the crime, then the Computer will question your judgment and send your clone to be carefully inspected.  They say such clones never return the same.

Here's a reprinting of the steps for treason.  Please note the correction step.  If you have questions about the severity level, you may ask the Computer for a suggested remedy.  (Which is not say I don't like to see you guys shooting it out, but just that the rules are a little different in that respect now.)  The upshot to this is that it makes shooting traitors something on the defensive side...so you "accidentally" shoot someone, find a reason to say it was because they were a traitor if you get caught.  (That type of thing.)

When I have time, I'll print out the types of correction (if I haven't already).



REPRINT:

UNIVERSAL HOSTILITY FORMULA (TREASON)
Here are the steps of accusing someone of treason:

1- ACCUSE: Roll against your management skill (no specialization).  Perversity points are allowed.

2- CREDIBLE OR NOT?  If the roll succeeds, the Computer of high-clearance citizen regards the charges as initially credible, and the target may suffer "correction."
Backfire:  If the roll missed by 10 or more, or if you roll 20, it backfires.  The Computer questions the accuser's judgment and motives, analyzes your record of loyalty, demeanor and hygiene, and assesses penalties as appropriate.  (Continue to step 3, but the accuser is the target now.)

3- MULTIPLE TARGETS?  Can the offenses plausibly indict more than one target?  If so, I will select multiple targets based on the type of offense and the attack roll's margin.  This goes under Area effect and Spray descriptions

4- DEFAULT CORRECTION:  A successful accusation prompts the correction based on severity level and formula applied by the Computer.  Severity may be based on the accusation roll margin.  Termination is the most serious correction.

5- DEFENSE:  The default correction is reduced by a number of steps equal to the target's Access attribute--your "treason armor."

6- BOOST:  If the accusation succeeded by greater than the offense's Boost increment, divide the margin by the Boost.  The result will be increased or decreased accordingly.

7- ACTUAL CORRECTION:  The end result will be the actual correction the target receives.  All corrections are carried out on the spot.  If reduced below 1 step, the accusation has no effect--except maybe to annoy the target.

Dexter hands the PDA back to Gunther with a politely scolding look then a smile.  "Seems to be in order.  Please take better care of your equipment in the future!  You know the consequences, I assume."  Dexter keeps the thermos in hand and pulls out his own PDA.

OOC: Oh sorry I tought it was like in Second edition:
 See the traitor,
 shoot him. And you know punishments were: Kill the traitor, kill the traitor or make the traitor look like he suffered an accident.

"Thanks Citizen Dexter-R, your loyalty will be noted by the computer, and will be recorded in my book. Now go after that traitor before she endangers the mission with her communist ways."

Guther checks out his own pda.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:27, Mon 18 Aug 2008.

Yeah, that's how we played it in the 80's too.  I think this way is more sneaky though, and thus adds its own element of skill and fun.

CL is squeaking while he moves away from the door and asks Gunther, "Where did the 'traitor' go?"

Vicsis has observed all of this through the unblinking eye of the multicorder. "Gunther appears to be trying to fill our heroic team leader with laser blasts in the middle of a tactical combat situation. That's probably not the only thing he'd like to fill her with. Perhaps his hand is suffering from a malfunction." Hearing sounds from back in the other room, she turns around and takes note of the Warscrubber's new flamethrower. "Oh, now it has a flamethrower. It's lit some boxes on fire. It's probably going to burn someone alive. Rob's probably responsible for that," she notes innocently. He was hanging on the back of the insane bot, after all. "I bet he likes it hot."

She keeps the multicorder pointed vaguely towards the lethally upgraded scrubber, jiggling her hand so the recording will come out all 'actiony' and full of movement. She takes a moment to examine her automatic hammer, trying to divine its purpose. She tries to pass it off to Dexter, since he's the equipment guy and probably knows everything there is to know about automatic hammers. Then she turns to CLR, getting an upclose zoom of him. "Who do you think the traitor is, and why?"

"She is in the other room! The Clone Ginger-R is a commie as she tried to access classified computer info. Not only that but she accused an innocent loyalty officer of treason. Go after her and make sure she is arested and is able to respond for her crimes against the computer! At any rate don't let her escape!" Gunther-R says as he scribles a bit more into his notepad.

"Gunther keeps yelling traitor. Gunther, do you remeber the story of the trouble-shooter who called communist? Its a fun story with a good moral. The RED Clearence trouble-shooter didn't like another trouble-shooter and called him a commie. The computer checked and he wasn't. The next day, he did it again to the same result, and the computer said he commited treason and he was punished." CL says in sing-song form, "Don't be the shooter how called commie."

Dexter is engrossed in his PDA at the moment and ignores the auto-hammer and the human attached to it.

Vicsis gently tosses the hammer aside.

Gunther makes more notes.


Mmmokay." he says after scribing.

Ginger doesn't hear what the others are talking about in the storage room, but she clearly sees Rob afix something to the robot.  Her eyes go wide.  "Don't tell me that's a tactical nuke!"  She runs through the door into the reactor room since Gunther's still in the storage room trying to shoot her down.  "Follow me!" she says to the others still in the room with the war scrubber.