"See?!? Another sign of treason! The Subject willingly chose not to smile! I told you we were sabotaged by our communist team leader who wants you to join her cause, let's blast her up!!!" Gunther says still smiling.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:20, Mon 03 Nov 2008.

Regarding treason, remember that there is no time period, so you can always save up all your reasons and evidence until the end of the mission...as appears to be happening now...or accuse at any time you think you have enough evidence.

I would suggest using your private thread to post yourself reminders of evidence you have, and then when you are ready to accuse, you can paste all the reasons into one post to boost your chances of success.

And remember, here's the link regarding treason:  link to a message in "Paranoia: They Really Are All Out to Get You"

"Dexter isn't a mutant! Your declairing that a non-mutant is a mutant without evidence! By accusing the Happiness officer you may destroy everything the Computer tries to create!" he says smiling, "You are very treasoness indeed. Not smiling, using socialism, and accusing Dexter of being a mutant!"

(accusing Ginger of treason)

Ginger smiles and says with a smile painted on her face, "I thought you said you were joining Gunther?  Well, if not, then I guess your fate and Dexter's fate are in Dexter's hands.  Instead of choosing to listen to your team leader, you have chosen to follow Dexter, who is decidedly NOT the team leader.  Your actions will not make Dexter happy, and you are therefore violating your responsibilities as Happiness officer.  You, sir, will undo everything the Computer has tried so hard to preserve."

Ginger retracts her accusation of treason as a misunderstanding...unless Dexter chooses to side with Gunther...and she looks over at Dexter with a huge smile on her face.

She says to CL, still smiling, "Have you considered that Gunther's actions of recording everyone's moves, eating Computer property, and accusing your own team leader of treason will not make anyone happy?  Perhaps you should be accusing him of treason.  I am happy, but how can a register mutee like Gunther make us happy when treason is in his mutant bones?"


OOC:  I thought this meant you were joining Gunther and had misspoken Dexter.

"Dexter is happy." he says and gives Dexter a bottle of liquid, "This is good for you. You look tense."

Seeing that Gunther looks like he might shoot, Ginger raises her autoaiming slugthrower in her free hand, pointing them both at Gunther.  She says, "The reason I shot those in our party was because R&D must have made a mistake with this slugthrower.  It seems to randomly aim at whomever it wants.  That was not my fault, and this should be turned over to R&D immediately for examination, but I shall have to use it on you again if you try to shoot.  Hopefully," she says, still smiling, "it will not choose one of our other companions to aim at by accident.  Then their deaths would be on your head."

"Communist. My notes were sent to the computer, now we should just wait for it to be resolved, so that we, as a team, may formally execute you for communism, high treason and for leading the team to a failure." Gunther says still waiting.

IntSec arrives to sort out the problem.  They clear CL and Dexter of having to join the Team Leader now that they have arrived.  However, CL and Dexter, and all other characters, are given an insubordination fine for failing to follow their team leader without question.  This is a 30 credit fine each.

Due to the stress of the situation, I will be rolling for random accusation modifiers.  Make sure all final issues, accusations, etc. are out on the table.

I take back mine since Ginger is taking back hers and pays the credits, then moves away from the slug thrower.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:33, Mon 03 Nov 2008.

Ginger smiles and sighs and says to IntSec, "I recommend CL for a commendation for upholding his office."

Dexter pays his fine and sits by with a look of confused amusement on his face.  He throws occasional suspicious glances at the slugthrower, however.

Gunther sheaths his gun, Opens his notepad and starts reading:


"During the mission I observed the clone Ginger-R:
1- Shoot a fellow troubleshooter instead of shooting the imminent threat three times. Two times generating new copies of the loyalty officer.
2- Shooting the loyalty officer in an obvious attempt to leave the computer blind to all communist activities the referred team leader would draw the team into.
3- Attempted -twice- to read the loyalty's officer's notepad.
4- Offered a declared secret Society member a chance to escape, once by offering a him deal in exchange of credits and second time by conning the team into running out of the room to give the Phreak known as ALLY-G8R time to escape, if It weren't for my intervention the Phreak would be free and probably plotting with her to overthrow the system.
5- As team leader Ginger-R-UYT led the mission to a failure.
6- As team leader proposed communist things like giving others chances of voting.
7- Falsely accused Gunther-R-BOK-*3* of eating computer propriety a thing that Gunther-R-BOK-*1* did, Clone which by the way she executed without proper authorization. See Note #1
8- Falsely accused Gunther-R-BOK-3 of being a Frankenstein Destroyer with no evidence. By the way what is a Frankenstein Destroyer?
9- Refused to smile and accused the Happiness officer of treason for requesting the team leader to smile, knowing that happiness is mandatory.

As the teams loyalty officer it is my job to point out that the team's mission's failure resides entirely on the fact that the team leader is a commie, who offered other team members chances of voting to create confusion in the team's ranks and presents a threat to the alpha complex way of life."

This message was last edited by the player at 23:38, Mon 03 Nov 2008.

The IntSec officer turns to CL.  "Is this all true?"

OOC: I forgot to mention, Dexter does not take the drink offered by CL.

In reply to GM Computer Heath (msg #85):

"The part about the smiling is. Though, the slug-thrower she is holding doesn't aim properly." he says, not wanting to anger the higher ups.

Ginger hands the slugthrower to the IntSec officer.  "Here, you can take it and inspect it.  Gunther gave it to me.  Gunther's accusations are untrue, of course.  Mutants have trouble telling the truth, I hear.  Just look at his warped mutant logic.  He accuses me of Communism for offering our members the chance to vote for their own happiness in best following the Computer?  Commies don't allow voting, and Commies don't want happiness for those they lead, and Commies don't love our friend, the Computer.  And CL is slightly mistaken.  I was smiling; he just wasn't looking right at me.  When I turned and looked at him, he clearly saw me smiling, right CL, my friend in service to the Computer?"

"I was on my head doing a head stand at the time. I saw the smile upside down. I was trying to raise happiness levels for the Computers." CL says.

This is how it is working out:
ACCUSATION

The IntSec officer listens carefully.  He nods thoughtfully at Gunther's points.

CREDIBLE ACCUSATION
OOC:  Here is to show you how this is working out.  (Gunther used PP and also had a wide margin of success on his management roll - margin of 6 after Ginger's PP are factored in.)

Also:

Modifiers:

Accuser:  Gunther has meticulously completed relevant forms and input, thereby pleasing the computer.  +1 bonus.

Computer:  Today's proceedings are being recorded for an episode of "Traitor Justice Files."  The Computer intends to make an example of the target. +10 bonus

Target: Ginger was able to draw a clever retort about Gunther. -1

Environment:  Cameras captured everything on videotape...without audio...and cannot verify Gunther's accusations. -3

Other: Gunther is a registered mutant.  -5

So Gunther's margin of 6 turns into:  a margin of 8!


The IntSec officer turns to Ginger.  "It appears that you are in need of correction."  (Gunther's accusation was deemed credible.)

Meanwhile, Ginger's roll failed.  Her accusation was found not to be credible enough to warrant in investigation.

SPRAY EFFECT
The IntSec officer looks around.  "You were all present.  Why did you not try to stop these traitorous acts?  We are going to immediately investigate all of you!"

The dragnet begins...

No one put any PP's to support or make Gunther's accusation fail.  This means that his margin of error has a "spray" effect on all the troubleshooters.  (In other words, the Computer assumes the "traitor" includes everyone around the actual "traitor;" everyone except the accuser is compromised.)  Given that Gunther's accusations include a variety of locations with a variety of Tension levels, you will not get an added benefit of Tension level protection.  (This is one benefit to making immediate accusations if the Tension level favors you...because your teammates will be affected less.)

Each of you must now "defend" against Gunther's accusation.  Tell me if you are going to add any perversity points to your management roll (up to a max of 5) and then you can roll or I will roll for you.

NOTE:  For informational purposes, if Gunther's roll had been with a 0 margin, you would not be part of the dragnet.

Here's the link again to treason:  link to a message in "Paranoia: They Really Are All Out to Get You"
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:44, Tue 04 Nov 2008.

1- Shoot a fellow troubleshooter instead of shooting the imminent threat three times. Two times generating new copies of the loyalty officer.
I have no way of stopping her from shooting, especially when I am being attacked by a scrubbot.

2- Shooting the loyalty officer in an obvious attempt to leave the computer blind to all communist activities the referred team leader would draw the team into.
Same response as item 1.

3- Attempted -twice- to read the loyalty's officer's notepad.
I was busy with an equipment inspection when Ginger attempted this.  I have never tried to read the loyalty officer's pad.

4- Offered a declared secret Society member a chance to escape, once by offering a him deal in exchange of credits and second time by conning the team into running out of the room to give the Phreak known as ALLY-G8R time to escape, if It weren't for my intervention the Phreak would be free and probably plotting with her to overthrow the system.
I was instrumental in capturing and interrogating Ally-G8R and made sure he would not escape to spread his commie ways.

5- As team leader Ginger-R-UYT led the mission to a failure.
I made repeated effort to keep the team leader on track for the mission, but the team leader allowed the team to be sidetracked.

6- As team leader proposed communist things like giving others chances of voting.
I repeatedly tried to get the team leader to do her job of leading the team and always did my part as Equipment Guy.

7- Falsely accused Gunther-R-BOK-*3* of eating computer propriety a thing that Gunther-R-BOK-*1* did, Clone which by the way she executed without proper authorization. See Note #1
I have not accused Gunther of anything other than dropping his PDC, which seemed to be an accident.  As a loyal Equipment Guy, I was paying close attention to the team's equipment.

8- Falsely accused Gunther-R-BOK-3 of being a Frankenstein Destroyer with no evidence. By the way what is a Frankenstein Destroyer?
What's a Frankenstew Mostreyor?

9- Refused to smile and accused the Happiness officer of treason for requesting the team leader to smile, knowing that happiness is mandatory.
I have maintained a happy attitude at all times.  *smiles*

By this, I am assuming you are making an official accusation of treason against Ginger?

No, you said I had to defend myself against Gunther's accusations.

"I've been trying to keep everyone happy, and being leaderless during a mission wouldn't be good for moral. I was under attack by a giant scrubbot at the time and couldn't stop the shootings. It made Gunther a little annoyed, but not angery, when people try to look at his pad. I wouldn't do that." he takes a breath, "I helped Dexter escort the commie Ally here. I have no idea what a Frankenstein is. And I always smile."
This message was last edited by the player at 01:17, Wed 05 Nov 2008.

Sorry, what I meant by that was to roll against management (and you may get bonuses to your roll if you can show you were not present at the times she committed the treasonous acts or did your duty as a good Citizen and reported her or otherwise gave her a correction or fine within your duty...or show that the duty was someone else's, like the happiness officer, and that you cannot be held responsible for that...things like that).  Otherwise, they'll say you were present, you kept your mouth shut...therefore, you are a conspirator.

You don't have to go to too much work here.  It's just for game purposes...so don't feel you have to go back through all the slush or anything.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:59, Wed 05 Nov 2008.

Gunther just watches the scene unfold and smiles, noticing the scene is going to be on a vidshow he steps near a camcorder and goes:

"I caught two traitors in a day, The phreak known as ALLY-G8R and the traitorous commie Ginger-R-UYT, nothing but a day's job for..." He pauses dramatically drawing his gun in a slick-looking fashion and saying: "GUNTHER-R-BOK-3!" then holstering it back in a slick way, and then he pulls out his ILTR1 notepad: "Loyalty officers, the pen is mightier than the laser, don't be afraid to you your assigned ILTR1s to catch the commies in your team!!!"

After the scene to the camera, he stands there, arms crossed and a few yards away just around a corner from the scene just so no accidental laser fire may hit him,  Gunther turns to his PDC to see if it is still being flooded by spam and starts deleting the spam now that the spammer is caught, keeping an eye out for angry laser fire of course, staying around a corner, again, for protective reasons but still within sight of the Int Sec guy, and with his laser ready to shoot should the traitorous leader attempt to escape.

Even with bonuses, everyone fails their rolls.

Gunther leaves the area, and the rest of you are hauled off for reconditioning.  None of you are taken to the same place as any other, so you don't know the extent of correction.

OOC: I will go through the offenses and corrections tonight, if possible.  Then we will be ready to head into the second adventure.

Remember, if you want to start with a new character, that's totally fine.  This is Paranoia, so no need to get too attached!  If you do want to switch characters, let me know, as I will have something special for you to do in the second adventure...