Paranoia Internal Security.pdf

PARANOIA ™

Internal Security

Original

Original PARANOIA

PARANOIA design

design

New

New PARANOIA

edition

ALLEN VARNEY

PARANOIA edition

DAN GELBER

GREG COSTIKYAN

ALLEN VARNEY

GARETH HANRAHAN

GREG COSTIKYAN

ERIC GOLDBERG

GARETH HANRAHAN

ERIC GOLDBERG

PARAN O IA ™

Internal Security

Credits & Contents

GARETH HANRAHAN

Writer/Scapegoat

Introduction

Access 80

Secret Societies 80

Mutant Powers 94

Life in Alpha Complex 99

Oh Central, My Central 103

Safe Under the Watchful Eyes 111

Surveilance and Interogation 115

Equipment 122

Teamwork Enhancement 133

Transtubes and Vehicles 137

Mission Design 148

Campaign Design 155

Sample Troopers 156

Six Clones Before Breakfastcycle 161

IntSec Agents at the Earths Core 165

Forms

Welcome Trooper

Internal Security

CHARLOTTE LAW

Editing /Drillbot

Everygroup Else

To Serve and Protect

The Sector Beat

CHRIS QUILLIAMS

Cover/Blueprints

Special Ofﬁ cer Duties

Code Alery

TONY EMSON

Interior Illustrations/Treasonous Propaganda

Creating your own Trooper

Doing Things

Trooper Assets

JOSEPH MCCANCE

Layout/Infrared drone

Subversives

Tips for Traitors 2

Onwards Brave Trooper

NICK ROBINSON

Proofreader/Intsec goon

The Prime Rules of the GM

Basic Rules

169

DAN GELBER

GREG COSTIKYAN

ERIC GOLDBERG

Original game design & development/

Building committee

Treason

Alternate Play Styles

179

Combat

Index

183

Skills

ALLEN VARNEY, AARON ALLSTON, PAUL BADOWSKI, BETH FISCHI, EDEL RYDER, STEVE GILBERT,

KEN ROLSTON, ERICK WUJCIK, R. ERIC REUSS

Additional Material/Co-Conspirators

THE COMPUTER

Looking after your best interests

Security Clearance ULTRAVIOLET

WARNING :

Knowledge or possession of this information by any citizen

of Security Clearance VIOLET or lower is treason punishable by a

long spell of Armed Forces latrine scrubot maintenance duty.

material published in previous editions of PARANOIA .

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Published by Mongoose Publishing, Ltd. Published October 2009. Printed In USA.

I NT S EC

1. IntSec

“To Serve & Protect”

you keep the proles in line; you are the

enforcers of The Computer’s directives.

and to identify traitors. By the way, you

are a mutant and a member of a secret

society. You are a traitor.

CONTROL EVERYTHING IS UNDER

So, the secret police then?

Well, you’ll be wearing a helmet with a

ﬂ ashing red light and carrying a very

large gun, so ‘secret’ may be inaccurate.

But basically, yes. As an IntSec Trooper,

you have BLUE clearance, with all the

rewards and beneﬁ ts associated with

that exalted status.

CONTROL .......

I saw that one coming. Ok, what does

keeping people Loyal, Happy and

Compliant mean?

SECURITY CLEARANCE

BLUE – CLEARED FOR

INTSEC AGENTS

Internal Security measures the state

of the sector using various carefully

calibrated methods. Each sector has

a Happiness Index, a Loyalty Index, a

Compliance Index and a Security Index.

You must keep these values within the

limits set at the start of the mission.

You must also meet your Termination

Quota. This is Total Quality Security.

Failure to meet Total Quality Security

Requirements will be punished.

That all sounds great! Do I get bigger

guns and armour and real food and

more drugs and –

May I be of assistance, trooper?

Trooper? I thought I was a

Troubleshooter or something.

Yes, yes, yes and yes. And cortex bombs.

What’s a cortex bomb?

Incorrect. By reading this, you have

been reassigned to serve as an Internal

Security Field Trooper.

A small explosive charge, implanted in

your skull. It may be detonated if you fail

your mission.

Please note that the methods used to

determine Happiness Index, Loyalty

Index, Obedience Index and Treason

Index are not available at your security

clearance.

What does that mean?

What’s my mission?

You are now one of the elite of Alpha

Complex. You hunt down Commie

Mutant Traitors and terminate them;

To ensure that everyone in Alpha

Complex is Loyal, Happy and Obedient,

So, not only do I have to hunt down

traitors while being a traitor myself,

PARANOIA: IntSec

1. I NT S EC

I also have to put up with a lot of

incomprehensible rules that I don’t

understand?

What about hidden cameras? What

about spy-holes in the attic? Are you

sure you can trust yourself? Is your mind

secure?

responsibilities to the players while

maintaining the ever-present atmosphere

of Fear and Ignorance. Unlike lowly

Troubleshooters, Internal Security agents

have something to lose.

Citizen: Do I need the main PARANOIA

rulebook to play this game?

The Computer: No, this book is self-

contained. However, each of the three

rulebooks – TROUBLESHOOTERS , INTSEC

and HIGH PROGRAMMERS – gives a

different perspective on Alpha Complex.

Collect all three!

Citizen: What about HIL Sector Blues,

reprinted in the Extreme PARANOIA

supplement? That was about IntSec

agents too?

The Computer: Correct. HIL Sector Blues is

the original inspiration for this game; the

donor of its genetic material, so to speak.

Citizen: So, any changes are

mutations?

The Computer: Genetic deviancy is

treason. Do not mix metaphors. Do not

taunt Friend Computer.

Citizen: Er, tell me how INTSEC play differs

from normal TROUBLESHOOTERS play!

The Computer: Certainly! As a

Troubleshooter, you are given a

nonsensical and/or incomplete brieﬁ ng

and then lead by the nose into a series

of death-traps, where you betray

your teammates in a futile attempt to

complete your Secret Society mission

and/or hide your own treasonous deeds.

Correct.

By the way – and this is for real – don’t

read the mission! No, really, don’t. A

mission is a story the Gamemaster will

inﬂ ict – run for your characters. If you

know all the plot details and surprises

in advance, you’ll have less fun when

you play.

Are you sure this will be fun?

Fun? Fun, citizen? You are the jackbooted

thugs who rule over Alpha Complex

with an iron ﬁ st. You are the enemy. You

are Them.

Of course this will be fun.

Attention, Gamemaster!

Oh fortunate one, most trusted of The

Computer’s servants, you are Clearance

ULTRAVIOLET and therefore may read

this entire book. Read the Player section

first so you know what your players

know, then read the rest. The INTSEC

rules require a little more planning and

preparation than basic PARANOIA, but

only a little. It’s not like the players can

argue with you anyway – just familiarise

yourself with all the new ways to screw

them over and you’ll be freewheeling

and improvising in no time.

Obtain paper and a pencil. Obtain

one 20-sided polyhedral die, available

in hobby stores. Obtain three to six

other players, one of whom will be the

Gamemaster (GM) who runs the game.

Whether or not you are familiar with

the concept of roleplaying games, read

the Non-example of play later in this

introduction.

Now you may begin to play PARANOIA

- INTSEC . True, you know nothing about

the game yet. This is acceptable and even

desirable for PARANOIA - INTSEC .

The Player section contains rules for

creating IntSec characters. The ﬁ rst few

times you play, we suggest you give

your players the pregenerated (ready-

made) characters in the Mission section.

Photocopy these characters and hand

them out to your players before you

begin their mission.

If you insist, you may read all of the Player

section, which begins on page 2 and

ends on page 62. It teaches a bit about

the PARANOIA setting, how to create your

IntSec character, and nothing at all of any

importance about the rules of the game.

The Player section is classiﬁ ed Security

Clearance BLUE, which you may read

without fear of termination.

As an IntSec Trooper, you are given a

nonsensical and/or incomplete brieﬁ ng and

then have much greater freedom to choose

which death-traps you jump into. You will

still betray your teammates in a largely futile

attempt to complete your Secret Society

mission and/or hide your own treasonous

deeds, but with added gadgets. Like, as

previously mention, cortex bombs.

The ﬁ rst time you run INTSEC, use the

mission provided in this book. This is an

unusual game, and by using the mission,

you’ll see how to do things. Later you’ll

devise your own missions to delight and

torment your players.

The rest of this book – the Gamemaster

section, Sourcebook and Mission – is

classified Clearance ULTRAVIOLET.

This is above your Clearance, so you

are not permitted to read it. Only the

Gamemaster, the person who runs

the game, may read it. If you read any

Gamemaster material, or display any

knowledge of its contents during play,

you are a traitor and will be hunted down

by the rest of the players. Unless you do it

secretly, when they’re not watching.

Welcome to Internal Security.

Attention, longtime

players and Gamemasters!

Citizen: Friend Computer!

The Computer: At your service!

Citizen: How does this book relate to the

classic PARANOIA game I love?

The Computer: INTSEC offers a new

way to play PARANOIA , adding extra

Non-example of play

As INTSEC play differs in several key

respects from traditional PARANOIA , it

is useful and illustrative to present an

example of play at this point. However,

as the reader is as yet unaware of the

contents of this book*, the example of

Are you sure they’re not watching? Have

you checked all the doors and windows?

To Serve, Protect and Terminate

I NT S EC

play will present a certain popular horror

roleplaying game based on the works of

HP Lovecraft… as ﬁ ltered through the

paranoid mindset.

If Popular Horror RPG™

worked like PARANOIA

Gamemaster: You blast the cultist to

bits. Picking through the sticky wet

remains, you ﬁ nd a printout.

Antiquarian: I’ll take it! That’s evidence,

that is!

Librarian: It might be in code. You’d better

give it to me – I’m trained in decoding

ancient texts. Yes, give it to me.

Dilettante: So, you want to read the

blasphemous document that drives

people mad?

Librarian: What are you implying?

Dilettante: Oh, I don’t know. I’m just

saying that only a cultist would want to

read a cult document.

Antiquarian (to the GM): While they’re

arguing, I read it.

GM (to the Antiquarian): It mentions an

upcoming cult meeting at an abandoned

church. Oh, and it mentions another cult,

all of whom have a black mark on their

chest.

Antiquarian (to the GM): Like the mark

on my chest?

GM (to the Antiquarian): Ye p.

Antiquarian (to the group): Aha! I know

where the cult is meeting next!

Dilettante: So, you read the manuscript

that drives men mad?

Antiquarian: It was just an, er, evil

memo.

Dilettante: Ok, let me read it then.

Antiquarian: There’s no time for that!

We’ve got to go stop this dastardly cult

meeting!

Librarian: Good plan! I’ll ﬁ ll the car with

dynamite, you get the shotguns.

Antiquarian (to the GM): While he’s

doing that, I’m going to report back to

my cult and tell them that the other cult

knows about us!

Dilettante (to the GM): I’m summoning

a tentacled horror to kill the antiquarian

and get that document!

Librarian (to the GM): I’m going to put

a slow-burning fuse in the middle of the

dynamite, set to go off a few minutes

after we arrive at the cult meeting. Is

there enough dynamite to blow up both

the cultists and the other characters?

...And so on. To repeat, none of the

traditional horror elements in this

example resemble anything in Alpha

Complex, the underground city of

PARANOIA . At this point you know

nothing much about Alpha Complex or

your place in it.

Keep it that way. You may live longer.

“Ia! Ia! Computer ftagn!”

*: Unless you are a Precognitive mutant, in which case you already know to report for termination.

PARANOIA: IntSec

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