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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Treason? Mais oui! 

On the leading PARANOIA fan site, Paranoia-Live.net, citizen Gerzel has posted a lovely mission hook suitable for bilingual PARANOIA players:
It starts with some VIOLET or INDIGO citizen, probably a Romantic or Sierra Cluber, deciding to better himself by learning a foreign language, French.
Since immersion is the best possible way to learn a new language, the citizen decides to change his setting for what language the Computer will speak to him in to be French.

Unfortunately, unbeknownst to this citizen, he accidentally changes the sector-wide language setting to French, and suddenly, all over the sector, citizens are insubordinate and non-compliant with The Computer's commands.

Massive rounds of executions follow, and soon Armed Forces deployments from other sectors to this one, as FC concludes that the sector is being overrun by Communists, and that citizens are being subverted through some unknown means. All high-clearance citizens are evacuated first, including the one who started it all.

To replace the dead clones, new clones are detanked automatically in rapid sequence. Of course their final language programming is done according to the system specification of French, so the onrushing troops find a bunch of citizens who are speaking in a language they don't understand and who are obviously Communists for it.

The Troubleshooters arrive; they can't understand The Computer; they get terminated; their clones arrive, and they're all speaking French yet don't even realize it. From there it should get -- what's the word? -- meurtrier, maybe? Raseur? Help out a sadly monolingual American....
Posted by: Allen Varney / 12:26 PM

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