13: Paranoia
Trust the Computer. The Computer knows if you’ve been bad or good.
The post-apocalyptic vault gone wrong Alpha Complex in Paranoia isn’t a very religious place (although the First Church of Christ Computer Programmer is one of the more tolerated of the classic secret societies) and may not have holidays anyway.
And the colour-coded citizens would be very confused by (a) multicoloured lights on Christmas trees and (b) Christmas trees and (c) trees.
The Tabletop Girl considered this in a mini-adventure called How The Communists Stole Classified, covering an attempt to get the whole holiday season going illegally.
So for something a little narrower, given how distorted and strange many festive traditions are, adding some festive cheer to Alpha Complex would be as easy as... having Black Friday for a month in countries without Thanksgiving, to pick an example purely at random.
Infrared Friday
The day when surplus luxury items up to Yellow level are made available to Infrared citizens, colour coating removed to prevent confusion and termination, and somehow supply never quite meets demand for at least one thing. Can you acquire this cycle’s must-have without losing all your clones? (Spoiler: probably not.)
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