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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Reasons to be Cheerful 

The new issue 55 of Mongoose Publishing's free online magazine Signs & Portents includes a short, pithy PARANOIA article by Gareth (The Traitor's Manual) Hanrahan. "Reasons to be Cheerful" has nothing to do with the Greg Egan short story of that name. Rather, the article lists an array of secret motives Troubleshooter characters harbor (escape, drugs, gaining mutations, "free thinking"), along with conditions that satisfy those motives. By achieving these hidden goals, players earn Perversity points, which may provide some consolation as your free-thinking character is hauled off for a deep brainscrub.

Gareth is all over this issue. He also contributed a one-page overview and a short scenario for the forthcoming Mongoose edition of Traveller, that languorous and idyllic project that has distracted him from writing the forthcoming PARANOIA bot book. Enough shilly-shallying, Gareth, get to work!

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