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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Ninjalistics 

I have happily reunited with some of the PARANOIA writers from the Traitor Recycling Studio to start Ninjalistics, a humor website with a darkly satirical tone familiar to fans of Alpha Complex.

Ninjalistics, "your top-quality provider of corporate assassination and espionage services," is a company of corporate ninjas. They're like Dilbert with nunchuks, filling out requisitions for each throwing star and ensuring their assassinations are ISO-9000 compliant. Greg Ingber (who contributed to Extreme PARANOIA and other books) created the idea, and he's recruited help from stalwart traitors like Gareth Hanrahan (The Traitor's Manual), WJ MacGuffin (Criminal Histories), and Andy "Jazzer" Fitzpatrick of Paranoia-Live.net.

The Ninjalistics.com site features funny corporate ninja news (for instance, recounting the company's charitable work installing free deathtraps in a local Ronald McDonald House); Greg's weekly "Etiquette Ninjas" webcomic; and free forms and award certficates (Ninja Training Request, Cloud Weak Minds Award) that will ring familiar to every PARANOIA fan. (You can view the forms at the free document-sharing site Scribd.com.) Download the free New Ninja Orientation Handbook (.PDF link) and you'll instantly spot the PARANOIA ancestry of the Ninjalistics "authorization badge" scheme. Always steal from the best....

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I feel we've tapped a strong vein of humor with Ninjalistics, one that proudly acknowledges our roots yet heads in a new and original direction. If you've enjoyed the Mongoose PARANOIA line, look in at Ninjalistics.com and let us know what you think.

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