[Professor Stone and colleagues at Yale University] have now succeeded in building [an anti-laser]. [The] device focuses two lasers beams of a specific frequency into a specially designed optical cavity made from silicon, which traps the incoming beams of light and forces them to bounce around until all their energy… Continue reading Laser-B-GON
The Troubleshooter team, while engaged in a mission of particular danger and excitement, draw the attentions of a High Programmer. At particularly awkward moments amidst the action / investigation / mayhem / explosive decompression / heart-rending emotional exchange the team encounter INFRARED Clearance cannon-fodder / RED Clearance administrative personnel /… Continue reading Mission Fragment 1.3.66.21
Troubleshooter Central Control has implemented a new resource integration and management system (RIMS) for which the Troubleshooter team has been selected as test subjects, along with several other teams. The system, a sub-node of a division of a lesser matrix of The Computer, takes all the information about the resources… Continue reading Code 7 – Delta 77.A.812-ccC.0
Having stared down the Vultures guarding the door and made it into the room, the Troubleshooters watch the Briefing Officer keel over halfway through the mission brief, without explanation. He’d been telling them about the Commie infiltration of a sub-level warehouse facility in AKZ Sector, gone boggle eyed, then collapsed… Continue reading Code 7 – Kappa 6.11111.a-a8
Something struck a communications relay tower in YBF Sector. A Tech Services team went in and didn’t return. A squad of Vultures went in and didn’t come out either. The Troubleshooters have to find out what’s going on. It could be a flying saucer; a meteorite containing a weird metallic… Continue reading Code 7 – Gamma 22.a-1.668.1
At the end of last year I attended the Dragonmeet event in Kensington. In previous years, I attend purely as a visitor; but, on this occasion I attended as a guest of Arion Games. I have been writing for Arion for the historical adventure game Maelstrom, so planned to do… Continue reading Medieval Home Alone
Take some of this CyberClean stuff – cyberclean.tv, scale it up to the size of a medium sized dog and make it artificially intelligent. Then, assign it to both the Equipment and the Hygiene Officer – or just one of them. Or both, but in shifts. The unnatural pooch –… Continue reading Clean Sweep
The official PARANOIA Dev Blog posted about Petri Wessman’s blog where you can dig up all manner of PARANOIA book reviews. I’m reasonably sure I’ve mentioned it before – largely because the review of ‘The Underplex‘ came over as entirely reasonable: This is by no means a “must have” book… Continue reading Entirely Reasonable
It was ever so kind of Citizen Shart to point out that Mongoose has hit DriveThruRPG / RPGNow with a very pleasant surprise: Just thought you’d like to know Mongoose has just reduced price of ALL THEIR PRODUCT DOWNLOADS at RPGNow/ DriveThruRPG by about 40%. This includes PARANOIA and Classic… Continue reading Maxi-Fun Happy Discount Joy
I managed to read a short story over breakfast, using the Stanza app on my iPhone. I don’t manage to do anything quite so significant during breakfast any day of the week, but on Sunday… well, it impressed even me. I read ‘The Defenders‘ by Philip K. Dick. If it… Continue reading The Defenders