Pax Reptiliana

— "Attention all workers! Please do not forget to renew your toilet paper subscription for the month. Don't be caught with your pants down on this matter."  — "To all personnel: the spyware installed on your workstations indicates productivity losses of 45% in the last hour. Be aware that your performance review may reflect negatively on your O2 allotment." — "The H&B family would like to thank everyone who donated to the 'Feed The Homeless Slime Monsters' fund for the tax write-off." — "Important notice: be reminded that H&B has a strict policy against child sacrifice during work hours. If you need to perform a ritual offering to the Elder Gods, please submit an application via the company portal." — "Office printers are for official company business only. Those using them to print out escape routes from the building must refrain from doing so immediately." — "In light of the estimated workforce los...

Welcome to Pax Reptiliana, where the horrors are mundane and the desperation isn't so much quiet as deadened. It's the cyberpunk future we were promised/threatened with, sans the cool. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental and probably arises from your own paranoid, conspiracy-minded psyche. A conspiracy, by the way, is just a top-down directive that you don't need to know about. Do what you're told and everything will be over soon.

MallTown MallTown is what happens when you let a mall overtake an entire city. Built over what was once a sleepy suburb, ground zero was a ShopMore department store. It’s been hailed as “a great leap forward”, “a boost to the region’s economy” and “a dystopian hellscape of middle-class ennui”. A city-wide, multi-storey complex of interconnected buildings encompassing an area of over 30 square miles, it’s fully equipped for a life spent indoors. Public spaces are lit 24/7, air-conditioning is always at an agreeable 72-79ºF and speakers play an infinite loop of announcements and totally-non-soulcrushing muzak. Like a casino, and for essentially the same reasons, MallTown has no clocks or natural light. It's like they say: you'll lose yourself in MallTown!  Shamballa Ashram The first of its kind to open, amid rumors and accusations, not entirely unfounded, of being a hotbed of all kinds of deviant unpatriotic tendencies, like health food or guilt-free sex. It was the entryway for ...

51 Daring Knucklehead In order to keep up with the ever-escalating demands of the attention economy, you had your skeletal system ripped out and replaced by an ultralight, hollow one. This granted you an extra 4.5 minutes of fame and dozens of new followers who, come next week, will demand even greater sacrifices for their entertainment. Possessions A Pneumatized Skeleton A Motorized Wingsuit An Action Camera Advanced Skills 4 Acrobatics 3 Tolerance to Pain 2 Flying 2 Videography 42 Mantis-touched In one of your more interesting DMT trips you passed through the realm of the Mantis beings. Well you must've caught a bug or something, since you've been undergoing some changes that left you with a severely impaired social life and several novel ways of digesting your food. Possessions A Mandible OR Grasping Forelegs (damage as Modest Beast) Compound Eyes Advanced Skills 4 Climb 3 Acrobatics 2 Language — Mantis 1 Awareness 1 Spell — Entovision 34 Shaolin Punk ONE MAN AGAINST THE WOR...

An alternate way to handle investigation: paranoia allows you to find connections in seemingly disconnected data. The caveat: it always makes a connection , whether there is one to be made or not. A success will produce a  true , useful finding; failure will always produce an outright false  finding; fumbles will produce an outlandishly bogus conclusion that the PC now blindly believes. For obvious reasons, rolls for this should be handled by the GM, without letting the players in on the result.