/* This is a solo paranoia game taken from the Jan/Feb issue (No 77) of "SpaceGamer/FantasyGamer" magazine. Article by Sam Shirley. Implemented in C on Vax 11/780 under UNIX by Tim Lister This is a public domain adventure and may not be sold for profit */ #define MOXIE 13 #define AGILITY 15 #define MAXKILL 7 /* The maximum number of UV's you can kill */ int clone=1; int page=1; int computer_request=0; int ultra_violet=0; int action_doll=0; int hit_points=10; int read_letter=0; int plato_clone=3; int blast_door=0; int killer_count=0; char get_char() { char c; c=getchar(); if (c!='\n') while(getchar()!='\n'); return c; } more() { printf("---------- More ----------"); #ifdef DEBUG printf("(page %d)",page); #endif if (get_char()=='p') { character(); printf("---------- More ----------"); (void)get_char(); }; } new_clone(resume) int resume; { printf("\nClone %d just died.\n",clone); if (++clone>6) { printf("\n*** You Lose ***\n\nAll your clones are dead. Your name has been stricken from the records.\n\n THE END\n"); return 0; } else { printf("Clone %d now activated.\n",clone); ultra_violet=0; action_doll=0; hit_points=10; killer_count=0; return resume; } } dice_roll(number,faces) int number, faces; { int i,total=0; for(i=number;i>0;i--) total+= rand()%faces+1; return total; } instructions() { printf("\n\n\n\nWelcome to Paranoia!\n\n"); printf("HOW TO PLAY:\n\n"); printf(" Just press until you are asked to make a choice.\n"); printf(" Select 'a' or 'b' or whatever for your choice, then press .\n"); printf(" You may select 'p' at any time to get a display of your statistics.\n"); printf(" Always choose the least dangerous option. Continue doing this until you win.\n"); printf(" At times you will use a skill or engage in combat and and will be informed of\n"); printf(" the outcome. These sections will be self explanatory.\n\n"); printf("HOW TO DIE:\n\n"); printf(" As Philo-R-DMD you will die at times during the adventure.\n"); printf(" When this happens you will be given an new clone at a particular location.\n"); printf(" The new Philo-R will usually have to retrace some of the old Philo-R\'s path;\n"); printf(" hopefully he won\'t make the same mistake as his predecessor.\n\n"); printf("HOW TO WIN:\n\n"); printf(" Simply complete the mission before you expend all six clones.\n"); printf(" If you make it, congratulations.\n"); printf(" If not, you can try again later.\n"); } character() { printf("===============================================================================\n"); printf("The Character : Philo-R-DMD %d\n", clone); printf("Primary Attributes Secondary Attributes\n"); printf("===============================================================================\n"); printf("Strength ..................... 13 Carrying Capacity ................. 30\n"); printf("Endurance .................... 13 Damage Bonus ....................... 0\n"); printf("Agility ...................... 15 Macho Bonus ....................... -1\n"); printf("Manual Dexterity ............. 15 Melee Bonus ...................... +5%%\n"); printf("Moxie ........................ 13 Aimed Weapon Bonus .............. +10%%\n"); printf("Chutzpah ...................... 8 Comprehension Bonus .............. +4%%\n"); printf("Mechanical Aptitude .......... 14 Believability Bonus .............. +5%%\n"); printf("Power Index .................. 10 Repair Bonus ..................... +5%%\n"); printf("===============================================================================\n"); printf("Credits: 160 Secret Society: Illuminati Secret Society Rank: 1\n"); printf("Service Group: Power Services Mutant Power: Precognition\n"); printf("Weapon: laser pistol; to hit, 40%%; type, L; Range, 50m; Reload, 6r; Malfnt, 00\n"); printf("Skills: Basics 1(20%%), Aimed Weapon Combat 2(35%%), Laser 3(40%%),\n Personal Development 1(20%%), Communications 2(29%%), Intimidation 3(34%%)\n"); printf("Equipment: Red Reflec Armour, Laser Pistol, Laser Barrel (red),\n"); printf(" Notebook & Stylus, Knife, Com Unit 1, Jump suit,\n"); printf(" Secret Illuminati Eye-In-The-Pyramid(tm) Decoder ring,\n"); printf(" Utility Belt & Pouches\n"); printf("===============================================================================\n"); } choose(a,aptr,b,bptr) int a,b; char *aptr, *bptr; { printf("\nSelect \'a\' or \'b\' :\n"); printf(" a - %s.\n b - %s.\n", aptr, bptr); if (get_char()=='a') return a; else return b; } page1() { printf(" You wake up face down on the red and pink checked E-Z-Kleen linoleum floor.\n"); printf(" You recognise the pattern, it\'s the type preferred in the internal security\nbriefing cells. When you finally look around you, you see that you are alone\n"); printf("in a large mission briefing room.\n"); return 57; } page2() { printf("\"Greetings,\" says the kindly Internal Security self incrimination expert who\n"); printf("meets you at the door, \"How are we doing today?\" He offers you a doughnut\n"); printf("and coffee and asks what brings you here. This doesn\'t seem so bad, so you\n"); printf("tell him that you have come to confess some possible security lapses. He\n"); printf("smiles knowingly, deftly catching your coffee as you slump to the floor.\n"); printf("\"Nothing to be alarmed about; it\'s just the truth serum,\" he says,\n"); printf("dragging you back into a discussion room.\n"); printf("The next five hours are a dim haze, but you can recall snatches of conversation\n"); printf("about your secret society, your mutant power, and your somewhat paranoid\n"); printf("distrust of The Computer. This should explain why you are hogtied and moving\n"); printf("slowly down the conveyer belt towards the meat processing unit in Food\n"); printf("Services.\n"); if (computer_request==1) return new_clone(45); else return new_clone(32); } page3() { printf("You walk to the nearest Computer terminal and request more information about\n"); printf("Christmas. The Computer says, \"That is an A-1 ULTRAVIOLET ONLY IMMEDIATE\n"); printf("TERMINATION classified topic. What is your clearance please, Troubleshooter?\"\n"); return choose(4,"You give your correct clearance",5,"You lie and claim Ultraviolet clearance"); } page4() { printf("\"That is classified information, Troubleshooter, thank you for your inquiry.\n"); printf(" Please report to an Internal Security self incrimination station as soon as\n"); printf(" possible.\"\n"); return 9; } page5() { printf("The computer says, \"Troubleshooter, you are not wearing the correct colour\n"); printf("uniform. You must put on an Ultraviolet uniform immediately. I have seen to\n"); printf("your needs and ordered one already; it will be here shortly. Please wait with\n"); printf("your back to the wall until it arrives.\" In less than a minute an infrared\n"); printf("arrives carrying a white bundle. He asks you to sign for it, then hands it to\n"); printf("you and stands back, well outside of a fragmentation grenade\'s blast radius.\n"); return choose(6, "You open the package and put on the uniform", 7, "You finally come to your senses and run for it"); } page6() { printf("The uniform definitely makes you look snappy and pert. It really looks\n"); printf("impressive, and even has the new lopsided lapel fashion that you admire so\n"); printf("much. What\'s more, citizens of all ranks come to obsequious attention as you\n"); printf("walk past. This isn\'t so bad being an Ultraviolet. You could probably come\n"); printf("to like it, given time.\n"); printf("The beeping computer terminal interrupts your musings.\n"); ultra_violet=1; return 8; } page7() { printf("The corridor lights dim and are replaced by red battle lamps as the Security\n"); printf("Breach alarms howl all around you. You run headlong down the corridor and\n"); printf("desperately windmill around a corner, only to collide with a squad of 12 Blue\n"); printf("clearance Vulture squadron soldiers. \"Stop, Slime Face,\" shouts the\n"); printf("commander, \"or there won\'t be enough of you left for a tissue sample.\"\n"); printf("\"All right, soldiers, stuff the greasy traitor into the uniform,\" he orders,\n"); printf("waving the business end of his blue laser scant inches from your nose.\n"); printf("With his other hand he shakes open a white bundle to reveal a pristine new\n"); printf("Ultraviolet citizen's uniform.\n"); printf("One of the Vulture squadron Troubleshooters grabs you by the neck in the\n"); printf("exotic and very painful Vulture Clamp(tm) death grip (you saw a special about\n"); printf("it on the Teela O\'Malley show), while the rest tear off your clothes and\n"); printf("force you into the Ultraviolet uniform. The moment you are dressed they step\n"); printf("clear and stand at attention.\n"); printf("\"Thank you for your cooperation, sir,\" says the steely eyed leader of the\n"); printf("Vulture Squad. \"We will be going about our business now.\" With perfect\n"); printf("timing the Vultures wheel smartly and goosestep down the corridor.\n"); printf("Special Note: don\'t make the mistake of assuming that your skills have\n"); printf("improved any because of the uniform; you\'re only a Red Troubleshooter\n"); printf("traitorously posing as an Ultraviolet, and don\'t you forget it!\n"); printf("Suddenly, a computer terminal comes to life beside you.\n"); ultra_violet=1; return 8; } page8() { printf("\"Now, about your question, citizen. Christmas was an old world marketing ploy\n"); printf("to induce lower clearance citizens to purchase vast quantities of goods, thus\n"); printf("accumulation a large amount of credit under the control of a single class of\n"); printf("citizen known as Retailers. The strategy used is to imply that all good\n"); printf("citizens give gifts during Christmas, thus if one wishes to be a valuable\n"); printf("member of society one must also give gifts during Christmas. More valuable\n"); printf("gifts make one a more valuable member, and thus did the Retailers come to\n"); printf("control a disproportionate amount of the currency. In this way Christmas\n"); printf("eventually caused the collapse of the old world. Understandably, Christmas\n"); printf("has been declared a treasonable practice in Alpha Complex.\n"); printf("Thank you for your inquiry.\"\n"); printf("You continue on your way to GDH7-beta.\n"); return 10; } page9() { int choice; printf("As you walk toward the tubecar that will take you to GDH7-beta, you pass one\n"); printf("of the bright blue and orange Internal Security self incrimination stations.\n"); printf("Inside, you can see an IS agent cheerfully greet an infrared citizen and then\n"); printf("lead him at gunpoint into one of the rubber lined discussion rooms.\n"); choice=choose(2,"You decide to stop here and chat, as ordered by The Computer",10,"You just continue blithely on past"); if (choice==2) computer_request = 1; else computer_request = 0; return choice; } page10() { int choice; printf("You stroll briskly down the corridor, up a ladder, across an unrailed catwalk,\n"); printf("under a perilously swinging blast door in urgent need of repair, and into\n"); printf("tubecar grand central. This is the bustling hub of Alpha Complex tubecar\n"); printf("transportation. Before you spreads a spaghetti maze of magnalift tube tracks\n"); printf("and linear accelerators. You bravely study the specially enhanced 3-D tube\n"); printf("route map; you wouldn\'t be the first Troubleshooter to take a fast tube ride\n"); printf("to nowhere.\n"); if (ultra_violet==0) { choice=choose(3,"You decide to ask The Computer about Christmas using a nearby terminal",10,"You think you have the route worked out, so you\'ll board a tube train"); if (choice==3) return choice; }; printf("You nervously select a tubecar and step aboard.\n"); if (dice_roll(2,10)(MAXKILL-clone)) return 21; if (read_letter==1) return 22; return choose(34,"You search the body, keeping an eye open for Internal Security",22,"You run away like the cowardly dog you are"); } page20() { printf("Oh no! you can\'t keep your balance. You\'re falling, falling head first into\n"); printf("the Christmas beast\'s gaping maw. It\'s a valiant struggle; you think you are\n"); printf("gone when its poisonous needles dig into your flesh, but with a heroic effort\n"); printf("you jerk a string of lights free and jam the live wires into the creature\'s\n"); printf("spine. The Christmas beast topples to the ground and begins to burn, filling\n"); printf("the area with a thick acrid smoke. It takes only a moment to compose yourself,\n"); printf("and then you are ready to continue your search for the Master Retailer.\n"); return 22; } page21() { printf("You have been wasting the leading citizens of Alpha Complex at a prodigious\n"); printf("rate. This has not gone unnoticed by the Internal Security squad at GDH7-beta.\n"); printf("Suddenly, a net of laser beams spear out of the gloomy corners of the hall,\n"); printf("chopping you into teeny, weeny bite size pieces.\n"); return new_clone(45); } page22() { printf("You are searching Goods Distribution Hall 7-beta.\n"); switch(dice_roll(1,4)) { case 1: return 18; case 2: return 15; case 3: return 18; case 4: return 29; } } page23() { printf("You go to the nearest computer terminal and declare yourself a mutant.\n"); printf("\"A mutant, he\'s a mutant,\" yells a previously unnoticed infrared who had\n"); printf("been looking over your shoulder. You easily gun him down, but not before a\n"); printf("dozen more citizens take notice and aim their weapons at you.\n"); return choose(28,"You tell them that it was really only a bad joke",24,"You want to fight it out, one against twelve"); } page24() { printf("Golly, I never expected someone to pick this. I haven\'t even designed\n"); printf("the 12 citizens who are going to make a sponge out of you. Tell you what,\n"); printf("I\'ll give you a second chance.\n"); return choose(28,"You change your mind and say it was only a bad joke",25,"You REALLY want to shoot it out"); } page25() { printf("Boy, you really can\'t take a hint!\n"); printf("They\'re closing in. Their trigger fingers are twitching, they\'re about to\n"); printf("shoot. This is your last chance.\n"); return choose(28,"You tell them it was all just a bad joke",26,"You are going to shoot"); } page26() { printf("You can read the cold, sober hatred in their eyes (They really didn\'t think\n"); printf("it was funny), as they tighten the circle around you. One of them shoves a\n"); printf("blaster up your nose, but that doesn\'t hurt as much as the multi-gigawatt\n"); printf("carbonium tipped food drill in the small of your back.\n"); printf("You spend the remaining micro-seconds of your life wondering what you did wrong\n"); return new_clone(32); } page27() { /* doesn't exist. Can't happen with computer version. designed to catch dice cheats */ } page28() { printf("They don\'t think it\'s funny.\n"); return 26; } page29() { printf("\"Psst, hey citizen, come here. Pssfft,\" you hear. When you peer around\n"); printf("you can see someone\'s dim outline in the shadows. \"I got some information\n"); printf("on the Master Retailer. It\'ll only cost you 30 psst credits.\"\n"); printf("\nSelect \'a\', \'b\' or \'c\' :\n"); printf(" a - You pay the 30 credits for the info.\n"); printf(" b - You would rather threaten him for the information.\n"); printf(" c - You ignore him and walk away.\n"); switch(get_char()) { case 'a' : return 30; case 'b' : return 31; case 'c' : default : return 22; } } page30() { printf("You step into the shadows and offer the man a thirty credit bill. \"Just drop\n"); printf("it on the floor,\" he says. \"So you\'re looking for the Master Retailer, pssfft?\n"); printf("I\'ve seen him, he\'s a fat man in a fuzzy red and white jump suit. They say\n"); printf("he\'s a high programmer with no respect for proper security. If you want to\n"); printf("find him then pssfft step behind me and go through the door.\"\n"); printf("Behind the man is a reinforced plasteel blast door. The centre of it has been\n"); printf("buckled toward you in a manner you only saw once before when you were field\n"); printf("testing the rocket assist plasma slingshot (you found it easily portable but\n"); printf("prone to misfire). Luckily it isn\'t buckled too far for you to make out the\n"); printf("warning sign. WARNING!! Don\'t open this door or the same thing will happen to\n"); printf("you. Opening this door is a capital offense. Do not do it. Not at all. This\n"); printf("is not a joke.\n"); printf("\nSelect \'a\', \'b\' or \'c\' :\n"); printf(" a - You use your Precognition mutant power on opening the door.\n"); printf(" b - You just go through the door anyway.\n"); printf(" c - You decide it\'s too dangerous and walk away.\n"); switch(get_char()) { case 'a' : return 56; case 'b' : return 33; case 'c' : default : return 22; } } page31() { printf("Like any good troubleshooter you make the least expensive decision and threaten\n"); printf("him for information. With lightning like reflexes you whip out your laser and\n"); printf("stick it up his nose. \"Talk, you traitorous Christmas celebrator, or who nose\n"); printf("what will happen to you, yuk yuk,\" you pun menacingly, and then you notice\n"); printf("something is very wrong. He doesn\'t have a nose. As a matter of fact he\'s\n"); printf("made of one eighth inch cardboard and your laser is sticking through the other\n"); printf("side of his head. \"Are you going to pay?\" says his mouth speaker,\n"); printf("\"or are you going to pssfft go away stupid?\"\n"); return choose(30,"You pay the 30 credits",22,"You pssfft go away stupid"); } page32() { printf("Finally it\'s your big chance to prove that you\'re as good a troubleshooter\n"); printf("as your previous clone. You walk briskly to mission briefing and pick up your\n"); printf("previous clone\'s personal effects and notepad. After reviewing the notes you\n"); printf("know what has to be done. You catch the purple line to Goods Distribution Hall\n"); printf("7-beta and begin to search for the blast door.\n"); return 22; } page33() { blast_door=1; printf("You release the megabolts on the blast door, then strain against it with your\n"); printf("awesome strength. Slowly the door creaks open. You bravely leap through the\n"); printf("opening and smack your head into the barrel of a 300 mm \'ultra shock\' class\n"); printf("plasma cannon. It\'s dark in the barrel now, but just before your head got\n"); printf("stuck you can remember seeing a group of technicians anxiously watch you leap\n"); printf("into the room.\n"); if (ultra_violet==1) return 35; else return 36; } page34() { printf("You have found a sealed envelope on the body. You open it and read:\n"); printf("\"WARNING: Ultraviolet Clearance ONLY. DO NOT READ.\n"); printf("Memo from Chico-U-MRX4 to Harpo-U-MRX5.\n"); printf("The planned takeover of the Troubleshooter Training Course goes well, Comrade.\n"); printf("Once we have trained the unwitting bourgeois troubleshooters to work as\n"); printf("communist dupes, the overthrow of Alpha Complex will be unstoppable. My survey\n"); printf("of the complex has convinced me that no one suspects a thing; soon it will be\n"); printf("too late for them to oppose the revolution. The only thing that could possibly\n"); printf("impede the people\'s revolution would be someone alerting The Computer to our\n"); printf("plans (for instance, some enterprising Troubleshooter could tell The Computer\n"); printf("that the communists have liberated the Troubleshooter Training Course and plan\n"); printf("to use it as a jumping off point from which to undermine the stability of all\n"); printf("Alpha Complex), but as we both know, the capitalistic Troubleshooters would\n"); printf("never serve the interests of the proletariat above their own bourgeois desires.\n"); printf("P.S. I\'m doing some Christmas shopping later today. Would you like me to pick\n"); printf("you up something?\"\n"); more(); printf("When you put down the memo you are overcome by that strange deja\'vu again.\n"); printf("You see yourself talking privately with The Computer. You are telling it all\n"); printf("about the communists\' plan, and then the scene shifts and you see yourself\n"); printf("showered with awards for foiling the insidious communist plot to take over the\n"); printf("complex.\n"); read_letter=1; return choose(46,"You rush off to the nearest computer terminal to expose the commies",22,"You wander off to look for more evidence"); } page35() { printf("\"Oh master,\" you hear through the gun barrel, \"where have you been? It is\n"); printf("time for the great Christmas gifting ceremony. You had better hurry and get\n"); printf("the costume on or the trainee may begin to suspect.\" For the second time\n"); printf("today you are forced to wear attire not of your own choosing. They zip the\n"); printf("suit to your chin just as you hear gunfire erupt behind you.\n"); printf("\"Oh no! Who left the door open? The commies will get in. Quick, fire the\n"); printf("laser cannon or we\'re all doomed.\"\n"); printf("\"Too late you capitalist swine, the people\'s revolutionary strike force claims\n"); printf("this cannon for the proletariat\'s valiant struggle against oppression. Take\n"); printf("that, you running dog imperialist lackey. ZAP, KAPOW\"\n"); printf("Just when you think that things couldn\'t get worse, \"Aha, look what we have\n"); printf("here, the Master Retailer himself with his head caught in his own cannon. His\n"); printf("death will serve as a symbol of freedom for all Alpha Complex.\n"); printf("Fire the cannon.\"\n"); return new_clone(32); } page36() { printf("\"Congratulations, troubleshooter, you have successfully found the lair of the\n"); printf("Master Retailer and completed the Troubleshooter Training Course test mission,\"\n"); printf("a muffled voice tells you through the barrel. \"Once we dislodge your head\n"); printf("from the barrel of the \'Ultra Shock\' plasma cannon you can begin with the\n"); printf("training seminars, the first of which will concern the 100%% accurate\n"); printf("identification and elimination of unregistered mutants. If you have any\n"); printf("objections please voice them now.\"\n"); printf("\nSelect \'a\', \'b\' or \'c\' :\n"); printf(" a - You appreciate his courtesy and voice an objection.\n"); printf(" b - After your head is removed from the cannon, you register as a mutant.\n"); printf(" c - After your head is removed from the cannon, you go to the unregistered\n"); printf(" mutant identification and elimination seminar.\n"); switch(get_char()) { case 'a' : return new_clone(32); case 'b' : return 23; case 'c' : default : return 37; } } page37() { printf("\"Come with me please, Troubleshooter,\" says the Green clearance technician\n"); printf("after he has dislodged your head from the cannon. \"You have been participating\n"); printf("in the Troubleshooter Training Course since you got off the tube car in\n"); printf("GDH7-beta,\" he explains as he leads you down a corridor. \"The entire\n"); printf("Christmas assignment was a test mission to assess your current level of\n"); printf("training. You didn\'t do so well. We\'re going to start at the beginning with\n"); printf("the other student. Ah, here we are, the mutant identification and elimination\n"); printf("lecture.\" He shows you into a vast lecture hall filled with empty seats.\n"); printf("There is only one other student here, a Troubleshooter near the front row\n"); printf("playing with his Action Troubleshooter(tm) figure. \"Find a seat and I will\n"); printf("begin,\" says the instructor.\n"); return 38; } page38() { printf("\"I am Plato-B-PHI%d, head of mutant propaganda here at the training course.\n",plato_clone); printf("If you have any questions about mutants please come to me. Today I will be\n"); printf("talking about mutant detection. Detecting mutants is very easy. One simply\n"); printf("watches for certain tell tale signs, such as the green scaly skin, the third\n"); printf("arm growing from the forehead, or other similar disfigurements so common with\n"); printf("their kind. There are, however, a few rare specimens that show no outward sign\n"); printf("of their treason. This has been a significant problem, so our researchers have\n"); printf("been working on a solution. I would like a volunteer to test this device,\"\n"); printf("he says, holding up a ray gun looking thing. \"It is a mutant detection ray.\n"); printf("This little button detects for mutants, and this big button stuns them once\n"); printf("they are discovered. Who would like to volunteer for a test?\"\n"); printf("The Troubleshooter down the front squirms deeper into his chair.\n"); return choose(39,"You volunteer for the test",40,"You duck behind a chair and hope the instructor doesn\'t notice you"); } page39() { printf("You bravely volunteer to test the mutant detection gun. You stand up and walk\n"); printf("down the steps to the podium, passing a very relieved Troubleshooter along the\n"); printf("way. When you reach the podium Plato-B-PHI hands you the mutant detection gun\n"); printf("and says, \"Here, aim the gun at that Troubleshooter and push the small button.\n"); printf("If you see a purple light, stun him.\" Grasping the opportunity to prove your\n"); printf("worth to The Computer, you fire the mutant detection ray at the Troubleshooter.\n"); printf("A brilliant purple nimbus instantly surrounds his body. You slip your finger\n"); printf("to the large stun button and he falls writhing to the floor.\n"); printf("\"Good shot,\" says the instructor as you hand him the mutant detection gun,\n"); printf("\"I\'ll see that you get a commendation for this. It seems you have the hang\n"); printf("of mutant detection and elimination. You can go on to the secret society\n"); printf("infiltration class. I\'ll see that the little mutie gets packaged for\n"); printf("tomorrow\'s mutant dissection class.\"\n"); return 41; } page40() { printf("You breathe a sigh of relief as Plato-B-PHI picks on the other Troubleshooter.\n"); printf("\"You down here in the front,\" says the instructor pointing at the other\n"); printf("Troubleshooter, \"you\'ll make a good volunteer. Please step forward.\"\n"); printf("The Troubleshooter looks around with a \`who me?\' expression on his face, but\n"); printf("since he is the only one visible in the audience he figures his number is up.\n"); printf("He walks down to the podium clutching his Action Troubleshooter(tm) doll before\n"); printf("him like a weapon. \"Here,\" says Plato-B-PHI, \"take the mutant detection ray\n"); printf("and point it at the audience. If there are any mutants out there we\'ll know\n"); printf("soon enough.\" Suddenly your skin prickles with static electricity as a bright\n"); printf("purple nimbus surrounds your body. \"Ha Ha, got one,\" says the instructor.\n"); printf("\"Stun him before he gets away.\"\n"); more(); while(1) { if (dice_roll(1,100)<=30) { printf("His shot hits you. You feel numb all over.\n"); return 49; } else printf("His shot just missed.\n"); if (dice_roll(1,100)<=40) { printf("You just blew his head off. His lifeless hand drops the mutant detector ray.\n"); return 50; } else printf("You burnt a hole in the podium. He sights the mutant detector ray on you.\n"); } } page41() { printf("You stumble down the hallway of the Troubleshooter Training Course looking for\n"); printf("your next class. Up ahead you see one of the instructors waving to you. When\n"); printf("you get there he shakes your hand and says, \"I am Jung-I-PSY. Welcome to the\n"); printf("secret society infiltration seminar. I hope you ...\" You don\'t catch the\n"); printf("rest of his greeting because you\'re paying too much attention to his handshake;\n"); printf("it is the strangest thing that has ever been done to your hand, sort of how it\n"); printf("would feel if you put a neuro whip in a high energy palm massage unit.\n"); printf("It doesn\'t take you long to learn what he is up to; you feel him briefly shake\n"); printf("your hand with the secret Illuminati handshake.\n"); return choose(42,"You respond with the proper Illuminati code phrase, \"Ewige Blumenkraft\"",43,"You ignore this secret society contact"); } page42() { printf("\"Aha, so you are a member of the elitist Illuminati secret society,\" he says\n"); printf("loudly, \"that is most interesting.\" He turns to the large class already\n"); printf("seated in the auditorium and says, \"You see, class, by simply using the correct\n"); printf("hand shake you can identify the member of any secret society. Please keep your\n"); printf("weapons trained on him while I call a guard.\n"); return choose(51,"You run for it",52,"You wait for the guard"); } page43() { printf("You sit through a long lecture on how to recognise and infiltrate secret\n"); printf("societies, with an emphasis on mimicking secret handshakes. The basic theory,\n"); printf("which you realise to be sound from your Iluminati training, is that with the\n"); printf("proper handshake you can pass unnoticed in any secret society gathering.\n"); printf("What\'s more, the proper handshake will open doors faster than an \'ultra shock\'\n"); printf("plasma cannon. You are certain that with the information you learn here you\n"); printf("will easily be promoted to the next level of your Illuminati secret society.\n"); printf("The lecture continues for three hours, during which you have the opportunity\n"); printf("to practice many different handshakes. Afterwards everyone is directed to\n"); printf("attend the graduation ceremony. Before you must go you have a little time to\n"); printf("talk to The Computer about, you know, certain topics.\n"); return choose(44,"You go looking for a computer terminal",55,"You go to the graduation ceremony immediately"); } page44() { printf("You walk down to a semi-secluded part of the training course complex and\n"); printf("activate a computer terminal. \"AT YOUR SERVICE\" reads the computer screen.\n"); if (read_letter==0) return choose(23,"You register yourself as a mutant",55,"You change your mind and go to the graduation ceremony"); printf("\nSelect \'a\', \'b\' or \'c\' :\n"); printf(" a - You register yourself as a mutant.\n"); printf(" b - You want to chat about the commies.\n"); printf(" c - You change your mind and go to the graduation ceremony.\n"); switch(get_char()) { case 'a' : return 23; case 'b' : return 46; case 'c' : default : return 55; } } page45() { printf("\"Hrank Hrank,\" snorts the alarm in your living quarters. Something is up.\n"); printf("You look at the monitor above the bathroom mirror and see the message you have\n"); printf("been waiting for all these years. \"ATTENTION TROUBLESHOOTER, YOU ARE BEING\n"); printf("ACTIVATED. PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO MISSION ASSIGNMENT ROOM A17/GAMMA/LB22.\n"); printf("THANK YOU. THE COMPUTER IS YOUR FRIEND.\" When you arrive at mission\n"); printf("assignment room A17-gamma/LB22 you are given your previous clone\'s\n"); printf("remaining possessions and notebook. You puzzle through your predecessor\'s\n"); printf("cryptic notes, managing to decipher enough to lead you to the tube station and\n"); printf("the tube car to GDH7-beta.\n"); return 10; } page46() { printf("\"Why do you ask about the communists, Troubleshooter? It is not in the\n"); printf("interest of your continued survival to be asking about such topics,\" says\n"); printf("The Computer.\n"); return choose(53,"You insist on talking about the communists",54,"You change the subject"); } page47() { printf("The Computer orders the entire Vulture squadron to terminate the Troubleshooter\n"); printf("Training Course. Unfortunately you too are terminated for possessing\n"); printf("classified information.\n\n"); printf("Don\'t act so innocent, we both know that you are an Illuminatus which is in\n"); printf("itself an act of treason.\n\n"); printf("Don\'t look to me for sympathy.\n\n"); printf(" THE END\n"); return 0; } page48() { printf("The tubecar shoots forward as you enter, slamming you back into a pile of\n"); printf("garbage. The front end rotates upward and you, the garbage and the garbage\n"); printf("disposal car shoot straight up out of Alpha Complex. One of the last things\n"); printf("you see is a small blue sphere slowly dwindling behind you. After you fail to\n"); printf("report in, you will be assumed dead.\n"); return new_clone(45); } page49() { printf("The instructor drags your inert body into a specimen detainment cage.\n"); printf("\"He\'ll make a good subject for tomorrow\'s mutant dissection class,\" you hear.\n"); return new_clone(32); } page50() { printf("You put down the other Troubleshooter, and then wisely decide to drill a few\n"); printf("holes in the instructor as well; the only good witness is a dead witness.\n"); printf("You continue with the training course.\n"); plato_clone++; return 41; } page51() { printf("You run for it, but you don\'t run far. Three hundred strange and exotic\n"); printf("weapons turn you into a freeze dried cloud of soot.\n"); return new_clone(32); } page52() { printf("You wisely wait until the instructor returns with a Blue Internal Security\n"); printf("guard. The guard leads you to an Internal Security self incrimination station.\n"); return 2; } page53() { printf("You tell The Computer about:\n"); return choose(47,"The commies who have infiltrated the Troubleshooter Training Course\n and the impending People\'s Revolution",54,"Something less dangerous"); } page54() { printf("\"Do not try to change the subject, Troubleshooter,\" says The Computer.\n"); printf("\"It is a serious crime to ask about the communists. You will be terminated\n"); printf("immediately. Thank you for your inquiry. The Computer is your friend.\"\n"); printf("Steel bars drop to your left and right, trapping you here in the hallway.\n"); printf("A spotlight beams from the computer console to brilliantly iiluminate you while\n"); printf("the speaker above your head rapidly repeats \"Traitor, Traitor, Traitor.\"\n"); printf("It doesn\'t take long for a few guards to notice your predicament and come to\n"); printf("finish you off.\n"); if (blast_door==0) return new_clone(45); else return new_clone(32); } page55() { printf("You and 300 other excited graduates are marched from the lecture hall and into\n"); printf("a large auditorium for the graduation exercise. The auditorium is\n"); printf("extravagantly decorated in the colours of the graduating class. Great red and\n"); printf("green plasti-paper ribbons drape from the walls, while a huge sign reading\n"); printf("\"Congratulations class of GDH7-beta-203.44/A\" hangs from the raised stage down\n"); printf("front. Once everyone finds a seat the ceremony begins. Jung-I-PSY is the\n"); printf("first to speak, \"Congratulations students, you have successfully survived the\n"); printf("Troubleshooter Training Course. It always brings me great pride to address\n"); printf("the graduating class, for I know, as I am sure you do too, that you are now\n"); printf("qualified for the most perilous missions The Computer may select for you. The\n"); printf("thanks is not owed to us of the teaching staff, but to all of you, who have\n"); printf("persevered and graduated. Good luck and die trying.\" Then the instructor\n"); printf("begins reading the names of the students who one by one walk to the front of\n"); printf("the auditorium and receive their diplomas. Soon it is your turn,\n"); printf("\"Philo-R-DMD, graduating a master of mutant identification and secret society\n"); printf("infiltration.\" You walk up and receive your diploma from Plato-B-PHI%d, then\n",plato_clone); printf("return to your seat. There is another speech after the diplomas are handed\n"); printf("out, but it is cut short by by rapid fire laser bursts from the high spirited\n"); printf("graduating class. You are free to return to your barracks to wait, trained\n"); printf("and fully qualified, for your next mission. You also get that cherished\n"); printf("promotion from the Illuminati secret society. In a week you receive a\n"); printf("detailed Training Course bill totalling 1,523 credits.\n"); printf(" THE END\n"); return 0; } page56() { printf("That familiar strange feeling of deja\'vu envelops you again. It is hard to\n"); printf("say, but whatever is on the other side of the door does not seem to be intended\n"); printf("for you.\n"); return choose(33,"You open the door and step through",22,"You go looking for more information"); } page57() { printf("In the centre of the room is a table and a single chair. There is an Orange\n"); printf("folder on the table top, but you can\'t make out the lettering on it.\n"); return choose(11,"You sit down and read the folder",12,"You leave the room"); } next_page(this_page) int this_page; { printf("\n"); switch (this_page) { case 0 : return 0; case 1 : return page1(); case 2 : return page2(); case 3 : return page3(); case 4 : return page4(); case 5 : return page5(); case 6 : return page6(); case 7 : return page7(); case 8 : return page8(); case 9 : return page9(); case 10 : return page10(); case 11 : return page11(); case 12 : return page12(); case 13 : return page13(); case 14 : return page14(); case 15 : return page15(); case 16 : return page16(); case 17 : return page17(); case 18 : return page18(); case 19 : return page19(); case 20 : return page20(); case 21 : return page21(); case 22 : return page22(); case 23 : return page23(); case 24 : return page24(); case 25 : return page25(); case 26 : return page26(); case 27 : return page27(); case 28 : return page28(); case 29 : return page29(); case 30 : return page30(); case 31 : return page31(); case 32 : return page32(); case 33 : return page33(); case 34 : return page34(); case 35 : return page35(); case 36 : return page36(); case 37 : return page37(); case 38 : return page38(); case 39 : return page39(); case 40 : return page40(); case 41 : return page41(); case 42 : return page42(); case 43 : return page43(); case 44 : return page44(); case 45 : return page45(); case 46 : return page46(); case 47 : return page47(); case 48 : return page48(); case 49 : return page49(); case 50 : return page50(); case 51 : return page51(); case 52 : return page52(); case 53 : return page53(); case 54 : return page54(); case 55 : return page55(); case 56 : return page56(); case 57 : return page57(); default : break; } } main() { srand(time(0)); instructions(); more(); character(); more(); while((page=next_page(page))!=0) more(); }