Paranoia Meets SCP FoundationHello,
I'm cooking up a Paranoia one shot for my friends. We've played several times and we tend to go for the "completely absurd nonsensical over the top" type of session. We usually play pretty loose with the rules system, prioritizing a session that leaves us laughing even if we "lose".
Anyway, I'm stepping up to run a one shot for the fellas. I had the idea to run an SCP Foundation inspired game styled after "Perfectly Normal IKEA" (SCP-3008). If you're not familiar with the SCP Foundation, or this one in particular..
SCP-3008 is an anomalous IKEA store with an infinite interior space that traps anyone who enters. The layout constantly shifts, making navigation nearly impossible, and the exit disappears once inside. Stranded survivors have formed makeshift communities using IKEA furniture to fend off the store’s hostile, faceless employees—humanoid entities that patrol at night and attack anyone they find. These creatures wear IKEA uniforms and repeat distorted corporate phrases while hunting intruders.
Despite the surreal horror, life inside SCP-3008 is a mix of resourcefulness, paranoia, and absurdity, as survivors scavenge food from the café and build defenses against the relentless “staff.” The anomaly turns a mundane retail experience into a never-ending, corporate-branded nightmare.
Enter Paranoia setting..
Friend Computer has assigned the Troubleshooters to investigate "Minor Consumer Disruptions" at a recently opened FURN-ISH-U megastore. Troubleshooters are to restore order, eliminate threats, and ensure customer satisfaction (failure to satisfy customers is treason).
Upon arrival, they become trapped inside the facility as FURN-ISH-U malfunctions catastrophically—revealing an infinite, shifting maze of self-assembling furniture, hostile employee-drones, and desperate citizens who have been lost inside for decades.
I think the stage may be set to unleash a bunch of troubleshooters into this setting with hilariously conflicting objectives and an overwhelming fear of whether or not there is any way of "winning" this scenario. After all.. isn't it treason to tell Friend Computer that the store is malfunctioning and teleporting people into a nightmarish pocket dimension?
What do you guys think?
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