Adventure Idea: Zivije

This is a silly little side-adventure that can easily be inserted into an existing plot. It just requires a world with a type 9 (impersonal bureaucracy), a decent sized population to support it, and a party with a sense of humour.

Have your Travellers chase a cargo with a mcguffin inside that's sitting in the Zivijean starport cargo yards waiting for its connecting flight. They need to get it in order to inspect/sabotage/destroy/replace,/bug it. However the entrance to the cargo yards are plastered with signs indicating this is a secure zone and requires authorization - and points to the Port Authority offices. Inquiring with the desk clerk, they're informed that they'll need a completed F1080Q form in order to get access. The clerk will hand them the form and they just need to fill it out... And find out the form requires sign-offs by several other agencies and ministries.

At which point the silliness starts. You need the Ministry of Trade to sign off on your F1080Q? Well they'll require you complete a F-AAQZT/I (Cargo Requisition Request). However that form requires sign-off from the Port Authority (who will require the completion of a TT2BDGVTE, Confirmation of Cargo form) and the Ministry of Administrative Affairs (R283, Request for Request form). The Ministry of Labour sign-off requires a workorder IIII-IIII and that requires the completion of a Staff Availability Check, the TIIII-IIIT form (Port Authority) and a Labour Authorization Slip (a TIIIII-IIII form from Local 117). You get the idea. Require a medical fitness form that results in the player(s) locked in a small room for psychiatric evaluation while alarms blare and mysterious smoke leaks in (no matter their reactions, it is judged 'normal' and they get psychiatric approval). After going through numerous hoops they get all the required sign-offs and hand the form into the Port Authority and get a pass for the cargo yards.

The punchline being that no one inspects the pass as they head to the cargo yards. Again, this isn't suited to most parties - it requires a GM and a bunch of players with a twisted sense of humour and can see fun in the ridiculousness of the situation.

For my game, I used this [diagram](https://imgur.com/a/b0wSKl1) on the various forms and how they connected. After this adventure, Zivije became a very dirty word. And when we added a new player, they immediately sent that poor schmuck to get a mcguffin on Zivije (oh how the abused quickly become the abusers).