Colin Bean whipped out his/her/its Personal Electronic Thing, summoned
a BellBot to bl6mje$8iro2$1@ID-187743.news.uni-berlin.de , leaving
his/her/its contact info (colinbean5@aol.com) with the deskbot, and
proceeded to say:

As far as I can tell from the ads, "try to make the town normal again".

Which you do by goin around completing missions.

There is a light story.  Mostly you just fight in missions, but there are
some missions that are part of the main story where you learn about the
game world and the characters in it.  The story is interesting enough
although you could easily ignore it completely and never miss anything.