Your Mission
The Computer has generated the following mission for your team. It has been carefully designed to ensure the maximum safety and satisfaction for your team.
Paranoia is the Irrational Fear Someone is Out To Get You
(Fear) Dominant type of fear to install in the PCs: Two or more service groups are breaking each other down.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Everyone in Alpha Complex behaves in an inexplicably suspicious or hateful way toward one specific PC.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: The Indigo leader of a rapidly-growing HPD & Mind Control firm, who plans to expand his personal power and the might of his company. (The identity of the Someone need not be obvious at the mission's outset, and in fact things may play out more appropriately if the Someone is not discovered until late in the proceedings.)
(Out To Get You) General apparent threat posed by the situation, or the consequences if the situation is left unresolved: A mysterious command makes all autopilot vehicles home in on INFRARED (Tension 1) ULTRAVIOLET mausoleum, threatening terrible harm en route; the "Someone" wants a traffic jam there. The threat is a lie.
(Out To Get You) General real threat posed by the situation, or the consequences if the situation is left unresolved: Roll three times on this chart. Everything you roll is happening at once, and the PCs are caught in the chaos. Good luck running this one.
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED retirement gulag laundry worker acting as a courier delivers alert hardcopy; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in unrecoverable bot brain junkyard. Given in a transtube, on a recording with a folder of documents; recording self-destructs 5 seconds after stopping. right tape, wrong does, right mission
This Mission: Determine the cause of the recent Infrared riots in ORANGE (Tension 7) abandoned R&D biochemical research laboratory. We suspect someone (Everyone in YELLOW (Tension 10) PURGE meeting room (has meeting in progress, meeting members recognize a PC as one of their own, welcome him) is in on it; they want to discredit, destroy, maim and spit on the Troubleshooters.).
Outfitting: PLC: Office only carries "non-ordinance" items-no weapons or weapon-like items. Offers PCs a new "Zero-Tolerance" form to sign.
Debriefing: Room is fitted with seesaws, with a PC sitting on one side of each and a Blue Trooper with blaster on the other. In the lower position, the PCs are obscured by a charred blast shield. The debriefing officer reads mission details, raising each PC on a note of treason, lowering them on a point of commendation. (This is an experimental HPD&MC psychological exercise intended to encourage loyalty.)
Find weird phrasing, clearly erroneous output, or other signs of filthy commie mutant traitor sabotage? Copy the offending passages and email them to the High Programmer for investigation.