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: The PCs' service firms or secret societies are endangered.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (cone rifle (ammo as in entry 9)) is behaving far too well.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: An R&D experiment that went disastrously wrong, created by drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid). (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: The "Someone" in a ULTRAVIOLET mausoleum is flooding the networks with viruses. 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: A strange new Food Vat slime is causing antisocial and dangerous activity in consumers of Hot Fun. The Computer needs PCs to destroy the slime.
Mission Alert: Scrawled across a BLUE (Tension 14) crowded vidshow entertainment lounge wall in half-meter-high letters written in Cold Fun. Recognition password (to be given to briefing officer) is wrong. The information is replaced by treasonous Corpore Metal propaganda.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty bathroom (change Tension level to 20). 3 briefing officers behind opaque bulletproof glass, voices electronically filtered.
This Mission: An abandoned BLUE (Tension 14) abandoned FunBall arena (or other large room) has been infested by Commies. Demolish it, preferably with the Commies inside.
Outfitting: Infrared Market: A dingy, dirty corridor. PURGE runs this market, and will terminate any group who "misbehaves" (in PURGE's stern judgment). Lots of weapons.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer stands behind a massive, blast-shielded podium flanked by blue Vulture troopers with plasma generators, while the PCs sit in brilliant interrogation spotlights that look disconcertingly like bullseyes.
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.