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 (high-frequency whistle) is misbehaving.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A secret society mission that went disastrously wrong, led 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: A high-clearance official's malfeasance will be exposed, and drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid) wishes to frame the Troubleshooters for the official's crime. 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 new mind-control technique will alter the PCs' or a large population's behavior for the worse. The Computer uses the PCs as guinea pigs again.
Mission Alert: Anonymous hardcopy message slipped under door of PC's quarters. Recognition password (to be given to briefing officer) is wrong. The information is replaced by extortion threat from anonymous hacker: "Send 100cr to this Gray Subnet account and I'll send you the data."
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded Armed Forces dormitory. Officer skims through the entire briefing as if he expects those present to know all details already, then walks out without allowing questions.
This Mission: The termination center system at BLUE (Tension 13) abandoned and forgotten portal to the Outdoors has gone down. Repair it and determine the cause.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: +25% over list. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (RED (Tension 6) Junior Citizen fort (no Commies allowed!)), immediate. A rival auction site has insidiously faked the site the PCs intended to use; the transaction goes through the rival site; the delivery is accompanied by a hard-sell pitchman YELLOW Armed Forces master sergeant (bureaucratic obstacle, believes himself possessed by demons) who drafts the PCs as promoters for the rival site and won't give them their equipment until they commit.
Debriefing: A pitch black room, with dim light filtering in under the entrance door. Unsettling clicking noises, like a trigger being pulled on a jammed gun.
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.