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: Everyone else in the Complex is in league against the PCs.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: The economy has grown even stranger than usual.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A secret society mission that went right, led by buzzing, high on Wakey-Wakey. (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 Romantics meeting room (has meeting in progress) is flooding the networks with viruses. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: A polite INFRARED sector monitor screen polisher acting as a courier delivers alert hardcopy; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Briefing location is wrong. The information is in machine-readable code, missing vowels, encrypted, etc. Computer Phreaks can help. The Computer doesn't see the problem.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded IntSec holding cells. When the PCs leave the briefing an explosion follows, leaving no evidence of the officer except a large burn mark and melted furnishings.
This Mission: Evacuate technicians from the reactor at INFRARED (Tension 1) abandoned factory floor. Of course the radiation levels are safe-but hurry.
Outfitting: PLC: Warehouse run by insane high-clearance director; assigns PCs a mission (Deliver these emergency laser pistol (W3K energy) with user's clearance barrel to a Troubleshooter team under attack. No, you don't need to be armed; it's a simple delivery mission!) on his own behalf so he can give them over-inventoried economic object (credit license analyzer, plasticred duplicator, IR market activity scanner); Problem: turns on/off inappropriately.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer is dead on arrival, seated at an empty desk in a plain room, and no one arrives to replace him.
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.