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: A hostile force is manipulating the PCs' conscious will.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Mysterious duplicates or analogues of the PCs or other ORANGE PLC package retrieval forkbot op (physical threat, wild eyed, incoherent, even frenzied)s are active in Alpha Complex.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A warbot reprogrammed by Death Leopard. (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 biological agent will transform or devastate the PCs or a large population. The Computer sends in the Troubleshooters as guinea pigs. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED sector roadway maintenance worker acting as a courier delivers alert verbally; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in Anti-Mutant meeting room (holds only guards). 2 briefing officers undercover; wary, paranoid; speak in evasive code-phrases.
This Mission: We suspect RED IntSec riot control stooge (indifferent bystander, psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy), who's infiltrating a Technical Services firm for Internal Security, of being a double-agent for Illuminati (undercover as Romantics). Infiltrate the firm and see where his allegiance lies.
Outfitting: Infrared Market: A "Broke" market. Troubleshooters always leave broke, with stuff that's broke. Bad deals all around.
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.