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 effect the PCs are ordered to prevent will be caused by their actions.(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 High Programmer who mis-programmed a CompNode so badly the entire node must be re-imaged and rebooted (the situation is cover for this.) (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 deadly pathogen is eating through the population. The PCs are infected the moment their clone backups are decanted. Better hurry on the mission! The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Announced over public address loudspeakers. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty decaying and pestilential wreck of an abandoned sector: vidshow entertainment lounge. 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: Members of Humanists and Humanists are trading illegal super-lubricant (seeps through any container) (s) at underground lake. Retrieve the goods and the creds.
Outfitting: PLC: Warehouse run by insane high-clearance director; assigns PCs a mission (An R&D genetic experiment is running loose in GREEN (Tension 12) Junior Citizen fort (no Commies allowed!). Neutralize it before it causes too much damage. If it talks to you, ignore it.) on his own behalf so he can give them over-inventoried behavior modifier (hypnosis devices, pheromone emitters, subsonic/supersonic irritants); Problem: only affects imaginary targets.
Debriefing: Room is sheet steel with a single chair in the center and a large sign: PLEASE SIT DOWN with arrow pointing to the chair. The debriefing officer spends the session pacing around the chair, and (if necessary) discourages PCs from sitting in it. Chair is harmless.
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.