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: Alpha Complex is doomed, and not in a good way.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: The Computer has decreed a new holiday with odd customs and practices, and everyone knows about it but the PCs.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: The Indigo leader of a rapidly-growing Research & Design firm, who plans to expand his personal power and the might of his company. (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 a lie.
(Out To Get You) General real threat posed by the situation, or the consequences if the situation is left unresolved: A minor malfunction in ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 20) empty hospital ER may grow into a major problem. The PCs must fix the malfunction and deal with the problems already created. The "Someone" doesn't want the team to succeed, and is actively working against them.
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED scrubot hydrochloric acid tank refiller acting as a courier delivers alert hardcopy; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded food preparation area Food Vats. Briefing officer is dead on arrival and no one comes to replace him. May have notes on his body that describe the PCs' mission.
This Mission: INFRARED reactor fuel rod replenisher has a treasonous but powerful Puppeteer (c/z), with which he has inspired revolt, and taken over crowded food production area (IR-Y: Food Vats, G-U: hydroponic gardens). Remove the mutant and resolve the unrest.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: list price. Delivery: drop point 30 minutes away (RED (Tension 6) crowded dispatch in Troubleshooter HQ). A PC's auction site account has been hijacked by a Computer Phreak using it to auction treasonous warbot plans.
Debriefing: Debriefing conducted solely by R&D scientists. They ask many questions about equipment, giving the impression the only reason for the mission was to test equipment. After the scientists leave, The Computer covers the treason accusations.
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.