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 Commie mutant traitors are winning.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Changed perceptions apparent to all citizens. The changed perception is smell/taste, touch, balance or other non-sight, non-hearing sense.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A senior CPU efficiency consultant, who overreacted in imprudent ways in an effort to get proper paperwork filled out. (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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (YELLOW R&D weapon calibrator (indifferent bystander, gullible (worryingly lacking in paranoia)); YELLOW CPU office manager (indifferent bystander, drugged (sandallathon, visomorpain)); RED Power Services wire spooler (indifferent bystander, drugged (rolactin, dynomorphin, xanitrick))) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (RED (Tension 6) ULTRAVIOLET mausoleum; INDIGO (Tension 15) crowded Central Processing Unit waiting room; BLUE (Tension 13) empty reactor shielding). 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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (ORANGE pharmatherapy dispensing tech (indifferent bystander, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid)); RED IntSec riot control stooge (indifferent bystander, psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy); INDIGO Power Services Group Sector Chief (sadistic hindrance, drugged (sandallathon, visomorpain))) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (BLUE (Tension 13) elevator (or other small room); INDIGO (Tension 15) empty garage / vehicle dispatch; RED (Tension 6) crowded transtube shaft).
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED vendobot Hot Fun supplier acting as a courier delivers alert hardcopy; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Briefing time 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 illegal sports arena (or other big room). Briefing officer is weird invalid (e.g., suspended in sound-dampening gel in a swimming pool communicating through a bizarre array of tubing).
This Mission: An unauthorized Memories of an Unregistered Mutant Life by Frank-B-HJN-6 was accidentally deployed at crowded wiring conduit shaft. Go and retrieve it before it squashes something important.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: list price. Delivery: please allow 24 hours for delivery to PCs' specified address. A rival auction site has insidiously faked the site the PCs intended to use; the transaction goes through the rival site. Staffers from the PCs' own site have detected the fraud, sent their agents to attack the rival site's agents, and the PCs' equipment now sits in the middle of a firefight between rival auction staffers.
Debriefing: Debriefing room is well appointed with luxurious carpet, comfortable chairs and refreshments served throughout. Soothing musics plays throughout the session. Laser emplacements are visible in every corner and track the PCs' every move.
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.