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 losing, and that's bad.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Everyone in Alpha Complex behaves in an inexplicably fearful and alarmed way toward all PCs.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A scrubot reprogrammed by Humanists. (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: Endless wave of assassination attempts will befall wild eyed, incoherent, even frenzied, who uses the Troubleshooters as decoys while he protects himself. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Briefing time is wrong. The information is obscured by advertising (pop-up ad, jingle, viral marketing, etc.). Sponsoring advertiser may possibly have record of unaltered alert.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty hangar (or other large 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: Accompany Tech Services mechanics making repairs to a group of bots (Scrubot) at VIOLET (Tension 18) private slime farm. We think one tech is a Psion member trying to derange the bots.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 30% off. Delivery: please allow 24 hours for delivery to PCs' specified address. A PC's auction site account has been hijacked by a Computer Phreak using it to auction treasonous warbot plans.
Debriefing: Room contains nothing but miniature stools, where the PCs perch with difficulty and discomfort.
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.