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: An treason file on INDIGO Bouncy Bubble Beverage Brand Manager the PCs cherish will be destroyed.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (Teachbot (or bot brain)) is behaving far too well.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A senior PLC official, whose division has fallen into strangling bureaucratic torpor and must now be massively overhauled or terminated. (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: The "Someone" in a Computer Phreaks meeting room (has meeting in progress, meeting members recognize a PC as one of their own, welcome him) is flooding the networks with viruses. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED vulture weapon practice assistant acting as a courier delivers alert verbally; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty IntSec admin offices. Briefing officer is hidden inside a Scrubot chassis, communicating with an electronically filtered voice.
This Mission: Investigate mysterious disappearances of citizens in ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 19) empty IntSec surveillance station. If they're being captured by Commies, save them. If they're trying to escape Alpha Complex, shoot them.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: list price. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (ORANGE (Tension 8) crowded decaying and pestilential wreck of an abandoned sector: dining area (IR: mess hall; R-Y: cafeteria; G-B: dining room; I-U: dining hall)), immediate. Computer Phreak prankster breaks in during each bid the PCs make, taunting them and deriding their equipment and mission.
Debriefing: A pitch black room, with dim light filtering in under the entrance door. Unsettling clicking noises, like a trigger being pulled on a jammed gun.
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.