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 PCs' service firms or secret societies are endangered.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (open beaker of bubbly green goo labeled BIOHAZARD-DO NOT OPEN!) is behaving far too well.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A subsector's Infrareds, who have gone off their pharmatherapy and are now conspiring against The Computer, led by INDIGO Armed Forces major (information source, drugged (sandallathon, visomorpain)). (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 (INDIGO HPD&MC studio head (indifferent bystander, panicky, hyperactive, lacks focus); ORANGE sector sign correction manager (indifferent bystander, amicable, self-interested, ordinary); ORANGE CPU Computer monitor monitor (physical threat, paranoid with energy pistol (W3K energy) and reflec armor (El; colored as appropriate, or INDIGO))) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (YELLOW (Tension 9) Proper Bedding Maintenance Hall of Fame; ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 20) Sewer tunnel; ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 19) outside Alpha Complex dome ). 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: Endless wave of assassination attempts will befall buzzing, high on Wakey-Wakey, who uses the Troubleshooters as decoys while he protects himself.
Mission Alert: Via high-frequency radio transmission that gives PCs excruciating headaches and sends petbots crazy with excitement. Recognition password (to be given to briefing officer) is wrong. The information is replaced by treasonous Internal Security plant (hiding as Corpore Metal) propaganda.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty IntSec janitorial stores. Briefing officer is hiding inside an empty Cold Fun barrel and passes written notes out to the PCs through a small bunghole.
This Mission: The Computer's own CompNode in INFRARED (Tension 2) crowded computer interface (IR: public terminals area; R-Y: Computer cafe; G-B: private terminal, I-U: communications nexus) has gone down. Repair it at once! Instantly!
Outfitting: PLC: PLC office openly and entirely subverted by Death Leopard; continues business as usual, unless PCs show signs of alerting the authorities.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer stands behind a massive, blast-shielded podium flanked by blue Vulture troopers with plasma generators, while the PCs sit in brilliant interrogation spotlights that look disconcertingly like bullseyes.
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.