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: Everyone else in the Complex is in league against the PCs.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: A particular drug suddenly has inexplicably altered effects.
(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 ORANGE troubleshooter veteran (disabled) (information source, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid)). (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 (INFRARED reactor shielding standby volunteer (bureaucratic obstacle, believes himself possessed by demons); INFRARED scrubot lint screen cleaner (information source, believes himself possessed by demons); ORANGE electronic equipment repair specialist (sadistic hindrance, drugged (sandallathon, visomorpain))) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (INDIGO (Tension 16) map room for several sectors; INFRARED (Tension 1) empty food preparation area hydroponics garden; BLUE (Tension 14) ULTRAVIOLET Gallery of Perversities). 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 RED (Tension 6) crowded soylent recycling room (near morgue) may grow into a major problem. The PCs must fix the malfunction and deal with the problems already created.
Mission Alert: Stamped onto side of sweaty dynamite. Briefing location is wrong. The alert itself is damaging-text message contains software virus that crashes PDC or vidscreen, physical alert has toxins or is radioactive, etc.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty soylent recycling room (near morgue). Briefing officer is hiding inside an empty Cold Fun barrel and passes written notes out to the PCs through a small bunghole.
This Mission: Evacuate technicians from the reactor at INDIGO (Tension 16) IR marketeer living quarters. Of course the radiation levels are safe-but hurry.
Outfitting: Infrared Market: The "Someone" (or his allies) responsible for the "Irrational" situation runs this market. Marketeers sell the PCs dangerous equipment (mobility enabler (skates, boots, motorized shopping cart, vehicle, jet pack, propeller helmet, frictionless shoe soles); Problem: turns on/off inappropriately).
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.