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 suspect a High Programmer is out to get them.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: The Computer has decreed a new holiday with odd customs and practices, and everyone knows about it but the PCs.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A powerful mutant who wishes to see his own kind of mutants dominate, and normal humans and all other kinds of mutants subservient. (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: A deadly pathogen is eating through the population. The PCs are infected the moment their clone backups are decanted. Better hurry on the mission! The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Relayed through a public confession booth, read in the scrolling "Credit Due" message on a vending machine or overheard in a communal area. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded Junior Citizen creche. Given in a transtube, on a recording with a folder of documents; recording self-destructs 5 seconds after stopping. right tape, wrong does, right mission
This Mission: Deliver a shipment of fragile, badly-needed flamethrower (S3K energy) (He weapon is more lethal than the standard model. Much more lethal. (Weapon hits for one damage step above its maximum)) to INFRARED (Tension 3) briefing rooms in Troubleshooter HQ.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: list price. Delivery: drop point 30 minutes away (RED (Tension 4) packing crate (or other small room)). A rival auction site has insidiously faked the site the PCs intended to use; the transaction goes through the rival site; the delivery is accompanied by a hard-sell pitchman RED PLC order processing worker (indifferent bystander, amicable, self-interested, ordinary) who drafts the PCs as promoters for the rival site and won't give them their equipment until they commit.
Debriefing: A compact office with one desk and a chair, occupied by the debriefing officer, with the PCs standing amid towers of forms, printouts and manila folders, all bearing the names of one or more PCs.
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.