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: One of the service groups is breaking down.(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 suspicious or hateful way toward one specific PC.
(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: 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 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 paranoid with laser pistol (W3K energy) with INDIGO barrel and reflec armor (El; colored as appropriate, or ULTRAVIOLET), who uses the Troubleshooters as decoys while he protects himself.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in Proper Bedding Maintenance Hall of Fame. Briefing officer is dead on arrival and no one comes to replace him. May have notes on his body that describe the PCs' mission.
This Mission: Investigate mysterious disappearances of citizens in ORANGE (Tension 7) crowded IntSec janitorial stores. If they're being captured by Commies, save them. If they're trying to escape Alpha Complex, shoot them.
Outfitting: PLC: Warehouse run by insane high-clearance director; assigns PCs a mission (Investigate an unexplained disaster in crowded food production area (IR-Y: Food Vats, G-U: hydroponic gardens).) on his own behalf so he can give them over-inventoried economic object (credit license analyzer, plasticred duplicator, IR market activity scanner); Problem: occasionally explodes.
Debriefing: A cavernous spherical reactor coolant chamber (recently decommisioned) with the PCs securely strapped into dentist chairs at wrist, ankle, waist and chin. The booming voice of the unseen officer echoes from strategically placed speakers.
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.