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' secret societies have turned against them.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One or more laws of nature has been altered or revoked. It's air or water flow.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: The Computer-or, if it makes more sense, a paranoid with blaster (M3K energy) and ArmorAll (4) ULTRAVIOLET who is looking for a fight manipulating The Computer's local CompNode. (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 high-clearance official's malfeasance will be exposed, and psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy wishes to frame the Troubleshooters for the official's crime. 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: An exterior force will conquer Alpha Complex. The Computer dispatches the Troubleshooters to intercept the force.
Mission Alert: Via 11 Guardbots functional. Briefing time is wrong. The information is missing, replaced by [INSERT DATA HERE] or similar. Secret society contacts or servile truckling to The Computer may fill in missing data.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded Armed Forces dormitory. Given in a transtube, on a recording with a folder of documents; recording self-destructs 5 seconds after stopping. tape and does match mission
This Mission: Guard INDIGO PLC Cold Fun Production Chief on his latest pleasure trip. Pay no attention to his odd comments.
Outfitting: PLC: A PLC shop that has none of the equipment needed, but is willing to make utterly weird and crazed substitutions, could be potentially cool stuff.
Debriefing: Debriefing conducted solely by R&D scientists. They ask many questions about equipment, giving the impression the only reason for the mission was to test equipment. After the scientists leave, The Computer covers the treason accusations.
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.