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 have enough resources but too little time to win.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: The bureaucracy has provoked an intractable crisis.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: An executive at one of the PCs' service firms, who wishes to covertly create the situation in order to procure a fat service-group repair contract. (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 mysterious command makes all autopilot vehicles home in on BLUE (Tension 14) crowded decaying and pestilential wreck of an abandoned sector: computer interface (IR: public terminals area; R-Y: Computer cafe; G-B: private terminal, I-U: communications nexus), threatening terrible harm en route; the "Someone" wants a traffic jam there. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED drug therapy results assistant acting as a courier delivers alert verbally; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded bot manufacture center. Briefing occurs in a pitch black room, where the only source of light is from the corridor outside the briefing room filtering in under the door. 1 officers present.
This Mission: Determine the cause of the recent Infrared riots in YELLOW (Tension 10) empty decaying and pestilential wreck of an abandoned sector: living quarters (IR: barracks; R-Y: dormitory; G-B: apartment; I-U: mansion). We suspect someone (A High Programmer who has started a lottery or other credit-making scheme and has illicitly pulled needed supplies from some vital installation.).
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: A pitch black room, with dim light filtering in under the entrance door. Unsettling clicking noises, like a trigger being pulled on a jammed gun.
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.