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: The economy has grown even stranger than usual.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: An R&D experiment that went right, created by buzzing, high on Wakey-Wakey. (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 (BLUE INFRARED menu compiler (indifferent bystander, meticulous, obsessive-compulsive); INFRARED biohazard detection helper (indifferent bystander, paranoid with semi-automatic slugthrower (HE or HEAT) and battle armor (6)); GREEN HPD&MC junior executive (indifferent bystander, drugged (rolactin, dynomorphin, xanitrick))) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (VIOLET (Tension 18) crowded recreational resort (if below Clearance GREEN, roll again); INDIGO (Tension 15) secure dome access gate; RED (Tension 5) Sewer tunnel). The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Mission is randomly assigned as a prize in a CruncheeTym algae chips packet. Briefing time is wrong. The information is in machine-readable code, missing vowels, encrypted, etc. Computer Phreaks can help. The Computer doesn't see the problem.
Briefing: Briefing is in CompNode Primary Node. Officer has serious coughing fit every few words, disrupting every sentence, and becomes increasingly angry with every request to repeat himself.
This Mission: An unauthorized miniature Robutler (you rang, sah?) (prone to kamikaze attacks) was accidentally deployed at acid-etched sinkhole under food production area. Go and retrieve it before it squashes something important.
Outfitting: Infrared Market: Red Market, run by Commies. They only barter or trade evenly. PCs who own little more than their own overalls must buy items elsewhere, then come back here to trade for similarly priced items. (You could make them trade for the shirts off their backs.)
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.