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: One or more laws of nature has been altered or revoked. It's light or sound.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A subsector's Infrareds, who have gone off their pharmatherapy and are now conspiring against The Computer, led by ORANGE sector sign correction manager (indifferent bystander, 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: A minor malfunction in INDIGO (Tension 16) inside a character's mind (INFRARED sector monitor screen polisher (indifferent bystander, amicable, self-interested, ordinary)) may grow into a major problem. The PCs must fix the malfunction and deal with the problems already created. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED dihydromonoxide treatment attendant acting as a courier delivers alert hardcopy; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty bot manufacture center. 1 briefing officers undercover; wary, paranoid; speak in evasive code-phrases.
This Mission: The power in BLUE (Tension 13) portal to the Outdoors guarded by 20 guardbots has gone out. Determine the cause and bring the power back online.
Outfitting: PLC: Surprisingly efficient, but all items have had inventory barcodes removed. Staffers refuse to take returned equipment: "It wasn't issued here."
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.