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 Commie mutant traitors are losing, and that's bad.(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 kind 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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (YELLOW clone tank monitor (sadistic hindrance, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid)); GREEN Armed Forces lieutenant (bureaucratic obstacle, amicable, self-interested, ordinary); YELLOW sector chemical hazard assayer (bureaucratic obstacle, wild eyed, incoherent, even frenzied)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (INFRARED (Tension 2) ULTRAVIOLET mausoleum; YELLOW (Tension 9) heat-resistant mitten knitting sweatshop; BLUE (Tension 13) warbot armature fitting lab). 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: A new mind-control technique will alter the PCs' or a large population's behavior for the worse. The Computer uses the PCs as guinea pigs again.
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED dihydromonoxide treatment attendant acting as a courier delivers alert verbally; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Recognition password (to be given to briefing officer) is wrong. The information is replaced by treasonous PURGE propaganda.
Briefing: Briefing is in acid-etched sinkhole under food production area. 2 briefing officers behind opaque bulletproof glass, voices electronically filtered.
This Mission: YELLOW (Tension 9) empty bot manufacture center is having problems processing forms. Go help out.
Outfitting: PLC: Serv-Yourself warehouse that makes every citizen find his own equipment.
Debriefing: Debriefing room is well appointed with luxurious carpet, comfortable chairs and refreshments served throughout. Soothing musics plays throughout the session. Laser emplacements are visible in every corner and track the PCs' every move.
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.