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 suspect a High Programmer is out to get them.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (power vest (Experimental R&D equipment, charged with high voltage, does S4K energy damage to attackers using bare hands, metal hand weapons or force swords)) is misbehaving.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A High Programmer who mis-programmed a CompNode so badly the entire node must be re-imaged and rebooted (the situation is cover for this.) (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: Waste disposal is breaking down; garbage is backing up in the hallways and will soon flood the complex. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Scrawled across a GREEN (Tension 11) portal to the Outdoors guarded by 19 guardbots wall in half-meter-high letters written in blood. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in Junior Citizen fort (no Commies allowed!). Given in a transtube, on a recording with a folder of documents; recording self-destructs 5 seconds after stopping. right tape, wrong does, right mission
This Mission: Deliver these emergency stun gun (stuns for one round) to a Troubleshooter team under attack. No, you don't need to be armed; it's a simple delivery mission!
Outfitting: Infrared Market: Marketeer gives PCs a fair discount if they also take a "bonus" small Botulin toxin; marketeer wants the PCs to leave it in Romantics's paint-mixing facility.
Debriefing: The debriefing room is locked when the PCs arrive, and no debriefing officer ever arrives no matter how long they wait.
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.