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 are themselves the greatest threat to Alpha Complex.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (laser pistol (W3K energy) with user's clearance barrel) is misbehaving.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A senior Food Vat Control supervisor in RED (Tension 5) crowded maintenance duct, whose division is overproducing, underproducing or doing something strange to the food. (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 security systems installer (bureaucratic obstacle, amicable, self-interested, ordinary); INFRARED retirement gulag laundry worker (bureaucratic obstacle, meticulous, obsessive-compulsive); ORANGE Food Vat manager (bureaucratic obstacle, buzzing, high on Wakey-Wakey)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (ORANGE (Tension 8) Sewer tunnel; ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 19) crowded hospital ER; GREEN (Tension 12) cone rifle fuse packing facility). 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 deadly pathogen is eating through the population. The PCs are infected the moment their clone backups are decanted. Better hurry on the mission!
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Recognition password (to be given to briefing officer) 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 crowded R&D biochemical research laboratory. 4 suspicious, twitchy briefing officer(s) in highly defended position (e.g., seated atop a massive gun emplacement) at rear of BLUE (Tension 13) abandoned bathroom (change Tension level to 20).
This Mission: A Vulture Squadron has been infiltrated by no less than 19 Commie traitors. Remove them; ensure they fall in the line of duty, so we can honor them as fallen heroes.
Outfitting: PLC: Designated supply depot is closed for repairs following Commie sabotage.
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.