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: Mysterious duplicates or analogues of the PCs or other GREEN personal chef to VIOLET Supervisor (information source, paranoid with laser pistol (W3K energy) with RED barrel and reflec armor (El; colored as appropriate, or RED))s are active in Alpha Complex.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A fleet of warbots reprogrammed by Corpore Metal. (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: Roll three times on this chart. Everything you roll is happening at once, and the PCs are caught in the chaos. Good luck running this one. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: A cocky, "I know more than I'm telling," nudge-nudge INFRARED scrubot hydrochloric acid tank refiller acting as a courier delivers alert verbally; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in Sewer tunnel. Briefing occurs in a pitch black room, where the only source of light is from the corridor outside the briefing room filtering in under the door. 4 officers present.
This Mission: Deliver this highly confidential package to BLUE drug therapy allocator. Make sure no one opens it. (Contains vat of liquid nitrogen (freezes solid anything living upon contact).)
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 10% over list price. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (GREEN (Tension 12) empty grooming and hygiene station), immediate. A rival auction site has insidiously faked the site the PCs intended to use; the transaction goes through the rival site. Staffers from the PCs' own site have detected the fraud, sent their agents to attack the rival site's agents, and the PCs' equipment now sits in the middle of a firefight between rival auction staffers.
Debriefing: Room is sheet steel with a single chair in the center and a large sign: PLEASE SIT DOWN with arrow pointing to the chair. The debriefing officer spends the session pacing around the chair, and (if necessary) discourages PCs from sitting in it. Chair is harmless.
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.