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 winning.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Changed perceptions only certain characters (INFRARED dihydromonoxide treatment attendant (information source, paranoid with laser pistol (W3K energy) with user's clearance barrel and prismatic armor (Experimental R&D equipment, E4, mirrored suit reflects energy attacks, wearer is most visible target around))), including one or more PCs. The changed perception is sight.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A powerful mutant who wishes to see his own kind of mutants dominate, and normal humans and all other kinds of mutants subservient. (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 strange new Food Vat slime is causing antisocial and dangerous activity in consumers of Hot Fun. The Computer needs PCs to destroy the slime. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Scrawled across a RED (Tension 5) empty hospital ER wall in half-meter-high letters written in blood. Recognition password (to be given to briefing officer) is wrong. The information is missing, replaced by [INSERT DATA HERE] or similar. Secret society contacts or servile truckling to The Computer may fill in missing data.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded R&D biochemical research laboratory. When the PCs leave the briefing an explosion follows, leaving no evidence of the officer except a large burn mark and melted furnishings.
This Mission: The power in RED (Tension 6) unrecoverable bot brain junkyard has gone out. Determine the cause and bring the power back online.
Outfitting: Infrared Market: Marketeer gives PCs a fair discount if they also take a "bonus" small stoppered vial of poison gas; marketeer wants the PCs to use it in empty FunBall arena (or other large room).
Debriefing: The debriefing officer stands behind a massive, blast-shielded podium flanked by blue Vulture troopers with plasma generators, while the PCs sit in brilliant interrogation spotlights that look disconcertingly like bullseyes.
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.