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 have enough resources but too little time to win.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: The economy has grown even stranger than usual.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A lone Communist. (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 (RED CPU forms courier (bureaucratic obstacle, paranoid with laser pistol (W3K energy) with user's clearance barrel and reflec armor (El; colored as appropriate, or GREEN)); INFRARED retirement gulag laundry worker (indifferent bystander, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid)); INDIGO R&D Medication Senior Strategist (indifferent bystander, amicable, self-interested, ordinary)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (RED (Tension 5) Proper Bedding Maintenance Hall of Fame; INFRARED (Tension 1) abandoned living quarters (IR: barracks; R-Y: dormitory; G-B: apartment; I-U: mansion); BLUE (Tension 14) heat-resistant mitten knitting sweatshop). The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty Junior Citizen creche. 2 briefing officers undercover; wary, paranoid; speak in evasive code-phrases.
This Mission: The sewage system in GREEN (Tension 11) crowded IntSec janitorial stores has become plugged. Unplug it.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: list price. Delivery: please allow 24 hours for delivery to PCs' specified address. Drop point is an ambush by Mystics thugs; there is no equipment; the PCs regain the money they bid.
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.