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' service firms or secret societies are endangered.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Changed perceptions apparent to all citizens. The changed perception is hearing.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A secret society mission that went disastrously wrong, led by drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid). (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: Endless wave of assassination attempts will befall paranoid with blaster (M3K energy) and reflec armor (El; colored as appropriate, or INFRARED), who uses the Troubleshooters as decoys while he protects himself. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in warbot armature fitting lab. Bureaucratic snafu assigns briefing officer to the room adjacent to the PCs; won't join PCs for fear of violating orders; shouts at the top of his voice to be heard, or conveys briefing information by notes, courier, Morse code, etc..
This Mission: Deliver these emergency plasma generator (V1V energy) to a Troubleshooter team under attack. No, you don't need to be armed; it's a simple delivery mission!
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 10% off. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (BLUE (Tension 13) abandoned transtube station), immediate. This terminal is infected with spyware that reports all transactions to Internal Security plant (hiding as Pro Tech), which may send a gang to steal the PCs' stuff.
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.