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: Alpha Complex is doomed, and not in a good way.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: A particular drug suddenly has inexplicably altered effects.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A High Programmer who mis-programmed a CompNode so badly the entire node must be re-imaged and rebooted (the situation is cover for this.) (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 biological agent will transform or devastate the PCs or a large population. The Computer sends in the Troubleshooters as guinea pigs. 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: The "Someone" has taken control of crowded broom cupboard (or other small room) and is slaughtering enemies. The PCs are either trapped there or sent to deal with the problem.
Mission Alert: Anonymous hardcopy message slipped under door of PC's bathroom. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty transtube shaft. 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: An R&D genetic experiment is running loose in YELLOW (Tension 9) empty R&D biochemical research laboratory. Neutralize it before it causes too much damage. If it talks to you, ignore it.
Outfitting: PLC: Warehouse run by insane high-clearance director; assigns PCs a mission (We suspect INFRARED mess hall grease trap cleaner (physical threat, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid)), who's infiltrating a Technical Services firm for Internal Security, of being a double-agent for Corpore Metal. Infiltrate the firm and see where his allegiance lies.) on his own behalf so he can give them over-inventoried behavior modifier (hypnosis devices, pheromone emitters, subsonic/supersonic irritants); Problem: occasionally explodes.
Debriefing: Room is fitted with seesaws, with a PC sitting on one side of each and a Blue Trooper with blaster on the other. In the lower position, the PCs are obscured by a charred blast shield. The debriefing officer reads mission details, raising each PC on a note of treason, lowering them on a point of commendation. (This is an experimental HPD&MC psychological exercise intended to encourage loyalty.)
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.