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: Everyone else in the Complex is in league against the PCs.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: The Computer has decreed a new holiday with odd customs and practices, and everyone knows about it but the PCs.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A secret society mission that went right, led by psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy. (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 minor malfunction in ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 19) abandoned dining area (IR: mess hall; R-Y: cafeteria; G-B: dining room; I-U: dining hall) may grow into a major problem. The PCs must fix the malfunction and deal with the problems already created. The "Someone" doesn't want the team to succeed, and is actively working against them. 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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (BLUE ME Card assignment technician (indifferent bystander, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid)); ORANGE electronic equipment repair specialist (indifferent bystander, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid)); ORANGE electronic equipment repair specialist (information source, quietly delusional)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (RED (Tension 5) derelict rooms in the Underplex ; BLUE (Tension 14) inside a character's mind (ULTRAVIOLET who is currently the youngest UV citizen in the Complex (probably late teens) (information source, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid))); RED (Tension 6) crowded grooming and hygiene station).
Mission Alert: A truckling INFRARED barracks bedding delouser acting as a courier delivers alert verbally; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in IR market. Briefing officer whispers the briefing to the team leader and then expects him to pass it on in the style of Telephone or Chinese Whispers.
This Mission: Deliver this ominous, ticking package to a PURGE base. Make sure they accept it. By the way, this mission has a time limit...
Outfitting: Infrared Market: An R&D-sponsored market. Every item "improved," although not in a way PCs or marketeers suspect. Costs only slightly above normal.
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.