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: One kind of technological object (truncheon (S5K impact), knife (S5K), brass knuckles (S5W), or any other low-tech melee) is misbehaving.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: An R&D experiment that went right, created 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 mysterious command makes all autopilot vehicles home in on INFRARED (Tension 2) FCCC-P meeting room (has meeting in progress), threatening terrible harm en route; the "Someone" wants a traffic jam there. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Briefing location is wrong. The information is in machine-readable code, missing vowels, encrypted, etc. Computer Phreaks can help. The Computer doesn't see the problem.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty recreational resort (if below Clearance GREEN, roll again). Bureaucratic snafu assigns briefing officer to the room below 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: Investigate mysterious disappearances of citizens in YELLOW (Tension 10) crowded transtube station. If they're being captured by Commies, save them. If they're trying to escape Alpha Complex, shoot them.
Outfitting: PLC: A single PLC staffer in a broom closet with a pneumatic tube on the side wall. This lone officer is one of the most efficient workers in Alpha Complex; completes all paperwork quickly and throughly. The next time you roll this entry, this staffer has been reassigned or murdered.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer sits in complete silence while paging through several thick files, flanked by BLUE Vulture troopers armed with cone rifles. PCs who speak are met with scowls. The debriefing ends without a word.
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.