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: Mysterious duplicates or analogues of the PCs or other VIOLET Tech Services Director (information source, paranoid with semi-automatic slugthrower (HE or HEAT) and jet suit (Experimental R&D equipment, aerodynamic suit with jetpack))s are active in Alpha Complex.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: The 21st-degree leader of the secret society Pro Tech, who plans to expand his personal power and the might of his secret-society. (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 real.
Mission Alert: Scrawled across a ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 19) crowded food production area (IR-Y: Food Vats, G-U: hydroponic gardens) wall in half-meter-high letters written in low clearance paint. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in reactor waste landfill. Given in a transtube, on a recording with a folder of documents; recording self-destructs 5 seconds after stopping. tape and does match mission
This Mission: The Computer's own CompNode in YELLOW (Tension 10) crowded soylent recycling room (near morgue) has gone down. Repair it at once! Instantly!
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 10% over list price. Delivery: drop point 30 minutes away (GREEN (Tension 11) empty corridor). A PC's auction site account has been hijacked by a Computer Phreak using it to auction treasonous warbot plans.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer is dead on arrival, seated at an empty desk in a plain room, and no one arrives to replace him.
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.