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: An certificate for free clone backup the PCs cherish will be destroyed.(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: An R&D experiment that went right, created by paranoid with ice gun (S3K impact) and power vest (Experimental R&D equipment, charged with high voltage, does S4K energy damage to attackers using bare hands, metal hand weapons or force swords). (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 BLUE (Tension 14) empty HPD & Mind Control storage facility or warehouse may grow into a major problem. The PCs must fix the malfunction and deal with the problems already created. 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: A mysterious command makes all autopilot vehicles home in on RED (Tension 6) crowded garage / vehicle dispatch, threatening terrible harm en route; the "Someone" wants a traffic jam there.
Mission Alert: A truckling INFRARED food vat slime scraper acting as a courier delivers alert hardcopy; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Briefing location is wrong. The information is obscured by advertising (pop-up ad, jingle, viral marketing, etc.). Sponsoring advertiser may possibly have record of unaltered alert.
Briefing: Briefing is in MemoMax archive vault. Officer has serious coughing fit every few words, disrupting every sentence, and becomes increasingly angry with every request to repeat himself.
This Mission: Neutralize INFRARED food vat slime scraper (indifferent bystander, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid)) in empty Armed Forces firing range.
Outfitting: PLC: Warehouse run by insane high-clearance director; assigns PCs a mission (Transfer the highly dangerous traitor INFRARED vendobot Hot Fun supplier (bureaucratic obstacle, gullible (worryingly lacking in paranoia)) to a more secure RED (Tension 6) outside Alpha Complex dome . Make sure he doesn't die; we want to save that for the Date with Death vidshow.) on his own behalf so he can give them over-inventoried economic object (credit license analyzer, plasticred duplicator, IR market activity scanner); Problem: occasionally explodes.
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.