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: The economy has grown even stranger than usual.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A lone Communist. (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: The Computer believes something horrible has happened, but gives the PCs no details, and forbids them to tell anyone for fear of starting a panic. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded soylent recycling room (near morgue). Briefing officer is dead on arrival and no one comes to replace him. May have notes on his body that describe the PCs' mission.
This Mission: Determine the cause of the recent Infrared riots in YELLOW (Tension 9) inside a character's mind (RED IntSec riot control stooge (bureaucratic obstacle, dreamy, dazed, probably a Mystic)). We suspect someone (A senior PLC official, whose division has fallen into strangling bureaucratic torpor and must now be massively overhauled or terminated.).
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 10% over list price. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (INDIGO (Tension 16) empty IntSec surveillance station), immediate. This terminal is infected with spyware that reports all transactions to Mystics, which may send a gang to steal the PCs' stuff.
Debriefing: A mirrored room filled with eye-searing halogen lamps. The PCs' eyes water constantly. The officer and guards wear shaded full-face visors.
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.