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 Commie mutant traitors are winning.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Changed perceptions only certain characters (ORANGE Computer Sevenday Praise administrator (bureaucratic obstacle, psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy)), including one or more PCs. The changed perception is smell/taste, touch, balance or other non-sight, non-hearing sense.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A High Programmer who mis-programmed a CompNode so badly the entire node must be re-imaged and rebooted (the situation is cover for this.) (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 "Someone" in a Junior Citizen fort (no Commies allowed!) is flooding the networks with viruses. 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 ORANGE (Tension 8) crowded Vulture Squadron battle readiness exercise field, threatening terrible harm en route; the "Someone" wants a traffic jam there.
Mission Alert: Via Warbot functional. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in MemoMax archive vault. 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: Deliver a shipment of fragile, badly-needed Psychbot Sanity Restoration Unit (see rulebook, page 204) (or bot brain) to INFRARED (Tension 3) FCCC-P meeting room (has meeting in progress).
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: bidding war-+30% over list!. Delivery: drop point 30 minutes away (INFRARED (Tension 2) crowded bathroom (change Tension level to 20)). Nothing at all unusual about this transaction. Or is there? Sounds a little suspicious, doesn't it? Absolutely nothing wrong? Really? Hmm....
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.