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 are themselves the greatest threat to Alpha Complex.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One or more laws of nature has been altered or revoked. It's magnetism, electricity or other energy.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: An R&D experiment that went disastrously wrong, 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 VIOLET (Tension 17) empty enviro conditioning duct, threatening terrible harm en route; the "Someone" wants a traffic jam there. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded R&D gadget research laboratory. Briefing officer sits curled up and rocking backwards and forwards in the middle of the location; muttering under his breath-
This Mission: The Computer's own CompNode in RED (Tension 4) crowded vidshow entertainment lounge has gone down. Repair it at once! Instantly!
Outfitting: PLC: Warehouse run by insane high-clearance director; assigns PCs a mission (INFRARED scrubot hydrochloric acid tank refiller has a treasonous but powerful Mental Blast (c/s/z), with which he has inspired revolt, and taken over Sewer tunnel. Remove the mutant and resolve the unrest.) on his own behalf so he can give them over-inventoried sensor (detects something hitherto undetectable or inconvenient to detect); Problem: parasitically bonds with user.
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.