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 effect the PCs are ordered to prevent will be caused by their actions.(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 INFRARED food vat slime scraper (indifferent bystander, amicable, self-interested, ordinary)s are active in Alpha Complex.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A secret society mission that went disastrously wrong, led by paranoid with flamethrower (S3K energy) and combat suit (5). (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" has taken control of empty FunBall arena (or other large room) and is slaughtering enemies. The PCs are either trapped there or sent to deal with the problem. 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: The "Someone" in a IR marketeer living quarters is flooding the networks with viruses.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Briefing time is wrong. The information is missing, replaced by [INSERT DATA HERE] or similar. Secret society contacts or servile truckling to The Computer may fill in missing data.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded grooming and hygiene station. Officious, schoolmasterly briefing officer sitting at the head of a classroom with blackboard and chalk; tests PCs frequently.
This Mission: INFRARED sector roadway maintenance worker has a treasonous but powerful Ventriloquist (s), with which he has inspired revolt, and taken over crowded food production area (IR-Y: Food Vats, G-U: hydroponic gardens). Remove the mutant and resolve the unrest.
Outfitting: Infrared Market: Free Enterprise member "Nathan D," operator of this IR market, is messily killed by rival FreeEnt capo in PCs' presence.
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.