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 works so badly it endangers the PCs' lives.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Everyone in Alpha Complex behaves in an inexplicably kind way toward one specific PC.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: Everyone in BLUE (Tension 13) Romantics meeting room (has meeting in progress) is in on it; they want to discredit, destroy, maim and spit on the Troubleshooters. (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 strange new Food Vat slime is causing antisocial and dangerous activity in consumers of Hot Fun. The Computer needs PCs to destroy the slime. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Special "breaking news" bulletin in middle of vidshow: good part. Identifies PCs by name. Recognition password (to be given to briefing officer) is wrong. The alert itself is damaging-text message contains software virus that crashes PDC or vidscreen, physical alert has toxins or is radioactive, etc.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty bathroom (change Tension level to 20). Briefing officer is weird invalid (e.g., suspended in sound-dampening gel in a swimming pool communicating through a bizarre array of tubing).
This Mission: An abandoned INFRARED (Tension 1) crowded Armed Forces storage facility or warehouse has been infested by Commies. Demolish it, preferably with the Commies inside.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 10% off. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 19) Museum of Famous Forms), immediate. This terminal is infected with spyware that reports all transactions to Program Group lackey for ULTRAVIOLET heading to a briefing room, which may send a gang to steal the PCs' stuff.
Debriefing: A cavernous spherical reactor coolant chamber (recently decommisioned) with the PCs securely strapped into dentist chairs at wrist, ankle, waist and chin. The booming voice of the unseen officer echoes from strategically placed speakers.
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.