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' secret societies have turned against them.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Changed perceptions apparent to all citizens. 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: An Armed Forces director, who mis-keyed some form entries and mistakenly diverted military resources to "Irrational" effect. (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: Roll three times on this chart. Everything you roll is happening at once, and the PCs are caught in the chaos. Good luck running this one. 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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (ORANGE Handler (bot specialist) (bureaucratic obstacle, stumbling, awkward, prone to breakage); ORANGE PLC package retrieval forkbot op (bureaucratic obstacle, believes himself possessed by demons); ORANGE HPD&MC vidshow animator (indifferent bystander, drugged (sandallathon, visomorpain))) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (GREEN (Tension 11) crowded recreational resort (if below Clearance GREEN, roll again); INFRARED (Tension 3) empty vidshow entertainment lounge; INDIGO (Tension 16) empty living quarters (IR: barracks; R-Y: dormitory; G-B: apartment; I-U: mansion)).
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED algae pizza delivery person acting as a courier delivers alert verbally; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in broom cupboard (or other small room). When the PCs leave the briefing an explosion follows, leaving no evidence of the officer except a large burn mark and melted furnishings.
This Mission: We suspect ORANGE CPU Computer monitor monitor (sadistic hindrance, wild eyed, incoherent, even frenzied), who's infiltrating a Research & Design firm for Internal Security, of being a double-agent for Sierra Club. Infiltrate the firm and see where his allegiance lies.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: +25% over list. Delivery: drop point 30 minutes away (INFRARED (Tension 3) PURGE meeting room (has meeting in progress)). A rival auction site has insidiously faked the site the PCs intended to use; the transaction goes through the rival site; the delivery is accompanied by a hard-sell pitchman RED PLC order processing worker (information source, drugged (sandallathon, visomorpain)) who drafts the PCs as promoters for the rival site and won't give them their equipment until they commit.
Debriefing: Debriefing conducted solely by R&D scientists. They ask many questions about equipment, giving the impression the only reason for the mission was to test equipment. After the scientists leave, The Computer covers the treason accusations.
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.