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 Computer personally likes the PCs too well.(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 YELLOW Power Services disruption repair (bureaucratic obstacle, buzzing, high on Wakey-Wakey)s are active in Alpha Complex.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A warbot reprogrammed by Death Leopard. (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" believes (accurately?) the PCs are assassins sent to kill him; he tries to kill them first. Meanwhile, the PCs must complete their mission. 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 strange new Food Vat slime is causing antisocial and dangerous activity in consumers of Hot Fun. The Computer needs PCs to destroy the slime.
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED reactor fuel rod replenisher acting as a courier delivers alert hardcopy; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. 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 garage / vehicle dispatch. Briefing officer wears reflec armor (El; colored as appropriate, or INDIGO) and fiddles with an exotic-looking laser pistol (W3K energy) with INDIGO barrel; expects attack at any moment.
This Mission: Members of Frankenstein Destroyers and Mystics are trading illegal miniature Psychbot Sanity Restoration Unit (see rulebook, page 204) (prone to kamikaze attacks) (s) at heat-resistant mitten knitting sweatshop. Retrieve the goods and the creds.
Outfitting: PLC: A Multi-Purpose Chute with graffiti "CompUSUKS!" above it-a password (Comp-U-SUK-5) into an unlimited account on this compromised machine.
Debriefing: The debriefing room is locked when the PCs arrive, and no debriefing officer ever arrives no matter how long they wait.
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.