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' service firms or secret societies are endangered.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: The security clearance system has provoked an intractable crisis.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A senior PLC official, whose division has fallen into strangling bureaucratic torpor and must now be massively overhauled or terminated. (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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (ORANGE Handler (bot specialist) (information source, paranoid with gauss gun (W3K energy) and combat suit (5)); INDIGO Trend Identification senior consultant (bureaucratic obstacle, psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy); ORANGE pharmatherapy dispensing tech (sadistic hindrance, amicable, self-interested, ordinary)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (VIOLET (Tension 17) crowded bot manufacture center; INDIGO (Tension 15) empty soylent recycling room (near morgue); INDIGO (Tension 16) Junior Citizen fort (no Commies allowed!)). 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: An exterior force will conquer Alpha Complex. The Computer dispatches the Troubleshooters to intercept the force.
Mission Alert: Via telepathic communication from unidentifiable source. The Computer knows nothing of this method, and will regard it with extreme suspicion. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in inside a character's mind (VIOLET HPD&MC Lead Semanticist (information source, psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy)). 3 suspicious, twitchy briefing officer(s) in highly defended position (e.g., seated atop a massive gun emplacement) at rear of VIOLET (Tension 18) crowded corridor.
This Mission: Investigate a string of murders. All the victims were crushed.
Outfitting: PLC: "The PLC Paperwork Shuffle": Different batches of forms required to obtain each individual type of standard equipment. In triplicate.
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.