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: One kind of technological object (Memories of an Unregistered Mutant Life by Frank-B-HJN-6) is behaving far too well.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: One or more PCs' immediate superior, who has screwed up badly and now wants to pin the blame on the PC and his fellow 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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (VIOLET Internal Security Director (indifferent bystander, paranoid with laser pistol (W3K energy) with ULTRAVIOLET barrel and reflec armor (El; colored as appropriate, or VIOLET)); YELLOW Tech Services office liaison (bureaucratic obstacle, gullible (worryingly lacking in paranoia)); INDIGO Hygiene Policy Overseer (physical threat, believes himself possessed by demons)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (YELLOW (Tension 9) Sierra Club meeting room (has meeting in progress); BLUE (Tension 13) map room for several sectors; VIOLET (Tension 17) crowded bathroom (change Tension level to 20)). 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 new mind-control technique will alter the PCs' or a large population's behavior for the worse. The Computer uses the PCs as guinea pigs again.
Mission Alert: Mission is randomly assigned as a prize in a CruncheeTym algae chips packet. Briefing time is wrong. The information is replaced by extortion threat from anonymous hacker: "Send 100cr to this Gray Subnet account and I'll send you the data."
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded forms processing center. Briefing officer is hiding inside an empty Cold Fun barrel and passes written notes out to the PCs through a small bunghole.
This Mission: The surveillance system at BLUE (Tension 13) empty hospital ER has gone down. Repair it and determine the cause.
Outfitting: PLC: Designated supply depot is closed for repairs following Commie sabotage.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer is dead on arrival, seated at an empty desk in a plain room, and no one arrives to replace him.
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.