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 has taken a personal dislike to the PCs.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One or more laws of nature has been altered or revoked. It's light or sound.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: An executive at one of the PCs' service firms, who wishes to covertly create the situation in order to procure a fat service-group repair contract. (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) (bureaucratic obstacle, paranoid with sonic rifle (S3W energy) and kevlar armor (13)); RED Tech Services vendobot repairperson (bureaucratic obstacle, paranoid with needle gun (S3W impact) and electromagnetic clothing (Experimental R&D equipment, makes wearer a living magnet; can stick to metal walls, watch out for knives!)); YELLOW clone tank monitor (sadistic hindrance, drugged (sandallathon, visomorpain))) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (INFRARED (Tension 2) IR market; RED (Tension 4) crowded corridor; ORANGE (Tension 8) abandoned Bright Vision Re-education Center). The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in private slime farm. Briefing officer has left a recording device with the mission on it, but the mechanism is jammed at double speed with no rewind option.
This Mission: Transfer the highly dangerous traitor INFRARED impact armor tester (information source, paranoid with stun gun (stuns for one round) and combat suit (5)) to a more secure YELLOW (Tension 9) crowded soylent recycling room (near morgue). Make sure he doesn't die; we want to save that for the Date with Death vidshow.
Outfitting: Infrared Market: Free Enterprise member "Nathan D," operator of this IR market, is messily killed by rival FreeEnt capo in PCs' presence.
Debriefing: A compact office with one desk and a chair, occupied by the debriefing officer, with the PCs standing amid towers of forms, printouts and manila folders, all bearing the names of one or more PCs.
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.