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 Commie mutant traitors are winning.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: A particular drug suddenly has inexplicably altered effects.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A powerful mutant who wishes to see his own kind of mutants dominate, and normal humans and all other kinds of mutants subservient. (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: A minor malfunction in ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 20) crowded bot manufacture center may grow into a major problem. The PCs must fix the malfunction and deal with the problems already created.
Mission Alert: Stamped onto side of stoppered vial of poison gas. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in underground lake. 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: Investigate accusations of GREEN HPD&MC junior executive planting evidence against INDIGO (indifferent bystander, psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy).
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 10% off. Delivery: drop point 30 minutes away (ORANGE (Tension 8) crowded corridor). This terminal is infected with spyware that reports all transactions to recently-shanghaied innocent bystander, in waaay over his head, which may send a gang to steal the PCs' stuff.
Debriefing: A pitch black room, with dim light filtering in under the entrance door. Unsettling clicking noises, like a trigger being pulled on a jammed gun.
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.