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 are themselves the greatest threat to Alpha Complex.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (Teachbot (or bot brain)) is behaving far too well.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A High Programmer who mis-programmed a CompNode so badly the entire node must be re-imaged and rebooted (the situation is cover for this.) (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: 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. 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: Endless wave of assassination attempts will befall drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid), who uses the Troubleshooters as decoys while he protects himself.
Mission Alert: Via Teachbot functional. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in acid-etched sinkhole under food production area. Briefing officer is hidden inside a Snooper (small hovering sphere that tracks a target's scent) chassis, communicating with an electronically filtered voice.
This Mission: Deliver this highly confidential package to BLUE PLC subsector supervisor. Make sure no one opens it. (Contains vermin poison.)
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 10% off. Delivery: drop point 30 minutes away (ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 19) CompNode False / Lesser Node). This terminal is infected with spyware that reports all transactions to Corpore Metal, which may send a gang to steal the PCs' stuff.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer stands behind a massive, blast-shielded podium flanked by blue Vulture troopers with plasma generators, while the PCs sit in brilliant interrogation spotlights that look disconcertingly like bullseyes.
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.