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 losing, and that's bad.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (behavior modifier (hypnosis devices, pheromone emitters, subsonic/supersonic irritants); Problem: occasionally explodes) is misbehaving.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A senior Food Vat Control supervisor in ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 19) crowded packing crate (or other small room), whose division is overproducing, underproducing or doing something strange to the food. (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: The "Someone" has taken control of crowded corridor and is slaughtering enemies. The PCs are either trapped there or sent to deal with the problem. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Mission is randomly assigned as a prize in a CruncheeTym algae chips packet. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty waste channel shaft. Briefing officer wears kevlar armor (13) and fiddles with an exotic-looking laser pistol (W3K energy) with user's clearance barrel; expects attack at any moment.
This Mission: We suspect YELLOW clone tank monitor (information source, believes himself possessed by demons), who's infiltrating a HPD & Mind Control firm for Internal Security, of being a double-agent for Illuminati (undercover as Sierra Club). Infiltrate the firm and see where his allegiance lies.
Outfitting: PLC: Empty office. Door is open. No security (Tension level 0). PCs may take what they want, but have to find it themselves and fill out proper paperwork. If the paperwork isn't filled out, the items are reported stolen. May be interrupted by IR market thieves, passing looters, etc.
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.