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 kind of technological object (packet of freeze-dried fruit) is behaving far too well.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A High Programmer who has started a lottery or other credit-making scheme and has illicitly pulled needed supplies from some vital installation. (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" believes (accurately?) the PCs are assassins sent to kill him; he tries to kill them first. Meanwhile, the PCs must complete their mission. 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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (BLUE Internal Security lieutenant (indifferent bystander, drugged (sandallathon, visomorpain)); INFRARED scrubot lint screen cleaner (information source, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid)); GREEN mission alert announcement officer (information source, panicky, hyperactive, lacks focus)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (GREEN (Tension 12) abandoned Technical Services storage facility or warehouse; INDIGO (Tension 15) crowded waste channel shaft; GREEN (Tension 12) IR marketeer living quarters).
Mission Alert: Stamped onto side of vat of liquid nitrogen (freezes solid anything living upon contact). Briefing location is wrong. The information is in machine-readable code, missing vowels, encrypted, etc. Computer Phreaks can help. The Computer doesn't see the problem.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded Armed Forces dormitory. Briefing officer sits with his back to the PCs; he passes notes to a terrified Infrared citizen, who reads them aloud.
This Mission: Psion has stolen VIOLET Clearance plans. Intercept and retrieve them before the thieves deliver them to their superiors.
Outfitting: PLC: PLC office openly and entirely subverted by Spy for another Alpha Complex; continues business as usual, unless PCs show signs of alerting the authorities.
Debriefing: Debriefing room is well appointed with luxurious carpet, comfortable chairs and refreshments served throughout. Soothing musics plays throughout the session. Laser emplacements are visible in every corner and track the PCs' every move.
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.