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: Two or more service groups are breaking each other down.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Mysterious duplicates or analogues of the PCs or other INFRARED food vat slime scraper (indifferent bystander, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid))s are active in Alpha Complex.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A lone Communist. (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 deadly pathogen is eating through the population. The PCs are infected the moment their clone backups are decanted. Better hurry on the mission! The threat is real.
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED algae pizza delivery person acting as a courier delivers alert verbally; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Briefing location is wrong. The information is replaced by extortion threat from anonymous hacker: "Send 100cr to this Gray Subnet account and I'll send you the data."
Briefing: Briefing is in Illuminati (undercover as Romantics) meeting room (has meeting in progress). Bureaucratic snafu assigns briefing officer to the room above the PCs; won't join PCs for fear of violating orders; shouts at the top of his voice to be heard, or conveys briefing information by notes, courier, Morse code, etc..
This Mission: An abandoned RED (Tension 5) portal to the Outdoors guarded by 20 guardbots has been infested by Commies. Demolish it, preferably with the Commies inside.
Outfitting: PLC: Warehouse run by insane high-clearance director; assigns PCs a mission (Internal Security plant (hiding as Program Group lackey for ULTRAVIOLET who is currently the youngest UV citizen in the Complex (probably late teens)) has stolen VIOLET Clearance plans. Intercept and retrieve them before the thieves destroy them.) on his own behalf so he can give them over-inventoried sensor (detects something hitherto undetectable or inconvenient to detect); Problem: picks up targets it's not supposed to, who don't like being picked up.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer sits in complete silence while paging through several thick files, flanked by BLUE Vulture troopers armed with cone rifles. PCs who speak are met with scowls. The debriefing ends without a word.
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.