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' secret societies have turned against them.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One or more laws of nature has been altered or revoked. It's magnetism, electricity or other energy.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A fleet of scrubots reprogrammed by Corpore Metal. (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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (RED Power Services wire spooler (bureaucratic obstacle, drugged (sandallathon, visomorpain)); ORANGE HPD&MC vidshow animator (indifferent bystander, amicable, self-interested, ordinary); RED sector hallway cleanliness inspector (bureaucratic obstacle, amicable, self-interested, ordinary)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (INDIGO (Tension 16) crowded decaying and pestilential wreck of an abandoned sector: living quarters (IR: barracks; R-Y: dormitory; G-B: apartment; I-U: mansion); GREEN (Tension 11) crowded Research & Design storage facility or warehouse; GREEN (Tension 12) empty bathroom (change Tension level to 20)). 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 19) ULTRAVIOLET mausoleum may grow into a major problem. The PCs must fix the malfunction and deal with the problems already created. The "Someone" doesn't want the team to succeed, and is actively working against them.
Mission Alert: Stamped onto side of sweaty dynamite. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty computer interface (IR: public terminals area; R-Y: Computer cafe; G-B: private terminal, I-U: communications nexus). Briefing officer sits curled up and rocking backwards and forwards in the middle of the location; muttering under his breath-
This Mission: The food delivery system in ORANGE (Tension 7) crowded broom cupboard (or other small room) has become plugged. Unplug it.
Outfitting: PLC: PLC office openly and entirely subverted by PURGE; continues business as usual, unless PCs show signs of alerting the authorities.
Debriefing: A cavernous spherical reactor coolant chamber (recently decommisioned) with the PCs securely strapped into dentist chairs at wrist, ankle, waist and chin. The booming voice of the unseen officer echoes from strategically placed speakers.
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.