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: Alpha Complex works so badly it endangers the PCs' lives.(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 YELLOW historical record corrector (information source, drugged (rolactin, dynomorphin, xanitrick))s are active in Alpha Complex.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A senior CPU efficiency consultant, who overreacted in imprudent ways in an effort to get proper paperwork filled out. (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 (YELLOW Mutant Registration Office supervisor (indifferent bystander, amicable, self-interested, ordinary); INFRARED sector monitor screen polisher (bureaucratic obstacle, amicable, self-interested, ordinary); INFRARED barracks bedding delouser (indifferent bystander, believes himself possessed by demons)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (INFRARED (Tension 2) natural cavern; GREEN (Tension 11) crowded living quarters (IR: barracks; R-Y: dormitory; G-B: apartment; I-U: mansion); INFRARED (Tension 3) portal to the Outdoors guarded by 7 guardbots). 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 (ORANGE troubleshooter veteran (disabled) (information source, gullible (worryingly lacking in paranoia)); INDIGO R&D Medication Senior Strategist (bureaucratic obstacle, gullible (worryingly lacking in paranoia)); RED Group Singalong Choir leader (information source, paranoid with hand flamer (S3K energy) and jet suit (Experimental R&D equipment, aerodynamic suit with jetpack))) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (INDIGO (Tension 15) crowded Production, Logistics & Commissary waiting room; GREEN (Tension 11) crowded briefing rooms in Troubleshooter HQ; RED (Tension 5) empty hangar (or other large room)).
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED dihydromonoxide treatment attendant acting as a courier delivers alert hardcopy; 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 acid-etched sinkhole under food production area. Briefing occurs in a pitch black room, where the only source of light is from the corridor outside the briefing room filtering in under the door. 3 officers present.
This Mission: Pro Tech has stolen VIOLET Clearance plans. Intercept and retrieve them before the thieves deliver them to their superiors.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 50% discount off list price. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (ORANGE (Tension 7) Proper Bedding Maintenance Hall of Fame), immediate. Nothing at all unusual about this transaction. Or is there? Sounds a little suspicious, doesn't it? Absolutely nothing wrong? Really? Hmm....
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.