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 is doomed, and not in a good way.(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 ORANGE Armed Forces corporal (bureaucratic obstacle, gullible (worryingly lacking in paranoia))s are active in Alpha Complex.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A senior Food Vat Control supervisor in RED (Tension 6) underground lake, 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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (INFRARED dihydromonoxide treatment attendant (bureaucratic obstacle, psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy); ORANGE Computer Sevenday Praise administrator (indifferent bystander, amicable, self-interested, ordinary); RED Group Singalong Choir leader (sadistic hindrance, paranoid with truncheon (S5K impact), knife (S5K), brass knuckles (S5W), or any other low-tech melee and electromagnetic clothing (Experimental R&D equipment, makes wearer a living magnet; can stick to metal walls, watch out for knives!))) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (GREEN (Tension 11) crowded dining area (IR: mess hall; R-Y: cafeteria; G-B: dining room; I-U: dining hall); BLUE (Tension 14) empty Technical Services cloning facility (well guarded); INDIGO (Tension 16) crowded briefing rooms in Troubleshooter HQ). 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 RED (Tension 6) empty food production area (IR-Y: Food Vats, G-U: hydroponic gardens) 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: A polite INFRARED scrubot lint screen cleaner acting as a courier delivers alert hardcopy; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in private slime farm. Briefing officer sits curled up and rocking backwards and forwards in the middle of the location; muttering under his breath-
This Mission: Investigate an unexplained disaster in crowded computer interface (IR: public terminals area; R-Y: Computer cafe; G-B: private terminal, I-U: communications nexus).
Outfitting: PLC: Surprisingly efficient, but all items have had inventory barcodes removed. Staffers refuse to take returned equipment: "It wasn't issued here."
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.