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 Commie mutant traitors are winning.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (Pharmabot (hovering sphere that injects drugs and dispenses pills) (or bot brain)) is misbehaving.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A senior PLC official, whose division has fallen into strangling bureaucratic torpor and must now be massively overhauled or terminated. (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 high-clearance official's malfeasance will be exposed, and wild eyed, incoherent, even frenzied wishes to frame the Troubleshooters for the official's crime. 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: Waste disposal is breaking down; garbage is backing up in the hallways and will soon flood the complex.
Mission Alert: Stamped onto side of vermin poison. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty garage / vehicle dispatch. Briefing officer whispers the briefing to the team leader and then expects him to pass it on in the style of Telephone or Chinese Whispers.
This Mission: Determine the cause of the recent Infrared riots in INFRARED (Tension 3) empty transtube shaft. We suspect someone (A senior CPU efficiency consultant, who overreacted in imprudent ways in an effort to get proper paperwork filled out.).
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: bidding war-+30% over list!. Delivery: please allow 24 hours for delivery to PCs' specified address. Drop point to pick up purchased equipment is ULTRAVIOLET mausoleum run by Free Enterprise, which charges a 2% commission for services.
Debriefing: A pitch black room, with dim light filtering in under the entrance door. Unsettling clicking noises, like a trigger being pulled on a jammed gun.
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.