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 Computer has taken a personal dislike to the PCs.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: The security clearance system has provoked an intractable crisis.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A fleet of scrubots reprogrammed by Humanists. (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 scrubot lint screen cleaner (information source, amicable, self-interested, ordinary); ORANGE Armed Forces corporal (information source, amicable, self-interested, ordinary); INFRARED reactor shielding standby volunteer (information source, buzzing, high on Wakey-Wakey)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (GREEN (Tension 12) empty living quarters (IR: barracks; R-Y: dormitory; G-B: apartment; I-U: mansion); GREEN (Tension 12) crowded recreational resort (if below Clearance GREEN, roll again); RED (Tension 4) empty vidshow entertainment lounge). 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 biological agent will transform or devastate the PCs or a large population. The Computer sends in the Troubleshooters as guinea pigs.
Mission Alert: A truckling INFRARED dihydromonoxide treatment attendant acting as a courier delivers alert hardcopy; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Briefing time is wrong. The information is in machine-readable code, missing vowels, encrypted, etc. Computer Phreaks can help. The Computer doesn't see the problem.
Briefing: Briefing is in CompNode SubNode. 3 briefing officers undercover; wary, paranoid; speak in evasive code-phrases.
This Mission: Investigate accusations of GREEN Power Services Repair Team leader planting evidence against VIOLET (physical threat, gullible (worryingly lacking in paranoia)).
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: list price. Delivery: please allow 24 hours for delivery to PCs' specified address. A PC's auction site account has been hijacked by a Computer Phreak using it to auction treasonous warbot plans.
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.