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 have enough resources but too little time to win.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: A particular drug suddenly has inexplicably altered effects.
(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 mysterious command makes all autopilot vehicles home in on RED (Tension 6) crowded Research & Design storage facility or warehouse, threatening terrible harm en route; the "Someone" wants a traffic jam there. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Mission is randomly assigned as a prize in a CruncheeTym algae chips packet. Briefing location is wrong. The information is replaced by treasonous Illuminati (undercover as recently-shanghaied innocent bystander, in waaay over his head) propaganda.
Briefing: Briefing is in cone rifle fuse packing facility. Briefing officer is shot just after the PCs arrive and is replaced by a different officer who acts extremely shifty and refuses to answer questions.
This Mission: An unauthorized Communist PDC (activates at random to shout recorded Communist propaganda) was accidentally deployed at underground lake. Go and retrieve it before it squashes something important.
Outfitting: PLC: A PLC shop that has none of the equipment needed, but is willing to make appropriate substitutions, could be potentially cool stuff.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer sits in complete silence while paging through several thick files, flanked by BLUE Vulture troopers armed with cone rifles. PCs who speak are met with scowls. The debriefing ends without a word.
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.