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: Everyone in Alpha Complex behaves in an inexplicably suspicious or hateful way toward all PCs.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A lone Communist. (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 YELLOW (Tension 10) crowded IntSec interrogation room, threatening terrible harm en route; the "Someone" wants a traffic jam there. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Announced over public address loudspeakers. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty transtube station. Briefing officer has left a recording device with the mission on it, but the mechanism is jammed at double speed with no rewind option.
This Mission: We suspect INFRARED reactor shielding standby volunteer (indifferent bystander, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid)), who's infiltrating a Armed Forces firm for Internal Security, of being a double-agent for Program Group lackey for ULTRAVIOLET programming something extremely important. Infiltrate the firm and see where his allegiance lies.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: bidding war-+30% over list!. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (INFRARED (Tension 3) IR market), immediate. The auction site has been compromised by a "phishing" scam. It appears to be legit, but is just designed to steal ME Card numbers.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer is dead on arrival, seated at an empty desk in a plain room, and no one arrives to replace him.
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.