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: An geiger counter the PCs cherish will be destroyed.(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 INFRARED sector roadway maintenance worker (physical threat, amicable, self-interested, ordinary)s are active in Alpha Complex.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A subsector's Infrareds, who have gone off their pharmatherapy and are now conspiring against The Computer, led by RED citizen (actually an undercover BLUE IntSec trooper) (information source, dreamy, dazed, probably a Mystic). (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 minor malfunction in INFRARED (Tension 3) 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 threat is real.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded reactor coolant stack. Officer has serious coughing fit every few words, disrupting every sentence, and becomes increasingly angry with every request to repeat himself.
This Mission: Investigate a string of murders. All the victims were crushed.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 10% over list price. Delivery: please allow 24 hours for delivery to PCs' specified address. Drop point to pick up purchased equipment is IR market run by Romantics, 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.