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: Alpha Complex is doomed, and not in a good way.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (packet of freeze-dried fruit) is misbehaving.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A High Programmer who has started a lottery or other credit-making scheme and has illicitly pulled needed supplies from some vital installation. (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 new mind-control technique will alter the PCs' or a large population's behavior for the worse. The Computer uses the PCs as guinea pigs again. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Via telepathic communication from unidentifiable source. The Computer knows nothing of this method, and will regard it with extreme suspicion. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in underground lake. Officer has serious coughing fit every few words, disrupting every sentence, and becomes increasingly angry with every request to repeat himself.
This Mission: We suspect YELLOW historical record corrector (bureaucratic obstacle, amicable, self-interested, ordinary), who's infiltrating a Power Services firm for Internal Security, of being a double-agent for FCCC-P. Infiltrate the firm and see where his allegiance lies.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: +25% over list. Delivery: drop point 30 minutes away (INFRARED (Tension 3) empty food production area (IR-Y: Food Vats, G-U: hydroponic gardens)). Drop point is an ambush by Romantics thugs; there is no equipment; the PCs regain the money they bid.
Debriefing: The debriefing room is locked when the PCs arrive, and no debriefing officer ever arrives no matter how long they wait.
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.