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 just a simulation; nothing is physically real.(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 YELLOW Internal Security sector patroller (indifferent bystander, amicable, self-interested, ordinary)s are active in Alpha Complex.
(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 high-clearance official's malfeasance will be exposed, and psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy wishes to frame the Troubleshooters for the official's crime. 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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (YELLOW Armed Forces master sergeant (physical threat, dreamy, dazed, probably a Mystic); INFRARED reactor shielding standby volunteer (information source, panicky, hyperactive, lacks focus); ORANGE vehicle maintenance greaser (physical threat, quietly delusional)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (BLUE (Tension 14) empty Vulture Squadron indoor flybot testing facility; RED (Tension 6) empty enviro conditioning duct; INDIGO (Tension 16) empty soylent recycling room (near morgue)).
Mission Alert: Scrawled across a INFRARED (Tension 3) Free Enterprise meeting room (holds only guards) wall in half-meter-high letters written in black paint. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in IR marketeer living quarters. Briefing officer is hiding inside an empty Cold Fun barrel and passes written notes out to the PCs through a small bunghole.
This Mission: Investigate accusations of GREEN CPU forms designer planting evidence against INDIGO (indifferent bystander, drugged (sandallathon, visomorpain)).
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: +25% over list. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (INDIGO (Tension 16) Junior Citizen fort (no Commies allowed!)), immediate. A PC's auction site account has been hijacked by a Computer Phreak using it to auction treasonous warbot plans.
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.