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: One of the service groups is breaking down.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (sweaty dynamite) is behaving far too well.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: One or more PCs' immediate superior, who has screwed up badly and now wants to pin the blame on the PC and his fellow Troubleshooters. (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: The "Someone" believes (accurately?) the PCs are assassins sent to kill him; he tries to kill them first. Meanwhile, the PCs must complete their mission. 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 (ORANGE pharmatherapy dispensing tech (information source, paranoid with slugthrower (solid AP) and specialized armor suited to circumstances (environment suit, Faraday suit, asbestos clothing, if no specialty is useful, substitute kevlar)); ORANGE data researcher (information source, believes himself possessed by demons); ORANGE Power Services Battery Backup Replacer (physical threat, wild eyed, incoherent, even frenzied)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (VIOLET (Tension 18) empty garage / vehicle dispatch; YELLOW (Tension 9) chimney (or other big room); INFRARED (Tension 3) natural cavern).
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty Armed Forces armory. 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: We suspect INFRARED sector roadway maintenance worker (information source, believes himself possessed by demons), who's infiltrating a HPD & Mind Control firm for Internal Security, of being a double-agent for Internal Security plant (hiding as Internal Security plant (hiding as Psion)). Infiltrate the firm and see where his allegiance lies.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: list price. Delivery: please allow 24 hours for delivery to PCs' specified address. Nothing at all unusual about this transaction. Or is there? Sounds a little suspicious, doesn't it? Absolutely nothing wrong? Really? Hmm....
Debriefing: The debriefing officer stands behind a massive, blast-shielded podium flanked by blue Vulture troopers with plasma generators, while the PCs sit in brilliant interrogation spotlights that look disconcertingly like bullseyes.
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.