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 Commie mutant traitors are losing, and that's bad.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (Robutler (you rang, sah?) (or bot brain)) is misbehaving.
(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" has taken control of empty IntSec interrogation room and is slaughtering enemies. The PCs are either trapped there or sent to deal with the problem. 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 (BLUE senior slime researcher (sadistic hindrance, psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy); ORANGE electronic equipment repair specialist (bureaucratic obstacle, paranoid with sonic rifle (S3W energy) and None); INFRARED algae pizza delivery person (information source, amicable, self-interested, ordinary)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (INFRARED (Tension 1) crowded Vulture Squadron indoor flybot testing facility; VIOLET (Tension 18) Sewer tunnel; VIOLET (Tension 17) crowded living quarters (IR: barracks; R-Y: dormitory; G-B: apartment; I-U: mansion)).
Mission Alert: A polite INFRARED food vat slime scraper acting as a courier delivers alert verbally; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded computer interface (IR: public terminals area; R-Y: Computer cafe; G-B: private terminal, I-U: communications nexus). Given in a transtube, on a recording with a folder of documents; recording self-destructs 5 seconds after stopping. wrong mission, right tape, right does
This Mission: The Computer's own CompNode in ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 20) empty grooming and hygiene station has gone down. Repair it at once! Instantly!
Outfitting: PLC: Supply clerks recently infected with SellFast.D spam virus, insist all PCs enroll in "Make Credits Fast!" marketing course.
Debriefing: A cavernous spherical reactor coolant chamber (recently decommisioned) with the PCs securely strapped into dentist chairs at wrist, ankle, waist and chin. The booming voice of the unseen officer echoes from strategically placed speakers.
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.