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 effect the PCs are ordered to prevent will be caused by their actions.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (geiger counter) is misbehaving.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: The Indigo leader of a rapidly-growing Production, Logistics & Commissary firm, who plans to expand his personal power and the might of his company. (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 crowded IntSec admin offices 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: The "Someone" in a abandoned and forgotten portal to the Outdoors is flooding the networks with viruses.
Mission Alert: A polite INFRARED mess hall grease trap cleaner acting as a courier delivers alert hardcopy; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty postal sorting room. Officer has serious coughing fit every few words, disrupting every sentence, and becomes increasingly angry with every request to repeat himself.
This Mission: Deliver this crate of 144 room deodorizers to ULTRAVIOLET who orders the PCs to protect his retreat while fleeing from something. Though the item appears treasonous, rest assured it is perfectly above-board. Perfectly.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 10% over list price. Delivery: will get around to it someday for sure. Drop point is an ambush by Computer Phreaks 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.