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 PCs have enough resources but too little time to win.(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 ORANGE R&D scientific assistant (information source, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid))s are active in Alpha Complex.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: The 21st-degree leader of the secret society Psion, who plans to expand his personal power and the might of his secret-society. (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" in a IR market is flooding the networks with viruses. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: A drugged INFRARED barracks bedding delouser acting as a courier delivers alert hardcopy; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Briefing location is wrong. The information is obscured by advertising (pop-up ad, jingle, viral marketing, etc.). Sponsoring advertiser may possibly have record of unaltered alert.
Briefing: Briefing is in elevator (or other small room). Briefing officer wears reflec armor (El; colored as appropriate, or BLUE) and fiddles with an exotic-looking hand flamer (S3K energy); expects attack at any moment.
This Mission: We suspect INFRARED vendobot Hot Fun supplier (indifferent bystander, buzzing, high on Wakey-Wakey), who's infiltrating a HPD & Mind Control firm for Internal Security, of being a double-agent for recently-shanghaied innocent bystander, in waaay over his head. Infiltrate the firm and see where his allegiance lies.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: list price. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (INDIGO (Tension 15) empty reactor outer core), immediate. Nothing at all unusual about this transaction. Or is there? Sounds a little suspicious, doesn't it? Absolutely nothing wrong? Really? Hmm....
Debriefing: Troubleshooters and debriefing officer sit at a round table. Officer orders them to play a card or board game, while the officer encourages them to reveal details about their mission and about their feelings.
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.