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 suspect a High Programmer is out to get them.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Changed perceptions only certain characters (BLUE Singalong Superior Administrator (information source, paranoid with flamethrower (S3K energy) and jet suit (Experimental R&D equipment, aerodynamic suit with jetpack))), including one or more PCs. The changed perception is hearing.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: An Armed Forces director, who mis-keyed some form entries and mistakenly diverted military resources to "Irrational" effect. (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 major malfunction has rendered an entire sector uninhabitable; the local environment kills an unprotected citizen in minutes if not seconds. 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: A major malfunction has rendered an entire sector uninhabitable; the local environment kills an unprotected citizen in minutes if not seconds.
Mission Alert: Scrawled across a BLUE (Tension 14) IR marketeer living quarters wall in half-meter-high letters written in black paint. Briefing location is wrong. The information is in machine-readable code, missing vowels, encrypted, etc. Computer Phreaks can help. The Computer doesn't see the problem.
Briefing: Briefing is in map room for several sectors. 1 briefing officers undercover; wary, paranoid; speak in evasive code-phrases.
This Mission: Accompany Tech Services mechanics making repairs to a group of bots (Petbot) at GREEN (Tension 12) Sewer tunnel. We think one tech is a Sierra Club member trying to derange the bots.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: list price. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (YELLOW (Tension 9) abandoned food production area (IR-Y: Food Vats, G-U: hydroponic gardens)), immediate. Items the PCs want are listed against a red-tinted background. No other items are. What's up? (Nothing. But keep the players nervous about it.)
Debriefing: Room contains nothing but miniature stools, where the PCs perch with difficulty and discomfort.
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.