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: Alpha Complex is doomed, and not in a good way.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Changed perceptions apparent to all citizens. The changed perception is hearing.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A High Programmer who mis-programmed a CompNode so badly the entire node must be re-imaged and rebooted (the situation is cover for this.) (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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (RED Group Singalong Choir leader (information source, amicable, self-interested, ordinary); INDIGO CPU Risk Assessment Partner (bureaucratic obstacle, paranoid with slugthrower (solid slug) and battle armor (6)); INDIGO Bouncy Bubble Beverage Brand Manager (indifferent bystander, drugged (sandallathon, visomorpain))) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (YELLOW (Tension 9) crowded living quarters (IR: barracks; R-Y: dormitory; G-B: apartment; I-U: mansion); BLUE (Tension 13) secure dome access gate; RED (Tension 4) empty corridor). The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. 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 Proper Bedding Maintenance Hall of Fame. Briefing officer sits with his back to the PCs; he passes notes to a terrified Infrared citizen, who reads them aloud.
This Mission: An abandoned ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 19) crowded Research & Design storage facility or warehouse has been infested by Commies. Demolish it, preferably with the Commies inside.
Outfitting: Infrared Market: A "Broke" market. Troubleshooters always leave broke, with stuff that's broke. Bad deals all around.
Debriefing: A compact office with one desk and a chair, occupied by the debriefing officer, with the PCs standing amid towers of forms, printouts and manila folders, all bearing the names of one or more PCs.
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.