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 just aren't good enough to handle their assignment.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Changed perceptions only certain characters (ORANGE Tech Services service technician (physical threat, psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy)), including one or more PCs. The changed perception is smell/taste, touch, balance or other non-sight, non-hearing sense.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A senior CPU efficiency consultant, who overreacted in imprudent ways in an effort to get proper paperwork filled out. (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 (YELLOW security systems installer (indifferent bystander, meticulous, obsessive-compulsive); YELLOW HPD&MC afternoon vidshow host (indifferent bystander, panicky, hyperactive, lacks focus); INFRARED vulture weapon practice assistant (information source, amicable, self-interested, ordinary)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (GREEN (Tension 11) inside Alpha Complex dome ; BLUE (Tension 13) crowded IntSec admin offices; ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 20) crowded decaying and pestilential wreck of an abandoned sector: Power Services waiting room). 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 high-clearance official's malfeasance will be exposed, and wild eyed, incoherent, even frenzied wishes to frame the Troubleshooters for the official's crime.
Mission Alert: Stamped onto side of dangerous creature from Outdoors, on leash. Briefing time is wrong. The information is missing, replaced by [INSERT DATA HERE] or similar. Secret society contacts or servile truckling to The Computer may fill in missing data.
Briefing: Briefing is in Proper Bedding Maintenance Hall of Fame. Briefing officer has left a recording device with the mission on it, but the mechanism is jammed at double speed with no rewind option.
This Mission: Guard INDIGO HPD&MC studio head on his latest pleasure trip. Pay no attention to his odd comments.
Outfitting: PLC: A Multi-Purpose Chute with graffiti "CompUSUKS!" above it-a password (Comp-U-SUK-5) into an unlimited account on this compromised machine.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer is dead on arrival, seated at an empty desk in a plain room, and no one arrives to replace him.
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.