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 works with terrifying efficiency.(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: The Computer-or, if it makes more sense, a psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy ULTRAVIOLET with his assistant out for a stroll manipulating The Computer's local CompNode. (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: The "Someone" in a portal to the Outdoors guarded by 13 guardbots is flooding the networks with viruses.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in cone rifle fuse packing facility. 2 briefing officers behind opaque bulletproof glass, voices electronically filtered.
This Mission: Investigate accusations of GREEN onsite vidshow news reporter planting evidence against ULTRAVIOLET (information source, gullible (worryingly lacking in paranoia)).
Outfitting: Infrared Market: An R&D-sponsored market. Every item "improved," although not in a way PCs or marketeers suspect. Costs only slightly above normal.
Debriefing: A cavernous spherical reactor coolant chamber (recently decommisioned) with the PCs securely strapped into dentist chairs at wrist, ankle, waist and chin. The booming voice of the unseen officer echoes from strategically placed speakers.
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.