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: One or more laws of nature has been altered or revoked. It's light or sound.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: The Indigo leader of a rapidly-growing HPD & Mind Control firm, who plans to expand his personal power and the might of his company. (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: An exterior force will conquer Alpha Complex. The Computer dispatches the Troubleshooters to intercept the force. 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: Waste disposal is breaking down; garbage is backing up in the hallways and will soon flood the complex.
Mission Alert: Via Petbot malfunctioning. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty reactor coolant stack. Given in a transtube, on a recording with a folder of documents; recording self-destructs 5 seconds after stopping. wrong tape, right docs, right mission.
This Mission: Accompany Tech Services mechanics making repairs to a group of bots (a small metallic can that bleeps constantly (the Computer claims it's extremely important) (The bot is bigger than the standard model. Much bigger.)) at VIOLET (Tension 18) Proper Bedding Maintenance Hall of Fame. We think one tech is a PURGE member trying to derange the bots.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 10% over list price. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (ORANGE (Tension 7) empty living quarters (IR: barracks; R-Y: dormitory; G-B: apartment; I-U: mansion)), 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 is fitted with seesaws, with a PC sitting on one side of each and a Blue Trooper with blaster on the other. In the lower position, the PCs are obscured by a charred blast shield. The debriefing officer reads mission details, raising each PC on a note of treason, lowering them on a point of commendation. (This is an experimental HPD&MC psychological exercise intended to encourage loyalty.)
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.