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: A hostile force is manipulating the PCs' conscious will.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: Everyone in Alpha Complex behaves in an inexplicably contemptful or disgusted way toward all PCs.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: An R&D experiment that went disastrously wrong, created by drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid). (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: The "Someone" in a Illuminati (undercover as Program Group lackey for ULTRAVIOLET who is the current head of a service group) meeting room (has meeting in progress) is flooding the networks with viruses. 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 mysterious command makes all autopilot vehicles home in on RED (Tension 4) acid-etched sinkhole under food production area, threatening terrible harm en route; the "Someone" wants a traffic jam there.
Mission Alert: A truckling INFRARED mess hall grease trap cleaner acting as a courier delivers alert verbally; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in CompNode False / Lesser Node. Briefing officer wears kevlar armor (13) and fiddles with an exotic-looking hand flamer (S3K energy) (He weapon is more lethal than the standard model. Much more lethal. (Weapon hits for one damage step above its maximum)); expects attack at any moment.
This Mission: An R&D genetic experiment is running loose in RED (Tension 6) elevator (or other small room). Neutralize it before it causes too much damage. If it talks to you, ignore it.
Outfitting: PLC: Office; looks very busy, but nothing ever gets done. Careful inspection shows all workers are passing the same papers back and forth quickly.
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.