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: One of the service groups is breaking down.(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 gravity.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: The 21st-degree leader of the secret society Corpore Metal, who plans to expand his personal power and the might of his secret-society. (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 minor malfunction in BLUE (Tension 13) abandoned Vulture Squadron barracks may grow into a major problem. The PCs must fix the malfunction and deal with the problems already created. 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 hangar (or other big room) is flooding the networks with viruses.
Mission Alert: A cocky, "I know more than I'm telling," nudge-nudge INFRARED vendobot Hot Fun supplier acting as a courier delivers alert verbally; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in Sierra Club meeting room (it's empty). 3 briefing officers behind opaque bulletproof glass, voices electronically filtered.
This Mission: Determine the cause of the recent Infrared riots in RED (Tension 6) crowded Bright Vision Re-education Center. We suspect someone (A senior PLC official, whose division has fallen into strangling bureaucratic torpor and must now be massively overhauled or terminated.).
Outfitting: PLC: Designated supply depot is closed for repairs following Commie sabotage.
Debriefing: A pitch black room, with dim light filtering in under the entrance door. Unsettling clicking noises, like a trigger being pulled on a jammed gun.
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.