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 effect the PCs are ordered to prevent will be caused by their actions.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (Scrubot (or bot brain)) is behaving far too well.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: The Indigo leader of a rapidly-growing Research & Design 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: Waste disposal is breaking down; garbage is backing up in the hallways and will soon flood the complex. 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 geological event will destroy Alpha Complex (shatter it, open it to the elements, turn it into a cheerily warm volcano, etc.).
Mission Alert: Via high-frequency radio transmission that gives PCs excruciating headaches and sends petbots crazy with excitement. Recognition password (to be given to briefing officer) is wrong. The information is in machine-readable code, missing vowels, encrypted, etc. Computer Phreaks can help. The Computer doesn't see the problem.
Briefing: Briefing is in Sewer tunnel. Briefing officer sits with his back to the PCs; he passes notes to a terrified Infrared citizen, who reads them aloud.
This Mission: Deliver this Telepathic Subconscious Message Emitter (currently stuck on violent setting) to ULTRAVIOLET who orders the PCs to protect his retreat while fleeing from something. Though the item appears treasonous, rest assured it is perfectly above-board. Perfectly.
Outfitting: PLC: Warehouse run by insane high-clearance director; assigns PCs a mission (Members of FCCC-P and Anti-Mutant are trading illegal Telepathic Subconscious Message Emitter (currently stuck on suicidal setting) (s) at Museum of Famous Forms. Retrieve the goods and the creds.) on his own behalf so he can give them over-inventoried sensor (detects something hitherto undetectable or inconvenient to detect); Problem: picks up targets it's not supposed to, who don't like being picked up.
Debriefing: A compact office with one desk and a chair, occupied by the debriefing officer, with the PCs standing amid towers of forms, printouts and manila folders, all bearing the names of one or more PCs.
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.