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 kind of technological object (file of Mystics members led by VIOLET Old Reckoning museum curator) is misbehaving.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A senior Food Vat Control supervisor in INFRARED (Tension 3) crowded Research & Design waiting room, whose division is overproducing, underproducing or doing something strange to the food. (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" has taken control of crowded information booth and is slaughtering enemies. The PCs are either trapped there or sent to deal with the problem. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Anonymous hardcopy message slipped under door of PC's central entertainment room. Briefing location is wrong. The information is obscured by advertising (pop-up ad, jingle, viral marketing, etc.). Sponsoring advertiser may possibly have record of unaltered alert.
Briefing: Briefing is in crowded hospital recovery room. 2 briefing officers behind opaque bulletproof glass, voices electronically filtered.
This Mission: Deliver this highly confidential package to BLUE sector vidshow network regulator. Make sure no one opens it. (Contains dangerous creature from Outdoors, on leash.)
Outfitting: PLC: Baffle-ravaged warehouse (holes in walls, etc.); has desired equipment, though. Staffers war-weary, twitchy, but forcefully happy.
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.