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 Computer personally likes the PCs too well.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: The economy has grown even stranger than usual.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: The Computer-or, if it makes more sense, a psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy ULTRAVIOLET testing reliable R&D equipment manipulating The Computer's local CompNode. (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 biological agent will transform or devastate the PCs or a large population. The Computer sends in the Troubleshooters as guinea pigs. The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Text message on PDC. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in Sewer tunnel. 4 briefing officers undercover; wary, paranoid; speak in evasive code-phrases.
This Mission: The power in RED (Tension 5) Corpore Metal meeting room (has meeting in progress, meeting members recognize a PC as one of their own, welcome him) has gone out. Determine the cause and bring the power back online.
Outfitting: C-Bay or other online auction site: Price: 50% discount off list price. Delivery: agreed drop point nearby (ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 20) Junior Citizen fort (no Commies allowed!)), immediate. The auction site has been compromised by a "phishing" scam. It appears to be legit, but is just designed to steal ME Card numbers.
Debriefing: A cavernous spherical reactor coolant chamber (recently decommisioned) with the PCs securely strapped into dentist chairs at wrist, ankle, waist and chin. The booming voice of the unseen officer echoes from strategically placed speakers.
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.