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 PCs are themselves the greatest threat to Alpha Complex.(Irrational) General kind of weirdness or irregularity that prompts The Computer to assign a mission to the Troubleshooters: One kind of technological object (power vest (Experimental R&D equipment, charged with high voltage, does S4K energy damage to attackers using bare hands, metal hand weapons or force swords)) is behaving far too well.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A fleet of jackobots reprogrammed by Humanists. (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: Surplus Armed Forces weaponry floods the IR market. Citizens (YELLOW PLC "Yellowpants" management consultant (indifferent bystander, amicable, self-interested, ordinary); ULTRAVIOLET with the blood of many citizens on his person (information source, psychotic, kill-crush-smash-destroy); GREEN Power Services Repair Team leader (bureaucratic obstacle, quietly delusional)) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 20) crowded decaying and pestilential wreck of an abandoned sector: corridor; GREEN (Tension 12) acid-etched sinkhole under food production area; INDIGO (Tension 16) ULTRAVIOLET Gallery of Perversities). The threat is real.
Mission Alert: Special "breaking news" bulletin in middle of vidshow: boring part. Identifies PCs by name. Briefing location is wrong. The information is missing, replaced by [INSERT DATA HERE] or similar. Secret society contacts or servile truckling to The Computer may fill in missing data.
Briefing: Briefing is in empty food production area (IR-Y: Food Vats, G-U: hydroponic gardens). Briefing officer is shot just after the PCs arrive and is replaced by a different officer who acts extremely shifty and refuses to answer questions.
This Mission: An unauthorized Old Reckoning artifact sought by three secret societies (Psion, Sierra Club, and Spy for another Alpha Complex) was accidentally deployed at private slime farm. Go and retrieve it before it squashes something important.
Outfitting: Infrared Market: Red Market, run by Commies. They only barter or trade evenly. PCs who own little more than their own overalls must buy items elsewhere, then come back here to trade for similarly priced items. (You could make them trade for the shirts off their backs.)
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.