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: Mysterious duplicates or analogues of the PCs or other INFRARED sector monitor screen polisher (physical threat, paranoid with flamethrower (S3K energy) and battle armor (6))s are active in Alpha Complex.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: One or more PCs' immediate superior, who has screwed up badly and now wants to pin the blame on the PC and his fellow Troubleshooters. (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 major malfunction has rendered an entire sector uninhabitable; the local environment kills an unprotected citizen in minutes if not seconds. 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" believes (accurately?) the PCs are assassins sent to kill him; he tries to kill them first. Meanwhile, the PCs must complete their mission.
Mission Alert: Via telepathic communication from unidentifiable source. The Computer knows nothing of this method, and will regard it with extreme suspicion. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in Corpore Metal meeting room (has meeting in progress). Briefing officer wears reflec armor (El; colored as appropriate, or VIOLET) and fiddles with an exotic-looking hand flamer (S3K energy); expects attack at any moment.
This Mission: The Computer's own CompNode in ULTRAVIOLET (Tension 19) IR market has gone down. Repair it at once! Instantly!
Outfitting: Infrared Market: Marketeer gives PCs a fair discount if they also take a "bonus" small B3 laced with MemWipe; marketeer wants the PCs to leave it in Technical Services clone backup ordering office.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer is dead on arrival, seated at an empty desk in a plain room, and no one arrives to replace him.
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