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: One kind of technological object (cone rifle (ammo as in entry 9)) is behaving far too well.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A senior Food Vat Control supervisor in GREEN (Tension 12) Proper Bedding Maintenance Hall of Fame, 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 Computer believes something horrible has happened, but gives the PCs no details, and forbids them to tell anyone for fear of starting a panic. 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: Roll three times on this chart. Everything you roll is happening at once, and the PCs are caught in the chaos. Good luck running this one.
Mission Alert: Via 20 Guardbots functional. Message is intact and correct.
Briefing: Briefing is in abandoned living quarters (IR: barracks; R-Y: dormitory; G-B: apartment; I-U: mansion). 3 briefing officers behind opaque bulletproof glass, voices electronically filtered.
This Mission: Determine the cause of the recent Infrared riots in RED (Tension 6) crowded hangar (or other large room). We suspect someone (A senior PLC official, whose division has fallen into strangling bureaucratic torpor and must now be massively overhauled or terminated.).
Outfitting: Infrared Market: This market is run by the secret society of one PC (select randomly), who always gets the best deals and everything that works.
Debriefing: The debriefing officer stands behind a massive, blast-shielded podium flanked by blue Vulture troopers with plasma generators, while the PCs sit in brilliant interrogation spotlights that look disconcertingly like bullseyes.
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.