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' service firms or secret societies are endangered.(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 INDIGO Credit Licence Checking CFO (bureaucratic obstacle, amicable, self-interested, ordinary)s are active in Alpha Complex.
(Someone) Person, people, organization or agency responsible for the situation: A Death Leopard gang. (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 (ORANGE HPD&MC vidshow animator (indifferent bystander, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid)); INFRARED retirement gulag laundry worker (indifferent bystander, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid)); ORANGE IntSec Second Line Riot Control (bureaucratic obstacle, drugged (thymoglandin, hydropsionic acid))) happily demonstrate their new armaments in many locations (YELLOW (Tension 10) ULTRAVIOLET mausoleum; INFRARED (Tension 1) crowded Junior Citizen creche; INFRARED (Tension 2) CompNode SubNode). 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: A high-clearance official's malfeasance will be exposed, and paranoid with hand flamer (S3K energy) and ArmorAll (4) wishes to frame the Troubleshooters for the official's crime.
Mission Alert: A polite INFRARED dud ammo determination tester acting as a courier delivers alert verbally; seeks 10cr 'tip' for the delivery. Briefing location is wrong. The information is in machine-readable code, missing vowels, encrypted, etc. Computer Phreaks can help. The Computer doesn't see the problem.
Briefing: Briefing is in inside a character's mind (INFRARED scrubot hydrochloric acid tank refiller (bureaucratic obstacle, stumbling, awkward, prone to breakage)). Briefing officer whispers the briefing to the team leader and then expects him to pass it on in the style of Telephone or Chinese Whispers.
This Mission: Deliver a shipment of fragile, badly-needed sweaty dynamite to ORANGE (Tension 8) reactor control room.
Outfitting: PLC: Experimental "Mobile PLC" in a transtube car. Every so often the car must stop to load and unload supplies.
Debriefing: Troubleshooters and debriefing officer sit at a round table. Officer orders them to play a card or board game, while the officer encourages them to reveal details about their mission and about their feelings.
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.