Random Tables

Scene Elements

The following should be considered:

1. objects to take cover behind
2. something somebody can make a called shot at (a street lamp, a camera)
3. something someone could hack (a maglock, a camera, a car's alarm system)
4. something that can be looted (a safe containing a prototype defended by explosives, a computer with valuable data on it)
5. think in three dimensions and include heights and depths

Corporate Locale

1. weird sculpture art in free standing glass display case
2. cubicles
3. conference room table
4. vending machine
5. aquarium 
6. desks
7. elevator bank
8. office with glass walls
9. 33rd floor windows facing street below
10. coffee mug
11. fridge and microwave
12. water dispenser
13. vid screen
14. narrow corridor
15. maintenance corridor with freight elevator
16. staircase
17. conference call is going on
18. computer monitors
19. rolling office chairs
20. large rolling white boards (or high tech equivalent)
21. HVAC vents
22. support columns
23. restrooms 
24. dozens of cardboard boxes
25. janitor's closet (cleaning supplies, etc#)
26. sterile overhead lighting
27. office plants
28. civilian staff (could be night staff, normal staff, cleaning crew, depending)
29. civilian staff on bring your child to work day (imagine an extraction with this as a surprise)
30. boring corporate wall art and plaques for bullshit
31. glass table
32. storage room with broken office chairs
33. server room
34. boiler room
35. roof access
36. fountain with fish
37. water fountain
38. cameras
39. trip lasers
40. panic button
41. safe room
42. escalator
43. ping pong table (or future sport)
44. helipad / drone launch
45. filing cabinets
46. first aid kit on wall
47. fire alarm
48. fire extinguisher
49. sprinkler system
50. exit signs
51. thermostat
52. printer / xerox machine

Urban Locale

1. bus shelter
2. fire hydrant
3. soy dog kiosk
4. vending machine
5. trees with xmas lights
6. sewer grate
7. street lights
8. drug house
9. alley entrance
10. fire escape
11. city bus
12. abandoned car
13. bike rack with locked bikes
14. mailbox
15. dumpster
16. 7/11
17. food truck
18. public Matrix jack
19. addicts watching on stoop
20. children playing in street
21. serious potholes
22. trashcan fire
23. market stalls
24. bridge over road
25. bridge over river
26. garbage couch
27. piles of trash on curb
28. block party / street festival
29. outdoor concert
30. horde of pigeons
31. noodle food cart
32. stray cat
33. a crime in progress (could go a lot of different ways with this--might make sense to have individual entries)
34. skate/hoverboarders
35. a parking lot
36. ribbon cutting ceremony
37. an animal control van
38. a chain link fence
39. construction porta potty
40. stop sign (or other signs as well)
41. fountain
42. statue of someone important
43. food truck
44. bill board advertisement (someone could climb up there maybe)
45. row of motorcycles parked outside a building

Interesting Data

1. Coordinates of storage facilities, safe houses, off the grid corporate retreats
2. Personnel files—addresses, SINs, family members, etc.
3. Access codes to other facilities
4. R&D (product designs or scientific / magical research)
5. Prototype schematics—could take to fabricator and get created or sell to rival or black market
6. Strategic goals – move aggressively into biomedical research, etc.
7. Political contributions
8. Investments
9. Security protocols / schedules
10. Archived emails
11. Black ops
12. User IDs and passwords
13. Administrator IDs and passwords
14. Property owned worldwide
15. Financial allocations – 20% increase to budget of artifact recovery and analysis division—did they find something big?
16. Account numbers and payroll
17. Legal stuff (out of court settlements, internal memos, etc)
18. Blackmail or newsworthy leak—executive scandal
19. Purchasing orders (Renraku ordered 10,000 gas masks—why? What do they have planned?)
20. Headhunting files—prominent figures currently working for other organizations
21. Personality evaluations of executives and managers
22. Profit projections
23. Promising start-ups for buyouts / takeovers
24. Succession plans (which executives can’t be on same flights)
25. Organizational charts (reveal shell companies, subsidiaries, and hierarchies)
26. Dirty laundry for blackmail/intimidation of potential defectors
27. Blueprints of corporate HQ / facilities
28. Red hot data—AI research, blood magic, bug spirit exploration, dragon secrets, cyber zombies, etc.
29. Executive itineraries and travel plans--flights, hotel and restaurant reservations, etc.
30. Real demographic information on Mr. Johnsons and other deniable assets
31. Lost tech research from before the Crash, promising developments in AI/Weapons/Communications/Robotics/Teleportation experiments
32. Codes to an advanced orbital laser launched in the 1980s that most people have forgotten about
33. Data on early experiments to replicate goblinization on primates and other animals, using irradiation, carcinogens, mutagens, etc. and the often horrific results
34. Chimeric gene splicing experiments that resulted in awakened creatures
35. Emergency protocols, evacuation plans for where personnel will escape to in the event of a disaster

Environmental Miss Effect Ideas

Corporate

1. Aquarium shatters, spilling water, broken glass, and fish (difficult terrain?)
2. Glass walls shattered, spilling broken glass
3. Fire extinguisher hit by bullet—would it burst?
4. Sprinkler system set off, fire alarm triggered
5. Fire starts from electronics being hit
6. Table / filing cabinet / Xerox machine / fridge / etc gets knocked over, landing on someone potentially or changing cover opportunities
7. Overhead lights destroyed
8. Panic Alarm triggered, locking down floor

Urban

1. "Innocent" bystander hit
2. Car alarm goes off
3. Street light shot out
4. Car's fuel tank hit, begins to smoke, will blow up
5. Bus shelter spills shattered glass
6. Telephone (equivalent) pole knocked down
7. City Watch camera hit by stray bullet
8. Fire hydrant depressurized, water geyser
9. Stray bullet breaks store front window, sets off Lone Star alarm

Challenge Elements

Chases

1. woman pushing baby stroller
2. child chasing ball
3. jack-knifed truck blocking both lanes
4. escaped dog with leash, owner chasing after
5. Troll Parade (cause it's trolling the players) 
6. Political rally 
7. Block party
8. Cop sees you whizzing by and joins the chase
9. train tracks with a train coming
10. drawbridge 
11. upcoming tunnel will limit options
12. road being resurfaced
13. patch of ice / oil
14. very steep incline or decline
15. gangers take pot shots as you speed by
16. news drone is catching up, publicity would probably be very bad
17. bridge to nowhere situation
18. school bus on side of road, driver in street fixing tire, kids on bus
19. inclement weather event, flooded road, earthquake, severe wind, etc#
20. have to veer off road onto golf course or park trail
21. someone drops onto roof of car (could be friend, foe, or neutral)
22. no brakes!
23. snake in car wakes up
24. baby on board
25. animal control van--dogs pour out
26. bad part of town
27. one way street
28. construction
29. driver less car hacking
30. swarm of bee-sized robots
31. smoke/fog
32. someone's making sounds from the trunk
33. interrupting a wedding
34. dogs shouldn't drive 

Twists

1. Other team shows up (with same target / specifically to defend target from PCs / after unrelated target)
2. Power goes out due to grid overload from other activities or intense storm. Elevators and doors lock.
3. Civilian enters picture on unrelated task—left something at her desk, or riding bicycle around corner
4. Appropriate animal enters scene—devil rats in city, escaped experimental animal in corporate facility
5. They knew we were coming!
6. Hallucinogenic gas billows up from sewers or out of vents (could be some toxic mage stunt in sewers or leak of experimental toxin in a corp facility)
7. Ice elemental cooling server room goes berserk
8. Hoop snakes!

Prompts

General

1. Neighborhood dogs are all being driven crazy by the sonar squeals of awakened bats every dusk
2. Bandit (awakened raccoon with opposable thumbs) broke into parked car and stole something shiny and valuable
3. Blood kite breeding season in community park, hyper-aggressive birds go for the eyes
4. Fideal jellyfish, some sort of bioengineering project, several in warehouse who get fed bodies to get clean used cyberware, since their enzymes won't digest it
5. An incubus in a dockside warehouse
6. Ritual cannibalism in hmhvv infected trolls
7. Pack of Gabriel hounds preying on slum dwellers and squatters
8. Lesser thunderbirds causing lightning storms, EMP pulsing electronics
9. Loup garou attack in tunnels underneath city
10. Guy wants motorcycle back that was swallowed by a mega shark
11. Animal parts wanted for totems and enchanting: unicorn horn, manticore teeth, leatherback shell, sabertooth cat fangs, golden boar tusks, imperial eagle feather, griffin heart
12. Because gargoyle skin calcifies on death, researchers want to capture a living one for vivisection and research
13. Nomad possession of a non-threatening creature
14. Caustic saliva of a novopossum weaponized
15. Piasma (awakened bear) guarding facility behind fence
16. Rockworms eating through old concrete infrastructure and buildings
17. Stonebinders, pests that need exterminated, spit petrifies
18. Talis cat is killing squatters, people terrified of violent serial killer
19. Toxic spirits encountered in sewers or old chemical plant
20. Hijack truck, supposed to be electronics but turns out to be seafood (bad intel)
21. Wendigo with coven of secret cannibals in slum
22. Steal or get someone's retinal pattern on cybereye for infiltration
23. Cybered up animals, experiments or guards
24. Heart of a griffin or similar talisman in safe
25. Awakened alligator in sewers
26. Large three eyed flying snake killing guard dogs at industrial site, inhabitants of neighborhood will defend it
27. Runner being pursued by angry spirit he had wronged
28. Some slummer who won a trillion nuyen in the lottery
29. Room 3067 on the 78th floor of the Renraku Arcology
30. Kilometers of burrowing beaver tunnels along the coast
31. A cybered-up Centaur toting an assault rifle
32. Dog asp barks and whines to sound like hurt dog, in order to lure someone close, then attacks
33. Bounty for the heads of Fenrir Wolves
34. Foulmart musk in diffuser cannons as antipersonnel spray, stink lasts for weeks, even if you burn your clothes
35. Nimue's salamanders soaking up all magic, live in lobby fountain

Halloweeners

1. Handsome Jack is Back
   1. Former leader of gang who was ousted some time back. He’s returned, not very handsome anymore, but with some real ugly muscle. 
2. Escalating Prank War Between Trickers and Treaters, junior member factions fighting for spots in the gang, kids 8-12 generally
3. Current leader Mister Bones gets a new pet, a <y> stolen from the nature preserve, and he’s having trouble training it
4. Lt. Shark Fin got messed up on some new upper drug, wound up caught by Lone Star—leader Mister Bones needs him back or silenced
5. Developers moving in traditional gang zone, bringing bulldozers and permits—can you fight City Hall?
   1. Might push gang into conflict with rival orc gang, the Pogos, causing violent eruption
6. Chemists selling new ‘candy’, quite addictive and dangerous—slumming tourists and teenagers venturing into dangerous gang turf to get their fix
7. Open warfare between Pogos and Halloweeners after Pogo leader "The Orkin Man" dies in suspicious car crash, making the streets even more dangerous, canceling the truce
8. Awakened preacher opens magic healing clinic for orphans, gang members insist he also heal their wounded

Black Market Squatter Mall

1. New weapon shipment from Japan / Russia
   1. Means ‘low class’ enemies may be armed with rocket launchers or sniper rifles or gas grenades or some other type of new tech—would be noticeable if encountering gangers before, armed with pistols, and after, armed with rifles, something like that
2. Lone Star Raids—team’s fixer gets captured/injured/forced underground, ability to get resources/fence goods limited for a while, or raid could happen while PCs there, obvious conflict with consequences
3. Counterfeit goods—cheaper items but with specific flaws that could be fun, I liked the break on 1 example in the book, but there could be so many fun flaws
4. Old timey ‘leader’ of the markets, Old Joe, needs a hand with new gang / yakuza leader who is insisting on protection money when the mall was always neutral ground in the past
5. Awakened animal pit fights, like dog fighting or cock fighting, can get out of hand i.e. escaped animals or just be a moral type issue, or allow players to bet—would have it not be to death, otherwise the only way PCs could interact would be shutting it down (the Katie factor)
6. Destructive sims being sold, turn users into addicts with superpowers, but seller has some kind of leverage on Old Joe, who won’t interfere. Possibly gov’t op/experiment. 
7. Unusual illness sweeping squatters, threatens to spread to the rest of the city if quarantine not observed or cure found. Will devastate community. 
8. Liberated animals from private zoo end up for sale at Marty’s Exotic Pets / Marty needs new stock and has an idea where to get it…

Nature Preserve

1. Middle class family took trip, lost child in dangerous woods—pooled money to Johnson to hopefully get their child back
2. Native American criminal Jason Twofoxes wanted for arson, suspected to be in hiding here, may have set traps
3. Scientist publishes a paper describing a rare endangered specimen she found while studying in the preserve—creature has valuable tusks/antlers, or magic totem potential, will be sought after by the unscrupulous 
4. Buyer wants an exotic animal, willing to pay for a young specimen—buyer’s background should be non-abusive, would give it good home, to anticipate Katie effect
5. Forest fire/some other threat forces dangerous animals out into the nearby neighborhoods, causing problems
6. Park ranger is murdered by suspected poacher group
7. Campers left behind something extremely valuable to them by mistake and now the preserve is off limits for <x> mating season, when the males are hyper aggressive
8. Plane disappears flying over preserve, VIP / interesting cargo on board

Ghoul Enclave

1. Promising researcher working on artificial flesh is kidnapped, leading ghoul citizens will pay to have her rescued and her research returned
2. Horrific murders being blamed on ghouls, who are under increasing persecution and victims of hate crimes. Actual murderer could be wild animal from preserve or deranged serial spree killer
3. Rising pop star actually a ghoul, needs discreet delivery of food supplies. If found out, career will be ruined. Certain ghouls angry that the guy they grew up with is hiding true identity, potential blackmailer. 
4. Mob has been disposing of bodies by paying group of thug-like ghouls who devour the victims. Someone is unhappy with this arrangement. 
5. White-hot decker SirKodiak rumored to live among the ghouls, who protect him in exchange for his help in finding a cure for an engineered virus which turned ghouls into cannibals and threatened to destroy their society. 
6. A socialite obsessed with cars heard a rumor that there’s a vintage <some cool car from our time> in a storage space in Ghoul Town. He wants it delivered by midnight.
7. A free spirit has been preying on ghouls