Random Tables

Shadowrun Random Atmosphere Generator

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
53. good old fashioned electric fence
54. biomonitors on guards that alert central security
55. influence mines that can be temporarily disarmed by radio
56. Phased-array radar installation, one big eye in a region
57. standing desks

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
46. Neon signs
47. an Elven tenement

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
36. Documentation long thought lost that pinpoints locations of abandoned military chemical plants and nuclear waste disposal sites
37. Location of a non-corp affiliated delta clinic under observation, located in South America or Africa
38. DNA of extinct species, experiments to bring them back (could be Jurassic Parky or something else)
39. Genome maps for engineered viruses
40. Tailored war code viruses, extremely against Corporate Court regulations and laws
41. Learn of a large shareholder with immune disease, kept in tank, appears only via Matrix, horrific looking body
42. Biological computers, sections of metahuman brains in vats of electrolytes
43. Early experiments to reverse goblinization
44. Records of inner city clinic, sterilizing metahumans who come in for treatment, research into bioweapons that only affect metahumans, inducing mutations in Awakened births
45. Nuclear ballistic submarine lost with all hands on deck in the Crash
46. Details of the ultrarich who live on Zurich Orbital space station
47. Serum that causes goblinization or insanity or death
48. Details of drilling mine shafts into geological faults all over the earth and carving magical runes into the shifting plates, why?
49. Address of a megafixer for governments and megacorps, brokers 12 and 15 figure deals
50. Virus stored in vault beneath medical complex abandoned in 2021 riots, home to squatters and runners now, holds supposed cure to goblinization and who knows what else
51. Access codes to Fuchi Industrial Electronics Tower 5
52. An antidote formula labeled DDE2
53. Mages working for the military, advanced research
54. Theory that VITAS purged humanity of some trait prior to UGE, that some other metahuman race might have come about, research into DNA of VITAS victims, startling conclusions
55. Experiments involving binding a fire elemental into a metahuman, a la the Human Torch
56. Location of warehouse full of experimental BTLs, abandoned in disaster
57. Schematics of prototype VTOL with spirit bound to engine which gets painfully drained when in use
58. Proprietary Simsense compression algorithms
59. Inventory of a bank's safe deposit boxes for insurance purposes
60. Guest list to exclusive club debut of musician's first tour date
61. Guest registry of a luxury hotel
62. Membership of a controversial policlub like Humanis
63. Magical research into ancient Japanese ninja traditions, spells that let you walk on water or pass through a solid wall
64. Strike team orders
65. Partial passcodes stored across multiple systems
66. A scrambled virus packet the Yakuza are after
67. Experiments on prisoners in an Omega-class max security prison
68. Mitsuhama Research Unit 12
69. A powerful free spirit's true name
70. Plans for a tonal generator, emotional effect of harmonics on animals and humans
71. Experimental rifle designed to hurt spirits
72. Experiments with bug spirits to use their natural competition against other types of bugs to get them to attack other bug spirits
73. Contact information for Dr. Sarah Knorr, a skilled surgeon that'll take cash under the table. She installs cyberware for $15,000¥, reducing the severity of the resulting injury to moderate.

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
9. Insane cyber zombie assassin with area cranial bomb set to detonate on death bursts onto scene
10. Floor gets airsealed, making it run on recycled air or so gas can be pumped in

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
10. Insane cyber zombie assassin with area cranial bomb set to detonate on death bursts onto scene

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!
9. Bad Intel, more opposition than described, or better armed, or paranormal
10. Aztechnology Leopard and Jaguar Guard, Renraku Red Samurai, Ares FireLight, etc.--Elite opposition
11. Target recently hit by other team so on high alert
12. Mr. Johnson's Plans don't mention the newly installed gun turrets, what else might he not have mentioned?
13. Flesh eating beetles lying dormant in the corpses they're to retrieve from the morgue
14. Angry spirit in the vault along with the prototype
15. Target has bodyguards from a highly reputable private security firm
16. Elevators stop going to certain floors due to alarm
17. Found 'cursed' item, it infects those who handle it

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, feather from a feathered dragon
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
36. Old Awakened otter with patchy fur left, dependent on pollution, summons Toxic spirit
37. Infected crested barbarians (awakened apes) escaped or liberated from lab, need to be taken out before they introduce horrible virus
38. Steel crate, metal alloy casing difficult to open, taken from run, but what's inside?
39. Old man very sick, needs runners to steal cure, other Corp blackmailing with small doses, just enough to keep him alive
40. Fantasy Urban Brawl enthusiasts
41. Bounties for people who've crossed corps, a coyote Shaman, an elf decker, a chipped up vet sniper, a troll rigger, a British street sam dandy with a cyber arm and cyber leg, always wears sunglasses, always eating a banana, always wears red, gambler who won too much
42. Steal or get someone's retinal pattern on cybereye for infiltration
43. Storm dolphins work together to attack oil rig, electrical and biomagnetic manipulation affect navigational instruments
44. Knight Errant internal surveillance system
45. Corrupt Lone Star cop
46. Honest Lone Star cop
47. Smoke grenades
48. Undersea research facilities
49. Cerberus Hound guards a dragon's mini horde
50. Nosferatu doctor has clinic with dozens on life-support, slowly draining them of life
51. Exotic collector wants a black pegasus
52. Shipment of Quicksilver Mongoose civet, very hard to farm because the Mongooses must eat venomous snakes
53. Free trading some powdered stuff by boat
54. Awakened scorpions with deadly venom controlled by corps with chemical triggers
55. Stone Toad secretion desired for organic high
56. Island with compound defended by ultrasonics to keep Stymphalian Herons away
57. Volleying Porcupines who spray and shoot quills
58. A studio creating EXTREME Better-Than-Life (BTL) chips and simsense torture
59. Extract target from noisy ejector-cram 'music' show
60. Tooth compartment holds micro homing beacon
61. Dude with cranial bomb protecting data, corp to set off cortex bomb if courier compromised
62. Rewarded with access time in the Nexus for significant service to Shadowland
63. Awakened urban bunnies whose powerful legs let them leap onto the tops of buildings to pillage rooftop gardens
64. Delicious liqueur smuggled out of Tir, premium organic fruits and vegetables, artworks, sculptures and paintings
65. Need to place a bug on a satellite before it launches
66. A Tir Paladin out on an errand
67. Free someone from corporate or government prison, serving life, a legendary runner? Or someone with needed info
68. Knock out a power plant to make a mission easier
69. Forged paintings
70. Explosives (obviously)
71. A dragon memory crystal, containing some ancient lore from the 4th or even 2nd world, accessible only through dragonspeech or powerful magic
72. Leviathan cocoon at bottom of the ocean
73. Remains of powerful magic figure from an earlier age
74. When you visit a dragon, you need to bring a gift
75. 100 klicks of subway tunnels excavated but never finished when funding cut
76. High class restaurant you need a reservation 2 weeks in advance for, shadowrunners would stick out, dress code
77. Restaurant whose owner hides bugs under all the tables, collects info from patrons
78. Get someone who's in a hospital, guarded, life support, has data in head
79. Simsense theme park, studios seat 100, shows like Roller Coasters of the World and Desert Wars Commander and Speed!
80. Casino intrigue, place for meet, gambling, contacts, heist
81. Scientists capture powerful fire elemental, try to drain its power through technological means, free spirit hires runners to unbind the spirit
82. Introduce flaw in product blueprint, causing 10% to explode or battery overheating to force product recall and tank stock price
83. Arson insurance fraud, 12 charred bodies of kids, cover up
84. Perfume made from protected or sentient species
85. Some big shot's Pocket Secretary
86. Abduct daughter of target from private school, take advantage of monthly visit to the opera
87. School of Shamanic and Metaplanar Studies
88. Corporate outfit exploiting a sacred site
89. Briefcase with hard copy blueprint of prototype attack aircraft and dozens of experimental BTLs
90. Involuntary organ donors
91. Nasty mutant virus tearing through orks in the Underground, need black market meds
92. Tickets to a big sporting event or concert
93. Urban Brawl reconnaissance run, 24 hours before zone gets activated, leave cache of equipment for hiring team
94. Blow up fabrication plant or assassinate executive to drive down stock price prior to hostile takeover
95. Stow aboard cargo ship or plane to cross border, cargo manifests record mass of cargo to such exact tolerance, they would need altered
96. Johnson needs a short hop aerial carrier hijacked and its passengers delivered across the border
97. Collateral damage from police is charged to criminals who precipitate the response
98. Remote activated shaped charge bracelets, anti augmentation restraints for obviously cybered air line passengers
99. 40 story building, abandoned, broken elevators but someone's hiding at the top--looks like the stairs, chummers
100. Hijack news chopper to get into area where disaster just occurred
101. Exquisite dueling rapier from the 16th century, worth a lot but how do the runners move it?
102. Steal art or artifacts from well secured museum or private collection
103. Protection racket run by a free hearth spirit named Etna
104. Lifesaving prescription drug in short supply due to runners torching warehouse stockpile, letting corp gouge
105. Natural foods, not soy-based, synthetic, or vat grown
106. Want to retrieve corpse of powerful paranormal critter for research lab, like a dragon killed over Puget Sound
107. Ork Underground industry is salvage and agriculture, mushrooms they sell to fancy restaurants who think they come from California
108. A coffin motel run by a vampire
109. Pay squatters 50 nuyen to cause distraction
110. The Redbrick behind the Neon
111. The Plastic Jungles
112. Shaman lions, awakened critters capable of casting illusions
113. Rehab clinic that uses magic or technology
114. Blew up school to hit Don who was attending his kid's parent teacher night
115. Outfit a small private security force with 'cold iron', untraceable weapons
116. Surveillance chip implanted near spinal ganglia
117. Three Naga emeralds as payment
118. Guy who wants his ashes scattered in three dangerous, exotic places
119. Two drones connected by monowire cut a guy in half as he flees a casino
120. Hack school system to get student's schedule so you know where he'll be at a certain time
121. Locking automatic doors, emergency override blocked to trap people in a department store
122. Hotel haunted by 24 different spirits
123. Teenage gangs obsessed with flashy foreign technoculture
124. Hack the Grid Guide system downtown
125. Theatre show involving savage audience participation and confrontation, challenging work
126. A bottle of ice wine from 2023
127. Make the crowd panic like a fucking bomb threat
128. Transport a steel coffin shaped box from the airport to the harbor, no questions asked
129. Pay someone to keep a door unlocked
130. A major fiber option relay station
131. Gang territory like Somalia, the system has failed
132. Product testing facility
133. Illegal underground museum where art stolen from corporations who stole it from public museums when funding and insurance stopped is displayed
134. Lake with tons of free water and air spirits, strange weather
135. Custom designed color-changing fish that cost thousands of nuyen each, swimming in fountain of corp lobby
136. Multi-level subbasements
137. Stealth VTOL with a low signature
138. Ambient Veracity Evaluator detects unusual stress in person's voice and walk, often used in banks
139. Take over a limousine or private short hop taxi to kidnap exec
140. To kill a troublesome free spirit for good, plan is to send it on a rocket ship beyond the earth's manasphere
141. Activists chain themselves to a business's fence
142. If the runners don't help, she'll probably kill her ex or herself
143. A nuclear power plant
144. The sybaritic pleasures of the ultra rich and powerful
145. Locker in the monorail station with something valuable stashed inside
146. Group rates at the cemetery
147. A frag grenade tossed into the mayor's hoverlimo
148. In the presence of great spirits
149. River streaked with a half dozen poison bright chemical strands
150. The One Star Hotel
151. Urban Brawl trading cards
152. Developing or regressing nations use plutonium or uranium for fission instead of fusion
153. An incumbent politician running a last-minute smear campaign to fight off a surging challenger.
154. Hacking a geolocation-based game to lure rich kids to dangerous places in the barrens.
155. Running guard duty while a contact picks up a batch of illegal simsynth chips he's getting paid to settle a debt.
156. The Seahawks are trying to recruit a Troll running back, but he's asking for too much money. Get or fabricate some dirt on him so he'll lower his price.
157. Renraku is testing a new, cheaper kind of implanted simsense rig in the Seattle area.
158. The Yakuza at the Wet Tooth unknowingly bought a Mafia capo's niece as part of a group of bunraku girls.
159. A high-end black market street doc is getting more business than she can handle and would pay for leverage over a medical technician she could pressure to work for her.
160. The homeless community is abandoning a formerly-popular campground as people have been going missing.
161. A Yakuza soldier is desperate to buy out the contract of a bunraku girl before an upcoming surgery to install an even more intrusive personality control module.
162. Vidstar Europa Universalis is coming to the Sprawl, and so is her stalker.
163. A group of elven sport hunters from Tir Tairngire are hunting an ork through the Redmond Barrens.
164. Someone is interfering with the rituals being cast by a group of dog shamen.
165. A now-famous ex-shadowrunner named "Rainslicker" is staying at the just-opened Arcology Bay Hotel downtown.
166. A researcher at University of Washington is testing a bioware mnemonic enhancer on himself.
167. The pack of stray dogs that hunts Maymoor Park has gone missing.
168. Humanis Policlub has set up a recruiting office on the border between Redmond and Bellevue.
169. The Elvish-American Public Affairs Society is holding a charity auction in downtown Seattle with valuable items from their rich donors.

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
9. Gang offers safe houses, places for people to disappear for awhile
10. Corporate plot to create major social disruptions in neighborhood to enhance sales of their security equipment, hired rioters to cause trouble
11. The Flames, all girl criminal gang operating out of a half way house for women coming out of prison, whom they try to recruit, alliance with Halloweeners for now
12. An undercover Lone Star agent in a gang whose cover might be compromised, needs extraction before it's too late
13. Bughunters, not really a gang, but group whose hobby is destroying any remote piloted drones they see buzzing around, don't care who owns them
14. To join the gang, you have to steal a gun from a cop
15. Hideout is an old fallout shelter / abandoned prison

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 software programs and electronics—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…
9. Team or single killer who hunts down street samurai to remove their spines, harvesting cyberware for resale (She glanced at him and glazed his eyes / He died - struck blind by unicorns / And from his spine his code was torn / For secondary service drives)
10. Old ice rink used for gang duels in abandoned mall, knife fights, fist fights, guns, audience and bets
11. Crooked street doc rumored to install extra hardware while patient under the laser, tracking stuff he can then sell to police or corps
12. Spirits attracted to the passions put out by a rock band's concerts in old movie theater
13. Corp dumping waste in squatter community, wants them wiped out before they get sick and attract attention
14. Gus is always buying prerelease simsense and trids to sell bootleg
15. Someone is selling forged Lone Star ID Badges

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
9. Smugglers bringing in Awakened critters, one gets loose, leads to discovering operations
10. Paranormal critters exist here that exists no where else in the world, why?

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 
8. Pirate broadcast signal originates from somewhere in the enclave
9. Society for Traditional Values protest ghoul town
10. Open invitation to people who want to become a ghoul, recruitment drives

Contacts

1. Dockworker and fisherman who longs to catch a spitting pike
2. Burn victim with plasticy artificial skin
3. Scandalous lives of twin simsense stars
4. Elf metal band who only sing in Sperethiel
5. Idiot savant chess master, in street gang
6. Farrel the Barrel, fattest ork in the city
7. Troll named Hammerhead for pounding 5 nails into a concrete wall with his forehead to win a 50 nuyen bet
8. Preacher with a bible in one hand, an SMG in the other
9. Medical interrogator who buys protection from yak gang, uses blades, drugs, biofeedback probes, friendly attitude like a family doctor, often contracted for his services
10. Sushi Chef with wired reflexes, fastest in town
11. Dancer with chipped reflexes and a cybernetic snake
12. Warehouse run by Troll named Goob who rents out the rafters to squatters on the side
13. Tactical commander of a flashpoint enforcement team
14. Silicon Ma, triad leader
15. The Professor, a troll biologist
16. The Twins, 2 identical, heavily cybered street sams
17. Green 4800, ecoterrorist group
18. Mr. Johnson meets in public library, church, graveyard, parking garage, rooftop, on private plane that flies around airport, then lands again
19. Proprietor of the Troll Roll which specializes in Troll massage
20. Street gang of dwarfs who tattoo faces and dye hair red
21. The taekwondo ork, Kung fu master who can kick a security door off its hinges
22. The Neon Chrysanthemum, yakuza with bio-luminescent body decorations
23. Street doc with shaky hands and a veterinary degree
24. Man with no vocal chords who speaks through a cybercomm link
25. PTSD (Pete), Troll mercenary
26. The Trolls, a gang of Trolls who collect a toll for crossing a bridge
27. Vinyl record collector, has thousands
28. Armored bus painted in psychedelic colors, the Happy Family gang
29. Lady Deathstroke, has a monowhip in each fingertip
30. Tattoo Artist named Green Lucifer, Green Lucy for her friends
31. Street photographer who takes pictures of runners and other criminals for zine, not Lone Star
32. Dude with 3 foot dreads with sharp blades tied in, uses as surprise weapon
33. Vending machine business owner, widespread throughout city
34. Devout Jew, won't use magic on the Sabbath
35. The Knight, rumored to have survived being thrown into a giant turbine at the hydroelectric plant
36. The Duke of Muscles
37. A pair of dwarfs who rob banks
38. Jimmy Jazz, a chem dealer