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# Blueprints of corporate HQ / facilities | # Blueprints of corporate HQ / facilities | ||
# Red hot data—AI research, blood magic, bug spirit exploration, dragon secrets, cyber zombies, etc. | # Red hot data—AI research, blood magic, bug spirit exploration, dragon secrets, cyber zombies, etc. | ||
# Executive itineraries and travel plans | # Executive itineraries and travel plans--flights, hotel and restaurant reservations, etc. | ||
# Real demographic information on Mr. Johnsons and other deniable assets | # Real demographic information on Mr. Johnsons and other deniable assets | ||
# Lost tech research from before the Crash, promising developments in AI/Weapons/Communications/Robotics/Teleportation experiments | |||
==Environmental Miss Effect Ideas== | ==Environmental Miss Effect Ideas== |
Revision as of 18:06, 8 September 2016
Scene Elements
The following should be considered:
- objects to take cover behind
- something somebody can make a called shot at (a street lamp, a camera)
- something someone could hack (a maglock, a camera, a car's alarm system)
- something that can be looted (a safe containing a prototype defended by explosives, a computer with valuable data on it)
- think in three dimensions and include heights and depths
Corporate Locale
- weird sculpture art in free standing glass display case
- cubicles
- conference room table
- vending machine
- aquarium
- desks
- elevator bank
- office with glass walls
- 33rd floor windows facing street below
- coffee mug
- fridge and microwave
- water dispenser
- vid screen
- narrow corridor
- maintenance corridor with freight elevator
- staircase
- conference call is going on
- computer monitors
- rolling office chairs
- large rolling white boards (or high tech equivalent)
- HVAC vents
- support columns
- restrooms
- dozens of cardboard boxes
- janitor's closet (cleaning supplies, etc#)
- sterile overhead lighting
- office plants
- civilian staff (could be night staff, normal staff, cleaning crew, depending)
- civilian staff on bring your child to work day (imagine an extraction with this as a surprise)
- boring corporate wall art and plaques for bullshit
- glass table
- storage room with broken office chairs
- server room
- boiler room
- roof access
- fountain with fish
- water fountain
- cameras
- trip lasers
- panic button
- safe room
- escalator
- ping pong table (or future sport)
- helipad / drone launch
- filing cabinets
- first aid kit on wall
- fire alarm
- fire extinguisher
- sprinkler system
- exit signs
- thermostat
- printer / xerox machine
Urban Locale
- bus shelter
- fire hydrant
- soy dog kiosk
- vending machine
- trees with xmas lights
- sewer grate
- street lights
- drug house
- alley entrance
- fire escape
- city bus
- abandoned car
- bike rack with locked bikes
- mailbox
- dumpster
- 7/11
- food truck
- public Matrix jack
- addicts watching on stoop
- children playing in street
- serious potholes
- trashcan fire
- market stalls
- bridge over road
- bridge over river
- garbage couch
- piles of trash on curb
- block party / street festival
- outdoor concert
- horde of pigeons
- noodle food cart
- stray cat
- a crime in progress (could go a lot of different ways with this--might make sense to have individual entries)
- skate/hoverboarders
- a parking lot
- ribbon cutting ceremony
- an animal control van
- a chain link fence
- construction porta potty
- stop sign (or other signs as well)
- fountain
- statue of someone important
- food truck
- bill board advertisement (someone could climb up there maybe)
Interesting Data
- Coordinates of storage facilities, safe houses, off the grid corporate retreats
- Personnel files—addresses, SINs, family members, etc.
- Access codes to other facilities
- R&D (product designs or scientific / magical research)
- Prototype schematics—could take to fabricator and get created or sell to rival or black market
- Strategic goals – move aggressively into biomedical research, etc.
- Political contributions
- Investments
- Security protocols / schedules
- Archived emails
- Black ops
- User IDs and passwords
- Administrator IDs and passwords
- Property owned worldwide
- Financial allocations – 20% increase to budget of artifact recovery and analysis division—did they find something big?
- Account numbers and payroll
- Legal stuff (out of court settlements, internal memos, etc)
- Blackmail or newsworthy leak—executive scandal
- Purchasing orders (Renraku ordered 10,000 gas masks—why? What do they have planned?)
- Headhunting files—prominent figures currently working for other organizations
- Personality evaluations of executives and managers
- Profit projections
- Promising start-ups for buyouts / takeovers
- Succession plans (which executives can’t be on same flights)
- Organizational charts (reveal shell companies, subsidiaries, and hierarchies)
- Dirty laundry for blackmail/intimidation of potential defectors
- Blueprints of corporate HQ / facilities
- Red hot data—AI research, blood magic, bug spirit exploration, dragon secrets, cyber zombies, etc.
- Executive itineraries and travel plans--flights, hotel and restaurant reservations, etc.
- Real demographic information on Mr. Johnsons and other deniable assets
- Lost tech research from before the Crash, promising developments in AI/Weapons/Communications/Robotics/Teleportation experiments
Environmental Miss Effect Ideas
Corporate
- Aquarium shatters, spilling water, broken glass, and fish (difficult terrain?)
- Glass walls shattered, spilling broken glass
- Fire extinguisher hit by bullet—would it burst?
- Sprinkler system set off, fire alarm triggered
- Fire starts from electronics being hit
- Table / filing cabinet / Xerox machine / fridge / etc gets knocked over, landing on someone potentially or changing cover opportunities
- Overhead lights destroyed
- Panic Alarm triggered, locking down floor
Urban
- "Innocent" bystander hit
- Car alarm goes off
- Street light shot out
- Car's fuel tank hit, begins to smoke, will blow up
- Bus shelter spills shattered glass
- Telephone (equivalent) pole knocked down
- City Watch camera hit by stray bullet
- Fire hydrant depressurized, water geyser
- Stray bullet breaks store front window, sets off Lone Star alarm
Challenge Elements
Chases
- woman pushing baby stroller
- child chasing ball
- jack-knifed truck blocking both lanes
- escaped dog with leash, owner chasing after
- Troll Parade (cause it's trolling the players)
- Political rally
- Block party
- Cop sees you whizzing by and joins the chase
- train tracks with a train coming
- drawbridge
- upcoming tunnel will limit options
- road being resurfaced
- patch of ice / oil
- very steep incline or decline
- gangers take pot shots as you speed by
- news drone is catching up, publicity would probably be very bad
- bridge to nowhere situation
- school bus on side of road, driver in street fixing tire, kids on bus
- inclement weather event, flooded road, earthquake, severe wind, etc#
- have to veer off road onto golf course or park trail
- someone drops onto roof of car (could be friend, foe, or neutral)
- no brakes!
- snake in car wakes up
- baby on board
- animal control van--dogs pour out
- bad part of town
- one way street
- construction
- driver less car hacking
- swarm of bee-sized robots
- smoke/fog
- someone's making sounds from the trunk
- interrupting a wedding
- dogs shouldn't drive
Prompts
Halloweeners
- Handsome Jack is Back
- Former leader of gang who was ousted some time back. He’s returned, not very handsome anymore, but with some real ugly muscle.
- Escalating Prank War Between Trickers and Treaters, junior member factions fighting for spots in the gang, kids 8-12 generally
- Current leader Mister Bones gets a new pet, a <y> stolen from the nature preserve, and he’s having trouble training it
- 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
- Developers moving in traditional gang zone, bringing bulldozers and permits—can you fight City Hall?
- Might push gang into conflict with rival orc gang, the Pogos, causing violent eruption
- Chemists selling new ‘candy’, quite addictive and dangerous—slumming tourists and teenagers venturing into dangerous gang turf to get their fix
- 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
- Awakened preacher opens magic healing clinic for orphans, gang members insist he also heal their wounded
Black Market Squatter Mall
- New weapon shipment from Japan / Russia
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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.
- Unusual illness sweeping squatters, threatens to spread to the rest of the city if quarantine not observed or cure found. Will devastate community.
Nature Preserve
- Middle class family took trip, lost child in dangerous woods—pooled money to Johnson to hopefully get their child back
- Native American criminal Jason Twofoxes wanted for arson, suspected to be in hiding here, may have set traps
- 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
- 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
- Forest fire/some other threat forces dangerous animals out into the nearby neighborhoods, causing problems
- Park ranger is murdered by suspected poacher group
- 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
- Plane disappears flying over preserve, VIP / interesting cargo on board
Ghoul Enclave
- Promising researcher working on artificial flesh is kidnapped, leading ghoul citizens will pay to have her rescued and her research returned
- 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
- 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.
- Mob has been disposing of bodies by paying group of thug-like ghouls who devour the victims. Someone is unhappy with this arrangement.
- 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.
- 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.
- A free spirit has been preying on ghouls