Random Tables
Shadowrun Random Atmosphere Generator
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
- good old fashioned electric fence
- biomonitors on guards that alert central security
- influence mines that can be temporarily disarmed by radio
- Phased-array radar installation, one big eye in a region
- standing desks
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)
- row of motorcycles parked outside a building
- Neon signs
- an Elven tenement
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
- Codes to an advanced orbital laser launched in the 1980s that most people have forgotten about
- Data on early experiments to replicate goblinization on primates and other animals, using irradiation, carcinogens, mutagens, etc. and the often horrific results
- Chimeric gene splicing experiments that resulted in awakened creatures
- Emergency protocols, evacuation plans for where personnel will escape to in the event of a disaster
- Documentation long thought lost that pinpoints locations of abandoned military chemical plants and nuclear waste disposal sites
- Location of a non-corp affiliated delta clinic under observation, located in South America or Africa
- DNA of extinct species, experiments to bring them back (could be Jurassic Parky or something else)
- Genome maps for engineered viruses
- Tailored war code viruses, extremely against Corporate Court regulations and laws
- Learn of a large shareholder with immune disease, kept in tank, appears only via Matrix, horrific looking body
- Biological computers, sections of metahuman brains in vats of electrolytes
- Early experiments to reverse goblinization
- Records of inner city clinic, sterilizing metahumans who come in for treatment, research into bioweapons that only affect metahumans, inducing mutations in Awakened births
- Nuclear ballistic submarine lost with all hands on deck in the Crash
- Details of the ultrarich who live on Zurich Orbital space station
- Serum that causes goblinization or insanity or death
- Details of drilling mine shafts into geological faults all over the earth and carving magical runes into the shifting plates, why?
- Address of a megafixer for governments and megacorps, brokers 12 and 15 figure deals
- 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
- Access codes to Fuchi Industrial Electronics Tower 5
- An antidote formula labeled DDE2
- Mages working for the military, advanced research
- 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
- Experiments involving binding a fire elemental into a metahuman, a la the Human Torch
- Location of warehouse full of experimental BTLs, abandoned in disaster
- Schematics of prototype VTOL with spirit bound to engine which gets painfully drained when in use
- Proprietary Simsense compression algorithms
- Inventory of a bank's safe deposit boxes for insurance purposes
- Guest list to exclusive club debut of musician's first tour date
- Guest registry of a luxury hotel
- Membership of a controversial policlub like Humanis
- Magical research into ancient Japanese ninja traditions, spells that let you walk on water or pass through a solid wall
- Strike team orders
- Partial passcodes stored across multiple systems
- A scrambled virus packet the Yakuza are after
- Experiments on prisoners in an Omega-class max security prison
- Mitsuhama Research Unit 12
- A powerful free spirit's true name
- Plans for a tonal generator, emotional effect of harmonics on animals and humans
- Experimental rifle designed to hurt spirits
- Experiments with bug spirits to use their natural competition against other types of bugs to get them to attack other bug spirits
- Contact information for Dr. Sarah Knorr, a skilled augment surgeon that'll take cash under the table. She installs augmentable cyberware for $30,000¥, non-augmentable for 7,500¥, and augments for 1,500¥, reducing the severity of the resulting injury by one level.
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
- Insane cyber zombie assassin with area cranial bomb set to detonate on death bursts onto scene
- Floor gets airsealed, making it run on recycled air or so gas can be pumped in
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
- Insane cyber zombie assassin with area cranial bomb set to detonate on death bursts onto scene
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
Twists
- Other team shows up (with same target / specifically to defend target from PCs / after unrelated target)
- Power goes out due to grid overload from other activities or intense storm. Elevators and doors lock.
- Civilian enters picture on unrelated task—left something at her desk, or riding bicycle around corner
- Appropriate animal enters scene—devil rats in city, escaped experimental animal in corporate facility
- They knew we were coming!
- 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)
- Ice elemental cooling server room goes berserk
- Hoop snakes!
- Bad Intel, more opposition than described, or better armed, or paranormal
- Aztechnology Leopard and Jaguar Guard, Renraku Red Samurai, Ares FireLight, etc.--Elite opposition
- Target recently hit by other team so on high alert
- Mr. Johnson's Plans don't mention the newly installed gun turrets, what else might he not have mentioned?
- Flesh eating beetles lying dormant in the corpses they're to retrieve from the morgue
- Angry spirit in the vault along with the prototype
- Target has bodyguards from a highly reputable private security firm
- Elevators stop going to certain floors due to alarm
- Found 'cursed' item, it infects those who handle it
Prompts
General
- Neighborhood dogs are all being driven crazy by the sonar squeals of awakened bats every dusk
- Bandit (awakened raccoon with opposable thumbs) broke into parked car and stole something shiny and valuable
- Blood kite breeding season in community park, hyper-aggressive birds go for the eyes
- 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
- An incubus in a dockside warehouse
- Ritual cannibalism in hmhvv infected trolls
- Pack of Gabriel hounds preying on slum dwellers and squatters
- Lesser thunderbirds causing lightning storms, EMP pulsing electronics
- Loup garou attack in tunnels underneath city
- Guy wants motorcycle back that was swallowed by a mega shark
- 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
- Because gargoyle skin calcifies on death, researchers want to capture a living one for vivisection and research
- Nomad possession of a non-threatening creature
- Caustic saliva of a novopossum weaponized
- Piasma (awakened bear) guarding facility behind fence
- Rockworms eating through old concrete infrastructure and buildings
- Stonebinders, pests that need exterminated, spit petrifies
- Talis cat is killing squatters, people terrified of violent serial killer
- Toxic spirits encountered in sewers or old chemical plant
- Hijack truck, supposed to be electronics but turns out to be seafood (bad intel)
- Wendigo with coven of secret cannibals in slum
- Steal or get someone's retinal pattern on cybereye for infiltration
- Cybered up animals, experiments or guards
- Heart of a griffin or similar talisman in safe
- Awakened alligator in sewers
- Large three eyed flying snake killing guard dogs at industrial site, inhabitants of neighborhood will defend it
- Runner being pursued by angry spirit he had wronged
- Some slummer who won a trillion nuyen in the lottery
- Room 3067 on the 78th floor of the Renraku Arcology
- Kilometers of burrowing beaver tunnels along the coast
- A cybered-up Centaur toting an assault rifle
- Dog asp barks and whines to sound like hurt dog, in order to lure someone close, then attacks
- Bounty for the heads of Fenrir Wolves
- Foulmart musk in diffuser cannons as antipersonnel spray, stink lasts for weeks, even if you burn your clothes
- Nimue's salamanders soaking up all magic, live in lobby fountain
- Old Awakened otter with patchy fur left, dependent on pollution, summons Toxic spirit
- Infected crested barbarians (awakened apes) escaped or liberated from lab, need to be taken out before they introduce horrible virus
- Steel crate, metal alloy casing difficult to open, taken from run, but what's inside?
- Old man very sick, needs runners to steal cure, other Corp blackmailing with small doses, just enough to keep him alive
- Fantasy Urban Brawl enthusiasts
- 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
- Steal or get someone's retinal pattern on cybereye for infiltration
- Storm dolphins work together to attack oil rig, electrical and biomagnetic manipulation affect navigational instruments
- Knight Errant internal surveillance system
- Corrupt Lone Star cop
- Honest Lone Star cop
- Smoke grenades
- Undersea research facilities
- Cerberus Hound guards a dragon's mini horde
- Nosferatu doctor has clinic with dozens on life-support, slowly draining them of life
- Exotic collector wants a black pegasus
- Shipment of Quicksilver Mongoose civet, very hard to farm because the Mongooses must eat venomous snakes
- Free trading some powdered stuff by boat
- Awakened scorpions with deadly venom controlled by corps with chemical triggers
- Stone Toad secretion desired for organic high
- Island with compound defended by ultrasonics to keep Stymphalian Herons away
- Volleying Porcupines who spray and shoot quills
- A studio creating EXTREME Better-Than-Life (BTL) chips and simsense torture
- Extract target from noisy ejector-cram 'music' show
- Tooth compartment holds micro homing beacon
- Dude with cranial bomb protecting data, corp to set off cortex bomb if courier compromised
- Rewarded with access time in the Nexus for significant service to Shadowland
- Awakened urban bunnies whose powerful legs let them leap onto the tops of buildings to pillage rooftop gardens
- Delicious liqueur smuggled out of Tir, premium organic fruits and vegetables, artworks, sculptures and paintings
- Need to place a bug on a satellite before it launches
- A Tir Paladin out on an errand
- Free someone from corporate or government prison, serving life, a legendary runner? Or someone with needed info
- Knock out a power plant to make a mission easier
- Forged paintings
- Explosives (obviously)
- A dragon memory crystal, containing some ancient lore from the 4th or even 2nd world, accessible only through dragonspeech or powerful magic
- Leviathan cocoon at bottom of the ocean
- Remains of powerful magic figure from an earlier age
- When you visit a dragon, you need to bring a gift
- 100 klicks of subway tunnels excavated but never finished when funding cut
- High class restaurant you need a reservation 2 weeks in advance for, shadowrunners would stick out, dress code
- Restaurant whose owner hides bugs under all the tables, collects info from patrons
- Get someone who's in a hospital, guarded, life support, has data in head
- Simsense theme park, studios seat 100, shows like Roller Coasters of the World and Desert Wars Commander and Speed!
- Casino intrigue, place for meet, gambling, contacts, heist
- Scientists capture powerful fire elemental, try to drain its power through technological means, free spirit hires runners to unbind the spirit
- Introduce flaw in product blueprint, causing 10% to explode or battery overheating to force product recall and tank stock price
- Arson insurance fraud, 12 charred bodies of kids, cover up
- Perfume made from protected or sentient species
- Some big shot's Pocket Secretary
- Abduct daughter of target from private school, take advantage of monthly visit to the opera
- School of Shamanic and Metaplanar Studies
- Corporate outfit exploiting a sacred site
- Briefcase with hard copy blueprint of prototype attack aircraft and dozens of experimental BTLs
- Involuntary organ donors
- Nasty mutant virus tearing through orks in the Underground, need black market meds
- Tickets to a big sporting event or concert
- Urban Brawl reconnaissance run, 24 hours before zone gets activated, leave cache of equipment for hiring team
- Blow up fabrication plant or assassinate executive to drive down stock price prior to hostile takeover
- Stow aboard cargo ship or plane to cross border, cargo manifests record mass of cargo to such exact tolerance, they would need altered
- Johnson needs a short hop aerial carrier hijacked and its passengers delivered across the border
- Collateral damage from police is charged to criminals who precipitate the response
- Remote activated shaped charge bracelets, anti augmentation restraints for obviously cybered air line passengers
- 40 story building, abandoned, broken elevators but someone's hiding at the top--looks like the stairs, chummers
- Hijack news chopper to get into area where disaster just occurred
- Exquisite dueling rapier from the 16th century, worth a lot but how do the runners move it?
- Steal art or artifacts from well secured museum or private collection
- Protection racket run by a free hearth spirit named Etna
- Lifesaving prescription drug in short supply due to runners torching warehouse stockpile, letting corp gouge
- Natural foods, not soy-based, synthetic, or vat grown
- Want to retrieve corpse of powerful paranormal critter for research lab, like a dragon killed over Puget Sound
- Ork Underground industry is salvage and agriculture, mushrooms they sell to fancy restaurants who think they come from California
- A coffin motel run by a vampire
- Pay squatters 50 nuyen to cause distraction
- The Redbrick behind the Neon
- The Plastic Jungles
- Shaman lions, awakened critters capable of casting illusions
- Rehab clinic that uses magic or technology
- Blew up school to hit Don who was attending his kid's parent teacher night
- Outfit a small private security force with 'cold iron', untraceable weapons
- Surveillance chip implanted near spinal ganglia
- Three Naga emeralds as payment
- Guy who wants his ashes scattered in three dangerous, exotic places
- Two drones connected by monowire cut a guy in half as he flees a casino
- Hack school system to get student's schedule so you know where he'll be at a certain time
- Locking automatic doors, emergency override blocked to trap people in a department store
- Hotel haunted by 24 different spirits
- Teenage gangs obsessed with flashy foreign technoculture
- Hack the Grid Guide system downtown
- Theatre show involving savage audience participation and confrontation, challenging work
- A bottle of ice wine from 2023
- Make the crowd panic like a fucking bomb threat
- Transport a steel coffin shaped box from the airport to the harbor, no questions asked
- Pay someone to keep a door unlocked
- A major fiber option relay station
- Gang territory like Somalia, the system has failed
- Product testing facility
- Illegal underground museum where art stolen from corporations who stole it from public museums when funding and insurance stopped is displayed
- Lake with tons of free water and air spirits, strange weather
- Custom designed color-changing fish that cost thousands of nuyen each, swimming in fountain of corp lobby
- Multi-level subbasements
- Stealth VTOL with a low signature
- Ambient Veracity Evaluator detects unusual stress in person's voice and walk, often used in banks
- Take over a limousine or private short hop taxi to kidnap exec
- To kill a troublesome free spirit for good, plan is to send it on a rocket ship beyond the earth's manasphere
- Activists chain themselves to a business's fence
- If the runners don't help, she'll probably kill her ex or herself
- A nuclear power plant
- The sybaritic pleasures of the ultra rich and powerful
- Locker in the monorail station with something valuable stashed inside
- Group rates at the cemetery
- A frag grenade tossed into the mayor's hoverlimo
- In the presence of great spirits
- River streaked with a half dozen poison bright chemical strands
- The One Star Hotel
- Urban Brawl trading cards
- Developing or regressing nations use plutonium or uranium for fission instead of fusion
- An incumbent politician running a last-minute smear campaign to fight off a surging challenger.
- Hacking a geolocation-based game to lure rich kids to dangerous places in the barrens.
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
- Gang offers safe houses, places for people to disappear for awhile
- Corporate plot to create major social disruptions in neighborhood to enhance sales of their security equipment, hired rioters to cause trouble
- 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
- An undercover Lone Star agent in a gang whose cover might be compromised, needs extraction before it's too late
- 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
- To join the gang, you have to steal a gun from a cop
- Hideout is an old fallout shelter / abandoned prison
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 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
- 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.
- 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…
- 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)
- Old ice rink used for gang duels in abandoned mall, knife fights, fist fights, guns, audience and bets
- Crooked street doc rumored to install extra hardware while patient under the laser, tracking stuff he can then sell to police or corps
- Spirits attracted to the passions put out by a rock band's concerts in old movie theater
- Corp dumping waste in squatter community, wants them wiped out before they get sick and attract attention
- Gus is always buying prerelease simsense and trids to sell bootleg
- Someone is selling forged Lone Star ID Badges
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
- Smugglers bringing in Awakened critters, one gets loose, leads to discovering operations
- Paranormal critters exist here that exists no where else in the world, why?
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
- Pirate broadcast signal originates from somewhere in the enclave
- Society for Traditional Values protest ghoul town
- Open invitation to people who want to become a ghoul, recruitment drives
Contacts
- Dockworker and fisherman who longs to catch a spitting pike
- Burn victim with plasticy artificial skin
- Scandalous lives of twin simsense stars
- Elf metal band who only sing in Sperethiel
- Idiot savant chess master, in street gang
- Farrel the Barrel, fattest ork in the city
- Troll named Hammerhead for pounding 5 nails into a concrete wall with his forehead to win a 50 nuyen bet
- Preacher with a bible in one hand, an SMG in the other
- Medical interrogator who buys protection from yak gang, uses blades, drugs, biofeedback probes, friendly attitude like a family doctor, often contracted for his services
- Sushi Chef with wired reflexes, fastest in town
- Dancer with chipped reflexes and a cybernetic snake
- Warehouse run by Troll named Goob who rents out the rafters to squatters on the side
- Tactical commander of a flashpoint enforcement team
- Silicon Ma, triad leader
- The Professor, a troll biologist
- The Twins, 2 identical, heavily cybered street sams
- Green 4800, ecoterrorist group
- Mr. Johnson meets in public library, church, graveyard, parking garage, rooftop, on private plane that flies around airport, then lands again
- Proprietor of the Troll Roll which specializes in Troll massage
- Street gang of dwarfs who tattoo faces and dye hair red
- The taekwondo ork, Kung fu master who can kick a security door off its hinges
- The Neon Chrysanthemum, yakuza with bio-luminescent body decorations
- Street doc with shaky hands and a veterinary degree
- Man with no vocal chords who speaks through a cybercomm link
- PTSD (Pete), Troll mercenary
- The Trolls, a gang of Trolls who collect a toll for crossing a bridge
- Vinyl record collector, has thousands
- Armored bus painted in psychedelic colors, the Happy Family gang
- Lady Deathstroke, has a monowhip in each fingertip
- Tattoo Artist named Green Lucifer, Green Lucy for her friends
- Street photographer who takes pictures of runners and other criminals for zine, not Lone Star
- Dude with 3 foot dreads with sharp blades tied in, uses as surprise weapon
- Vending machine business owner, widespread throughout city
- Devout Jew, won't use magic on the Sabbath
- The Knight, rumored to have survived being thrown into a giant turbine at the hydroelectric plant
- The Duke of Muscles
- A pair of dwarfs who rob banks
- Jimmy Jazz, a chem dealer