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==Prompts==
==Prompts==
===General Urban===
===General===
# Neighborhood dogs are all being driven crazy by the sonar squeals of awakened bats every dusk
# 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
# Bandit (awakened raccoon with opposable thumbs) broke into parked car and stole something shiny and valuable
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# Runner being pursued by angry spirit he had wronged
# Runner being pursued by angry spirit he had wronged
# Some slummer who won a trillion nuyen in the lottery
# 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


===Halloweeners===
===Halloweeners===

Revision as of 18:56, 12 September 2016

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