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Tales From the Shadows
#1
Hello everyone, since we have an increase in sexual activity on the forums, I have decided to cool the whole thing down and share some stories from my Shadowrun campaigns. I'll post the first one here, then you can tell me if you would like to read more.

A Runner's Dream:

This run happened sometime mid to late in the campaign. We were contacted by the Johnson during our break week after a rather sucessful run, so we were rolling in nuyen and felt rather good about ourselves. Anyways, Johnson comes into contact with us with a proposition to work for him and his boss, no funny business yet. He offers us a reward of at least 400K nueyen...each, no runner can refuse an offer like that. This all changed when we found out that the guy we're working for is Lofwyr, the fraggin' president of Saeder Krupp. Following the ancient runner's saying to never deal with a dragon, we nearly hung up on the Johnson, before leaving for Redmond. The only thing that saved us was the smell of a previous victory and the delicious reward. Battling our anxiety, we pressed on.

Apparently, a young dragon has taken up residence in this area and amassed a surprising amount of wealth in a rather short period of time. Saeder Krupp took notice and decided that they don't like it.

Our target was a private, double A corp vault. We were tasked with infiltrating the vaults and finding out where all the monies are coming from. Secondary objectives were to plant a bug into their system, make sure their head honcho had a little accident and finally, fry their servers. Our personal goals were to steal as much yen as we could and try to find whatever other shiny goodies the company hid in their super hi-tech vaults.

For this run we've had our usual black coat team, consisting of:

Karl - The Uberdecker
Chauvette - the Samfiltrator
Nubz - the Rat Shaman
Jim - the Facefiltrator
Hannah - the Gearhead
The Driver - the Rigger

After a week of searching, we found out that the security officer lived alone, the matrix had no spider protecting it (he was away for unknown reasons) and the security was lazier between 1200 and 2000.

Officer Jeyong has ordered a soyburger and a spicy pizza from Jackie's. The food there was cheap drek, but he found that the nostalgia was worth indulging in. Surprisingly enough, the order arrived within 10 minutes. Opening the door, he pulls out his credstick before his eyes roll on his forehead as the delivery girl crushes his throat. 

Next day, Jim, perfectly disguised as Officer Jeyong, strolls into the corp building, giving the two guards at the entrance a curt nod he proceeds to his office, adjusting his uniform and dropping a small drone into one of the bins. The rest of the group, save The Driver, follow suit dressed as regular wage slaves. Passing by the Sec office, they grab the copy of a key to the lower levels when an "accidental" electrical fire starts in the staffroom. Using this distraction, four figures file into the lower levels of the building...

Rolling a few lucky stealth checks, we decide that we couldn't keep this up for long, so Nubz transformed into his ratty self to scout for us. Coming up to the vault door without further problems, we decided not to risk decking the door, instead the Gearhead worked her magic and physically broke into the door. Leaving her behind in control of the drone, we went on to scour the contents while the drone snuck it's way to the server room, rigging up a small EM grenade before trundling off towards the upper levels.

As we suspected, one of the datanodes was located inside the vault, so while the rest of us looted to our heart's content, the Uberdecker set down to work on planting the bug...

Slightly weighted down by the loot, we manage to get back topside without much problems. Unfortunately the fire has spread towards the top levels and shorted out the power, frying the CEO in the process. Apparently the managenment here cared about their employees, since we were escorted out of the building by the Chief of Security himself.

In the end, we secured about 800 grand worth of nuyen as well as a few really rare toys. This was about the most sucessfull run we've ever done, since there was absolutely no need for a fight, which was rather surprising. The main bit of luck was that we forgot to check for magical defences, so the fact that we weren't fried was EXTREMELY lucky (basically, the shaman saved us since he was the only one who brought things to counter whatever magic we could encounter)

Anyways, this concludes the first tale, if you want more stories, let me know. I might even tell you some stories from my Dark Heresy and CoC campaigns
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#2
(Whoa, huge font!)

I'm not much of a gamer and definitely not familiar with Shadowrun, but this was really, really fun to read. At first I imagined a regular heist (which would still be fun), but once I learned that there were cyberpunk and fantasy elements it became much more interesting. Dragons, stealth, magic, and hacking?

I think the delivery girl may be my favorite member of the team, although Jim's facefiltrating is an awesome ability to have.
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#3
Mhmm, interesting tale of runners. But what I'm curious is:

The currency is nueyen right? Why am I seeing a Japanese currency "yen"? I'm guessing its a typo? 

Anyways, good stories, and awesome font usage too Tongue
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#4
Indeed, it was really interesting, even if I don't know much about this Universe. But still, a captivating story. Smile
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#5
Ugh, sorry 'bout the font chummers, blame the phone, not me.

Nuyen is pretty much an international currency and Yen don't exist anymore, so I think it was OK shortening nuyen to Yen.

I won't tell you who plays which member of the team, although that can get pretty obvious at times.

If you feel lost in the universe, I might consider telling you about my one and only DnD campaign, it's about a crazy barbarian who set himself on fire before charging the enemy headfirst

OK, so here is a short rundown on the universe.

Around the year 2011, the magical world has returned to ours, this event is known as the Awakening, when a whole bunch of people suddenly found themselves to possess magical powers. In the next few years, around 25℅ of the world has received rapid mutations, (rapid as in, turned right in front of people's eyes) transforming them into Metahumans (there are about 4 types of Metahuman Elf, Dwarf, Orc and Troll) these transformations are known as goblinization. People who remained human decided to be rather racist towards the metas, so riots happened after they were granted human rights. Blahblahblah

After some time, a whole bunch of things happen and now we live in a world ruled by megacorporations, only a few break free from the life of a corporate wageslave and burn their SIN (Serial Identification Number) living a life of crime in the Shadows. We are known as Shadowrunners, guns for hire and criminals, a truly unstoppable force. We're playing 3rd edition, somewhere in the year 2076, so there is acess to quite a range of cyberware, tech and magic, all of which you'll find out about later. 

Oh yeah, I'll tell you a little about classes too. There are five main classes, 

Street Samurai - this is usually the front line fighter of your group, carrying enough lead and chrome to make a stand against a small platoon. (Not really, their essence will be shredded, but you get the point)

Decker - A hacker, skilled in surfing the matrix and stealing as much data as possible before selling it off at the closest Datahaven, out of the matrix a Decker usually acts as a slightly weaker Sam. 

Rigger - the dronemaster, fights by utilizing deadly combat drones to support the rest of the squad. That or he specialises in driving the squad around.

Shaman - one of the mages, focuses on using charisma to convince magical spirits to fight for him, usually less of an asshole than the mage

Mage - uses pure willpower to throw raw magic at their enemies, the spirits don't like them, but they are invaluable assets to a team.

There are also subclasses like Investigator, Infiltrator, Face and Mechanic, but that's more to do with that characters specialisations.

Anyway, hope this helps you out a little.
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#6
Not a fan and totally out of the all context, but i like it (i like action stories), keep them coming...
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#7
So this is a universe where magic, technology and all things unnatural coexist caused by this Awakening phenomenon (still unknown cause) and the world currently are in turbulence due to constant headbutting between Shadowrunners that went "Breaking the Law" vs MegaCorps.

Oh yeah, who's the leader of Shadowrunners and MegaCorps? I'm guessing MegaCorps be reigned by non-Metas and vice versa for Shadowrunners per se.
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#8
Not entirely correct, but that's the gist of it. Shadowrunners aren't a single organized group under a single leader, they are simply mercenaries working for their own goal, be it money vengeance or the sheer fuck of it all. Corps aren't exactly an organized force either, there are hundreds of different corporations all around the world with varying amounts of power and influence. These are measured in ratings, from unrated (influence over the local region or maybe city) to AAA (worldwide influence) there exist only 10 AAA Corps (aptly named The Big Ten. Incidentally, Saeder Krupp is one of them, which is why our little group was worried for their lives) that being said, they aren't exactly the bad guys...they just are most of the time.

So, the world is in constant turbulence because each faction (be it gang, corp or cult) wants to get to the top. So the constant shifts in power keep everything moving
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#9
Holy shit! Sounds like a good setting of an anime here!

Anyways, keep us posted. Would love to see how this saga unfolds next Smile
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"Make Love, Not War"
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#10
It's a good story so far, I'll look forward for more.
Let's see the bright sight of this world!
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