Shadowrun_2050.pdf

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Work’S Work ...............................4

IntroductIon .............................10

the knIfe at Your throat ..................12

things that can kill You ..................12

The World is Deliberately

Trying to Kill You .....................12

Gangs ..............................13

Security Zone Ratings ................14

Criminal Syndicates ..................18

Yakuza .............................19

Seoulpa Rings .......................19

Maia ...............................19

Policlubs ............................20

Government Forces ..................20

The Salish-Shidhe Council .............21

Near Neighbors ......................23

Corporate Forces ....................25

Ares Macrotechnologies, Inc. .........26

Aztechnology .......................27

Fuchi Industrial Electronics ............28

Mitsuhama Computer Technologies ....29

Renraku Computer Systems ...........30

Saeder-Krupp Aktiengesellschaft ......31

Shiawase Corporation ................32

Yamatetsu ..........................33

Digital Threats .......................34

Magical Threats .....................36

Dragons ............................37

The End of the World As We Know It ...38

ka-Power List: 2050 ......................40

Neil the Ork Barbarian ................40

Euphoria ............................41

JetBlack .............................41

Hairy Krishna ........................42

Concrete Dreams ....................43

Maria Mercurial .....................44

Teddy “The Terminator’’ Tartikoff .......45

Hercule “Hercu-Leech” Thorson .......45

Masahiro Orochi .....................46

the neo-anarchists Guide

to Pissing off Lone Star ..................46

The Big Score and How To Keep It .....47

Bound (And Gagged) For Glory ........48

Grand Theft Anarchist ................50

Getting Out Of Jail Without One Of Those

Cards ...............................53

the darkeSt ShadoWS .....................54

Seattle ..................................54

Places ..............................54

Government ........................64

Organized Crime ....................65

The Running Scene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

In Closing ...........................68

chicago 2050 ...........................68

Chicago Geography: City on the Lake, Sprawl

for Miles ............................68

Chicago: Politics with Power ...........82

Chicago Underworld .................83

Corporate Chicago ...................86

Arcane Chicago .....................88

In Closing ...........................89

hong kong ..............................90

Places ..............................91

Government ........................97

Crime ..............................98

Running in Hong Kong ...............99

hIrInG Board .............................100

data Snatching .........................102

Legbreaking ............................104

Iniltration .............................105

courier ................................107

Investigation ...........................108

open Warfare ..........................110

Wetwork ...............................112

Bodyguard/Protection ..................113

other Jobs .............................114

dealing with Mr. Johnson ................116

When I WaS Your aGe .....................122

runnerS of 2050 ..........................126

adept ..................................126

Bodyguard .............................127

Burned-out Mage .......................128

decker .................................129

detective ...............................13 0

former company Man ...................131

former Wage Mage .....................13 2

Mercenary .............................13 3

rigger .................................13 3

rocker .................................13 4

Shaman ................................13 5

Street Mage ............................13 6

Street Samurai ..........................137

LIfe In 2050 ................................13 8

things are a Little Weird ................13 8

Calamity, Disaster, and Carnage ......13 8

Casting Shadows ...................13 8

It’s All About the Information ........13 8

Reach Out and Touch Someone ......13 9

You Need More Stuff ................13 9

Who Do You Think You Are? .........13 9

The Fashionable and the Fashion ......141

In Short ... ..........................141

MaGIc .................................... 14 4

Public Perception ...................... 14 4

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traditions in 2050 ..................... 14 4

Adepts ............................14 5

The Shamanic Tradition ..............14 5

The Hermetic Tradition ..............14 5

The Buddhist Tradition ...............147

the Wuxing Tradition ................14 8

Sorcery ............................14 9

MatrIx ....................................15 0

history of the Matrix ....................15 0

What the Matrix Is and how It appears ...151

What the Matrix Looks Like ..........151

Networks of Nodes .................15 2

cyberterminals and cyberdecks .........15 4

Cyberdecks ........................15 5

Cyberterminals .....................15 6

Luggage ...........................15 6

utility Programs ........................157

Programming on the Fly .............157

Combat Utilities ....................157

Defense Utilities ....................157

Sensor Utilities .....................15 8

Masking Utilities ....................15 9

a field Guide to Ic ......................15 9

White IC ...........................15 9

Gray IC ............................16 0

Black IC ............................161

Matrix actions ..........................16 2

Free Actions ........................16 2

Simple Actions .....................16 2

Complex Actions ...................16 3

Jacking In naked ........................16 4

alarm! .................................16 4

Gear ......................................16 6

Wireless connectivity? ..................16 6

concealability ..........................16 6

Concealability and Perception ........16 6

Gear Listing ............................16 6

Melee Weapons ....................16 6

Projectile Weapons .................167

Firearms ...........................16 8

Firearm Accessories .................173

Ammunition .......................175

Grenades, Rockets,

Missiles, and Explosives .............175

Clothing and Armor .................176

Electronics .........................177

Tools ..............................180

Chemicals and Drugs ................180

Survival Gear .......................182

Biotech ............................182

Cyberware .........................183

Bioware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Magical Equipment .................191

Vehicles ...........................191

Drones ............................19 5

Vehicle Weapons ...................19 5

Rigger Gear ........................19 6

ShadoWrun 2050

Writing

Jean-Marc Comeau, Raymond Croteau,

Jason M. Hardy, Adam Large, Aaron

Pavao, Scott Schletz, R.J. Thomas,

Robert Wieland

editing

Jason M. Hardy, Aaron Pavao

Playtesting and Prooing

Raymond Croteau, Patrick Goodman,

Lars Wagner Hansen, Mason Hart,

Francis Jose, Adam Large, James

O’Laughlin, Aaron Pavao, Scott Schletz,

R.J. Thomas, Jeremy Weyand

art direction

Brent Evans

cover art

Marc Sasso

Interior art

Joel Biske, Victor Perez Corbella, Phil

Hilliker, Levi Hoffmeier, Jason Juta, Igor

Kieryluk, Ian King, Jeff Laubenstein,

Randall Mackey, Dan Masso, Jeremy

McHugh, Jason Cheeseman-Meyer, Mark

Molnar, Victor Manuel Leza Moreno,

David Nash, Alessandra Pisano, Ryan

Portillo, Rob Ruffolo, Klaus Scherwinski,

Andreas “AAS” Schroth, Péter Tikos, Brent

Elliot White

cover Layout

Matt Heerdt

Interior design & Layout

Matt Heerdt

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WORK ' S WORK

From his quiet spot on North Avenue Beach,

Alexander Black—Trench to his shadowy associates—

looked to the north and watched the sooty black

clouds drift out to the lake. They reminded him of his

life, darkness adrift on the winds. The regular soot

clouds billowing from the smokestacks of Northside

had helped him choose his name, or at least his fake

name, Black. Trench was a street name. That moniker

had been slapped on a kid who loved old ilm noir

and wore a black trench coat almost all year round.

His real name was a secret he kept tightly locked

away from all but his closest friends. He didn’t have

many of those.

He leaned back in the worn old beach chair, with

its white chips of paint peeling and blowing off in the

breeze, and thought about his life in the shadows.

It hadn’t been long, three months so far, but he was

making himself useful to a team of mostly out-of-

towners. His youth made it tough. They all still looked

at him like a kid. He couldn’t blame them. He was

young, only eighteen, and honestly pretty starstruck.

His teammates all had such rich histories, but histories

that took place in other parts of the world, like Texas,

Tír Tairngire, and even the old U.S.A. They were real

shadowrunners. He was just cutting his teeth on the

streets, trying to escape the restriction, misery, and

boredom of a corporate life. Someday, he thought.

He had met them when they needed some local

news. One of his pals, Edge, directed them to him as

a good source. They’d been followed. He managed to

take a bullet meant to inish Wicker and got off a few

lucky shots that put their assailants on the run. Then,

he patched up a nasty gash on Hick’s back, received

while rushing to Wicker’s aid. He hadn’t helped

Cirolle, but the elf respected the aid he’d given the

rest of the team. The rest was history. He’d been on

two jobs with them since. The work was hard but the

money was good, and the guys weren’t too hard on

his rookie mistakes.

His brief reminiscence was interrupted by the

owl hoot of his pocket secretary announcing a mes-

sage from Wicker. Before he could sit up and dig the

device out of his pocket, the hooting was replaced

with the Dixie whistle indicating a message from

Hick, and no sooner had that inished than the high-

noon face-off tune played for Cirolle’s message

to complete the message trifecta. All the beeping

panicked him, and the fancy handheld PDA fell in the

sand. It was only his expensive relex system that

saved the device from an incoming wave and the

oblivion of an electronic recycling bin. Lake Michigan

water was not good for electronics.

Brushing away the sand, Trench pulled the slim

datacord from the side of the device and plugged

it into the datajack behind his ear. He pulled up all

three messages to display in his cybereyes before he

started walking toward his car. They all said basically

the same thing. Work, head back ASAP. Meet at F&F.

Once they were read, he erased them, clearing his

vision before he tripped. Getting used to the relex

system was tough, but the eyes were the toughest.

Too many things passed through his vision at once.

Vision cleared, he picked up the pace and started

the process of hoping his car was still in one piece

after being parked at the north end of the Noose for

almost twenty minutes.

A tall, extremely slim elf sitting behind a desk too

small for his lengthy frame typed in the day’s receipts

with long, slender ingers best made for manipulat-

ing mana, not keyboards. Many years before he had

been happy to do the work. It was fresh then, and

there was a sense of excitement to a new business

venture. Twenty years later the shine had rubbed off.

It didn’t help Wicker’s mood that times were troubled.

Business was slow, he was getting some unwanted

pressure by the mob, and he was feeling lost on the

Wheel. He’d taken to the shadows recently for a little

extra cash, mainly to keep the shop aloat. It was the

irst time in almost a year he had felt as if the Wheel

was turning for him.

Four months ago, he’d made a connection with a

Tír expat who stopped in the shop to talk about order-

ing a weapon focus. The idea of making a weapon

focus was intriguing; he hadn’t made one in years,

but the elf didn’t have anywhere near the cash low to

fund the project. The elf, Cirolle, was new in town and

knew an ork looking for income. Wicker knew a ixer

who was always looking for talent, so the trio hit the

shadows and picked up a fourth after a month. That

fourth, a human kid named Trench, took all of ive min-

utes to save Wicker’s life for the irst time. When that

WORK'S WORK>>

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