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[RPG] Shadowrun
Nov. 15th, 2007 12:08 amTonight was the start of Andy’s new Shadowrun 4e game; it’s the first game I’ve played with the current edition (the quickie “getting the feel for it” session we played after character creation notwithstanding) and the first time I’ve played Shadowrun in quite a while (since the time when, you know, I “ruined so much of shadowrun”).
Our characters are a group of ‘runners who worked together in the Boston metroplex until a disastrous job a year ago, when several members of the team died, the rest going to ground or getting out of town for a while. Then we all get a message from one of those teammates we thought was dead, arriving at a meeting place where a virtual avatar of Bridger tells us he’s been working as a fixer over the past year, but is now missing.
The characters are: Rook (cyber ork mercenary), Kodachi (sword-wielding Japanese ork adept), Mustang Sally (human vehicle rigger), and Pickman (technomancer with a Lovecraft fixation), plus my character, Brandon Donelley, AKA “Bran,” an elf Raven shaman, “chosen” by the Morrigan.
We escape the hired muscle and hacker that jump us at the meet site; Pickman takes out the hacker and back-tracks him, so we grab and interrogate him, getting the name “Trance” as the person who hired him. Examination of Bridger’s house shows he was left an invalid by his supposed “death,” doing all his work via the Matrix, and taken by someone who used some sort of paralytic gas. Bran finds a hair sample to use as a magical link to track Bridger’s whereabouts, while Pickman is rewarded by watching the data-drop for Trance’s hired hacker. He gets access to Trance’s system and finds evidence of her involvement in Bridger’s kidnapping.
Bran finds their former teammate is being held at a location in South Boston and contacts the rest of the team. Next game we’ll see what happens when they go in!
Our characters are a group of ‘runners who worked together in the Boston metroplex until a disastrous job a year ago, when several members of the team died, the rest going to ground or getting out of town for a while. Then we all get a message from one of those teammates we thought was dead, arriving at a meeting place where a virtual avatar of Bridger tells us he’s been working as a fixer over the past year, but is now missing.
The characters are: Rook (cyber ork mercenary), Kodachi (sword-wielding Japanese ork adept), Mustang Sally (human vehicle rigger), and Pickman (technomancer with a Lovecraft fixation), plus my character, Brandon Donelley, AKA “Bran,” an elf Raven shaman, “chosen” by the Morrigan.
We escape the hired muscle and hacker that jump us at the meet site; Pickman takes out the hacker and back-tracks him, so we grab and interrogate him, getting the name “Trance” as the person who hired him. Examination of Bridger’s house shows he was left an invalid by his supposed “death,” doing all his work via the Matrix, and taken by someone who used some sort of paralytic gas. Bran finds a hair sample to use as a magical link to track Bridger’s whereabouts, while Pickman is rewarded by watching the data-drop for Trance’s hired hacker. He gets access to Trance’s system and finds evidence of her involvement in Bridger’s kidnapping.
Bran finds their former teammate is being held at a location in South Boston and contacts the rest of the team. Next game we’ll see what happens when they go in!
