A highly secure undersea arcology. A cover story marketing truly terrible products. An extraction target whose focus on keeping his family safe is at odds with the Shadowrunners’ goals. This is Arkoblock Breakout, a Shadowrun adventure in the Proteus AG Arkoblock, a utopian space for Proteus AG employees to live and work, with parks, sports fields, a concert hall, and even an artificial forest. But deep beneath the ocean surface are the black decks, inaccessible to the general populace, where indentured employees coloquially known as "barnacles" live miserable lives of servitude.
You've been hired to infiltrate the Arkoblock posing as employees of the Sanders Beverage company, whose products are questionable at best. Can you sneak away long enough to locate their extraction target? Can you pass as salespeople? More importantly, can you dodge the over-attentive exec hell-bent on impressing visitors?
** Note that this is Shadowrun 5th edition, not 6th and not Anarchy.
Pre-generated characters are available.
Word on the street is, a group of shadowrunners plans to break into Exploits4u Ltd. to steal a vulnerability database.
Your mission: Break into Exploits4u to stop the other shadowrunners from...well, breaking into Exploits4u.
** Note that this is Shadowrun 5th edition, not 6th and not Anarchy.
Pre-generated characters will be available.
In 2072, in a dystopian world ruled by megacorporations, magic has returned. Dragons, Wizards, Shamans, Orks, Elves and the like share the streets, boardrooms and the virtual reality of the Matrix with everyday humans - and stranger things still lurk in the shadows. On the periphery of this world are shadowrunners - criminals for hire that work as deniable assets for the rich and powerful. Some are in it to make a diffference, others for the thrill, others again just for the cash.
About a decade ago, your characters were all affected in some way by the Crash 2.0, a massive failure of the worldwide computer network called the Matrix that erased identities, claimed many lives and brought down governments and corporations. Some, however, benefited from the chaos, profitting from the suffering of others. One of these is now rich and powerful. But one of his victims may get revenge from beyond the grave, and you are hired to deliver that revenge (and get paid handsomely for it). Are you in?
[A note on the system: Shadowrun Anarchy is a rules-lite-ish version of the shadowrun system. The version we will be using is not 100% the anarchy system as written, as some aspects may not work well in the context of a Con game, but no prior systeem knbbowledge is needed]
Interface Zero is a cyberpunk setting using the Pathfinder rule system. Get augmented, jack in, dye your hair.
Ms Johnson needs a job done, she needs you to break into a compound and ‘extract’ someone for her. She is willing to pay well, and doesn’t care if you make a mess doing it. Who knows, maybe this will be the one time you get to unholster your weapon and still sleep at night. Just a shame it’s raining.
"Incoming message: I hear you need a job to keep the cash flowing. Well buddy, I got something on the books today that needs a steady hand and a closed mouth, and I thought I could help you out with this sweet run. If you're interested, I'll be at the Flapjack Palace at 4pm."
You've never liked this guy, but he has a reputation for being fair, and you do need some cash. It couldn't hurt to turn up for some pancakes right?
After a job gone wrong you were whisked away by your fixer to a tropical "holiday" with no chance to say good bye. Now after a year Sandra was called you back, how does a shadow runner pick up the pieces of a lost life.
A shadow courier is shot down over Long Island City the race is on to recover the contents and come out richer than you ever dreamed.
Stay Secret, Stay Safe
Crossing the border into Salish-Shidhe territory is not easy under the best of circumstances. Crossing when you’re carrying an item that lights up the astral plane like a phosphorus bomb is even trickier. But the stakes are rising in the fight over magical artifacts that keep finding their way into the Seattle area, and that means the possible payouts are going up as well. If you can play the role of a smuggler to the hilt and make all the right contacts, you have the chance for a serious payday. Of course, you also stand a good chance of making some very powerful enemies, but isn’t that always the way?
The Politics of Deception
Whoever wins the war for the future of the Ork Underground is not going to leave a single weapon holstered. From waging outright violence to employing political subterfuge, both sides in the struggle are willing to use any tactics they can dream of to advance their cause.
Anti-metahuman sentiment has long been a hot-button issue in Seattle, and some members of the Ork Rights Committee have decided to expose one of Governor Brackhaven’s cronies for the racist they believe him to be. The only trouble is, people with a high public profile are usually very careful about keeping up appearances. If the ORC is going to support their accusations of racism, they may need some help in getting—or manufacturing—the evidence they need. That, of course, is where shadowrunners come in.