The Superior Job

The GM: Claus

The Characters:

Game System: Shadowrun 4th Edition 20th Anniversary Book

Game Type: One-Shot

Related Games:

Follows

• Cyber Punk for the Holidays 2001
• Cyber Punk for the Holidays 2002
• Cyber Punk for the Holidays 2003
• Independence Day: ID4
• Epiphany
• Ouroboros
• Twenty Minutes in the Future
• The Church of the Machine 

Preceeds

• Sapphire Interlude  
• Echoes of the Future 
• Aspect of a Thousand
• Two Graves
• Lift Hill
• R3N41554NZ FARE 

Alternate Site:

• Cyberpunk for the Holiday Wiki

Date Played: 12/11/2010

Resources:

• Game Timeline 

Character Creation

Starting: 400 Build points (usual point limitations, 200 on attribtues, -35 neg qualities/35 pos qualities, 50bp max on resources)

Leveling up: +250 Karma, +500k Credits, +40 Points in Contacts, no Lifestyle/Contracts past current month (Dec 2073), no more than 1000 credits remaining

Suggestions:

Everyone, being highly successfull runners should consider buying the following, or something near it:

A commlink. Fairlight Caliban 8k NY, or the Hermes Ikon 5k are good response and signal).

A basic OS like the Iris Orb OS, 1k NY.

Upgrade your Firewall to 6 for 3k NY for your main SIN.

A second cheapo commlink 300 NY includes the OS.

With a throw away fake SIN 1k NY.

Put Encryption 6 on your main comm 600 NY.

Get a tag burner and keep your gear clean of RFID tags, 150 NY.

Consider a AMAD Jammer to get past MAD scanners R4, 2k NY.

Some luggage and vacuum sealer to get guns and ammo past checkpoints without being scanned or sniffed, 4050 NY.

Wear a Full Bodysuit (1600 NY) with one other armor piece equal to X.  Where BOD  is your  Body attribute. 

     X = (2 * BOD) -3

Put a Gridlink Override on your vehicle, 2k NY to keep the system off your gas.

Put a Skinlink on stuff you absolutely must log into (gun, commlink, etc) so you can't get Jammed out of your job. 50 NY.

The story so far...
You guys are successful runners on your own. You've worked alone, or together on your rise, taking jobs from different johnsons and making enough money not just to get by, but to improve yourself so as to bring in even more money.

A year ago, an elven runner with a silver tongue, whom you had all worked with in the past started laying the seeds for a job. Usually when the runners sell their own jobs, things go south... but the elf didn't push, he allowed you to take the time for the idea to grow.

You each played a pivotal role in planning and researching this run, facts were checked out, stories confirmed, and one by one the rest of the group bought into the elf's run. It was going to be a big score, bigger than any they had done before. Of course, to win big, one has to bet big, and so you all cashed in all your markers and put everything on the line for the biggest payday imaginable. Of course, things went as they always go for runners... tragically.

The elf's betrayal was well planned and complete. When the paydata was in sight, and the physical security breached, the elf physically just disappeared. He was standing there one second, gone the next. And so was the paydata and all traces of it. No link between the Tir Tairngire and Aztechnology to profit from. And the team was surrounded by angry agents, spirits and sec guards.

Everything was gone, you hit rock bottom at terminal velocity. That was two weeks ago. Now, with your last month's rent almost up, and less then 1000ny in your pocket, you'd better pull a job, and fast.

Synopsis:

Game World Date: Friday, December 23rd, 2073 - 19:00

As told by Shark 

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