Heroes rise, heroes fall. Often, their fall is as legendary as their rise. But sometimes, once in a very long time, when one hero falls, another rises in her place. Jordan Shepard is a hero. Lion of Elysium. Butcher of Torfan. A hero to some, a devil in disguise to others. Stained and scarred, but unbroken and unbowed. But Lions can be killed. Butchers can be brought low. It's only a matter of time before Shepard falls.
But sometimes, a hero is more than just a hero. Sometimes...
Taylor Hebert's no Shadowrunner, just a talented technomancer who spends her days doing petty Matrix jobs. Then a crew of runners in need of a tech expert reaches out to her with an offer too profitable to refuse, and she discovers that for someone with her gifts, there are much better - and riskier - ways to make a profit.
Millie is more wared out than a cyberpsycho, and doesn't have any of the killing power to prove it. In order to be a multi million dollar actress she let Horizon give her every glamour-tech on the market from experimental pheromones to Troll Reductions. Now she's cut off after an on stream flub, and has to pay back the ware or it'll be repo'd. Luckily, the Shadows always have nuyen for those skilled enough to take it
Co-written by Dapperlad1
The world has changed much since the Year of Chaos.
The goblinization event in 2021 brought about the return of orks and trolls into the fold of metahumanity, technology has advanced to the point where cybernetic enhancement has gone from possible to mundane, a nearly-omnipresent network called the Matrix ties most if not all computer systems in the world together, corporations have obtained enough power that some might be considered nations unto themselves, the United States broke apart...
Meet Jesse. He's your average Asian, who's been promptly dumped into Novigrad.
In any other circumstances, he'd be dead. Right now though he's had the good fortune of running into some good people. Watch Jesse run around Novigrad. Maybe he'll run into his way home.