Now we need an omake of Anna and other splaying Shadowrun TTRPG.
Any one else remember this? No? Neither do I.
Well time for a subquest.
Team Building Exercises. Choose your PoV.
"London looks like the corpse of some great beast as the sun sets. The unfinished struts of the environmental domes tower above the skyline like broken ribs and the smog which gives the city its name is illuminated in dull crimson by the suns dim rays.
It's not all that bad a comparison in truth; despite their successes with managing the environment through their years in power it was all the Green could do to keep unemployment below 40%. Since the NHS was privatised there hasn't even been that.
The UK has never been more disunited. The Brit Corps are getting ready to fight tooth and nail to protect the last major financial centre of the world from extranational domination, and the triple A's are watching to see if British Protectionism is about to collapse. As the old order falls out of power an eclectic protest builds momentum stirred by a charismatic man who claims to be King Arthur reborn. And of course, it needn't bear mention that a small strip of Wales is lair to not one but three Great Dragons. The UK is a powder keg and only time can tell what will set it off and perhaps more importantly when it will go off.
But all of that's far, far above your concern.
What you need to worry about is the Rent.
That's because you are Shadowrunners; freelance criminals who do the jobs that corporations can't do or can't be caught doing. If one of the 'Old Firms' wants a member of the triads dead but can't provoke a turf war, they call you. If a corp wants the prototypes that a competitor just finished, they call you. If a politician needs to set up a bunch of patsies to take the fall for murdering his rival, well unfortunately they'll also call you. But that's just the world you live in.
While being outside the law gives you freedom and opportunities that wage slaves can only dream of, it comes with more costs than they imagine.
Welcome to London omae." With that Leonhart sweeps her gaze across the group before stopping on you. "Well that's the setting introduction, would you like to lead the character introductions?"
[ ] "I'm playing a transhuman ork called Brawler whos the last of a secret experiment. Basically, I punch things, and when I can't punch them I shoot them. Erm... I guess he also has cyber psychosis? Is this right?"
[ ] "I dunno, my first three character ideas got vetoed so I'm some girl with a sword."
[ ] "I'm a Japanese Miko Priestess who went to England in order to look after her grandfather's shrine however after seeing all of the bad things in England I decided I could . . . What?"
[ ] "I wanted to be a diplomancer/infiltrator so I collaborated with Overwatch as a source for her network. Sleuth is an awakened French national working with the BBC on an internship. She works in the shadows as thanks for Overwatch saving her once after she chased a story too far as well as seeking her own Grenville-Adams scoop."
[ ] "Neurotic was a part of the experiment that created Brawler. After the experiment was decommissioned my character sabotaged the clean-up and fled due to her belief in the sanctity of life, her fear that after the specimens would be the replaceable technicians and a slight concern that the company would discover that she had secretly cultured over a third of a million worth of Nyugen of brain upgrades."
[ ] "I'll be playing our Rigger and a backup commlink hacker. I mostly specialise in information control using two camouflaged LDSDs with powerful sensor suites and sniper rifles with a swarm of rapid fire drones to be deployed from the van in emergencies. At Instructor Leonharts request I will be in the van for the majority of missions and so have limited my signal. Oh right her street name is Overwatch"