Howdy there folks! Thanks for tuning into for another installment of my Shadowrun 4e campaign overview. This is the skeleton for the second chapter of my game set in Shanghai and focusing on the Four Coins of Luck. While the Coins haven’t been introduced to my players yet, they will be alluded to over the course of the next couple of sessions, and then introduced into the narrative during the next arc.
Hunt down the surviving members of the Glowing Eyes Circle and either drive them out of Shanghai or into the ground. No need to be quiet for this; in fact you probably shouldn’t be.
The murder of Sagacious Cho at the behest of the Red Dragon Association Red Pole called Silvereyes by the PCs has left a power vacuum that the White Paper Fan known as Lao Long cannot abide. After a short meeting, the gang leader gives them a simple deal, with a simply pay-off: Cho’s old crew has to go, and in return, they get the Jumbo Jackpots. Being a primarily Matrix-based gang, the GEC is distributed throughout the Pudong district in the few safe houses that they still have managed to keep secret from the onslaught of the newly arrived techno-nomad tribe called Godzilla’s Breath. The safe-houses of note are:
The Black Silicon Tortoise – A Matrix Hotspot and retro VR-game and BTL arcade, this dingy shop is located a few blocks west of the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, and is a common hang-out for bored college students and white collar workers blowing off steam after their shift. There’s no seedy backroom, or anything untoward going on here beyond money laundering; the huge number of digital transfers makes hiding illegal ones within the stream child’s play. The defenses of the shop are minimal, the only guns on the premises are whatever weapons the gang members have on them, and there’s a pair of security cameras-- one at the outside entrance, the other inside and pointed down at the counter and till. There’s usually three or four GEC members around at any given time.
Pudong Municipal Power Monitoring Substation #122 – Located adjacent to one of the major matrix nodes in the Southeast Pudong district, Monitoring Substation #122 was quietly suborned by a small group of GEC Deckers around two years ago. Breaking into the small building and moving in over the course of several weeks, the Deckers set up a back-channel into not only the power system of the district, but the nearby matrix node as well. With their hooks firmly dug into the local systems, the GEC here are able to act as digital headquarters for the gang as a whole. The building has a razor wire fence, a camera on each corner of the building, and a small automated turret mounted on the roof, close to the front door. The substation is staffed by a crew of three Deckers, with some muscle to back them up in the form of four moderately chromed out toughs. The GEC who work out of here are exceptionally paranoid
Cheerful Apple Beauty Salon – A busy and well-maintained shop in the middle-class Jianping Red Flower Market, this unassuming front acts as the main repository for the GEC’s hard copies of valuable or sensitive data that the gang has stolen over the years. Though the gang does not expect violence in such a public location, the five Street Samurai and Decker assigned to watch over the trio of backrooms that contain the gang’s holdings are all armed, and supported by a small militarized drone. The employees of the beauty salon are well aware of who they are truly working for, and will not give up information easily. Conversely, they also won’t fight on the GEC’s behalf.
For their parts, both the GBs and Red Dragon want to see the GEC gone, but they will give anything more than token support without exacting a public cost from the Party. The Godzillas are looking to take over the remainder of the GEC’s matrix holdings, and could care less about any storefronts or other existent locations. The Red Dragon as a whole could care less, but Lao’s Crew sees the gang’s removal as an opportunity to expand their street presence, as well as to eliminate a pesky black mark on their otherwise “sterling” legal reputation. Unwilling to potentially exacerbate a potentially district-wide gang war, Wuxing Security has taken a hands-off approach to the ongoing conflict between the Otaku and GEC—a policy which would not change should the PCs become obviously involved as well. Short of the use of explosives or obvious daytime murders, Wuxing Security will not involve themselves.
Aftermath from the Disney Job
Aside from the cleanup they need to do for Lao Long, the Players were largely successful in their endeavor; the animatronics were undamaged (if bloody) and no one connected to the job was killed besides Cho, but Cheung Wingji is fine with him being dead. It saves her the trouble. She also pays them to the tune of ¥80,000!
Unfortunately for Mr. Magoo, Disney Security has caught wind of him through the residual traces of magic from his illusory terrain trick. While his particular signature has not been identified, some the happiest corporate security mages on earth are hard at work trying to run down the culprits, led by Karine Delafonse. An intelligent magus under the tutelage of Sky Father, Karine hopes to impress her superiors by bringing the case in as quickly as possible. She and her squad are reviewing security footage and questioning any and all techs involved in the shipping and repair process of those particular animatronics.
Impressed with their brutal murder of Cho, Silvereyes offers the players another target: a reticent pimp named Quan Honghua who nominally works under the employ of the Electric Devil Brotherhood. Honghua has decided to stop paying up to his superiors, and the EDB asked Silvereyes to do the job. Mr. Quan is decently chromed out, possessing Wired Reflexes I, Cybereyes, and a Forearm Gun.
NPCs
GEC Decker
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R |
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C |
I |
L |
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IP |
CM |
2 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
5.4 |
8 |
1 |
10 |
Skills: Pistols 1, Data Search 2, Electronics Group 4.
Cyberware: Cybereyes, Datajack.
Gear: Armor Vest, Streetline Special
GEC “Street Samurai”
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C |
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CM |
3 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
3.2 |
9 |
1 |
10 |
Skills: Dodge 2, Perception 2, Pistols 2, Unarmed Combat 3
Cyberware: Cybereyes, Retractable Spur, Smartlink
Gear: Armor Jacket, Colt American L36
Disney Security Investigator – Karine Delafonse
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M |
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CM |
3 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
5 |
4 |
4 |
6 |
5 |
7 |
1 |
10 |
Skills: Assensing 3, Astral Combat 3, Pistols 3, Conjuring 3, Banishing 3, Sorcery Group 3.
Gear: Armor Vest, Beretta Model 101T
Spells: Detect Life, Light, Physical Barrier, Powerbolt, Silence, Stunball
Idiot Pimp Burned by their Own Gang – Quan Honghua
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CM |
4 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
2.3 |
12 |
2 |
11 |
Skills: Dodge 3, Perception 3, Pistols 3, Long Arms 2, Unarmed Combat 3
Cyberware: Cybereyes, Retractable Spur, Smartlink, Wired Reflexes I, Wrist-mounted Smartgun
Gear: Armor Jacket, Stun Baton
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