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SRM3-00 EVERYONE’S YOUR FRIEND

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SRM3-00: Everyone’s Your Friend

INTRODUCTION

SRM03-00 Everyone’s Your Friend is a Shadowrun Missions

campaign adventure. Full information on the Shadowrun

Missions campaign is available at www.shadowrun4.com/mis-

sions and includes a guide to creating Missions characters and a

regularly updated FAQ.

a er running the adventure.) is section o ers some guidelines

you may nd useful in preparing to run SRM03-00 Everyone’s

Your Friend (or any Shadowrun Missions adventure).

Step 1: Read The Adventure

Carefully read the adventure from beginning to end. Get a

feel for the overall plot and what happens in each scene. at way,

if something di erent happens, you won’t be caught o guard and

you can adapt things smoothly.

PREPARING THE ADVENTURE

SRM03-00 Everyone’s Your Friend is intended for use with

Shadowrun, Fourth Edition, and all character and rules informa-

tion refers to the fourth edition of the Shadowrun rules.

Step 2: Take Notes

Take notes for yourself while reading through the adventure

that you can refer to later on. Possible things to note include: major

plot points (so you can see them all at a glance), the names of vari-

ous non-player characters, possible problems you notice, situations

where you think a particular character can shine and other things

you’ll want to keep in mind while running the adventure.

Adventure Structure

SRM03-00 Everyone’s Your Friend consists of several scenes.

ese scenes form the basis of the adventure, which should be

completed in approximately four hours. If you are running short

on time, you should streamline each and be a little more generous

with clues, target numbers, and other requirements to aid in guid-

ing the players through the adventure.

Each scene outlines the most likely sequence of events, as

well as how to handle unexpected twists and turns that inevitably

crop up. Each one contains the following subsections, providing

gamemasters with all the information necessary to run it.

Scan is provides a quick synopsis of the scene’s action, al-

lowing you to get a feel for the encounter at a glance.

Tell it to em Straight is written to be read aloud to the

players, describing what their characters experience upon entering

the scene. You should feel free to modify the narrative as much as

desired to suit the group and the situation, since the characters

may arrive at the scene by di erent means or under di erent cir-

cumstances than the text assumes.

Behind the Scenes covers the bulk of the scene, describing

what’s happening, what the non-player characters are doing, how

they will react to the player characters’ actions and so forth. It also

covers the setting of the encounter, going over environmental con-

ditions and other properties of the location as well as providing

any descriptions of important items.

Pushing the Envelope looks at ways to make the encounter

more challenging for experienced or powerful characters and other

ways you can add some “extra spice” to the scene.

Debugging o ers solutions to potential problems that may

crop up during the encounter. While it’s impossible to foresee

everything that a group of player characters might do, this sec-

tion tries to anticipate common problems and o er suggestions

for dealing with them.

Step 3: Know The Characters

Prior to the start of the adventure, examine the PCs’ record

sheets and Debrie ng Logs for your reference and have basic in-

formation about their important abilities handy so you can refer to

it during play. Also go over the characters and keep their previous

events listed on the Debrie ng Logs in mind when determining

non-player character actions in various scenes if such a dynamic

has been included.

Step 4: Don’t Panic!

Gamemastering involves juggling a lot of di erent things.

Sometimes you drop the ball and forget something or you just

make a mistake. It happens, don’t worry about it. Nobody is per-

fect all of the time and everybody makes mistakes. Just pick up

from there and move on. Your players will understand and forget

about it once you get back into the action.

GENERAL ADVENTURE RULES

Shadowrun Missions adventures use the rules presented in

Shadowrun, Fourth Edition ( SR4 ). Standard rules such as success

tests, the Rules of One and Six, and other common mechanics are

described in SR4 and are not repeated in this adventure.

Please keep in mind when preparing for the adventure, that the

PCs will not necessarily comprise a “balanced” party. It’s entirely

possible that the party will be made up entirely of Technomancers

or back-to-nature Shamans. If the characters run into a brick wall

because of such complications, show exibility and use your best

judgment in how you lead them back to the plot.

RUNNING THE ADVENTURE

Gamemastering is more of an art than a science, and every

gamemaster does things a bit di erently. Use your own style when

it comes to preparing and running the adventure and do whatever

you feel is best to provide the best Shadowrun game you can for

your players. Shadowrun Missions adventures are designed to run

in a standard four-hour convention time slot.

Please keep this in mind when running the adventure. You

should leave at least 15-20 minutes at the end of the time slot

to complete any necessary paperwork and pass out the players’

Debrie ng Logs. (Make sure that you have enough copies of the

Debrie ng Log for this adventure to give one copy to each player

Non-Player Characters

Non-player characters (NPCs) are essential to any adventure.

ey are the allies, antagonists and background characters in the

adventure that interact with the player characters. NPCs in this

adventure have already been created and can be found in the Cast

of Shadows section.

e NPCs in this adventure should generally stand up to the

average player character, but may need some adjustment to suit a

particular group of characters, especially a more experienced and

powerful group. e scenes and NPC descriptions o er tips on

adjusting the NPCs to suit the abilities of the characters in your

Shadowrun Missions

group. To adjust the power level of an NPC, refer to the Prime

Runner Creation and Advancement Table (p.285, SR4 ). Take the

player characters’ abilities into consideration when assessing the

NPCs in this adventure and modify them accordingly.

Each corporation has an interest in what’s going on around

New York. As a result, each corp has a task it wants its people to

accomplish during each scenario. Naturally, each corp also has a

reward it gives to those agents that accomplish these objectives.

A liations are supposed to be kept secret, in keeping the

theme of espionage, so the players of a liated characters should be

noti ed in a subtle way. If your gaming group is comfortable with

keeping in-character information separate from out-of-character,

then tell them where all can hear. If you are uncertain about this,

passing a note may be more appropriate.

PCs who choose to accept this a liation will have the op-

portunity to earn special rewards and undertake special tasks in

select scenarios. When applicable, these rewards will be noted in

Picking up the Pieces.

Table Rating

Table Rating (TR) is used to adjust the di culty of an adven-

ture so that it is appropriate to the characters playing it. e TR

value can be used to increase the number or abilities of opponents,

and the device ratings of equipment in the adventure. In addition,

when NPCs or devices are making tests for anything except resist-

ing damage, award them a number of bonus dice equal to the TR

as an additional situational bonus.

Before beginning game play, ask the players to agree on a

TR from one to six for the scenario. Instruct them that beginning

players and characters are expected to play at TR 1. More veteran

players and characters may choose to raise this di culty. Explain

to the players that as the di culty increases, the rewards also in-

crease. Once the players have agreed on a TR value, use that value

consistently through the scenario.

Losing Corporate Afﬁ liation

One of the most important parts of the deal for a corpora-

tion’s “loose contract” with a shadowrunner is secrecy. If the corp

can’t deny the runner’s involvement with its dealings, the runner

is of little value to it.

If a shadowrunner allows his a liation to become known, or

deliberately works against the a liated corporation’s secondary

objective, the GM should make a Public Awareness Test against

the a liate near the end of the adventure, just before the nal

scene. e threshold for the test and the possible consequences

are given on the A liation Betrayal table below; the greater the

infraction, the lower the threshold. If the test succeeds, the conse-

quences listed below are applied by the GM to the a liate.

Selling Out

rough the course of a scenario, a PC may become a liated

with one or more of the corporations that make up the board of

the Manhattan Development Corporation. If an una liated PC

completes a secondary objective (see Corporate Interests), even

accidentally, then he gets an o er to a liate instead of the reward.

A liates are not become full- edged Company Men, but rather

act as “deniable assets,” “covert agents,” or to put it bluntly, “spies.”

Afﬁ liation Betrayal

A liate Action

Public Awareness

reshold

Consequence

A liate drops hints about his a liation.

Corporate reward withheld, even if secondary objective

is successful.

A liate reveals his a liation, even to other

a liates of the same corp.

As above, plus a liation revoked, +1 Notoriety, -1 Street

Cred.

A liate deliberately prevents the comple-

tion of a liated corp’s secondary objective.

As above, plus an additional +1 Notoriety and -1 Street

Cred, and the corp sends a “cleaner” to kill the (ex-)a li-

ate during the nal scene. See Cleaner Table, below.

Cleaner Table

Table Rating Cleaner NPC*

Use stats for Red Samurai Lieutenant (p. 283, SR4 )

Use stats for Tir Ghost Lieutenant (p. 283, SR4 )

Use stats for Combat Mage (p. 99, SR4 ), Enforcer (p. 102, SR4 ), or Gunslinger Adept (p. 104, SR4 )

Use stats for Combat Mage (p. 99, SR4 ), Enforcer (p. 102, SR4 ), or Gunslinger Adept (p. 104, SR4 ) with

a +2 bonus to all dice pools.

Use stats for Combat Mage (p. 99, SR4 ), Enforcer (p. 102, SR4 ), or Gunslinger Adept (p. 104, SR4 ) with

a +4 bonus to all dice pools.

*Gamemasters are encouraged to customize cleaners if they desire, but to stay roughly at the power level given.

Everyone’s Your Friend

Use stats for Triad Lieutenant (p. 284, SR4 )

A Note on Commlinks

In SR4 , commlinks have become a universal appliance.

Because just about every NPC is going to have one, they won’t

always be statted out in the adventure text. For NPCs who do

not have a statted commlink, assume it has all necessary ratings

at (TR/2) +1 (round-up). ese commlinks will not contain any

valuable paydata.

CORPORATE INTERESTS

The following are the secondary objectives for

affiliates of each organization. Unless otherwise

noted, a PC’s secondary objective(s) will be delivered

after the team has agreed to take the job offered

in A Mile High and Falling or New York, New York.

Secondary objectives are always delivered discretely

(e.g. by encrypted text message, by an agent of the

corporation, via Mindlink spell, etc.), but never men-

tion the reward to be given upon completion.

Paperwork

A er running a Shadowrun Missions adventure, there are

several important pieces of paperwork that need to be lled out.

e rst is to make certain to distribute a copy of the ad-

venture’s Debrie ng Log to each player. As the GM, please make

certain to ll this out and sign o on it for each character. In the

interests of time, you may have each player ll out the sections,

with appropriate values that you give them. Please consider the

PCs actions in the scenario when providing Reputation modi ers,

per those rules (pp.257-8, SR4 ).

e second is to make sure that all players have updated their

character’s calendar. PCs are allowed to go on one run per week.

e calendar is used to track the character’s monthly lifestyle ex-

penses, adventures, and their downtime exploits.

Finally, please use the web reporting form available at http://

www.shadowrun4.com/missions. Future adventures will re ect

the outcome of this one. Without GM feedback, the PCs’ exploits

will be unable to a ect the campaign.

Ares: Use a weapon with an Availability of 10+ within

the boundaries of Manhattan. Note that this is

not an objective, but merely something that will

attract the attention of the corporation. Ares

afﬁ liates will not be informed of this secondary

objective, but will still be eligible for this reward.

Aztechnology: Circumvent all checkpoints.

Horizon: Ensure that Ieto Hong and his guards es-

cape unharmed.

NeoNET: Gain an Admin account on the MDC node.

NYPD, Inc.: Cause trouble at the Lucky Star 99 that

results in even a little violence.

Renraku: Copy, sabotage, or otherwise access the

Emergent Knowledge program.

Saeder-Krupp: Win Mara Blaine as a contact.

Shiawase: Use nanoware or nanotech within the

boundaries of Manhattan. Note that this is not

an objective, but merely something that will at-

tract the attention of the corporation. Shiawase

afﬁ liates will not be informed of this secondary

objective, but will still be eligible for this reward.

Spinrad: Find out if the Triad need a small favor and

make sure it is carried out respectfully.

Neo-Anarchists: Have no other affiliation, plus

take out one of Ieto Hong’s men or damage his

helicopter.

MISSION SYNOPSIS

is is a transition mission. e team is hired by one of the

factions in Denver to track down Lin Yao, who has ed to NYC.

Simultaneously, local agents in NYC are brought in to provide tal-

ent on the ground. Having escaped near certain death, Lin Yao is

trying to nd a way out of the criminal syndicates and into a mega-

corporation. Horizon is willing to o er her a synergist position,

under her alias of Summer Xiao, due to her detailed knowledge of

criminal syndicate operations.

When the runners attempt to return to Denver, they nd that

their travel arrangements have been cancelled and all their Denver

based contacts have gone to ground. It is either time to set up a

new life in New York, or nd another way home.

MISSION BACKGROUND

e SRM-02 campaign followed events in the shadows of

Denver leading up to the attempted assassination of Sottocapo

Chavez. Though the assassination met with mixed success, it

served as the catalyzing event for a mob war between the burgeon-

ing Vory v Zakone syndicate, the Chavez Ma a and the White

Lotus Triad. With a war on three fronts, violence threatened to

pour into the public sphere. During these events, a draconic mem-

ory crystal passed through the hands of several syndicates. As word

of the crystal reached Ghostwalker’s agents, a Mexican stand-o

occurred. e Dragon Stone eventually made its way to the Great

Dragon and the shadow community faded away—no one wanted

to be le holding the bag.

In the background of these events, Lin Yao scuttled away.

Presumed dead by her own people and the shadow community,

she ed Denver for a new start in New York. Lin’s only mistake

was pulling funds out of a shadow account that had been tagged

by ma a hackers in Denver for later usage. With her face on the

video footage from a bank in NYC, La Famiglia discovered she

was not dead as reported.

At the close of SRM 02, many runners were given a chance to

leave Denver. ose that chose to stay will begin with A Mile high

and falling. Runners who le Denver are presumed to have ar-

rived in New York City for purposes of continuing into SRM 03.

New characters who have not previously played in Shadowrun

Missions, and runners beginning in NYC, will begin with New

York, New York.

Shadowrun Missions

A MILE HIGH AND FALLING

along. Beyond that, there is a nder’s fee of TR*1,500¥ per run-

ner for successfully returning Lin Yao to Denver. While the fee is

non-negotiable, Miguel is willing to negotiate additional coverage

of expenses. Itemized expenses of 500¥ + 100¥ per net hit in an

opposed negotiations test will be covered. e expense coverage

is for the team not per runner.

Miguel will tell the runners that this job could take awhile

and requires a variety of talent. He recommends that they

take any gear that they may need. Each runner will be given a

3-meter by 1-meter by 1-meter containment unit to ship gear in.

Biologicals are not recommended for storage inside unless pack-

aged properly. ere will be a point of contact in NYC—Peace

Man—to get them situated. ey’ll be able to meet him at e

Apple Press (see New York, New York ). Runners who start in

Denver with vehicles will not be able to transport them unless

the characters make their own arrangements. Suggested cost for

this is 500¥ per point of Body the vehicle has to accommodate

for the size of the vehicle.

At this point, the xer will give each of the Denver runners

a patch to apply to the identi cation that they’re using for the

run. e patch will enable their ID to pop up a red-colored ARO.

Miguel will explain that the ID can now function as Rating 4 visi-

tor’s pass to New York City. is will allow access to the city for

the duration of the scenario.

SCAN THIS

Denver based runners are gathered together to track down

a loose end. ey are hired to nd Lin Yao who is believed to be

hiding in NYC.

TELL IT TO THEM STRAIGHT

Looking back at the events of the last few years, you struggle

to nd the right words to describe what had happened. A mob

war boiling to the surface, a magic artifact that Denver’s local great

dragon wanted his hands on, and you caught in the middle. e

last six months have been quiet—most of the smart runners have

been keeping their heads low to avoid retaliation.

Eventually, though, work has to come in, the status quo

restored. When your commlink rings with a job, you recognize

the large tusky grin of Miguel Sanchez. e ork works for the

Casquilho family.

“Aight, so’s I gots a job for ya. All travel paid, to pick up a lost

package in the Rotten Apple.”

BEHIND THE SCENES

is is a transitional scene to get any stragglers from the

Denver shadows into NYC. e Casquilho family is ready to sup-

ply airfare and discreet transport of any gear they want to bring

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