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Posted by: Tarus Kirk Jan 16 2014, 07:11 PM

Which books have the latest info on Chicago, looking for help to flesh out the city's background for when running missions.

Posted by: Daier Mune Jan 16 2014, 07:42 PM

Feral Cities (SR4) I believe.

Bug City is an awesome setting - had a lot of fun in it.

Posted by: Tarus Kirk Jan 16 2014, 07:55 PM

Thanks, my potential players don't know much of the bug city history thankfully

Posted by: Brazilian_Shinobi Jan 16 2014, 08:03 PM

And remember, live in Seattle once, but leave before it makes you hard and live in Chicago once, but leave before it turns you into a bug.

Posted by: Daddy's Little Ninja Jan 17 2014, 02:31 PM

How can you even think of going to a city that does not have real pizza?

Posted by: binarywraith Jan 17 2014, 09:29 PM

If you want to go even further back, one of the earliest SR novels is set in Chi-town, back before Bug City was even a thing. Changeling, by Chris Kubasik covers the exploits of a late-awakening troll from 2039 to 2052. One of the absolute best resources for how late goblinization looks from the inside, too.

Important notes are the Sears Tower being bombed by Alamos 20k, resulting in the Second Chicago Fire and creating the Shattergraves section of the resulting mid-town Barrens known as The Noose.

Posted by: Bull Jan 18 2014, 12:57 AM

All Chicago sourcebooks are available as PDFs through Drive-thru.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/112344/Shadowrun-The-Neo-Anarchists-Guide-to-North-America - 2050 Chicago (Plus New York, Atlanta, and a couple other locales).
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/2953/Shadowrun-Bug-City?it=1 - What the name implies. 2053 Chicago.
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/64109/Shadowrun-Target-UCAS?term=Target%3A+UCA - Chicago, Boston, and New Orleans. Covers the "end" of the Bug City storyline. 2056.
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/59396/Shadowrun-Feral-Cities?term=Feral+Cities - Chicago and a couple others I'm blanking on right now. 2070 Chicago.

Also the novels 2XS (Set in 2050 or '51) and Burning Bright (2053) are set in Chicago.

Posted by: bannockburn Jan 19 2014, 07:48 PM

Yay on the latter, nay on the former.
2XS is set in Seattle, as is the Universal Brotherhood storyline on which it is build.

Although Montgomery is in communication with a Chicago based Johnson somewhere in the book, IIRC.

Posted by: binarywraith Jan 20 2014, 12:37 AM

Burning Bright's mostly in Hawaii, isn't it?

Posted by: bannockburn Jan 20 2014, 07:48 AM

You're thinking of House of the Sun

Posted by: binarywraith Jan 20 2014, 02:42 PM

Indeed I am. Been a while since I re-read those.

Posted by: Bull Jan 20 2014, 06:13 PM

Yeah, I'm getting my titles confused. I meant Changeling, which had already been pointed out.

Posted by: Curator Jan 22 2014, 06:23 AM

yay i'm reading all those books right now! though i put down the house of the sun though, all the Hawaiian folk lore was just giving me a headache