1. Your characters try to get drive through Chinese. They are held up by a lesser eastern dragon ahead of them in line attempting to convince the clerk that a large dragon constitutes a drive through and not a walk through. The argument ends with the dragon saying in effect "are you really trying to argue with a dragon, give me my food."

2. Something with red glowing eyes in an ally very politely, in a British accent, asks the characters for directions to the consulate.

3. Your characters walk into a coffee shop during a meeting of [city] association of non metahuman sapiens. (Or simply a Naga and Sasquatch drinking coffee).

4. The biggest debate is hunting circles in the CAS revolves around the legal rights of Merlin Owl that was caught on trid being shot at, bird shot deflecting off an armor spell, and promptly lightning bolting the hunter that took a shot at it to death.

5. The characters are called to deal with a spirit outbreak at a local Chucky Cheeses. One of the kids is awakened and invited his "friends" to his birthday party (place is crawling with various free spirits, including a great form force 10 free earth elemental that is racking up tickets over on the ball game, diplomacy will be called for).

6. Legends start circulating in the shadows about what happened with a french Pixie (awakened, female, very high magic rating) drug netcat out for a night on the town. The legend grows with each telling.

7. Your characters find the skeleton of a street sam with wire and other cyber dating from 2050 just outside of what use to be the a corp extraterritorial zone (now closed).

8. Most packaging now has allergy warning labels for Silver, Gold, Iron, Lead, Wood, and Plastic (various types).

Diplomacy on number five?

Nah, just tell it to get out or you'll put a Predator shot into whatever passes for it's skull. I'm sure it'll take that very well.

Um because the spirit has 20 points of hardened armor against non magical attacks? Also um offending a demigod (who is likely a personal friend of the mentor spirit mountain), might not be the best idea.

I think that was sarcasm.

Nah, I think he was talking about the kid, not the spirit. :B

the local Orkin man is the most feared and respected person in you neighborhood

You find a great deal on ebay for a new bumper for you car, that's also an anchoring folci with the fix spell on it.

the SURGED cat-girl hooker has been at the same corner in the neighborhood for so long no one pays any attention to her.

Vixens would get more action than a catgirl, guarantee it.

The spirit. For the kid, you need something really heavy, like a gauss cannon or Barrett 121. Got to be careful. Maybe even get the rigger to drive in a tank.

Trying to update Sprawl Sites?

Let's see...

(1) The character wakes up to the loud persistent barking of a dog coming from the apartment above their own. Sound dampeners, silence spells, nothing seems to quiet the dog's incessant bark. If investigated during the day, they find the apartment abandoned, ransacked and rank. Just like always. If they come at night while the dog is barking, they find a spectral dog barking at the window. A little legwork would reveal that the previous occupants and their large dog were murdered by a banshee some time before the character moved in, but that doesn't explain why the ghost suddenly appeared after all this time. If they excise the ghost, through banishment or otherwise, the banshee - who's returned to the area but has been kept at bay by the spectral watchdog - will strike the apartment again. If they hunt down the banshee, they'll earn karma and a guardian for their crash pad...

(2) It's the Chinese New Year and the Triads are selling black market fireworks to anyone and everyone; they've even concocted a new Tempo laced drug that lets people spit fireballs, in addition to the usual fare of beetles and bottle rockets. A contact with the syndicate hires the runners to prevent fires from burning down the marketplace again - like they did the year before, and the year before that. But don't kill anyone! These are paying customers, after all.

(3) The neighborhood of the runners' safe house in the Barrens has been targeted by the ISSV as the next Urban Brawl zone. Worse, this particular slum clearing is being recorded live as part of a documentary on the sport. An old enemy just happens to be watching as the runners emerge on trid and calls in a favour with the League President...

(4) A vagrant attempts to enter a Stuffer Shack without a commlink. The doors refuse to open and then lock after he begins banging on them, trapping the patrons inside. The automated kiosk thanks everyone for their patience while authorities are called to deal with the disturbance. The man continues to pound on the plexiglass until he starts coughing up blood all over the doors and slumps down dead. Lone Star eventually does show up, but it's not their job anymore, so the guests of the Stuffer Shack have to wait for the sanitation department to arrive with their hazmat gear...

(5) Flats are all the rage. Their blank, over starched front and back make great screens for AR overlays, leading to a run on the cheap clothing in vending machines across the city.

12. The ork gang bangers the team just killed have hundreds of nuyen in poker chips from a local casino on their corpses (used as a form of hard currency in the outter reaches of the ork underground).

13. The local bar has a sign in the entranceway reading "No spirits allowed".

14. Ork protesters demand that minimum age for statutory rape laws be changed from 17 to 12.

15. Hobo-to-go is the hottest new fast food joint in the city. (2 points if you recognize the reference)

(6) Some hot new ware is being sold at the Auction Block, and the crew arrives just in time. The Yakuza auctioneer stands on the block while behind him lies a man strapped to a table. A Yakuza 'doctor' dressed in white with a nice set of surgical tools on the table is bent over the 'patient' whose chest is already open. The auctioneer then begins buying off the man's debts by auctioning off his cyber, encouraging people to help the poor guy out by spending a little extra on the ware. After he runs out of cyber, they move on to other, less vital organs.

Awesome. Thank you for writing number 14. This was the core issue of a run my group started just this year.

Currently the young man involved is incarcerated after the party brought him to authorities.

Proving once again, one has no idea how the players will react.

Deep in the ork underground, deeper than the basements, so deep that the tunnels are carved from natural stone, one can find a large mural painted on the wall of a small natural cavern of a tall ork wearing very expensive heavy body armor and holding an AK-98 in one hand and an inverted ork skull filled with poker chips (or other symbol of wealth, such as CFS dollars or jewels) in the other. The mural is accompanied by a series of candles, a small alter and a pot/skull for travelers to make small offerings.

Of course this is a shrine of Pluto, god of wealth, death and metals, and ruler of the underworld. Other variations may have a more traditional look of a human with a bronze breastplate wielding a spear or an orc 'mafia don' wielding a Ares Redline.

The shrine might also be inhabited by a Free Spirit masquerading as a the God Pluto. The free spirit may be willing to exchange karma for precious metals- I'll leave it to you to determine if those metals disappear after 24 hours.

The team finds themselves under attack by ritual sorcery. Their magician tracks the attackers back to a hermetic circle at a local Parchment & Pentacle.

Parchment & Pentacle LLP is a small chain of magic supply stores that also provide hermetic circle rentals. Based on the business model of 20th century U-develop stores which offered the use of fully stocked and equipped photography darkrooms for a small fee, the Parchment & Pentacle chain provides an inexpensive location for magic rituals for the magician that can't afford to set up a private magic workspace for themselves. Rates are by the hour with a safety deposit required for conjuring and binding spirits (doubled for fire spirits). Of course, for legal reasons, all customers must provide adequate identification and licensing for all magical activity before they'll be rented a pentacle- at least that's store policy.

(7) The catalogue for Pharmalink includes Merrick's Tigerox (Pickled Sumatran Tiger Testicle), Pfizer's Vextra (Paraldenafil citrate) and Horizon's Labitozol (AR mood enhancer) under the same category. Tigerox has an average of fours stars in the customer reviews, though some reviewers warn that the side effects (which include partial fur growth in the groin area) are more severe than advertised.

you get dragged into a prank war between the MIT&M frat houses.

That...sounds dangerous. Especially that last M part.

Uh. It's MIT&T, not MIT&M.

Thaumaturgy, not Magic.

It's been awhile but I think in the original hardcover printing of first edition it was MIT&M and that it got changed somewhere along the line. Unfortunately I lost contact with my beloved first edition (still the best artwork of all the main books in my opinion) many years ago so I can't check.

http://wiki.dumpshock.com/index.php/MITT

I believe I wrote that stub, but it's based on info out of one of the core books, couldn't say which one. Some of the info may have been copied from one of the other SR wikis out there.

In either case, no one's bothered changing it.

i rember reading MIT&M. in the early ed. i thought they had changed it to MIT&T but wasn't sure.

A local eco-terrorist magical group consisting of 5 elemental adept casters have learned a new meta magic.
They can temporally reduce there magic rating, doing so summons there groups avatar spirit.



The group gets a number of requests equal to the total points of magic sacrificed divided by 10. Magic is regained per normal.

One of your Hacker's contacts calls him up, wondering if he can do a lecture at a local college about how to exploit security flaws.

What kind of lame power is Heart anyway?

It doesn't matter whether it's Thaumaturgy, Magic, or even More Magic; a prank war would get quickly out of hand.

An AIPS sufferer is brought home by his parents after a long hospital stay. The PCs are hired to babysit for a week. Though confined to a wheelchair due to brain damage, he behaves similar to a slightly mentally handicapped person of a similar age. Polite, responsive, but quiet. During the day. During the night, he enters a fitful sleep at which time machines and computers in the area begin to act strangely, even dangerously. Events begin to escalate in level of danger - all seemingly directed at the AIPS victim, culminating when he "summons" a mil spec anthropomorphic drone to assist in his guilt driven suicide attempt.