Who's yer contact?, Your favorite odd-man-out contacts? Options

[ShadowDragon8685]

Okay, I'm sure everybody's thought of "Bartender," "Lone Star Beat Cop," and "Mafia Don" before. But who's your favorite off-the-wall, little-known contacts?

For me, it's the chief medical examiner at the city morgue.

This man knows everything there is to know about deaths going down. Every sidewalk sleeper, bum, and general gang-banger, up to all of the highest-rated Important People come through his doors, if they're dead. He's the man to talk to if you want to know what's going down as far as lethalities.

So, for example, your buddy CME Morris (Or whatever your DM names him,) knows that you have a Narcojet pistol you use to bring people down non-lethally. He also knows that the recent serial homocide is all connected by one thing: Narcojet pistols.

So, after sidling up to the bar with you and discreetly asking if you've used that pistol of yours recently, and getting a No answer, (hopefully!,) he tells you you might want to not only not use it, but ditch it, and tells you why.

This does two things. One, if your Shadowrunner team is a good samaritan team, it gives them something to do; tracking down a serial killer. There may even be a reward they can collect. Two, it tells the player in question to ditch his narcojet, ASAP.

So, you're in the know about what's lethal and what's not. He can give you a heads-up sometimes if trouble is coming your way. "A Lone Star beat cop went down Line of Duty near your favorite doss. They're about to go ape and start door-to-dooring it, and they won't be knocking politely from what I hear. You might wanna be in Aruba or somewhere when that happens."

Plus, he can be a valuable resource, if you jack his level up to 3 or so. Not only is he likely to have a grab bag assortment of Cyberwear lying around you might be able to browse, but the corpses themselves. Lots of Jane and John Does come through his doors. So, say you need to 'dissapear' because Renraku has put out a bounty on you. You go down the morgue, shop around until you find a Jane or John Doe who matches your general build and looks. You pay your friend, 'claim possession' of your 'dearly depared relative''s body, take them down to your doss, put a couple of things on the corpse that will be easily identified as yours, and torch the place to the ground.

Then you high-tail it to a plastic surgeon's, and spend awhile someplace quiet with your new face, wait for the Corp to be convinced you're really dead.


That's just my take. That also explains part of my sig. What do you think? What about you? Who're your interesting contacts?