[X] My Assistant

[Omer Joel]

The Barrens in Shadowrun's seattle are actually two massive slum-neighbourhoods: Redmond and Pullayup.

Redmond is like RL's Gaza - endless kilometers of urban decay and filth, with little or no sanitation and with horrible poverty, where everyone is armed and law doesn't really exist; factionalism is horrible, with the Redmond gangs as heavily armed as the many political/religious factions in Gaza. And when the 'Star comes, they do it like the IDF comes into Gaza IRL - APCs, machineguns, full combat gear, air support, and similarly, they can do whatever their firepower allows them to.

Pullayup is like something out of Mad Max or the Fallout computer games: post-apocalyuptic ruins and makeshift shanties sparsely spread over a huge, hostile wilderness covered with vulcanic ash. There is no law but what you make for yourself with your Remington 990; there is also a very tribal kind of squatter-society, with each island of "civilization" (read: squatted ruins) in Pullayup claimed by a squatter "tribe" or something similar.

[SL James]

I have to agree with stevebugge. Redmond isn't that urban. One of my PCs runs a Company team out of a couple of buildings in an abandoned office park (the rest of the park has been cleared out through bribes or violence, and a lot of it screams "BACK THE FUCK OFF" to everyone but the gangs who are on the payroll), and there are a couple of gangs who operate out of nearby abandoned gated subdivisions.

[Cang]

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And this last ones fits it perfectly, i think.

[Witness]

[Cang]

Well then we need to add some rain, smog, chip heads, and a couple of ghouls. Then it would be perfect.