50 Urban Scenarios Options

[HunterHerne]

48 hours sounds like a nice one to try out.

Trick 'r Treat

Congratulations, you just completed the latest run. But wierd things start happening. Your dreams are really messed up, even worse then usual. Oddly, they all seem to feature the same basement, although not the same people.

When the PC looks into the address, once it is revealed, he finds out it belongs to a building that burned down. If he investigates further, a new building was built on top, and is now a private school.

Even worse, the closer he gets to solving the riddle, the worse the dreams become, eventually manifesting in actual wounds when he wakes up...

[Paul]

Bust Stop

While making the transit from a safe house back to their normal life after a job the PC's are aboard a crowded city bus, when a number of gangers get aboard. They clearly are using something, and that they are oblivious to the runners presence. They quickly set about robbing everyone on the bus, and if not stopped their thrill kill behavior will escalate.

[CanRay]

"Hello Mister, I'm Lost"

A small SINless girl is lost and wants to find her Mommy. What's Mommy's name? "Mommy". Moral quandary time: Do a good deed or sell some "Veal" to the Ghouls down the block?

[nezumi]

Eviction

A chubby lady is in the middle of the street screaming, her elderly parents sitting, listless on the curb. In front of her rowhouse, half a dozen roughs hired by her landlord are tossing all her worldly possessions onto the street, where scavengers are quick to grab whatever may be of value. Among the detritus, the party mage notices a banged up wooden owl with an astral signature loud enough to practically be visible to mundanes.

[Paul]

Tunnel Rat

The PC's are working a surveillance job when their target slips into a park tunnel, crossing under the roadways. The lights are vandalized, and don't work. The PC's are momentarily out of position, so when they arrive at the tunnel what they see is the target is down, and what appears to be a man dressed in devil rat skins, surrounded by Devil rats the size of large dogs standing over the target. His face is clearly covered in a twisted shamanic mask, and it looks like he's getting ready to cast some sort of serious spell.

[Paul]

Fallen Shrine

A local Shinto shrine has fallen unto rough times, and because of a disagreement between the way the local Oyabun see's Shinto (He follow's the Mount Fuji sect and the local practioner's follow Imperial Household Shinto) they have become the target of a series of terror attacks designed to force the practioner's to change the leadership of the Shrine. The practioner's approach the player character's fixer looking for security-they have a folk festival coming up, and they are worried that that Yakuza will attack the practioner's and the public during the Kagura.

[Wiseman]

Toy Story

Runners are hired to investigate the increasing number of cases where children are falling ill to a strange sickness that leaves them comatose. The poorer families can barely upkeep the necessary life support required to keep their fragile bodies alive, and the Star doesn't seem to have any leads. Eventually, all the children are traced to having recently visited a peculiar toy shop at the end of a nondescript ally. Upon entry, some of the stuffed toys appear animate and in the immature voices of the missing children, plead with the PC's to return them to their parents.

She really is a witch, no, I'm serious

A pale faced human male is seen running doggedly down a busy avenue, with cries of "Philanderer", "Dishonest Bastard", "Perfidious Paramour", and other less than complimentary insults echoing loudly around him (edit: Watcher Spirit). He desperately approaches the PC's, begging them to convince the witch of his wife to end his torment for past infidelity.

It's not fare!

An automated taxi goes rogue in a posh mall and is actively running down pedestrians. The taxi's resident "indian" AI resists all attempts to send the cab commands or override it's controls, and is apparently carrying a high ranking corporate dignitary along for the joy ride.

[Wiseman]

I Think I'm a Clone Now

The PC's are asked by the Johnson to do a favor for a connected client who suspects his wife of unfaithfulness. After the players observe the client and his wife enjoying several evenings on the town, the client contacts them to inquire about any possible evidence while informing them he's been away on business for the past month.

Taste's Like Chicken

The players stumble upon a paracritter fighting ring in an abandoned warehouse and witness a particularly vicious but otherwise normal looking cock destroy a large pack of devil rats before flying out an adjacent window. The owner reluctantly confesses the chicken is inhabitated by a malevolent spirit.

Stay Off My Lawn

The players pass near a dilapidated house and it's unkept garden, It's yard filled with lifelike and varied "garden gnomes". Despite rumors of missing children, some matching the likeness of the garden gnomes, the locals refuse to cooperate and appear frightened.

Curiosity

The PC's randomly encounter a beast spirit that manifests in the form of a ghostly cat that appears to be following them on runs.

[Midas]

Protege?
An awakened PC on his way home notices a street kid unconsciously utilize magic to scare off/hide from a bunch of other street kids. Does the PC take the kid under their wing?

[Minimax le Rouge]

One for my baby
M.jonhson hired you for a double job. A murder and an extraction.
The target will take is car in the basement of is appartment, next wensday, at 08PM. You have to kill him at this moment. Then you will have to go to is appartment, extract is wife, and bring her in a secure place out of the city.

The target is M.jonhson. Is wife will wait for the PC, dressed in Widow, with 2 lugages. "well, you have killed my husband, you're in charge of me now. I follow you, there is my lugages."

[Wiseman]

Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

Players encounter a trio of awakened hedge witches (A troll, an ork, and a human) in the barrens, standing over a burning trash barrel. One of the three fixes a player with ominious eyes and portends their doom. Bonus if the players fufill the prophecy in their attempts to avoid it.

They took our DERBS!

Players arrive to the scene of their run only to find another team escaping after having completed the mission, trailing a large threat response team. Who are they? Who hired them? Why are they running towards us?

One For the Money..

After a successful run, the Johnson informs them that the employer has requested video footage of the run for his personal collection, for double the payout. Only whatever footage was actually captured (cybereyes, drones, etc.) by the team has been corrupted by a virus. The players must stage and act out a repeat of the run to get the extra nuyen, at the same facility already on alert.

Fast and Furious

Rigger/driver PC is challenged by a local biker gang to a race in whatever vehicle they're currently driving. The player must win or forfeit substantial property (or girlfriends) to the gang. The race is further complicated by the gang's hacker attempting to stymie the player and a Lone Star Patrol car that picks up in hot pursuit. If the gangers lose, they attack the players in an attempt to seize their superior ride.

Where The Sidewalk Ends

While on the way to a meet, the players encounter a section of a major road under heavy construction. Construction crews have left a large hole in the pavement preventing any ground vehicle from passing. Do the players take the suggested detour through known gang territory or take the safer but longer route backtracking and risk looking unprofessional to the Johnson?

[Wiseman]

Blah Blee Blee Ahh

The players encounter a theatrical vampire wandering the streets at night, complete with tuxedo, high collared cape and smoothed hair. The vampire does it's best to convince PC's of his honorable intentions while suggesting they retire for a "night cap". Depending on the PC's abilities, the vampire could be real or just a delusional actor/wannabe.

No Place Like Home

A chosen player returns home after a run to find the entire building has vanished into an astral rift/gateway, which will remain open for only a few hours. If the players are willing to enter the rift to locate the residence, they find themselves in a strange world and their home already occupied by locals. Bonus points if the building landed on someone of importance, whose death is widely and musically celebrated, but earning the ire of their more powerful sibling.

[Seriously Mike]

Bucket line
The players encounter four youths (obviously gangers) - three of them in a bucket line, the fourth laying boxes inside the van - moving nondescript boxes from an old, banged-up van (that doesn't look like theirs) to a nicer-looking one (that doesn't look like theirs even more).

[Midas]

Mad Max
Driving through the barrens at the end of a run, the PC's come across a car smashed into a lamppost, steam hissing from the bonnet with 4 ganger bikes around it. Sidewalk side there is a half-dressed woman trying to keep her undergarments on as the gangers taunt her, hiss at her and grab at her in prelude to a rape. Surely there's some karma there for rescuing a damsel in distress ...

[Tiralee]

Needing a Hand

After your runners crash their vehicle of choice in or near a group of pople (Or even simply lend it to a buddy) they find, on inspection back as "home base", a finely-crafted cyberhand tangled in the grille/undercarrage of the vehicle. It's top of the range with some additions that signify that it belonged to someone wealthy, powerful or downright scary. (Serial numbers, etching, ivory/Orichalcum inlay, built in laser...) It also contains an emergency stash chip containing details to a sizeable amount of very liquid assets - problem is, it'd have to be attached to someone to activate the chip and obtain the payola.

[Seriously Mike]

Equinox
Just watch this video. Enough creepy stuff for three different ideas (tally marks painted with... something on a support column in an abandoned warehouse, glass cabinet filled with broken old dolls, creepy little girl possessed by a shadow spirit etc.).

[CanRay]

Equinox
Just watch this video. Enough creepy stuff for three different ideas (tally marks painted with... something on a support column in an abandoned warehouse, glass cabinet filled with broken old dolls, creepy little girl possessed by a shadow spirit etc.).

Just keep pushing that "Stranger Danger" thing... *Shakes Head*

One Bad Day
What's the difference between someone suffering from future shock and finally letting loose with a lifetime of anger and a perfectly normal wageslave? One. Bad. Day. And while the 'Runners are doing soft recon inside a Corporate Office, they get drawn into the fray as one of the John/Jane Q. Wageslaves finally snaps, pulls out a firearm no one knew they had smuggled it, and holds the place hostage.

[CanadianWolverin...]

Back Alley Dice Game

A group of people in strange costumes from the previous century are playing what at first appears to be craps in a dead-end alley. When you approach, they look at you, hard. Harder than anyone has ever had before, and you realize that their dice have too many, and too few, sides to be craps dice. One suggests that you leave, now. Apparently gamers take their now-illicit games seriously in the Sixth World.

If the group feels threatened in any way, they brandish assorted "LARP" gear. Their first action will be to throw odd looking multi-sided ball with numbers 1-20 on it:
If it lands showing 1 on the top side, it does nothing.
If it is an odd number, it explodes into sharp pieces that act as caltrops.
If it is an even number, it explodes into sticky, noxious goo.
If it is a 20, it explodes violently.

If they immobilize or knock unconcious anyone, they bring them back to their dungeon (see: barrens basement or actual dungeon if they are wealthy) which is decorated with Dragon Cult posters and literature.

It is rumored that they may or may not be involved with a rise in cancer cases among the poor (in actuality, it has nothing to do with them, its all about the corps products being pervasively toxic, as well as the air and water pollution from long neglect of the effects of entropy on construction materials used to build what later became the areas the poor SiNless and SiNners now live in).

[Tiralee]

One Bad Day, shades of "Falling Down", Canray?

-Tir

[CanRay]

One Bad Day, shades of "Falling Down", Canray?

-Tir

Shades of "What happened to me today", The Joker's rant in a few comics, and some other odds and ends. But, yeah, Falling Down works greatly too. I have to watch that again.

It takes a lot to get me mad. I went all the way there today. I don't like being there, that's all. Made me think of "Postal 2" and a few other things. Just watching Shadowrunners break into a building might push some people over, "They're going to blame this on me, the delay is the last thing they need to throw me out of the Corp. My savings in scrip worthless, thirty years of living in and for the Corps just down the drain, nothing to show for it!"

Not really a major threat, but it shows that Shadowruns do, actually, have a major impact on John/Jane Q. Wageslave and can destroy their beautiful (faux-)gilded cage.

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Before anyone asks or even insinuates, no, I was not anywhere near made enough to go postal. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[HunterHerne]

Before anyone asks or even insinuates, no, I was not anywhere near made enough to go postal. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

We would never insinuate. We already know how crazy you are, so it's more of an explanation.

[Tiralee]

Methinks he doth protesth too much?
Kidding - I'm still trying to harness my latent natural psychic abilities to set fire to people pyrokenetically. It helps pass the time.

-Tir

[CanRay]

We would never insinuate. We already know how crazy you are, so it's more of an explanation.

No, actually... You don't.

[Kirk]

Most of what's suggested looks like hooks. So...

Bureacratic nightmare.

You find a notice tacked to your door. There's a lien against your residence for unpaid taxes.

You the GM can run this in multiple directions, from "simple" day at the local city/county/state/corporate tax offices to Mr. Johnson holding it as the lever for you to do this little job for him to it being your experience with a major syndicate land-grab. Or whatever your twisted little mind desires, actually.

Tag you're it

You get bumped in a crowd; check for pickpocketing but your gear's still there.

You get home and start clearing your pockets only to discover you are now carrying someone else's wallet. Lots of nuyen and other useful stuff. Oh, dear, and tracer RFIDs everywhere. You make a quick AR search to learn more about the owner only to discover he's dead, apparently the victim of a mugging.

[CanRay]

Dirty Tree-Hugging Militant Hippies

Just when you need to get away at your fastest, you find a boot on the group's getaway vehicle, and a very long RFID Tag ARO that reads about the evils of pollution and how privately owned automobiles are a prime source of pollutants, even when they're electrically powered and running on GridGuide.