Wasteland Blues (IC) Options

[Mulcarn]

Friday, January 4th 2075. 9:30 PM

What a surprise. It’s snowing in Chicago in January. As the wind howls outside, you thank the runner gods that you’re in a nice warm pub or, even better, in a nice warm bed, and not somewhere running around the Containment Zone for a fistful of nuyen or whatever barter you’d have to scrounge. Then your commlink flashes the face of your fixer. <<Catch you at a bad time?>> Then again, it is nice to make a living. Your fixer goes on. <<It’s strange. No sooner does the new mayor announce the reclamation program that the biz starts lining up. I got a job for you, omae, headed into the CZ. Johnson would like to meet in person in two hours. There’s a table reserved at Chicago’s Own Pizzeria in Northside. Watch the slip-n-slide out there, chummer.>>

[ Spoiler ]

The fixer's name is Slim Charles. Everybody gets him for free. He has a starting Connection of 3 and a Loyalty of 2.

During this mission, most parts of Chicago have between four and six inches of snow on the ground. Only the main thoroughfares are plowed or treated with any frequency, and in general no part of the CZ has snow removal services. Anyone piloting a vehicle should make a Vehicle Skill + Reaction [Handling] (1) Test to avoid crashing; apply the Moderate Rain visibility modifier (–3) to the test for the snow and another –2 penalty if the vehicle is moving faster than its walking speed. Note that the visibility modifier also applies to any attack tests outdoors, as does the Moderate Wind modifier (–3), unless the runner has some means of compensating (such as ultrasound or thermographic vision for visibility and/or a smartlink for the wind).