Here's an idea I had for a nice, fun parody of real-life shows, and as a vicious, in-world jab at the security companies. It could even lead to Shadowrunny goodness for your players.

In spring of '69, Horizon corp hired on a pair of brilliant retro-culture trid directors with an idea to sell. The results aired in 2070, to astounding acclaim and applause.

Those shows are:

Knight Star: Law & dis-Order.

Knight Star: Law and dis-Order, otherwise known simply as Law and dis-Order, follows the travails of an award-winning cast of veteran Trideo actors who portray detectives, lieutenants, and highers-up in the fictitious security company Knight Star, which is a very obvious dig at both Knight-Errant and Lone Star.

The series is also a parody of the ancient 2d drama Law & Order, and in fact generally follows the same format as Law & Order; we open with the crime scene's discovery or the crime in progress, and cut away to the principal investigating cast standing over the body(s). The hour-long trid broadcast takes the viewer through the investigation and hands it off to the principal prosecuting cast, who consist of actual UCAS prosecuting staff. The broadcast then takes us through the preperation and run-up to the trial, including the wheeling, dealing, further investigation, interferance by outside forces, and so forth, until we get to the trial, where the defense and the prosecution makes their case. Sometimes the jury's verdict is heard, sometimes it's not.

Where Knight Star: Law & dis-Order breaks with it's philosophical fathers is in everything except format. The Knight Star investigation officers, Jerry Mander and Lenny Til, both caucasian human males, are corrupt beyond belief. They "interrogate" witnesses with the cameras off, shoot at the slightest provocation and don't stop until they go through at least two clips of ammo each. They manufacture evidence, hide evidence that would be damaging to a conviction, and generally treat the public rudely, and the SINless brutally.

Joining them are a supporting cast of characters, including a hermetic mage with an addiction to Deepweed, a perpetually spaced-out decker, their skirt-chasing stationhouse chief who's constantly hounding them about the need to bring in more females to "keep the pollitical quotas level", and their alcoholic lieutenant.


The prosecuting teams - there are two in this series - are a divide. One is an honest, upright team of actual prosecuting attourneys who have to fight and wrestle with the tampering and corruption of Lenny and Jerry, who very rarely manage to get things straightened out. They are often forced to take incredulous plea bargains (A hired hitman gunned down five people in the broad of day. He pleads down to one count of Man Two) just to get any conviction at all. By the time they've swept out the lies and the deciet, many Judges throw their cases out of court on lack of evidence.

The other team is quite firmly in with Jerry and Lenny, and will do whatever it takes to get a conviction - even if they have an innocent man. They threaten witnesses and tamper with juries, they intimidate obviously innocent people into pleading guilty to Murder Two.

The overall effect is something of an "intentionally unintentional comedy-drama" - the series' shooting and presentation is hard drama, in the style of Law & Order, but because of many of the deliberately outrageous situations and comical abuses, the show is often laughed at (Especially thanks to the wise-cracking leads.) The producers are aware of this, and work the theme into the show.


The second show is called CSI: Crime Scene Instigation. Being produced by the same people who are responsible for Law & dis-Order, there is a great deal of interplay between the shows, with the actors from one frequently appearing in the other in their normal roles. The show focuses on the Knight Star Crime Scene Investigation unit. While they do occasionally do some actual forensics, most of their work is based around fabricating evidence and even conspiring to set in motion events that will lead to a homocide for the detectives to investigate. The show follows the format of the 2d drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, with an edgy cast of trendy forensics officers who drive ridiculously luxurious and expensive SUVs - every time the vehicles are involved, the manufacturer's logo and model name is shown when they open the doors. The show is done in the format of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, featuring ridiculously graphic investigations and in-depth detail of exactly how they are going to fabricate their evidence. The cast is likewise trendy, consisting of young and good-looking humans and elves, and one recurring silent character - the ork janitor. CSI: Crime-Scene Instigation is not as well-loved as Knight Star: Law & dis-Order, but it nevertheless remains hugely popular.









Naturally, there are those who despise Knight Star: Law & dis-Order, and CSI: Crime Scene Instigation. Namely, Knight-Errant and Lone Star Security Services. Both corporations rail at the show, but their objections are swamped in the sea of laughter and loving that both broadcasts recieve, with their scathingly-hot, thinly-veiled ridicule of security companies and the breakdown of justice. Naturally, controvery breeds interest, and the shows feed on their condemnation.

heh +1 karma.

Would there be a Law and dis-Order: Criminal Intent, involving a knight start mind-probing mage-detective?

It'll probably be Law & dis-Order: Criminal Incompitance. But we'll have to wait for the 2072 season to see that.

Oooh, I like... allow me to add: M*A*S*H*E*R

Which we learn stands for "Metro Area Surgical Hospital Emergency Response" in which we follow a mad-cap group of Doc-Cart, Inc. paramedics in a high threat response squadron. Equal parts gritty medical drama, slapstick comedy, and a not-to subtle dig at DocWagon and Crash Cart.

I liked it when it starred Alan Alda.


How about, Knight Rider: An undercover police officer named Michael Long is shot in the face but lives due to a metal plate from an old injury. The bullet bounces off of the plate and completely destroys his face on the way out. He is declared dead but, in reality, Ares rebuilds his face so that he looks exactly like Damien Knight's criminal son. Given a dikoted Pontiac Trans Am that is equipped with a SOTA AI named KITT, he travels across the continent battleing criminals who are above the law.

Or, a very talented rigger and helicopter pilot named Hawk who flies a a heavily armored and Dikoted chopper that looks just like an unmodified civilian machine. It carries cannon and missiles, both a which have infinite ammo, which is good because he frequently misses (for dramatic effect) but always makes the shot when it counts. Even though he spends a lot of time in the air, no one is ever able to track him back to his base.

This is great. This is just what we need to flesh out the Sixth World beyond the fighting.

I mean, really. What's a 'runner going to set his trid to record for his post-run Viewing? It may only be one line on his character sheet, but it helps set the tone. It can be used as indirect flavor (You go into the bar, but instead of any sports being on, Knight Star: Law & dis-Order reruns are playing. This is one where Lenny and Jerry beat the shit out of three punks with kitchen pans), direct flavor (Your Fixer gives you a heads-up: An episode of Law & dis-Order is being filmed on-location downtown all day. If you wanted to go get images of it in action, now's the time), or even as impetus for a Shadowrun (Lone-Star Security Services is good and fed up with Knight-Star: Law & dis-Order, so they want you to go and beat the tar out of "Lenny" and "Jerry". Normally this would be all but impossible, however because of their downtown filming schedule, the actors will be chasing crooks onto Renraku property. They have permission from Renraku to be on the Extraterritorial property, but Lone Star, who have ironically been ordered by the city to protect the filming, do not. Ambush them while on Renraku property, beat the actors so their own mothers woulden't recognize them, and vanish.).

One for the kiddies and kids at heart.

A story of a large, immensely strong and nigh indestructible troll adept with several levels of initiation. He's dumb as a post, but stangely charismatic in the blue body suit he never takes off. His companions are mostly technofiles with funny mechincal suits that scarcely work as a well as one or two other adepts and mages who are somewhat competant.

His enemies range from mad scientists, adepts and mages to horrible genetic monstrosities that have escaped corporate labs. None of them are particularly competant either, but are capable of confounding our befuddled Paladin for most of the show.

Preferrably animated as it does not translate well to live action.

Every generation, there is a Slayer. She alone will fight the vampires, and stem the tide of their growing numbers.

Except then there was this thing with an addicted witch and a weapon focus, and now anyone could be a Slayer. You could be living right next door to one right now...

Every generation, there are Adepts. United with various hacker/witches, geeks, and librarians of the world, they wage an endless fight against the vampires, the ghouls, the free spirits, and most importantly, the vampric-rights activists, and stem the tide of their growing numbers.

Plus, it could have a spin-off show after a sordid love affair with a vampire detective who was cursed by aspected eco-shaman ritual magic so that he has Essence now, but loses it if he ever has one true moment of happiness. Promised a cure to his disease by the Powers That Be, he wages a war against evil corporations while attempting to help the helpless of Seattle.

Ooh. Ooh. I wanna play.

A criminal - preferably a hot looking woman - is "executed", which is a cover for a forced entry into a secret government agency that acts as a counter-terrorist organization. Thier goals are noble, but they have become the very thing they are fighting against. This agency: Section 1.

Here's the story of a lovely lady
Who was chairman of three very successful corps.
All of them run by a MBA daughter, like their mother,
The youngest one a troll.

Here's the store, of a man named Brady,
Who was running three companies with his sons,
They were four men, working all together,
Yet they were all alone.

Till the one day when there was hostile takeover
And they knew there was nothing they could do,
That this group was now one corporate family.
That's the way we all became the Brady Zaibatsu.
The Brady Zaibatsu,

That's the way we all became the Brady Zaibatsu.
The Brady Zaibatsu.

The Brady Zaibatsu chronicles the madcap adventures of Greg Brady, the CEO of a architectural firm and its subsidiaries, each run one run by one of his three sons. And Carol Tanaka, who ran a series of hotels and related business with her daughters.

A result of a hostile take over, by an outside company (run by the occasional guest character, Sam "The Butcher" Franklin a specialist in taking over and cashing in on other companies.)

The show follows a pretty canned plot, one of the older children will come up with some scheme to make their subsidiary an instant success, which will be comically thwarted by the efforts of one of the others. (When in doubt, the youngest daughter, Cindy Brady will do something comically inept. She's one of the worst examples of stereotyped 'big dumb trolls' in modern media.) At the end of the show's 55-minute run time, Greg Brady steps in and straightens everything out... normally with an obvious plug of the show's sponsor that week.

The Brady Zaibatsu was not a highly rated program during its primetime run (it never placed in the top 25 in the five years it aired) and was cancelled in 2054. Despite its less than stellar primetime ratings, harsh critical reviews, and having won no awards, the show has become a something of a pop-cultural phenomenon, having become bizarrely popular as a syndicated download in the last two decades.

The AIs were created by Man.
They were created to make life easier for all of us.
And then the day came when the AIs decided to kill their masters.
After a long and bloody struggle, we thought we had won.
We were wrong.
There has been no escape from the AIs for over forty years.
Except for the [dun-dun-dun] Battlehackers Galactica!
Leading humanity from Galactica City,
Protecting the rag-tag fugitive settlements,
The brave Battlehackers are here!
And they have a plan!


Battlehacker Galactica is a scince fiction simsense franchise, set in a "dark, bleak future" tells the story of a brave team of NeoNET security experts, and their administrative managers, who work together to thwart the dangerous rogue AI's created, inadvertently, by the fictional Japanacorp "Shiron"... a very thinly veiled slam on NeoNET's Renraku rivals.

In the set up to the series, the rogue AI's have destroyed much of the eastern seaboard, and totally overrun the Matrix; Except for a sealed R&D complex known as Galactica City.

Every week, the brave combat hackers of the Galactica City Research Force encounter some type of new AI, fight it for a while and lose. They log off, and consult with their boss, Chief Programmer William Adam. His words of canned wisdom - delivered in a stirring Shakespearean monolog - inspire the Battlehackers.

Battlehacker, 1st class Lee "Apollo" Adam then leads his team back into the Matrix, where they then trounce it in over-the-top combat. The handsome "Apollo" is something of a sex symbol, and NeoNET's sponorship arraignment with Actioneer make certain he wears their latest threads when ever possible.

Battlehacker, 2nd class Carry "Starbucks" Trace, a bombastic and sarcastic firebrand is as big a sex symbol as "Apollo." As both the character and the actress hail from Seattle, she is immensely popular in the metroplex.

The two remaining characters are fairly interchangeable. In fact, because the franchise is a simsense series, they both fill the same role in the script. If the viewer is female (or makes a few simple -but warranty voiding - mods to the chip) then they play the part of Battlehacker, 2nd class Sherri "Boom-Boom" Valley. A busty and beautiful female hacker. A male viewer (or again, using a modded chip) lets you participate in the story as Battlehacker, 1st class Carl "Helios" Agatha.

Depending on the viewers settings, lines spoken by "Boom-Boom" from one point of view and spoken by "Helios" in the other. The script, events, and dialog of the rest of the episode is the same.

Needless to say, the entire show plays like a combination first-person shooter / NeoNET infomercial / soft-core porn. The viewer can basically sleep with any member of the cast, the AI's all tend to look like leggy blondes, and the cybercombat scenes are about as realistic a depiction of the real-world matix, as a game like Miracle Shooter is a depiction of actual combat.

Strangely, the show is immensly popular with wage-slave computer programmers, and even a number of actual hackers. The computers may be unrealistic, but its hard to argue with an (evil) leggy blonde.

I think after the Renraku problem, killeer rebele AI's are going to be incredibly unpopular in fiction.

In 2054 an Ares firewatch team was arrested and unfairly convicted by NYPD Inc of a crime they didn't commit. They were placed in a maximum security prison. They promptly escaped. If you're in trouble and have no one else to turn to, and if you can find them, You can hire them: the A(res)-Team.

or

MCT researcher conducting experiemnts into the metahuman geonome exposes himself to unheard of magical energies. Now, when ever he becomes angry or outraged, he goblinizes into a massive troll. He lives as lonely life trying to find a way to control the troll with in him.

or

Many strange things occured when the awakening came to the world. It was found that many old myths had basis in fact but there are many we still don't understand. Follow the adventures of a pair of investigators specially authorized by the Dunkelstanh Institute to investigate these myths- the D files, because the truth is out there!

Major aside, but since someone played the "Korean War is still technically on" card, I gotta give into my inner-historian and play the trump card...

The Korean War was not an authorized use of force by the U.S. Congress, nor was a formal declaration of war ever passed. President Harry S Truman cited authority under United Nations resolutions, and the war was fought under that authority. A cease fire agreement was signed on July 27, 1953; however no formal treaty has been signed to this date.

Incidentally, the United States also fought an undeclared war in Korea in 1870... I'm not sure what the end result was, I think there was a formal treaty... :shrug:

North Korea and South Korea were involved and have no treaty ending the conflict.

~J

Back to business:

Meet Cathy, who's done biz most everywhere,
From Guangzhou to Tir Tairngire.
But what Patty's seen ain't worth sharin'.
All girl can see from the Redmond Barrens --
What a crazy pair!

But they're cousins,
Metahuman cousins all the way.
One pair of mismatched shoes,
Different as night and day.

Where Cathy adores a balance sheet,
Works hard, works smart, dress neat,
Our Patty loves to rock and roll,
She's a crazy troll with punk rock hair--
What a wild pair!

Still, they're cousins,
Metahuman cousins and you'll find,
They laugh together, they cry together,
The network makes them live together --

You can lose your mind,
Whit cousins of such differnt kinds!

Yes, the 2060's update of the old classic, The Patty Duke Show, is somehow still on after eight seasons.This reality show is hated by millions (the premise is insepid, and the plot non-existant), and hated by both human-supermiscts groups (Alamo 20K firebombed the house of the producer) and by meta-human rights groups (the human cousin Cathy is blatantly racist, and Patty is every sterotype of trolls you can find). That said, billions tune in every week, and it makes bundles for its advertisers.

Patty Lane goblinized at a very early age, and was abandoned by her mother in Seattle. She was the (very bad) lead singer of a (very bad) All-Female, All-Troll punk rock band in Seattle called "F--k Arwen." The shows producer was doing a profile on the band, when agianst all odds, they discovered that Patty Lane's uncle was a very wealthy hotel baron in the CAS.

Cathy Duke, was the spoiled princess daughter of Douglas Duke, a hotel baron. She was a useless sponge on her parents, and was forever showing up in the tabloids. Looking for a way to get her out of their lives, they agreed (on her behalf) to the premise of the show.

Cathy and Patty were both made to live in a Downtown Seattle townhouse, surrounded by cameras 24/7, and the producers just edit the naturally resulting tension into 22-minute chucks...
Imagine putting Paris Hilton and Cortney Love into the Real World House, and you've got the basic receipe. Now, make Cortney an actual 'from the slums of Seattle' punk, and have the shows producers disguise Paris's incredible lack of tact as a 'savy business women' (they have very good editors) and there you are.

to get back on topic- Most Haunted Ghost Hunters-
a team of psychics and plumbers spends each episode investigating a supposedly haunted location. They alternate between finding nothing and crapping their pants in fear. "Dude Run!"

"She's a small wonder, pretty and bright with soft curls.
She's a small wonder, a girl unlike unlike other girls.
She's a miracle, and I grant you
She'll enchant you at her sight.
She's a small wonder, and she'll make your heart take flight.

She's fantastic, made of plastic.
Microchips here and there.
She's a small wonder, brings love and laughter everywhere."


VICI, an android in the form of a 10-year old girl, built by Ted Lawson, an engineer/inventor for Renrakue Robotics, is taken home by Lawson so it can mature in a family environement. Problem is, Deus has secretly placed a copy within her frame...

For reference: Small Wonder

I'm a little too sleepy at the moment to do anything with them, but could someone translate 'Manimal' and/or 'Automan'. I remember them fondly from my childhood.

Firewatch© Go!
We'll fight for freedom where ever there's trouble.
Firewatch© is there.

It's Firewatch© against H.I.V.E© the enemy
Fighting to save the day.
They never gives up.
They're always there,
Fighting for freedom over land, sea, and air

Firewatch© - A real corporate hero!
Firewatch© is there.

Firewatch© is the codename for the Ares Macrotechnolgy©'s daring, highly trained special mission force.
It's purpose, to defend human freedom against H.I.V.E© -
a ruthless, alien intelligence determined to rule the world.

They never give up.
They'll stay til the fight's won.
Firewatch© will dare.

Firewatch© - A real corporate hero!
Firewatch©!



Firewatch© Go! is a half-hour animated trideo series produced in-house by Ares Media Technology, and based on the successful toyline from Ares Macrotechnolgy's subsideary, Topps, Inc. and the VR game franchise from NeoNET's FASA Interactive division (produced under license from Ares). The trideo had its beginnings with two 5-part simsense mini-series, which then became a regular animated trideo series that ran in syndication from 2055 to 2056.

The premise is pretty simple, "Firewatch" a collection of soliders with marketable gimicks and unique personalities band together to fight "H.I.V.E© the Enemy" (the acronym, never specificed on screen after the first miniseries is known by fans to stand for Hostile InVasive Enemy). Each episode tends to introduce some sort of new character, vehicle or weapon... which is made instantly availabel for purchase as a replica toy, expansion pack for the VR game, or some other merchandise.

Ares Macrotechnology uses the franchise to both promote itself and to normalize it's Firewatch teams in the midns of the public. It also turns a tidy profit through merchandizing while doing this. Many UCAS and CAS citizens now in their 20's have fond memories of thier childhood Firewatch© Go! toys... Plastic replicas of the shows Ares Super Predator laser pistols, and Ares Alpha-Omega laser rifles are still popular toys, and a new-in-box model from the toy-line launch in 2053 can be worth more to a collector than an actual Ares Alpha assault rifle.

Ares also produces everything you can think of with the Firewatch© Go! characters or logo on it. From bath towels to ZIP-drives, if you can think of it... its out there.

For the 15th anniversary of the show, Ares Media Technology has announced production on the first live-action simsense feature since the original 5-part mini-series. Fans are incredibly excited, and Ares has been wooing all the big simsense stars to be a part of it.

Thain wins... Something. I don't know what, but that's worthy of some kind of prize.

Firewatch© Go! Action Interactive Drones were marketed alongside the broadcasting of the trid show, and small production runs continue to this day. However, the initial ten models (seven Firewatch© soldiers, and three H.I.V.E©) are much sought after by collectors.

Action Interactive Drones are basically updates of 20th century action figures. Small computers in each, with about 0.3 Mp's of memory store catch phrases, marketing slogans, and even game scenarios. The toy soldiers will fire their laser-rifles at each other, launch spring-loaded missiles, and even hold (very limited) conversations with each other, and with the child playing with them. The dialog is all canned, and the speech recognition software primitive... when in doubt, they shout just shout their battle-cry of "Firewatch© Go!"

A gimmick introduced in the second print run - but not found in the first 10,000 units- is unlockable networked content. Each Action Interactive toy bought contains features that unlock only in the presence of specific others.

The seven Firewatch© Solders are:

Major Nick Knight©, team leader, brilliant strategist, and weapon master.

Link "Static" Stanton©,team tech expert, and decker.

Carter "Cutter" Allen©, a melee expert with "Ares Augmented Reflexes©" and a big knives that pop out of his fist.

Maggie "Magic" MacArbe, the only female in the original team, a Hermetic combat mage, and attractive redhead with a light Scot accent. (There is a disturbing amount of pirate simsense involving her and Wasp Queen on the matrix. It is not safe for work)

Pete "Pirate" Roberts©, an aqua-rigger, with stereotyped pirate drawl. Oddly popular with the kids. He appears in every episode after the mini-series except one. (Episode #14 "Dawg and Pony Show")

Doug "Dawg" Dawson©[ heavy weapons expert, and one of the only metahumans shown. An Ork with a stereotyped "urban gangsta" style. Only briefly seen in the mini-series, and in few episodes on the cartoon. Is always paired with:

Prescott "Pony" Peabody©[, the team medic. An elf with a stereotyped "effeminate rich snob" personality. Only briefly seen in the mini-series, rarly in the cartoon. Always paired with "Dawg" for comical effect. Episode #14 "Dawg and Pony Show", stars the pair and was rarely sybdicated outside of metahuman heavy markets.

The three toys for H.I.V.E© were:

Wasp Queen an anthropomorphic female wasp, with a sultry Russian accent and eye on world domination.

H.I.V.E Death Drone a vaguely humanoid wasp-monster, the size of a small car. Could release short (3' tall) solders called "Larva Men," the action figure came packaged with two.

H.I.V.E. Mantid Marauder a anthropomorphic mantis cyborg ninja.

Dang Thain. I'm impressed, keep 'em coming!

Paging Mr. Johnson

A comedy trid show parodying traditional action show shadowrunner films and shows. It focuses arround Alex Johnson, a Mr. Johnson for the fictious Adraxx AA corperation trying to get in the corperate court. Every season he has his own team of runners who are usually incompetent or stupid. A common gag is for them to completly misinterpret the instructions at the meet, for example Alex asks them to blow up the servers in the skyscraper and they go blow up every last waiter and waitress in the resturant on top. They usually end up killing themselves at the last episode of the seaon by one member of the team doing something stupid when they almost finish a spectacular run. Various deaths have included a fire ball being cast in an oil refinery, loudly cheering after a stealth run out of a building and setting off alarms, or spilling Soykaf on a high secuirty computer that was being decked/hacked (depending on edition).

This thread rules. I'm so using some of these in my next game.

Casting Call

For the 15th anniversary of the show, Ares Media Technology has announced production on the first live-action simsense feature since the original 5-part mini-series. Fans are incredibly excited, and Ares has been wooing all the big simsense stars to be a part of it. The director has decided that he wants to recreate the atmosphere of the original, and it will be filmed using actual locations rather than AR sets.

That means its being filmed on location in the runners home town. Mr. Johnson represents a company filming another show (research will reveal it to be TransRiggers - Robots In The Skies©) and wants the shows simsense star for his production. The runners are to extract her in time for filming.

Bonus Points: The simsense star is named Euphoria.




He Who Dies With The Most Toys

Firewatch© Go! Action Interactive Drones were marketed alongside the broadcasting of the trid show, and small production runs continue to this day. However, it is the initial seven toys that are most sough after by collectors, especially any from the earliest production run of 10,000.

Mr. Johnson is an eccentric billionaire, who made his money in the old fashioned way... he inherited it. A spoiled child that grew up... okay, got older, and became a spoiled manchild. Mr. Johnson lives alone in a massive, and fully automated mansion in the Grosse Pointe AAA-enclave, a suburb of Detroit.

With the 15th Anniversary of Firewatch© Go! happening this year, and a massive media blitz by Ares Media Technology to hype the new film, a special exhibit is being put together by Ares Media Tech to showcase the franchise. Entitled Firewatch© - Heroes versus H.I.V.E. the exhibit will be openning soon at Ares fully owned Henry Ford & Damian Knight Museum .

As part of the exhibit, a display featuring one of the Firewatch© Go! Action Interactive Drones every produced will be on display. Including serial numbers 00,001 through 00,007. Not only are these from the first production run, they are the very first seven toys ever made.

Mr. Johnson is offering ¥10,000 per toy, on the express condition that none be opened, damaged, dirtied, or even said had harsh words said near. Savvy runners may also be able to get (near) market value for any other collectables they snag on their way out of the museum.

Of course, The Henry Ford & Damian Knight Mueseum is right in Ares's backyard, and contains many other rare exhibits including John F. Kennedy's limousine, Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theater, Thomas Edison's laboratory, and the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop. Security is very, very tight.



Jingle All The Way (To The Bank)

2070 is the fifteenth anniversary of Firewatch© Go! and the demand for toys is high. Creating a "Tickle Me Elmo" type run on the market in the run up to Christmas. It's a pretty basic job for a team of seasoned Shadowrunners, but your fixer assures you it will be quick and the payout will be decent.

A Bergen-load of Firewatch© Go! Action Interactive Drones is being stamped out by a Ares subcontractor in Auburn. Your Fixer has good word from some Union guys that a strike will make it the last shipment to leave the plant until after New Year's Day. That means these will be the last toys in the Seattle `plex between now and Christmas.

Knock over the truck, fence the goods get paid.




Small Wonders, Big Blunder

Remember that Ares subcontractor in Auburn stamping the last Firewatch© Go! toys before Christmas, chummer? Here's how to make it even more fun for your team...

Option A: Another player in the shadows, an old rival of your teams fixer, has also found out about the toys. He's sent his favorite team after them. Hilarity ensues.

Option B: The Ares subcontractor is a dummy front for Ares Small Arms, and this truckload is bound for the NAN. All of the Action Interactive Chipsets on these toys are, in fact, high-end military Autosofts... A UCAS embargo prevents Seattle-manufactured chips from being sold to the NAN. Ares doesn't care... But now the `runners stole them, and Ares, the NAN, the UCAS Army Intelligence, all want them.

Option C: Ever see the movie Small Soldiers?

Option D: All of the above.

“Everybody Loves Rain Man” – A comedy about a autistic man who goes around fixing everyones problems. Yeah, defiantly.

This was a long running gag in my game and it's one of the PC's favorite shows.

The TransRiggers,
Move quicker than the eye

Mitsuhama-Bots wage their battle to destroy
the evil forces of the DestroCorps!

The TransRiggers
Robots in the skies!

The TransRiggers
Move quicker than the eye

The TransRiggers
Robots in the skies!

TransRiggers!

TransRiggers - Robots in the skies! as an UCAS animated trideo series depicting a war between the brave pilots of giant super-robots who could transform into aircraft, ground vehicles, and giant humanoid forms, and their enemies, robot aliens from space with the same powers who were backed by an evil fictional megacorp. TransRiggers was created by MCT-Entertainment as a marketing vehicle for the toyline of the same name, and introduced just after the successful launch of Ares Media Technologies Firewatch, Go!.

The show actual debuted in Japan, one year before Firewatch, Go! aired in North America. In Japan, the series was called Fight! Super Network Near Life Form Metamorpher! for seasons 1 and 2, and simply Metamorpher X in season 3. The premise of the two shows is similar, but in the Japanese original all the giant robot action took place in the Matrix, and in the North American version, scenes were added in that added the human-pilot characters and storyline. Debate rages between fans of both shows as to which is superior.

The TransRiggers are a group of seven to twelve pilots employed by Mitsuhama Computer Technologies subsidiary, Mitsuhama Science Robotics Police. In the inital episodes of the show, the team uncovers an alien spacecraft which they use to construct their transforming super vehicles. However, a handful of alien robot parasites manage to escape the crashed space ship and infect Damian Destron, a petty corporate officer of MSRP with their evil.

Damian Destron (a thin parody of Ares CEO Damian Knight) founds DestroCorps, as a front for the alien invasion of Earth. The typical invasion plans involve stealign some great new Mitsuhama Computer Technologies product, and using it to create a giant robot monster to smash the city. The TransRiggers fly out in their super robots and smash it.

The broadcast run of the series was never as highly rated as Firewatch, Go!, but it does very well in syndication. The series did spawn a massive line of Action Interactive Drone toys, which at the time of their release actually outsold Firewatch, Go! toys. However, production only lasted for a few years after the shows cancelation, making them highly sought after by collectors. Japanese original Metamorpher-branded toys are considered very rare in North America, and many collectors seek them out... even if they fall into the TransRiggers faction of fandom.

International Rescue: A secretive team of 5 sons led by their reclusive excentric father, in curiously anachronistic clothes, use incredibley advanced rigs and drones to rescue helpless people from disasters that no one else can get to.

They seem to be everyone's favcorite but there are evil shadow runners who want the high tech toys. The on going theme is Who's pulling the strings?

A fan favorite critics have declared the acting to be wooden at best.

I have a request for anyone to do one on Chuck Norris and his action commandos(?), TMNT, and also He-man?

Oooh, I have an idea, help me flesh it out some more...

Mythbusters of the Sixth World

Because, admit it, even in a world where Urban Brawl and Desert Wars are on the lineup, Adam and Jamie's spiritual descendants would still have the coolest job in the world.

And it would certainly bring new irony to the ever-popular quote: "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

Depending on how long the current cast lasts and when Leonization treatments start rolling out, we might actually see the original cast.

It would be perfectly funny if Adam actually did wind up Awakening. Then he really could reject (Jamie's) reality, and substitute his own.


"Adam! No magic in the workshop!" I imagine that would become the new catch-phraise.

This thread makes me LOL. I am so posting a link to it in my PbP game.