All right folks, we all have our favourite characters from Shadowrun, either the examples, the short stories, or the novels...

Where are they in 2070?

Me, I'd like to know where Dirk, Derek Montgomery, is in 2070. I bet he's still around, using his contacts, detective skills, and pure dumb luck to get out of scrape after scrape! And making darn sure he's staying away from things that hunt the Horrors.

Drop bear got 'im.

That's your answer to everything, isn't it?

Well, except for getting a CommLink.

Nope. Argent lost both his legs in a freak scuba-diving accident and now his lower torso has been replaced by tank treads. Makes a fortune in the Desert Wars, though the recoil from his cannon apparently is hell on his libido.

Well, good for him.

And Sly (Sharon Louise Young)?

Went through 27 clones until she found one that came out just right.

That sounds more like Paranoia.

Wolfgang Kies and Dr. Richard Raven?

Went through extensive rejuvenation treatments and cosmetic surgery, hid out in Quebec, and broke a drawing table.

Well, that's going to royally tick off Dr. Raven's Elven Princess that's been promised to him.

Hmmmmmmmm, who else...

Martin DeVries?

Triple-simsense deal. Turns out he looks just like Lestat and has the whining down perfectly.

Really? Hm, go figure.

Peter Clarris, AKA: The Professor?

Da' Profezzur?

Don't know if they're the same person, might be.

Six kids, works two jobs, head of his local chapter of Mensa in Auburn.

Wow, moved from Chicago did he? Can't blame him. But, did he do it before, or after the Bugs?

Next on the list, Striper and her Son!

Before.

Shapeshifters will receive an update in Runner's Companion.

Ah, so they might be giving info there, perhaps.

Bandit and his Raccoon Fetish?

Rabies and unnatural acts with animals. Very sad.

Awwwwwwwwwwww, and he was starting to socialize with people again, too.

Geraint?

Two ork sons and a net worth of fifty-six million nuyen. Still insufferably British.

Rani?

Where do you think the ork kids came from? Now if only he'd make an honest woman out of her...

As you said, insufferably British. Wonder what happened to the rest of the litter.

Serrin and his Wife (Whose name escapes me at the moment)?

Drop bears. Ill-advised honeymoon in Australia went sour.

Francesca?

Out of anything, this got me laughing the hardest.

That hacker friend of Geraint's, Michael Sutherland?

Sutherland is currently enjoying a chemically-induced coma while Geraint figures out how to fix the AIPS he got in the Crash 2.0. Meanwhile, an AI that thinks it's Sutherland is traipsing around the Matrix.

Francesca lost her SIN in the Crash 2.0 and disappeared. Rumor has it Damien won someone of her description in a poker game in Hong Kong in '69.

Lone Wolf, the Ex-Undercover Officer of Lone Star, and Chummer of Argent?

Was undercover as an elf in prison and had both ears cut off by Lord Torgo, who also gave him a nasty social disease (later cured through a dip in a genetank). He likes his new cyberears better anyway, and is currently doing disgusting things for money in feral Chicago.

Jason Chase?

Fell in a hole and died. There was a small parade afterwards, and some troll kids poked the body with a stick.

Kyle Teller?

Kidnapped by a big man named Penn and forced to wear a bunny suit and be pulled out of hats, catch bullets in his teeth, and things like that.

Anwar the Fixer?

Phaeton dealership and a sweatshop full of illegal Aztlaner immigrants churning out Nazi Elf paraphenalia in Los Angeles.

Peg, the Parapalegic Decker?

Made a fortune in porn, blew it on <details of this post concealed because of relevance to plot of Ghost Cartels>

That slacker orc Bull?

Damnit. Now this is a "Must Buy"!!!

You'd have to ask him. I don't keep track of every tusker.

OK, we know Kham is in an Old Ork's Home, thanks to Runner's Havens (The Bot'Kham), but what about the rest of his crew?

Let's start with Dodger.

Still at large, see...actually, I cannot immediately recall if he is in Unwired or not. Bugger off and do a word search, would you lad?

Only in the history section of Unwired.

Now, Ghost-Who-Walks?

Eloped with Sally Tsung, buried her and his unborn child, killed the man that did it, and the man's animals, family, friends, and entire tribe. Dyed his hair in the blood and went off up to the top of a mountain to contemplate how strong he'd become. Might have died in the eruption, or he might have looted Ehran's summer home. We'll never know for sure.

I'm betting on looted Ehran's Summer Home, myself.

Kat, the woman Kane talked about, that was stuck in an Aztlan Jail?

Can't tell.

Damn. Really want to know that, I just might have an adventure based on that.

OK, that's all the names I can think of for now.

Once again Ancient, I love you.

One of the things I've been thinking of doing for the writeup of Boston in the '70s is to bring back the private detective from the adventure in the back of Universal Brotherhood as a man who took the death of someone he loved and turned it into a sort of successful hunt against the bugs. Now he lives in Boston trying to forget the whole thing after the horror that was Bug City.

How about another couple?

Renny from Virtual Realities.

Nursey from the same.

Leonardo.

Er, I'm pretty sure Bambra is dead.


Already in SR4, if you know where to look.


Still working with kids...


Gained Resonance and Magic at the same time and spontaneously combusted while waxing Lofwyr's scales. You can see the scorch mark still, if you can get him to lift his tail.

Dodger?