Hi, everyone,

I thought that I'd seen a thread once with lists of ideas to use for paydata that might be found in a corp's system. The entries were things like "payroll records for the last five years," and "trid footage for blackmailing competitors". Unfortunately, I can't find that thread.

So, can anyone give me a link to that old thread, or provide your own ideas for paydata contents?

A personnel file marked MacGuffin, Angus.

No idea on that thread - getting ready for dinner and a search-fu workout isn't what I'm looking for.

However, I humbly submit the following for your consideration:

• Expense Reports
• Performance Reports
• Salary information
• Profit estimates and/or forecasts
• Trade secrets
• Managerial preferences - everything from food and wine to sexual (Handy for seduction, etc.)
• Reports on possible negative side-effects of a company product

That's all I have time for right now. Good luck!

prototype schematics

Porn.

Specifically, proof that the boss is jaming his secretary.

This is a really nice list, that pretty much covers it. I would also add 'vendor services' (provided and received), customer lists, shipping schedules and any of the data analysis projects on just about anything. Almost anything related to business can be used as paydata, it's just figuring out 1) What's the appropriate paydata for the company or facility and 2) finding out who could profit from it (granted a good fixer could handle this part for the runners).

A good example of what would be paydata today would be vendor contract services (security, janitorial, legal council, utilities, repair services, etc.) whether it's provided to or solicited by the target corp. It's a highly competitive area of business were info brokering and industrial espionage is highly beneficial and hard to prove. Also, the pay scale runs the gamut of low level stuff like custodial services for a 'mom and pop' to high level stuff like security at a secure government facility. Prices are more or less flexible so knowing how much the other guy is charging or by what criteria the client will hire is gold.

prerelease footage of upcoming blockbusters

List of important test subjects

Oh, did you catch one of that crazy phys ad with bone lacing and spurs?


More seriously
Locations of secrete persons and facilities.
Interesting combinations of material orders (Why does this facility need 1000 doses of adapsin /and/ enriched uranium?)

I'm going to hold out for the book.


also: receipts and reservations for a grossly overpriced weekend getaway including food,lodging,entertainment,and wardrobe for two involving someone and not-their-spouse.

The Colonel's Secret Recipe.

What really goes into NERPS.

A heavily encrypted file that the PCs have no chance in hell of ever breaking but the Fixer is peeing himself in joy over it and paying out the hoop for it.

Location on some of Dunkie's unfulfilled Will requirements.

Where Stuffer Shack actually gets the meat for those Big Chomp Weenies.

The passcode to get into the Catalyst's Game Lab's node to know what the frag is going to happen next.

A file detailing what is going on in the Shadows of Central America.

The recipe for Coka-Cola Quantum.

The first draft of a blockbuster-in-the-works.

An involved file detailing the rise of Ukrainian nuclear fuzz-grunge collectives.

Nadja Daviar's actual current whereabouts. Sunbathing. Topless.

With a link to a real time, high rez satellite feed of same.

-paws

Maria Mercurial's comeback album.
Dunkelzahn's Diary, volumes 1-9; The Early Years. Condensed and abridged.
The actual formula for the Happy Fun Ball.
The beta for Ultra Mega Super Awesome Ninja Pirate Cyborg Zombie Monkey Combatant 6 Part 4: The Flinging.
Ares' latest data from it's probe on Mars, providing detail on the Face at Cydonia.
God's last message to his creation.
The sanity patch for Holly.

The uncompiled source code for GLaDOS.

While some of these are getting out of hand and silly (which is funny, don't get me wrong) I have one serious suggestion.

My campaign will have a datasteal coming up. The Mafia have found a Vory money laundering company, and pay the runners to steal BOTH sets of records (the actual financial records and the records they show the cops.) The runners turn over the paydata, the mafia turns the data over to the Star, and the Vory suddenly are shut down for a while, and the mafia can go to town.

Actually, #'s 1, 2 and 4 in my suggestion were somewhat serious.

That's a good one.

Maybe you could have the Triads or the Yaks poised to try and grab a piece of that Vory pie?

-paws