I'm thinking I'm going to start my campaign 6 months prior to the 2076 Olympics in Seattle. Trying to come up with some runs that would use the Olympics as a motivating factor. I've come up with the following so far:



* Forger needs to move fake ticket codes to matrix gangs

* Forger needs to move counterfeit Knight Errant uniforms to Vory v Zakone [For posing as police officers for muggings/robberies on tourists during the games]

* Mafia-run Gates Casino in Bellvue wants a neighboring building in Redmond (Touristville) torn down, as it's operated by a Seoulpa Ring's illegal casino. Remove the gangers holed up in the casino to allow for the demolition crew to do their job.

* Vory v Zakone are spread thin moving in extra illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe to run cons during the games. They need help watching over incoming shipments from Knight Errant and Halloweener raids.

* Mr. Johnson for Olympic Committee wants the Troll Killers quieted in the downtown area around the Seattle Center. It seems they have recently been given some funding and proper leadership and are getting more daring/open.

* Olympic athlete doesn't want rival(s) to compete.

I was just curious if anyone else could help me come up with ideas? Keep in mind, this is only 6 months prior to the Olympics, so they are set to happen, the applicant phase has passed.

These all look like cool ideas. You could also reverse any of these, for instance an athlete has heard his rival will try to sabotage him and wants protection.

Also:

* Olympic committee hires team for security / investigate an athlete's disappearance / prove an athlete is using a banned drug

* Organized crime needs help getting someone into an event / into a stadium in a restricted area

* Broadcasting stations want help sabotaging a rival broadcaster / protection from a rival broadcaster

* Sponsors ask the team to muscle out the competition / infringers (based on real life London Olympic nonsense)

* Sabotage the stadium or parts of the arena / protect the stadium or arena

Great ideas, man. Yeah, I've been reading heavily into the London games and the future Rio games. The problems Rio's running into are perfect for Shadowrun inspiration.

look at the currnet mess in London or what happened in Greece or the commonwleth games in dehli..

1) sabotage traffic plans so people get hopelelssly lost like wise the living conditions etc to damage a company's image.
2) different town argue who gets a venue- it might seem minor steal sabotage someone's plans to a velodrome but that is a significant construction plan.
3) infiltrate the security service. I was thinking of the stuff you could set up if you were wearing a badge- no not armed robbery but setting up back doors and such for later use, or once inside the wire what could go...missing. I was htinking of the AA missles they've put on roof tops.
4) the opening and closing games are major shows, what performers can get the gig? Who will plan it? who gets the consessions? Think how much Cola /budweisser/prune juice gets sold at these things.

5) differnet nations send their own security to protect the atheletes, but what if there is a rtarget on the sec team? A friend of mine did security at the Atlanta games and tells sotries how his platoon and asome australians overran a bar for their off hours. what if you want to take out that team? sort of "If we clip Renraku's elits squad here they will not be responding to our raid at their Bellvue facility in 3 months time.

My absolute favorite: Fix the games for X criminal organization, doing whatever it is your team does best. Whether it's hacking in and faking drug tests, sending the face to frag them until they can't walk correctly, or a good old fashioned Tonya Harding special, fixing the games is always fun. And then, there's always the added fun of having another organization find out mid-way through your rigging of the games and offering you even more nuyen to go back and redo some of your work for a different outcome. You can piss off syndicates AND the IOC. What's not to love?

After something Snow Fox said recently when we were at a beer fastival with our husbands. Cause an incident at the games. Something that will draw in all the security people to prevent it getting out of hand, and then committ a crime elsewhere while the police are busy at the Olympic mess.

For those wondering she saw all the police at the Beer fest and said, "Now would be the perfect time to committ a robbery in Lansdale." "Huh?" "Almost all the police are here, the rest are stretched thin and it will take the ones here forever to get to their cars to respond." Yes she thinks and says stuff like that BEFORE the drinking starts. That is the scary part of Snow fox in RL.

any good idea, ya gots ta have hot babes.

a participant that is in actuality a hot assassin mayhaps?

Perhaps this babe will inspire you in that regards. mmmmm. Ya'll think if I asked her she would let me visit her...down under? :O

what the HE double hockey sticks?! the song changed! that poster better change it back to the original or so help me when the magic comes back I'll turn him into a toad!

I'm glad other people do this. I think I scare people sometimes. I'm pretty sure everyone gets a little scared when I outline my marital arts techniques. That must be how CanRay feels when demolitions comes up.

Would the Olympics still exist?

Either they would need to start permitting augmentations and athletics who have had genetic alterations (in which case the athletics with the biggest purse strings would consistently win) or they would need to be able to test for the presence of bioware and gene alterations to make sure the competitor is still "pure". That's not even including the messed-upedness of all the core metatypes, let alone extended metatypes. Should Centaurs be permitted to compete in the Steeplechase?

So we end up with.....

The Human Men's 50m Freestyle.
The Human Women's 50m Freestyle.
The Dwarf Men's 50m Freestyle.
The Dwarf Women's 50m Freestyle.
The Elf Men's 50m Freestyle.
The Elf Women's 50m Freestyle.
The Ork Men's 50m Freestyle.
The Ork Women's 50m Freestyle.
The Troll Men's 50m Freestyle.
The Troll Women's 50m Freestyle.

The Pixie Men's Superheavyweight Lifting....

Silly Sigma, Metas aren't *real* humans! That's why they wree kept out of the Games when they were in Japan!

Seattle's turn at bat wil be ... interesting ... to say the least. Wonder who Brackhaven will have light the torch?

I don't tihng aug'ed people would be allowed. My character Yumiko, with her raptor legs, would probably not be allowed in gymnastics or running events, same as that one guy who had the prosthetic legs wasn't allowed to compete.

He's competing in London.

Disallowing metas allows for the Trollympics to happen. I say that's a good thing.

Yup, and Seattle will be the next host...don't remember which book it was in, but Shadowhelix says Runner Havens.


Metas and gene doping could easily be accommodated by weight classes similar to boxing. Doesn't matter how you got your muscles, having them puts you in a certain weight class and you will compete against similar opponents. If cyberware has a similar max force/weight ratio to normal muscles, the same might even work for cybered athletes.

Except that there are some sports without Weight Classes at all... So how do you treat them?

An elf. Just not sure how they'll launch him.

If I remember correctly, most nations build the competition venues when they are awarded the as a host city by the IOC. So an easy run idea would he the removal of any residents in the target build zone. This process generally begins four to five years before the event. Many cities use the event, coupled with imminent domain-esque laws, to "revitalize" economically bliguted regions. This seems like the Redmond Barrens to me. So an alternative campaign would be to xelay/prevent such removal and construction.

Both of which can be done far sooner than ghe games with no visible link.

Introduce weight classes, maybe?

Slightly off topic, but Denver in 2072 and Seattle in 2076 ? Bit North America Centred, no ?

Well, Seattle is the UCAS and Denver is a Free CIty, but, yeah, certainly weighted.

I have a list of cities for 2080 that I'm hoping I can plunk down as a poll, see where the next ones should go.

I humbly request than anyone doing any Olympic related runs includes one offered by a Runner/Johnson to kill every gymnast who participates in Men's Floor.

The Johnsons know that plenty runners already hate Men's Floor that extras don't need to be hired

Seattle 2076! Ah yes, in the future the USA celebrates its' tricentennial of independence (or is it the NAU - North American Union by then)...the events shared by Portland, Oregon, Cascadia and Vancouver part of the NAU is now Pacific Columbia of western Canada. If the risk of terrorism exists, they are homegrown bands of domestic terrorists advocating a new nation-state (esp. a type of homeland for the highest concentration of predominantly white Anglo Americans) for Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho centered on Spokane/Coeur d'Alene. The last olympics held in the USA was Salt Lake City 2002, probably in the future (2026 will be Denver, Colorado - the sesquicentennial of independence) would be the last time the USA held such an event.

Sorry, I meant to say a Runner/Johnson (a Rohnson?) named MADjack offer the runs. I really hate Men's Floor. It just look dumb. Not the tumbling passes, I am impressed by those, but the steps in between. Ew.

the heck are ya doing watching Men's events? you have to watch the women events. There are some there that look real nice and oh so fit! shame Jenneke didn't make it though.