I'll play in it if you run it!

Oh, I forgot.

A toxic mutant ninja pirate who is a free Insect Hive Queen/Mother in control of an underwater arcology in a toxic sea with her own pet toxic mutant Leviathan flesh form.

And after the runners kill both, we can ressurect them with Master Shedim for Round 2!

I have just the character.

If your players know SR universe well enough and consider Aztechnology to be the most evil corp in the world, do this: reveal them that they work for Aztechnology, check that they do scream and weep that they don't want to, that Aztechnology is evil and all that, and before they leave have Ares and the Draco Foundation offering them to work as double agents. Let them foil a mission or two by transmitting Ares vital information, then have them giving Ares Intelligence the localisation of an Azzie listening post (one in San Diego spying on California and Pueblo for instance). Read Threats 2 and have the runners around when Ares will send insect spirits to pass through the post heavy defense. Give them a chance to survive, wait and see how they'll react when Ares will try to silence them, and they will be forced to ask Aztechnology for forgiveness and protection.

AHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

DAMN! That is just SICK! How could you be that fragging evil?!

Actually where does it say that the chip can override spirit control? Or that chip rating has to be over spirit Force?

bugger the azzies, I'd flip on ares and go to the Draco foundation, insist that they use any and all means available to check my honesty and desire to help out and hide behind their apron strings.


On my team's finale run we stole crate x in room y, and found out it had that replacement flesh for ghoul food. I figured we didn't know if the people we were stealing it from were gonna sit on it, or release it, ditto for the people who we were stealing it for. Now my character's a total spaz and scared shitless, so here we are in a stolen van ( I crashed our getaway semi into the front entrance to get in) So here we are trying to getaway, I dial up the Draco Foundation while one of the other guys drives, and the conversation goes something like this:

"Draco Foundation, this is Alice speaking, how can I help you?"

"Hi, this is gonna sound weird, but we're in a bit of a bind. Might have something you folks want though."

"Oh?"

"Yeah. Kind of in a hurry though, so we were hoping to stop on by right now if we could. Be about 4 minutes or so."

"Ok, sounds good. Give us a call as you arrive."

"One more thing... we're coming in kinda hot. You might wanna prepare a reception party."

"We've got that covered."

At best I can imagine they would be ready to spend the money to erase the memories of the events instead of just killing the runners. They can't leave them wandering freely with that sort of information. Even if they don't like the truth, the Draco Foundation has to protect Ares reputation to protect Daviar and the Haeffner Administration. But who would they trust ? They have a long working relationship with Ares services, who could give them a lot more believe (yet forged) evidence that the runners tried to work as triple agents. With me as the GM, it wouldn't be that much of a cakewalk

Can't they just use magic hoopajoop to tell we're for real?

I don't see her hating him enough to involve in such big scandal Ares, and by extension the Haeffner Administration, herself and the Draco Foundation, just before the elections. Besides, I'm all but sure Dunkelzahn's seven years plan he gave her for Ares says on the last line "destroy Ares and your own reputations and take public retirement" (though... you never know).

Aina does run the day-to-day business. Sending a strike team to evacuate some runners with key information at least about Aztechnology and eventually about Ares if you trust them, maybe killing some Ares operatives in the process, is not day-to-day business. Daviar would probably find some time in her agenda to handle the matter. The DF shadow assets rimarily come from Dunkelzahn own network, they owes loyalty to Daviar more than to Aina.

That's assuming the info goes all the way up to the board, since the runners ain't likely to have Aina's personal cell phone number and will rather pick the public number of the closest DF offices ("hmm, hello, I wan't to talk to your local clandestine action officer..."). The GM could also wisely pick one of the many towns were the DF does not have any offices, preventing the runners from finding a safehouse that easily even if the DF gets involved. That's precisely why I was thinking about San Diego: right down in Aztlan territory, no DF, no Seraphim, no contacts, nobody but Aztechnology and the operatives Ares sent there to conduct the raid and evacuate the runners if they didn't have seen what they weren't supposed to.

What do you think the runners will have to say ? "I swear, I saw a squad of insect spirits and they were wearing Ares t-shirt" ? Besides, you can never know if you succeded in your Analyze Truth roll, and it only tells you what the target think to be true. There would no difference between an honest witness, a agent prepared by Aztechnology best mages and a wacky conspiracy theorists.

I read, I read, and I have nothing specific to answer about Cross & Aurelius. They're part of the reason I would set the thing in San Diego, where Cross is not more present than any other corps save Aztechnology (and if the Seraphim have any presence there, runners from the outside wouldn't know it). But I guess something could be made of the runners jumping to a third wagon in emergency. The Seraphim have a lot of potential by themmselves for the continuation off the campaign.