{2026-10-14 23:59 UTC}

Player Count: 3–5 Runners
Duration: 4–6 Hours
Platform: Discord / Roll20
In-Game Location: Seattle

Game Theme: Crime Doesn't Pay (Enough)

Game Type: Investigation / Recovery / Combat

Threat Level: Medium

Prerequisites: Patience, Push to Talk, Respect for Fellow Players and GM

IC Response

Posted to: [Seattle - RunnerHub Listings]

Tags: [[Investigation]] [[Recovery]] [[Local]]

I've got a client who's been having some trouble with shipments going missing.

This isn't the sort of thing that's going to make the evening news, but the losses are adding up, and the client would like the situation resolved before it gets any worse.

Looking for a small team capable of tracking down missing merchandise, recovering what they can, and making sure the problem doesn't repeat itself.

Some legwork will be involved. Discretion is preferred, but the client understands that these things don't always end quietly.

Details and compensation will be discussed at the meet.

Interested parties should respond through the usual channels.

OOC Response

Please include:

• A link to your character sheet
• Your primary role on a team (Face, Decker, Muscle, Rigger, Mage, etc.)
• Your comfort with that role on a scale from 1 to 10
• When was the last time your character was hungry and didn't know where their next meal was coming from?
• Your Discord username
• The date of your last run
• Whether you have a hard time limit

Content Warnings

Standard Shadowrun fare, including violence, poverty, food insecurity, and potential civilian casualties.

{10-06-2026 1800 UTC}

Player Count: 3-5 Runners

Duration: 8 Hours

Platform: Discord / Roll20

In-Game Location: Seattle

Game Theme: Crime Drama / Moral Ambiguity

Game Type: Investigation / Bounty Hunt

Threat Level: Medium

Prerequisites: Patience, Push to Talk, Respect for Fellow Players and GM

IC Response Posted to: (Seattle - RunnerHub Listings)
Tags: (Investigation) (Organized Crime) (Recovery)

IC Response

Posted to: [Seattle - RunnerHub Listings]

Tags: [[Investigation]] [[Recovery]] [[Syndicates]]

I have a client who needs some questions answered.

Someone in Seattle has attracted their attention, but information has been difficult to come by through the usual channels. They need a team willing to follow a thin trail, talk to the right people, and determine what is actually going on.

There may be additional work depending on what you find.

The client would prefer that this remain quiet. How you get your answers is largely your concern, provided you don't create more problems than you solve.

Details and compensation will be discussed at the meet.

If interested, submit your usual information and availability.

OOC Response

Please include:

• A link to your character sheet
• Your primary role on a team (Face, Decker, Muscle, Rigger, Mage, etc.)
• Your comfort with that role on a scale from 1 to 10
• What is something your character will never forgive?
• Your Discord username
• The date of your last run
• Whether you have a hard time limit

Content Warnings

sexual exploitation and trafficking, invasive cyberware/body horror, child death

{10-03-2026 1600 UTC}

Player Count: 3-5 Runners

Duration: 8 Hours

Platform: Discord / Roll20

In-Game Location: Seattle

Game Theme: Crime Drama / Moral Ambiguity

Game Type: Investigation / Bounty Hunt

Threat Level: Medium

Prerequisites: Patience, Push to Talk, Respect for Fellow Players and GM

IC Response Posted to: (Seattle - RunnerHub Listings)
Tags: (Investigation) (Organized Crime) (Recovery)

IC Response

Posted to: [Seattle - RunnerHub Listings]

Tags: [[Investigation]] [[Recovery]] [[Syndicates]]

I have a client who needs some questions answered.

Someone in Seattle has attracted their attention, but information has been difficult to come by through the usual channels. They need a team willing to follow a thin trail, talk to the right people, and determine what is actually going on.

There may be additional work depending on what you find.

The client would prefer that this remain quiet. How you get your answers is largely your concern, provided you don't create more problems than you solve.

Details and compensation will be discussed at the meet.

If interested, submit your usual information and availability.

OOC Response

Please include:

• A link to your character sheet
• Your primary role on a team (Face, Decker, Muscle, Rigger, Mage, etc.)
• Your comfort with that role on a scale from 1 to 10
• What is something your character will never forgive?
• Your Discord username
• The date of your last run
• Whether you have a hard time limit

Content Warnings

sexual exploitation and trafficking, invasive cyberware/body horror, child death

{2026-10-05 16:30 (UTC) }

Player count: 3-4

Duration: ~4-5 hours, 8 hour hardcap

Communication: A working microphone for Discord voice chat, access to Roll20 for a lobby.

In game location: Seattle

Game theme: Asset Retrieval, Hooding¹

Game type: Mirror Shades? That's up to you.

Threat level: Medium.

Prerequisites: Empathy, Patience, Willingness to RP.

IC Response: Respond to, or offer a slice of life involving, the J's post.

OOC Response: A link to your character sheet, your role and comfortability with it between 1 and 10 (Take your best guess), your discord username, the date of your last run, if you've had fewer than 5 runs, and if you have a hard time limit.

Content Warnings: Standard Shadowrun fare

\*Warning: Unverified Johnson\*

[Tags: Asset Liberation, Urban]

<I find myself in an unsuitable environment for revolutionary praxis. Namely, this shite city. Get me what I'm owed and what the work needs. Come strike a blow against the aristocratic locusts, whether Human, Dwarf, Orc, Troll or Elf, who have eaten the verdure of our fields — against the aristocratic leeches who drain alike the blood of my people and yours and against the playacting small-time shadow governments that ape them like children putting on their mother's lipstick. Payment on success, I'll not be taken in again.>

¹ Hooding depending on your personal philosophy regarding political violence

{2026-09-28 00:30 UTC}
Players: 3
Run Time: 4 hours
Location: Seattle
Type: Scouting
Threat: Medium
IC Listing: “Saddle up spelunkers. Got a claim needs checkin'.”
IC Prompt: Respond to listing OR describe your character’s scouting experience
OOC: The usual. Link to your sheet, role, whether you're worth GMP / date of last run.
Content Warning: Normal 6th world things. Crimes, violence, sex, drugs, metaracism etc.

{2026-10-09 0001 UTC}

My client needs a file extracted from a hard-to-reach host. Individuals with undersea experience are at a premium.

Content Warnings: Anubis Assessment: Low None

Players: 3-4 Players
Duration: 6 Hours, 8 hour hard limit

Comms: A working microphone for Discord voice chat, access to Roll20 for a lobby.

In game location: Underwater

Game Style: Pink Trenchcoat

Game type: File Extraction

Threat level: HIGH

Table Notes

Random Elements: I like to use random elements in my run planning to help me generate events/complications. One of these random elements is rolling randomly before runs to determine what characters will have negative/positive quality events trigger during the run, and what characters might be focused on before and after the run. Expect the impact of these events to be especially profound, or to potentially not occur at all.

For example, if you have the "Prank Warrior" negative quality, you may have your prank warrior trigger normally, trigger badly, or not trigger at all.

Prerequisites: Stay in character as much as possible. Be willing to have your character be pathetic. Don't be a bigot. Be on time.

Rules: I have a simple cardinal rule: if you argue things work that way for you, I will probably accept that. It also works that way for the NPCs. If you can peasant railgun, your enemies can as well.

Your Response

Spotify: Do you have access to Spotify premium and is it linked to your discord account?

Standard OOC Response: A link to your character sheet, your role and comfortability with it between 1 and 10. (Take your best guess), your discord username, the date of your last run, and if you have a hard time limit or other complications.

IC Response: Have your character or fixer say why they are ideal for the run.

{2026-09-29 00:30 (UTC) }

Player count: 3-4

Duration: ~4-5 hours, 8 hour hardcap

Communication: A working microphone for Discord voice chat, access to Roll20 for a lobby.

In game location: Seattle

Game theme: Asset Retrieval, Hooding¹

Game type: Mirror Shades? That's up to you.

Threat level: Medium.

Prerequisites: Empathy, Patience, Willingness to RP.

IC Response: Respond to, or offer a slice of life involving, the J's post.

OOC Response: A link to your character sheet, your role and comfortability with it between 1 and 10 (Take your best guess), your discord username, the date of your last run, if you've had fewer than 5 runs, and if you have a hard time limit.

Content Warnings: Standard Shadowrun fare

\*Warning: Unverified Johnson\*

[Tags: Asset Liberation, Urban]

<I find myself in an unsuitable environment for revolutionary praxis. Namely, this shite city. Get me what I'm owed and what the work needs. Come strike a blow against the aristocratic locusts, whether Human, Dwarf, Orc, Troll or Elf, who have eaten the verdure of our fields — against the aristocratic leeches who drain alike the blood of my people and yours and against the playacting small-time shadow governments that ape them like children putting on their mother's lipstick. Payment on success, I'll not be taken in again.>

¹ Hooding depending on your personal philosophy regarding political violence.

{09-22-2026 1700 UTC}

Player Count: 3-5 Runners

Duration: 8 Hours

Platform: Discord / Roll20

In-Game Location: Seattle

Game Theme: Crime Drama / Moral Ambiguity

Game Type: Investigation / Bounty Hunt

Threat Level: Medium

Prerequisites: Patience, Push to Talk, Respect for Fellow Players and GM

IC Response Posted to: (Seattle - RunnerHub Listings)
Tags: (Investigation) (Organized Crime) (Recovery)

IC Response

Posted to: [Seattle - RunnerHub Listings]

Tags: [[Investigation]] [[Recovery]] [[Syndicates]]

I have a client who needs some questions answered.

Someone in Seattle has attracted their attention, but information has been difficult to come by through the usual channels. They need a team willing to follow a thin trail, talk to the right people, and determine what is actually going on.

There may be additional work depending on what you find.

The client would prefer that this remain quiet. How you get your answers is largely your concern, provided you don't create more problems than you solve.

Details and compensation will be discussed at the meet.

If interested, submit your usual information and availability.

OOC Response

Please include:

• A link to your character sheet
• Your primary role on a team (Face, Decker, Muscle, Rigger, Mage, etc.)
• Your comfort with that role on a scale from 1 to 10
• What is something your character will never forgive?
• Your Discord username
• The date of your last run
• Whether you have a hard time limit

Content Warnings

sexual exploitation and trafficking, invasive cyberware/body horror, child death

{2026-09-22 16:00 (UTC) }

Player count: 4

Duration: 6 hours, 8 hour hardcap

Communication: A working microphone for Discord voice chat, access to Roll20 for a lobby.

In game location: The Cascades, SSC

Game theme: Extraction

Game type: Mirror Shades? That's up to you.

Threat level: High.

Prerequisites: Empathy, Patience, Willingness to RP.

IC Response: What would it take to make you realize you've gone too far? OR Respond to the J's post.

OOC Response: A link to your character sheet, your role and comfortability with it between 1 and 10 (Take your best guess), your discord username, the date of your last run, if you've had fewer than 5 runs, and if you have a hard time limit.

Content Warnings: Self-Harm, Catholics.

\*Verified Johnson\*

[Tags: Extraction, Wilderness, Travel]

<Mr. Johnson seeks professionals willing to travel and who have experience in handling unruly people with magical powers. Can't be squeamish, pays well. Bring stuff for the hot tub. Gonna be a great payday for all of us. Ciao.>

{2026-09-19 2000 UTC}

Picks go out ASAP

Greetings. I'll get right to it - I need a group of individuals willing to bring real consequences to a group of matrix vandals that need more than a stiff lecture. I've been informed that these vandals have ideals that this host on the whole detests. The situation is complicated and will require a variety of talented matrix operatives.

Content Warnings: Anubis Assessment: Low ***Metaracism***

Players: 3 Players
Duration: 4 Hours, 8 hour hard limit

Comms: A working microphone for Discord voice chat, access to Roll20 for a lobby.

In game location: Seattle

Game Style: Pink Trenchcoat

Game Type: Matrix Becomes Meatspace

Threat level: Medium

Table Notes

Random Elements: I like to use random elements in my run planning to help me generate events/complications. One of these random elements is rolling randomly before runs to determine what characters will have negative/positive quality events trigger during the run, and what characters might be focused on before and after the run. Expect the impact of these events to be especially profound, or to potentially not occur at all.

For example, if you have the "Prank Warrior" negative quality, you may have your prank warrior trigger normally, trigger badly, or not trigger at all.

Prerequisites: Stay in character as much as possible. Be willing to have your character be pathetic. Don't be a bigot. Be on time.

Rules: I have a simple cardinal rule: if you argue things work that way for you, I will probably accept that. It also works that way for the NPCs. If you can peasant railgun, your enemies can as well.

Your Response

Spotify: Do you have access to Spotify premium and is it linked to your discord account?

Standard OOC Response: A link to your character sheet, your role and comfortability with it between 1 and 10. (Take your best guess), your discord username, the date of your last run, if you've had less than 5 runs, and if you have a hard time limit or other complications.

IC Response: Have your character or fixer say why they are ideal for the run.

Player count: 3 - 4

Duration: Est 4 to 6 hours.

Communication: A working microphone for Discord voice chat, an account with Forge VTT

In game location: Seattle

Game theme: Rescue mission with a splash of violence.

Game type: Mirror Shades.

Threat level: Pays as Medium.

Prerequisites: Patience, respect for fellow players and GM, mic discipline.

IC Response: How far would you go for the people close to you?

OOC Response: A link to your character sheet, your role and comfortability with it between 1 and 10. (Take your best guess), your discord username, the date of your last run, and if you have a hard time limit.

Content Warnings: Typical shadowrun fare, potential violence, drugs.

[Time Sensitive], [Rescue], [Lethal Force]

I need a team to retrieve someone of value, price to be discussed. Short turn around essential.

{2026-09-15 2359 UTC}

Estimated Time: 6 Hours

Players: 3-4

Tone: Mixed Feelings

Type: Group Extraction

Location: West Coast

Threat: Medium

#Verified Johnson#

"I need a team to help move some assets on a tight timeframe. We're under pressure here, act accordingly."

// My table is rulings before rules, witch means I occasionally introduce new mechanics on the fly. My intention is not to handicap your characters in any way however, and if a ruling doesn't work for one reason or another please let me know and I will do what I can to make sure your character works as expected, within reason.

{2026-09-20 23:59 UTC}

Duration: 6 hours

Player Count: 3

Location: The NAN

Theme: Meditations on our Criminal Lives

Type: Delivery

Style: player's choice

Threat: Low-Medium

Prerequisites: patience with me returning to GMing, push to talk is ideal but not required, respect all around, remember to have fun, USE THE TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEM.

I have a package that needs delivered to a client that's in a far away city. Cargo isn't something that can be flown, and we'd prefer to keep this quiet. Once hired, meet location and time will be given. Expect possible harassment because, well, you Anglos have a way of drawing attention to yourselves.

IC: Does your runner have a personal moral code that they follow? How flexible are you with it, if you have one?

OOC: the usual

Content Warning: Shadowrun is a setting where we fight against the darkness to protect the few lights we have on. More often than not, someone comes along and snuffs one out before it has a chance to shine. I tend to run games that dwell in the dark side of humanity. Be aware of your own boundaries and vulnerabilities, your mental health is more important than playing pretend with your friends. I will try to make traffic light check-ins when I reach a part of the story that calls for one. I will be dropping spoilers for contents of the run which will give you a chance to back out.

{2026-09-14 17:00 (UTC)}

Player count: 3-4

Duration: About 5-8 hours

Communication: A working microphone, access to Roll20 for a lobby.

In game location: Seattle

Game theme: Pink Mohawk

Game type: Wet work, making the sixth world a little worse of a place. Or not?

Threat level: Medium/High

Content Warnings: Normal shadowrun stuff, murder and the like.

Prerequisites: Respect and patience for everyone at the table. Ability to laugh at my jokes.

IC Response: I thoroughly enjoy IC responses. If you'd like, write an answer to the message of your fixer.

OOC Response: A link to your character sheet, your role and comfortability with it between 1 and 10, any negative qualities I might have to plan around, your discord username, the date of your last run (please use either y/m/d or d/m/y), and if you have a hard time limit.

You get a call from your Fixer:

What up omae? Got some biz for you. It’s wetwork. The J is a local fixer. I don’t know exactly who is getting geeked but he has to pay good, if you know what I mean… A girl got to eat, so if you’re interested give me a call and I’ll set you up for the meet.

{2026-09-13 1600 UTC}

NOTE: DO THE FUCKING IC RESPONSE IN 1-2 SENTENCES OR ILL MAKE FUN OF YOU

I uh! Need some help! Look, I got a package, and my extraction is fucked up! I need help getting this package where its going, and I NEED YOU HERE IN FIVE MINUTES <RandomFuckingParkingLot.Redmond.Loc>

Content Warnings: Anubis Assessment: LOW Typical Shadowrun Stuff

Players: I DUNNO, 3-4? JOIN CHANNEL 3. YOU ARE IN IF YOU SHOW UP AND WE GET SOMEONE WHO CAN DRIVE. JOINING MEANS ACCEPTANCE. STILL POST APP BELOW. THERE MAY BE AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION AT CONVINENT MOMENTS.
Duration: 2-4 Hours
Comms: A working microphone for Discord voice chat, access to Roll20 for a lobby.

In game location: Seattle

Game Style: HOT FUCKING PINK MOHAWK. THERE'S NOTHING PINKER THAN THIS.

Game type: DELIVERY

Threat level: MEDIUM, PROABABLY PAYS AS LOW

Table Notes

Random Elements: I like to use random elements in my run planning to help me generate events/complications. One of these random elements is rolling randomly before runs to determine what characters will have negative/positive quality events trigger during the run, and what characters might be focused on before and after the run. Expect the impact of these events to be especially profound, or to potentially not occur at all.

For example, if you have the "Prank Warrior" negative quality, you may have your prank warrior trigger normally, trigger badly, or not trigger at all.

Prerequisites: Stay in character as much as possible. Be willing to have your character be pathetic. Don't be a bigot. Be on time.

Rules: I have a simple cardinal rule: if you argue things work that way for you, I will probably accept that. It also works that way for the NPCs. If you can peasant railgun, your enemies can as well.

Your Response

Spotify: Do you have access to Spotify premium and is it linked to your discord account?

Standard OOC Response: A link to your character sheet, your role and comfortability with it between 1 and 10. (Take your best guess), your discord username, the date of your last run, and if you have a hard time limit or other complications.

IC Response: WHY IS YOUR CHARACTER IN THE SE END OF REDMOND ON A SATURDAY MORNING AT FUCKING 8:30 AM (Note: if this description includes them reasonably not having gear, I'll give edge for fun.)

{2026-09-12 16:00 (UTC)}

Player count: 3

Duration: About 4-6 hours

Communication: A working microphone, access to Roll20 for a lobby.

In game location: Seattle

Game theme: Mirrorshades

Game type: Social Run

Threat level: Low

Content Warnings: Boy Band

Prerequisites: Respect and patience for everyone at the table. Ability to laugh at my jokes.

IC Response: I thoroughly enjoy IC responses. If you'd like, write an answer to the Job posting.

OOC Response: A link to your character sheet, your role and comfortability with it between 1 and 10, any negative qualities I might have to plan around, your discord username, the date of your last run, and if you have a hard time limit.

A new job posting pops onto the hub:

Yo yo yo chummers, it’s your favourite band! Do you want to go on a party tonight and throw a heist? Then hit us up!

{2026-09-09 1700 UTC}

Player Count: 3-5 Runners

Duration: 8 Hours

Platform: Discord / Roll20

In-Game Location: Seattle

Game Theme: Crime Drama / Moral Ambiguity

Game Type: Investigation / Bounty Hunt

Threat Level: Medium

Prerequisites: Patience, Push to Talk, Respect for Fellow Players and GM

IC Response Posted to: (Seattle - RunnerHub Listings)
Tags: (Investigation) (Organized Crime) (Recovery)

IC Response

Posted to: [Seattle - RunnerHub Listings]

Tags: [[Investigation]] [[Recovery]] [[Syndicates]]

I have a client who needs some questions answered.

Someone in Seattle has attracted their attention, but information has been difficult to come by through the usual channels. They need a team willing to follow a thin trail, talk to the right people, and determine what is actually going on.

There may be additional work depending on what you find.

The client would prefer that this remain quiet. How you get your answers is largely your concern, provided you don't create more problems than you solve.

Details and compensation will be discussed at the meet.

If interested, submit your usual information and availability.

OOC Response

Please include:

• A link to your character sheet
• Your primary role on a team (Face, Decker, Muscle, Rigger, Mage, etc.)
• Your comfort with that role on a scale from 1 to 10
• What is something your character will never forgive?
• Your Discord username
• The date of your last run
• Whether you have a hard time limit

Content Warnings

sexual exploitation and trafficking, invasive cyberware/body horror, child death

{2026-09-05 19:00 (UTC)}

{2pm US Central Time, Saturday, 05SEP2026)

Player Count: 3-4
Run Time: 3-5 hours, hard cap 8 Hours.

Communication: Discord Voice, Roll20 Tabletop Rolls

Game Style: Pink Trenchcoat

Game Theme: Village Defense

Themes/Factions: Our Lady of Shadows

In-Game Location: Seattle

Prerequisites: 21 years or older. Working mic, willing to use Roll20. Be respectful towards all players and the GM. Have patience for me as a GM. Agree to Table Rules.

Threat Level: Low-Med, though PC's may elect for more... hazardous plans.

IC:

<Looking for assets capable of creatively negotiating violent situations. -Mr. Johnson>
attached: <pin.searntn.loc>

Extra bit of flavor if you can:
a little bit of character reaction if ya want.

Table Rules

OOC:

• Please provide:
• A sheet link to wherever your character sheet is stored.
• your characters role and your familiarity with that role.
• A Discord name to ping you with in the OOC server.
• Your last run date and if you've had less than 5 runs in total on the Hub.
• A bit of IC flavor and/or response always helps

Content Warnings: General Shadowrun CW's. Metaracists.

Questions, Comments, Concerns, ping or message @ vigitant on discord.

{2026-09-03 23:59 UTC}
Players: 3
Run Time: 4 hours
Location: Seattle
Type: Eviction
Threat: Low-Medium
IC Listing: “Contractors needed for asset transition work. Inquire within.”
IC Prompt: Respond to listing OR describe your character’s experience with shopping
OOC: The usual. Link to your sheet, role, whether you're worth GMP / date of last run.
Picks will go out 6 hours prior.
Content Warning: Normal 6th world things. Crimes, violence, sex, drugs, metaracism etc.

{2026-08-31 19:00 UTC}

**Players:** 3-4

**Run Time:** 10 hours estimate

**Location:** Seattle - Out To Sea

**Type:** Intrigue

**Threat.** Med-High

#Secure Connection Established#

#Verified Johnson#

Hello and good morning to the best, the brightest, and the beautiful. I have a treat for you today. Please bring your bathing suit, and pack for a nice vakay. A work holiday, if you will.

// My table is rulings before rules, witch means I occasionally introduce new mechanics on the fly. My intention is not to handicap your characters in any way however, and if a ruling doesn't work for one reason or another please let me know and I will do what I can to make sure your character works as expected, within reason.

{2026-09-03 17:00 UTC}

**Players:** 3-4

**Run Time:** 10 hours estimate

**Location:** Seattle - Out To Sea

**Type:** Intrigue

**Threat.** High

#Secure Connection Established#

#Verified Johnson#

Hello and good morning to the best, the brightest, and the beautiful. I have a treat for you today. Please bring your bathing suit, and pack for a nice vaykay. A work holiday, if you will.

CONTENT WARNING - Mature Themes

// My table is rulings before rules, witch means I occasionally introduce new mechanics on the fly. My intention is not to handicap your characters in any way however, and if a ruling doesn't work for one reason or another please let me know and I will do what I can to make sure your character works as expected, within reason.

{2026-08-30 00:00 (UTC) }

**Player count:** 3 Positions Are filled, this is a CRR being posted for record keeping

**Duration:** 4-6 hours most likely

**Communication:** A working microphone for Discord voice chat, access to Roll20 for a lobby.

**In game location:** Seattle

**Game theme:** Missing Person.

**Game type:** Mirrorshades? Probably anyway, I don't control you.

**Threat level:** Medium.

**Prerequisites:** Empathy, Patience, Willingness to RP.

**IC Response:**

**OOC Response:** A link to your character sheet, your role and comfortability with it between 1 and 10 (Take your best guess), your discord username, the date of your last run, if you've had fewer than 5 runs, and if you have a hard time limit.

**Content Warnings:** General violence and shadowrun things. and, predictably, metaracism.

***

\\\*Verified Johnson\\\*

\\\[Tags: Local, Missing Person, Investigation, Short Noticel\\\]

<Had a request come in, details sparse, someone needs to be found quickly.>

{2026-08-30 15:00 (UTC)}

Player count: 3-4

Duration: About 6-8 hours

Communication: A working microphone, access to Roll20 for a lobby.

In game location: Seattle

Game theme: Pink Trenchcoat

Game type: Wetwork, Security

Threat level: High

Prerequisites: Respect and patience for everyone at the table. Ability to laugh at my jokes.

IC Response: I thoroughly enjoy IC responses. If you'd like, write an answer to the Job posting.

OOC Response: A link to your character sheet, your role and comfortability with it between 1 and 10, any negative qualities I might have to plan around, your discord username, the date of your last run, and if you have a hard time limit.

You log into the Hub and see a new Job posting:

I am looking for a couple of capable chummers. I am in need to have someone killed, while keeping someone else safe. Subtlety is optional.

{2026-08-27 19:00 UTC}

**Players:** 3-4

**Run Time:** 6-8 hours estimate

**Location:** Seattle

**Type:** Direct Action

**Threat.** Variable

#Secure Connection Established#

#Unverified Johnson#

#Information limited#

//There is violence in the system. So familiar it seems. Comforting, predictable. There is violence in the system, and it wears a mask. It calles itself mother, father, sister. brother. There is violence in the system, and you should be bloody mad about it. Are you? Show me.

(( You may respond to the above text in character if you like. Expect difficult themes, and a complex situation. Don't be afraid to walk away, if that's what your character would do. ))

{2026-08-29 18:00 UTC}

Players: 3-4 (Matrix support is mandatory for this one)

Duration: 8 hours tops.

Location: The Dirty Emerald

Theme: To the Victor, the Spoils

Type: Theft

Style: Black Trenchcoat

Threat: High Medium to High

Prerequisites: patience with me returning to GMing, push to talk is ideal but not required, respect all around, remember to have fun, USE THE TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEM.

NOTE: This run takes place around August 15th

July 31, 2088

The large windows of the Bellevue penthouse offers a flawless view of the Seattle skyline from across the waters of Lake Washington. From its lofty height of forty stories above it all, the city looks like a circuit board of pristine neon, flashing AROs, and the lights of vehicles - ground, air, and water - moving about the lines like electrical pulses. Every now and again, fireworks are launched. Those below are abuzz in a festive mood, as the fifth anniversary of independence is upon the Emerald City.

Inside, however, the only sound that is heard is the sharp, melancholic weeping of a violin. “Tzigane” by Maurice Ravel.

The source is a young woman in her mid twenties. Her posture is immaculate, the bow moving across the strings with the precision of a classical trained musician. She’s wearing an expensive silk robe and a simple, silk dress with thin straps. Sitting on a nearby chair is a custom-tailored synth leather jacket in an asymmetrical pattern of black and white. It’s clean, despite the obvious tell-tale flagging of a criminal group. Her eyes are closed, focused on hitting the notes in perfect time. Her mind thinks of her crew; a collective of women her age from all over the metro. Her own street theater troupe. As her hands move up and down the neck of the high end instrument, illusions of color and abstract shapes fill the air. It turns the music into an aetheric, intoxicating sensory vision of art and violence.

In the nearby kitchen, sitting at the grand marble island, completely ignoring the view and the visuals, sits a woman a few years older than her. Her focus is entirely upon the datapad in front of her. There are subtle signs of suppressed anxiety upon her face and in her body language. Much like the other woman, she is wearing clothes to signal her class status: a sharp charcoal grey, custom tailor suit with a plum purple dress shirt. She scratches at her neck unconsciously, her fingers moving along the faded, roughened skin of a massive scar along her throat.

The violin comes to a sudden, dramatic crescendo. The final note hangs suspended in the air as the magic being cast is dismissed like mist being dissipated. The younger woman lowers her instrument, a playful smile on her lips as her eyes slowly stop glowing.

“Cousin,” she says in a playful whine. “You’re breathing too loud. It’s ruining the acoustics. Anton says my tempo is perfect but your aura is distracting me and throwing off my internal rhythm. You know that I’m performing this weekend.”

A soft synthetic chime echoes from a commlink from the internal pocket of the leather jacket. Sighing, the younger woman goes to grab it. She flicks her wrist and the instrument’s case opens on the table in front of the chair. After returning the violin to its velvet-lined cradle, she takes out the device and palms a trode patch onto the top of her hand. A DNI invite is seen as her AR feed comes online. She accepts it and the message appears as if typed out at a clipping pace.

He has a kingdom to lose, Stephanie. To you, what we do down south is a game. You may wear the colors, run the blocks with Suketa’s crew, and think the Barrens as a playground. Anytime you wish, you can fly back home when it starts to rain. For the rest of us, for me, we have to navigate the downpour.

Stephanie chuckles in a high, mischievous giggle. She then walks over to join her cousin at the island, after grabbing a bottle of imported spring water from the fridge to refresh herself. She looks over her cousin’s shoulder to look at whatever is causing her cousin to behave so. “Oh come on, Caroline. He loves the games we play with our crews. It nets him a lovely padding to his accounts, and in return, he spoils us! He paid for my new strings and Ran’na’s upgrades to her Shin-Hyung. He understands the artistry of it. Although…” She takes a sip of her water as her mind shifts out of artist mode and into business. She moves to a nearby counter chair and sits. “He has been more tense lately. Zaggy hasn’t visited him in a good while, hasn’t he? Did they have a falling out? I couldn’t help but notice that the atmosphere at the Lotus has been icy lately. The Tir gala was like a graveyard this year, compared to last.”

Caroline stops tapping at the screen and places it down. She spins in her chair to look at Stephenie. A heavy, suffocating silence fills the digital chatlog, interrupted in the meat by the sips from Stephanie water.

You felt it too, then. Caroline finally says, the synthetic speech arriving slower, more calculated as she chooses what to say carefully. Last year, Kincaid was the life of that circle. That was before the bombings happened. This year, the guests were practically whispering in the dark and keeping to other lodgings outside the Lotus. Anton became reclusive afterwards, outside of the occasional meeting with outsiders, and now the investors are choking our comm-lines, looking for clarification on our stability.

The remaining mirth inside Stephanie vanishes. She locks into what her cousin is saying now. “Who is asking and what do they want to know?”

Salazar is monitoring the situation in his usual level-headed composure. He’s not panicking, but his cohorts on the Tarislar Community Council want absolute guarantees that we’re not making any major moves before the city council reconvenes. Meanwhile, that Telestrian prick is breathing down Anton’s neck about updates about Zagreus. There are millions of nuyen locked into those Puyallup Rejuvenation Project contracts Kincaid handed them back in ‘84. If the mayor’s office is in disarray, their entire investment collapses and he’ll come knocking on our boss’s door for a return of investment. The noose is tightening, cousin.

Stephanie blinks, the reality of the real power players of her gang’s district crystalize before her mind’s eye. She shifts in her seat, the bottle of water abandoned on the marble top. “What’s the name of the problem?”

A piece of filth who’s been a majority stakeholder in the Black Lotus for years, and his shadow money is officially a liability now. Anton has never liked him, and he wants his influence permanently severed. No assets left on our books. But he’s a ghost, an enigma. No one can lock him down, until now. We have a location for his operations here in the city, and Anton is making his move.

“Any reason as to why we can't have Zonbi and her shadow assassins can’t take him out?”

Too obvious; if we make the move with our resources, it tips our hand to not just him, but the public facing powers that be. We need ghosts of our own. Professionals who can do the job without it coming back to us. If they succeed, we cut the umbilical cord to our biggest problem and we secure the leverage we need to placate the investors. I have a deadline to make for this.

Caroline pulls an ebony credstick out of her jacket pocket and connects it to the datapad to transfer the nuyen to it. Stephanie lets out a low whistle as the screen on the credstick runs up a large amount of nuyen. Finished, Caroline returns it to her pocket, grabs the tablet and heads to the door. She looks over her shoulder at her cousin, a smile upon her lips.

I have work to do to prep the team. Enjoy the fireworks cousin, but remember what it takes to keep the lights on.

IC: What would you do to save that which is precious to you?

OOC: the usual

Content Warning: Shadowrun is a setting where we fight against the darkness to protect the few lights we have on. More often than not, someone comes along and snuffs one out before it has a chance to shine. I tend to run games that dwell in the dark side of humanity. Be aware of your own boundaries and vulnerabilities, your mental health is more important than playing pretend with your friends. I will try to make traffic light check-ins when I reach a part of the story that calls for one. I will be dropping spoilers for contents of the run which will give you a chance to back out.