TOPIC: R4: Shadowrun Noir

Rotation Number: 4
Ref Name: inept/doug
Players: Inept, Doug
Game System: SR2
New Characters: Yes
No. of Players: ????

The city's skyline is a jagged silhouette of glass and neon, smeared by the downpour like a half-remembered dream. Somewhere in the depths of the sprawl, beneath the buzz of a faulty AR sign and the hum of drone traffic, a dingy office light flickers — third floor, above a noodle shop that’s seen better years. That’s where you are.

They call you a private operator, a gumshoe with a datajack and just enough street cred to keep the gangers guessing and the corps disinterested. You know how to keep secrets, which makes you valuable — and dangerous. Especially when a dame walks in with a high-thread count coat, blood on her shoes, and a credstick fat enough to make you ignore the trail of bodies behind her.

She wants you to find someone — or something. Said it was stolen. Said it was dangerous. Said a lot of things you didn't quite believe. But in this city, truth’s just another product, and everyone’s selling something.

Outside, the rain keeps falling. Inside, your old Ares Predator rests on the desk like a sleeping dog. You light a cigarette with a chipped smart-lighter and take the case. She tells you she wants you find Billy N'aPas de Potes.

The shadows are waiting — chrome glints in the alleys, and eyes, both organic and not, watch from behind tinted lenses and cracked AR overlays.

Time to follow the trail.




Set this up to add another game, anyone else wants in the intention is to make it less hightech shadows and more gritty film noir investigation like... this may end up with characters embracing the shadows or not... depends on the breif:

Doug: Hardass Gunshoe
Inept: long suffering junior city pathologist contact of Hardass, with a side line in patching up folks on the quiet.