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A Fantasy-Cyberpunk Adventure


A night club thumps with the heavy bass, growling guitars and synth keyboard of Neo-Punktech music, the latest craze among the severely sleep deprived. It's feverish pace matches sickeningly with flashing beams of neon light that paint the room. A sweaty mass of dancers fidget and flail on the busted dance floor of the dilapidated discotheque. It's the kind of music only the drugged can appreciate or stomach. Soon their highs will run out, and they'll either pass out or need more.

On the second floor, overlooking, massive guards with sagging jeans and gleaming cyberware stand watch for troublemakers. Behind them, there is a single man that is impossible to miss, because he takes up the entire sofa on his own. Horns sprout from his forehead and spiral upward, painted in a rainbow of colors. Thick grey skin, branded in writhing holographic tattoos of more shimmering color. Pearlescent sunglasses shaped like knives barely cover his bloodshot eyes, while he nods his shaven head to the awful music. The Troll wears an obscenity of gold chains around his neck and rings on his fingers, but they are an afterthought compared to the gaudy golden tusks protruding from his bottom jaw. Though the entire room is suffocating with humidity, he does not sweat.

He leans forward and the entire balcony feels in danger of collapsing.
"I've got a job for you, Shadowrunner."





Shadowrun is a tabletop roleplaying game series, made popular more recently by several fantastic pc games developed by Harebrained Schemes. The setting is a unique blend of fantasy and cyberpunk, with things such as elves, dragons, wizards and magic. This is paired with the essential cyberpunk tropes of sinister megacorporations, cool trenchcoats, cooler sunglasses and virtual reality hacking. For this roleplay, we would be starting in the year 2070 in the Louisiana city of New Orleans. Mardi Gras never ends, corruption is king, and zombies wander the bayou. Shadowrunners, the teams of mercenaries operating in the grey area of the law, are vital tools either for or against the asshole megacorps that control the world... usually against.

Never played the Shadowrun tabletop game before? Me neither! You have? Awesome, but forget a lot of what you learned. We will be using the very cool Shadowrun universe as a springboard to create a fun and interesting fantasy cyberpunk world. There will be no dice rolling or stats on any of the player's ends. This will be purely roleplay for anyone that joins. You will play the role of a small group of Shadowrunners that have been hired for a job, and I will list different roles for you to claim. Hacker, mage, muscle, there should be some flavor for everyone. Our setting will tend slightly towards the magical, however, as voodoo is very much alive(and undead) in New Orleans.

So, that's pretty much the pitch. Who here would be interested in this sort of shindig?
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Getting in here real quick to call dibs on an elven shaman rogue type character.
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Tentatively interested! I have played a few sessions of Shadowrun before, but unfortunately I am 1) bad at math and 2) don't have the obligatory bathtub full of D6s necessary to play IRL. A non-dicey version seems fun :>

I adore riggers and the associated fluff in the books. Big vans, cool bikes, drones? Sign me up.
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Sure, I’m game. I have played the Harebrained games, like them very much.
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Sounds coolio. Will keep my eye on this. My first inclination is to think up a Cybernetic Nartaki-turned-ghoul, if something that outlandish would be permitted. Either way I’m subscribing.
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@Roach I've never played the tabletop, but I do listen to a couple of actual play podcasts. The amount of confusing rules and math sounds maddening, especially for mages. But I'm very glad we might have a rigger, I think they're a very cool part of shadowrun.

@BeefJerky Thank you very much for the interest, and yeah the games really got me into the whole setting first. I'm definitely taking inspiration from those sorts of RPG experiences.

@Bartimaeus Hah, that sounds pretty cool, I hadn't even heard of a Nartaki before. I'll have to do some thinking about allowing ghouls as players, though. It might make things a little too difficult to blend in... but it's tempting.

@Jabberwocky Can't wait to see you playing cyberpunk.
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Interested in this and a chance to use my oni moon shaman medic.
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Eyyyyy. I’m gonna express my interest in this cyber punk Shadowrun place, seems very cool!
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Eyyyyyyyyyy

Interested
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Also interested, but I understand yall have a bunch of interest already and may not have the room.
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Interested! Im not sure if I have as much time as I'd like, but I'll at the very least be keeping an eye on this!
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Just getting into Shadowrun via the video games, but I'm up for this, implying there's any room left.
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Fucking christ do I miss playing Shadowrun!

Considered me interested fo' sho~

I've got a bunch of old character concepts lying around. Adept Hacker would be neat.
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Thanks for the interest everybody, I'm hugely excited. I had wanted to make it a somewhat small group, 4 to 5 players most likely, but I'm considering a few ways to let more people be involved.

Going to start working on the OOC and such today. I will link you guys here when I've got it posted up. For now, I can tease you all with a little bit more info... the RP will be starting out like any good shadowrun story, imo.

Each character will initially be a solo runner, that has been hired to fill a role for this mysterious job. As our crew works together, things may not go exactly as expected.
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the RP will be starting out like any good shadowrun story, imo.


Something going wrong and half our crew getting wiped out? :p
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This seems interesting, I'll keep an eye on it. I tend to play Street Samurai in tabletop sessions and have played Hong Kong so many times over.
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I might be interested...
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@JeremorAny news on teh RP?
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Hey guys, sorry for the slow progress. I'll try to get something up this week.
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Apologies, but right now, I am not sure I have the time to join.
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