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=Character Information=

===Summary===

Paragon is a mage works B&E. Despite knowing nothing about decking, they have this weird intent on disguising themselves as a decker.

((I write short stories and post them in [[ParagonSs]] for this particular character.))

===Goals===
Stop being sick all the time.

Figure out why I was a lab rat for pharmaceutical drek.

Make a bunch of nuyen to run away from my past.

Become a spinradical (if in name) starlet.

Either bury Fire Bringer or become a paragon of virtue.

Not get gunned down by bounty hunters.

==Background==
Paragon ended up in an Spinradical! bio-lab at a very young age, The exact nature of whether or not Paragon was born "in-house" or picked up is still ambiguous to Paragon. They are wanted by Spinradical industries, mostly to finish their research and to protect corporate secrets that is woven into her physiology; A self proclaimed "father figure", the director of the laboratory has personally taken a primary leadership for this particular bounty collection and will be physically present for any collection, citing the need to see their quote child unquote, a "Valis Europa" of the same description as Paragon returned.

A shadow-running team had helped her out of the site on the side of breaching the lab for a different goal, and had taken in the young lass because it seemed a little cruel to do otherwise, not to mention the fact that she had awoken as a mage during that time. During her new found freedom, the running team found out that Paragons was severely impacted by the sterile environment they lived in, along with the schedule of medications they took as a child due to complications in lab procedure. Even now, her health cannot be described as above and beyond. It isn't uncommon to see Paragon sick with one malady or another. Her formative years resulted in a somewhat competent runner, and ended when a Spinradical sting operation occurred with her runner team. The resulting drag-net which was caused by someone close to Paragon had resulted in the termination or of those she considered her immediate family, as well as the burning of any contacts she had. Paragon has come to the running scene in Seattle after a grueling trek from CAS territory. Perhaps it was luck that she made it this far.

The name Paragon is an in-joke to the shadowrunner group. Paragon was one of the lucky ones. Always had a meal to eat, fellow runners to rely on, always had a cop out from a desolate existence in the slums with her magic, and a way to way to secure her existence with her tainted blood and the goons that had once been her caretakers. A little message to a contact address seared into her memory, and they could take her back, to that sleepy existence she knew so intimately. Paragon prefers to to run because that is how she was taught to use her magic: She had the type of mojo in her head that would be a waste in some corporate slog to the bone. The only reasons she runs in Seattle was because her past caught up to the present, and CAS isn't safe anymore, because it never was.

==Narrative Significant Qualities==

'''Compromised Immune System''': During her formative years, the combination of a very sterile environment along with the battery of immunosuppression regimens among other semi-experimental chemical therapies and procedures based upon the unique aspects of bodily physiology has resulted in a severely compromised immune system;

'''Fire-Bringer Mentor Spirit:''' The greatest, best Mentor spirit in the world, the one that get's really creative and is in practically every trickster god epic ever. Yep, that's the one that Paragon listens too every day like a big fool.

'''Allergy: Unpolluted air:''' A deteriating immune system prevents Paragon from breath any air that is even remotely "polluted" without having an allergic reaction. Paragon is forced to constantly wear a respirator or at minimum a sterile mask under the risk of an allergic reaction that may degenerate with continued exposure. This means that paragon cannot take her respirator off without A. holding her breath, or B. being in a "safe" place like the inside of her home or a very well ventilated area. Although her condition has stabilized after a few years, it may still come up with a surprise. She would normally carry a few spare respirators and similar equipment at her house for emergencies. She even carries a little card that neatly pegs her symptoms to some type of pollution-induced asthma.

'''Wanted''': There is a standing bounty for the capture of Paragon. The bounty was created by the same lab that she lived in, a Spinradical subsidiary. This bounty is to the tune of 50,000. This is due to her unique biological composition and the amount of work they put down raising her for their science experiment, as well as the fact that another corporation could snatch it up for their own research. Her intimate knowledge of the lab's procedures and certain parts of its layout doesn't put at ease any of the security officials either.

==Run History==
{{RunHistory}} 

==Affiliations==

===Organizations===
{{GroupContactTable|

{| class="wikitable"
|+
! Faction !! Faction Rep !! Significant Runs !! Notes
|-
| [[DocWagon]] || -5 || [[The Incredible Behemoth]] || intercepted one of their ambulances during the Incredible Behemoth run.
|-
| [[CityWatch ]] || 3 || [[The Incredible Behemoth]] || Helped [[Overwatch]] in her rescue a shadowrunner.
|-
| [[Humanis Policlub]] || 2 || [[Eagle Hunter]] || Helped [[Carolina Petrovski]] with an issue regarding hte importation of humanis members from Europe.
|}

}

===Contacts===
{{ContactTable|


{{HasContact|
|Name=John_Baptise
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Obelix
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Patches
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}

{{HasContact|
|Name=Overwatch
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}


}}


===Organizations===

===Allies===

===Enemies===
Small-time Shadowrunner Group: A cybered up dwarf, Troll, Elf Con adept are incredibly pissed at Paragon for taking [[No Good Deed goes Unpunished]] personally.
=In Character Information=

==Symbols and Signatures==
==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Paragons are the technomancers version of the magicians mentor spirits. Some kind of spooky matrix ghost?
|MidResult=Paragon was some UCAS runner whose close Shadowrunner friends got gatted by SpinGlobal response teams. some basic details, their horrible state of fashion, general physical characteristics and like, them shooting a lighting ball at a guy. Bounty, 50,000 nuyen. Now lives in Seattle.
|HighResult= Shoot, what don't you know chummer? get your combat knife and take the hunt like it is Call of Combat Duty 2.
}}

==Shadow Community Table==
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult=Who?
|MidResult=some mage, who probably got fragged during their last run from the flu or whatever.
|HighResult=Manipulation Mage, some people are a bit unnerved by her mind manipulation abilities, it's pretty messed up.
}}

==Assensing Results==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Hits
!Information Gained
|-
|0
|You scored 0 Hits.
''Her Aura is like any other, but with a bad omen, a creeping death entwined within her shadow, withered and almost dead.''
|-
|1
|Awakened. On the path to recovering from some sort of flu.
''It's cracked, damaged at the foundation by caustic moths.''
|-
|2
|No Standard cyberware. Magician.
''The cackling warmth of a hearth, just in the moments of dawn after a long night. That is the color of the subjects Aura, that shade of the sky intertwined with fire.''
|-
|3
|No Astral Signatures. A brightly burning aura that is unfettered by black metal and not-flesh.
''In the fire of the hearth, something stirred, a hand which cupped the fire after a disease has been wrought into the flesh by toxic reagents.''
|-
|4
|No betaware-grade cyberware. Essence 6, Magic 6.
''She's not alone. She knows it, some unseen hand has enraptured-infested-visited her aura.''
|-
|5+
|No deltaware-grade implants. Not a technomancer.
''"FORSAKE FLESH FORSAKE SINEW ABANDON MORTAL HEX EMBRACE M A G I C" calls out her friend-when-no-friends-are-around, witnessing a product of chemical pollution on one of it's chosen, a siren call to a burning bright-short path. It's a song that the entity will sing until the subject dies. Or maybe the subject does what they do because of their free will.''
|-
|}

==SINs==
Katheryn Arroyo, Rating 4, UNAS National

==Appearance==
Stands at a full, elfine height of 5 feet 11 inches. her disheveled look look is a hallmark. Paragon is something resembling graceful, if a little slow on the uptake in snap decisions required for being a really good acrobat. probably looks like they have not had a fun last few days, all the time. Paragon has pale white hair that falls just short of her neck.

===Clothing===
Paragon owns a full set of "tactical" (Black sweater, off-brown baggy cargo pants, Lockheed Martin Expediter Armored Jacket) clothing for runs, but otherwise is clad in dreary stuff, not really having much of any fancy clothing due to her current actualized wealth. (low)

===Matrix Persona===

A sort of clumsy reflection of Paragon physical look into the Matrix, but with a very high definition set of fiber-optic hair.

===Astral Signature===

Red, a sort of luminescent idealization of Paragons appearance if you squint and are willing to believe that Paragon is a couple inches taller. Paragon's astral signature has black hair, that falls past her shoulders.

==Media Mentions==

==ShadowGrid Profile Comments==

[[Category:Player Characters]]

My Bag Is Cooler Than Yours

2021-04-08T21:26:52Z

BloodLibrarian: /* Rewards */

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|Date=2082-04-07


|GM=Blood Librarian


|Location=Renton


|Ally=
|Ally2=


|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList|Delphi|Black Samurai|Gerisa|Nogitsune}}
|RunnerCasualties=


|Threat=Medium


|Metaplot=
|Metaplot2=
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|OppositionFaction=SpinGlobal
|OppositionUnits={{AARCharacterList|PuppyPurse Labs|Ming Zedong}}
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==Summary==
Runners are contacted by a Cyber Collective to do some fast data gathering work and do the meet at the Star Light Diamond Dust Club in Renton. They get into contact with RUMBA, who handles the payment. Runner team moves to the neighboring mall, do some investigation work on finding the PuppyPurse!™ that was discarded, dealing with some psychotic security members, a spinglobal worker and a incandescently Spinmad Karen™. Runners defuse the situation with a bribe, and split up, one group going to Delphi's Detective Agency, while the other going to the Colosseum in an effort ot track down the targets body guard whose P-Profile places her there. Runners fight 2 Cyber Tigers and a Giant Crab-Tank, winning the fight in basically three seconds. Delphi walks into a locker room where the target was resting with her three bodyguard lackeys that she beat in a fight. Runner team exfils after instigating a conflict with the target, who attempts to entrap Delphi after she commits a "faux paus." Run was successfully completed with data acquired all relevant sources and Runners were given pay-data by a surly and damaged AI.

==Background==
Tülay Meier-Adler, the Johnson of the meet has a bunch of rotodrones doing cool stuff, and witnessed an act of depravity. the rotodrone witnessed the target of the run beating her servant maid person with a PuppyPurse!, resulting in the dog being severely wounded.

==The Meet==
The meet goes down in the Starlight Diamond Dust club, a place known for going into temperatures low enough to form diamond dust from the moisture in the air. It's cold. The runners made it to the to he meet with no issue thanks to decker support to make the checkpoints faster for all members of the party. After a brief issue where the bouncer almost gets cut in half for assuming that Black Knight was a Ren-Raku goon, they see the johnson shivering, and immediately move to baby him from the cold, with Gerisa hugging him until he resigned to being forced to wear a coat.

The Johnson gives details on the run, the video on the person and a simple request to get the details on who this person, what the dog is, and where it came from. Runners agreed to get paid in pay data, as well as the offer of software and digital equipment at gear discounts.

==The Plan==

Sniff out the details and get our paws own the data and deets required to complete the mission, first step being the mall in which the incident happened.

==The Run==

Runners walk through a MAD scanner and have to disarm their guns or turn it in if they don't have a conceal carry permit. They spot a blood trail from the high-end Renraku Subsidary clothing store mostly cleaned up and leading to a maintenance closet. Gerisa finds a discarded piece of jewelry spilled out from when Ming clubbed her maid, and goes to the bathroom to do psychometry on it. Black Knight goes to the bathroom to hide out and be close enough to support if needed. He gets into a conflict with a cruel Spinglobal guy who immediately initiates radical combat against Black trying to defile his shoes while they both duck and weave with their rollerblades and skimmers. A ultimate diss causes the guy to stalk away, waiting for round two. Gerisa goes to open the door to the maintenance closet. Nogitsune sat nearby, making sure to play interference for the her. a incandescently mad human woman with a Wuxing SIN walks up and demands to talk to Gerisa about a very important task, being incredibly racist to Nogitsune who just wanted to calm her down. Nogitsune almost gives in and murders her after being called "knife-eared good for nothing but camp-fire fuel keeb" and "cat boy." Black Samurai leaves the bathroom and hangs out outside, Delphi exits the other bathroom and, while still under the effects of psychometry, moves to intervene. Gerisa pops open the door, and Black Samurai walks in. Karen gets Spinmad™, and leaves. Black Samurai has possibly the most frank conversation with the orc inside, clutching the living breathing being whose species name is actually PuppyPurse! while doing first aid. Black Samurai was allowed to help out. Karen returns with three mall guards, and the stakes increase.

The mall cops were like "hey, what is going on?" Delphi tells them of the weird dog-purse whose being held by the orc in there, and one of the guards looks in and states that they hate that orc and are gonna beat the frag out of both them and dog. Spinradical guy comes back and tries to do something to Black Samurai, but gets body slammed by the other mall guard and promptly tries to protect himself from the psychotic entity that is a security guard with a stick. The other guard, sensing a money opportunity, takes Karen away with a promise of justice so his buddy can work getting a bribe out of the runners.

gently soothed by the moonlit sonata of a man being beaten to a pulp, a bargain was struck between Delphi and the Mall cop. He and his boys would each get paid a small sum of money, and they allowed the situation to defuse. They went to work tying a rope around the spinradical dude and hang him upside down from the second story of the mall. They got a local mage to do a make-over spell to make him look like a famous shadowrunner clown, so it basically looked like a decoration and not a dude who got clubbed for rollerblading inside and trying something on someone they were talking too.

The orc gives up the puppy because of the antics of what just happened, and he doesn't want to deal with hot goods.

Delphi does some matrix wizardry and finds out a bunch of data on the nature of the PuppyPurse!™ while driving over to their detective Agency. Gerisa was told to frag off and go to the Colosseum, and check out the location ping of Alex Turing, the maid/servant who got clubbed by Ming.

By the time Gerisa arrived, Delphi finished with the intensive search and the entire runner team regrouped at the Colosseum.

=== The Collosium ===

The Colosseum is a dive bar with a thinly veiled and hidden underground fightclub. Everyone but Delphi immediately entered the AO. they pass the bouncer without an issue, he recognizes Shadowrunners when he sees them. The runners walk down into the fightclub, getting stamped based on welter or not they wanted to risk being randomly picked to fight a cybertiger. Runner team successfully negotiates with the local betting guy with Delphi acting as the manager of the fighters. Delphi inserts into the AO into the locker rooms and enters into a room with three Wuxing bio-sams, including Alex Turing, who are resting from their fight that Ming Zedong instigating to blow off stress. Delphi tries to gather info, but Ming is a social mystic adept. She gets mad about this, and Delphi tries to talk to Alex. This is interrupted by Ming snapping her fingers at Delphi and Alex, and telling her not to talk to the help. Delphi promptly tries to leave, and Ming tries to entrap Delphi.

Meanwhile, Black Samurai, Nogitsune, and Gerisa fight a Giant Enemy Crab and two cyber panthers. Black Samurai cuts the giant enemy crab in half, and then puts a good slice in the arm of the rigger who popped out with a pistol. the guy falls over. the two cyber tigers were dispatched by Gerisa and Nogitsune respectively.

The team exfiltrates when Delphi is in distress. The team makes a report for Rumba, the Cyber-Suzerain of the Johnson after doing a divination on the dog and figuring out its manufacturing location. Delphi flips off Alex and leaves. The runner team gets paid, and Johnson got bullied by rumba for the runners' antics.

==Aftermath==

Runners got paid. 1 dead rigger.

==Rewards==
13 RVP

5 RVP:10 k Nuyen

8 RVP:8 Karma

Can convert Karma or Nuyen into software at gear purchase prices

May substitute up to 2 RVP to have "pay data items" which are pieces of data tailored to your preferences and wants which can be used in later runs.

+1 Public Awareness for Gerisa, Nogitsune, Black Samurai, unless they pay 4 RVP to have the support staff burn it away.

==Game Quotes==

{{Gamequote|"YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A GIANT ENEMY CRAB, BUT IT WAS I, DIO!" --Enemy Rigger}}

==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==

[[Category:Runs]]

My Bag Is Cooler Than Yours

2021-04-08T21:26:22Z

BloodLibrarian:

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{{AARInfobox|



|Date=2082-04-07


|GM=Blood Librarian


|Location=Renton


|Ally=
|Ally2=


|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList|Delphi|Black Samurai|Gerisa|Nogitsune}}
|RunnerCasualties=


|Threat=Medium


|Metaplot=
|Metaplot2=
|Metaplot3=


|OppositionFaction=SpinGlobal
|OppositionUnits={{AARCharacterList|PuppyPurse Labs|Ming Zedong}}
|OppositionCasualties=


|OppositionFaction2=
|OppositionUnits2=
|OppositionCasualties2=


|Image=
|ImageSize=
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|Notes=
|}}

==Summary==
Runners are contacted by a Cyber Collective to do some fast data gathering work and do the meet at the Star Light Diamond Dust Club in Renton. They get into contact with RUMBA, who handles the payment. Runner team moves to the neighboring mall, do some investigation work on finding the PuppyPurse!™ that was discarded, dealing with some psychotic security members, a spinglobal worker and a incandescently Spinmad Karen™. Runners defuse the situation with a bribe, and split up, one group going to Delphi's Detective Agency, while the other going to the Colosseum in an effort ot track down the targets body guard whose P-Profile places her there. Runners fight 2 Cyber Tigers and a Giant Crab-Tank, winning the fight in basically three seconds. Delphi walks into a locker room where the target was resting with her three bodyguard lackeys that she beat in a fight. Runner team exfils after instigating a conflict with the target, who attempts to entrap Delphi after she commits a "faux paus." Run was successfully completed with data acquired all relevant sources and Runners were given pay-data by a surly and damaged AI.

==Background==
Tülay Meier-Adler, the Johnson of the meet has a bunch of rotodrones doing cool stuff, and witnessed an act of depravity. the rotodrone witnessed the target of the run beating her servant maid person with a PuppyPurse!, resulting in the dog being severely wounded.

==The Meet==
The meet goes down in the Starlight Diamond Dust club, a place known for going into temperatures low enough to form diamond dust from the moisture in the air. It's cold. The runners made it to the to he meet with no issue thanks to decker support to make the checkpoints faster for all members of the party. After a brief issue where the bouncer almost gets cut in half for assuming that Black Knight was a Ren-Raku goon, they see the johnson shivering, and immediately move to baby him from the cold, with Gerisa hugging him until he resigned to being forced to wear a coat.

The Johnson gives details on the run, the video on the person and a simple request to get the details on who this person, what the dog is, and where it came from. Runners agreed to get paid in pay data, as well as the offer of software and digital equipment at gear discounts.

==The Plan==

Sniff out the details and get our paws own the data and deets required to complete the mission, first step being the mall in which the incident happened.

==The Run==

Runners walk through a MAD scanner and have to disarm their guns or turn it in if they don't have a conceal carry permit. They spot a blood trail from the high-end Renraku Subsidary clothing store mostly cleaned up and leading to a maintenance closet. Gerisa finds a discarded piece of jewelry spilled out from when Ming clubbed her maid, and goes to the bathroom to do psychometry on it. Black Knight goes to the bathroom to hide out and be close enough to support if needed. He gets into a conflict with a cruel Spinglobal guy who immediately initiates radical combat against Black trying to defile his shoes while they both duck and weave with their rollerblades and skimmers. A ultimate diss causes the guy to stalk away, waiting for round two. Gerisa goes to open the door to the maintenance closet. Nogitsune sat nearby, making sure to play interference for the her. a incandescently mad human woman with a Wuxing SIN walks up and demands to talk to Gerisa about a very important task, being incredibly racist to Nogitsune who just wanted to calm her down. Nogitsune almost gives in and murders her after being called "knife-eared good for nothing but camp-fire fuel keeb" and "cat boy." Black Samurai leaves the bathroom and hangs out outside, Delphi exits the other bathroom and, while still under the effects of psychometry, moves to intervene. Gerisa pops open the door, and Black Samurai walks in. Karen gets Spinmad™, and leaves. Black Samurai has possibly the most frank conversation with the orc inside, clutching the living breathing being whose species name is actually PuppyPurse! while doing first aid. Black Samurai was allowed to help out. Karen returns with three mall guards, and the stakes increase.

The mall cops were like "hey, what is going on?" Delphi tells them of the weird dog-purse whose being held by the orc in there, and one of the guards looks in and states that they hate that orc and are gonna beat the frag out of both them and dog. Spinradical guy comes back and tries to do something to Black Samurai, but gets body slammed by the other mall guard and promptly tries to protect himself from the psychotic entity that is a security guard with a stick. The other guard, sensing a money opportunity, takes Karen away with a promise of justice so his buddy can work getting a bribe out of the runners.

gently soothed by the moonlit sonata of a man being beaten to a pulp, a bargain was struck between Delphi and the Mall cop. He and his boys would each get paid a small sum of money, and they allowed the situation to defuse. They went to work tying a rope around the spinradical dude and hang him upside down from the second story of the mall. They got a local mage to do a make-over spell to make him look like a famous shadowrunner clown, so it basically looked like a decoration and not a dude who got clubbed for rollerblading inside and trying something on someone they were talking too.

The orc gives up the puppy because of the antics of what just happened, and he doesn't want to deal with hot goods.

Delphi does some matrix wizardry and finds out a bunch of data on the nature of the PuppyPurse!™ while driving over to their detective Agency. Gerisa was told to frag off and go to the Colosseum, and check out the location ping of Alex Turing, the maid/servant who got clubbed by Ming.

By the time Gerisa arrived, Delphi finished with the intensive search and the entire runner team regrouped at the Colosseum.

=== The Collosium ===

The Colosseum is a dive bar with a thinly veiled and hidden underground fightclub. Everyone but Delphi immediately entered the AO. they pass the bouncer without an issue, he recognizes Shadowrunners when he sees them. The runners walk down into the fightclub, getting stamped based on welter or not they wanted to risk being randomly picked to fight a cybertiger. Runner team successfully negotiates with the local betting guy with Delphi acting as the manager of the fighters. Delphi inserts into the AO into the locker rooms and enters into a room with three Wuxing bio-sams, including Alex Turing, who are resting from their fight that Ming Zedong instigating to blow off stress. Delphi tries to gather info, but Ming is a social mystic adept. She gets mad about this, and Delphi tries to talk to Alex. This is interrupted by Ming snapping her fingers at Delphi and Alex, and telling her not to talk to the help. Delphi promptly tries to leave, and Ming tries to entrap Delphi.

Meanwhile, Black Samurai, Nogitsune, and Gerisa fight a Giant Enemy Crab and two cyber panthers. Black Samurai cuts the giant enemy crab in half, and then puts a good slice in the arm of the rigger who popped out with a pistol. the guy falls over. the two cyber tigers were dispatched by Gerisa and Nogitsune respectively.

The team exfiltrates when Delphi is in distress. The team makes a report for Rumba, the Cyber-Suzerain of the Johnson after doing a divination on the dog and figuring out its manufacturing location. Delphi flips off Alex and leaves. The runner team gets paid, and Johnson got bullied by rumba for the runners' antics.

==Aftermath==

Runners got paid. 1 dead rigger.

==Rewards==
13 RVP
5 RVP:10 k Nuyen
8 RVP:8 Karma
Can convert Karma or Nuyen into software at gear purchase prices
May substitute up to 2 RVP to have "pay data items" which are pieces of data tailored to your preferences and wants which can be used in later runs.
+1 Public Awareness for Gerisa, Nogitsune, Black Samurai, unless they pay 4 RVP to have the support staff burn it away.

==Game Quotes==

{{Gamequote|"YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A GIANT ENEMY CRAB, BUT IT WAS I, DIO!" --Enemy Rigger}}

==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==

[[Category:Runs]]

My Bag Is Cooler Than Yours

2021-04-08T21:06:56Z

BloodLibrarian:

{{CategoryTemplate}} 
{{AARInfobox|



|Date=2082-04-07


|GM=Blood Librarian


|Location=Renton


|Ally=
|Ally2=


|RunnerList={{AARCharacterList|Delphi|Black Samurai|Gerisa|Nogitsune}}
|RunnerCasualties=


|Threat=Medium


|Metaplot=
|Metaplot2=
|Metaplot3=


|OppositionFaction=SpinGlobal
|OppositionUnits={{AARCharacterList|PuppyPurse Labs|Ming Zedong}}
|OppositionCasualties=


|OppositionFaction2=
|OppositionUnits2=
|OppositionCasualties2=


|Image=
|ImageSize=
|ImageCaption=


|Notes=
|}}

==Summary==
Runners are contacted by a Cyber Collective to do some fast data gathering work and do the meet at the Star Light Diamond Dust Club in Renton. They get into contact with RUMBA, who handles the payment. Runner team moves to the neighboring mall, do some investigation work on finding the PuppyPurse!™ that was discarded, dealing with some psychotic security members, a spinglobal worker and a incandescently Spinmad Karen™. Runners defuse the situation with a bribe, and split up, one group going to Delphi's Detective Agency, while the other going to the Colosseum in an effort ot track down the targets body guard whose P-Profile places her there. Runners fight 2 Cyber Tigers and a Giant Crab-Tank, winning the fight in basically three seconds. Delphi walks into a locker room where the target was resting with her three bodyguard lackeys that she beat in a fight. Runner team exfils after instigating a conflict with the target, who attempts to entrap Delphi after she commits a "faux paus." Run was successfully completed with data acquired all relevant sources and Runners were given pay-data by a surly and damaged AI.

==Background==
Tülay Meier-Adler, the Johnson of the meet has a bunch of rotodrones doing cool stuff, and witnessed an act of depravity. the rotodrone witnessed the target of the run beating her servant maid person with a PuppyPurse!, resulting in the dog being severely wounded.

==The Meet==
The meet goes down in the Starlight Diamond Dust club, a place known for going into temperatures low enough to form diamond dust from the moisture in the air. It's cold. The runners made it to the to he meet with no issue thanks to decker support to make the checkpoints faster for all members of the party. After a brief issue where the bouncer almost gets cut in half for assuming that Black Knight was a Ren-Raku goon, they see the johnson shivering, and immediately move to baby him from the cold, with Gerisa hugging him until he resigned to being forced to wear a coat.

The Johnson gives details on the run, the video on the person and a simple request to get the details on who this person, what the dog is, and where it came from. Runners agreed to get paid in pay data, as well as the offer of software and digital equipment at gear discounts.

==The Plan==

Sniff out the details and get our paws own the data and deets required to complete the mission, first step being the mall in which the incident happened.

==The Run==

Runners walk through a MAD scanner and have to disarm their guns or turn it in if they don't have a conceal carry permit. They spot a blood trail from the high-end Renraku Subsidary clothing store mostly cleaned up and leading to a maintenance closet. Gerisa finds a discarded piece of jewelry spilled out from when Ming clubbed her maid, and goes to the bathroom to do psychometry on it. Black Knight goes to the bathroom to hide out and be close enough to support if needed. He gets into a conflict with a cruel Spinglobal guy who immediately initiates radical combat against Black trying to defile his shoes while they both duck and weave with their rollerblades and skimmers. A ultimate diss causes the guy to stalk away, waiting for round two. Gerisa goes to open the door to the maintenance closet. Nogitsune sat nearby, making sure to play interference for the her. a incandescently mad human woman with a Wuxing SIN walks up and demands to talk to Gerisa about a very important task, being incredibly racist to Nogitsune who just wanted to calm her down. Nogitsune almost gives in and murders her after being called "knife-eared good for nothing but camp-fire fuel keeb" and "cat boy." Black Samurai leaves the bathroom and hangs out outside, Delphi exits the other bathroom and, while still under the effects of psychometry, moves to intervene. Gerisa pops open the door, and Black Samurai walks in. Karen gets Spinmad™, and leaves. Black Samurai has possibly the most frank conversation with the orc inside, clutching the living breathing being whose species name is actually PuppyPurse! while doing first aid. Black Samurai was allowed to help out. Karen returns with three mall guards, and the stakes increase.

The mall cops were like "hey, what is going on?" Delphi tells them of the weird dog-purse whose being held by the orc in there, and one of the guards looks in and states that they hate that orc and are gonna beat the frag out of both them and dog. Spinradical guy comes back and tries to do something to Black Samurai, but gets body slammed by the other mall guard and promptly tries to protect himself from the psychotic entity that is a security guard with a stick. The other guard, sensing a money opportunity, takes Karen away with a promise of justice so his buddy can work getting a bribe out of the runners.

gently soothed by the moonlit sonata of a man being beaten to a pulp, a bargain was struck between Delphi and the Mall cop. He and his boys would each get paid a small sum of money, and they allowed the situation to defuse. They went to work tying a rope around the spinradical dude and hang him upside down from the second story of the mall. They got a local mage to do a make-over spell to make him look like a famous shadowrunner clown, so it basically looked like a decoration and not a dude who got clubbed for rollerblading inside and trying something on someone they were talking too.

The orc gives up the puppy because of the antics of what just happened, and he doesn't want to deal with hot goods.

Delphi does some matrix wizardry and finds out a bunch of data on the nature of the PuppyPurse!™ while driving over to their detective Agency. Gerisa was told to frag off and go to the Colosseum, and check out the location ping of Alex Turing, the maid/servant who got clubbed by Ming.

By the time Gerisa arrived, Delphi finished with the intensive search and the entire runner team regrouped at the Collosium.

=== The Collosium ===

The Colosseum is a dive bar with a thinly veiled and hidden underground fightclub. Everyone but Delphi immediately entered the AO. they pass the bouncer without an issue, he recognizes shadowrunners when he sees them.

==Aftermath==

==Rewards==
Runners go to the mall with the Renraku clothing store, to find Ming Zedong.

They find a blood trail to a maintenance closet, Black Samurai goes to open it. This was all the while the rest of the runners were playing distraction for the angry Karen who wanted to talk to her. Black Samurai abandons the lady and walks into the place. Inside is an orc with the hurt dog-purse. They have an incredible conversation. While this happens, Karen comes back with guards, and the absolute psychotic nature of 2 charisma 2 etiquette guards come to show. Eventually, the situation is defused after a [small] bribe. The players leave the area, find a spin global dude that harassed black samurai earlier hanging from the ceiling. The Runners move to the detective agency, Delphi denies access to her place to Gerisa. The P-profile of Alex Turing pings with a location of them at the Coliseum, a bar with a underground fight club

They go there, part of the team does a fight club thing and kill GIANT ENEMY CRAB and 2 cyber panthers. Delphi walks into the locker room with the 3 Wuxing body guards & Ming is there. Delphi tries to talk to them, Ming Zedong is a horrible person and controls the conversation despite the focus being attempted to be on Alex. They try to pincer maneuver her, and Delphi exfiltrates from the situation.

The team makes a report for Rumba after doing a divination on the dog and figuring out its manufacturing location. Delphi flips off Alex and leaves. The runner team gets paid, and Johnson got bullied by rumba for the runners' antics.
==Game Quotes==

{{Gamequote|"YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A GIANT ENEMY CRAB, BUT IT WAS I, DIO!" --Enemy Rigger}}

==Player After Action Reports (AARs)==

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I am myself, but what are you?
==Characters==
[[Paragon]] -- manipulation mage w/ 4 manipulation spells.

==Metaplots==
[[Rumba Conspiracy]]

===Declining the Meet===
I will do my best not to pick characters who are blatantly unsuited to the job and likely to decline (e.g. if your character lists themselves as a pacifist, don't expect to be picked for jobs involving wetwork). If you feel that your character honestly wouldn't participate in the job because of a conflict of interest/morality/not enough cash/whatever else after meeting with the Johnson, you are perfectly free to refuse to take the job - however, this may come with Consequences(TM) depending on the prospective employer, the exact nature of the job, how gracefully you declined the offer, whether or not they were planning on betraying you, etc.

===Thwarting/Derailing the Run===
A fun alternative to outright declining the job (because that means you don't get to enjoy the run!) is the time-tested option of betrayal - screwing over the Johnson is one of the most classic scenarios in the game, and is always encouraged if you think that you can get away with it without getting yourself or the rest of the team killed. If you're planning to take this route, please try your best to discuss it with the rest of the group first to make sure that everyone is okay with it - at the very least, send me a PM with your intent so I know what to expect and can react accordingly. With that said, please don't take it as license to derail the run without a good reason and ruin everyone else's fun; the game is a collaborative effort, not an excuse for your character to just go off and do whatever they want at the rest of our expense.

===Setting===
Burn bright Chummer. the Sixth world is a place where corporations have taken over, reaching an end state in a game of corporate dominion. I run Shadowrun games to tell stories to the players.
Tragic Stories of people who were ground to dust. Stories of fires rising. Stories of determination and love. In these stories, the fires of change roar, as runners can cause change: For the better, sometimes.

In the end, the very nature of the Sixth world is painted with misery and uncertainty, but I like to think that in the end, there is comfort to know that there is light in the darkness. Runners, as flawed as they are, are part of this light in the darkness. Burn bright, and fade away but in our memories.

The OPFOR are people. they will fight and die, and they will die hard. Sometimes they might ask for mercy, but is it really worth exposing yourself, omae?

By the words of [[User:Sarcarian|Sarcarian]], (who gracefully let me copy paste his style sheet)

''"If you haven't caught on yet, the Sixth World is generally a pretty dark place - it's a '''very''' unfair world where bad things happen to good people for no real reason, the deck is constantly stacked against you, and most of the time your opponents aren't even playing by the same rules. Conversely, it's also a world of adventures and future-tech and literal magic, where sometimes the good guys manage pull off amazing feats of strength and cunning through which they gain enough of an edge win the day. Both of these depictions of the world are equally valid, and most of the time runs will tend to fall somewhere between the two. Verisimilitude (the appearance of being true or real) is important in storytelling - I try to have things be as internally consistent as I can, and I'll expect you to have your characters act in a way that makes sense within the context of the setting. This doesn't mean don't have fun with it, just try your best to keep in mind the sort of world that these people live in."''

===Consequences===
Actions have consequences, and if one plays stupid games they should generally expect to win stupid prizes - that is to say that, while I'm always going to be on the side of the players and root for them to achieve their objectives, I'm also not going to hold your hands throughout the process and treat you with kid gloves. A real victory, especially in a setting like Shadowrun, should feel both deserved and earned, otherwise there's little point to it; thus, the chance of failure will always be present. However, just because the world is unfair doesn't mean that I am - if your characters fail, it should be because of their own poor decisions or just plain old bad luck. I don't really care for gotchya moments or unwinnable situations, and there will always be at least a glimmer of hope that victory can be snatched from the jaws of defeat.

===Game Theme===
In addition to the mission type (theft, extraction, wetwork, etc.), each run post will include a game theme - including a piece of music - to give the players an idea of what sort of general tone to expect. The theme could be specific to the job, or part of an ongoing series (these are not metaplots, but thematic elements or even NPC which may carry over from job to job). A few examples:

*Life on These Mean Streets: These are typically street-level jobs around the low or medium threat level. They depict the everyday trials of criminal life in the Sixth World, and can range anywhere from "just doing this to pay rent" sort of drek jobs, to feel-good "light a candle in the darkness" hooding jobs, but either way expect the pay to be a bit lower and karma a bit higher on these ones.

*What We Do in the Shadows: As a contrast to the above, these are typically also street-level jobs, but ones that specifically explore the shadow community and the various characters that populate it. They often explore the darker elements of the Sixth World, and will frequently include content warnings if I feel that it is "R-rated" enough. Expect slightly above average pay but less karma here.

*The Fire Rises: I expect and design a "straightforward" assault of a corporate facility, with the possible option of a loud or quiet insertion and exit. Typically higher threat jobs.

===GMP Tracker===
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O_hPqSe9auaVH2QIX6nvCwFl9AnKODsy-wn2DVTmeIM/edit?usp=sharing]

===Runs===
On Silent Wings, Neural Chip V3, I Am Fading And I Love It, Accountants Bane, My Bag is Cooler Than Yours

==PROTOCONTACT "RELIQUARY"==

Profession=E-Ghost

Short Blurb
Nameless
Faceless?
Seeker
Connection=?

Archetype=Networking

Location=Matrix
Metatype=E-Ghost
AwakenedEmergedOrMundane=Emerged/(N/A)
Gender=M
PreferredPayment=Pay Data
HobbiesOrVice=?
PersonalLife=?
Faction=?

===Overview===
RENRAKU E-GHOST “Reliquary” is a 120 year old guy who looks to be in his forties thanks to life extension programs. He had his contract ended a month ago through the ambition of his lessers. Back in his hayday, he was one of the higher ups involved in the day-to-day operations of SCIRE, the Renraku Arcology in Seattle before the events that lead to the Crash 2.0 Having survived the fall of the arcology as one of the members of the Network as a comatose patient during a world-wide global infrastructure collapse

Despite his massive failings in the eyes of the corporation, he got a break. After more than a year of unconsciousness, he returned to the realm of the living a changed man. He was put away, given a new identity and pushed, towards an easy position in a place where he was put to live the rest of his life far away from any old projects he could damage, but close to something he could build. Reliquary remembers building a subsidiary from the ground up, the uplifting of metal and paper from the foundations of the earth without having to worry about greed from above or ambition from below. Then, he awakened as a Technomancer, and everything changed on the inside, but nothing really did on the outside. He kept his operations up, scared to death that he would get picked up and drop kicked into a veritable hell. Scarred from the experience of having an alien intelligence root around in his head and make a home, he tried to suppress his ability through any method he could, but he was already too ‘wared up from the Renraku arcology, too deep in the path to go any further without giving up the animus. His child woke up as a Technomancer too.

He kept the balancing act for a long time, right up until something happened, and he fought. He died on his feet, cut down by red Samurai for a crime he did not commit. Sometimes it was with his kin, othertimes he died with a curse on his breath for his flesh and blood, or he died alone.

This is what Reliquary remembers. The story is inconsistent every time, the names and details change and the details initially line up, but it’s not him in the end, just someone else's memories that he stole, or something that he fabricated up and the resonance was all too happy to twist into the matrix. It doesn’t make any sense.

It doesn't have to, he just has a job as a johnson. This guy's original name was erased, scorched to the bedrock of the foundation and as forgotten as forgotten could be. Underneath all the layers, there is hate. Maybe it came from the corporate executive who worked to knife their superiors or to shake down their underlings for nuyen as part of every effort to keep their sweet digs despite the assault from all sides by his inhuman corporate kin. Perhaps it's from some hapless, nonsensical winge on a system he partakes with a silent protest on his mind.he always hated the corporate structure, and ade the most of what he had despite this moral protest.

It’ll be buried deep. He survived the fall of SCIRE. Carefully picked for his neural compatibility with a fearsome intelligence and having the will-to-power to survive that blasted hellscape and walk out long enough to have his brain burned by the Crash 2.0, and then wake up and walk away from that too. Whatever originally drove him, is burned away and replaced with this infinitesimal seed of hate: hate against himself, hate against his corporate kin, hate against whichever corporation that had him murdered while jacked into the matrix. It’s usually Renraku, but on a rare few occasions, its some other corporation.

===Aspects Description===

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