Paradise Lost

“Paradise Lost” is intended to be a ‘traditional’ black trenchcoat shadowrun story where the runners find themselves in the middle of a shadow war between corporate level entities, culminating in a decidedly morally gray situation wherein they must make some choices which have no good outcomes; only ‘least bad’ ones.

During the first phase of approximately 3 to 6 months, the characters are hired by a Johnson known as Trevor Hill. These runs focus on acquisition of new tech, data, and information and almost exclusively target Renraku at various locations around the world; however, other targets are an option to allow some GM flexibility. Players who dig beyond the surface levels of these jobs will come to realize that all of it seems to focus on Renraku’s Digital Intelligence information and research.

During the second phase of approximately 3 to 6 months, runs may continue to take place against Renraku, but other independent Johnsons get involved with jobs -from- Renraku that are aimed at discovering who has been running them during the prior months, what kind of research is being stolen, and ultimately, who the source behind Trevor Hill really is.

The final runs of the metaplot, over 1 or 2 months, take the runners into some of the deepest shadows they’ve ever run. With HTR teams on one side, a shadowy organization on the other, and an impossible choice ahead of them, they will learn that it’s not just Dragons they should avoid when it comes to making deals.

Author: Robinton

Known Factions

Opfor: Renraku Corporation

Key NPCS

• Trevor Hill, MIT&T Graduate, aka Mr. Johnson
• Arthur Davis, Atlantean Foundation: Person of Interest to the Johnson and target of a failed assassination Disasterpiece Theater

Grab and Go for GMS

Act 1 (Threat Levels: Medium to Deadly)

• Run Types: Extraction of Personnel, Data Steal, Interception of a Delivery
• Goods Acquired: Almost exclusively paydata, advanced computing hardware
• Johnson: Trevor Hill, Egghead Johnson MIT&T Graduate, survivor of the Boston Lockdown
• Target: Renraku Corporation and affiliates

Runs

Name	GM	Date	Runners
Running Red 2	Robinton	10 November 2085	Silver Lining Alkali Cauldron
Disasterpiece Theater	Robinton	14 September 2085	Babylon Jessie DeVux Blackhawk Weevil Pacho Herrera
Running Red 1	Robinton	31 August 2085	Eric Payne Boombox RC-45 Pinnacle Girl

The Story So Far

Running Red 1: Trevor Hill has acquired for his client a set of unusual drones from Renraku, notable for their advanced sensor suites which allow for significantly increased bandwidth.

Disasterpiece Theater: Trevor Hill hires the runners to assassinate Arthur Davis, but the runners are unable to do so. Davis is warned by an interested third party that someone put a hit out on him.

Running Red 2: Trevor Hill acquires programming research done by Renraku which covers swarm programming upgrades which would allow for optimized usage for the various drones stolen during RR1.

News

Name	Date
Atlanta Attack	6 October 2085