Download or read book Shadowrun Lockdown written by Catalyst Game Labs and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices of Disaster The voices are getting louder. Strange voices, dissonant voices, sometimes babbling nonsense, sometimes telling stories too unbelievable to be true. People are falling prey to the voices, losing their identities as someone or something else slips into their skin. It's affecting people at all levels of society, from squatters in burned-out warehouses to corporate CEOs. It's spreading, and no one can figure out how to stop it. Boston-based NeoNET is at the center of this storm, and panic is spreading through the streets of the northeastern sprawl. People are scared and people are dying, which means that there are large sums of money to be made by any shadowrunner willing to brave those chaotic streets. Finding work won't be the problem. Getting out of the sprawl, however, will be. Lockdown is a plot sourcebook for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition with plot hooks, setting details of Boston, character details, and surprising reveals that will keep characters on their toes and running for their lives. With rich plot information and game mechanics for a new breed of cognitive fragmentation disorder sufferers, Lockdown can play a vital role in enthralling Shadowrun campaigns while continuing the unfolding story of the Sixth World.

Download or read book Shadowrun Mercy Street written by Bryan Young and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HELP FOR ALL—RUNNERS, CHUMMERS, AND DREGS… Nestled in one of the worst parts of Seattle is a place where anyone can go to get patched up, no questions asked. They call it Mercy Street and it’s a practically free clinic run by a drunk old troll named Shimura, who’s seen a lot in his years. When a decker named Lockdown Paradox shows up bleeding on his doorstep, it’s just an average Tuesday, but when corporate stooges looking for her show up and try to shake Shimura down for information, he wonders just what this kid hacker’s gotten herself into. But he’s not the only one wondering…Paradox thinks there’s more to the ol’ whiskey doc than meets the eye, wondering if he might be a legendary shadowrunner that might be able to help her. When she turns up missing, Shimura is forced to go far deeper into the sleaze and sprawl than he ever wanted to...and return to a part of his past he’d sworn to leave behind if he wants to get both of them out alive…

Download or read book Shadowrun CTRL Issues written by Bryan CP Steele and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE PROGRAM TO CONTROL IT ALL… Janus is a pro shadowrunner who’s been in the game long enough to roll with the curveballs the Sixth World can throw at him. Whether it’s traveling halfway around the world for a job or finding out his new employer has a much longer lifespan than the average metahuman, the dual-natured hacker/mage has always come out on top—and made a good living to boot. But in the Allied German States, he and the new team he’s leading are on unfamiliar ground. And when what should have been a milk run—transporting some high-tech computer gear from a corp lab to their employer—turns into a bloodbath, Janus and his team have to figure out what happened, who’s behind it, and what’s so important at this site that at least one megacorp is willing to kill to get their hands on it…before the rest of the corps turn their gaze—and guns—on the team. On the run for their lives, never knowing who to trust, Janus and his team unravel a tangled web of invention, deception, and death with a discovery at its core that could shake the very foundations of the Sixth World…or possibly bring it all crashing down around them…

Download or read book Shadowrun Hong Kong written by Mel Odom and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SHADOWS ARE EVEN DARKER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SIXTH WORLD… Based on Harebrained Schemes latest installment for their Shadowrun Returns game and written by long-time Shadowrun author Mel Odom, Shadowrun: Hong Kong is a wild ride into the seamy underbelly of one of the Sixth World’s most legendary cities. On a mission to find the mentor who saved you from the streets of Seattle years ago, this epic quest leads to a world of criminal syndicates, corporate machinations, darkest magic, and a plot set in motion decades ago that is about to be completed—and if it isn’t stopped in time, it could spell the destruction of Hong Kong itself…and the rest of the Sixth World soon after…

Download or read book Shadowrun Shadow Borders written by Mel Odom and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadowrun: Shadow Borders Sprawl Stories, Volume Three Back Cover Copy BETWEEN DARKNESS AND LIGHT… This quartet of novellas travels around the Sixth World to places where the boundaries between good and evil, light and darkness can be…blurry, at best. In the mysterious Caliphate of Arabia, a shaman makes the ultimate deal with one of the deadliest—and most treacherous—spirit totems to exact justice for her murdered family. Everyone’s favorite down on his luck PI Jimmy Kincaid takes on a case of SURGE kids getting burned alive by someone—or something—with a deep hate for genemods. T’ing the troll shaman takes his posse down to Cuba to mix business with pleasure, and uncovers a deadly plot to wipe out most of the Caribbean if the shadowrunners don’t step in. And a shadowrunning team heads to the Sioux Nation to investigate several mysterious disappearances…and stumbles upon a secret cabal dedicated to preventing the destruction of much of the Nation…and a showdown with a megacorp that looking to seize that power for itself. Four stories of intrigue and danger from the gray world of Shadowrun. Check your ammo, prep your spells, and get ready to cross more than one kind of border in these pages…

Download or read book Shadowrun Shadow Dance written by Aaron Rosenberg and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SHADOWS OF A MAN'S PAST ARE LONG… Cole Danvers is a small-time shadowrunner scratching out a living in the dangerous, divided sprawl of Denver, Colorado. But when a lucrative heist to steal an AmerIndian amulet goes terribly wrong, costing him both his teammates and nearly his life, Cole hits the streets intent on only one thing—vengeance. But as he tracks down the Johnson that sent him on this deadly mission, Cole quickly realizes he’s stumbled onto a plot much bigger than stealing a piece of jewelry—and that it’s somehow connected to his own shadowed past. Soon, he’s sucked into machinations that involve Native Americans, wily shamans, and impossibly, himself. And even sooner, Cole realizes he needs help to take down his enemies—before he gets killed for real this time. Assembling a motley crew of shadowrunners using every bit of guile and charisma he possesses, Cole sets out to solve the mystery of who tried to double-cross him and why…and what, if anything it has to do with his own murky background. But the answers may do more than just shock him…before it’s all over, they may just be the death of him…

Download or read book Shadowrun Legends Psychotrope written by Lisa Smedman and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESTIMATED LIFE SPAN: 12 MINUTES It started out as a simple Matrix run, but now five deckers are trapped inside a nightmarish virtual landscape where jacking out is an impossibility--and what waits has all the hallmarks of the afterlife: tunnels of brilliant light, greetings from long-dead friends and family...and the terrifying sense of being juggled between Heaven and Hell. But in this computer-generated netherworld, there is only one thing that can be trusted. And it isn't the senses... ...THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS It's the uncommon experience the deckers have in common: a near brush with death. It has brought them together in this hell-raising realm and under the influence of a twisted intelligence with diabolical plans for the unwary travelers in grid-time. Having their minds and souls extinguished before the Matrix-scape crash is only the beginning of the puzzle. Discovering why will be the end. A dead end...

Download or read book Shadowrun Deniable Assets written by Mel Odom and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shadowrun Dark Resonance written by Phaedra Weldon and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2014-12-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOME SECRETS CAN KILL YOU... Kazuma Tetsu is a technomancer—one of the rare people who can manipulate the Matrix without technology, using only the power of their mind. But he’s on a more personal mission—he’s searching for his missing sister, Hitori. Following her trail leads him into a tangled web of corp execs, mercenaries, and double-crossing rogues—usually just another day in the Sixth World. But as Kazuma digs deeper, he uncovers a plot that could bring about the end of the world. Upon seeing a simulation of the Resonances Realms accessible to technomancers, an A.I. declares it will use the realms to ascend to a higher plane of consciousness. The intelligence’s goal seems impossible, until an imprisoned and manipulated group of technomancers accesses dissonance to open a gateway to a new realm—possibly the heaven the A.I. seeks. But opening this dissonant hole in the Matrix could trigger global disaster, and it’s up to a team of shadowrunners, including a couple of denizens of the fabled JackPoint, to free the trapped technomancers and stop the Dark Resonance before it destroys the entire Matrix—and worse…

Download or read book Shadowrun Legends Aftershocks written by Jean Rabe and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE RUN WAS SUPPOSED TO BE EASY... Breaking into a greenhouse to snatch a bunch of plants sounds like a milk run—and the troll known as Hood and his fellow shadowrunners have no problem taking on such as easy, lucrative assignment. Unfortunately for the runners, the greenhouse in question is owned by the Plantech Corporation—biotechnology specialists—and they're extremely protective of their unique agriculture. BUT STAYING ALIVE IS GONNA BE A WHOLE LOT HARDER... After escaping by the skin of their teeth, the members of Hood's team feel justified in forcing their mysterious client to renegotiate their fee before delivering the goods. But when the shadowrunners arrive at the meeting, they find a dead body and a cadre of cops waiting to take them in. Someone has set them up—and Hood is determined to weed out what kinds of plants they really stole...

Download or read book Shadowrun Makeda Red written by Jennifer Brozek and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2019-06-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON A COLLISION COURSE… It was supposed be a simple extraction from the Brussels2Rome party train. With an eclectic crowd, a willing target, and a lot of nuyen at stake, what could go wrong? Everything—as Makeda Red discovers the hard way. There’s more than one target on the train, and more than one shadowrunner team in play. When someone sabotages the tracks in the middle of the Swiss Alps, she’s forced to extract her client much earlier than planned. To complicate matters, other survivors are also fleeing the crash for their own reasons. One of them is trying to escape his corporate masters as well, and offers to pay Makeda to escort him to his safe haven. A paying client is a paying client, and his corp won’t be looking for three people traveling together. Makeda knows it’s a risk, but one she’s willing to take. In the shadows, however, nothing and no one is what they seem. Before it’s over, this already complicated run may be Makeda’s last...

Download or read book Shadowrun Veiled Extraction written by R. L. King and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLOOD IS THICKER THAN SHADOWS… JackPointer mage Winterhawk hadn’t planned to accompany the expert team he’d hired to study ley lines in Boston’s Quarantine Zone. But he also hadn’t planned on a shocking and unexpected secret from his past catching up with him either. When the trip inside the Zone goes catastrophically wrong, ’Hawk finds himself alone in hostile territory—but his presence hasn’t gone unnoticed. His only way out is to do something a shadowrunner is never, ever supposed to do: make a deal with a dragon. Faced with three separate missions to complete and limited time to do them, ’Hawk needs allies fast. He finds them in unexpected places—including his original target, who needs a lot less rescuing than he thought. But she’s also nothing like he expected—and the complications she brings with her jeopardizes their chances of escaping the Zone alive.

Download or read book Shadowrun Tourist Trapped written by Bryan CP Steele and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND… When what should have been a simple hack-and-grab heist in the Dallas metroplex goes terribly wrong, shadowrunner Gilabyte is advised by his Mr. Johnson to lay low for a while, even take a trip out of town. While is how the technomancer finds himself relaxing in the far wilds of…Toronto. At first the enforced vacation is pretty sweet: plush digs, plenty of nuyen, and the entire city available for him to sample. But then the lights go out…and they don’t come back on the next day…or the next… Within 3 days of the blackout, it’s every person for themself as Toronto starts to splinter apart. Gilabyte just wants to get back home, but finds himself making new allies—and dubious deals—in order to get safely out of town. Along the way, he uncovers clues to a larger conspiracy that affects him and his sprites directly…and could lead to all technomancers becoming a valuable—and endangered—species if the wrong people get their hands on him…

Download or read book Shadowrun Best Laid Plans written by Anton Strout and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWO AGAINST THE WORLD… Two-gun hacker William “Billy” Bonney and laconic street samurai Cheveyo are holed up after what should have been a straightforward job testing security for one of the megacorporations in the Sixth World. But when a megacorp is involved, nothing is ever easy, and when law enforcement comes looking for the pair of shadowrunners, Billy knows someone’s either ratted them out or double-crossed them—and he intends to find out who tried to make them dead. Their search takes them to the mean streets of Manhattan, where they have to infiltrate one of the largest symbols—literally—of the Sixth World, to find the truth. But the truth behind what has led them to this place is far worse than anything they could think of…and unless they come up with a new plan fast, they might not be leaving alive…

Download or read book Shadowrun Tower of the Scorpion written by Mel Odom and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEWARE THE SCORPION’S STING… Rashida bint Tariq bin Feroze al-Nazari steals through the deadliest shadows in the world: Dubai, in the Caliphate of Arabia. In a merciless land policed by the Caliphate Guard, under a government that exacts harsh penalties against any shadowrunner, Rashida has to break into the Saqr Tower and get out with the intel she’s getting paid to retrieve. Hired to steal a black op software package from Raqmu Enterprises, Rashida calls on her team of shadowrunners to help with the smash-and-grab. And this run isn’t just for the nuyen. The people behind Raqmu Enterprises killed Rashida’s family. Failure isn’t an option. But death doesn’t scare Rashida. A Scorpion shaman, she fights for her life every day against the spirit that grants her the power to destroy her enemies, but ultimately seeks to consume her very essence. Amid the treacherous desert sands, Rashida must battle enemies within and without if she is going to survive…

Download or read book Shadowrun Magic Machines and Mayhem written by John Helfers and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2024-09-20 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT’S A WILD, WILD, WILD SIXTH WORLD… There are a million stories in the dark, gritty world of Shadowrun, and this all-new volume brings sixteen of the best together for an in-depth look at this dark future of megacorps and the street warriors fighting against them. Featuring established authors as well as brand-new voices, each tale is a vicious slice of life in the Sixth World. An injured street samurai whose call to DocWagon turns into the opportunity of a lifetime…if he can just live to collect it. A street-smart runner team confronts their most dangerous mission yet—hiding out in an isolated rural town. A corporate executive squares off against a ruthless vice-president in their own megacorp in a razor-sharp battle of wits and words. This collection also features stories about top runners such as Winterhawk, and a brand-new story featuring Wolf and Raven. From the highest floors of a megacorp’s global headquarters to the darkest streets of the dirtiest sprawl, every story here delivers that unique mix of magic, machines, and mayhem Shadowrun fans demand. Featuring all new stories by: Bryan CP Steele R. L. King Bryan Young Jason Hardy Marie Bilodeau Andrew Peregrine Jennifer Brozek RJ Thomas Ken’ Horner Dylan Birtolo Aaron Rosenberg Crystal Frasier Alina Pete Jaym Gates Michael A. Stackpole Russell Zimmerman

Download or read book Shadowrun Down These Dark Streets written by Russell Zimmerman and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHERE NOBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME… Things don’t rise to gutters, they fall there. Same with back alleys and dumpsters. Same with graves. Running the shadows comes with ups and downs, but you never know where those rises and falls will take you. What someone else might call rock bottom…you might call Tuesday. Collected here for the first time, read Russell Zimmerman’s Shadowrun tales of winners, losers, and edge cases constantly somewhere in between. No longer just scattered across sourcebooks and decades, here you can find every short story and intro fiction featuring everyone’s favorite shadow legends rubbing elbows with wannabes and not-shadowrunners-at-all-just-ask-them. But it’s not all yesterday’s news, chummers. More than just a collection of previously published fiction, between these covers you’ll find a handful of brand-new stories, including a classic, pre-On the Rocks Jimmy Kincaid yarn. Also, each one comes with brand new commentary by the author, written expressly for this volume. Enjoy short stories about hearts and souls, elves and trolls, and rock and roll? Then join us here, and explore these dark streets…