Download or read book Shadowrun The Kilimanjaro Run written by Jennifer Brozek and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN UNEXPECTED ADVENTURE… Charlotte lives with her expatriate family in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. While visiting her best friend Neema, a hippopotamus shaman, a commotion next door interrupts their weekend plans. Neema’s older cousin has been arrested, leaving her younger cousin Elijah responsible for a “job.” Charlotte insists on helping Elijah complete what seems like a simple task: drop off a car in a parking lot. Simple, easy, and doesn’t piss off the wrong people, right? Reluctantly, Neema agrees, and they set off. On the road, they get a message from BlotterBabe, a known fixer, that they aren’t just delivering a car—they’re perpetrating a horrendous crime. Together, the trio must make a choice to do the job as they were told—and keep their cousin out of trouble with the worst of society—or do the right thing. In the end, there is no choice. Charlotte, Neema, and Elijah do the only thing they can do: make a run for it…and hope they’re not too late to save a strange visitor to their world…not to mention themselves.
Download or read book Shadowrun The Mosaic Run written by Jennifer Brozek and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN HOME BECOMES A PRISON... Fixer BlotterBabe has been around longer than most people realize. Long enough to have built herself a secure home in a protected park reserve. She greased all the right wheels, paid off all the right people, forged all the correct documents, hid all the tracks of her passing, created the perfect security systems inside and out. She planned for every contingency—except one. The need to escape from her own home. After realizing her sanctuary has been discovered, BlotterBabe brought just the right people to the right place to help her flee from her gilded cage with everything she holds dear—but she is too late. Now she has to escape the underground complex she spent decades building. The enemies are inside the perimeter. They have control of the security systems. Spinrad Global will stop at nothing to keep her a prisoner in her gilded cage. BlotterBabe and her friends must risk everything for her freedom—including their lives.
Download or read book Shadowrun Auditions written by Jennifer Brozek and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOUR SECRET AUDITIONS… Fixer BlotterBabe must have exactly the right actors for a production that requires very specialized talent. The actors must not only be skilled, they need to have the right attitude and an ability to adapt to extraordinary circumstances. A Kiss to Die For: Kintsugi and Sartorial choose love over duty, but their respective families will do everything in their considerable power to stop them from being together. See How She Runs: Terrapin witnesses a murder and is handed a package destined for some important and lethal people. Now she is running for her life. Unrepairable: Landon and Liana love vexing megacorps for fun and profit with their Matrix show. Unfortunately, the megacorps always play dirty, and will do whatever’s required to shut them down for good. The Kilimanjaro Run: Charlotte, Neema, and Elijah embark on an unexpected adventure that turns into a nightmare when they discover nothing is what it seems. They are left with no choice at all when choosing between the abhorrent and the right thing to do. FOR THE MOST DANGEROUS RUN OF ALL… Having auditioned thousands, BlotterBabe is out of time. It’s come down to these few teenagers. Either they will save the day or lose it all… "Cons, lies, double-crosses, flat-out thievery—all the fun stuff. Auditions reads like that great first act of a heist movie. Everyone’s showing off their particular set of skills while Brozek teases us with threads of what’s to come." —NYT bestseller Peter Clines, author of The Broken Room
Download or read book Shadowrun Rules of the Kaid Club written by Katherine Monasterio and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHO CAN YOU TRUST AT 250 KPH? When rookie racer Tezz Fletcher wrecks her beloved Shin-Hyung in the underground street racing league known as the Kaidō Club, it's clear her #1 rival Miranda Lopez is to blame. It's even clearer that the wreck drives a deeper wedge between the two former friends. But when Tezz's totaled ride ends up in the clutches of a Seattle megacorp trying to steal her custom tech, things get more complicated. Lopez is after the same tech to help her sister, who works for that exact corp—and they're both in so deep, Lopez is desperate for help. With the last race of the season approaching and the megacorp coming to collect, Tezz has no choice but to put aside her rivalry with Lopez and team up to take down their bigger enemy. Can they win against the champion street racer the corp sponsors? Or will the corp use the Kaidō Club's strict rules to take down Tezz and Lopez both?
Download or read book Shadowrun Spells and Chrome written by Jason M. Hardy and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WELCOME TO THE YEAR 2072… …And a world unlike anything you’ve ever imagined. A world where magic and machines exist side-by-side. Where cybernetics can replace organs or entire limbs with ease, and arcane spells can make the impossible happen. Where the Matrix has become an artificial world of its own, filled with all kinds of pleasure, treasure, and trouble. Where dwarves, elves, orks, and trolls walk alongside humans every day. Some work for megacorporations whose invisible tentacles wrap around every aspect of modern life. Others choose a much less legal career, doing whatever dirty work the corp executives need done—for a price. WELCOME TO SHADOWRUN Featuring fifteen new stories about the men and women who make their living in the shadows of the Sixth World, Spells and Chrome takes you into the dark and dirty streets of a bleak future. Whether risking their lives to execute a mission for an employer who might be planning to double-cross them anyway, or just doing whatever they need to do to survive another day, shadowrunners use everything they’ve got—cyberware, spells, or a very big gun—to get the job done.
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 Dark Synergy written by Russell Zimmerman and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INNOVATION, EXCELLENCE, INCLUSIVITY…INSANITY?! The Evo Corporation emerged from the troubled 2060s as a new company with a new mindset: having the most diverse and creative workforce in the Sixth World! Evo has embraced the three-way ideals of innovative augmentation, consistent excellence in their products, and being a metahuman-friendly corporation that makes metahuman-friendly products. Innovation, Excellence, and Inclusivity are Evo’s three pillars, and are celebrated in everything it does. Kenjiro Ishihara was fully brought up in that Evo mindset. Born into, raised, and educated by the most accepting megacorporation on Earth, he wants nothing more than to pay Evo back for the amazing life it has given him. But now Kenji finds himself ensnared in the bloodiest of megacorporate politics. With a manipulative, ruthless boss making a violent power play in the Seattle shadows, with coworkers out to take his head and curry favor, and with a rival branch escalating the warfare, Ishihara can only hold on by the skin of his teeth… …until he learns he not only can’t trust his department, but perhaps not even his own mind!
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 Off Beat written by Marie Bilodeau and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2024-10-18 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALWAYS READY TO ROCK…AND RUN! It was supposed to be a Top Drek gig like any other: Play some tunes, have a fight, get wasted. How was I supposed to know the guy I cracked in two over a table was some corp bigwig? Like, not our usual crowd, y’know? (And look, I may be a bass player named Twinkle Toes, but I’m also a tall, red-skinned ork with a love for shouting, so there’s not way he didn’t see me coming.) So the corp gave us a choice: Do a job for them, or die. How the frag can I say no? I got my bandmates to look out for, including my adopted daughter (and amazing singer), Ametheest, her maybe-lover Silver, my best mate, Bleeding Blossom, and our loser keyboardist, Lance. But our spotlight is growing, dispelling the shadows we desperately need to hide in. Rock and roll might not jive with the corps…and Ottawa’s gonna get caught in the crossfire. In the end, only one question remains for all of us, chummer: You gonna be SINless…or soulless?
Download or read book Shadowrun Legends Shadowplay written by Nigel Findley and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN UNLIKELY PAIR… Sly is a shadowrunning veteran. She's survived more missions than she cares to remember, and has the physical and emotional scars to prove it. But no matter how violent it became, it had always been business as usual. Until now. Falcon is a kid. He thinks he hears the call of magic, and the voice of one of the Great Spirits seems to whisper in his ears. He’s come to the urban jungle of Seattle to seek his calling. Thrown together, veteran and novice, Sly and Falcon find themselves embroiled in a deadly confrontation between the world's most powerful corporations. And if it’s not stopped, this conflict could turn to all-out warfare, spilling out of the shadows and into the streets…
Download or read book Shadowrun Legends Lone Wolf written by Nigel Findley and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLOOD AND MAGIC… …rage in the streets of Seattle. The shift of a few blocks of gang turf costs lives, innocent and guilty, silenced forever and then forgotten in the city's deepest shadows. Lone Star, Seattle's contracted police force, fights a losing battle against the city's newest conquerors—the gangs. From his years of undercover work, Lone Star officer Rick Larson thinks he knows the score. The gangs rule their territories by guns and spells, force and intimidation, and it's the most capricious of balances that keeps things from exploding into all-out warfare. Inside the Cutters, one of the city’s most dangerous gangs, Larson is in a prime position to watch the balance, react to it, and report to his superiors. But when the balance begins to shift unexpectedly, Larson finds himself not only on the wrong side of the fight, but on the wrong side of the law as well…
Download or read book Shadowrun Legends The Lucifer Deck written by Lisa Smedman and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CONJURED KILLER IS LOOSE… Life on the streets of 21st-century Seattle can be tough, especially for a young ork like Pita. And it gets a lot tougher when she witnesses a corporate mage murdered by the violent spirit he just conjured from another dimension. Now she's in a heap of trouble with the dead mage's employer, an organization with something to hide. Fortunately, KKRU reporter Carla Harris is in a position to help. Carla needs a big story to give her career some juice, and Pita's predicament might be the ticket. Because Pita's pursuer—MCT, the megacorp computer firm—has hired the heavy hand of the Yakuza crime organization as muscle, things heat up pretty fast. Moreover, the entity that MCT’s mage foolishly summoned is very, very old, and unlike any power on earth. It has infiltrated the telecommunications matrix with devilish cunning—and unless Pita can thwart it with her newly acquired magical powers, Seattle’s—and the entire Sixth World’s—throat will be wide open for the cutting...
Download or read book Shadowrun Legends House of the Sun written by Nigel Findley and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BRIGHTER THE LIGHT… Dirk Montgomery, former Lone Star cop turned shadowrunner, knows the dark byways of Seattle and the city of Cheyenne. He knows when to take chances and when to take cover. But when a megacorporate exec demands payment of an old debt, Dirk finds himself where the familiar rules don't apply anymore. THE DARKER THE SHADOWS… The Kingdom of Hawai'i is a tropical playground...with a sinister underside. Dirk must navigate its treacherous paths as he tries to stay one step ahead of all the factions battling to control the islands: the megacorps, the government, the rebels, and the yakuza. Not to mention dragons, elves, new friends...and old enemies.
Download or read book Shadowrun The Johnson Run written by Kai O'connal and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AGE IS MORE THAN JUST A NUMBER Keandra’s been around for a long time, outliving most Shadowrunners twice over. With a legacy of runs under her belt, she has the solid reputation and wisdom that comes with surviving the shadows longer than most. Looking for a way to cash in on her street cred, Keandra comes up with a novel idea: Why not set herself up as a Johnson? With her rep, she could take on the high-paying jobs, act as the in-between, and collect payment with no risk? With her rep, she could take on high paying jobs and farm them out to other capable teams, minus a small cut as a finder’s fee. Everyone wins, and no one’s the wiser…unless someone makes the wrong call. And when a run goes south, Keandra and her team must scramble to salvage more than just their reputations. They are thrust into a situation which could start a new world war, and have to figure out who to trust, and fast…but trust is hard to come by in the shadows…
Download or read book Shadowrun Blackbird Three Hollow Point written by Russell Zimmerman and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON BLOODY GROUND... Dashiell Red Clay has spent decades as a soldier, a shadowrunner, a mercenary...above all, a warrior. He’s survived Goblinization, the Night of Rage, the passing of Halley's Comet, the Second Matrix Crash, and more skirmishes, gunfights, and battles than almost anyone else alive. He knows more than most that history books are written in blood. It's time for new chapters to be written. From watching armies gather like storm clouds in Africa to bloodily taking sides in the Aztlan/Amazonian War, from wading into the madness of the Great Dracon Civil War to taking part in a surprise winter invasion against the United Canadian American States itself, Dash faces greater threats than ever before. In the exciting conclusion to his trilogy, Dash must come to grips with the friends he has lost and the home he left behind, and must learn to wield the secret, hidden power of his blood—draconic power, and draconic blood—to find the balance between metahuman and monster. History is written in blood, but it's written by people. And now it’s Dash’s turn, whether he likes it or not. * * * The Blackbird trilogy is a series of short novels with military, Shadowrun-historical, and Native American Nation themes. Fans of Zimmerman's Kincaid series will enjoy a first-person narrative exploring the history of the Sixth World through the Dash's eyes, as he experiences the world of shadowrunners from a perspective a half-step removed from the shadows...but from the battlefield, not the streets, as paramilitary action spills from one famous conflict to the next, spanning decades in these three action-packed stories.
Download or read book Born to Run written by Stephen Kenson and published by Ace Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth, 2063. Long-dormant magical forces have reawakened, and the creatures of mankind's legends and nightmares have come out of hiding. Megacorporations act as the new world superpowers, and the dregs of society fight for their own power. Sliding through the cracks in between are shadowrunners-underworld professionals who will do anything for a profit, and anything it takes to get the job done. Kellan Colt has come to Seattle to make a name for herself. But her first run proves that in her line of work, there's no such thing as a sure thing, and that in her world, there is only one law-survival.
Download or read book Shadowrun Howling Shadows written by Catalyst Game Labs and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howling Shadows is a core rulebook for Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, with a wealth of dangerous creatures, sprits, artificial intelligence, and more to add variety and fun to Shadowrun games. The critters were designed with both players and GMs in mind - they can be added as a resource for players to use or obstacles to overcome. The critters also have plot hooks built in to fuel plenty of adventures and campaigns. With full color art, this book displays the bizarre and dangerous critters of the Sixth World in their full glory.
