Sample file TnOLE or conTEnTS INTRODUCTION 7 Pick Up and Deliver 46 Gamemasterfng Notes 7 Sign Here, Please 47 Shadowrun Rules 7 I Hear You Knocking 48 Making Success Tests 7 Friends Like These 51 Success Tables 7 You Can't Make an Omelet 52 How to Use This Book 7 Picking Up the Pieces 53 Preparing the Adventures 8 Over Easy 53 EXCELSIOR 9 Poached 53 Sacred Vision 9 Benedict (Arnold) 53 Introduction 9 Scrambled 53 Ever Upward ' 10 Awardihg Karma 53 All Chipped Up 12 Legwork 54 And No Place to Go 13 Cast of Shadows 54 Change of Art 16 DOUBLE DIPPING 58 A Boom With a View 18 Patriot Games 58 Bullets Over Broadway 20 Introduction 58 Picking Up the Pieces 22 Seek and Take 59 News 23 Getting Kinsey 61 Money 23 Drop Off 64 Awarding Karma 23 And Pick Up 66 Cast of Shadows 23 Meeting the Radicals 67 TWO SOLITUDES 27 Meet the Press 68 Fadeout 27 Thieves Turned Heroes 70 Introduction 28 Picking Up the Pieces 73 Meeting the Parents 28 Awarding Karma 73 Extracurricular Activities 30 Legwork 73 Hot Time In the Old Town 33 Cast of Shadows 75 Going Underground Sample35 DEADfile RUN 80 Enemy of My Enemy 37 Spin Control 80 GettIng the Word Out 38 Introduction 80 Picking Up the Pieces 40 Holding the Bag 81 The Yamatetsu Data 40 On the Run 84 Awarding Karma 40 Hiding Out 85 Cast of Shadows 40 The FIx Is In 88 C.O.D. 44 Exposing Bugs 89 Playing With Fire 44 Picking Up the Pieces 91 Introduction 45 Awarding Karma 91 Which Came First? 45 Cast of Shadows 91 Setting Things Up 46 SHnooLUS OF" THE unOERLUORLO 2 SHADOWS OF THE UNDERWORLD Writing Excelsior - Jennifer Brandes and Chris Helpen Two Solitudes and Dead Run - Stephen Kenson C. O. D. - Brian Schoner Double Dipping - Chris Hussey Shadowrun Line Developer Michael Mulvihill Editorial Staff Editorial Director Donna Ippolito Managing Editor Sharon Turner Mulvihill Associate Editors Diane Pi ron-Gelman Robert Cruz Production Staff Art Director Jim Nelson Assistant Art Director Joel Biske Cover Design Joel Biske Cover Artist Doug Andersen Black and White Illustrations Sample file Tom Baxa, Joel Biske, Jason Felix, John Paul Lona, Dave MacKay, Daryl Midgette, Karl Waller Layout Mark Ernst SHADOWRUN® is a Registered Trademark of FASA Corporation. SHADOWS OF THE UNDERWORLDTMis a Trademark of FASA Corporation. Copyright © 1996 FASA Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the U. S. A. Published by FA SA Corporation 1100 W. Cermak Road. Suite B305 Chicago, IL 60608 FASA Corporation can be reached on America OnLine (E. 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THE BACK STOCK New Magic Download (The Awakened World aU spelled out) Cybertech Download (Man, Machine and Magic ... ) California Free State (from the Tir to Aztlan and everything in between) Campaign 2057 (Vote early. vote often!) GO TO COMPLfn UBIlARY AIlCHlVlS THE DAILY SPlCIAL Threats (ParanoJa, consplrades, and secret stuff) This one would be funny if it wasn't so scary, Are these the scrawlings of paranoid conspiracy theorists with chips on thelr shoulders the sizeSample of the Ute Nation, file or is there some truth burled In the rantings of these nutcases? A year or so back, when we got a post about the bugs infesting Chicago and the government's plan to geek them with tactical nUkes, we didn't believe it. Who knew ... ? Maybe this time we'll be prepared-for whatever. GO TO COMPLfn UlJRARY ARCHIVlS COMING SOON While the politicos are getting their second wind, Shadowland is getting back in business ... non-election biz, that is. Here's a quick peek at some upcoming stuff (and quit salivating. it mucks up the screen). OrganIzed Crime (Mobsters and gangers and secret societies, oh my .. , ) FJashpoints (high-stakes jobs for high pay-get the skinny here first, and maybe you'll live to spend It) GO TO COMPUn UBIlARY ARCHlVfS ABSENTEE NEWUCAS BALLOTS RAG UNVEILED The UCAS bigwigs are It's been five years in the urging everyone to vote. making, and it might be And what better w ay to the only thing all six vote than by absentee candidates agree on. ballot--isn't it about time The new flag is finished, you got some use out it looks -cooL. and it's of those extra SIN giving the UCAS a reason numbers? Heck, you to stand proud as election might even w in prizesl fever run amok tears our Click here for the UCAS cities apart. Click here to press release. see it waving in the wind. 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Seriously, folks­ these two aren't your usual crackpot tree-hug­ gers. They're smart, savvy, articulate, and just might have a shot at the Big Chair-assuming no nasty skeletons come popping out of Lawyer Vogel's closet. DR. ROZILYN HERNANDEZ New Century Party VP: Ramsay McMulkin W: \lV1I 1I...,... Slogan: Our Magical SI:DPn: future the Soul of the Nation Revenge of the nerds, Respectable business­ anyone? Magical goom­ men ••• or MOnsters From bahs and techno-weenies the 1d? Only their speech­ have a home in the New writers know for sure! Century Party, dedicated Meet the new poster kids to better living throughSample file for Traditional Values­ electing mage-o-crat Roz they're rich, they're reac­ and her gorgeous simstar tior)ary, and they want all veep to be our Supreme Leaders. (He's pretty, but can he type?) the mages and metahumans out of the ClUbhouse. Race-baiters­ R-Us goes to Washington? JAMES BOOTH DUNKELZAHN Technocratic Party Independent VP: Brandon Ekimatsu W:KyIe~r Slogan: The Status Quo Slogaa: A New Slick Jimmy and the Golden Age SUit-a ticket only their A new-mlnted;{ICAS mothers could love. citizen, and aJreJIdy he Special message to Mr.­ wants to run the place? former-Veep Booth: your We'd say more power to status is ZERO and bim, except that a great nobody wants your (quid dragon doesn't need pro) quo. Give up, go any. With a hwrnm home, take up flower philanthropist veep to arranging. Just get off the make nervous voters fragging stage, 'kay? feel comfy, the Big Wizworm might take the pdze-,.but can he deliver? .