BLACKJACKS PEOPLE COMPENDIUM VOLUME 2: N THRU Z INTRODUCTION CONTENTS Blackjack’s People Compendium consists of 3 Nasty Nuns more than 500 NPCs divided into 100+ groups 4 Nature's Wrath 6 Neighborhood Watch of varying personality, composition, purpose, 7 Netscape and strength. These NPCs can be used as 8 Nuts contacts, friends, or enemies of the Player 9 Old Ideas Characters, and should be combined with ad- 10 Omelion Vaz 12 One Way Ticket ditional, more anonymous NPCs in order to 13 One And Only create a complete, fleshed out group. 14 Orkie Types 15 Out Of The Night All material written by Branson Hagerty 16 Over Kill ([email protected]). Distilled on Sunday, 17 Possible Solutions 18 Posse November 09, 1997. Document created using 19 Preacher Brothers Pagemaker 6.5 and Acrobat 3.1. 20 Race And Vine 21 Ratings Fodder Blackjack’s Shadowrun Page 22 Recruits http://www.interware.it/users/blackjack/ 24 Roadwork 25 Rot The Shadowrun Archive 25 Running Scared http://www.interware.it/shadowrun/ 26 Rush 27 S.S. Pretty Lady SPECIAL THANKS 29 Safe Return 30 Sewer Rats 32 Short Haul Paolo Marcucci, Tom Whitter, Drew Rader, Gillian Neff, 33 Snitches my dog, Spock (who created the TOC for me), the guy 34 Sick Pics who shouts ‘Leather Coats! On SALE!’ down on Chest- 35 Special Ops nut street, and the crackhead who went psycho on the 36 Sticky Fingers Broad Street Line and tried to kick out all the windows. 37 Stolen Identity 37 Sweatshop LEGAL STUFF 38 Sweet Sugar Band 38 Take 39 Teachers Shadowrun is a Trademark of FASA Corporation. Used 40 Team Darwin without permission. Any use of this name or any other 41 Thinkers Trademark or Copyright of any other company should 43 Thunderbird not be construed as a challenge in any way to said 43 Timberland Annoyance Trademark or Copyright. Feel free to reproduce and 44 Tremors distribute this document at no profit to yourself or oth- 45 Trigger Women ers and with due acknowledgement of the author. 46 Trouble Shooters 48 Turn Around 49 Unit 13 50 Virgin Runners 51 Virtually Dead 52 Wisdom Of The Ages 53 Wretched 54 Yen Diggers 55 Zen BLACKJACKS NETBOOKS BLACKJACKS PEOPLE COMPENDIUM NASTY NUNS Mother Christina Sister Emily Archetype: Human Nun Archetype: Human Mage/Nun Description: Now in her late 80s Christina is confined Description: Very petite she always has her head hung to a wheelchair. She speaks at a low volume in a low and continuously mumbles the lord’s prayer. cracked voice and everything she says is from the bible. Information: While performing ritual sorcery Emily is Information: Mother Christina is completely unaware down right evil. During a sacrifice she will often strip of the goings on at the Highland Abbey. She simply off her clothing, shriek and holler and cover herself in wheels around all day giving readings to various inani- the blood of the victim, sometimes even drinking it. mate objects and occasionally mumbling “thou shat She specializes in a small number of damaging ma- not fornicate” when people stand too close together, nipulation spells which are personally designed to do even if they are all female. grotesque things to her target, mainly involving rapid loss of blood. She dreams of one day becoming a Sister Sarah vampire. Archetype: Human Mage/Nun Sister Melissa Description: About forty years old, Sarah is a cold Archetype: Human Mage/Nun woman who never wastes words and simply walks away from a conversation when she feels it is over. She is Description: Five foot eight and a hundred and twenty rather ugly and comes off as being ten to twenty years pounds. She has fire red hair and piercing green eyes. older than she really is. Information: Melissa fills in the combat and detection Information: Sister Sarah is in charge of Highland’s ritual areas of the Highland group. She has never said a blood sorcery group. She initiates all spell casting and word. Her spellcasting is quite dramatic, with an un- personally retrieves all necessary DNA samples from commonly large amount of light and sound accompa- the target. To do this she masquerades as a Diplomat nying the process. from any number of countries and has a few illusion spells and a large collection of forged materials to back The Death Drones her identity up. Although a force to be reckoned with while using ritual sorcery, alone, as are the rest of the Archetype: Zombie Highland group, she is rather weak. Description: Ten of these zombies roam the Abbey and Sarah is also in charge of getting a hold of the “sacri- are somewhat cleaner than the normal variety. fices” needed to complete a spellcasting session. These sacrifices require her to do as little as go hunt- Information: The Death Drones are around for two pri- ing and shoot a sparrow or as much as using illusion mary reasons: First to keep unwanted intruders away, and manipulation spells to coax a living person up to and second to masquerade as other nuns when visi- the abbey. tors arrive. Sister Rachel Using a special illusion spell the Drones can be trans- formed to look like traditional nuns. They never talk, Archetype: Human Mage/Nun explained by a vow of silence, but all it takes is a simple assencing to realize their true form. For this reason Description: Average size with a beautiful face. She the other nuns never allow magicians into the com- constantly has a big grin on her face and her finger- pound. nails are long and painted black. While not being used as “nuns” they are kept in the Information: Rachel is very bad at the act of playing a ritual sorcery chamber located beneath the abbey where nun and for that reason is usually kept in her cell dur- they are permitted to feed off the remains of the sacri- ing outside visits. She is also an incredible flirt and fice. At night four or five are allowed to roam the once pinched the hindquarters of a visiting priest when grounds as security. he passed her in the hallway. She is also magically active and possesses a wide variety of manipulation spells. BLACKJACKS NETBOOKS 3 BLACKJACKS PEOPLE COMPENDIUM NATURES WRATH Whisper around physical combat. Of solid Native American decent, Autumn has felt most comfortable utilizing Archetype: Human Oak Shaman hatchets and axes, some of which have been passed down through countless generations. Many of these Information: When walking as a child in the woods instruments double as weapon or power focuses. behind her parent’s house Whisper come across a clear- Autumn’s mannerisms are very blunt and to the point ing in the middle of which was a large oak tree the and she’ll let you know exactly how much she likes you likes of which she had never seen before. All forms of or, more commonly, how much she hates you. Au- animals either played around its trunk or lived in it’s tumn has a distaste towards everything technological, strong branches, animals which were not frightened, only utilizing them when absolutely necessary. She is who were almost pleased at her arrival. She returned especially hateful toward megacorporations and, un- to this spot for many years, learning to communicate like her more submissive friends, will often attack re- with the animals, and even the tree itself. She could mote construction outposts with extreme brutality, sense the joy, freedom, and safety they felt living be- slaughtering everyone connected with the project. She neath the oak’s strong branches, and with these requires no special accommodations in order to be creature’s assistance, was able to get in touch with the comfortable and is more than satisfied with a bed of magic dwelling within herself. leaves on which to sleep. At the age of sixteen she was informed by her father Student Of The Eternal Cycle that he had made plans to sell the woods she had spend so much of her life in to a corporation for the purpose Archetype: Human Oak Shaman of building a factory. Whisper’s mother objected and Whisper herself pleaded and begged for him to change Information: As the Student began to find out more his mind, but he wouldn’t budge. The night before the and more about life, its secrets, and his future through sale she returned to her little clearing for what she communication with his totem after settling around the thought would be the last time. To her surprise there great oak he began to age rapidly. With every secret were now several shamans surrounding it, with joined he wrenched from the grasp of nature, another year hands, chanting a song she had never heard out loud was taken off his life. Now, at only the chronological before, but knew by heart. Without a word they made age of 31, Student looks very elderly. He can barely room for her in the circle and the five of them made an keep up the strength she requires to keep in touch with esoteric call to the earth for it’s help. Nature answered Oak and it’s almost as if the Oak is trying to tell him to without hesitation and that night Whisper’s parents were back off. But Student won’t let up until he finds out killed in a mysterious fire. about everything, an impossible endeavor he just won’t give up. He rarely speaks anymore, living solely in the Now twenty five, Whisper rarely speaks. The land on swirling tornado of questions which slowly tear apart which her tree stands was passed on to her after her his mind.