SRM01-02 (v 1.0) Strings Attached You’re hired to extract some VIPs from a secure facility and then destroy any evidence or witnesses that you were there. Of course, there are strings attached: the VIPs are not very cooperative and must be unharmed. You always did enjoy a challenge! Strings Attached is the second adventure in the Rose Croix series for the Shadowrun game system and the Shadowrun Missions campaign setting in particular. It is designed for lower experience levels, but can be adapted for higher level characters. For use with Shadowrun, Third Edition ™ Strings Attached...............................................................................3 INTRODUCTION...........................................................................5 Preparing the Adventures .............................................................5 ART Adventure Structure ......................................................................5 Art Direction Gamemastering the Adventure....................................................6 Rob Boyle General Adventure Rules .............................................................6 Maps (Player Aids) Non-Player Characters..................................................................6 Rich Osterhout Campaign Background.................................................................7 Campaign Synopsis .......................................................................7 STRINGS ATTACHED .................................................................8 Copyright© 2004 by WizKids LLC. 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LEGWORK.................................................................................... 26 CAST OF SHADOWS................................................................. 27 Find us online: Michelle Rampling......................................................................27 [email protected] Ghoul .............................................................................................28 (Shadowrun questions) DocWagon Security Guard ........................................................28 http://www.shadowrunrpg.com Yamatetsu Covert Ops Member................................................29 (official Shadowrun website) Yamatetsu Covert Ops Mage.....................................................29 http://www.fanpro.com Ferrari “Morgan” Transport.......................................................30 (FanPro website) http://www.commandohq.com STRINGS ATTACHED CREDITS (FanPro Commando website) http://www.wizkidsgames.com INTRODUCTION STORY WRITER (WizKids website) Jeff Jones Rich Osterhout STRINGS ATTACHED WRITER Jeff Jones Rich Osterhout SHADOWRUN MISSIONS CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR Rich Osterhout SHADOWRUN LINE DEVELOPER Rob Boyle EDITING Rich Osterhout Rob Boyle Shadowrun Missions Strings Attached 2 Underneath it, the barest traces of meat…like a clean, cold freezer in a slaughterhouse. And the low hum of the Strings Attached chillers, barely audible, but Jose always felt it in his chest. The dim red lights were always kept low in there too. Not even being the Chief Operating Officer of a Even with his low-light vision, he had to squint and peer company like DocWagon’s Seattle Division was enough around while he cleaned. for Michael Davenport. He had ideas that would make the But the worst was looking at them. The cold, lifeless division millions of nuyen, but was stopped short by his bodies, line upon line of them, hanging like puppets from boss at every turn. DocWagon had grown static and narrow cables four feet off the ground and suspended in a overconfident in the Seattle market. With the demise of narrow, open tank of some bluish-green syrup. The red Crash Cart after their mysterious debacle in the early glow of the lights gave the bodies an evil life -like aura, fifties, it paved the way for DocWagon to be the de facto almost as if they were just sleeping. Jose had bumped one provider of emergency care services in the Seattle of the tanks once while mopping the floor…the sibilant metroplex. There was simply no competition to force hiss of the cables and the cold feel of the skin as an arm them to grow and develop. Sure, they received new flopped out had caused him to lose it completely, and he customers every year, but it did not “grow” the company had ran screaming upstairs. Jose made a point of never in the way Davenport knew that it could. The problem bumping the tanks again… was, DocWagon Seattle’s CEO would have none of it – he turned down lucrative defense contracts and what were Doctor Walter Broward caressed the real leather of considered risky ventures. Davenport could not, would the high backed chair in his new office – Chief Executive not, be ignored. So he did the only thing he could think of Officer, Chairman of the Board, The “Big Cheese” – his – he had himself killed… plotting and planning was beginning to come to fruition, Davenport sat in the shade of a palm tree, sipping his and his return from the Caribbean left him energized for drink as he recalled his plan. The two shadowrunner the weeks and months to come. Time enough, he thought, teams had performed flawlessly, although the one team to crush imbeciles like Garrett Walsh over at DocWagon. that had been hired to “assassinate” him almost did too People of vision like himself could not tolerate good of a job. They almost had seen through the charade, incompetence or short sightedness. He took a long view but luckily he was able to escape in the end. Now his on some projects. For him, biotechnology was a gold mind shifted into high gear as he planned the next phases mine; one that should be exploited from all angles. Even of his life. He had already laid the groundwork for his something as trivial as providing emergency medical new identity, Dr. Walter Broward, months ago and started services. As COO of DocWagon, in his previous “life” as the shell corporation that would become Rose Croix. His Michael Davenport, he’d seen how the sprawl was sources told him that most of the capital assets had been evolving. Ever since the crash of the suborbital into the spent to procure office space, medical equipment, and sprawl and the passing of the comet, DocWagon had trained medical personnel. The only thing he had to do experienced record growth. Too bad the corporation could know was heal up from the recent sessions of cosmetic not see the challenges until it was too late. Now, they had surgery, and then return to Seattle to take control of his a shortage of medical personnel, and the security forces new company, one that would compete against the needed to back them up in today’s high threat world. sleeping dinosaur that DocWagon Seattle had become. DocWagon had become a complacent giant, just rolling along and not innovating or taking chances. Walter Jose didn’t really like his job. The money was great, Broward was not like that. especially for an ork with no education. And the people Even now, what little money he had managed to were pretty nice; he’d heard only the occasional racist embezzle fro m DocWagon, along with personal funds and crap from a few of the guards. But he hated going into the those of private venture capitalists he’d approached, had Vault. And he had to clean it every single night. The low gone to acquire and train medical teams, security teams, man on the totem pole had to do the worst jobs. Eleven and facilities around the sprawl in strategic areas. They years on the job and he was still the low man on the would soon grow quickly, and he’d be able to expand janitorial staff. Rose Croix into other areas of the sprawl. DocWagon was The smell would hit him the instant the door swung soft from lack of competition, and he would go for the open, that crisp, acrid ammonia and metal scent. soft underbelly. Shadowrun Missions Strings Attached 3 A soft knock at his office door made him turn to find his executive assistant, Lucy Turnbull. She had the look of someone who’d seen a ghost – and perhaps she had. Lucy led in Dredd, or Mr. Bones as he was now called, into Broward’s private office. He dismissed her with a curt ‘thank you’ and turned to the large