Contact Rules

# Deviations From RAW

* Improving Loyalty with Chips is Banned (Run Faster, 176), see the section on Upgrading Contacts
* Social Networking is Banned (Run Faster, 177). Instead, players may freely contact multiple contacts and ask them to work together on a test, paying all their associated fees.
* Unpaid chips (Paying Off Debt, Run Faster, 178) does not degrade loyalty over time. Instead, owed chips modifies your contact availability tests until the scales are balanced.
* Contact Loyalty Degrading Over Time is not in effect (Maintaining Contact Relationship, Run Faster, 178)
* The “Using Con/Seduction” is not in effect since contacts don’t lose loyalty over time. You may still lie or seduce your contacts to achieve other goals during runs.  (Run Faster, 177)
* Ignore the contact legwork mechanics in core, pages 387-388 and see the Knowledge and Networking sections of Contact Actions instead

### I Know A Guy Adaptation

Ignore the rules on RF 177. Instead use the following rules: Spend a point of edge, describe the contact, how you know them, and why they aren't your contact currently. The GM should assign a connection between 1 and 6 and loyalty to this contact, granting more connection for better or more entertaining flashbacks to the contact. You temporarily gain the contact for the run. You may buy the contact permanently at a 1 RVP or 2 CDP Discount, with a minimum cost of 1 RVP or 2CDP.

### Personal Contact Tags

Players may apply the following tags on their contacts without paying karma. They function exactly like RAW unless otherwise noted.

* Blackmailed - Follows RAW rules (RF, 178)
* Family - Treat this contact as having -1 loyalty for all tests except tests of loyalty, which are +1. You also earn one less chip than normal when doing favors for your family contact.
* Intimidated - Follows RAW rules (RF, 178). You can not remove this tag once applied outside the use of memory magic or drugs during a run.

## Other Contact Rules & Restrictions

* Contacts may not have qualities, this is covered by their Archetype and Aspects.
* Edge may not be used on contact rolls.
* Contacts may not be current player characters
* Contacts may be retired player characters given the following restrictions - They can not be larger than life, plot significant, high connection contacts. Retired PC contacts over 6 connection are subject to community review. It is better to have them be "normal" and discard the protagonist's benefit in their retirement as a contact. PCs do not automatically gain a retired player character as a contact for having worked together before. Rules for buying contacts applies as normal.
* Contacts may not be Named NPCs from a Shadowrun sourcebook.
* Game Masters may give out named NPCs as a result of a prime run. These contacts are private to those runners, and are subject to community approval as per out GM Rules involving cannon characters.
* Named Dragons from CGL sourcebooks can't be taken as contacts, but you may get the community to approve homebrewed Dragons. It is better to use liaisons to Dragons than Dragons directly.
* Taking dragons and drakes as a contact will automatically earn a point of notoriety.
* Contacts will only operate in the way specified by the GM.
* Contacts are people as well and are not at the beck and call of the PCs. GMs should portray them as such and the contact might require payment/favors for some tasks.

## Buying and Upgrading Contacts

### Buying Contacts

A new contact costs `[2 × (Connection + Loyalty) - 2]` when purchased by a character outside of a run. Contacts purchased this way start at loyalty 1 but can be upgraded normally.

When given as a Run Reward the GM may spend `[(Connection + Loyalty) - 1] of their run's allotted` RVP to award the contact. When awarded this way, GMs may choose loyalty up to 4 without approval. Loyalty 5 or 6 require community approval.

Further:

* Existing contacts must be bought at their listed connection as connection is global on the Farmer's Market.
* Contacts with a connection rating greater than 6 may only be gained as run rewards.
* You may spend 20 faction reputation (Page 160, Cutting Aces) to buy a contact with a connection equal to or lower than that faction's connection at loyalty 2. (Connection 6 cap still applies)

### Upgrading Contacts

Upgrading a contact's Connection or Loyalty costs `[2 × New Rating]` CDP when purchased by a character outside of a run, or `[New Rating] of a run's` RVP when awarded by a GM.

* Upgrading the loyalty beyond 4 requires an associated run. Note that this limit does not apply at chargen.
* Upgrading the connection past 6 requires thematic approval.

Because the connection of public Contacts is global we require that such changes be announced to the community when a Public Contact's connection is upgraded. Players can work together and split the CDP cost between them to boost a Public Contact’s Connection rating.

# Anatomy of a Contact

## Capability (Dice Pool)

A contact’s dice pool describing how well they can perform a particular service for a particular character. Add the following together to form a contact’s dice pool:

* The contact's Connection Rating
* The contact's Loyalty Rating
* +2 for every positive Aspect that applies
* The dice pool modifier the contact’s Archetype applies to the action type
* Any bonus or penalties due to cashing in or owing favors,
* Any dice pool modifier for the contact’s faction should it apply.

## Connection & Loyalty Ratings (SR5. 386)

### Connection

Connection describes the capabilities of a contact. This value is global for public contacts on the Farmer's Market. When it is upgraded, all players receive this upgrade.

Connection affects Capability, the number of Aspects a contact has and how difficult a Contact is to reach.

### Loyalty

Loyalty describes the relationship between a contact and a player character. It reflects a contact’s motivation to go above and beyond for the character and affects a contact’s Capability.

Loyalty also factors into whether a contact will accept compensation other than Nuyen, lowers the difficulty in reaching a contact and reduces the difficulty of acquiring high Availability items.

Loyalty may be affected by favors owed.

## Aspects

An aspect is a keyword signifying an area of expertise or specialization applicable to the contact’s services. Aspects can be positive or negative, and can be fairly freeform. In this system, the flavor of a contact and their mechanical attributes are intended to go hand-in-hand. Consider a contact’s motivations, aspirations and vices, consider including hooks for Complications as Payment. When writing a Contact’s social ties, background and career path, try to develop their Aspects from it.

Most aspects simply add to Capability but some can have unique mechanics or open up different Service options or RP interactions. See below for more on the Details of Aspects.

The community holds veto power over any aspect. If an aspect is too broad, overpowered or otherwise problematic a vote may be held for it to be changed or removed.

### Positive Aspects

The majority of Aspects fall under this category. These simply add +2 to a contact's Capability on relevant actions, much like a specialty for a skill except that they can stack with one another if multiple apply. A positive Aspect should say something about the contact and the sort of services they render. They should be fairly specific, but also applicable in multiple scenarios.

If you want your contact to be awakened/emerged you have to put one of their aspects as something related to the magical or resonance nature.

For inspiration a few examples of positive aspects are listed below. You may create your own as well;

* Service/Profession (*Armorer, Doctor, Hacker, Smuggler, Info Broker*)
* Metatype (*Troll, Gnome, Centaur*)
* Gear Type (Ammunition, *Drones, Drugs, Fake SINs, Milspec Gear, Vehicles*)
* Weapon Type (*Automatic Firearms, Blades, Blunt Weapons, Explosives, Firearm Accessories, Handguns, Heavy Weapons, Longarms*)
* Armour Type (*High-Fashion Armor, Tactical Armor, Armor Accessories*)
* Device type (*Commlinks, Cyberdecks, Electronic Accessories, RCCs, Software*)
* Cyberware, Bioware, Geneware, Nanoware
* Equipment Brand, (*Ares, Krime, Shiawase)*
* Magic Tradition (*Dark Magic, Missionist, Vodou*)
* Magic Category (*Combat, Illusion, Detection, Manipulation, Health*)
* Spirit Type (*Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Man, Beast*)
* Focus Type (*Qi, Power, Sorcery, Conjuring*)
* Extreme Environments
* Medical
* Blackmail
* General information
* Building layouts

#### Best Practices

A contact can have multiple aspects designed to stack, but you should avoid aspects that are synonymous; Ideally, they should get more specific the more you go.

##### Good example:

```
Weapons Dealer > Firearms > Krime > Shotguns

```

* This example is good because while they are going to be REALLY good at finding you a Krime Wave, their specializations tend to branch off of each other and they won’t all apply in all attempts at acquiring gear.

##### Bad Example:

```
Arms Dealer > Weapons Smuggler > Armaments Expert > Supply Sergeant

```

* This example is bad because all 4 aspects are basically the same thing, and all 4 would always apply to every roll made to acquire any weapons

### Negative Aspects

Negative Aspects add complications when using a contact; making them harder to reach, restricting the jobs they will help with, giving them major gaps in their core competencies, etc.

The upside is that adding a negative aspect to a contact grants it an additional positive aspect. GMs are encouraged to leverage the negative aspects of contacts a player involves in a run to make it extra spicy.

Removal of a contact's negative aspect is under the oversight of the community. Some examples of appropriate negative Aspects are below.

* Wanted
* Blissfully Unaware - This is someone who doesn't think that their contacts are runners and doesn't understand the whole runner thing. If they find out you are a runner, immediately make a test of loyalty. If you fail the test of loyalty, they will think you are a terrorist, burn you and contact law enforcement. If you succeed in a test of loyalty, they will be willing to listen to you explain yourself and even help you leave the runner life. You may be able to convince them to associate with the Shadows. Contact GM chat if this happens as it may involve the removal of that tag. Gear contacts with this contact will only sell you legal gear, or restricted gear with the appropriate licenses unless you conduct a social test to convince them the lack of paperwork is for a benign reason.
* Toxic Magic / Dissonance
* Hard to reach - Always do an availability test for this contact with their connection +3 than normal.
* Unreliable - The GM rolls in secret a 1d6. If the roll a one the contact will say, with complete confidence, that they will do the request or that they have the right information. They will then flake out or their information will be wrong. They will say they got the gear then accidentally sell it to another person.
* Overworked - Services may take longer. Every time the contact provides a service, roll 2d6. The normal amount of time that it would take to provide the service is multiplied by the resulting number.

## Archetype

Each contact has an archetype that modifies their Capability for a certain type of action. There are 4 types of action and each type can be assigned one dice pool modifier from an array of { +8, +4, 0, -2 } when the contact is first created. Which type of action gets which modifier is typically indicated by four letters being placed in descending order:

* {AGKN} means the contact gets +8 to Active tasks, +4 to Gear tasks, +0 to Knowledge tasks and -2 to Networking tasks
* Likewise {KNGA} means +8 to Knowledge, +4 to Networking, +0 to Gear, -2 to Active.

There are a few preset Archetypes that some contacts, particularly older ones, will use in place of the usual array;

* Service: focuses on active skills. Read as: {AKGN}
* Gear: focuses on finding stuff. Read as: {GNAK}
* Legwork: focuses on their knowledge skills. Read as: {KANG}
* Generalist: balance their abilities but are weaker overall. {Ignore the standard array and give +2 to all actions}
* Fixer: focuses on knowing the right people. Read as: {NGKA}
	+ Fixers are special. (See below)

### Fixers

Fixers have invested time and nuyen into your runner and as such they are more firmly in your corner and will not give up information about you except under exceptional pressure. They will organize rescue runs in the event you burn edge and generally ensure you won’t be screwed over by your Johnson. They also vet you to your Johnson, putting your J at ease. Your success is their profit, so they will ensure you can get to a meet and can complete the run.

We require every runner to have a fixer because we want someone who can advocate on your character’s behalf ~~when~~ should drek hit the fan.

## Faction

Each contact can have a faction. A contact’s dice pool can be modified by their faction’s attitude towards you (Cutting Aces, 160). You can treat a contact’s faction as an aspect on top of their normal aspects (a contact’s faction is not an aspect itself, merely treat the contact’s faction as if it were a valid aspect), but be careful when asking detailed questions about a contact’s faction. For example, an Ares contact may be concerned about you asking about their secret bug project site. You may have to roll a con test against the contact or other social tests.

Contacts will not burn a runner merely for running against their factions, business is business. But they will be upset if they know they were used in order to complete a run. They will also appreciate getting a heads up, especially if your run could endanger their lives or the lives of their loved ones.

If you and a contact share a faction, you gain +1 on contact tests. If you want your whole faction to know about the request, you may add the faction’s connection to networking and Knowledge tests. This may invoke complications in the run.

# Contact Actions

## Contact Availability Checks

Contacts have their own lives. A GM can make a contact available or unavailable due to a situation where a runner can intervene. Generally, higher connection contacts are more busy.

If a GM doesn’t care either way, ignore the core rules (SR5 Core, 387) and instead roll `[2d6 + Loyalty]`. Note this works like an initiative roll, not hits; if the total of the two dice and your Loyalty equals or exceeds the contact’s Connection, the following applies:

* On a tie, the contact isn't immediately available but will get in contact with the character after what the GM deems a thematically appropriate delay. They will also have a reason or complication regarding why they couldn’t return the message.
* If you rolled only 1 higher than Connection, the contact will immediately answer the runner but explain a situation or complication that they need to resolve before helping the runner. The runner may intervene in these situations.
* If you roll 2 or higher than Connection, the contact is immediately available with no complication.

Add the number of chips you owe to the connection threshold. Subtract the number of chips you are owed from the connection threshold.

## Knowledge Checks

Players may ask their contacts questions. What Aspects a contact has will define what areas they are knowledgeable in, a contact with the Aspect of ‘Gang member’ would know about other gangs, what their turfs are and who is who among gang leaders.

Contacts roll their Capability against the normal thresholds for knowledge tests as outlined in Core.

Contacts will freely give away information up to loyalty hits. However, if the contact gets hits over their loyalty, they may ask for nuyen or favors according to the table below with time equal to 1 hour. Consider the risk to the contact in providing this information, but generally, every hit over the loyalty is a favor.

Contacts can take up to connection rating in teamwork dice. If you help your contact, this does not apply to the dice pool when calculating costs.

## Networking Checks

Contacts roll their dice pool to see if they know a person that would be in a position to be of use to the players, the test has a threshold of the desired Connection rating of the person being sought after. Their dice pool is based on their Capability, determining Aspects valid to the type of person searched for. If no existing contact exists and therefore no connection is established, the GM set alter the threshold as they deem thematically appropriate, a janitor might be C1 or C2 while the personal assistant of the mayor could be C5 or even higher.

Contacts will freely introduce you to other contacts whose connection ratings are equal or lower than your loyalty rating to that contact. Otherwise, it is considered a favor and the contact will want nuyen or a service for the connection according to the table below. Consider the risk to the contact in providing this connection, but generally, every hit over the loyalty is a favor.

## Gear Checks

Contacts roll their Capability to see if they can find gear for characters with applicable aspects applying.

* Loyalty 6 contacts apply a -4 dice pool penalty to the availability of gear.
* Loyalty 5 contacts apply a -3 dice pool penalty to the availability of gear.
* Loyalty 4 contacts apply a -2 dice pool penalty to the availability of gear.
* Loyalty 3 contacts apply a -1 dice pool penalty to the availability of gear.
* Loyalty 2 and up include discrete delivery.

Example: Trash Panda has the contact Scrap, a gear acquisition contact, at Connection 2, Loyalty 5. She wants to buy a R6 area jammer from her contact for the run. Scrap has the applicable aspects: Electronics and Black Market Connections. Trash Panda would roll 2 (Connection) + 5 (Loyalty) + 8 (Gear) + 2 (Electronics Aspect) + 2 (Black Market Connections Aspect) for a total of 19 dice. The Area jammer normally has an availability of 18F; however, because of Trash Panda's high loyalty with the contact (5), we impose a -3 penalty to the availability of the gear giving us a total of 15 dice in the opposed test.

### Lending Gear and Services

Contacts lend gear based on their aspects. What gear a contact has is based on GM fiat. Follow the table to determine the max value of gear a contact will freely lend out.

For gear over that price, a contact will lend it out at a rate of (7-Loyalty)\*5% the remaining worth. Contacts expect their gear to come back in the same condition; make sure to patch up any bullet holes before returning it.

If you get in trouble, higher loyalty contacts will use this pool of money to try to bail you out. They do expect to get paid back ASAP.

## Active Skill Check

A contact’s dice pool is equal to their Capability, a contact with the Aspect of ‘Infobroker’ would add that Aspect to their dice pool for the purposes of doing a matrix search.

Contacts can take up to connection rating in teamwork dice. If you help your contact, this does not apply to the dice pool when calculating costs. Easy tasks with low favor ratings may be done freely by the contact up to loyalty rating. Everything over loyalty rating must be paid for as a favor.

## Tests of Loyalty

This section overrides the RAW test of loyalty. Run Faster, Page 177.

Sometimes, your contact is holding the bag or otherwise finds themselves in a slotted up situation where throwing you under the bus would help them. If that is the case, roll 13-C with a threshold of (6-loyalty). If you beat the threshold, the contact will attempt to use their active skill dice pools and nuyen to help you out, risking themselves and their reputation. If you fail, under the bus you go.

# Paying your Contacts

## Services and Favor Rating

Capability can be rolled to determine a contact’s willingness and ability to provide a Favor, using the Favor Ratings table in Core 389. Use the rating given as a Threshold for the test. The roll can be bypassed with GM Fiat determining success or failure. The test may, at GM discretion, receive some of the modifiers applicable to Social Tests (Core p140):

* Projected outcome appears advantageous to Contact: +1
* Projected outcome appears annoying to Contact: –1
* Projected outcome appears harmful to Contact: –3
* Projected outcome appears disastrous to Contact: –4
* Character has a heavy bargaining chip / highly desirable favor to trade: +2

GMs are free to add additional modifiers as they feel appropriate to the situation.

If a contact is tricked into acting against their own interest and finds out, GMs may choose to to dock one or more points of loyalty rating as they feel appropriate and/or have the contact demand a favor in recompense.

Ultimately, the impact of player choice’s on a contact is the realm of GM fiat with recommendations from the community at large. It is completely possible to do something ruinous to a contact that dissolves all their connection and/or loyalty.

## Service Costs

Favor Ratings are also guidelines for the costs of getting help from a contact. These numbers are guidelines and GMs are free to adjust them to better fit with the payscale of the run (especially hooding runs, high risk of retaliation runs, etc). The suggested cost is based on the favor rating (as determined by the GM), and the dicepool of a the contact (A more skilled contact will charge more for their expert services.)

### Magical/Resonance Services

The cost of magical and resonance services is up to the GM based on the risk of said service. GMs should account for the service’s drain/fading values while determining the risk to the contact. Magicians and technomancers are rare and know their worth, double the nuyen cost in the table above for their services.

Generally, 3 drain/fading is a rating 1 favor. 18+ drain/fading is a rating 6 favor. Double the nuyen cost again if the drain/fading exceeds 50% of the contact’s dice pool since that is generally when these things change from stun to physical damage. However, the favor rating can also be increased by circumstance. Sustaining a spell to go geek some rats is very different from sustaining a spell to go geek an Aztech blood mage in a Aztech pyramid. These are just guidelines and the favor rating should be both a discussion between the GM and player along with the contact and runner.

### Complications, Side Objectives and Runs as Payment

GMs should have contacts who take payment in services or goods seek repayment for their services. This repayment can be in nuyen or tasks whose threat is determined by the RVP guidelines above.

**Example:** Trash Panda calls her contact Daniel Lufe for assistance in a run. She needs her forger contact to create a fake dating profile to lure a target out of their house. This is a fairly basic, low threat task for Daniel Lufe, and he agrees to do so in exchange for a favor. He asks that while Trash Panda is inside that rich guy's house, that she take one of his expensive bottles of chardonnay for him to use with his cooking interests. This adds another objective for Trash Panda to complete while she is inside the house robbing the joint.

# Favors and Chips

Some contacts may agree to work for free in exchange for a favor, or may agree to owe a character a favor. These are tracked with "Chips". A Positive number of chips means the Contact owes the PC a favor. A Negative number means the PC owes the Contact a favor. This may affect your contact's Capability, Service Costs, ect. A contact is less willing to help out if they are owed, especially if the character isn't interested in repaying the debt.

* If the contact has a positive chip value (i.e. Contact owes the PC a favor) and the player is calling in that favor, add the value of the favor as a dicepool bonus to the test.
* If the contact has a negative chip value (i.e. PC owes the Contact a favor), apply the number of favors owed as a penalty to the Contact’s Loyalty. If the Contact reaches 0 Loyalty in this way, they will still assist, but will always charge for help, and may charge extra until such time as they have been repaid.
	+ Note that this modification of loyalty will affect Capability rolls, as well as Contact Availability Checks
	+ If the negative chips drops the contact to 0 loyalty, they are not lost. Instead, the contact will refuse to assist the runner any more until the debt is repaid.

GMs are encouraged to find opportunities for contacts who prefer Favors as payment to either ask for favors, or offer a chip in the form of a favor in the future.

# Group Contacts

Diverging from RAW, group contacts have been redesigned to fit more neatly into an LC setting, and to be dynamic, changing with player action. Group contact will have 4 stats, health, connection rating, player joinability, and type.

Factions can be player or GM created.

## Health

Health is a direct measurement of how this group is currently doing, it goes from lowest to highest: Maimed, Bruised, Maintaining, Boosted, and Invigorated, each giving -2, -1, +0, +1, and +2 to all actions done by or through the faction. This can be changed through runs benefiting or hurting the faction, or overall events happening in the Shadowrun world, and will head back or forward one point towards the middle every 2 months, barring significant events or faction destruction.
For example, the Halloweeners have not been featured in any recent runs or lore, so they are assumed to be going about business as normal or whatever those gangers would consider normal. NeoNet, on the other hand, is not doing too well, so is on the lower side of health, even though there haven’t been any runs against them. Finally, a GM has been running a series of games featuring the Black Lodge, and they have been doing very well, bringing them up to invigorated.

## Connection

This represents the power, influence, and assorted other connections a group has, expanded from 1-3 to 1-5. These are the bonus dice a PC gets when using the faction for legwork or networking, as per RAW. The ratings roughly represent as follows.

1. A group with little power or influence, if any. A book club, small mage study group, or things of that nature would fall under this category.
2. While not a true power player, this group has quite a bit of influence at a local level, and can sway things in that area. Groups include street gangs, small policlubs, and the like.
3. Considerable power in an area and even abroad, this includes A level corporations, major criminal syndicates, the Farmer's Market itself, etc.
4. This is where the true power players are, Nations like the UCAS, Canton Confederation, or Amazonia, along with AA Corps, would fit here.
5. This is solely the realm of the AAAs and Prime Datahaven group contacts from the Prime Datahaven Membership quality.

It is up to the GM how much of the connection rating a PC has access to. If a Neonet citizen PC wishes to dig up info on a SK executive without being noticed, for example, they would not get the full bonus as they are not using the entirety of the group’s resources.

These ratings can only change for player created groups, and even then, will require a lot of effort.
In addition, PCs with Made Man gain 2 automatic hits to tests done through their group.

## Group type

This should be fairly obvious, a gang is a gang, a Corp is a Corp, a secret death cabal is a secret death cabal, and thus outlines what a group can and can’t help with. For example, using the Halloweeners to help find a local ghoul nest would gain benefit of their connection rating, but connecting a PC with a reclusive hermetic archaeologist would not gain any benefit. This is all GM fiat.

Additionally, separate group contacts may have tenets, for example, the Vory forbid cooperating with authority, that PCs will have to visibly abide by to stay in the group. Individual group contacts might also gain bonuses, such as the Red Hot Nukes allowing for easier requisitioning of explosives. These bonus will be decided on a group by group basis.

## Joinability

Not all factions are joinable, though all group contacts are. However, there are some requirements.

To join a corporation, the Corporate Limited SIN or Corporate SIN negative quality is required.

Those with the Made Man and Prime Datahaven Membership qualities are automatically a member of their factions, and do not have to spend any additional karma.

### Joining Groups

#### At Character Generation

At character creation, players can join groups by spending karma equal to (group’s connection)\*2+1 as if the group contact was a positive quality. They may also join an organized crime faction by taking the Made Man quality or a Datahaven by taking the Prime Datahaven Membership Quality.

#### Post-Character Generation

After character creation, players can join groups by spending karma equal to (group’s connection)\*4+2 as if the group contact was a positive quality. Those taking the Made Man quality must first demonstrate a long standing relationship with the organized crime group. Those taking Prime Datahaven Membership must demonstrate their worth to the Datahaven.

Barring qualities, loyalty starts and ends at 1.

### Faction Rep

Players with a group contact gain 1 faction rep with that faction for every run they complete after purchasing it. Furthermore, faction rep can be spent to acquire a faction-related public contact at the cost of 5 x Connection and 2 x desired Loyalty. A faction-related public contact can also have its connection increased at the cost of 10 x Connection. As usual, contacts with more than 6 connection must be approved by the community, and Loyalty cannot exceed 4 without a run. Multiple players with the same group contact may pool their faction rep for global purchases, such as increasing a public contact's connection.

### Player Character Page Templates

Please use Template:GroupContactTable to add a group contact to your character's page. Note that this template automatically adds +1 to your faction rep for each run your character has been on. You will need to adjust this number using the `|FactionRep=` entry in Template:GroupContact with a negative number to reduce this number down to 1 at the time of purchase.

## Group Contact Examples

Rogatty Vydra is a vory enforcer with the made man quality. He calls his Vory friends looking for a place to lay low, rolling Shadow Community to find a place. The Vory is making a lot of nuyen with the syndicate war, so their health is at boosted. He rolls intuition (5) + his knowledge skill rating (4) + his group’s connection (3) + the group health bonus (1) or 13 dice. He rolls and gets 4 hits which add onto his 2 autohits from being a made man for 6 hits. He is able to find one of the best hidden places in the shadows.

The group is having trouble learning about their extraction target. Photon, a member of the Grey Wolves, tries reaching out to her network. She rolls her intuition (4) + her knowledge skill in notable matrix specialists (5) + her spec in technomancers (2) + her group’s connection (3). She gets 5 hits on 14 dice and learns a lot about their target, including the fact they are in vacation in London at the Grand Hilton. However, the Grey Wolves are allied with Spinrad Industries. In preparation for becoming SpinGlobal, they need expert matrix sculptures. A member of the Grey Wolves offers Photon 15K nuyen to each member of her team to screw over their Johnson. At stake is plus or minus reputation with the Grey Wolves.