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Denbe Nura

Denbe is a professional Urban Brawler for the Mingmei Dragons. He originally joined with his twin brother Dende Nura, looking to score big in the sport. Unfortunately for him, he had to have an arm amputated after one match and his brother died in another. He has since heavily modded his body to both replace what he lost and ensure his survival in the game, but this has put him in heavy debt with the Yakuza, which may take quite a while to repay.

The loss of his brother weighs heavily on him, bringing on a variety of mental issues including depression, survivors guilt and PTSD. Thus he does not talk much and focuses most of his energy on training. Despite his setbacks (or perhaps because of them) he is absolutely determined to continue forward and do what he initially set out to do.
Jia

The southwest province of Jia was once lush with plains and light forests, but what was once natural land has been covered with farming arcologies which protect their crops and livestock from the island's devastating weather. About 20 years ago, a group of shadowrunners broke into an experimental magic facility (the owners of which have yet to be revealed). While security was responding to the threat, some mishap happened, destroying the facility and everyone in it. It is unknown what was being developed or how the facility was destroyed as the entire area has been enveloped in a magical storm, preventing any investigation of the incident, ever since. For a time, it was expected that the storm would envelop the province. Luckily, it stayed put. Less fortunately, it never stopped and has caused all sorts of strange and unpredictable weather patterns on the islands. The effects do all sorts of crazy things from biblical stuff like rains of blood and frogs, to the absolutely absurd like memory winds, time loops, and spirit storms.

Uyeda is the largest city and the only one with a formal port. Like much of the Desu Islands, the cities of Jia depend heavily on rice and fish for food. The cities of Jia (especially Hide) are known for their quality rice wine known as sake. While most of the Desu Islands produce their own brands of sake, it is widely acknowledged that the sake from Jia is the best as they just about always win the various sake competitions that are held on a fairly regular basis. Textiles are also widely produced among the cities of Jia. Silk, hemp and wool clothes are all manufactured here. The various textiles produced in the small province of Jia account for roughly 50% of all cloth manufactured in the Desu Islands. Spinners, weavers, sheep farmers and silk-worm farmers are fairly common. However, all of these farmers work from corporate owned arcologies.

The government is primarily under corporate rule, though there is something of a semblance of democracy in it in that the people are technically allowed to vote on which corporation is in power. This is a technicality because almost everyone votes for whatever corporation they work for. That means the largest corporation always wins, and in Jia, that is Tomiyama Agricultural. Since life is particularly difficult to get by outside of the archologies due to the weird storms, the corporations have a fair lock on the people, keeping crime to a minimum. For the moment, there are no Yakuza clans who have managed to make headway on the island. Some tiny, street level gangs form from time to time, but they never really last for long.
Good Manas

This small magic shop is one of many in Majoukoya. It is run by the Doumeki sisters, though the older sister, Madouka Doumeki, does most of the work. Meanwhile her younger sister only occasionally comes to help out when she's bored. The shop contains a wide selection of potions, spells, foci and reagents for the discerning customer. Not usually anything spectacularly rare, but the selection is otherwise decent.
Nanase Dekamimi

Both a member of the Jingai and girlfriend of their leader Mushiba, Nanase is not the strongest member of the group, but she is an adept. Unlike most of the Jingai who excel at punching things really hard, Nanase is not much of a combatant, with her skills and magical abilities focused on stealth and thievery.

She once attempted to sneak into the Ningen Seinensha's base, but was caught and beaten by the gang. Before they could kill her, she was rescued by shadowrunners and returned to her gang, much to their relief.
Jacque Jones

Head coach of the Mingmei Dragons, an Urban Brawl team. A native of Deoch, he has been a coach for Urban Brawl teams in several other countries before being hired to take care of the Dragons. His coaching is brutal during the off season, when he trains his players into the ground. Once the season starts, he takes a bit more of a hands off approach, allowing the players ample time to rest or train on their own, should they wish.

His private life is kept pretty private with little known about his family, friends or interests. It is believed that he is single, but the truth is unknown.
Kami

A native of the Desu Island Chain and member of the Baké Busters, Kami is a shinto priest with excellent mastery over health magic. While she is of course quite capable of healing people, she is also equally capable of reducing someone to a quivering mess through her mastery of the body and it's functions or enhancing the abilities of herself or her team mates. She is also a skilled martial artist and thus prefers to deal with opponents in close combat.
Delicate Daisy

Delicate Daisy front desk girl

A drone brothel which seems to cater to those who have a fetish for elves. It advertises itself as a place where customers can have sex with custom anthrodrones at the affordable price of 500 nuyen for one person to have 2 hours with a girl and then 100 nuyen for each hour afterward.  However, the brothel is actually an illegal bunraku brothel in disguise with live girls who have been implanted with mind-controlling cyberware that purposely makes them move and act in a less than life-like manner.

It is run by the Yamaguchi clan both as a successful (albeit illicit) business and a money laundering front. Customers are allowed to choose a body type, personality and outfit. The girl is then prepared before the customer is sent into a private room to enjoy their time together.
Miho Hatori

Medico for the Mingmei Dragons, Miho is a fair athlete and trained trauma surgeon. Personality wise, she is reserved and tends to keep to herself. She actually got into Urban Brawl through Shi Kaminari, who she was dating at the time. After patching him up for a season, she joined the team because they needed a new medico and the pay was better than working for Tasukeichi.

On the first match of her second season of Urban Brawl, Shi was hit by a train and died instantly only to be later replaced by Setsuko Kaigara. Miho wanted to quit at that point, but her contract forced her to stay on for the rest of the season. She somewhat resented Setsuko Kaigara for replacing Shi so quickly, though it obviously wasn't Setsuko's fault for doing it. This resentment brought a lot of friction between the two, but Miho did her job professionally, determined to finish out the season and retire. That said, no tears were shed by Miho when Setsuko had her legs blasted off by a troll during a semi-final match.
Denki-Cho

Aptly named, "electric street", Denki-Cho is widely known for its vast nest of small electronics shops. While these shops aren't the bleeding edge of electronics, they are cheap and some of them install cyberware without asking too many questions. Tourists often come through looking for good deals on decks, drones, and other gadgets. They invariably end up over paying at the big retail stores that are also in the area. Locals know that to find the best deals you need to dig deep into the smaller shops that are obscured by flashier shops selling animation merchandise, sex toys and pornography. Once you pass those places, you can find bins and bins of slightly older components that those with the appropriate technical expertise can integrate to create systems that are just as powerful for far less than what the tourists pay at the big retailers. With security light, Yakuza take advantage of the area, collecting protection money from merchants. Any trouble that happens in the area is more likely to be taken care of by Yakuza foot soldiers than proper authorities.

There are also a large number of pachinko parlors in the area. These loud devices are marketed as games of skill to get around anti-casino laws, but in reality they are basically fancy slot machines that provide prizes instead of money. Of course, these prizes can be sold to the owners of the pachinko parlors *for* money, so the distinction is a poor one.
Matsu Butchers

Matsu Butchers team logo

The Matsu Butchers are a Desian professional Urban Brawl team based in the Matsu city of Lien. The Butchers compete in the Desian Urban Brawl Association (DUBA). The team plays its home games in the Murder Fields around Matsu, an area known for a particularly bloody battle during the Great Oni Uprising. They are the only professional level sports team of any sport in Lien and completely consist of oni.

The team, established by Kichizo Ishida in 2988, has only had a single coach in its entire history and is known for its bloody approach to the game. While they are poor scorers, they still manage victories by forcing their opponents to forfeit by wipeout. In the rare match that doesn't happen, its usually through intimidation; scaring their opponents into playing cautiously. The Butchers struggled during their early years as they had a hard time tempering their brutal approach and were often disqualified. Beginning in 3000, the Butchers made three consecutive appearances in the DUBA Finals, all of which resulted in victories.

Since the 3000s, the Butchers have been led by Zantetsu Doumeki, who has made MVP once. This era has been marked by passionate rivalries with the Mingmei Dragons, Yuri Youkai, and Usagi Rabbits.
Shinto

The Torii gate is used to symbolize the border between the mortal world and the spiritual one.

## Skills

### Preferred spells

Astral Window, Stun Bolt, Control Emotions, Thought Recognition

This religion is unique to the Desu Islands. There, male priests call themselves "shinshoku" (literally "god's employee") while females call themselves "miko" ("shrine maidens") and the spirits are called "kami". Shinto worshipers respect all nature and believe that there are countless kami that live in everything. Still, while they worship and respect all kami, most do have a specific mentor spirit that they focus on.  Key portions of their worship are respect for nature and ensuring physical and spiritual cleanliness though proper ritual. Honoring the kami is important to the Awakened, as they regularly ask favors of the spirits, especially looking for assistance in the use of magic.

Shinto magic techniques are closely tied to the religion whose name they share. Protective charms, normally called ofuda are used to anchor wards within a building, normally placed within the home’s kamidana, or household altar. Personal protection amulets, called omamori, are frequently used to ward off bad luck or to encourage success in different endeavors; for the Awakened they are commonly made into foci for Counterpelling or Banishing. Other protective charms are also used by believers to bring good fortune, fight against bad luck, or induce and bless child birth.

Reagents important to Shinto worshipers usually come from nature. Pure water is particularly important, as are rare stones. The purest water is often used in the brewing of sake, a rice based alcohol. The purest sake is then offered to kami in hopes of gaining favor.

Shinto priests call their magical lodges "Jinja" (or "place of the gods"). These shrines are primarily constructed with the intention of housing a specific kami. This kami is almost always the priest's mentor spirit. Jinja are small wooden houses with paper ofuda hanging around the entrance. A large rope connected to a bell is usually placed near the front, with an offering basin just behind it. Those who wish to gain the attention of the jinja's kami ring the bell and then clap a few times while bowing to get the kami's attention. They then make an offering and perform a prayer, begging for a favor.

While many international corporations tend to shun non-hermetic magic as being too far based in superstition, many corporations in the Desu Islands freely deal with Shinto priests. They may not be religious people, but they have a healthy respect for religion and fear the fallout that may come from disrespecting kami.
Aku Ayashi

Aku is a Johnson who specializes in magical jobs. If it involves stealing an ancient artifact, killing a paranormal critter or spying on magical research, Aku is probably the guy offering the job. It is believed that the jobs are paid for by Ankev Industries, but there is no way of knowing that for sure. Though the jobs pay well, many runners who work for him end up disappearing under mysterious circumstances.
Moonies

The official gang patch of the Moonies

This gang of magicians claims to be comprised of shapeshifters. During the full moon, they change into animals and run wild for the night. In reality, they are no such thing; simply magic users who use their magic to change form. Still, despite the fact that they are fully human, they do rampage as animals, hunting down and feeding upon the (ex-)criminals in the Nishi Slums. Since no one cares about those people, there is no police retaliation. In fact, it is seen as something like a public service. The gang is known for their skill with ritual magic and are rumored to be able to permanently transform their foes into animals; typically small prey animals such as rabbits, mice, hamsters, and the like. Each member has several pets which they claim were once their enemies, though whether this is true or merely an intimidation tactic is unknown.
Benzaiten

Benzaiten guides artists.

## Disadvantages

Those who worship Benzaiten are obsessed with their appearance. They wear only the most fashionable clothing and being unkempt is simply unacceptable. The minimum acceptable lifestyle for these magicians is middle. Should they fall below this, they become irate, causing a -1 penalty to all die rolls until they are able to return to their proper lifestyle.

One of seven gods of fortune (also called the Shichifukujin), she the only female shichifukujin and is the embodiment of talent, beauty and music among others. In many occasions her figure appears in the "Torii gates", which are large red arches that mark the entrance to holy grounds. She is represented as a smart, beautiful woman with all the aforementioned attributes. She carries a biwa, a traditional lute-like instrument and is normally accompanied by a white snake. She is the patron of artists, writers, dancers, and geisha, among others.
Maru Yoshihama

Born with autism, Maru always had a hard time interacting with other people and expressing herself. Her one joy in life was running. With no friends to play with, she would simply go outside and run until she couldn't run anymore. By middle school, she had a reputation as a runner and was recruited into the track and field club. By high school, she was competing on a national level and was even expected to make the national team.

Much to everyone's surprise, Maru decided to start playing Urban Brawl. It seemed like a random decision to most people who knew her but in reality she had considered it quite carefully. Being on the team meant she could continue running and that she could shoot people. She didn't look it, but she REALLY liked the idea of shooting people. Unfortunately, with her running skills she was recruited as a scout, who don't get to the heavier weapons. Still, she has learned to be an effective scout, mixing speed and stealth to take out opponents.

Though she certainly doesn't look like it, she revels at the chance of shooting some one and secretly hopes that her shot will be a lethal one.
Banshee

Member of the Baké Busters and mistress of song magic, she is the only non human of the group. In the shadow world, she is an active XYZ commenter as well as a professional singer of minor fame. Born in the Arawaki Islands, she was recruited by Ghost when he found her singing down a barghest. She has since moved to the Desu Island Chain, where she uses her skills to tame wild paracritters.
Bonehead

Gate guard to hut of Baba Yaga, Bonehead is actually quite terrible at his job. He lets pretty much anyone through if they can bribe him with something interesting. It is unknown who he really is as he pretty much gives a different story to anyone who asks, though it is unclear whether this is purposeful deception for his own pleasure or simply an attempt to cover up his poor memory. Why Baba Yaga tolerates him as a guard is a mystery.
Ebisu

## Disadvantages

Those who worship Ebisu feel uncomfortable living on land for extended periods of time. If they go longer than a week without visiting the sea, they must succeed in a Charisma + Willpower (3) check or become extremely depressed, receiving a -2 to all checks until they spend a day at sea.

One of seven gods of fortune (also called the Shichifukujin), he is the god of prosperity and wealth in business, and of abundance in crops, cereals and food in general. He is the patron of fishermen and therefore is represented with fishermen's costumes such as a typical hat, a fishing rod in his right hand and a fish that can be either a carp, a hake, a codfish or a sea bass, or any large fish, in general, that symbolize abundance in meals. His worshipers have a strong connection to the sea and are often sailors, fishermen or pirates.
Midnight Club

This street racing gang is famously known for a combination of dangerously high racing speed and aggressive driving styles, but also for its clandestine operations and strict code of ethics. Membership of the Midnight Club is not easy to obtain. The absolute minimum requirement for a *hashiriya* street racer to join was to own a car that was capable of going at least 160mph, and competitive drivers were expected to be able to achieve racing speeds of 200mph or more on Mingmei’s public highways. All vehicles in the Desu Island Chain are electronically limited by law to a top speed of 112 mph, and so members are also expected to have a high degree of mechanical know-how in order to boost their cars’ performance. Would-be Midnight Club racers are first accepted as apprentices for a year, during which time they are required to attend all of the club’s meetings without absence.

The club is bound by a strict moral code which dictates that members must refrain from putting any other motorist in jeopardy, regardless of whether they are a fellow racer or an innocent bystander and, despite operating outside of the law, the Midnight Club is highly regarded as a gang which puts pedestrian safety far above their own.

While other gangs of street racers compete in drifting or point-to-point racing events, the Midnight Club specializes in one thing only: top speed. Races usually started at speeds of at least 75 mph with the event officially starts by one of the cars sounding its horn. Winners are usually judged to be the first car that was fast enough to completely lose the rest, while one anonymous club member was reportedly once overheard saying: “Drifting and autocross is for the weak. We only do maximum velocity.” The incredibly high standard of the drivers’ abilities makes it difficult for authorities to catch them, and as police cars are limited to the same top speed as any other car in the country, police simply find it impossible to keep up with the Midnight Club racers.
Ami Yumi

Owner of the exclusive nightclub, Electric Moonlight, Ami is a shrewd businesswoman as well as extremely fashion conscious. The club is popular among the younger crowd, though occasionally celebrities do make their way onto the dance floor. Ami has met a great number of DJs and musicians over the years and is a wealth of information about the club and music scene. She is also quite friendly with many of the young, wealthy elites in the Goujasu District.
Shinigami

Shinigami guide the souls of the dead to the afterlife

## Advantages

### All

Followers of shinigami are able to see and speak to spirits of the dead at all times.

### Adept

Touching a corpse allows the adept to see the final moments of their life.

## Disadvantages

Shinigami followers can't turn off their ability to see the dead. In places where many have died and yet to move on, this can be very distracting. They are also a beacon for ghosts who will often choose to possess them in order to complete some unfinished business or lash out at the living.

Literally "Death god", shinigami are the embodiment of death. Often compared with grim reapers from other cultures, shinigami are spirits who lead the spirits of the recently deceased to the world of the dead. Followers of shinigami are often a maudlin bunch as they are constantly confronted with the spirits of the dead. As such, many take up jobs that involve appeasing the spirits of the dead. Others take to heavy drinking, drug use and other escapes from reality to avoid seeing them.
Professor Toru Morikami

Decades of studying the occult have made the professor into a bit of an eccentric person. He is perfectly friendly, but follows many rules to avoid paranormal threats which most people can find confusing or off-putting.  Still, if you can get around his quirks, he is an excellent source of information on all things paranormal and occasionally a source of items that may be used as weapons to such creatures.
Mia Donburi

Mia Donburi, aka Violet Femme is a female pro wrestler of the Lady's Wrestling Association. Seen as kind of the bad girl of wrestling, she often swaps back and forth between the roles of "face" and "heel". She's a fierce wrestler in the ring and extremely popular as a pinup model.

Outside the ring, she trains aggressively all the time which allows her to compete with wrestlers who have magic or cyber enhancements that she lacks. She puts forth a silly prankster attitude among her friends, but in reality she takes her job very seriously and is always looking for ways to surpass her human limitations without relying on magic (which she doesn't have) and enhancements (which pollute the body).
Hanae Gumo

A street rat who dwells in the Kita Barrens. She was found in an old abandoned lab by a group of shadowrunners, claiming to have broken in with some other kids to party when they were set upon by ghouls. In reality, she was originally a test subject in the lab and was trying to use the chaos of the break-in to escape. Unfortunately she didn't make it out at first, but she did later make it out thanks to those shadowrunners.

She has since made her way to the barrens where she squats in an apartment that once belonged to Makoto Aozora, along with Reiko Nagakubi and Takako Yamauba. She is something of the party girl of the three, and often gets high at raves and spends the night at whatever guy of the week she happens to hook up with. She never seems to settle down with any of them though.
Save Mart

SaveMart originally started as a series of popular discount megastores until their online store eventually put their physical ones out of business (along with the physical businesses of many other companies). Their goal has always been to be able to sell everything a family could need at lower prices than their competitors and they have certainly been successful at that. Of the Big 12, SaveMart has the least nefarious business practices, depending on how you look at things. They do not have any black sites or secret labs. They have just about no need for shadowrunners as they have no need to steal corporate secrets or sabotage rival operations. Their business is just so huge that there really are no significant rivals in their umbrella of business. There are certainly other businesses selling similar products, but not on a level that would provide any kind of challenge to their success.

That is not to say the corporation is all sunshine and rainbows though. They are notorious for underpaying their employees and their presence has made many physical businesses nonviable. Where their warehouses are built, their employees become dependent on the company for survival since the company's presence quickly destroys many jobs in the area, forcing everyone to work at the warehouse or move away. The longer a warehouse operates in a particular area, the poorer the people there become until everything is one sprawling slum with no possible way of improving it.

The CEO is a rotund woman named Marlee Daii. She is known to be a single mother with two teen daughters, having recently gone through a very public divorce. The two girls (Ana and Sarah) have made the news amid scandals involving underage DUI for one and the other allegedly having a relationship with her teacher in exchange for good grades. The ex husband was a longtime employee for the company but has since been terminated.
Jani Takehara

A member of the nationally famous boy band, "Sexy Boys". He is instantly recognized by people all over the country. While he doesn't wield any particular political power and possesses no real skills other than singing and looking cute, his name can open doors in many communities.

Among the five member group, Jani is considered to be the "bad boy" member. Though the image is mostly just for show, he is loved by women (and some men) for his rough, sexy demeanor.
Ankev Industries

Before one can truly understand Ankev Industries, one should take a good long look at the president and CEO, Lord Ankev. It is unknown how old Ankev is, but there are historical records about him dating at least a thousand years, when he first took over the city of Moonshade. The secret to his longevity is an openly known one. He is a lich; a powerful undead magic user. According to historical records, he appeared in Moonshade and completely took over the metropolis in what has been referred to as the Uprising.

At the time, Moonshade was a nexus of magical power and almost completely occupied by magic users. After the Uprising, 80% of the city's population had either been driven out or slaughtered, only to return as undead. Today, the city still operates with a population of undead majority and the city itself is effectively the headquarters of what is now Ankev Industries.

The corporation's goal is the same as it's CEO's: eternal life. Their primary research is magical in nature, but the corp is not picky in how the goal can be achieved. Thus they have been known to experiment with cloning, pharmaceuticals, gene splicing, bioware, cyberware, and any modification that can be done to the body or soul in hopes of extending life indefinitely. Many governments outlaw many of the experiments the corporation deals with, so they do not have branches and subsidiaries in as many areas as some of the others, but there is plenty of money to be made from rich people who don't want to die.

## Announcements

- 7/16/3010 - Under scrutiny due to an outbreak of ghouls, the corporation announces that they are at work on a cure to the virus.

- 8/30/3010 - Magitech is announced, allowing mundanes to gain access to magic for the first time
Nishi Slums

This town was originally built as a prison and halfway house for non-violent criminals. Unfortunately those in charge built a prison and housing, but provided no employment for the criminals who would live there, resulting in extreme poverty and a never ending cycle of repeat criminal offense due to pure desperation. A revolt happened and the officers running the prison were all killed. Now the prisoners all run the area and it has been deemed too much trouble to bother cleaning up the mess so long as they all stay where they are. Since the entire population has outstanding warrants, going to any area with a halfway decent security presence would result in their arrest. Thus everyone stays because they have nowhere else to go. They do not have much in the way of weaponry, relying only on what the prison officers had left behind as well as simple melee weapons.
Epic of the Plum Gardens

In Epic of the Plum Gardens, the villages of a mountain valley are being plagued by demons. Every village has a magical lantern that sets a boundary of light within which no demon can come. These lanterns require a young maiden to be sacrificed once a year, or the light will go out. One year, Han Yu's sister is to be sacrificed in order to protect their village. To save his sister, Han Yu sets out on a mission to destroy the demons once and for all. He soon meets the spirit of the mountains, a glowing phoenix, who teaches him how to use his inner strength. Together, they soar through the skies, side by side, to fight the demon hordes.

This show was popular for a few years, with posters plastering every metro station, bus stop, and AR board. Its music was so catchy, it was being played everywhere, from kindergartens to music academies.
KameCo

Consisting primarily of Desian ex-military, KameCo is a legally operating team of shadowrunners. Their prime income comes from providing security details for whoever needs them, though they will get anything done if the money is good enough. Due to their military credentials, they are both trained and legally able to carry all sorts of firearms which allows them to take a lot of jobs that might be troublesome for other teams. Compared to the average team of shadowrunners, they are better trained, funded and equipped, so most teams tend to turn down jobs that might entail going up against them. The leader is ex-special ops, a human named Colonel Yoshi Kanto.
Odori

A pun that means both "big street" and "dance", Odori is known for it's kabuki theater as well as many dance clubs. Dance clubs are technically illegal in the country; a failed attempt at curbing prostitution. At the time the law was put on the books, sex workers would negotiate terms with their clients while dancing at night clubs so the government thought that by criminalizing dancing, they could also stop prostitution. It didn't work at all as sex workers simply found other ways to approach clients. In practice, this law is very rarely used to bust dance clubs, though it is occasionally used as an excuse for officers to search the dance club when they have heard reports of drug sales.
Hanzo Kimura

This low-level street dealer is your basic corner drug dealer. As a member of the Sumiyoshi clan, he has dreams and aspirations of getting rich and rising up the Yakuza ranks, but odds are he will be killed in a gang fight long before he ever gets that chance. Even if that weren't the case, him being a troll means he will never be respected enough to be promoted anyway. Despite being something of a loser, he is out on the street all day every day, so he sees and hears about all sorts of things. He is a great source of information and of course drugs. If he likes you, he might even put in a good word with his boss if you are looking to contacting more important members of the Sumiyoshi clan.
Kunio Kobata

One of the top lieutenants of the Ningen Seinensha, Kunio is feared in the Kita Barrens for his fighting prowess and ruthless attitude. He is not unreasonably bloodthirsty or anything, and unlike many others of his gang he is actually willing to deal with "impure humans" if he finds it beneficial. If one accidently finds themselves in Ningen Seinensha territory, this is probably the most reasonable member one can hope to encounter.

The reason he is relatively even tempered is that he is secretly a mage, albeit not a particularly powerful one. He initially joined the gang simply to avoid getting targeted by it. He lied to the other members, saying he was just a normal human and hid his magical abilities from everyone. Eventually he climbed the ranks to trusted lieutenant and is highly respected by everyone in the gang, despite the fact that they would absolutely hate him if they knew of his magical talent.
Fuse Ume

Once a cat burglar, Fuse attempted to break into a corporate R&D lab, only to find himself framed for the murder of a top exec. With life in prison ahead of him, he elected to join the Ryuchi urban brawl team to reduce his sentence. As a stealth specialist, he made a perfect scout and though his weapons skills were lacking, he has quickly managed to catch up with those. With good behavior, it will be 15 seasons of urban brawl before he sees freedom again.
Phlegm

This goblin serves as Baba Yaga's bath cleaner. Given that her bath is the size of a swimming pool, emptying it, cleaning it out, and filling it back up with hot water is a big job. Like most of the other goblins, Baba Yaga forces him to wear a French maid's outfit at all times because she thinks it's funny.
Jaakuryu

Not much is known about this shadow group's goals, just their methods. They are an order of ninjas who work to acquire rare magical artifacts and creatures. They are known to be absolutely ruthless in their tasks and each have cortex bombs implanted in them to avoid capture, as well as to potentially kill anyone in the vicinity.
Daija

Daiaku Motors pretty much runs the entirety of this province, headed by a korobukuru (a type of Desian dwarf) by the name of Kobito Nagahige. While racism is quite strong against non-humans in most of the Desu Islands, the massive population of korobukuru in Daija forces the humans to accept them in society. Particularly once the primarily korobokuru corporation quietly took over a significant portion of the economy on the island. Korobukuru form the primary research and management staff within the company while humans are relegated to the lower level positions that leave them in near permanent debt to the company.

Huge Daiaku factories are scattered across the landscape, their exhaust filling the sky. But despite the province apparently being completely devoted to vehicle factories, there is actually quite a thriving enchanting community. Those with magical talent are able to avoid a bleak life of toiling in a factory by a slightly less bleak life of manufacturing magical goods. Many modern technological conveniences actually have perfectly functional magical equivalents that have been around for centuries. Magic-based appliances of all kinds are manufactured here, though the time and cost required for their construction mean that the average consumer cannot afford these niceties. It is hard to justify purchasing a magical cooling box that costs 10,000 nuyen, even though it will essentially function forever without need for repair, when one can purchase a refrigerator for 500 nuyen that will do just about the same thing. Thus these magical appliances, while both effective and extremely reliable, are mostly just luxury items for the super rich.

Several Yakuza clans operate on the province. The Yamaguchi clan is the most powerful and primarily operates loan sharking and protection rackets with the magical community. Those in the deepest debt are often forced to work for the Yamaguchi clan, manufacturing various foci for their awakened members. The Sumiyoshi clan instead focus primarily on gambling (particularly mah-jong and pachinko). Those in debt to the Sumiyoshi clan usually end up being forced to help in the theft of equipment from Daiaku Motors, which the clan uses to strengthen their members. The Inagawa clan instead focuses on drug trafficking and prostitution. Though they are smaller than the other two, their businesses rarely clash, so conflicts are uncommon. The Aizukotetsu clan, while not based in Daija, has a significant supply of foreign weaponry that they have smuggled into the province and have made moves to invade on the turf of the other clans. Their conflicts have been bloody and they are known for making extensive use of Shadowrunners who are willing to do some quick wetwork.
Kappa

Kappa are mischievous and occasionally deadly river spirits

## Disadvantages

Kappa followers are miserable when they are unable to play pranks, and perform them in situations where it is best that they didn't. While on a job, they must perform at least one humorous prank or suffer a -2 penalty to all rolls for their next job.

Kappa are water spirits that appear as a creature with green fur, a duck bill and a shallow pocket on their heads (called a plate) which contains water. Their personalities are somewhat dual-natured. On the one hand, they are mischievous pranksters and skirt chasers who cause all sorts of trouble. They can even be deadly, as their favorite treat is a ball of soul energy that supposedly resides in the anus of metahumans, the removable of which is fatal. On the other hand, they are known to be extremely polite and are unable to disrespect those who are polite to them. As legend goes, the easiest way to escape from a kappa is to bow to them. The kappa then bows in return, spilling the water from the plate their head. This paralyzes the kappa until the plate can once again be filled with water, allowing one to easily flee to safety.

Their followers have similar personalities. They appear to be serious and polite, though quick to pull a prank when one least expects it.
Aizukotetsu

While it isn't the largest of the Yakuza clans, Aizukotetsu has a reputation for being the most violent. Their focus is primarily on various types of gambling establishments, but they are also the best armed non-military group in the country. Though they do not sell their weapons outside of their clan, they do sometimes trade weaponry to Shadowrunners for services rendered. Clashes with other Yakuza groups almost always involve gunfire which leads to a lot of collateral damage. This has earned them the label of "designated boryokudan" among law enforcement for being a "particularly harmful" Yakuza group.
Momoe Tsunao

One of many girls who was kidnapped off the street by the Yamaguchi clan to serve in Dr Yoshiro Nakamatsu's body transfer experiment. Like all of the other girls, she had a specialized piece of cyberware put into her head that was based on personafix technology, but with an extra step of erasing the user's entire brain so as to rewrite it with that of another person, effectively granting that person immortality as long as they had fresh bodies to transfer their minds into.

Momoe was sleeping off a bender when she awoke in the hidden basement of a tuna canning factory with said cyberware freshly installed in her head, though luckily for her no one's mind had been transferred into her head yet. She was rescued by shadowrunners along with about a dozen other girls and became one of the de facto leaders of the group, along with Kana Nagasaki.

She is a tough girl, having spent time in a couple of small gangs that just weren't the right fit for her. She can handle herself in a fight and sees herself as the protector of the group. Her ability to physically handle herself has earned the respect of the other girls and she has been doing what she can to toughen them up under her leadership.
Goober

The youngest, smallest and frailest of Baba Yaga's goblins, Goober is a servant in training. He is an absolutely terrible worker as he is almost always run down and feeling ill. The only reason Baba Yaga hasn't decided to eat him is because he's always so ill that she is afraid she might get something from him. He also knows that the snack she loves the most is cinnamon turkish delight and always saves some to bribe her with when he's fearful of her doing something nasty. This doesn't stop her from dressing him up in a French maid's outfit like many of the other goblins for her amusement though.
Jun Nobunaga

An elven ex police officer who was kicked off the force after being arrested for doing drugs which he claims he needed to keep visions out of his head that were driving him crazy. He now spends his life on the streets, abusing the drugs that put him there in the first place. Though he knows quite a bit about the inner workings of Cowboy, he is reluctant to share it as he still sees the people working them as his old friends and doesn't want to do anything to endanger them. That said, he is unable to work due to his criminal record, and his drug addiction is all that keeps him going, so he's willing to do quite a bit for another hit.
Muku Kanto

As mayor of Harabuya, Muku has a lot of pull in the city, at least within her district anyway. Within Mingmei, this is about the most powerful government office one can hope to get, the only higher office being the mayor of Mingmei itself. She often gets rid of minor infractions for her friends, parking tickets, misdemeanors and the like. In particular, she is very loyal to her church and does everything she can to support its members, including arranging for a train line to be built from downtown Kinza to the church. Her political clout and favors to the church has earned her a high ranking within the Church of Happy Science.
Kuno Tendo

The former leader of Black Cobra was known for his viscous cruelty to his victims as well as unrelenting protectiveness of his followers. He is a capable biker with a significant amount of cyberware built into his body and a bit of a habit for combat stims (which are the prime the reason for his violent tendencies when it came to dealing with his enemies).

On 7/26/3010, his gang was defeated and he was taken in to authorities by bounty hunters who cashed in on his significant bounty. He is currently imprisoned in Cowboy Sheriff HQ, awaiting trial.
Big 12

Though there are a great number of corporations throughout the world, the most influential are the Big 12. These corporations are all AAA rated, have branches throughout the world and have members at the seat of the corporate court. Any runner looking for to make serious money will eventually become involved with at least one of these corporations. Such runs usually involve hitting a subsidiary or secret black site of one of these corporations, but make no mistake, these boys have big resources and are more than capable of making sure that any mistake you make lands you in a coffin.

## Big 12 at a Glance:

Ankev Industries

World headquarters: Moonshade, Tramilaine

President/CEO: Lord Ankev

Areas of Interest: Cloning, Longevity, pharmaceuticals, magic, soul binding

Brightstar Industries
World headquarters: Thespia, Shadow Coast

President/CEO: Antonio Thespis

Areas of Interest: PR, telecommunications, entertainment, social media, real estate, consumer electronics

Cowboy Systems

World headquarters: Galilahi, Ahanu

President/CEO: Nicholas Longfeather

Areas of Interest: Military, weapons, security, private policing, parazoology, cybernetics, drones

Daiaku Motors

World headquarters: Kaede, Desu Islands

President/CEO: Kobito Nagahige

Areas of Interest: Vehicles, drones, cybernetics, AI, matrix security

Denso Electronics

World headquarters: Ryuchi, Desu Islands

President/CEO: Ryu Ningenkue

Areas of Interest: Matrix gambling, banking, matrix security, matrix shopping, security systems

Fossil Petroleum

World headquarters: Fajer, Amsha

President/CEO: Jamila al-Garil

Areas of Interest: Oil, coal and other energy

Linnorm Power

World headquarters: Folkvar, Dagmar

President/CEO: Ormr Anundr XXXII

Areas of Interest: Energy (particularly nuclear, though they research all kinds), private military, weapons, security

Rainbow Visions

World headquarters: Cuauhtémoc, Oceloxichitl

President/CEO: Carlina Vasquez

Areas of Interest: BTLs, recreational drugs, alcohol, SIMs, sex toys and other adult products

Save Mart

World headquarters: Amaroo, Ghan

President/CEO: Marlee Daii

Areas of Interest: Matrix discount shopping

Tomiyama Agricultural

World headquarters: Uyeda, Desu Islands

President/CEO: Matsumoto Tomiyama

Areas of Interest: Farming, bioengineering, herbicides, seed enhancement, farming equipment

Victorian Aeronautics

World headquarters: Pennance, Victoria

President/CEO: Preston Almshire

Areas of Interest: Drones, spacecraft, airships, basically anything that flies

Wishmaker Inc

World headquarters: Sihr, Amsha

President/CEO: Ariana bint Rajah

Areas of Interest: Magic, potions, artifacts, spirits
Mingmei University

Mingmei University logo

This national university is expensive to get into, but that is about all the screening it has. Wealthy applicants are allowed in while the poor are unable to even get through the application process before they are denied. Despite their rather lax acceptance policy, the university has a couple of successful programs; their business management major in particular. Otherwise, the university is globally ranked as average at best as very little of their funding ever gets put into the school in a meaningful way.
Shiho Fushinsha

This crime scene investigator is extremely diligent about her job. She takes every aspect of it seriously, which is good from a work perspective, but can be annoying if one needs some rule bending to be done. If anything is out of order, she'll be there to film it with the trio of CU3 drones she brings with her everywhere to record crime scenes.
Bokkyo Medical College

### Inhabitants

Dr Shinzo Kaneda (Professor of General Surgery),Dr Miho Takahiko (Professor of Magical Healing),Dr Shuhei Tanii (Professor of Internal Medicine), Dr Kanai Ishibashi (Professor of Cybernetics)

A teaching hospital is attached to this university and the doctors there will tell you that if you have the option, you are better off going anywhere else with whatever medical issues you may have. The college is known to accept anyone with the money to pay their tuition, so they get a lot of rich kids whose parents want them to be doctors but who personally couldn't care less about the profession. Terrifyingly enough, these kids do eventually graduate and become legally licensed doctors. Their lack of skills usually means they end up working as street docs for people who have no other choice but to use them. Shadowrunners in particular end up getting a lot of their emergency patch-up jobs after hours at the university.