This list contains Contacts and Factions for the 2013 SR5 campaign. This list encompasses many contacts from many locations, not just Chicago, but also Seattle, San Francisco, etc.
Note: If you are creating a new character, do NOT use these contacts for your starting contacts. Just pick the contact type, and we’ll add them here later.
Cal Free State Contacts
Johnny Chu
Mr. Johnson
Connection Rating: 4
Johnny Chu grew up as a member of a Wuxing family and has used it to get himself a good position in the company. He is a fast talker that will talk himself into trouble occasionally, but so far he has always been able to talk his way back out.
Javier Nunez
Mr. Johnson
Connection Rating: 4
Javier Nunez is a Hispanic dwarf who lived through the Japanese occupation of California and it shaped his outlook on life.
Clyde O’Leary
Mr. Johnson
Connection Rating: 4
Clyde O’Leary is an Irishman who grew up on the street and has made a name for himself as an independent fixer who works for smaller companies. He specializes in pulling together last minute jobs with msuccessful results.
Gloria Weathernight
Mrs. Johnson
Connection Rating: 3
Gloria Weathernight is a former R&D tech that has worked her way up the ranks through hard work, dedication, political savy, and underhand dealings. She has employed shadowrunners on and off throughout her career. She deals openly and honestly with them as long as they do the same with her.
Chicago Contacts
Anaba ‘Marcus’ Tsiishch’ili
Weapons Dealer
Connection Rating: 2
Marcus is a Navajo, former special forces officer turned fence who relocated to Chicago shortly after the Containment Zone was reopened. When asked why a back-to-nature native american nationer would put himself smack dab in the middle of gang wars, ghoul uprisings, and possible radiation poisoning, his only answer is “Family obligations”. Marcus is soft spoken, exceedingly polite, and does not take kindly to disrespect.
Becky 99
Rat Shaman, Gang Leader
Connection: 4
A Rat Shaman and a former shadowrunner, Becky 99 survived in the chaos of the Containment Zone by joining up with a group of women who would eventually become the Desolation Angels. When the wall came down, she stayed with the group, mostly working in the background until last year when she stepped forward and challenged the leaders of the different factions of the gang. She’s now working to make the Zone a little bit better, and in the process wants to stamp out any and all remaining signs of the Insect Spirits that once invaded her home.
Bradly ‘Booth’ Capelli
Former Shadowrunner
Connection: 2
‘Booth’ is a retired street samurai, who ran the shadows of Chicago for years before the walls went up around the CZ. Booth and two of his crew rode out the bug invasion inside the Zone. After a run in with a particularly nasty wasp spirit, he lost both legs. Booth doesn’t run anymore, but keeps his ear to the goings on in the Zone.
CharlesYen
Fixer
Connection Rating: 2
Charles Yen is a small time fixer dealing mostly in jobs and tech. Charlie operates out of the O’Hare area, and is known to take on both private and corporate clients. He’s recent to the Chicago area, and it’s rumored that his presence is connected to the establishment of the Watanabe-rengo in the O’Hare Sub-Sprawl.
Echo-Charlie
Rigger / Shadowrunner
Connection Rating: 2
Edward Catzenburger (Echo-Charlie) has been running the streets of the Containment Zone since the walls went up. Originally from the New York City sub-sprawl, he was trapped in Chicago during the original bug outbreak. E-C and several other like-minded riggers and runners up shop at the Midway airport, and ‘rode out the storm’, so to speak. At this point E-C is mostly retired, occasionally taking on small transport jobs to finance the maintenance of Midway.
Goober
Dwarven Armorer
Connection Rating: 4
Goober is a dwarven armorer operating out of the Zone along the waterfront. He has a bait & tackle shop (“Goober’s B&T”) that he works out of, but has a small warehouse underneath where he runs almost anything in hardware (Guns, vehicles, tech). He has a lot of connections, but doesn’t trust easily. He’s a survivor of Bug City and was mentally scarred by that. He’s a firm believer in the principal of supply and demand.
Jag
Gang Member – Midwest Pirate’s Guild
Connection Rating: 2
Jag has been a ‘meat’ member of the hacker gang the Midwest Pirate’s Guild for a few years now. His main duties are to provide physical security and transportation to the highly active Matrix division of the gang. Jag is well equipped for a ganger, especially by Chicago standards. He’s usually aware of the latest Matrix memes, and more adept with his commlinks than their physical presence would suggest.
Jim ‘Jimmy’ Parcells
Fixer
Connection Rating: 2
Jimmy Parcells is an aggressive fixer working out of Northside, Chicago, just outside the CZ. While he doesn’t specialize in any one field, he’s always been the type of person that ‘knows a guy, who knows a guy’. He excels at setting up clients with the right people, and is starting to make a name for himself, and his teams.
Juan Xihuitl
Aztechnology Mr. Johnson
Connection Rating: 5
Juan Xihuitl (Pronounced similar to “She-Wheat”) is a Mr. Johnson for Aztechnology. Juan represents AZT’s interests in Chicago, and is interested in using Project: Takeback to recover as many of AZT’s lost assets as possible, including Aztechnology’s lost Pyramid/Archology. He’s a very traditionalist corper, and smart runners tread lightly around him as he sees them as they really are: deniable, disposable assets. He doesn’t play games, he doesn’t tolerate fools, and he doesn’t coddle shadowrunners.
Lothan the Wise
Talismonger
Connection Rating: 4
Lothan the Wise ran the shadows of Seattle for many years, his prime being during the mid-60’s when he mentored and teamed with Street Legend Kellan Colt. He considers himself a mystical genius which he backs up with towering confidence and arrogance, and he considers himself an expert in all areas of magic and magic theory. His attitude may be a little unwarranted, but you cannot deny he knows a lot about magic. He moved to Chicago a couple years ago and opened up a talismonger shop called “The Wisest Troll”.
Luther Johnston
Corporate Janitor
Connection Rating: 1
Luther is a highly intelligent, mildly mentally impaired janitor for the Chicago branch of Ares Macrotechnology. He works several sites for them, as needed, and prides himself on ‘never missing a day or work in his life’. Though he currently works for Ares, Luther has been a ‘debris reclamation specialist’ (as he puts it) for various companies over the last 20 years.
Margaret “Maggie” Goldberg
Mitsuhama Ms. Johnson
Connection Rating: 4
Maggie is a female ork and assistant to Mitsuhama’s Director of Operations in Chicago, Ito Takahara. She acts as a liason between MCT and the runners. She grew up in the ork underground and was around runner when she was younger, so she’s sympathetic to them. She’s loyal to MCT to a point, but she knows as a female ork her options for rising in the company are limited. She’s attached herself to Takahara and won’t jeopardize that position, but will help the runners as much as she can otherwise.
Martin Tate
Horizon/Truman Tech Dr. Johnson Male
Connection Rating: 5
Dr. Martin Tate is working on behalf of Horizon, heading up their resurrection of the Truman Technologies name, utilizing the assets of that company that they purchased following Crash 2.0. He has set up several clinics around Chicago and the Zone, utilizing his medical prowess to help the residents in the area. He’s also acting as a Mr. Johnson for Truman Tech, working to claim former Truman assets in the city.
Matt Wrath
Adept Pit Fighter
Connection Rating: 2
Matt grew up as a kid inside the containment zone and learned to fight to survive there. He became a boxer after the wall came down and was going to turn pro until he accidentally killed a man in the ring when his latent adept powers kicked in. He served a couple years in prison, and turned to underground fighting when he got out, quickly making a name for himself as one of the most dangerous fighters in the UCAS. He occasionally does Shadowrunning work on the side through his manage, Sid. His best friend is a devil rat named Matt Rat who he rescued from being a ghouls lunch, and the devil rat serves as his companion and mascot. He always speaks in the third person, referring to himself by his full name “Matt Wrath”. He is blunt, to the point, and doesn’t play verbal or mind games. He’s also a bit of a showman, and will play to a crowd if given a chance, and refers to beat-downs as a “Mattitude Adjustment”.
Nick Ryder
Lone Star Detective
Connection Rating: 3
Nick is a washed up Lone Star Detective who took to the bottle when the bugs first hit Chicago and there wasn’t a damn thing he could do about it. Je stayed there for nearly two decade. Now, he’s fighting to climb his way out and thinks he sees a chance to do some good for the city once again. Those who know him on the streets say he’s trustworthy, but his bosses can’t stand him and the press is in their pocket. He always tries to do what he feels is right, and it usually lands him in hot water with someone.
Quantum Princess
Decker, Fixer
Connection Rating: 4
Vanessa Rodriguez, aka Quantum Princess is an elder statesman among shadowrunners. She was in the heart of downtown when Bug City hit and the Containment Zone went up, and she was one of those early few who tried to figure out what was happening and helped cobble together a rude BBS to help those trapped survive and communicate. Many suspect she’s the primary SysAdmin for NooseNet, Chicago’s Shadow Host, though she won’t admit to it and they run the host anonymously. Most often she can be found working as a fixer. She’s also liked and trusted by almost every faction in the shattered sprawl, and frequently acts as a mediator and go-between for them.
Red Lucy
Gang Member
Connection Rating: 1
Red Lucy is a junior member of the Ramblers, a motorcycle and ATV go-gang that claims a stretch of Interstates 294 and 80 in and around Southside as their own. The Ramblers have had a strong presence in the area since the CZ opened up, and somehow they’ve managed to keep their stronghold’s location from the law. Some say it’s by magical means, and other say they’re just mobile, and extremely lucky
Richard ‘Props’ Davies
Smuggler
Connection Rating: 2
‘Props’ Davies is a soft spoken UCAS military pilot, and former shadowrunner, turned smuggler. He currently operates out of the Midway Airport rigger collective, airlifting medical supplies, firearms, and other necessities in and out of the Containment Zone. He usually ranges between upstate New York, Southern Ohio, and as far as Denver in his modified Ares TR-55 transport plane.
Rufus Scrimm
Talismonger
Connection Rating: 2
Rufus Scrimm runs a herbs and talismans shop in Southside, near the 290 expressway, out of a converted 7-11. For a long time he made good money selling telesma and fetishes crafted from insectoid parts, but since bug bounties are rare these days, he’s had to move on to more traditional talismongering.
Sarah Silverleaf
Renraku Ms. Johnson
Connection Rating: 5
Sarah Silverleaf is a gorgeous and intelligent elven representative for Renraku in Chicago. She recently transferred here from Tir Tairngire, taking over the operations that Renraku had largely abandoned following Bug City. With the Governor’s call to reclaim downtown Chicago, Sarah is looking to not only reclaim lost Renraku property, but to also grab as much land as possible. She may be a curvy knockout, but anyone who underestimates her lives to regret it.
Sid Gambetti
Fixer, Fight Manager
Connection Rating: 3
Sid is a small time fight promoter who represents Matt Wrath, but who wants to make his name as a fixer. He has a lot of contacts in the city, but not a lot of pull, yet. He’s hoping that if the Shadowrunners he sets up on jobs are successful, it’ll make his name. He’s a sleazy, greasy weasel of a man, but he’s smart and a survivor. He is the avatar for sleazy managers everywhere, and always has a commlink in one hand and a cigar in the other.
Simon Andrews
Saeder Krupp Troubleshooter
Connection Rating: 5
Simon is an odd individual. A full body changeling, he appears to be a bipedal lizard-man with thick scaly. He’s also a trational British punk, wearing a battered leather vest covered in graffiti, anarchy symbols, and punk band buttons. He has a lizardfish frill running front to back on his head that he paints up like a multi-colored Mohawk. He revels in being a freak, will hit on almost anything that moves, and likes to snack on live white mice. He’s direct and in your face, but is utterly loyal to “Master Lofwyr”, and serves as the dragon’s eyes and ears in Chicago, working as an independent agent and fixer for Seader-Krupp.
Hong Kong Contacts
Ben Huong
Squatter/Snitch Connection Rating: 2Ben is a homeless man who moves from place to place in Kowloon and Yaou Tsim Mong. His background is sketchy, but at one point he may have worked as a company mage. If you go to see him, make sure you bring some rice wine, or he won’t tell you anything.
Deshun Wang
Fixer/Fence
Connection Rating: 2
Wang’s Electronics shack is set up at the Kowloon night market more often than not. A former Decker (pre-crash), Wang is usually up to date on matrix tech and programs.
Fan Yen
Talismonger
Connection Rating: 2
Fan Yen is a Shinto priest who runs the ‘Eastern Wind Medicine Shop’ in the Yau Tsim Mong district of Hong Kong. They specialize in exotic animal parts and telesma. He is in his late 50s, and dresses in traditional monk’s garb.
Feng Tien
Knight Errant Detective
Connection Rating: 1
Feng spent years as a beat cop in Neo-Tokyo before coming to Hong Kong about 8 years ago. He is a detective for KE Central’s homicide division. Feng is in his 30?s, single, and likes to drink and gamble in his time off.
Gong Hao
Triad Soldier, 10K Lions
Connection Rating: 2
Gong Hao, formerly a hang member in metropolitan New York, is a soldier and courier for the Ten Thousand Lions. A young soldier, he joined the organization shortly after Rizal Fei raised the syndicate up from the ashes of the Yellow Lotus Triad. He often works jobs in and around the Kai Tak airport.
Jin ‘Jinny’ Mckee
Smuggler
Connection Rating: 2
Jinny is a half-Chinese/half-Souix army brat that settled into the smuggling scene in and out of Hong Kong. She specialized in ground transfers over land, the rougher the better. She usually has her ear to the ground about the ins and outs of the border region as well.
Jun Han
Triad Soldier, 10L Lions
Connection Rating: 2
Jun Han is a former gang member made good… at least in Hong Kong standards. His gang was absorbed a few years ago by the emerging 10,000 Lions Triad. Jun is young (22) and has lived on the streets most of his life.
Jiro Keiji
Fixer/Mr. Johnson
Connection Rating: 2
Jiro is a new addition to the Hong Kong shadows who moved in to fill the power vacuum left as the Triad Wars began several months ago. He seems to have picked up where several other Japanese fixers in the area left off, dealing mostly in hardware and personnel. He brokers deals for several ‘street’ level clients, including the triads.
Maria Yi
Bartender
Connection Rating: 2
25 year old Maria has bartended at 348 Disco for a few years, and keeps her ear to the ground. She’s a bit of a snitch, and there’s no telling if what you ask about might be blabbed to someone else later.
Mikael Petrov
Mafia Boss, Vory V Zakone
Connection Rating: 4
Petrov is a Vory lieutenant in charge of expanding the Vory’s limited presence in Hong Kong. Fresh from St. Petersburg, the Russian disapproves of violence for its own sake and prefers to use the exact amount of force necessary.
Rizal Fei
Triad Boss,10K Lions
Connection Rating: 4
Rizal Fei, a half-Filipino Troll, is canny survivalist. Rizal pieced together the patchwork survivors among the former Yellow Lotus gangs and built up the Ten Thousand Lions. Because of the unconventional nature of Rizal’s rise to power, he is an exception among Triad leaders, often seen interacting with the street level toughs. Instead, Rizal is a hands-on leader, personally holding together the Ten Thousand Lions’ operations.
Vincent Fache
Fixer
Connection Rating: 4
Vincent is a French expatriate who has become somewhat of a fixture in Hong Kong. Fache sees his job as a facilitator for out of town talent and tries to help guide them through the twisted paths of the HK social setting. Sometimes this will just be about which noodle house makes the best udon, or it could be to recommend a safehouse to hide out in. Both are equally important to Fache and he doesn’t let Eastern notions of position and face impact his dealings with Westerners.
International Contacts:
Baby Face Joe
Hacker
Connection Rating: 3
Based out of Hollywood
Baby Face is a long time hacker who works remote jobs up and down the North American West Coast. Joe had a long history in the simsense industry as a post-production assistant, but in the late 60’s he decided that his talents were best used in the shadows.
Perianwyr
Dragon Music Producer
Connection Rating: 5
Perianwyr is a welsh adult dragon who worked as a troubleshooter for Aztechnology during the 40’s and 50’s. After failing Aztechnology one too many times, the pair was forced into hiding. Always a lover of music and considering himself something of a Bard, Peri founded a music empire through his production company, Ceol Productions.
Quilland
Information Broker
Connection Rating: 3
The elf hacker known as ‘Quilland’ is somewhat of a mystery. He/she’s well known on Jackpoint, Shadowland, NooseNET, and other ‘shadow’ community sites, but little is know about him/her other than a screen name. It’s assumed that he/she operates as an information broker from somewhere within the UCAS, but most sources aren’t sure. The one thing people are sure of is that if there’s information to be had, he can usually find it, or hook you up with someone else who can for a price.
Thomas Chin
Former Company Man
Connection Rating: 2
Based out of NYC
Thomas Chin was once employed as an information retrieval specialist for Seattle’s branch of Yamatetsu, but was embarrassed in a big by a group of runners in the line of duty. He was to be reassigned, but chose to flee into the shadows instead. He still has inside information into Yamatetsu (now Evo) businesses, and keeps a close relationship with Ares NYC.
Tiger Bright
Hacker
Connection Rating: 4
Based out of Hong Kong
Tiger is a Hong Kong based decker from way back. He fled town for a few years immediately after the crash, but returned in 2070 and re-established himself as a bleeding edge hacker, capable of defeating some of the most advanced security.
Two-Six-Oh-Oh
Hacker
Connection Rating: 3
Based out of Seattle
2600 (pronounced “Two Six Oh Oh”, or “Two-Six”) is a hacker / programmer out of the University district. That’s right, he’s a matrix science instructor at Seattle Tech. Two-Six’s skills are up to snuff, and he could probably make a decent living as a Corporate Decker, or even a Shadowrunner, but he prefers to stick to what he’s good at – ferreting out information and passing on his skills to the next generation. He’s one of the best hackers in the region when it comes to illicit data searches.
New York Contacts:
Mara Blaine
Former Company Man/Security Consultant
Connection Rating: 2
Mara knows who is shooting whom and why throughout most of New York City. Don’t ask her to sell you information about a system she consulted on, but anyone else’s systems are fair game. Deep bonds of trust and faith take a long time to build with her.
Orlando “Spike” Carvello
Bodyguard
Connection Rating: 2
“Spike” Carvello is a former Knight-Errant officer out of Boston, UCAS. When he was injured in the line of duty, he chose to take his pension (which basically bought out the lean on his cyberwear) and go into business for himself as a bodyguard. He works regularly guarding the upper-crust of the entertainment scene.
Dae
Exotic Dancer
Connection Rating: 2
She’s a top seller at Tickler’s, a favorite strip joint of the handful of mob capi that frequent the joint. She is definitely not connected to any of the major syndicates or gangs. Dae has a large corp clientele and even did a stint with Renraku as a “bonded entertainer” a few years back—but she isn’t currently linked to any corporation.
Robert Hinman
NYPD Inc. Detective
Connection Rating: 2
Robert Hinman is a lifetime resident of NYC, and has been working as a policeman and detective in Manhattan for the past 15 years.
Ieto Hong
Mr. Johnson
Connection Rating: 4
Ieto Hong is reserved in speech, keeping an almost scary calm. He upholds the tradition of Kao, the concept of saving face and keeping respectability in public. He is succinct in talking and, even in the shadows, shows respect for those who understand Kao. He keeps his temper in check, separating the business side from the personal side, another corporate concept in his mannerisms.
Larvel ‘Irie’ Jones
Smuggler
Connection Rating: 2
Irie Jones is a small time smuggler who runs his boats up and down the Hudson River. He’s best known for the small gas station, bar, and smuggler haven that he runs out of Newburgh, NY.
Julius ‘Jules’ Carver
Fixer
Connection Rating: 3
Jules Carver is a long time fixer in the NYC area, specializing in weaponry, body armor, and other ‘hard to gets’ in Manhattan. He runs his shop out of a pair of suitcases, so you need to know what you want well in advance of a meet. If it won’t fit in his rollcase, he probably won’t sell it to you.
Peace
Fixer
Connection Rating: 3
Normally relaxed and easygoing, the orc called Peace fits the ‘potsmoking 60’s hippy” stereotype to a “T”. He watched as the government and the corps stood by as the UCAS imploded. He has participated in every manner of peaceful protest, but soon grew weary of not getting results. He hates the government and the corps in equal measure and is willing to let the ends justify the means, if the powers that be will start listening.
Soon Shan
Shiawase/Large Circle League Triad
Connection Rating 2
The by-product of a long-term work arrangement between Shiawase and the Large Circle League Triad, Soon Shan is loyal to both groups. With an analytical mind and manipulative personality, he has learned that subtle use of magic can be more effective than large flashy spells. A “Prince in Training,” Soon reads an equal measure of Machiavelli and Sun Tsu.
Eddie Stephens
Hacker/ID Specialist
Connection Rating: 3
An identity specialist, Eddie provides fake SINs and passes to anyone with enough money. The only guarantee he makes is that it will last through the first transaction. Whatever happens after that, is on you. Eddie is a regular party-goer with paranoid tendencies. He regularly looks over his shoulder in public places and never answers his link unless he recognizes the Access ID.
Seattle Contacts:
Alexander
Fixer/Fence
Connection Rating: 4
Alexander is a tech gear fixer and fence that works the metro Seattle area. Through (what must be some pretty impressive) means, Alex is able to get his hands on quite a bit of near-mil-spec hardware… usually security devices and vehicle parts… and always in an impressive amount of time. The price, however, is rarely negotiable. Alexander also works on a strict schedule, maintained by his personal assistant Persephone.
Agular
Personnel Fixer, Mr. Johnson
Connection Rating: 3
Aggie Smith has been around the block when it comes to Shadowruns… from both sides of the bargaining table. Rumor has it that he had a fairly successful career as a Face that allowed him to get out of the biz early. Since then, he’s been arranging runs for anyone that can afford him.
Will “Tusker” Anderson
Fence
Connection Rating: 2
Tusker is a gear and hardware fixer and fence headquartered in “The Mall” – the central ‘hub’ of the orc underground. He inherited his business from his father, Two Tusk a few years back. He deals almost exclusively in last years hot gear, the newest weapons to hit the streets, and the latest in corporate ‘cast-offs’.
“Bash”
Bodyguard
Connection Rating: 2
Bash is a bodyguard working the mid to high grossing sim-circuit. He’s guarded everyone from low-budget skin flick stars, to Maria Mercurial herself. If anyone has the dirt on what’s going on in the sim industry, it’s Bash.
Will “Wilt” Chamberlain
Club Bouncer
Connection Rating: 2
A human bouncer who works a few clubs downtown on a rotating schedule. Works some nights at Matchsticks, the Rubber Suit, and Dante’s Inferno. Rumor has it that at one time he was an alternate for the Seattle Screamers.
Lin Yao Chang
Elven Assassin
Connection Rating: 4
Lin Yao is a known operative for the Eastern Great Dragon Lung. Very little is known about the background of this Chinese elf. He’s very reserved and quiet, never smiles, and speaks in short, brief, efficient sentences. He has an unearthly fluidic grace to his movements, and rumor has it that he may serve as an assassin for the dragon.
Kellan Colt
Artifact Hunter
Connection Rating: 2
Kellan is a former shadowrunner and a skilled spell designer. Kellan got into the artifact business near the end of her shadowrunning career, when she pulled a fast one on Aztechnology over a unique magical artifact. Now she works occasionally with Dr. Fiona Craig.
Fiona Craig
Mystic Adept Arcaoarcheologist
Connection Rating: 2
Fiona is a recent addition to the teaching staff at U-Dub. She has worked with some talismongers before, and rumor has it she’s been working to collect even bigger magical stuff. Artifact-level goods. A really vague rumor places her dad at the Draco Foundation. For the most part, she’s been selling to the highest bidder, however.
DangerMouse
Smuggler
Connection Rating: 2
DangerMouse has been running guns and tech out of Fox Island for at least a few years now. His Amerind heritage and NAN loyalties make him a bit leery about heading into Seattle proper, but if it’s on or near the Sound, he’s probably been there.
Illeanna “Foxy” Fox
Fixer
Connection Rating: 4
Foxy is a high-tech electronics fixer based in Seattle, who specializes in top-of-the-line, high tech merchandise. She deals with clients in a far more personal way than most fixers prefer to. Bottom line is that if you treat her right, she’ll give you access to the wiz toys most people can only dream about… for a price.
Francis Walks-In-Shadow
Company Man
Connection Rating: 2
Francis Walks-In-Shadow is an amarindian, former shadowrunner from Denver. He currently operates as an asset retrieval specialist for Mitsuhama, Seattle.
Lt. Brian Grant
Knight Errant Officer
Connection Rating: 3
Brian Grant is an officer with Knight Errant… Specifically he runs their equipment ‘cage’. He manages all incoming and outgoing equipment purchases, requisitions, and evidence.
Richard Hollis
Street Doc
Connection Rating: 2
“Doc” Hollis runs a small clinic just outside of downtown ‘center’. The clinic does primarily patch jobs, emergency resuscitations, and minor cyber-surgery. He is one of a very few street docs in town to keep a competent magical healer on staff.
King Willy
Talismonger
Connection Rating: 3
Cleon de Bohem, a.k.a. King Willy, is a voodoun shaman who follows Papa Ghede as his patron loa. An aging, battle-scarred ork, King Willy fought the insect spirits during their early incursions into Seattle in the 2050s. He became a runner and fought the bug spirits his entire career before finally retiring and opening up a talismonger shop, New Babylon.
Andrew Lloyd
Corporate Manager
Connection Rating: 2
Andrew Lloyd is a mid-level corporate manager for Ares Macrotech. He specializes in Marketing, PR, and corporate identity. He is a common face at corp functions and the social scene.
MacCallister
Fixer/Mr. Johnson
Connection Rating: 5
MacCallister is a former shadowrunner, an older ork and a “decker not a hacker, fraggit” in his own words. He ran the shadows for over a decade before retiring, and recently returned to Seattle to start a new career as a fixer, still carries his beat up ancient cyberdeck (With a modern bleeding edge commlink mounted inside the case). He’s confident and good natured. He has a ton of contacts in the shadow community and uses them to great effect.
Joe Martin
NewsNet Reporter
Connection Rating:3
Joe Martin is the trid news anchor that every other anchor wishes they could look like. Blond hair, deep blue eyes, bodyscultpted and tanned to perfection, with a charismatic smile that just wins you over. He oozes charm and charisma in a way that almost makes you feel dirty, but you still can’t help but want to like and trust the guy. Despite his looks, though, he’s not just a desk jockey. He’s relentless in his pursuit of the next big story for NewsNet Seattle, and he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty or put himself in the line of fire to get it.
Moraeu
Fixer
Connection Rating:4
A former company man and shadowrunner, Moraeu is an expert animal trainer and works as a fixer and trouble-shooter for the Draco Foundation. He’s been operating out of Seattle for several years, and while he’s the DF’s eyes and ears in the shadows, keeping an eye on the artifact trade coming in and out of the city, he still does some personal side business from time to time.
Timothy Murray
Corporate Security Specialist
Connection Rating: 2
Tim Murray is a sometimes hacker/sometimes spider working for Horizon in downtown Seattle. He doesn’t see shadowrunners as the enemy, but more as a necessary part of the Megacorporate world. He’s even been known to hire the occasional ‘freelancer’ when his budget permits.
Laurent Nazaire
President of Atlantean Foundation, Seattle
Connection Rating: 5
Laurent Nazaire is the head of the Seattle Atlantean Foundation branch. A Haitian dwarf with a French-Quebecois accent, he’s open, down-to-earth, and seemingly very honest. He’s been a key figure in the Atlantean Foundation’s hunt for ancient magical artifacts, and he is almost obsessed in his quest to study these artifacts and discover everything about them.
Pip
Orc Underground Street Urchin
Connection Rating: 1
Pip’s parents were chipheads who weren’t able to deal with being poor and forgotten in the Underground. One day they jacked in, and never jacked back out, leaving Pip on his own. Despite his tender age of only 9, he’s seen some of the worst metahumanity has to offer, and it hasn’t crushed his spirits yet. He’s got the enthusiasm of youth, and he’s well-liked by many of the Underground’s residents and is a common sight on the Tourist Highway where he offers his services up as a tour guide.
Dana Oaks
Assistant District Attorney
Connection Rating: 4
Assistant District Attorney Dana Oaks had a good home life, loving parents, went to good schools, and graduated from Yale Law School. She is one of the youngest District Attorneys in Seattle’s history and is relentless and single-minded in her pursuit of justice. She has recently begun working with Knight Errant’s Special Crimes unit, targeting organized crime, specifically smuggling, drug, and gun rings. She’s been very vocal in her frustration with the Ork Underground and the fact that it’s a major pipeline into the city for criminal elements and has urged city officials to do everything they can to shut down the Underground to “plug a serious threat to Seattle’s public safety.”
Doctor Henry Pym
Street Doc
Connection Rating: 2
Doctor Pym runs a small clinic just outside of downtown ‘center’. The clinic does primarily patch jobs, emergency resuscitations, and minor cyber-surgery. He apparently was fired from ‘legitimate’ service due to some sort of addiction, and works out of temporary facilities, acquired as needed.
Python
Street Mage
Connection Rating: 2
Python has been running the Shadows of Portland for at least 10 years. These days she doesn’t do as many jobs as she used to, but she still keeps her skills sharp teaching up and comers the ins and outs of the Portland shadows.
St. John “The Saint”
Fixer
Connection Rating: 4
Saint John is has been fixing the Seattle shadows for almost 20 years; and he’s been surprisingly successful; his clipped British accent and impeccable manners coupled with his charisma and negotiating skills have enabled him to make his deals quite profitable.
Jose Sanchez
Fixer
Connection Rating: 2
Jose Sanchez is the only son the now deceased Juan ‘Dirty’ Sanchez. Jose had a moderately successful career as a small time decker, and ‘big time’ club manager until his father’s untimely death in the fall of 2061. Now, he still keeps tabs on the goings-on in the shadow community, and occasionally sells that information.
Athena Tatopoulous
KSAF Chief Editor
Connection Rating: 4
Athena joined famed news network KSAF shortly after it’s offices were bombed in ’67 as Chief Editor. Then she promptly went into hiding, and hasn’t been seen in the flesh since. Much like KSAF’s new business model, she operates entirely out of the Matrix, a ghost in the machine. She has an extensive network of informants and reporters, and she’s relentless in her pursuit of corruption, especially in politics or the corporate boardroom.
Jim “Rat” Vanion
Fence
Connection Rating: 3
Jim Vanion is a former Ravager gang member. He is a heavyset human male, of somewhere between 35-50 in age. He runs ‘Vanion’s Pawn’, in Columbia (a district of Downtown Seattle). “Rat” is known to keep tabs on the shadow community. Jim is a good source of rumors in the shadows, some organized crime info, small arms, and a place to fence non-sensitive material.
Johnny Wang
Fixer
Connection Rating: 3
Johnny Wang is an oleaginous, untrustworthy weasel. On the up side, he makes no bones about this fact, and doesn’t pretend to be something that he’s not. He operates out of a heavily-armored and incredibly well-stocked basement vault beneath a Chineese takeout in downtown Seattle. If it’s fallen off of a truck somewhere, or somewhen, Johnny can get it for you (he’s never been able to explain how a citymaster can fall off the back of a truck, however).
Kate “D-C” Wells
Rigger/Driver
Connection Rating: 3
Kate Wells (also known as “Double-Clutch”) is a former shadowrunner based out of Redmond. Yes, folks, DC is still alive and well in Redmond. She has a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy about her former occupation as a wheel-woman and rigger. Kate runs ‘Wells’ Garage’ in Redmond. D-C is quite famous in rigger and go-gang circles.
David Woo
Yakuza Soldier
Connection Rating: 2
David Woo is a footsoldier for the up and coming Kanaga-gumi Yakuza association. He primarily runs numbers and protection rackets in the Redmond area.
Louis Verrcetti
Mafia Soldier
Connection Rating: 3
Louie V. is a mid-rank mafia enforcer working with the Finnigan family. Louis has a long standing reputation as a ‘stand up guy’, usually doing what’s fair when it doesn’t compromise the Finnigan’s interests.
DanaWilcox
Corporate Wage Mage
Connection Rating: 2
Dana Wilcox is a former Street Shaman done good, at least in her eyes. After a year or two running with the Greenlights (a small downtown Wiz-Kid gang), she was recruited into Universal Omitech before it’s rise to Megacorp status.She’s currently a maager for NeoNet Seattle’s corporate security division.
Elise Speak with Winds
Talismonger
Connection Rating: 1
Speak With Winds is a rare sight, a tribal born Hermetic Mage who’s embraced technology. She runs “Chronos”, a hermetic lore shop located not too far from the Aztech Pyramid in downtown Seattle.
Mike Z.
Bartender (Matchsticks)
Connection Rating: 2
Mike Z. bartends Matchsticks Jazz club most weekends. He’s been there for years, knows all of the regulars, and has a good idea of what goes on in the shadowy corners. Not too close of a friend, but he’ll always drop some hints when he’s got something good to tell. Just make sure that the tip is in the triple digits. A good source of information for Shadow Community information.
Tokyo Contacts
Benny Watanabe
Yakuza Sub-Boss
Connection Rating: 5
Benny is the local representative for the Wanabuchi-Rengo Yakuza in Hong Kong. While the Yaks don’t have much of an operation in the area they do tend to keep tabs on what’s going on there.
Brother 9
Fixer/Mr. Johnson
Connection Rating: 4
Brother 9 is an American independent fixer who brokers deals for several ‘street’ level clients, including the triads. During a meet he’s all business, and afterward all smiles.