<span class="bbc_u"><em>Watch your back, shoot straight, conserve ammo, and never, ever, cut a deal with a dragon.</em></span><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://fondationdraco.free.fr/images/bonus/RememberMe_2.jpg)</div><br/><em>A quick lesson for the Historically Impaired. The Mayans predicted that the world would end in December of 2012, and in a way it kind of did. The Fifth World ended, and the Sixth World began. Dragons began waking up from their hidden roosts, Elves and Dwarves started being born, and Magic surged back into the world with a vengeance unlike anything the world has seen in an Age.<br/><br/>But just because Magic and Myth returned doesn't mean Science and Technology left. Anything but, as developments in biotech and computers continued marching forward at it's breakneck pace. The first cybernetic implants were not long after 2012, and soon they got so good that people got them even when the flesh they were replacing was perfectly fine. Of course with these new ways to make a buck you know someone stepped in. Enter the rise of the Megacorporation, and in their shadows the rise of the Shadowrunner.<br/><br/>It is now the year 2077, and the Sixth World is moving forward on all cylinders. You can survive by signing on with the Megacorporations, or you can leap into the Shadows and try to hang on for the ride.</em><br/><br/>Paris, 2077. The City of Lights is still the capital of France though it's not really called that anymore. Not from lack of effort on the part of the locals with a population of 12 million. Whereas other cities like Seattle and London have given in entirely to the ways of the Sixth World, Paris is a city proudly displaying it's history. The Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris, and the Louvres Museum all still are open to the public with rumors of running jobs happening specifically to keep, maintain, and update these landmarks against corporate interests.<br/><br/>Which isn't to say the Megacorps aren't making their presence known, of course. Paris is considered the second most economically powerful city in Europe, behind only London - though Frankfurt is making a run at Paris's economic position. As a result the politics of Paris is much more turbulent then it appears on the surface, as many politicians and lawmakers are perfectly fine with giving the corporations more legal leeway in exchange for agreements to leave certain landmarks and features alone. Aztechnology could burn down all the churches in one of it's 20 districts, use them for blood magic ritual sites, and piss in the ashes as long as they left Notre Dame Cathedril alone. Between this legal attitude and the jockeying for power between London, Paris, and Frankfurt there's a lot of work available for Shadowrunners in Paris.<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://www.shadowrun.us/20100617/AttitudeCover_Preview.jpg)</div>For once, their latest job might be the long fabled Milk Run that is always promised and as of yet delivered. A decker named Brother Zee just wants some muscle to watch his meat while he makes a grab for some paydata. He thinks he's nova-hot, according to the Fixer the only thing he's really good at is covering up his tracks. Which, if you have to be good at something one could suppose. The pay isn't great but at least the job is somewhere interesting.<br/><br/>Namely, the offices of<em>Divertissement d'Intensité</em>, or Intensity Entertainment if you want to go by it's English name. Specializing in erotic trids and simsense recordings, it's relatively small but growing for the adult entertainment industry. Why Brother Zee is interested in it is that Ares Entertainment and Televisa Exotica have passed it back and forth several times in their dealing with each other. Meaning that both the megacorporations of Ares and Aztechnology have both had their grubby fingers in it's computers, and a skilled decker may be able to find paydata on both megacorps in its servers if they act quickly and carefully.<br/><br/>Why Raven and Shimmer may of found it interesting were probably more because productions of Divertissement d'Intensité tend to be on the light side of the fetish spectrum, usually falling in the area of light bondage, they have gone darker in the past but rarely further then NC. They've never made a snuff sim, for example. Their most popular performer is Anders Klimaxxx, a dutch-born human and french citizen that started about three years ago. He's actually one of the few adult performers in the industry willing to do scenes with women of any metatype. Something somewhat counterbalanced, or further enhanced depending on who you ask, by his refusal to use condoms even in his personal life.<br/><br/>Not that it should matter. The offices should be empty at 2 AM, and Brother Zee was hard at work. Raven and Shimmer, both muscle hired seperately for this job, just had to keep Brother Zee's meat safe while he worked in the computers - to at least distract or if needed kill anyone that might interfere with Brother Zee's hack. And so far, about 30 minutes into the job, all is quiet.