<div align="center">(https://i.imgur.com/504556r.jpg)</div><br/><div align="center">There are cracks in the world.<br/>They’re slender, dark, and often cold,<br/>but they are the only things that<br/>keep you hidden. Keep you alive.<br/>They are the shadows of the world,<br/>and they are where you live.</div>​<br/>It is 2075, the sixth world, the awakened world, a world dominated and ruled by corporations.  Across the globe the average person goes too and fro about their dull lives.  You are something different, alive in the shadows, your lives in the end may be shorter but they are far more interesting and free.  This is the world of the Shadowrunner, the anti-wage slave.  You may take the corps nuyen to do their work but are never there to be their little toys and pets.  One day you may take their nuyen for a job well done and the very next break in to take more.  That is what you are and how you survive in this world.<br/><br/>China is turmoil.  China is always in turmoil.  In China turmoil is the default state of being.  Dragons, corporations, nations, warlords, and emperors like it that way and act to make sure it stays that way.  From time to time you help to keep it that way whether you know it or not.  There are a dozen petty kingdoms and all with their own breed of shadowrunners, the best can be found in Tianjin, the capitol for runners and the ROC every corp has a presence here keeping the shadows forever roiling.  There has been a strange quiet though lately, not just in Tianjin but up and down the coast.  It is as though the shadows are holding their breath for something.  Across China the best runners are being put on retainer and told to wait.  Yesterday, a single letter in a red envelope was delivered.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Shadowrun 5th edition, all books are allowed, ask if you want homebrew or to port things from 4th edition.  I will be bringing forward some stuf from 4th edition.<br/>No burnout adepts at chargen.<br/>Drug addiction rules will be a homebrew close to 4th edition.  This means addiction will mainly be a narrative tool.<br/>Prime Runners Sum to 10<br/>You need to designate one contact as who you get most of your jobs from.<br/>Start with 3 Street Cred and 1 Public Awareness.<br/><br/><strong>Dramatis Personae:</strong><br/>Ice-10P - Cybered up Technomancer (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=297867.msg14583205#msg14583205)<br/>White Tiger - Chinese Hermetic Mage (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=297867.msg14592728#msg14592728)<br/>/GUI/ - Technomancer Sourceror (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=297867.msg14603705#msg14603705)