DM Scraps! Episode 3

(The "DM Scraps!" series is a collection of assorted notes from my own tabletop adventures. I am sharing them in hopes of providing some inspiration and insight into what goes on behind my DM screen. They are raw and unedited, but I will highlight details that I find interesting to look back on. Enjoy!)


Today I'd like to present these notes I found pertaining to the Metasprawl Campaign setting for Shadowrun. These are just the descriptions of people, places, and things found in the first couple of chapters of the adventure. Just a sampling of how I write up the concepts and descriptions of various items for my world-building toolbox. Enjoy!

DREAMCATCHER: A METASPRAWL ADVENTURE

ACT 1: Project Alchera

Find out more about Project Alchera, and the Animus project.

Monsanto’s Special Projects Facility in Hokkaido are concealing something. Something big. Their operation is patrolled by Shining Wolf’s Model ED-209 drones as well as Corpsec personnel. Additionally, there are a number of genetic research projects being conducted in the interior of the geodesic greenhouse area where the juiciest secrets are kept.

Remy Duverne, head of the Southern branch of the White Council, descendant of Jeanne Duverne, the man who killed the haitian necromancer (and servant of Kalfou) Papa Doc.

Armin Novirov: EU expatriate who heads a company of troubleshooters for the Japanese PMC Shining Wolf. Currently employed by Monsanto Industries. Is a dark elf ‘splicer’ who uses stem cell injections to adopt wolf-like DNA

Dr. Anders Bergstrom: A researcher previously employed by Monsanto, them terminated and sent to the prisons of Detroit. He was known for his controversial work on the Segher biodomes and was secretly burned by Monsanto so that his lucid dreaming research could be repurposed into a mass entertainment market. He is currently living in a penthouse in Detroit where he conducts his experiments,

Note: Why wasn’t he killed? Would have drawn too much suspicion to his work, he was paranoid and highly guarded.

Lucas Merryweather: Born into an affluent but abusive family in Europolis (Formerly Belarus) the heir to a recreational pharmaceutical company, he secretly killed his parents with psychic powers when he was young. Now he is head of Abstergo Interactive, a company that is about to acquire Monsanto’s dream research division. He is a cultist serving the illithids (ONEIROI). He previously used subliminal messaging VR programs to influence the minds of the masses. Now he has something more sinister in mind.

Hazard: Slo-Mo Chronatron chambers: Lock and slow down time for everything inside them when the alarm is tripped, allowing more time for security to arrive.

Transit Tram: An elevated tram makes a complete circuit of the primary testing facility under the geodesic dome.

Hybrid velociraptors: Bred from fossilized DNA for Jurassic Worlds

ED-209: Designed by Dynacorp for crowd control and security purposes.

Werewolf Splicers:

Entrance to Detroit can be gained from either a strategic arrest, or more wisely through The Chaperone, a street boss who started out running an industrial grade chop shop and now owns an underground transportation service.

Fleet Street Go-Gangers: Run the shawarma shop on Wabash and Lake. They are Westaku (Western Otaku)

The Dream Institute

J J Kessler: Wealthy benefactor of the Kessler Dream Institute. Has dermal gold dust over his body and wears a silver lame suit over a midnight black turtleneck. Never without his bluetooth.

“Edge” Sakaguchi: Yakuza street samurai with a bionic hand and a hyperchrome tux. Hair shaved off and uses permanent implanted mirrorshade lenses over the top of his eyeballs.

Dreamer Test Subject: Suffering the effects of sollipsia, believe that the waking world is a dream. Will often become violently dangerous.

Morpheus Flowers: These plants release an electromagnetic resonance frequency that stimulates the frontal lobe, allowing for lucid dreaming. However, they are also equipped with pollen emitters that produces mild hallucinogenic and tranquilizing effects.

Cockatrice: These are small, luxury level genetic hybrids developed by Monsanto Bioengineering as well as others. These colorful half-rooster/half-komodo dragons are equipped with acidic spit as well as sharp claws, but are only the size of a small dog.

Yakuza Switchblades: Low-level samurai with blade attachments in their wrists.

Yakuza Troopers: The mooks of the Yakuza system. They wear bright flowery shirts and bear dragon tattoos.

Geishas: Male and female, garbed only in body paint, these people also exude opiates from their skin.

Sushi K: Nip-Hop rapper and otaku. Guest of Kessler and Sakaguchi currently performing every night in Gangster’s Paradise.

Holographic Ghosts

Sewer Spirits

Locations

DREAM CLINIC

GANGSTER’S PARADISE

AKIHABARA DISTRICT