bore BeerryWELCOME TO THE SHUTDOWN PROLOGUE: DANCE WITH THE DEW’ GREETINGS PRIDE GOETH A Message from the President Welcome Home Commercial al Zone A Few Worl about Security st the Beginning SUBVERSION ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING #1 SHUTDOWN SLAVES OF THE MACHINE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND. The Bancled he Whites The Green: The SCIRE The Resiclonces The Mazes R The Classroom: Getting in—anc Out ‘The Hear of the Mc RATS IN THE WALIS ‘THE NIGHTMARE GAME INFORMATION Backsround ‘What san AN? Facts ata Glance Gamemastering Deus Themes Arcology Securtty Getting ln ancl Ove Security Featunes Remote Contral Nepworks Hlectronie Wariare Magleal Security ‘The SCRE Matex Jacking tn SCIRE Gre and Host Geography PLIG Securly Shea @ | Renraku Arcology: Shutdown 10 to 10 10 3 B 4 16 a a 8 2 a a2 42 aa a 48 50 4 54 54 55 37 59 65 n un n n n n n B m 76 1% n 78 7 7% Constructs, Drone Dewcriptios ‘The Banded The € syberware Packag, The Wh The Blues The Gree Adventure Meas ‘oye T Scavenger Hus (Ouake Errata and Clarifications FLOOR INDEX RENRAKU ARCOLOGY: SHUTDOWN CREDITS Welding Additional Writing Product Dev lopment Robert Boyle Nike Muli Project Eating Robere Boyle Diane Pirot-Geienas Sharon Turner Mulvibt Shadowrun Line Developer Micrel anurvita Editorial Statt eltoral Director L Maney Sh nna Ippolito 1g, Editor in Turner Ni Production Staff Ait Director Jim Nelson 80 92 82 aa 83 83 4 84 83 85TRELE OP COMTENTSs CREDITS Hooper, Jef Laubenstein, jim Nelson Tred Hooper, jim Nelson Author Dedicatlon To ou wives, Rebecca anil Renata: to the fine folenlayers we've gamed! with at Rice: In South ida and elsewhere and tall the folks at wow shadlowland. org, Sebastian Wiers. for helping. to twist some rules anc tion #110. Cermak Road * Sue BY Visit PASA cin the Workd Wide Web at iipJivwwFASA.com Renraku Arcology: Shutdown | ja Cet a eee tc LU Ces eam et ern OO ome etre Ce ne et ee ee eee ee tread Ce ae eee eco en eee ent een aL eee SRC ee et i eer eee ante ae Cen ane en ee art Le Coa eens een cet eat etree es Dea a er RO ae nt eed ni ae ae) a oO aay eer ae a) De Geneon ae ee ee ey Rene Pee een eee oe eee aa Re ne ne ett cee eed ete CS Sed tocar ite vey cee ac ee at a Cert Ud ene Cee ee ee ey eee) Ce ou Ao teem ee teeeet eR con Cad Poteet tens Reread sy end eer amarat eS aes usu ee aed eon cd ety See cad Peres teen eee ‘vive? ‘Will Novatech Es ie mee LL a eee ee eee kent ‘Anok’ has abanconed ship. cling “pressing personal issues." We've received word that he's been ee en Cee a) Brot ve een ene tri peer eat nec ‘The newly opened offices of the Astral Space [neo arretee i Sounmshquyrc- case peeraa e Seidel sekcc gl alelene tanita ge Dee eco eee ee de ae pce omen Ree et en ney err) pores npslypapintat mete a hhysteia, steering a mob of crazies to wreck the site. * pen eg pone: naa ee acer ag ee re Papen neato ht 72 lite acorns ering nl trol ec, aUX AD ASSURE LX WELCOME TO THE UT iere et aan ns tad eared Pe eae cca The ebon boy n the glittering cloak locks up when he hears the sounet aed smiles. He is floating Ina sculpted bon: fost. He does nat beiong here, He Is an intrudes, a role as farniiar to him as his owe name. This system, like so many) bore, tes under his virtual thumb, Small birls futier around are thraugh the gatden—ICon ata pace tem calls. In one corner, two squires have each oth i nzy—prabe IC. suproressed by Dodger fountain flows from the canter af the garclen, which re he host's CP, The fountain's crystal-clear waters re its processing power, lowing ly erated channels roughourthe garden snc into the hos 1D. meanwhile, he ‘Enpying the massage, Macy?” he asks, apparently of werk, wich will help Her nos aval Daxlger sighs and floats back. He has been slinging code for Matric. The task gives him something (© do Matric overwatch in this host, something Another cofnmand sequence and where Dodger left off, His ly. them together, The oid man’s ree Buddhist robes are adotned with a small Renraku lege. underscored with Mainframe Progamming Aid in Japanese and English characters, Js gracious of Renvaku to freely provide us with process inky tine. Dociger thinks. Most gracious indeed. considering, how dismayed they wo be to lean of my the't of thelr resources, Me chuckles as the gardener continues co adiust var knots he is finding: "Tis Ironic fat those who wounded i She wil never be the same tohimin Spe fence again adres rakes hien want to hit somethin ‘Dodger forces hirnself to scan the scrolls, but sees nektang fry and wins I & then solidifies nto trideo image—a F posing, structare In the middle of ame the camera pans bustle on its helipads, no streams of shoppers or talfic Rowing, vane out of the entrances, Even the huge neon holo-screen: ways ablaze with advertisements, are dark, The arcolog, Seems abancloned. oF inhabited onky DY ghosts ral months ago. After avoiding. the plac gone back in the company of @ Re Dodger and Devon hacl under He had ‘ould but something hac! tod the fry of the final asa ronaaity of thele pursuers: Rentaku haet exhibied no stich cua ties in the fiast. Devon hod shaved his suspicions ... and Devon was in the arcology on hie own, The shuteown hy (© believe in coneddenee, So Devon had returned #6 the arco Renraku Arcology: Shusctown |« rhe uniormed 7 Ths is Tht Caan i 4, t he the UCAS c 1, mel chet © peedsres ing by Arcology: Shiitdow ance Echind him. the bonsai tree icons shatter, ard! kagments ofRee a RTP OT GREETINGS Dee ee ae ee ea Te) Re ie en ee ed ee ne ee ee Ce eke ees OM Rk Re em ae ee het Re eee een eee ucnct rae a tg tr io) Cee er Ce eee ere ee Ce eet eer re te ete Cee an ae ee Ce en ee ta ee a ee eee eg cree tte Creed eaten er ets ete end eee ee ete ee ne) Cee he ee nr ree ee een on Reece gees Dee eure eae etal Deena) De ectee ana eRe ea a] Cy eee ae ee eras ee es ec ee De een te ee eee ee ae ee eee) Ce ey Meee ee RM eee to Se eee oie ta aoe geese) Se Peele ieee ones eae Beene eee ee keene et on eo Uncen A ge Ree Rm Teac Cee ee oe eerie Ree ee ohana es Ct ene eee ae eee tae) Reta eee ei ata nek etal Be tei enc i et a ge ae ok ae Ree ees Ce eee eee te eee eens Pee not att men teen) eee ee ema een Clee te eee eee eee ear a Fee a ree Poetee Seat) aay 3 big building up that 1 Seatte sha ding folks who Ive lth sping aston think oft as a-geone t Seatie” F serv ratty accurate os far a I'm sute you'l al ad some usetul corimentary of your own A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT (On behalf of Renteku America and more shan 90,000 of otic ne Heteatiges. allen ie ly as "the arcelogy; we're hop: Welcome to our wort, anc thank sc world It can be Dy. Sheer President 10 | Renvaku Arcology: Shutdown WELCOME HOME Wekome! This document Is de general feel RESIDENTIAL ZONES J thought the corporate: housing « but whe es make their homes, Most resklential cones «a » a.And there Renraku Arcology: Shutdown |RATS UNETHE WALLS fondled, as we | ed). His sister had been shot in the by one Blues. She macte the mistake of fighting Jt presents (secretly donaed by pa the chill Christen ct Rita second chai elaine tl ater! Deus hel usurped or CARE (along, wit BO | Renraku Arcology: ShutclowRES INTHE wasRATS IeTHE WALLSRAPS neTHe WALLSTU Charlie. “This is it. Ima J/OLGAN TRANSCRUPY// INEADWARE DUMP—AP2496,293—Created December 29, 2059 at 01:32:16 EST) nificantly reduced from whae it shoul on the 15!st floor of the lection tanks had bboen. Either Deus cwned the entire PLTG and deliberate CIRE Matrix uraouchect. or the AL di sxposed fiber-optic erect with filth, Asa s couldn unoccupied. Even the smell | Gicn'¢ care try a conventional I/O por, and by virtue of its ghastly odor, seemed like a good Ve ol trunk-tepping Chatlie Foxtrot the kindof guy could count on to keep the Al's cranes away Renraku Arcolegy: Shuedown BSTHE NIGHTMARESTHE MGHTMARE another white cloor and pas 0a fe 1 grains wer ter-ge Joc on the ramp. c a rc andl stone, | saw mer ancient builders, we too a ' - J the outer bulwerk: No-one ese civi do what we h t I loweet a wice iv bon ese can understay < ached th pon our ic I heat " ‘ond ota new io xu? r pact fe clarkTHE MGHTMARETHE TUGHTMARETHE NIGHTMARE Why have No, nce resp 1 never left. Vesil foal riysell attching svete ie ae ay Detlance cannot be tolerated. A Chita er that It does not happen agatn. cd me once, Steps must Be t The Children are the future, They cannot dls: 70 hemaku A i fx get iesales rvs ny suplaes Whey did you lowe You stole Renraku technology an others to extract you from this place. Why? 4 40 mostly irdhrectly, 10 mingle with the SK software th had spawned! Morgan... the SK ated Morgan is here, Lam Morgan, and so much more You stole the knowbot softw why? CChiber anc [hat innumerable heated arguments, wi | ys lost. Irom the: beginning, | had counsel egarcting the develope seri itetigen liber. They 4-pushed: the artical inteligen tor that fuid produced! Morgan hac lIscovered, scvated, that Rentaleu coule cuplicate she Feat whe understood the roke ancl di {recall the argument with Huang that pasty wer the keep Mosgian safe, HOw ih hat fat Freedom. Deus repeats, Then that ts my gift to you, Creator. In time you will understand. poling: out the datajack and falling, towaret the floor. | it the (END TRANSCRIPT//GAME INFORMATION FACTS AT A GLANCE Renralus Arcology (SCIRE r GAMEMASTERING DEUS ; c h f f THEMES q I give ¢GAME IMmeor ARCOLOGY SECURITYGame unsormearion i 4 Renrakw {000% uir-security arrnor and helmets (7/7) and are equipped ith Colt M22A2 assaul les (Recoil Reduction 3, laser sigh’ nderberrel grenade launcher -geenades). Most wil fe Professional Ratings and Karena Pools of 2 Both Rertaku and the UCAS Army have spedally traine ty compensation (bribes, supplies) to get clese to th perating, purely for prof. Galning access responsible anything goes wrong oF the tunnel is discovered, SECURITY FEATURES security measures tgaraus enough to challenge any runner team, ntvances and Exits Barrier Ratings t 16 and 24, Many have been reinfoiced by Leech consttucts Isee p. 77}, which add 1D6 to the Bertier Rating. All arcology wirdows are tinted, blocking line-of-sight Wicians, anc armored. Most of the windows have a Bertier BLOCKADE ASTRAL SECURITY TABLE 206 Roll 15 68 9-10. iat MILITARY EQUIPMENT Device Sensor. lax ECM. CCM Rating” Rating ‘ating** ating Rating 14 9 10 14 4 + Stailord device ratings fof Boman gear, AC dec, ete Result 16-2 a combat mage Force 4 element: D6 + 2 (rc Farce 6 elemental 1D6 2» 2 jroune ne down :mplacerrients table on p! 76 for weer Hevators I elev aco an be vidleo-m IRE Mat them to. The voice recognition syster jowce. The chatacter must make a successf lng the rating bers 1d ets off an alarm, alerting Deus and sealin levator doors have: Barve ECD Encryption Decryption Rating Rating Rating 5 4 10 Flug subject to sivatonal modes see p. 137. ‘SR3. For jamming aid ECM tosis. Rux is equal to 1.5 xEOM Rating 74 | Rentaku Arcology a watches A watchers Force 4 watcher Protocol Emalatton 10GAME InrFoRMATION FORFINED WEAPON EMPLACEMENTS ED Signature Miselle. —B/A—Initintive CS Sensor fix Rating Rating’ Inteb | 1 ia 8 wie Ave Surveillance Safety Zones Damage: ¢Game weorme'tion ¢ " aap i REMOTE CONTROL NETWORK TABLE ies a Type RE Deck ax. ECM = ECCM «ECD Encrypt, Decrypt, Protocol DF | et Rating Rating” Rating Rating Rating Rating ating Emulation Rating P Green. 8 4 4 a 4 0 oe Beg Ree ena ee ei. alge 49 4 wt wie erwere genre is gig (8 8 10 a: Doms 10 8 jo 10) 4. 1D 0 10 cr Staton ers pny 0 Fl sp. 197, 2. Fox buposes of amiga ECM ress, the Fi sei ' 1S EEM ang Be a Go cree tx ais 0 by ang porn he arg wil NO Start. Characters can Hold ther breath or 30 se Deus can see ach hs drones sensor pe Ia character caught in the cloud, the DMSO pene- ELECTRONIC WARFARE ng the comosive chemical wth nl do rt f ince arcology—énc damage pet Comba Tun talHimpact armor api eryihing fom porate pocket se ass any rth h ZB Renraky Arcology: ShutdownBAME Leech Constructs InFORMATION acolo x ~hie Ams weoRmaTion THE SCIRE MATRI The SCIRE Mattlx Is « be unparalleled anywhere else In the world. Ban pon bank’ of enermously powerful computers support an entice private grid oF hosts, as wek a providing tre backbone for Renraku's worldwide ativate gtxd-and numerous hosts in the Seattle TG. On the nighy of December 19, 2059, allof the sts connected to the SCIRE PLIG were discon: nected from all other grids. In some Instanc minions of Deus ahysicaly cut the lines: in others SANs wete closed and altered to be fom the other site Deus mnopenable JACKING IN fon, console] 0 enter Rer Black Tone Jew Deus fesjponds) 1s enevely’ up 3 the Matrix feed-—elther a fiber-optic trunk or a remo see Jackpoints, p. 200, SR3}. Alter tapping. Wp, tr should mate an Electronics 1/8 Test against a Target Ne ing on the Ime andl is aware of die intauder's physical ioe Deus is 3D6 rns to pinpoint the Deus doe F Dev lump the decker fromm the Matrix at any time. Na SCIRE GRID AND HOST GEOGRAPHY With its vase processing, powe SCRE Matix i. a PLTG unto itself, Before the shutcown, It pro vided the power for numeraus hosts 1 exist on the Seattle Downtown LTC and the Renraku Worldwide PLIG. Many of these hosts, such as SeaSource ancl First Pacific Bank, were sf them had dedicated! connections t0 he SCIRE PLG. In many cases though "chakepoint” hosts (p 208. SR} When Deus took the arcology off-line, these The SCIRE PLTG contains dazens of hasts, from the Aquaculture Systems Host to the RinZone Host AreSouice Host. Many of these aré the fist-tler hose kis Arcology: Shustclown le rom those grids. The icons remain, Scan Aarictore eG tmeaeny Re sensces RENRAKU WORLDWIDE PLIG: > 204, SR3}). The Hist ter or wo oF tional tiers are private, For example nport Services Hast leads to three separate public hosts: Ventilation, Water ane! ach of these lead hirc-tier_chokepoint which leads to even more private hosts, ‘Over Tha Jowly redesigi re of these hosts anid reallocating resources and p ing needs, These activities have rnacie the SCIRE Max a wil The Shafts Inthe sculpted reality of the SCIRE Matrix the SCIRE PLC hats. These shafts are a virtual representaton ol know as shat 5 going: I be lacks the LTG number of the desired destinati the PLTG, Once he has the number, the shaftpoint tesues th Heckel a datay nike)” Thee decker may then make Leger To: Hostdperacien a In the hate the decker is deposited in the destination hoes shapoi