INN news report Jimmy Yuan

This is Maria de Soto Sanchez-Green, reporting for the Independent News Network live from Innercity Everett at the Yuan Family Cleaners: the scene of a grizzly and bizarre series of events. From what I can gather, Lone Star offices arrived on the scene to find three Chinese men dead and as what one Lone Star officer told me, signs of an explosion. Lone Star was not allowed further access to the building when the owner, a one Xuan “Jimmy” CheYuan arrived on scene. And that is when the story takes a turn for the gory. More sensitive viewers should turn on the violence filter before we show you this next clip. Now in this clip, we can see Jimmy Yuan talking to Lone Star officers when a sniper bullet splits Jimmy’s head open. A complete lock-down of the area followed immediately and as this reporter can attest: Lone Star is not taking this lying down; as my sources have confirmed Lone Star has recovered a bullet shell and searching for further leads. It is not so much of the death of petty underworld figure Jimmy Yuan but the blatant assassination under Lone Star’s very nose that has the security agency inching for answers. The high scale murder of such a low figure might mean underworld violence is here to stay in once sleepy city of Everett. Reporting live from Innercity Everett, this Maria de Soto Sanchez-Green, reporting for the Independetn News Network: Were the Truth is the News.

INN news report: the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Massacre

This is Maria de Soto Sanchez-Green, reporting for the Independent News Network, live at the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Earlier today in a daring day-time robbery, a Radio-Shack deliver truck was assaulted by masked gun men who killed the five Redwood Security agents aboard the truck. A representative for Radio-Shack estimated the lose of the delivery truck and contents to be around a quarter of a million Nuyen. When I asked the Lone Star officials on site, I was informed that the Redwood Security agency would be conducting their own investigation.

I also asked Lone Star about the day-time robbery of a Budweiser delivery truck earlier this week. The official statement from Lone Star states that the Budweiser robbery and the assault on the Radio-Shack truck were operating under different operandus modi. While the Radio-Shack security guards were killed and left in the street, the Budweiser delivery staff was kidnapped and dropped in a different part of town. Thus far, the Lone Star investigation of the Budweiser theft has not turned up any clues.

With two different but dramatic day-time robberies has caught the attention of the city and all corporations. We can see added personal and security today just hours after the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Massacre.

This is Maria de Soto Sanchez-Green, reporting for the Independetn News Network: Were the Truth is the News.

Select Excerpts from Dunkelzahn’s Last Will and Testaments

Originally found at http://www.shadowrun4.com/resources/will1.shtml

To the party who finds the bones of the dragon skeleton for which I possess the head, I offer two options. You may keep the bones, or turn them over to the Draco Foundation for a reward. All discoveries must be independently verified as dragon bones, such identification to be made by any living dragon. The Draco Foundation will assemble all pieces of the skeleton it receives and display the result in the Smithsonian Institution for the edification of the general public. My admittedly incomplete research indicates the following coordinates as likely locations for dragon bones: Latitude 41°, Longitude 121°; Latitude 41° 50n, Longitude 87° 45w; Latitude 47° 21n, Longitude 122° 12w; Latitude 19° 24n, Longitude 99° 9w; Latitude 65°, Longitude 130°; Latitude 39° 44n, Longitude 104° 59w.

I leave 100,000 nuyen for each of the following people to be rescued from the Chicago Containment Zone: James Delany, Dr. Edward Oden, Gregory Armtwister, Protacio Corcoran, Katherine Sitsu and Sissel McCarthy.

[This following paragraph is to be placed in the public-access area of the Matrix.] ATTENTION! To any and all persons capable of discovering "where a Rock meets the Sky," the 2 million nuyen, amulets and weapons at that place are yours for the keeping provided that you accomplish the task described in the enclosed datachips within 1 year of my demise. The anime will accompany you to make sure the job is done properly. Because this endeavor is of special personal interest to me, I have taken numerous precautions to assure its completion.

I leave 1 million nuyen to any group or individual who ensures the safe return of Mary-Beth Tyre to her home. Mary-Beth was kidnapped April 30, 2051, just after her sixth birthday. She was last seen in Roanoke, Virginia. Her survival is critical.

To any person who can prove he or she shook hands with John F. Kennedy, present yourself to the Draco Foundation at any time, and the Foundation will grant you one wish. He seemed like a nice person.

To any person who possesses a ticket stub to Maria Mercurial’s only foray into country music, performed at My Brother’s Place in the Nashville sprawl: present yourself to the Draco Foundation at any time, and the Foundation will grant you one wish. I believe the saying is, be careful what you wish for—you may well get it.

To the first party to develop a self-motivational robotic unit that meets the specifications laid out by the Draco Foundation, I leave 10 million nuyen for continued research.

To the first party to determine what lies behind the door of room 5B78 of the Aztechnology Pyramid in Tenochtitlán and file a report of their findings on Shadowland, I leave 5 million nuyen or medical care for the remainder of their natural life, whichever seems most appropriate.

To the first party to successfully explain the existence, abilities and origin of the children of the Matrix, known as the otaku, I leave 5 million nuyen for continued research into the relationship between mind and machine.

To the first party to find my lair in the Caucasus Mountains, I leave its contents, including clues to the location of two other lairs. In the third lair, you will find a plain brown scroll case. Return the case to the Draco Foundation unopened, and you will receive my lucky preces foot. May it bring you all the good fortune it brought me.

To the first party to track down the Russian crown jewels, I leave that treasure except for the scepter and crown, which the Draco Foundation will return to the descendants of its original owners. According to my research, the jewels were smuggled from the country inside a spinet piano, one of nine belonging to the royal palace. The jewels were not in the four spinets that I have acquired. There are three more that I have been unable to track down, and two currently in the possession of private collectors.

Shadowrun Timeline

2011 The Year of Chaos

2012 First spotting of a dragon signals change in the world.

2015 Hong Kong recognized as independent by China; mainly thanks to the various corporation and Triad backing.

2018 China falls into Civil War

2020 The World Bank defaults

2021 World Wide Goblinization

2025 (1) Lone Star replaces police in the Seattle-Tacoma Megacity. (2) The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) begins an undergraduate degree program in the field of the occult.

2028 Major earthquake hits Los Angeles and destroys the famous LAX.

2029 The Crash of ’29 leads to a world economic crisis

2030 UCAS formed

2032 The Zurich-Orbital Gemeinschaft Bank founded

2033 (1) CAS formed. (2) Damien Knight acquired 22 percent of Ares stock in a single nanosecond.

2037 (1) California Free State formed. (2) Berlin given up on by German government; taken over by anarchists. (3) The dragon Lofwyr startles the world by owning 63 percent of Saeder-Krupp Megacorp.

2039 (1) International tensions over metahumans erupt in the “Night of Rage.” (2) Also in 2039, Fuchi sponsored the Universal Matrix Specification Conference in Tokyo that laid the ground work for the Matrix as it is known today.

2045 After years of infighting a German Alliance gains control of much of the former nation, excluding Berlin of course.

2046 Los Angeles given-up on by the California Free State.

2048 The World Corp’s Court forces Aztlan to pay reparations of any corporation that was affected when Mexico nationalized into Aztlan. This agreement between the Corps’ Court and Aztlan is what allows Aztechnology to enter the world stage.

2049 Bioware and Cyberware become more common sights on the streets.

2051 San Francisco and the Bay Area rocked by a major earthquake.

2055 Chicago infested with Bug Spirits

2056 President Steele forced to abdicated UCAS office

2057 President Dunkelzahn assassinated night of inauguration

2058 Miles Lanier, then current head of Fuchi Internal Security, assumes a seat on the board of Renraku Corporation. How Lanier was able to secure the seat remains a mystery.

2059 (1) Richard Villiers founds Novatech Corporation in Boston, specializing both magic items and cyberwear. (2) Suborbital Flight 1118 from Tokyo crashed into Seattle’s Redmond Barrens, killing over two hundred, including David Hague, head of Fuchi Seattle. (3) An ork named Yuri Shibanokuji gains majority ownership of Yamatetsu Corporation. Facing intense racial hatred in Japan, the ork Yuri relocates the corporate headquarters to Vladivostok Russia. (4) The Renraku Arcology mysteriously goes off-line, capturing over one hundred thousand people inside.

2060 Both Wuxing Incorporated and the Horizon Group and smaller industries like Cross Applied Technology and Novatech are gaining ground on the Big Eight Megacorps and the term Big Eight might have to change, depending on who survives the Corp Wars that is.