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* OhCrap: Her reaction when she finds out that a locket that she accidentally crushed was a stealth tag.

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* Baka Dabora
Real Name: Tetsuro Yamada A male Japanese Changeling with amphibious features. He is the most public of the Jackpointers in that he makes no attempts to hide his identity. Due to the nature of the Shadows in Japan he can operate openly.
* BilingualBonus: His handle is Japanese for “tall tales of idiots"
* CoolOldGuy: While not as old as Flashjack he's in late 40's.
* {{Omniglot}}: Native Japanese speak her also speaks English,Korean, and Chinese fluently. Also know a little bit of Russian.
** As a side note the writer of the supplement didn't do the research as China has many different dialects.




** Note he makes [[NamestoRunAwayFromReallyFast Kane]] look decent in comparison.




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* DependingOnTheWriter: For her metatype at least. At least one piece of artwork shows her as an ork.
* ShipTease: A lot between her and Slamm-O. One of the 20th Anniversity Rulebook stories had her going on a date with Slamm-O as the result of losing a hacking competition.
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!!Sunshine
An investigative reporter, somewhat responsible for a lot of the information that came out on technomancers.

!!Netcat
An elven technomancer, who later gets married to Slamm-0

!!Snopes
Deals with debunking urban legends.

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* AxCrazy: or so the people say.
* {{Cosplay}}: the intro story of ''Safehouses'' tells how he infiltrated ComicCon dressed as an [[StarWars Imperial Stormtrooper]]. He was not amused.
* TokenEvilTeammate: although not the worst.

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* AxCrazy: or Or so the people say.
* {{Cosplay}}: the The intro story of ''Safehouses'' tells of how he infiltrated ComicCon dressed as an [[StarWars Imperial Stormtrooper]]. He was not amused.
* TokenEvilTeammate: although not the worst.
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* WrenchWench: that's her other main talent.

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* WrenchWench: that's her Her other main talent.
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!!Jake Armitage

A decker who starred as the hero of the SNES game. He returns as a major NPC in the ''Shadowrun Returns'' video game.

* CoolShades - Distinctive round ones.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot - In the SNES game, he is a decker with a lot of implants (at least including a datajack, [[spoiler:cortex bomb, and info safe]]) who also becomes a dog shaman. In ''Shadowrun Returns'' the devs have described him as a street samurai mage.
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!!Jake Armitage

A decker who starred as the hero of the SNES game. He returns as a major NPC in the ''Shadowrun Returns'' video game.

* CoolShades - Distinctive round ones.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot - In the SNES game, he is a decker with a lot of implants (at least including a datajack, [[spoiler:cortex bomb, and info safe]]) who also becomes a dog shaman. In ''Shadowrun Returns'' the devs have described him as a street samurai mage.

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* PosthumousCharacter - He's dead by the time you begin the game.

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* PosthumousCharacter - He's dead by By the time you begin the game.4th edition starts, he's been dead for 13 years. He is still fully capable of providing adventure hooks and screwing players over through his will.


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* MonsterClown - Played with, his appearance in the cover art of the original ''Harlequin'' campaign book certainly suggests the trope. He turns out to be more of a {{Jerkass}} Clown, however (at least in his early appearances).

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* [[spoiler: Actually700YearsOld - Immortal elf. Born in the ]]

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* [[spoiler: Really700YearsOld - Immortal elf. Born in the Fourth Age]]
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!!Harlequin
* [[spoiler: Actually700YearsOld - Immortal elf. Born in the ]]
* BadAss - He doesn't get out much anymore, but he is most certainly this. [[spoiler: He's the sole survivor of the Knights of the Crying Spire from the Fourth Age. Dunklezhan considered Harlequin his ''personal knight''.]]
** BadassGrandpa - Is (or was) an immortal elf[[spoiler:, who was born in the Fourth Age. He may not look it, but he's thousands of years old.]]
* OlderThanHeLooks - Comes with being an Elf in the Shadowrun 'verse.
* OurElvesAreDifferent - [[spoiler: More than most!]]
* WalkingSpoiler - To one, if not several, of the metaplots from FASA's run on the game. How much he remains under the new publishers remains up for debate.
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*** Dunkelzahn's [[{{Will}} will]] brought a number of other Shadow-talking Great Dragons out of the closet, if only to bitch about how the Big D hadn't left them anything.

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* TheChessmaster - Seen by the other Megacorps as this



* TheChessmaster - Seen by the other Megacorps as this

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* TheChessmaster SupernaturalGoldEyes - Seen by the other Megacorps as thisIn his human form
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!!Lofwyr
* CorruptCorporateExecutive - Built his own Megacorp, Saeder-Krupp
* TheChessmaster - Seen by the other Megacorps as this
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Jackpointers are (as it says on the tin) members of the fictional forum Jackpoint, sharing their insight in the in-character sections of splatbooks for the 4th Edition. Jackpoint itself is a successor of earlier such forum, called Shadowland, of which Fastjack, Jackpoint's founder, was an long-standing member. In-universe, Jackpoint is considered to be the stomping grounds of proven, "elite" runners (as determined by FastJack).

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Jackpointers are (as it says on the tin) members of the fictional forum Jackpoint, sharing their insight in the in-character sections of splatbooks for the 4th Edition. Jackpoint itself is a successor of earlier such forum, called Shadowland, of which Fastjack, Jackpoint's founder, was an long-standing member. In-universe, Jackpoint is considered to be the stomping grounds of proven, "elite" runners (as determined by FastJack).
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Jackpointers are (as it says on the tin) members of the fictional forum Jackpoint, sharing their insight in the in-character sections of splatbooks for the 4th Edition. Jackpoint itself is a successor of earlier such forum, called Shadowland, of which Fastjack, Jackpoint's founder, was an long-standing member.

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Jackpointers are (as it says on the tin) members of the fictional forum Jackpoint, sharing their insight in the in-character sections of splatbooks for the 4th Edition. Jackpoint itself is a successor of earlier such forum, called Shadowland, of which Fastjack, Jackpoint's founder, was an long-standing member.
member. In-universe, Jackpoint is considered to be the stomping grounds of proven, "elite" runners (as determined by FastJack).
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Born in 1999, Fastjack is a veteran hacker who survived both global network crashes.

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Born in 1999, Fastjack is a veteran hacker who survived both global network crashes. Founder and moderator of Jackpoint, he is the de facto elder statesman of the shadowrunning community.



** And in Clockwork's case, that's putting it lightly.

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** And in Clockwork's case, that's putting it lightly.
lightly. His default attitude comes off as "If you're not a mercenary asshole like me, you're a fucking idiot." (This is particularly notable when other Jackpoint members exhibit either a code of ethics or what most people would consider "positive" emotions.) Case in point: during his profile of Slamm-O! in ''Street Legends Supplemental'', he seemed as disgusted [[EvilCannotComprehendGood with Slamm-O!'s compassionate streak]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking as he was with his loud, showboating antics or his romance with Netcat]].
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though he's definitely a rough customer, apparently the thing that drove him to running in the first place was loosing his girlfriend to Aztlan during the Yucatan Wars. When he discovered she was alive and in an internment camp, he dropped close to ''one hundred million'' nuyen to rescue her by hiring nearly an entire private army.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though he's definitely a rough customer, apparently the thing that drove him to running in the first place was loosing losing his girlfriend to Aztlan during the Yucatan Wars. When he discovered she was alive and in an internment camp, he dropped close to ''one hundred million'' nuyen to rescue her by hiring nearly an entire private army.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though he's definitely a rough customer, apparently the thing that drove him to running in the first place was loosing his girlfriend to Aztlan during the Yucatan Wars. When he discovered she was alive and in an internment camp, he dropped close to ''one hundred million'' nuyen to rescue her by hiring nearly an entire private army.
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A Latino elf hailing from Pueblo, she was forced to escape to Seattle after an incident involving an illegal diamond shipment and a police chase all the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

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A Latino Latina elf hailing from Pueblo, she was forced to escape to Seattle after an incident involving an illegal diamond shipment and a police chase all the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
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This is a sheet for {{Shadowrun}}'s TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'s [=NPCs=]. Under construction, NeedsWikiMagicLove.



** ''Shadowrun'''s dragons may be the only dragons you actually run away from. They aren't fightable: they're stronger, tougher, bigger, and smarter than you (human average stat: 3 (max 6), dragon average: 8, great dragon average: 13--except body/toughness and strength, those are 35+). Oh, and unlike every other {{NPC}}, ''they have Edge'' (the LuckStat, only [=PCs=] have it) and great dragons can do some nasty things with it that you can't. There's a damn good reason why you never deal with a dragon.
*** Alamais, a Great Dragon who operates in Europe, was hit with an orbital weapon system intended for use against military targets and survived.

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** ''Shadowrun'''s dragons may be the only dragons you actually run away from. They aren't fightable: they're stronger, tougher, bigger, and smarter than you (human average stat: 3 (max 6), dragon average: 8, great dragon average: 13--except body/toughness and strength, those are 35+). Oh, and unlike every other {{NPC}}, ''they have Edge'' (the LuckStat, only [=PCs=] have it) and great dragons can do some nasty things with it that you can't. There's a damn good reason why you never deal with a dragon.
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*** Alamais, a Great Dragon who operates in Europe, was hit with an orbital weapon system intended for use against military targets and survived.
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** And in Clockwork's case, that's putting it lightly.
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!!Clockwork
Hobgoblin rigger and mechanic from Sarajevo, Clockwork is also a {{jerkass}} of monstrous proportions whose actions gave him quite a few enemies on Jackpoint.
* GadgeteerGenius: he specializes in modding various easily available items for more... ''specialized'' uses. Then he sells prototypes and blueprints for a living.
* {{Jerkass}}: his prejudice against technomancers caused him to betray Netcat to one of the megacorporations.
* OurOrcsAreDifferent: he's a hobgoblin, an ork variant whose [[PlanetOfHats hat]] is being a vindictive asshole.


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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: would you believe that she's a VR junkie looking at her picture in "10 Jackpointers"?
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent - Occasionally, Our Dragons Are '''[[OurPresidentsAreDifferent PRESIDENTS]]''': Lofwyr's the big shot at Saeder-Krupp (BMW after a few good buyouts), and Dunkelzahn was President of the UCAS for a little over 10 hours before the bomb in his limo tore open a NegativeSpaceWedgie.

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* OurDragonsAreDifferent - Occasionally, Our Dragons Are '''[[OurPresidentsAreDifferent PRESIDENTS]]''': Lofwyr's the big shot at Saeder-Krupp (BMW after a few good buyouts), and Dunkelzahn was President of the UCAS for a little over 10 hours before the bomb in his limo tore open a NegativeSpaceWedgie.NegativeSpaceWedgie and Hestaby is one of the members of Tir Taingire's ruling Council.



----->For a period of ten days beginning on 14 February 2057, Lars J. Matthews will cease to possess any legal status. He will be stripped of all evidence of legal existence, including SIN, credsticks, [=DocWagon=] contract, bank accounts and so on. To the individual or group who ends Lars J. Matthews' physical existence during those ten days, I leave all of Matthews' assets and 1 million nuyen for a job well done. If Mr. Matthews survives and can prove his identity, his legal status and all possessions will be restored to him. Haven't you heard? Never deal with a dragon, Lars.

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----->For --->For a period of ten days beginning on 14 February 2057, Lars J. Matthews will cease to possess any legal status. He will be stripped of all evidence of legal existence, including SIN, credsticks, [=DocWagon=] contract, bank accounts and so on. To the individual or group who ends Lars J. Matthews' physical existence during those ten days, I leave all of Matthews' assets and 1 million nuyen for a job well done. If Mr. Matthews survives and can prove his identity, his legal status and all possessions will be restored to him. Haven't you heard? Never deal with a dragon, Lars.



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!!Hestaby
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech - one she gave Aztlan (publicly, at the UN Assembly) in the intro story to ''SOTA 2073''. A great dragon thoroughly wrecked your shit? That's because you asked for it for at least a decade.
* TakeUpMySword - she is considered Dunkelzahn's successor as the "Keeper of Mankind".
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* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Dragons. Unlike most [=NPCs=], Dragons get [[LuckStat Edge]] and can use it in ways even the [=PCs=] can't. However, the [[BoringButPractical simplest]] way for them to do this is to simply be OnlyMostlyDead after being turned into [[ChunkySalsaRule chunky salsa]] by the [=PCs=]. There is no way for the [=PCs=] to beat this, and the dragon can immediately turn around, hide, and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections from a position of complete safety, use their various pawns to completely and utterly wreck the [=PCs'=] lives.]] This is of course still under control of RuleZero, of course, so most reasonable game masters will let you kill them permanently as long as you do it in a suitably awesome and/or thorough manner.

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* BewareTheNiceOnes - Definitely ''the'' most human-friendly of the Great Dragons... but not above completely incinerating with a single look the assassin who killed his first translator.
* GambitRoulette - His will amounts to this.
* PosthumousCharacter - He's dead by the time you begin the game.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent - Became President of the UCAS... for little over 10 hours.

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* OurDragonsAreDifferentOurDragonsAreDifferent - Occasionally, Our Dragons Are '''[[OurPresidentsAreDifferent PRESIDENTS]]''': Lofwyr's the big shot at Saeder-Krupp (BMW after a few good buyouts), and Dunkelzahn was President of the UCAS for a little over 10 hours before the bomb in his limo tore open a NegativeSpaceWedgie.
** Dunkelzahn was also pretty net-savvy, too. Look in any of the first edition's sourcebooks- he usually goes by 'The Big "D"', though one occasion (in the Street Samurai Catalog) saw him use his real name.
*** The Big D wasn't the only Great Dragon on the Matrix. Hestaby was a Shadowland regular under the handle "Orange Queen", and Celedyr (who is also one of the two majority stockholders of a technology megacorp) was a lurker in many forums under the handle "Stone-Diver" or "Script-Diver".
*** Dunkelzahn's [[{{Will}} will]] brought a number of other Shadow-talking Great Dragons out of the closet, if only to bitch about how the Big D hadn't left them anything.
** ''Shadowrun'''s dragons may be the only dragons you actually run away from. They aren't fightable: they're stronger, tougher, bigger, and smarter than you (human average stat: 3 (max 6), dragon average: 8, great dragon average: 13--except body/toughness and strength, those are 35+). Oh, and unlike every other {{NPC}}, ''they have Edge'' (the LuckStat, only [=PCs=] have it) and great dragons can do some nasty things with it that you can't. There's a damn good reason why you never deal with a dragon.
*** Alamais, a Great Dragon who operates in Europe, was hit with an orbital weapon system intended for use against military targets and survived.
*** They burn some Edge (permanently decrease the stat by a bit in exchange for something like a guaranteed critical success or surviving certain death) and let you THINK that you killed them, and then when you get home you discover that your entire family has been eaten, your [=SIN=] has been revoked, and there is now a bounty on your head that is so large that every shadowrunner in the time zone is now after you.
*** Maybe that's the reason for this entry in [[http://ancientfiles.dumpshock.com/Dunk_Will.htm Dunklezahn's will]]:
----->For a period of ten days beginning on 14 February 2057, Lars J. Matthews will cease to possess any legal status. He will be stripped of all evidence of legal existence, including SIN, credsticks, [=DocWagon=] contract, bank accounts and so on. To the individual or group who ends Lars J. Matthews' physical existence during those ten days, I leave all of Matthews' assets and 1 million nuyen for a job well done. If Mr. Matthews survives and can prove his identity, his legal status and all possessions will be restored to him. Haven't you heard? Never deal with a dragon, Lars.
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** TimeAbyss
* TheChessmaster and ManipulativeBastard
* OurDragonsAreDifferent
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* VoluntaryShapeshifter

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* TakeUpMySword: for Captain Chaos.Chaos, founder of Shadowland who died in 2064.


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!!Kane
Rigger, pirate and mercenary with a grudge against Aztlan, Kane is known as a loose cannon and a team killer and wanted in at least twenty countries.
*AxCrazy: or so the people say.
*{{Cosplay}}: the intro story of ''Safehouses'' tells how he infiltrated ComicCon dressed as an [[StarWars Imperial Stormtrooper]]. He was not amused.
*TokenEvilTeammate: although not the worst.
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Jackpointers are (as it says on the tin) members of the fictional forum Jackpoint, sharing their insight in the in-character sections of splatbooks for the 4th Edition. Jackpoint itself is a successor of earlier such forum, called Shadowland, of which Fastjack, Jackpoint's founder, was an long-standing member.
!!Fastjack
Born in 1999, Fastjack is a veteran hacker who survived both global network crashes.
* CoolOldGuy
* PapaWolf: towards Jackpoint and its members. But betray him and...
--> I will hammer you back to the Stone Age myself if I find out my trust has been misplaced.
* TakeUpMySword: for Captain Chaos.
!!Fianchetto
International Man Of Mystery, suave superspy and another CoolOldGuy, Fianchetto's history is pretty much unknown - few more or less certain things about him is that he worked for various governments under numerous covers over the previous forty years.
* RogueAgent: once, he compromised an operation he was hired for to retrieve a collection of stolen art from a RussianMafia boss.
!!Man of Many Names
Mysterious, white-haired shaman who is said to be incredibly powerful. One of Jackpoint's resident experts in the topics of magic.
*MagicalNativeAmerican
*OlderThanTheyLook: most probably. His age is the subject of mass guessing by Horizon analysts who broke into Jackpoint to gather information on him.
*TheStoic: also, The Cryptic.
!!Turbo Bunny
A Latino elf hailing from Pueblo, she was forced to escape to Seattle after an incident involving an illegal diamond shipment and a police chase all the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
* BadassDriver: that's one of her talents.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: and how. The "incident" in Vegas ended up with Bunny crashing her Ferrari on a [=DataTerm=] booth at presumably high speed.
* WrenchWench: that's her other main talent.[[/folder]]

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