Tuesday, March 29, 2011

How do you get a Job?

Lets say you are a fifth level Aristocrate. Roll Gather Information. A tenth gen Sabat Pander? Roll streetwise plus manipulation. Power rating ten Mutant? A Knowledge check might suffice, but a contact would be a more likely choice. If you are a SIN-less Shadowrunner then you will most deffinatly using a contact. That begs the question. If you are a SIN-less Shadowrunner and your real job job required you to get a fake job inside an office compley? Now that will take a couple of rolls. Lets examine the scenario of a day job in 2062.
You have no SIN. Social security number, for a post apocolyptic United Canadian American States. First purchase is a fake one of those. Street level contact, couple hundred nuyen, no problem. Next a background check on yer new self. Not even a hundred nuyen. Credit check, pocket change. Call to the local court house for a warrant check, free from a payphone. That's one contact roll and one streetwise check. You could have it all 'taken care of' by a class 3 fixer, but your a DIY guy. So you know who you are, and you know what is going to come back when someone checks on ya. Your ready to go chummer.
Walk into the place with pride. Acting roll. Slot your stolen resume and act casual, forgery. Wait for superior slash supervisor to reply, and then explain why you are not coming through normal channels without mentioning that you are not coming through normal channels. You could try and bribe one of the late night employees into suggesting you as a friend referal, but being related to the owner or going to school with the owner's cousin's daughter is right out. Fastalk or Con Artist roll ..or bribery. Then? Well, wait ..either you have the job or you flopped one of your rolls. It's either red team go! or plan b. Shoot everybody and camp out till Lone Star comes after you with drones.
There ya go. Getting a Job Shadowrunner style. The Aristocrat example is still buzzing in my mind. Maybe I'll do it next time. Maybe..

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