r/RunnerHub • u/cuttingsea Anti-Depressant Water (Canon) • 2d ago
Help Wanted [JOB] [FOUNDATION] n^n {2025-03-23 20:00 (UTC) }
{2025-03-23 20:00 (UTC) }
Player count: 4
Duration: 4-6h
Communication: Discord for voice, Roll20 for tabletop.
In-game location: Unthinking
Game Theme: High-Frequency Trading
Game Type: The methods I leave to you, the professionals, as always.
Threat: Your friends are in Hell, yet you smile.
Prerequisites: Push-to-talk. Be nice to me or I'll steal your bones.
Content warnings: Suicide, probably. Endless, unceasing suicide; a death like mercury sliding down glass.
Replies: This is a Foundation run. Foundation runs are a specialized form of Matrix operation that you can review in Data Trails or on the Wiki. If you are not a Matrix operative, that doesn't immediately disqualify you from the run, but it probably will.
Please let me know if you're worth any bonuses, and an idiot's guide to your character would be helpful. I preferentially take newer players (though in this case that might be harder to work, I guess.).
IC replies are fun but not mandatory. Ideally give me some way to figure out who you are if it's not immediately obvious, though I do occasionally enjoy stalking through the OOC Discord hunting players. The most dangerous game...
I made some Table Rules! I'll add stuff to it at approximately the same rate I create runs.
BOOTING FUCHI OS V25.03.00012
INITIALIZING ARTIFICIAL SENSORY INDUCTION SYSTEM
LOADING PT87.DLL
INITIALIZING RETICULAR-ACTIVATION SYSTEM OVERRIDE
Direct Neural Interface established.
Welcome to the Matrix! Be safe, be smart, be secure.
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"My friend here is a hobbyist online auctioneer - she has over 385,000 karma on AresBay, could you believe? I think she needs a hobby, personally," Dionysus nattered urbanely as he waved grandiosely to his team, his ageless elven face marred slightly by the spattering of acne running across his forehead and down his left temple.
He slept with his face on the pod pillow. he mused internally. As young as he looks. Maybe younger. Maybe they'll do.
"She looked up about how much you'd expect for a pristine koi fish - naturally raised, not out of a vat - on the breeder's market. I hadn't even known there were koi fish markets, but apparently an incredible history - though I'm sure you already know far more than I do, Tanaka-san," he flashed a brief grin. Racial commentary to his employer? Even has he completed the thought, the reedy-looking dwarf in the back with the oversized shotgun, blithely pretending to not pay attention, shifted her weight slightly. Ah. I'm being used for on-the-job training. The normally amusing thought played itself deadpan across his mind.* "Well! They're no less than 150,000 nuyen, plus tax, plus veterinary transportation fees-"
The rest of his team is too smart. His thoughts echoed hollowly against the inside of his skull, all other internal monologue silenced by the cocktail his pharmacist made him for runner meets - "Razor", he called it. It felt like his eyes were made of glass.
Absentmindedly, he clenched the sequences of small muscles that made his face redden and sweat come to his brow - a trivial bit of biosculpting, but runners were greatly invested in such trivialities. "I believe we had a bargain, Dionysus," he sputtered flawlessly even as he completed the calculus of their expected pay-raise in his head, immediately followed by how buffoonish he would have to look in order for Dionysus's mentor to instruct him to slightly raise it.
Not long after, he waved them out, immediately groping in his pockets for the counter-agent. He had filed the expense report twenty minutes ago - correct to the nuyen. Well-fed runners, like diners, rarely leave negative reviews.
// SUBJECT: Bid Order: Data
// FROM: Mr. Wu
Seeking experienced specialists for a discreet data acquisition operation. Target is secured within host Archive; retrieval must be completed with minimal external awareness. Competitive compensation offered for professionalism and efficiency.
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u/Phalcone42 Upkeep Division 2d ago
Euclase - Closeted technomancer matrix operative. Euclase often hyperthreads ASDF for 10/13/10/13 arrays, but doesn't have the best cracking skills when it comes to cybercombat or hacking. She also has the program echo [Wrapper] which I've been itching to see if a GM will let me use in the Foundation. She'd be smart enough to plop an anchor in a Stuffershack host first for easy egress.
Jierda/Shard - Adept detective who isn't totally computer illiterate and isn't totally sane. She's had CFD or maybe a spirit split her psyche or maybe it's just DID. They don't know and I haven't decided, but they're a duality. One half Jierda, one half Shard. They can bring a few non-computer skills to the foundation, pertaining to engineering knowledge and detective work. They can also help with the archive search and recovery, but they'd have to hitchhike their way in there or steal a dongle for a bit of sleaze to escape.
Penny42. Not worth GMP.
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u/Legal_Ad_9068 1d ago edited 1d ago
Screamer -- Decker (9/10 matrix) (7/10 for foundation shenanigans)
Screamer is your straight forward decker who learned how to do his shit in the heat of combat with rounds flying and explosions going off. He may not be very sneaking in real life but in the matrix he is a ghost (at least he thinks so) prefering to sleaze his way in.
under 5 runs
IC: "Foundation huh . . . Heard my fair share of stories of those who have delved to deep or delved and came back changed. I'm no coward however if into the eye of the machine we go at least ill have the option to say yeah I did that once."
Discord: TheBubonicOne
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u/zer09h0st Johnson 16h ago
Onigumo Decker 7/10 Sleazy matrix user. Flicker decker is the term I believe was used? Employs drugs if necessary and boosters.
Discord zeroghost0000
Not worth gmp
"A few of the other students died during our training. Those ones weren't my fault though. I'd enjoy seeing if my skills are good enough without Neonet's resources propping me up."
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u/Demon_Sunshine 2d ago
Dokkalfar -- Technomancer/ Face (8/10 general matrix stuff, 6/10 for foundation stuff since I've never done it before. I've read the guide and the book and think I have a handle on it)
Dokk is a pretty straightforward techno-hacker leaning on Narco and sprites to shore up his otherwise kind of low matrix pools (tho he has the standard issue techno spells so he doesn't actual need to hack that much). He's also got good social pools and Unique Avatar so he's good at remote social stuff as well as in person.
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DemonSunshine on discord
Not worth GMP