RPGaDAY 2024 - Day Ten

 

RPG you'd like to see on TV. 

I'm assuming a live action or animated adaption here. Not just some folks setting around a table playing, we already have that in spades and most are boring as hell. So let me think for a moment. 

We've already go Cyberpunk covered with the Edgerunners series from Netflix. 

Alien was based on live action. 

Fallout... nuff said there. 

So I'm going to say Sla Industries even though I have nothing to do with that game anymore at all. But a well funded live action series would be simply amazing. Only if it was based more off the original version (which I linked to) of the setting and not the bland remake we have now. An animated show done with the quality of Arcane, now that would kick ass. 

Squad Names Three

 

After a two and a half year complete stop I have finally managed to get something new up over on DrivethruRPG. It's been a while yeah, after catching Covid and going on a ventilator for a bit my brain got real fuzzy. Took me several months before I could really talk without having to stop every sentence or two just to remember what word I was wanting to use. But with my job and finally gaming on a very regular basis the brain fog cleared up. Then it was just getting down and actually doing it. So starting off the New Year with new stuff. 

Another installment of 100 various squad names for military, cyberpunk or scifi games. Works really good for Sla Industries as well. Best thing is that it's really cheap, only 75 cents. 

You can PICK IT UP HERE if you want.

Or get it bundled with all three volumes OVER ON ITCH. 

Hopefully this will be a slow start to me getting more stuff up there. Got a lot of ideas but it's kind of hard to get it down in a way that I like. 

Sla Industries - The Surgeons

 

Image is from Marshall Law: Kingdom of the Blind. 

Not all the children who go missing are victims of the Skin Trade. Some suffer a very different fate, thankfully one that is terminal rather than what the Trade does. But it still takes those young and innocent away from the world of the living.

In there are those who have accumulated massive amounts of money. But due to being born in the downtrodden section of the city of Mort they do not have the luxuries available that their uptown brethren benefit from. One of these things they lack is access to custom grown organs, replacement glands and other such things to lengthen their lifespan and health. So they get them in other various ways.

Young children nearing the age of puberty are 'harvested' from the streets through various means. From outright kidnappings to purchasing them from parents and relatives who value money over the lives of their own relations. The fitter and more healthy they are the more they are worth to the surgeons who will use them as resell.

An organization known simply as The Surgeons then have their bounty taken to various secluded locations in abandoned hospitals, warehouses and slaughter houses. There the children are dissected and many of their organs and anything that can fetch a price on the black market is placed in a stasis solution. Whatever remains of their victims is then discarded in various means from simply body dumping operations to being mixed in with actual meat sold to the masses.

The organs and glands are then sold to the “upper class” of Downtown. They are then used to replace their own with the help of the same surgeons who collected the parts. Using an injection of a chemical known as “Alter 15A” the rejection syndrome common from donated body parts is completely negated as the DNA of the foreign body part is slightly modified to match that of the host body. Restoring the health and energy to those suffering from old age, disease and injury. Thus keeping the rich alive longer by taking the lives of the children born to poor.

Most of The Surgeons also operate out of small rundown underfunded medical clinics located all over Downtown. They use their records and connections to locate healthy children so they can be collected when an order comes in. The Alter 15A is actually an abandoned project from Karma used before lab grown body parts were perfected. Once they the people of Uptown no longer needed to rely on organ donors who had died the manufacturing of it was shut down. However The Surgeons have discovered how to replicate and manufacture their own supply now.

Sla Industries - The division of classes

 

You can purchase Sla Industries over on DrivethruRPG. 

There is a wall that separates uptown from downtown. Making sure there is physical set boundary between those who have and those who do not. Not that this is the only division. What weapons are available for protection, currency used and even the police force enforce this division of classes. But the wall is the feature that you will always remember. 

Most vehicle traffic is slowed to a crawl especially when moving from the downtown side over to the uptown area. Being an operative helps the process along quite a bit but anything civilian level can expect hours of delays as paperwork is double checked and each vehicle is inspected for contraband and explosives. 

Foot traffic makes up for over ninety percent of movement between districts. Each side has large parking garages available nearby and Shivers provide security at the gates. Again, being an operative has it's privileges and most are allowed to walk through with a simple scan of their ID badge to verify who they are. All others are required to show identification, provide reasons for crossing and go through a scan to make sure they aren't carrying anything illegal... or rigged to explode. 

There are at least three bombings a day between all the various gates along the wall. It's just a way of life now. Things are quickly cleaned up, bodies removed and more security added for a few days. But the movement just keeps on going.

Now along each side you will also find clusters of shops and services. On the uptown side they are set up like strip malls. Clean and well lit with plenty of flashing lights and advertisements. The downtown side is very much a different sort of animal. There are shops built along the side of the wall with stairways leading up into dangerously built levels of even more shops. The streets are congested with carts and kiosks with people selling everything imaginable. The lighting is poor, the area is dirty and the petty crime rate is high. 

One thing everyone notices on the downtown side are the posters. Everywhere you look are posters for missing people. Some places they are layered over one another up to an inch deep after years of being added to. The streets are constant with loose ones blowing around in the traffic as you see desperate family members wandering around putting up new ones hoping that someone has seen their missing loved ones. Or at least hoping somebody will look. 

Ninety percent of the missing persons posters are for children. 

Downtown Mort has become the city that eats its young. 

Sla Industries - The Truth about Dark Night

 

More of my personal take of the Sla Industries setting. Let's look at Dark Night this time around.

Pick up Sla Industries 1st edition over on DrivethruRPG. 

The terrorist group/soft company known as Dark Night isn't quite what most would believe. They definitely aren't what Sla Industries wants you to believe. Let's start off with one thing, there are two Dark Night groups existing at the same time. 

First is the fake Dark Night. This is ran by Sla Agents working undercover as subversive terrorist agents. From the outside they look like they want to cause as much destruction and death as possible. The upper echelon is Sla loyalists who recruit those from downtown who are desperate to survive. They let them think they are in an actual subversive group when they are not. Carrying out specific missions whose actual end goals are to actually cover something up via destruction and mayhem along with some straight up assassination missions against those that get in the way of the bigger picture or are digging to deep into things they should not. 

Basically they do the dirty work that Sla Industries would rather not have their fingers on. Along with smearing the actual Dark Night organization with their heavy handed and high collateral damage activities. 

The actual Dark Night is a full on subversive/soft company organization. Their entire goal is to undermine the Company and shift the power balance so that others may gain footholds and pry the power from one single person into the hands of many. While they also do assignations, thefts and cause some collateral damage they are much more laser focused. Going after very specific targets while doing as little harms to any innocents who may be in the area. They also spread literature and information throughout downtown in an effort to sway the masses to their way of thinking. 

Also they offer a high reward for anyone that can deliver members of the fake Dark Night to them alive. Especially if they turn out to be any of the Sla Agents running that group. 

Now within the actual Dark Night organization is another group that is only known the higher ranking members. It's called Daylight and it's made entirely of undercover Dark Night agents that have infiltrated the company, people within the company who have decided to switch sides and their handlers. It's all kept very compartmentalized so many of them don't now of the others in case somebody is discovered. Even the handlers know the two or three they are assigned to. This group leaks out information, equipment, anything they can in order to aid the movement to take down Sla Industries. Most Dark Night members are completely unaware of the existence of Daylight.   

Sla Industries - The Truth in my Games part 2

 

Over on DrivethruRPG you can pick up Sla Industries 1st edition, Hunter Sheets 1 and Hunter Sheets 2.

Time for a little more about Necranthropes (called Necs for rest of article) in my version of the World of Progress in Sla Industries. First off, and this should be remembered at all times, they are not the good guys. Not even close. They are a race of creatures that are absolutely dripping in evil. The only reason they may look in the least like they are something else is because they are putting on an act. Intruder has a plan for them and until that plan is ready they are to appear loyal to Mister Slayer. 

Flux isn't exactly what it's claimed to be. Yes it's an energy that exists all around us. But it's created by the suffering and agony of living beings. Mort happens to be a perfect location to produce a nearly endless amount.

They have also found an alternative source of flux to draw upon. One that is refined and pure, that they enjoy so much better because it sets their senses on fire. That is by pulling the souls out of those who have been corrupted and abused. Those who have lost all hope, all innocence and are nearly just burned out husks of what they could have potentially been. Now while this may fit many who live in the downtown areas of Mort their absolute favorite supplier is the Skin Trade. 

The Trade sells it's 'remnants' of their 'product' to the Necs either for a tidy little price or in exchange for equipment and information. This also means the Necs will protect those in the trade who in the higher echelons of the company offices. Just so their thirst for this new form of flux can keep making it's way to them. Also it's a self serving circle as the actions of Trade also cause more suffering to keep the furnace of misery that is Mort burning endlessly.

After being drained the emancipated bodies of the victims are disposed of by a massive reality fold to a location off world (more on this in a future article). 

One last thing to remember. Even Bitterness is afraid of the Necs and what they may become.

Sla Industries - I found what?

 

Searching the bodies for clues and gear to turn in is always a good time in Sla Industries. But what else are you finding? Roll a D10

Dark Night Sniper

1 - 8 Rounds for the weapon they are carrying.

2 - A wad of medical gauze and tape.

3 - A cheap cigarette lighter and a half a pack of Coffin Nails.

4 - Two bottles of No Doze caffeine pills.

5 - Folded up Dark Night propaganda poster. 

6 - Chocolate covered energy bar.

7 - Worn out and ratty looking black ski mask.

8 - Homemade shiv with a handle made of masking tape.

9 - An issue of the Captain Freedom subversive comic book.

10 - A stub of a black grease pen. 

Dead Shiver

1 - A small pack of large condoms.

2 - Couple packs of long lasting breath mints. 

3 - Seven business cards from various brothels. 

4 - Flask of very potent home made alcohol. 

5 - Slip of paper with six apartment numbers written on it, but no address. 

6 - A ring of keys, various sizes and types.

7 - Coupon for a free SLURPS frozen drink.

8 - A folded up pamphlet on signing up to become an operative. 

9 - A homemade one shot derringer with a round of hotline in it.

10 - A pack of blackmarket cigarettes called Black Tar.  

Sla Industries - The Truth in my games.

 

Decided to start doing some blog posts about the changes I do to the Sla Industries 1st edition setting in my games. Some of these may come as a surprise to my players but I'm not sure how many actually chose to read my blog. 

The Truth about the Ebon race. 

The Ebons are NOT the race that Intruder saved. That is a lie he told Slayer to throw him off of his long term plans. However the Ebons are essential, they are needed for the gestation and growth of the actual race that was saved, the Necanthropes. 

A Necanthrope starts off birthed and grown deep in the bowels of the Dark Lament facilities. It takes years of careful tending to bring them from a larval form to the next stage of their development. That as a deathsuit. It is then that they are attached to their host, a young and healthy Ebon. It is then that they start to develop their abilities to pull in flux and manipulate that wild energy. As the Ebon learns more and grows stronger so does the deathsuit until it reaches the time for the final stage. 

At the Necanthrope Church the Ebon host is offered the choice of steel or lead and is sacrificed to the white. While the false belief is that the Ebon transforms into a Necanthrope the truth is the Ebon dies and their body is fully taken over by the deathsuit and it transforms into the final form. They possess all of the memories and mannerisms the host had but will change over the course of a few years into their own personality. 

The Necanthrope is also completely loyal to Intruder and Preceptor Teeth. With their loyalty to Slayer is a ruse to keep them a secret until they are needed. 

Brain Wasters were an attempt by Bitterness to infect the Ebon line with a tainted poison meant to stop the Necanthrope from bonding. However it did not work and they were just as capable of being a host as before. But there is debate about their any effects that may have carried over after the sacrifice. 

You can find Sla Industries 1st edition on DrivethruRPG.

More to come soon. 

Dicember 2021 - Ammo

 

Today Dicember says Ammo. So here we go. 

One of the scifi tropes for ammunition is that it will be going caseless. No brass flying off as you fire it, everything is either the projectile or a solid fuel source that burns up when fired. Which is a neat idea and there have been some attempts at going that way in the real world with mixed results. But one thing that rings true is that caseless ammo would be less stable than standard brass jacketed ammunition. Easier to break or crumble, easier to contaminate with chemicals or oils on your fingertips. Don't forget about setting it all off by an electrical shock. Just overall something you wouldn't want to handle and maintain a high level of quality. 

Therefore it would make sense to have it sealed at the factory inside a magazine. One that is resistant to chemicals, electrical shock and even sharp impacts. There would be no reloading yourself, just pull out another magazine from your pack and either toss the old one aside or into a pocket or pack. 

The used magazines could then be returned for a deposit or as credit towards the purchase of more preloaded magazines. Say you pay 40 bucks for a ten round mag, then return it empty for a 5 dollar credit. If there were still rounds inside unused those can be safely recycled at the factory also so you get another 2 bucks per bullet. 

Plus this lets you add to the setting flavor wise a bit. You would have folks scurrying out after a big gun fight aftermath to grab any spent and tossed magazines they could find to cash in. Homeless folks raking in everything they can get for some extra dollars to spend. Or maybe even stripping the bodies of mags and leaving all the weapons since they can be traced. Welcome to a new level of the bullet economy. 

I like this so much I'll be making it part of Welcome to the City.

Now it's a Dicember entry so I need a quick way relate this to a die roll. So here we go scrounging through the aftermath for magazines to turn in.

When scrounging a recent area where a firefight has occurred you can roll to see how many tossed away magazines you have found.  For a small skirmish roll a D4 and then scale it up to a D20 (or 4D6 if you are feeling generous) for the much larger conflicts. Then at the GM discretion you can roll a D6 to see how many still had rounds left inside. For each one of those roll a D4 for the amount of unspent rounds.  

Sponsorship - Tube

 

This is a collection of two companies that sponsor runners, musicians, and other popular figures in a dark future. Games with heavy corporate control or constant television presence work the best. Using sponsors allows the GM to toss a little extra cash to the PC's in their games without creating an overwhelming flow of cash.

All prices included are listed in 'credits'. To transfer over to other settings, you can figure one credit to be worth the amount of a decent coffee purchased at a gas station

One assumption of this resource is that there are numerous AI programs scanning the endless television channels and social media networks all day long. If it is caught on television in any fashion, good or bad, the amount of time is recorded. On social media the amount of likes or views a person receives is recorded. The data is then sent back to the companies so they can determine who gets paid out.

Tube

Sometimes all you need are the basics to keep you going. Our bodies only require a specific amount of nutrition to keep going, with that amount increasing if we are more active. So why would anyone want to digest more than they have to? Why streamline your own body to near perfection if you aren't doing the same thing for your insides? With Tube that's what you do. Giving your body exactly what it needs, no more, no less.

Sold, as their name would lead you to believe, by the tube. Each Basic tube containing enough to replace a normal meal. Other tubes are smaller and for specific activities named Heavy Work, Work Out – Cardio, Work Out – Muscle Building, Extended Activity, and Healing. Also listed on each type of tube is the recommended amount of water that one should drink while consuming the product.

This product started as a more upper class product aimed at physical fitness junkies. Now the popularity has spread out to many other demographics and thus throughout the city. You can find Tube in most markets and convenience stores. Along with several kiosks located throughout the city, usually with a bottle water kiosk built into it. A Basic tube sells for 8 credits while most of the supplemental tubes sell for 5 credits each.

What is inside of the tube is a gray paste that is rather gritty. The taste is usually compared to that of Styrofoam or unflavored jello. The container itself resembles a large toothpaste tube with a wider nozzle at the end.

The franchise tends to sponsor those with athletic and healthy living backgrounds. They are also branching out into backing operators, bounty hunters, and other folks who tend to get air time and have to stay fit in order to do their jobs. They don't sponsor those just starting out and instead go for those who have built themselves up a little already.

Basic Sponsorship package

They are required to wear a high grade plastic wrap shaped to fit their lower leg. Held in place with Velcro straps, colored a light gray with a black logo and a unique serial code underneath. The design is very prominent and can be picked up by the media scanning AI's very easily.

They receive a bonus of 3 credits for each time they appear on television with the logo visible. With an additional 2 credits for every minute they are on. For social media networks they receive 1 credit per 40k 'likes' or similar. There is a maximum of 40 credits payed out per month.

If they hit the monthly maximum, or have done something special to garner notice, they are sent a bonus. A six pack of Tube with one of each of the supplements.

Advanced Sponsorship package

This is achieved once they have collected 200 credit in payout.

They now offer to have the logo and bar code placed on a persons boots or onto a large surface of their armor.

They also receive the same payout based on television appearances/viewers, but the maximum per month is raised to 80 credits.

A special package of six basic Tubes and a eighteen supplemental tubes of their choice are now delivered to the sponsored individual.

Levels beyond this are all privately negotiated

John “The Original” Doe, the first fully successful self aware clone produced by the now defunct genetics company 'Duality' is one of the biggest faces for Tube. Claiming that it's precise nutritional dose is exactly what he needs to keep in top shape for his dark op activities. Appearing on infomercials and leading the front on the 'Tube Lifestyle' that fitness fanatics are raving about. Even the side of their kiosks have his picture down their sides. He is provided all the Basic and supplemental tubes he needs.

“Everything you need, it's in the Tube”

Sponsorship - Sumthin Beer

 

This is a collection of two companies that sponsor runners, musicians, and other popular figures in a dark future. Games with heavy corporate control or constant television presence work the best. Using sponsors allows the GM to toss a little extra cash to the PC's in their games without creating an overwhelming flow of cash.

All prices included are listed in 'credits'. To transfer over to other settings, you can figure one credit to be worth the amount of a decent coffee purchased at a gas station.

One assumption of this resource is that there are numerous AI programs scanning the endless television channels and social media networks all day long. If it is caught on television in any fashion, good or bad, the amount of time is recorded. On social media the amount of likes or views a person receives is recorded. The data is then sent back to the companies so they can determine who gets paid out.

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Sumthin Beer

When it's been a long day and you need a cold one to help wash away the pain of the day, but you don't have a lot of cash. Well then what you are looking for is Sumthin Beer. Low in price, high in alcohol, as for the taste... well let's just say that after a couple you won't notice it anymore. It's cheap and can get you drunk quick, that's the entire selling point of this product.

Sold almost entirely in the lower class sections of a city. Although some high class individuals like to be seen with a bottle so they can appear as 'slumming it' on their social networks. You can pick it up in nearly every convenience store, bar, night club and they even have street vendors with refrigerated carts selling at, or near, popular events. Comes in three sizes: Regular (4 credits), Big Bottle (6 credits), and the smaller A Little (2 credits). Also there is now Sumthin Different which changes to a random color when opened for only a one extra credit per bottle.

The franchise offers sponsorship opportunities to those who have even the smallest chance of being noticed by the public eye. They particularly like sponsoring those who are known to frequent parties and bars.

Basic Sponsorship package

They are required to wear a plastic wrap shaped to fit on their upper back. Held in place with elastic straps, colored a light brown with the logo in dark colors and a unique serial code underneath. The design is very prominent and can be picked up by the media scanning AI's very easily.

They receive a bonus of 1 credit for each time they appear on television with the logo visible. With an additional 1 credit for every minute they are on. For social media networks they receive 1 credit per 30k 'likes' or similar. There is a maximum of 20 credits payed out per month.

They also receive a coupon that can be cashed in at any place selling Sumthin for a free Regular bottle. This coupon is sent to them once every two weeks. If they hit their maximum credits payout for the month, then five free coupons are immediately sent out. A few folks have been known to save up their coupons and use them for trade and barter in the shadier parts of the city.

Advanced Sponsorship package

This is achieved once they have collected 100 credits in payout.

The logo upper back wrap is upgraded to a higher more durable grade of plastic and is held in place with Velcro straps.

They also receive the same payout based on television appearances/viewers, but the maximum per month is raised to 40 credits.

Their coupons are increased to one a week. Plus, if they make a good appearance on television with the logo very clear, a few more may be mailed out to them as a 'bonus'.

Levels beyond this are all privately negotiated

While Sumthin Beer isn't a company that many stay with on a long term there are exceptions. The once highly popular bounty hunter 'Teeth' Thomson has been with them for years and he is a common feature on many of their television commercials. Even after his retirement from his job, they use him quite often especially during their roll out of Sumthin Different. He is often given stacks of coupons to use or simply give out whenever he feels like. Some people even have him sign them and never cash it in.

“When you need A Little Sumthin.”

Sla Industries - Subversive Six Pack

Another old Sla Industries resource that was previously available on my long dead website in pdf form. Decided to make it available again on the blog here. Hope you find something useful here.

 

 

Subversive Six Pack – Six Soft Companies for Sla Industries

Below are listed six soft companies with some simple and quick descriptions tagged onto them. Useful for when you need to pull a quick mission out for a group or to help you kick off some more ideas in your head for future BPNs.

Pop Gun Fanatics

This company makes toy replicas of Sla weaponry. They are exact in scale and detail almost perfect copies except they are made in a low quality plastic. All of the internal workings are replace by a simple 'clacker' for the pop sound the guns make. Normally most operations like this aren't considered a big threat and are overlooked. However since they are cutting into the sales of the official toys (less detail, wrong scale and worse plastic with a higher cost) they have become a target of the weapon manufacturers.

Mister Slayer Haters Club

This company started up when they got two pieces of essential equipment. One is a outdated printing press that can nearly use anything for ink after it's mixed with a bit of oil. The other is a recycling machine that pulls the print off of paper leaving it blank. So all they have to do is collect old papers from downtown trash piles and they have all the supplies they need.

They are ran by a subversive leader who has a real hate on for Sla Industries. They print attack reports, news of successful subversive actions, coded messages and anything else they can get. However they will not print Dark Night material as the small staff doesn't trust them.

Flux Off Inc

Founded by a rogue Necanthrope who has decided to switch sides five years ago Flux Off has become a thorn in the side of Dark Lament for a while now. Using his knowledge of how to make the type of ebb stopping glyphs that exist in the Pit he started providing them for subversive groups.

Consisting of other ebb users who have either gone rogue as well or just recruited from the streets they have been trained in Glyph etching. So for a price you can purchase specialized glyphs blocks, towers and other objects.

One Subject Games

Makers of blackmarket first person shooters for various video game units out there. Usually they simply steal the engines from other game makers and overlay their own skins, maps and storyline. However what has attracted some attention of people in power is the nature of some of their maps and goals. Their level maps are always those of actual high level or important Sla Industries facilities. They are nearly perfect, so perfect in fact that Phantom Pregnancy reconstructed some of its locations on Mort to change the layout of hallways and checkpoints. Even guard routines are copied into their games. The goals can range from assassinations in the corporate offices to the steal of top secret files from laboratories and computer banks.

Livewire Studios

These folks make a an application that can be downloaded to most hand held electronic devices that establish a connection with the Mort wide information grid. The application is called “Slops Around Me” and it has the device listen for certain wavelengths that are known to be used by Sla personnel. This includes their headsets, other communication devices and even (although the makers don't realize this) the signals sent out by people who are chipped.

Then using the signals it figures out the operatives locations and overlays them onto a map if one is available. If there is no map then it will still give you the direction and distance. Needless to say this has caused a few squads to walk into fatal ambushes because the subversives knew they were coming.

Artificial Joy Club

While not the makers of fine black market drugs they are one of the bigger distributors. Artificial Joy Club sets up large parties in order to draw in their customers. Usually sending out messages to subscribed members who send them out further just hours before they begin. This alone has created some chaos as you have hundreds of teenagers all rushing into one area with the single goal of partying and getting high.

Since these parties do attract all sorts of users some operatives use them to meet contacts or to gather information. The only reason there has been some effort to shut them down is the actual distribution of the drugs especially after a few Shatter dealers showed up selling their goods as other narcotics.

100 Squad Names for Sla Industries

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Roll A D20 - Humorous Operation Names

Need a name for an operation that doesn't give away what it's about because you are all about OpSec? Well here are twenty humorous names for those ops.

1. Operation Flamingo Chicken
2. Operation Synaptic Twitch
3. Operation CyberFunk
4. Operation Forty Five Lies
5. Operation Squirrel Nuts
6. Operation Pony Mittens
7. Operation Butt Floss
8. Operation Brother Dude
9. Operation Seedless Grape
10. Operation Pretty Things
11. Operation Clutching Pearls
12. Operation Glitter Cleanup
13. Operation Monkey Paw
14. Operation Motivation
15. Operation Pink Duck
16. Operation Doughboy
17. Operation Combat Entertainment
18. Operation SlashFic
19. Operation Dish Soap
20. Operation Nerd Rage

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Roll A D20 - Things to find in a gang members pockets.

20 things to find on a gang members body

1. A collection of cred sticks held together with a rubber band, only a D10 of credits on each of them.
2. A pair of scuffed up reading glasses.
3. Small bag full of ammunition, various calibers and types.
4. Bus pass that is good for the next two months.
5. Hand scrawled map of streets on the other side of the city.
6. Medicine bottle half full of heavy duty stimulants.
7. Half drank bottle of very cheap whiskey.
8. Pair of pliers and a couple of bloody gold teeth.
9. Set of brass knuckles with spikes on them.
10. Small collection of Virtual Vikie holo-porn discs.
11. Throw away phone with a few numbers stored in but no names on them, just a letter for each.
12. A cobbled together remote that will unlock most electric car door locks.
13. A small hand held police scanner.
14. Metal tin filled with the latest street narcotic to come along.
15. Pair of very stained up leather gloves.
16. Pack of condoms.
17. Bundle of business cards from various pawn and junk shops.
18. Bag containing a collection of various men's and women's jewelry.
19. Roll of duck tape.
20. An unloaded very small pocket pistol.

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Roll A D20 - Scifi squad names

Need a fast name for a squad/unit/team/whatever in your scif or cyberpunk game? Well grab a D20 and give it a roll!

Squad names

1. Faulty Calibrations
2. Damage Inc.
3. Endangering Species
4. Red Stars
5. Ways to and End
6. Silence
7. Precision and Power
8. Faultline
9. Corpse Creators
10. 101 Damnations
11. Lollipop Lacerations
12. Beer Money Bandits
13. IMF
14. Deal with the Devil
15. Low Tech
16. CyberDawgs
17. Line of Sight Solutions
18. The Hands that Smite
19. One Job
20. Laser Focused

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SLA Industries - Puppy Mill

This is a fan resource for Sla Industries.

The most popular and well known pet store chain on Mort is The Puppy Mill chain. With locations in downtown, shopping malls, suburbia and even a few in uptown they are very well known. While the popularity of having your own pet has died down a bit over the last decade or so the franchise managed to restructure in survive very well. Now they are pushing to be noticed again by sponsoring operatives.

Featuring some of the most popular genetically modified, and sometime vat grown, pets available on Mort. Dogs specifically designed to help keep the giant insect population under control in their owners apartments. Cats that glow in the dark. Snakes that exude a calming pheromone. Not to mention their famous 'Nutra-Rats' that are high in proteins, antioxidants and other nutritional elements essential for the Wraith Raider concerned for their healthy eating styles.

Basic Sponsorship package.

Operative is required to wear a plastic curved wrap on their forearm. Held in place with elastic straps, colored light gray with the Puppy Mill logo in dark blue.

The Operative receives 1 credit per month. They receive an additional 4 credits for each time they appear on television with the logo visible. There is a maximum of 20 credits payed out per month.

The operative also receives a monthly issue of Puppy Mill magazine. Full of news and pet tips every month.

Advanced Sponsorship package.

Achieved once they have collected 40 credits in payout.

The logo forearm wrap is upgraded to a higher more durable grade of plastic and is held in place with Velcro straps or Friction Tape.

Operative receives the same payout but the maximum per month is raised to 40.

With their Puppy Mill magazine subscription they also receive a free bag of Kennel Koff brand pet food each month. Plus additional coupons for Puppy Mill and Kennel Koff products.

Levels beyond this are all privately negotiated.

Operative Susie “Sweety” Sanchez is the most popular Puppy Mill sponsored operative. Although having retired from most operative work for a year now she still appears in ads for the chain. Usually with her eight multicolored cats and her prototype of the Domino Dog breed named 'Overbite'. Reportedly her animals have lifetime passes to the Puppy Mill kennels if she needs to go on a long term op along with top of the line medical care for them as well.

Sla Industries - Almost Meat Stix

A resource for the Sla Industries RPG. 

Ask anyone Downtown about what is their favorite snack when they want something that resembles meat and tastes great and you will get one answer. Almost Meat Stix. Sold across downtown in convenience stores, spirit shops, corner markets, bars and even at Madame Shades chain of higher class brothels. These wonderful meatlike slivers of joy are great for an anytime snack.

Each Almost Meat Stix costs only 3 uni and come in a variety of flavors. Almost Original, Almost Spicy, Almost Sweet and even Almost Haggis for our Frother customers. Don't forget to pick up a pack of Almost Cheese Stix to go with it at their low cost of 2 uni. Two great tastes that go Almost together.

Basic Sponsorship package.

Operative is required to wear a plastic curved wrap on their upper leg. Held in place with elastic straps, colored meaty red with the Almost logo in bright yellow.

The Operative receives 1 credit per month. They receive an additional 4 credits for each time they appear on television with the logo visible. There is a maximum of 20 credits payed out per month.

The operative also receives a special Almost delivery service and receive a pack once every month containing a random assortment of Almost products.

Advanced Sponsorship package.

Achieved once they have collected 40 credits in payout.

The logo leg wrap is upgraded to a higher more durable grade of plastic and is held in place with Velcro straps or Friction Tape.

Operative receives the same payout but the maximum per month is raised to 40.

Their Almost delivery now comes in every two weeks.

Levels beyond this are all privately negotiated.

Frother Operative Finn “Final” MacGregor has been using their sponsorship for years. Has multiple coats, hats, boots and even some custom armor with the “Almost” logo sprayed across them. He also appears in many of their television ads with the tag lines of “It's Almost good!” and “All the meat you can Almost eat”.

SLA Industries - SLURPS

This article is no longer free on my blog. It's been adapted to be setting and system neutral is now available on DrivethruRPG in Sponsorship: Food and Drink. Priced at only 75 cents. 

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Dark Night Black Squads



Dark Night black squads.

“I don't know man they were just there all of a sudden. They didn't wear what Dark Night folks usually wear, these guys had on blocker. Only it was all black with their logo on it, like in white spray paint or something. Their helmets were different though, all smooth and featureless like. No eyes man, no eyes. They just started shooting everyone in sight. Me and four others made it away by dropping into the sewers. Then after the pig showed up I was the only one who made it out of there.”

Civilian Jack Stallbrick. Sole survivor of a black squad massacre.

An old threat has taken up a new tactic downtown. Ditching their own armor in favor of using apparently stolen Sla Industries supplies. These small teams of black clad killers are a growing concern for many of the people living in the lower parts of the city. But finding proof of their existence beyond a few very lucky survivors is like finding an honest man in the black market business.

Reports have been called in, Shiver units and Operative Squads were sent to the scene. But by the time either of them arrive all that they find is dead bodies, shell casings and empty streets. Some Shiver units who arrive on the scene first have been hit with a chemical weapon in the form of a gas that goes right through all current filtration devices. Effects are a short term induced coma and memory loss. Some units found their team mates killed after the gas was used on them. There are even some rumors of Operative squads finding entire Sleeper Shiver units dead upon arrival.

“Yeah it was a fucking mess man. Seven Shivers dead, two wounded and one in good shape in their APC but knocked out from the gas. Not to mention what looked liked around fifteen dead gang members and several other civilians caught in the middle. No survivors, no witnesses to talk to us. All we could do was pick up the pieces.”

Connie “Killer C” Jones SLC 8.5 of squad 'Clown Shock'.

Sla Industries spokesmen have nothing to say about the matter other than the situation is being looked into. While Shiver Commanders are adamant that something is going on and they have lost to many good troopers to this new threat. While a few of our deeper sources in downtown are saying that some Dark Night operatives are claiming that their company has nothing to do with these attacks and, while without any proof, are blaming Thresher for equipping whoever these teams are.

Any news or tips feel free to contact us at the Station 259 Downtown news desk. This is reporter Mark Clemmons signing off.

 

 

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You can find Sla Industries material (including the core rulebook at 'pay what you want' pricing) on the Nightfall Games page on Drivethrurpg.

 

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