Worldbuilding

• Løøp
  • Which gangs are in war/conflict in your neighborhood, and why?
    • Strebergärtner (Heimatverein Schönwalde), bourgeous, bunch of fucking nazis, furious if someone does not do their communal sweeping, vs.
      • Still have some old dead-tree archives
    • Berliner Hanse, lots of legal and illegal trade, often busy and noisy after curfew
      • Hindered in trade by the Rotaugen
    • Rotaugen, half-communists, in Reinickendorf (one red cybereye), allegedly see what all the the others see
      • Strong sense of 'ours', while preserving a strong sense of 'mine' as well
      • Known for raids and squatting
      • Occasionally declaring Berliner Hanse storage buildings as common property
      • Do have a good image and help the weak
    • Neovikings
      • Always cruising party raiders
      • Often passing through the Eichenforstkiez
      • So far too well armed to be removed
      • Always, *always* stay true to their word, and expect the same from others too
    • Sally's kids
      • Nord Spandau
  • What subtle changes did you observe at Neigbour's recenly?
    • Used to be rather relaxed, now more aggression
    • More people (are being) disappeared
    • Now atmosphere of mistrust
• Sandman
  • What's your Kiez? What's the main tension between yours and the neighboring Kiez?
    • Eichenforstkiez, at the edge of Schönwalde
    • Neighboring Kieze can't stand each other
    • Eichenforstkiez is somewhat neutral, but in the middle of the quarrel
  • Which political groups surprisingly got closer recently?
    • (Political science students and astronomy students)
    • Humanis Policlub and ORC (Ork Right Commission)
      • Have more and more the same goals
      • Maybe influenced/played by some third party?
  • Why was the RomCom "Die Königin Berlins" - where Ahrendue "Viki" starred in - such surprising smash-hit?
    • First series without humans, even support staff etc.
    • Lots of money, but where does it come from?
    • Kind of elf propaganda
    • Spans eons of story
    • Re-writes quite a lot of history Berlins
• Blush
  • What direction did Sal steer into that made you leave?
    • Turned for-profit
    • Also, changed name to "Sal", ffs
  • What changes did you observe in people recently?
    • Repair shop opened not too far from here
      • Social meeting club from teens
      • Drone racing club
• Katta
  • What corporations recently lost influence? Why?
    • Saeder-Krupp
      • Had to sell a large factory in Reinickendorf
        • Is owned now by a small French firm
      • Because of 'financial reasons'
      • Maybe in conflict with Lofwyr? Or facilitated by Lofwyr?
    • Szilagyi
      • Repair shop, owned by eastern immigrants
      • Had to sell lots of repair shops recently
        • Maybe targeted revenge?
        • Or family heritage troubles?
  • What changes did you observe in the Astral World recently?
    • Less and less Spirits of Beast
    • Almost none since 5 weeks
• Subway
  • Privatized and self-sustaining
  • In the hand of several groups, gangs, and one corporations
    • Lofwyr owned corp needed to interfere and take over
    • Other forces are more careful now, lest they are acquired as well

Slices of Life

• Mild earthquakes shake Schönwalde
• Pizza delivery scooter crashes into Katta's yoga studio
  • His studio is in the upper levels of a tall building for social housing
  • "Die Überlieferung" delivery driver crashed
  • The rear half of scooter is gone, ripped apart
  • Driver girl is shocked, but alive
  • She steals a bike and moves on to fill her quota
    • Luckily she had insurance for the scooter
  • Løøp analyzes the wreckage, concludes that it was hacked apart by a large blunt object
  • Via Løøp (and commission to Katta) they are selling the usable parts
  • They poke Sandman to spar about supernatural threats
• Blush goes grocery shopping for himself and also for Mandy
  • Finds grocery shopper dead, bleeding
  • Manages to hide while Strebergärtner analyzes the corpse
    • Stabbed by something blunt and large
  • Strebergärtner then vanish with loot
• Fritz Kola "Hermann Schneider / Herr Johansson" trying to hire Løøp (and others?) to "entertain" / abduct the Queen during ad shoot
  • Løøp mailing lists
    • Satirical news "Der Konzern" <- gets ad
    • Drone scene, race news
    • "How to make money" <- gets ad
  • Sandman and Løøp call the Ahrendue
    • she reveals that Fritz Kola might want to spoil a planned ad shoot
  • Sandman visits the Fritz Kola building, makes a contract with them for his shop
    • Found a dying Spirit of Beast in the lobby
  • Løøp tries to find out more at Fritz Kola
  • Two cornettos blocking entry to the building, keeping out riff-raff - and Løøp
  • Løøp scouts the surroundings for entry points, finds a broken window being repaired and blood on that window and the fence around the building
    • The window seems to be smashed from the outside
  • Boss later appears on Trideo, praising Bärnstein Brause and it's *healing properties* (?!)
    • Fritz Kola stocks tank

Best Scenes

• Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream... Hands over joint 🌿
• Løøp gets hired by a veeeery awkward Mr. Johnson
• Katta reminds the crew about the unwritten rules about Shadowruns
• Crashed Pizza-girl, food everywhere, scooter cut in half
• Løøp wants to put together a crew to get on a Shadowrun, Sandman nervous, Blush wants to get into action, Katta pulls a 180 and tells that the offer is full of crap

Reward

• 2 Karma