LA RUNNER PITCH

LA Shadowrun: Everyone Wants To Be Famous

Los Angeles hasn't changed much. The land of Hollywood, once filled with those who seek desperately to find fame and fortune of their own, now houses the grandchildren of those people. Only now, the new face of fame are the Shadowrunners. Reality tridshows and simsense chips are consumed around the world, watching deniable assets fight to survive another night in the shadows. A hell of a life, if you can get noticed. An easy route to fame, though not without dangers of its own. After all, it sells far better to burn out than fade away...

Setting Notes:
Hard Corps, the result of the collective NYPD incorporating in the early 21st century, has the security contract for the majority of greater LA after buying out the LAPD and rebranding them as Hard Corps. Certain suburbs, corpclaves, and Hollywood itself have different security forces, including Knight Errant and LoneStar. Hard Corps is known for three things: its generalized racism (ork and troll officers will pull over elves at roughly the same inflated rate as human and elf officers pull over orks and trolls. Everyone pulls dwarves over), its incompetence, and its penchant for brutality on the evening news.

Pueblo Corporate Council annexed LA in 2061, but despite its status as NAN, they've ruled with an even hand and loose regulation. The Council seems to understand that Hollywood knows what it's doing, and has not attempted to interfere.

Horizon is the AAA with the biggest investment in entertainment, so it's only right that its main headquarters would be in Los Angeles. Horizon typically doesn't take interest in the LA Shadowrunner community...until they become a threat to its own pet shadowrunners. Be wary, a mega on its own turf is at its most dangerous.

Other Megas: Nearly every Megacorp has an office in greater Los Angeles, with only two exceptions. Saeder-Krupp has not had viable expansion plans into Los Angeles, leaving its operations on the American Pacific Coast to its office in Seattle. Shiawase has also elected to keep its profile on the west coast minimal, relying on its office in San Francisco and Seattle for its own support. Of course, that doesn't rule out future movements...