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C H R O ME FL E S H
CONTENTS
& CREDITS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
MY BROTHER’S KEEPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
CLUSTERF*CKED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
FIXING WHAT’S BROKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
THE ENHANCED LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SHINY: LATEST IN CHROME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
THE BODY REDEFINED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
STEELING THE FUTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
HACKING THE METAHUMAN CODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
QUICK & DIRTY AUGMENTATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
THE MURKY FUTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
COMPILED AUGMENTATION TABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
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CHROME FLESH >>
INTRODUCTION
The tragedy of a shadowrunner has always been, and always
will be, that they, by themselves, cannot survive. Want to hit the
streets as you are and just get by on your wits? Great. Have fun.
Lone Star or Knight Errant or someone will dispose of your week-
old remains when they accidentally stumble on them in some dark
alley. The world is stacked against you, and the price you pay to
survive everything it is going to throw at you is to give up some
part of yourself.
That’s not, of course, the way everyone sees it. To some
people, the tradeoffs are not about losing a part of yourself, but
instead cutting off a weakness to replace it with something better.
The technological revolutions that have shaken the world mean
that there is no part of the body that cannot be improved. Muscles
can be strengthened, limbs can be replaced, cognitive functioning
can be improved, senses can be sharpened, immune systems can
be boosted, and on and on. You’ll pay money, you’ll lose a part of
whatever it is that makes you you, but you’ll also take a step to
becoming a lean, mean, shadowrunning machine—as long as you
can live with the “machine” part of that sentence.
Chrome Flesh
is your ultimate guide to augmentations, medical
technology, and more in the Sixth World. It starts with a chapter
called
Cluster F**ked,
a rundown on how cognitive fragmentation
disorder (CFD) has shaken the augmentation landscape and led
to shifts in technology. Then we have
Fixing What’s Broke,
an
explanation of medical care, including mental health care in the
Sixth World, since shadowrunners are going to need all sorts
of care at some point in their careers.
The Enhanced Life
offers
qualities and Life Modules for use in building shadowrunners
who rely on augmentations in their work. After that, we get into
the gear, with
Shiny: Latest in Chrome
surveying the leading
producers of cyberware and the new gear they have come up
with. The Body Redefined does the same thing for bioware, lining
up the options and detailing the players. Then we get into the
wild, changing worlds of nanotech and genetech in
Hacking the
Metahuman Code.
Both technologies have been dealt significant
blows by the arrival of CFD, and both have had to make significant
changes. But they’re not going away, because if the corporate
engineers can find a way to sell people something that might give
them a boost, then they’re going to do it.
The next chapter offers goods that aren’t often thought of as
augmentations: drugs and chemicals people use to give them a
little something extra.
Quick and Dirty Augmentations
lists plenty
of new options to give yourself a quick boost. It may not drain your
Essence like other augmentations do, but they still have a chance
to enslave a part of your soul with the weight of addiction.
The
Murky Future
shows what’s coming in the future and where the
bleeding edge of technology is headed.
Then we wrap up with a full shopping catalog, listing
cyberware, bioware, nanotech, genetech, and drugs from this
book,
Shadowrun, Fifth Edition,
and
Stolen Souls.
Use it as your
master reference to all the possibilities that are out there, so you
can carefully pick just how much of your soul you might have
to trade away to stay alive one more day, or even long enough
to pick up your next paycheck. Which you can then use to buy
the next augmentation, the next boost, and take the next step to
becoming whatever you are making yourself into.
CHROME FLESH CREDITS
Development Assistance:
Peter M. Andrew, Jr.
Writing:
Brooke Chang, Kevin Czarnecki, David
Ellenberger, Olivier Gagnon, Alexander Kadar, Scott Schletz,
R.J Thomas, Amy Veeres, Michael Wich, Rob Wieland,
Thomas Willoughby
Editing:
Kevin Killiany, Philip A. Lee, Andrew Marshall,
Katherine Monasterio, Aaron Pavao
Proofing:
Chuck Burhanna, Mason Hart, Adam Large,
Carl Schelin, Lars Wagner Hansen, Jeremy Weyand
Playtesting:
Natalie Aked, Rob Aked, Aaron Brosman,
Jackson Brunsting, Jacob Cohen, Siin Crawford, Karlene
Dickens, Derek Doktor, Bruce Ford, Eugen Fournes,
Joanna Fournes, Tim Gray, Kendall Jung, Peter Leitch,
Dave Lundquest, Chris Maxfield, Peter Milnes, Jon
Naughton, Sue Powell, Richard Riessen, Matt Riley, John
Rogers, Rosalind Sexton, Mark Somers, Michael Wich,
Leland Zavadil
Art Direction:
Brent Evans
Cover Art:
David Hovey
Art:
Gordon Bennetto, Victor Perez Corbella, Laura
Diaz Cubas, Benjamin Giletti, Ian King, Dan Masso, Victor
Manuel Leza Moreno, Mauro Peroni, John Petersen, Rob
Ruffolo, Andreas “AAS” Schroth, Marc Sintes, Takashi Tan
Cover Layout:
Matt “Wrath” Heerdt
Iconography:
Nigel Sade
Interior Layout:
Matt “Wrath” Heerdt
Shadowrun Line Developer:
Jason M. Hardy
<< CHROME FLESH
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MY BROTHER’S
KEEPER
“Brother, where…?”
BLAM, BLAM!!!!
Taka awoke with a start, fading memories of gunshots min-
gled with flashing light and cracking thunder. In the Seattle skies
above, fat greasy raindrops fell.
He struggled to breathe; rain already pooled in his mouth
and lungs. Taka marshaled his strength and forced the filth from
his lungs with a massive heave. His custom Evo cybereyes were
offline, leaving him blind, and his right cyberarm wasn’t re-
sponding. He lay in the dumpster gagging as recent memories
rushed back, almost mentally breaking him. But he forced the
memories down, concentrating instead on the pain. Pain could
be dealt with, overcome. It let you know you were still alive. Still,
thank ghost for good body armor.
Taka rose on wobbly legs, and bits of trash fell from his body
as his cybereyes re-booted, barely. Flickering diagnostic AROs
filled his vision and confirmed his suspicions: all of his ’ware was
damaged, including his internal chrono. He wondered how long
he was out.
All of the chrome in his body was now just dead weight.
“Brother, why?” he thought to himself. But answers had to wait;
he had to move. No one wanted to be wounded and in the open
in the Barrens. He stood slowly, legs stiff and breathing painful.
With his good arm, the elven street samurai hauled himself out
of the dumpster, falling to the pavement with a thud of meat and
metal. His body was a mass of pain, especially behind his right
shoulder. Taka looked down at his right cyberarm. The fingers were
bent at odd angles, and the internals exposed. Reaching over with
this good hand, he wrenched the fingers into a fist and looked
around to determine his location. As it turned out, he was only a
half-kilometer from home. Despite the pain in his meat-parts, he
began walking. The Barrens was a rotting, decaying cesspool, but
he knew every alley, crumbling building, and shortcut. Everything
here, everything he passed, had a memory attached to it.
Twelve years ago.
“What’cha think ya doin’, ya fraggin’ keeb?”
“Yeah, where do you get off wearing that shirt around here?”
“I think he deserves to get those pointy ears ripped off!”
The young elf boy tried to run, but four ork teens began
pummeling him. He tried to fight back, but his punches flew
from wild desperation. The ones that connected inflicted little
damage to the stout orks, who only laughed.
The beating seemed to last forever, bright blossoms of pain
punctuating each blow. The elf was about to pass out when,
through swollen eyes, he saw one of the teens crumple for-
ward, clutching his crotch. Then another’s head snapped to the
side before he too fell to the ground. The other two backed off,
hands up defensively.
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MY BROTHER’S KEEPER

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