Shadowrun: Street Legends Supplemental - Title

crowd of wanna-be hackers to tear across the Matrix, bringing
down databases, operating systems, and servers just to grab
some irrelevant piece of paydata that would then get posted to
Shadowland. The hunts had a points reward system based on
the difficulty of the target and the juiciness of the paydata,
with bonus points awarded to those who left behind the
most creative VR graffiti signatures. Who needed Crash
2.0? Slamm-0! and his acne army almost brought down
the Matrix with their pointless games.
Hacking is hard work. It takes patience, skill, and
inspired problem solving. It should be a quiet, subtle
thing. A hacker should slip into a node, invisible,
intangible, and untouchable. But that stupid bastard
waltzes in, trashes a place, and then announces what he’s
done to the entire world by leaving behind AR signatures
embedded in the local nodes. As if the whole episode is just
a stroll in the park, and he doesn’t have to put any real effort
into the job.
And who pays the price for his antics?
The honest hackers trying to earn a living, people
who ended up dumped out of the Matrix because they got
blindsided by the chaos those idiots unleashed. Runs, and
reputations, were ruined because a scavenger hunt hit the
wrong node at the wrong time, a situation no one could predict
when planning a job. He burned quite a few people with his
devil-may-care attitude and never once apologized for it. Then,
because Slamm-0! made hacking look so easy, Mr. Johnson
assumed it was a simple task and lowered the pay scale. Real
hackers found themselves working difficult jobs for far less
than the danger was worth.
> Random encounters come with the biz. If you can’t be prepared for that, it’s
not Slamm-0!’s fault, so quit whining.
> mika
> Don’t talk down about Slamm-0!. He earns his nuyen. I needed a pinchhitter
once when my own hacker came down ill. Slamm-0! slipped falsified
credentials into the node of a highly secure penitentiary, along with a
transfer record for a certain high-level prisoner. We got in and out without a
hitch. the guards even handed us our extraction target with smiles on their
faces. that was one of the easiest paychecks I’ve ever
earned.
> Hard exit
> If you’re not getting paid enough, Clockwork, maybe
you should work on your negotiating skills.
> Kay St. Irregular
> Clockwork has a point. Despite Slamm-0!’s skills and
professionalism, when he wants to be professional,
he does tend to play things too fast and too loose.
one of these days, his overconfidence will get him
killed. He needs to slow down, especially now that he
has a kid to think about.
> FastJack
Despite what you’re thinking, though, I used to respect
this guy. He had a belief system, and the cajones to do what was
needed to support those beliefs. He even managed to take some
VITAL STATS: SLAMM-0!
Age: 31 Height: 1.7 m
Weight: 88 kg Eyes: Green
Hair: Mood hair implants (natural color: red)
Gender: Male Metatype: Human
Awakened: No
slaMM-o!
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