Shadowrun - Bug City

[Tinner]

There is a 1st ed adventure where "bugs" where first introduced in, even before UB and BC... but for the life of me I can not remember what it was called... I have it back at home on my book shelf but I have not looked at it for years and can’t remember the title (I remember the cover though). Basically some crazy mage almost dies in the Amazon and the 'insect' spirits come to him and save him. He returns to Seattle and becomes obsessed with a female rock-star and kidnaps her to make her his 'queen'. It was a brutal little adventure, also due to...

That would be Queen Euphoria.

If you really want Shadowrun insect spirit stuff, you will want the following:
FASA - 7117 -Bug City (Out of Print)
Sourcebook describing the Bug's takeover of the Chicago area sprawl, and campaigns set behind the wall of the containment zone.
FASA - 7121 - Threats (Out of Print)
Details on the Bug's secret agendas
FASA - 7214 - Target: UCAS (Available)
Describes the "cleansing" of the Chicago CZ
FASA - 7205 - Universal Brotherhood (Out of Print)
How the bugs disguise themselves as a scientology-stle group. Possibly the best designed Sourcebook/Adventure/Fiction ever.

Spoiler

Part of the product is designed as a computer printout prop that the runers can encounter during the adventure. It's a huge readout, and the big reveal doesn't come until the very end. It's a real shocker the first time you read it.

FASA - 7304 - Queen Euphoria (OOP)
The adventure described above.
FASA - 7319 - Double Exposure (OOP)
More trouble with the UB and their slave labor farms.

There are a couple novels that also reference Insect Spirits, but I don't have them handy at the moment.

 

[Karl Green]

That would be Queen Euphoria.
FASA - 7304 - Queen Euphoria (OOP)

THANKS thats the one

FASA - 7319 - Double Exposure (OOP)
More trouble with the UB and their slave labor farms.

RIGHT I forgot that one... I am pretty sure I ran it for the group also - the 'Bug Farm' hehehe ... I think I had almost EVERY adventure for Shadowrun but stop buying pretty much everything... oh 8 or so years ago... some of the new stuff looks good for the fluff (that Year of the Comet I heard was cool) but I just could not bring myself to getting them

 

[Kestrel]

Bug City...we had a run where our team crashed in an plane in the center of it. All I remember is my severely wounded troll samurai on the front of a semi-tanker of pesticide, chainsaw in one hand and mmg in the other, heading straight for a nest.

Good times.

 

[kigmatzomat]

Bug City is a wonderfully terrifying nightmare of a setting. Target rich just barely manages to describe it! I think BC has a few suggested miniplots but it is a setting book like UCAS or Cal Free State.

Our group did one run into BC before we drove the DM insane. BC is intended to be the most lethal place on the planet (barring that one arcology) and we were walking through it. I suspect he was using "stock" encounters that didn't take into account for us having run through all the UB runs, as well as the entirety of Harlequin, and a good chunk of the other SR adventures so our PCs were chock full of tactics, weaponry, and karma.

We went in with a full load of artillery, all of it optimized for our combat style. He didn't see a problem with it, probably because he expected to take it away. He tried to have our chopper taken out by a bug; we splattered it. He threw a swarm at us that killed our pilot. I guess he'd expect us to bail from the chopper to the nearby rooftops and lose all the gear we weren't carrying. He'd forgotten my samurai had been picking up pilot skills since we had to walk out of the Amazon.

He threw mobs at us, we chewed them up. He tried to get us in the middle of a turf war; we bribed our way out with "trade goods" we'd brought for that reason. He tried to trick us with double-agents but we trusted no one. He tried to appeal to our sympathy by attacking the weak; we gave them advice and weapons.

We had a blast but he was fairly despondent. Poor guy. ;P

 

[danzig138]

There is a 1st ed adventure where "bugs" where first introduced in, even before UB and BC... but for the life of me I can not remember what it was called...

Queen Euphoria. Last year, I ran a SR campaign that included both the Harlequin adventure, Queen Euphoria, and was going to include UB. The group did well in QE, up until they were hired to go retrieve Euphoria. They went to scout (and this was before they were able to arrange the actual run that included heavy prdinance and KE backup). Well, they went too far into the building, and ended up getting killed in 3 rounds of combat, except for one character who ran for all he was worth.
I had looked at the numbers and figured the bugs were nasty, but looking at the numbers was nothing compared to actually running them in a fight. You need big weapons, big magic, and some gosh-darned big cans of Raid if you're going to tackle bugs.

 

[Tinner]

I had looked at the numbers and figured the bugs were nasty, but looking at the numbers was nothing compared to actually running them in a fight. You need big weapons, big magic, and some gosh-darned big cans of Raid if you're going to tackle bugs.

I have killed more PC's with bugs than anything else.
Our team found it was often preferable to just collapse a building on a bug swarm and run away, rather than fight them.