Dash
The all-rounder
- Hearts
- 9
- Jump
- 7 cells
- Starts with
- Blaster
Duke's own jump and a cool head. Does the talking when somebody has to.
The story
It's a 1987 that never ended. In a diner in Neon City, three phones chime at once. A scrambled hologram rises out of the table:
MAX “Three couriers. Forty-two jobs. Paid by the job. Don't ask what's in the box.”
So the runners run. A package on a rooftop where the signs keep time. A gunship called Black Halo. A jungle temple, a golem made of gold, a research station in orbit whose AI has locked the crew out. Every job ends with a prototype weapon in a green box, and every prototype goes back to MAX.
But a gunship shouldn't carry a camera lens. Temple gold shouldn't weigh nothing. And nobody should hear a laugh track in the jungle.
Somebody is watching. And the ratings are through the roof.
Show the rest (spoilers for Episodes 3 to 7)
At the end of Station Zero a wall falls over and the runners are standing in a TV studio, in front of a cheering audience. The host, Lance Marquee, thanks them for “season one of GUNRUNNERS” on behalf of the sponsor, Halcyon Arms: buyers in forty countries watched every prototype at work.
DASH “We've been running their guns.”
Season Two drops them through a trapdoor into the network itself: a Western, a haunted manor, a cooking show, a kaiju movie, film noir and a cartoon. Then a faint voice in the static teaches them to tune the signal and climb the transmitter mast. The voice is Maxine Vale, the show's director, who was MAX all along and hid the candid cameras where they would be found. The finale is live, and this time the runners pick what goes out on air.
And Episode 7? A misdialled teleport beam dumps them on Vurr, a living alien planet, where a relic called the Star Seed has to be taken back before the Hive Mother gets it.
