History Fanfic / TheAntumbraSaga

* KickTheSonOfABitch: This campaign gives you the opportunity to do just that, after the death of [[spoiler: Carli Atherford]].

* FiveManBand:
** ''The Caldecott Caper'': The Runner as TheHero, Rafik as TheLancer, Sable as TheSmartGuy, Persi and Dorbi as TheBigGuy, Kora as TheChick and SixthRanger
** ''[=CalFree=] In Chains'': The Runner as TheHero, Kora as TheLancer, Masato as TheSmartGuy, Valiri / [[spoiler:Isao]] as TheBigGuy, Desorn / [[spoiler:Arelia]] as TheChick.

* IllGirl: Kora suffers from a debilitating disease that gives her chronic pain as well as leg paralysis. She gets better after Rafik saves up enough to get her equipped with cyberlegs.

* RantInducingSlight: What triggered Masato's defection was, in his own words, the fact that he could no longer drink in his favorite bar. Granted, this was a symptom of greater things, but it is still the reason he gives.

** [[spoiler: Gavan Morgan]]

* TwoferTokenMinority: Persi, being a female ork in human-dominated [=CalFree=] and a woman in the male-dominated California Rangers.

* BadBoss: Slagharm, the leader of the Metahuman People's Army, is a devotee of Shavarm (a troll supremacist mad shaman) and has a "with us or against us" mentality that earn people who don't follow her a bullet to the head.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The Halferville Protection Front started as a genuine policlub wishing to protect the dwarf-made settlement from outside threats, but slowly derived into dwarf supremacists who actively try to banish or kill non-dwarf residents of Halferville and dwarves who are "race traitors" [[spoiler:and are willing to throw their lot with Mitsuhama to test their bioweapons to rid Halferville of trogs]].

* IGaveMyWord: Oddly enough, the ''megacorps'' believe in this in ''[=CalFree=] In Chains''. Should you choose to help Ares or Novatech in the potential missions where they appear, they make good on their promises, respectively [[spoiler:deploy troops at the California border to simulate an imminent attack, causing Saito to redirect some of his troops in order to stop them]] and [[spoiler:sending a Novatech corpsec team to help you save a former Fuchi scientist about to be forcibly extracted by Renraku along with some freebies, and later sending more of their troops to help the defenders of the People's University]].

* TinyGirlHugeGuy: Rafik (an ork) and Kora (a dwarf).

** Masato is one of the best riggers of the Imperial Japanese Marines and get into the fray with his monofilament whip.

''[=CalFree=] In Chains'': [[spoiler:The runner gets the People's University node renamed after them and gets the respect of Hestaby for saving her life at the cost of their own, ensuring the Great Dragon will keep fighting in her stead.]]

** ''[=CalFree=] In Chains'': The Runner as TheHero, Kora as TheLancer, Masato as TheSmartGuy, Valiris / [[spoiler:Isao]] as TheBigGuy, Desorn / [[spoiler:Arelia]] as TheChick.

** Masato can both deploy drones and get into the fray with his monofilament whip.

* IGaveMyWord: Oddly enough, the ''megacorps'' believe in this in ''[=CalFree=] In Chains''. Should you choose to help Ares or Novatech in the potential missions where they appear, they make good on their promises, respectively [[spoiler:deploy troops at the California border to simulate an imminent attack, causing Saito to redirect some of his troops in order to stop them]] and [[spoiler:sending a Novatech corpsec team to help you save a former Fuchi scientist about to be forcibly extracted by Renraku, along with some freebies]].

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Desorn and Valiris]] are killed during Tassender's rescue mission.

In ''[=CalFree=] In Chains'', the California Free State has fallen and General Saito, the Japanese governor of the area, rules with an iron fist and the backing of his corporate allies, leaving only a few fighting back, among them you.

* FantasticRacism: ''Lots'' of "humans VS metahumans". First there's Saito's rule who tries to actively lock metahumans in ghettos, before starting an industrialized purge. There's also the Native Californians and Humanis, who behave like hooligans and harass metahumans. [[spoiler:Both are pawns to Human Nation, who want to turn California into a humans-only nation by any means necessary]].

* GeniusBruiser: Sable and Arelia are respectively a skilled decker and a powerfum age. They're also trolls that favor slashing away with a cutlass.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The Halferville Protection Front started as a genuine policlub wishing to protect the dwarf-made settlement from outside threats, but slowly derived into dwarf supremacists who actively try to banish or kill non-dwarf residents of Halferville and dwarves who are "race traitors" [[spoiler:and are willing to throw their lot with Shiawase to test their bioweapons to rid Halferville of trogs]].

* IGaveMyWord: Oddly enough, the ''megacorps'' believe in this in ''[=CalFree=] In Chains''. Should you choose to help Ares or Novatech in the potential missions where they appear, they make good on their promises, respectively [[spoiler:deploy troops at the California border to cause Saito to stop them]] and [[spoiler:helping you save a former Fuchi scientist about to be forcibly extracted by Renraku, alonf with some freebies]].

* BigBad: There are several candidates. Saito, Lofwyr and [[spoiler: Gavan Morgan]] could all qualify.

* GeniusBruiser: Sable is both a skilled decker and a troll that favors slashing away with a cutlass.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The Halferville Protection Front started as a genuine policlub wishing to protect the dwarf-made settlement from outside threats, but slowly derived into dwarf supremacists who actively try to banish or kill non-dwarf residents of Halferville and dwarves who are "race traitors".

** Elorn, being a black elf (as in, a black man who happens to be an elf).

* WeAreStrugglingTogether: There are a multitude of groups opposing Saito's occupation and ethnic cleansing efforts, but they range from the pacifist and fiercely egalitarian Peoples' University to the Ares MegaCorp to several metahuman-supremacist groups. All of them agree that Saito's stranglehold on San Fransisco must be broken, and none of them agree about anything else.

In ''The Antumbra Saga'', you take control of a lowly Shadowrunner who, after a package delivery gone very wrong, finds themselves tangled in a shadow war between the elven nation of Tir Tairngire and the CFS.

In ''The Antumbra Saga'', you take control of a lowly Shadowrunner who finds themselves tangled in a shadow war between the elven nation of Tir Tairngire and the CFS. ''The Caldecott Caper'' puts you in the shoes of a runner working as a rent-a-cop in Japanese-occupied San Francisco. After a patrol gone wrong leaves you nearly dead and with a colossal medical bill, you decide to rob a Mitsuhama cargo train to pay for it. In ''[=CalFree=] In Chains'', the California Free State has fallen and General Saito, the Japanese governor of the area, rules with an iron fist and the backing of his corporate allies, leaving only a few fighting back, among them you.

"The Antumbra Saga" is a trilogy of fan-made campaigns for the video game ''VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns'', created by Steam user Cirion. The three campaigns revolve around a multi-layered conflict about the powers attempting to take control of the fledgling California Free State.

The three campaigns are called "The Antumbra Saga", "The Caldecott Caper" and "[=CalFree=] In Chains."

* KickTheSonOfABitch: This campaign gives you the opportunity to do just that, after the death of [[spoiler: Carli Atherford]]

* PyroManiac: Dorbi is a fire mage who loves playing with fire for its own sake.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Racists of varying stripes make up a varied and colorful palette of villains, Human racists like the Native Californians and Humanis, Elven Supremacists from Tir Tairngire, separatist dwarves and even the odd-bird troll-magic-user-supremacist Shavarus all show up.