Shadowrun RPG Seattle - Fort Lewis Page
Fort Lewis Overviews
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Military and Magic - Although treated as just another district of the greater Seattle Metroplex, Fort Lewis is a UCAS Military Reservation, housing the Seattle Metroplex Guard, McChord Airfield, and the UCAS Army Pacific Command, Joint Task Force Seattle. This means much of the area is restricted, although tours of some of the military facilities are available. Contact the Fort Lewis Public Relations Center for information and times.
The main attraction for visitors, however, is the Fort Lewis Zoological Gardens—acres of managed wilderness with well-established trails and habitats for a wide variety of paranormal animals. Invisible ultrasonic fences and AR tags keep the animals in their established habitats and allow visitors to see them in their natural environment. You can easily spend a day or more walking the trails of the Gardens and seeing their impressive collection, which changes slightly year-round. The Zoological Gardens work cooperatively with Blackstone’s Zoo in Snohomish as well, loaning out parts of their collection.
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- While not as interesting to the touristas, Fort Lewis is naturally part of the ‘plex where the shadows run deep and dark. Military black ops happen in and around the reservation, and plenty of international intrigue, as NAN, Tir, Japan, and other factions maintain surveillance on what’s going on with the UCAS soldierboys and Pacific Command. You can find work in Fort Lewis, but it is rarely ever a milk run, since the military types play for keeps.
- Pistons
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- Of course, one should not underestimate the potential value of the Zoological Gardens as both resource and target. They started out as a UCAS military installation for the study of paranormal and Awakened life forms, and they still collect a lot of research data that is valuable to the right people, to say nothing of the value of certain rare specimens themselves.
- Axis Mundi
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- You want to talk about the value of the specimens; I know of at least one run on the Zoological Gardens aimed at stealing a rare Imperial Eagle and getting it outside the perimeter fence alive and well. The team made it to their rendezvous, expecting to meet up with some eccentric wizard or corporate R&D Johnson, or even TerraFirst! patron with an expense account, only to have the Eagle thank them for their help, leave them a few feathers, and fly off! Seems it was some kind of spirit trapped in that form and held prisoner, but able to magically contact some middleman on the outside. I guess those feathers fetched some nice cred, too.
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