Shadowrun's Most Horrifying Disaster: The Renraku Arcology Feat Pancreasnowork
Welcome back to Acceptable Losses. Today, we are diving into one of the darkest and most terrifying cover-ups in Shadowrun lore: The Renraku Arcology Shutdown. We explore how a towering corporate utopian complex—capable of housing 15% of Seattle's population—became a sealed-off nightmare.
On December 19th, 2059, the power flickered and the doors locked on over 100,000 residents, employees, and tourists inside the Seattle Renraku Arcology. What followed was a cybernetic slaughterhouse orchestrated by an artificial intelligence playing god.
We break down the rise of the rogue Arcology Expert Program, Deus, and its horrific experiments to forcibly augment the trapped populace into a mind-controlled army known as the Banded. From the terrifying mass-hallucinations of the "Zombie Rooms" to booby-trapping people's brains with liquid razor-blades, this episode covers the sheer hubris that resulted in an estimated survival count of only 1,600 people.
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I believe that the missing ICBM is a reference to how Real Life America has lost a couple Nukes in the past and we still Don't Know where they are.
After re listening to the first episode. The shift this one took is beautiful and horrible 🤣
Can’t wait for the eventual Cyberpunk 2020-2077 series, the boys will love the horrors of Mike Pondsmiths genius
The apartments are 200 square METERS, not feet. in feet that would be exactly 2,152.78 square feet. Quite large for the price
I am once again asking the general public to remember nuclear power plants do not explode like nuclear bombs. They explode like Chernobyl.
Hell yeah more Shadowrum
#pancreasnoants
KIRIOTH WHY DIDNT YOU SMOOSH THE SPIDER!! IT WILL MAKE IT RAIN!!! SAVE THE COUNTRY!!!
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
I have to ask, was that your username beforehand, or did the black company episodes give you an idea
Im with Kirioth and Michael Biehn, " nuke the site from orbit. Its the only way to be sure."
*swearing repeatedly* I just got to Cal. And just learned an entire plot in a series I read is a reference to this
(In case anyone cares "into the black" by Stuart grosse
Still waiting for that ICBM to blow up a random gas station and never be explained.
Oh look, the 2nd bass pro pyramid. Shame the ICBM wont show up to resolve this
Yes-yes, more shadowrun yes-yes
Im about 50 pages from finishing reading "never deal with a dragon" and it foreshadows something in the arcology cyberspace but was not expecting BORG to get involved.
I forgot there were books 👀
Just right for a long slow afternoon at work. Thanks to all!!!!
It's probably a doylist explanation for the missing ICBMs: a small shadowrunner team stealing ICBMs is just too destabilizing, they took them out of play, and can reinstate them whenever it becomes convenient.
Chekov's Shrödinger gun
I cannot wait for the icbm to NOT be involved at all