EDIT: Wow. This is becoming a thing. They're drugging or stunning people they take down in their runs and dropping them off at the nearest Tamanous drop point. Live livestock. And apparently I gave the player more money than he expected, even when I gave him less than the formulas suggested.
My players are not nice Shadowrunners. I'm going to have to up the ante.
Some possible consequences...
- Prices drop from the sudden increase in supply
- Non-Tamanous contacts don't want anything to do with the runners
- Anti-Tamanous groups actively hunt the runners
- Tamanous gives the runners the "company store" treatment
- The Tamanous contact gets taken out
- The Tamanous contact moves up and no longer wants anything to do with the street level
- Tamanous decides the runners are bringing too much attention to them, cutting ties and/or throats
Have fun!
In addition, remember that abducting a living employee is such an internal PR nightmare for a corp that it demands a response. A certain amount of collateral damage is expected from companies that engage in active industrial expionage, and thus not every run will draw enough attention to warrant retribution. Every single run that involves kidnapping employees and selling them as human cattle will cause a man hunt. In addition, whats to keep a johnson or contact from selling the runners out? They have all sorts of expensive implants that could be harvested. No one is going to care if some tamanous puppets end up dead and I can't imagine many contacts would aid an organ-legging fugitive. Also, legit users of implants don't wipe their RFID's. Anytime the hostages/cattle are within range of a wifi network, the runners can be tracked as the hostages implants check for firmware updates, etc. There is enough of a data trail for interested parties and being an organ-legger creates alot of interested parties. How happy would tamanous be if the runner's brought lone star to their doorstep? Shadowrunners rely on a combination of data-balkanization, discretion and being just hard enough to find that it isn't worth the time and resources. Kidnapping and organ-legging isn't very discrete and is heinous enough to cause extra-territorial orginizations to share information. Finally, Stealing everything that isn't bolted down isn't exactly the mark of a professional and those that engage in this kind of behavior won't be hired again. Kidnapping employees is more distateful by several magnitudes. If you were a Johnson, would you hire someone who you knew was going take hostages and sell them for parts?
