QUÉBEC, FIRST PART
Getting in and out
The principal way to come in Québec
is by the Maglev train joining Québec, Montréal and the UCAS
frontier. The cost for tickets is pretty high (averaging 150 nuyens for
a Québec-Montréal trip) but it is the only really secure
way to travel between far cities, therefore the number of trips is still
quite high. The reason for the insecurity around Québec is the presence
of biker gangs who attacks people, stealling everything they find and bombing
everything afterward.
> Those bikers are though. Always consider the dangers before taking a
job for protection of a truck. They are not all very well equiped (they
get what they steal) but usually come in large numbers and that makes them
very dangerous.
> MacBeth@rimes.with.death
> Afraid of a couple of bikers MacBeth?
> Geronimo@apaches.power
> Wait till you see 30 troll bikers in your rear view mirror, you'll understand
what I mean when I say they're intimidating...
> MacBeth@rimes.with.death
For the more adventurous people, the highways are still there but are in
terrible conditions, due to the cold winters and the absence of employees
to take care of it. The only people you should encounter there are heavily
protected and armed delivery trucks and bikers who attack those delivery
trucks. Almost nobody else ever uses the highways, so if you encounter
somebody else something's going on.
> Nobody ever uses the highways without a reason. Remember that and maybe
you will find something interesting someday.
> Plouf@ha.ha.ha!
> Like what? Who's going out with the latest sim-star?
> Leoric@Diablo.iz.kewl
> If you see a guy in a Westwind 2000 on the highways it means he's going
near and for a precise reason (or he wants to die). Follow him and maybe
you could steal his loot.
> Plouf@ha.ha.ha!
When you enter the city the first thing you will encounter are guards at
every road coming in or out of the city. These Lone-Star guards verify
for illegal armament, cyberware and other illegal things and are mainly
there to stop bikers from coming in. Once inside the number of police officers
is roughly the same ratio as in Seattle, for example.
> These guards only block those who miss nuyens... It's easy to bribe them,
they're cops "punished" for something they did. Their job is dangerous
and they don't like it, they'll open the gates to your hot wired reflexes
level 3 for a couple of nuyen...
> MacBeth@rimes.with.death
> Don't be stupid enough to threaten one of them or your photo will appear
in every cop cars of the city... Not wise.
> Leoric@Diablo.iz.kewl
Getting out is pretty straightforward, as the guards have too much work
caring about who comes in to really care about who's coming out. In some
instance it as been seen that a guard check somebody getting out, but it
has been pretty rare.
> If this ever happened, I,ve never heard of it...
> JoeBlow@n.importe.qui
The main parts
The city is separated in two "sections":
higher and lower town ("haute ville" et "basse ville" in french). The lower
town is were most people live and were the main industries are set. The
higher town is more for tourism and shopping. It is too the "old" city,
where the oldest building are, like Le Petit Séminaire de Québec,
the oldest school in North America or Le Château Frontenac (Frontenac
Castle), a high class hotel for rich people.
> Le château Frontenac... The place where the richest man come to
sleep when they come to the capital of our beautiful country. Some say
that Lofwyr's got its personnal suite permanently reseved there.
> BlackKnight@geocities.com
> Don't get any foolish ideas, it may not look like it but this place is
very well protected. Oh, and don't expect to bribe an employee, even hesitating
to answer no to your offer can kill them (remember, Big Brother is watching
you!)
> LaraCroft@Tomb.of.Cualopec
The separation between those two sections isn't clear, when you wander
down the St-Jean street you meet a lot of old buildings, when you suddenly
encounter the "Carré D'Youville" which is home to the central
metro station of the city (and of a large number of "society-retaliation"
teenagers). In fact, there is a large number of old houses in the
lower city, but they are all situated at the bottom of the Cap-Diamant
that elevates the higher town.
> Those teens usually look tougher than they really are.
> MacBeth@rimes.with.death
For a shadowrunner, the oppurtunities for job clearly lie within the lower
town, where you can easily find a fixer who can give you an appointement
with a Mr Johnson. The jobs themselves can make you work everywhere, but
mostly in the surrounding of the heart of the city (this place is already
took by government buildings, older corps and touristic sites (of course
running against the governement is still a possibility...)). The mega-corps
headquarters are mainly situated in cities surrounding the capital because
taxes are much lower there (not that they usually pay any...).
> I hope we will receive more info on this very important subject!
> BlackKnight@geocities.com
> Don't worry, you will...
> PaG@SysOp