Oh, no worries. I'm not the type to punish players for not knowing things that their characters would. Besides, I'd be providing background.
Since you're so fresh on the scene though, I'll try and fill you in on what I mean by each game.
Game 1: Chicago, A little slice of hell on earth. Chicago wasn't doing too hot even before it suffered the largest insect spirit infestation ever recorded and was subsequently quarantined and nuked with a sub-tactical atom bomb. It was polluted, overpopulated, terrorized and corrupt to the core with Mafia influence to start with. These days, (2072) it is full of sections which are still largely abandoned as the three years of quarantine killed it as a business center, and not too many people want to live in a city that has needed to be nuked. The team in this case would be a bunch of scavengers, picking through the worst parts of downtown Chicago. Like sifting through the abandoned high-rises of the Noose, looking for old jewelery and art to sell and avoiding the attention of the ghouls who've set up in the area. Characters would be limited to 350bp (or a to-be-determined amount of karma) with gear restricted to availability 8, so this game would be a bit gritter and would need characters who would be interested in picking through the bones of a dead city. Not your typical shadowrunners. More background on Chicago
here.
Game 2: Portland, the Amsterdam of the Pacific. A bit like Hong Kong, Portland was a city walled off from the rest of its nation. That nation being the "back to the land" elven nation of
Tir Tairngire, the kingdom of the elves out west. The Tir was a horribly boring place for a long, long time. It was a feudal state run by a council of elven princes. All so fey and lovely. But it turns out that modern living doesn't really mesh with all of that fancy farmland business and so the national economy tanked and the Princes were cast out. Portland meanwhile was the one place where people could do business with the Tir, so all of the money and all of the non-elves were chilling in Portland. The city itself survived on selling fine art and food, talismans, magical drugs and sex-by-the-pound. All of these trades were organized by agents of the princes, but with them in exile, there is a power vacuum to be filled. Meanwhile the smuggling lines from Portland to Seattle have started to dry up as the internal conflicts of a now open and democratic Tir Tairngire are mucking things up. That's where the players come in. The group would be mercs hired to go down to Po-town and sort shit out so that the drugs and magics can start flowing up the pipeline into Seattle. Normal 400bp avail 12 game, though I'd actually prefer the German RC's Karmagen if people are down for that.
EDIT to better highlight the 6th world Wiki. Read up.
