Mr. Johnson
The anonymous employer behind every shadowrun.
Mr. Johnson is the name given to the go-between who hires shadowrunners for illegal jobs. In the Sega Genesis Shadowrun, Mr. Johnsons are usually corporate liaisons who want dirty work done without exposing their bosses, and they take meetings in back booths of clubs and bars around the city.
Quick Facts
- Role
- Anonymous employer; go-between
- Works from
- Back booths of clubs and bars
- Named johnsons
- Gunderson
- Caleb Brightmore
- Mortimer Reed
Reader's Guide
Each Johnson offers random jobs such as raiding gang hangouts, search and retrieval, extractions, courier work, ghoul hunting or Matrix runs, with difficulty and pay that vary by Johnson and by the player's negotiation skill. The game uses the name where the tabletop game would say fixer: at the table the fixer's handle is known while the client stays anonymous, whereas the video game names both the fixers and their clients. Johnsons in the story include Gunderson, Caleb Brightmore and Mortimer Reed, who works out of the Big Rhino in the Penumbra District.
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