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Posted by: Tiralee Jun 18 2006, 11:33 AM
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/9383594/detail.html
Honestly, I'm not sure how my players would react to this. I'm sure a few would be leaning towards "Kill it with fire".
-Tir.
Posted by: Dawnshadow Jun 18 2006, 01:49 PM
My characters are split. Most would leave it alone. One would write a list of questions for the all-knowing free spirit that only answers to spilled blood... and buying a MMG.
Posted by: knasser Jun 18 2006, 03:00 PM
| QUOTE (Tiralee @ Jun 18 2006, 06:33 AM) |
| http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/9383594/detail.html Honestly, I'm not sure how my players would react to this. I'm sure a few would be leaning towards "Kill it with fire". -Tir. |
I'll tell you exactly how players would react.
Mage Character: "Shapechange spells, only 1,000
an hour."Come on - since when did a player miss a chance to make money? These are people who get paid 20,000
for a mission and still loot the magazines from the security guards they kill. *sheesh*
Posted by: Toptomcat Jun 18 2006, 06:47 PM
In Shadowrun, that hardly moves the needle on the weirdness meter.
Posted by: mfb Jun 18 2006, 06:53 PM
i view the furriecon as a great opportunity--one which requires a lot of cow crap and diesel fuel to take advantage of. i have, thus far, avoided the hell out of downtown.
Posted by: Rock Jun 18 2006, 07:47 PM
Interestingly enough, I played a game once that involved the players having to infiltrate an exec's house while he was having a birthday party for his daughter. It was pretty funny having Killer B, legendary Street Samurai, have to dress as Bobo the Singing Clown and the Dwarven Merc dress like a racoon TV character.
Posted by: hyzmarca Jun 18 2006, 08:05 PM
In Shadowrun I'd suspect many people have cosmetic surgery to look like actual anthropamorphic animals. More desperate people go the whole 9 yards and loos a great deal of essence/bioindex becoming hermaphordite centuars with two penises.
Posted by: Wounded Ronin Jun 18 2006, 11:39 PM
The Sensible Erection RPG (serpg.com) has a level where you must kill all the furries in a furry con.
In the context of Shadowrun it could be a great way to get rid of the PCs' enormous stockpiles of ammunition on their character sheets. Make them burn through it all shooting the furries.
Posted by: Tiralee Jun 19 2006, 03:35 AM
Ahem-
I do not advocate the massacre of a subgroup of humanity because I find their objectives and actions at times baffling and distasteful.
I was asking about the Weird-o-meter situations that you've dropped players into.
Although that shapechange spell idea is absolutely freaking brilliant.
Heh, could you imagine the utter confusion of an actual shapeshifter trying to get through that mob?
-Tir.
Posted by: knasser Jun 19 2006, 08:01 PM
| QUOTE (Tiralee) |
| Heh, could you imagine the utter confusion of an actual shapeshifter trying to get through that mob? |
Confusion? Nonsense! What better way to hide than amongst all the wannabes? Is that the killer shapeshifter... Or is she just another boy dressed up as a catgirl?
Posted by: SL James Jun 20 2006, 01:10 AM
| QUOTE (Tiralee @ Jun 18 2006, 05:33 AM) |
| http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/9383594/detail.html Honestly, I'm not sure how my players would react to this. I'm sure a few would be leaning towards "Kill it with fire". -Tir. |
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Dude, one of the Shadowrun games at Gencon involves going to a Furry convention.
| QUOTE |
| You Want Us to Wear What?! Mr. Johnson is a freak, but hey, his money's always been good. This latest one is a doozy though. He wants you to infltrate a Furry convention. Everyone got their koala suit packed? Advanced Thursday, 14:00 |
Posted by: Lindt Jun 20 2006, 01:52 AM
Oooo and its run by Grendal?
Man, I almost wish I was there to play in that... its on the level of the anime con our GM-only-stupid-o-clock-one-shot ended up with.
Posted by: SL James Jun 20 2006, 04:15 AM
That's funny. I wish I was there to set the GM and participants and game author on fire.
Posted by: Tiralee Jun 20 2006, 08:57 AM
| QUOTE |
| You Want Us to Wear What?! Mr. Johnson is a freak, but hey, his money's always been good. This latest one is a doozy though. He wants you to infltrate a Furry convention. Everyone got their koala suit packed? Advanced |
Good. Gods.
Ok, and I thought some of my ideas were a little weird.
Who thought it up?
More importantly, who had the gumption to run it, who was drunk enough to play, who survived and what were the, ahem, "civillian casualties"?
-Tir.
Posted by: Ophis Jun 20 2006, 10:05 AM
And a drop bear reference too...
Posted by: Lindt Jun 20 2006, 05:24 PM
Its not being run untill Gencon Indy. There needs to be at least one Sr-stupid run each year. Thankfully I didnt write it this time (un like the last 2 years...)
Posted by: Sahandrian Jun 20 2006, 07:43 PM
...wow. One day, I'll figure out this whole "burn the furries" thing. I mean, this is nowhere near as bad as some places I've seen. I once saw a thread on another forum where jokes about incest, pedophelia, rape, and snuff passed without comment, but one person spoke positively of furry and the thread erupted into a long anti-furry flamewar and demands that the person be kicked and/or banned.
What's so bad about people who like to RP anthropomorphic characters or dress up in stupid costumes?
But forget that. There was an actual topic, and I guess I'll reply to that like I intended to.
In one of my earliest games, I had a group of pranksters somehow get ahold of a chemical that reacted with the oils in (meta-)human skin to dye the skin a bright blue, and was very hard to remove. They wanted to spread it through the Seattle water system, but couldn't get into the treatment facility themselves.
Then there was this free spirit that had a unique spell that caused any number of random effects within it's radius (I had a table to roll on, mostly SURGE effects, if I recall). When it cast it, it wound up turning the decker/face into a woman. Then (though this was aprtially out of my hands) she and the (male) assassin went and got drunk together, and wound up back at the face's place. They're still dealing with the consequences of that night.
Oh, and the time a mage projected the rigger's mind (it was sort of like an astral quest, but took place entirely in dreams) into the dreams and memories of the deranged shaman of the group, to learn some things about the shaman's past. The rigger wound up going through the shaman's memories of being stuck in Bug City, fighting a blood mage, bizarre things seen in the astral, etc...
Posted by: Lindt Jun 20 2006, 08:57 PM
Its us making sure that furries are the dead bottem of the geek food chain. Dont worry, it will rub off eventually.
Yep, anything involving astral planes can be truly trippy f*cked up. "s why i love them so.
Posted by: KarmaInferno Jun 20 2006, 09:53 PM
| QUOTE (Sahandrian @ Jun 20 2006, 07:43 PM) |
| What's so bad about people who like to RP anthropomorphic characters or dress up in stupid costumes? |
Google the word "yiff".
On second thought, no, don't nevermind, forget I said anything. =)
--
I can't really think of anything truly "wierd". Maybe that mall full of zombies?
Runners are hired to steal certain deposit boxes from a mall-based bank. Turns out there is a uber-force malevolent free spirit in the mall that looks like a cute puppy.
Once it started animating the dead bodies of mall-goers it had stashed away, and of the first runners that died, things got REALLY wierd. The runners did get a lot of milage out of using things from the sports shop and such in fighting back the zombie hordes.
Of the two runners that made it out, one did so by emptying an entire MGL-12 clip into a loading dock door. In his words, "I just wanted to get out."
=)
-karma
Posted by: Toptomcat Jun 20 2006, 09:56 PM
What's your point? There's Spock/Kirk slash, pictures of Jean Grey in the nude, roleplaying games with a statistic for penis size, ridiculous amounts of Rei pornography...
EVERY fandom has its sexual side.
Posted by: KarmaInferno Jun 20 2006, 09:57 PM
Yes, and we mock them all. =)
-karma
Posted by: Toptomcat Jun 20 2006, 09:59 PM
But Trekkies, roleplayers, otaku and Marvel zombies don't have such a horrific Internet reputation.
Posted by: Tiralee Jun 21 2006, 09:15 AM
Look - we're all familiar with what weirdness is on the internet. But when I say "My god, that's wrong," there are two general actions taken by those around me:
1: What are you looking at? <pause> "Ahhhhgh! God, My eyes!"
2: Grim-faced ignorance. They're not going to look, they're not even going to turn around. This second stage usually occurs after stage 1.
Kirk/Spock? Meh. I though the Autobot Christmas "special" was....weird. Fanboy pron - hell, what do we call the quite detailed description of Nadia's Lushious Gams? Furries - Heh, look up "Plushies." <-NOT SAFE for WORK, ever. Or around kids
The 'net is vast and deep. Sometimes things live there that should not.
-Tir
Posted by: hyzmarca Jun 21 2006, 12:50 PM
| QUOTE (Tiralee) |
| Look - we're all familiar with what weirdness is on the internet. But when I say "My god, that's wrong," there are two general actions taken by those around me: 1: What are you looking at? <pause> "Ahhhhgh! God, My eyes!" 2: Grim-faced ignorance. They're not going to look, they're not even going to turn around. This second stage usually occurs after stage 1. |
There is a third response, a callous "I've seen worse."
Posted by: Apathy Jun 21 2006, 03:34 PM
The wierdest run I ever GM'd involved an initiation prank to join the Bozo's (prankster sprawl gang). The runners had to sneak into the Mayor's Executive building downtown, climb to the top of the dome, and replace one of the arms of the statue with one given to them by the gang leader. The arm was actually a remote-controlled cyber arm, with internally mounted cybersquirt, and the statue started flipping everyone off and squirting them with a dmso/lsd mixture the next day. Film of 'the assault on the dome' ran live on all the major networks.
Posted by: Tiralee Jun 21 2006, 11:37 PM
| QUOTE |
| There is a third response, a callous "I've seen worse." |
Actually, no one has ever said that.
-Tir
Posted by: HMHVV Hunter Jun 21 2006, 11:43 PM
| QUOTE (Apathy) |
| The wierdest run I ever GM'd involved an initiation prank to join the Bozo's (prankster sprawl gang). The runners had to sneak into the Mayor's Executive building downtown, climb to the top of the dome, and replace one of the arms of the statue with one given to them by the gang leader. The arm was actually a remote-controlled cyber arm, with internally mounted cybersquirt, and the statue started flipping everyone off and squirting them with a dmso/lsd mixture the next day. Film of 'the assault on the dome' ran live on all the major networks. |
Sounds alot like The Scatterbrains.
Either way, that sounds like a hilarious mission
Posted by: SL James Jun 21 2006, 11:44 PM
| QUOTE |
| Actually, no one has ever said that. |
... Yet.
As far as I'm concerned, grown adults who play dress up are scum - be they Trekkies, LARPers, Furries, etc. But Furries just creep me out more than even LARPers.
Posted by: James McMurray Jun 21 2006, 11:52 PM
What about parents taking their children out for Halloween?
Posted by: Shrapnel Jun 22 2006, 12:39 AM
| QUOTE (SL James) | ||
... Yet. As far as I'm concerned, grown adults who play dress up are scum - be they Trekkies, LARPers, Furries, etc. But Furries just creep me out more than even LARPers. |
But what about Cowboy Action Shooting?!?
http://www.sassnet.com/
Posted by: hyzmarca Jun 22 2006, 12:54 AM
As soon as phasers are invented Trekkies will begin to get much more respect.
Posted by: Fix-it Jun 22 2006, 01:13 AM
| QUOTE (hyzmarca) |
| As soon as phasers are invented Trekkies will begin to get much more respect. |
no no, there will just be more bodies everywhere.
Posted by: SL James Jun 22 2006, 01:22 AM
Did I stutter? Did I leave room for a caveat?
Posted by: James McMurray Jun 22 2006, 01:41 AM
No, and knowing you there was no wiggle room. It's called being facetious. Sorry, I forget you frequently need things explained to you. I really should have put a clarification paragraph there.
Posted by: Westiex Jun 26 2006, 01:47 AM
Fanboy pron - this is a subject best left undisturnbed after someone challanged (I think) Kagetenshi ...
That was SR slash.
Posted by: Taran Jun 26 2006, 02:20 AM
Yep, Dunkelzhan/Villiers slash IIRC. I tried to search for it, but couldn't find anything; this forum is smarter than I am sometimes.
Edit: never mind, it's in http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=8840. What can I say? It makes me laugh.
Edit squared: holy shit, hyzmarca.
Posted by: hyzmarca Jun 26 2006, 02:35 AM
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=8840&hl=rabid+fanboy
Posted by: ShadowDragon8685 Jun 26 2006, 03:02 AM
Ai carumba.
You know you say that, but you know what they bill GenCon as? That's right. A bunch of lunatics who like to dress up, swing around swords and pretend they're Knights rescuing damsals from dragons, or worse, a bunch of REALLY crazy lunatics who like to dress up and pretend they're cybernetically-augmented criminals.
Every fandom has it's extremists. I like Furry stuff, most especially the porn - though I stay the hell away from actually conversing with many furries, because of the beforementioned extremists. I've never even considered going to a con or getting dressed up. Why? Why the hell should I?
Think before you open your yaps. The morons wearing Fursuits are like the guys who LARP Shadowrun with glock-19s and blanks in empty warehouses. The rest of us just eye them askance and go the other way.
Oh, and for the record, I've seen the abovementioned hermaphroditic centaur porn. It's really not all that. If you've lived through tubgirl, goatse, or a flurry of gurochan material, you've seen far worse. Get a grip and STFU.
Posted by: ShadowDragon8685 Jun 26 2006, 03:03 AM
Oh, as for what my characters would do? Hmmmmm...
Skate: Try to find a cute girl who's not too extreme, and go to bed with her.
Lin Mao: Airlift in extra booze and party favors. Make .
Posted by: SL James Jun 26 2006, 07:24 AM
| QUOTE (ShadowDragon8685) |
| Ai carumba. You know you say that, but you know what they bill GenCon as? That's right. A bunch of lunatics who like to dress up, swing around swords and pretend they're Knights rescuing damsals from dragons, or worse, a bunch of REALLY crazy lunatics who like to dress up and pretend they're cybernetically-augmented criminals. |
There's a very good reason I hate tabletop gaming and gaming stores - the effing gamers.
Posted by: Squinky Jun 26 2006, 11:08 PM
| QUOTE (SL James) | ||
There's a very good reason I hate tabletop gaming and gaming stores - the effing gamers. |
Man, thats kinda of like walking into a church and telling everyone you hate religous people....
But it was amusing none the less...
Posted by: Shrike30 Jun 26 2006, 11:18 PM
Nah, the difference is that we know what he means
Posted by: Platinum Jun 27 2006, 08:54 PM
Haha .... I just got my wife interested in playing shadowrun.,... so we play once a week. We are at the point where we need more players so that we can have a more complicated run. There was a look of fear in her eyes as she recanted memories of people that openly called themselves gamers in high school. I nodded and told her that I fear those people as well, and that those people are generally shunned by everyone.
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