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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 608 Joined: 7-June 11 From: Virginia Beach, VA Member No.: 31,052 ![]() |
Thought it apropos to start a list of when we all feel a character/group needs to be retired, either to NPC status, the halls of myth and legend, or to the morgue. To get it started, ...
It's time to retire your character when... 1. They're on a first-name basis with a headlining Prime Runner, the head of at least one major corp, or a great dragon. ----a. Especially if you use pet names for each other. ----b. Doubly so if your pet name for Loftwyr or Dunkelzhan is "Boots". 2. Your team has become one of the top 10 world economies. 3. You're specifically mentioned by name or team affiliation in the exemption clause of insurance companies. 4. You start to purchase new guns instead of reloading what you already have. 5. Your hacking consists primarily of politely worded agendas sent to GOD operatives. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 515 Joined: 27-May 10 From: Helios Space Station, L3 solar LaGrange Point Member No.: 18,624 ![]() |
6. Great Dragons set up your character with their personal wet workers. In a romantic fashion.
a. Specifically to breed the next generation of pawns. 7. Your character personally kicks the Yakuza out of Seattle. 8. Your hacker starts creating AIs. a. And those are their programing mistakes. |
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Target ![]() Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 4-April 05 From: Downunder Member No.: 7,284 ![]() |
9. They use a small girl as a body shield when threatened by elf posers.
10. They feel outgunned by elf posers wielding TMPs, leave the building, get their Panther Assault Cannons, return and 'finish it'. 11. Go hand to hand with a great dragon. Armless adepts are not so good at wielding combat axes. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 525 Joined: 20-December 12 Member No.: 66,005 ![]() |
12. Your team causes Matrix Crash 3.0.
13. You manage to successfully bring Dunkelzhan back into the land of the living. 14. You accidentally summon the Horrors...and beat them back within the same combat encounter. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 471 Joined: 7-November 10 Member No.: 19,155 ![]() |
15. Your Face plays matchmaker for a Great Dragon.
16. You're asked to be god-parent for Netcat and Slamm-O!'s daughter. 17. Lofwyr commissions you to paint the next BMW Art Car. 19. You go to Burning Man with Hestaby. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 167 Joined: 29-April 10 Member No.: 18,522 ![]() |
20. Your Face/Hacker regularly sets up CEOs and Presidents to take the fall for your team's runs.And is successful.
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,286 Joined: 24-May 05 From: A 10x10 room with an orc and a treasure chest Member No.: 7,409 ![]() |
21. You're Canray (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
21. You're Canray (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) Thanks, just... Thanks.I can feel the love. Really, I can. No, wait, that's just heartburn. |
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Horror ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 ![]() |
It's time to retire your character when...
22. Your team is so worldly and well-traveled that they can fit right in everywhere from a Redneck Run to the Jet Set. 23. OrbitalDK's next post about the next big thing that happened in orbit is largely an after-action report of your run against Zurich Orbital. 24. Thanks to your team's actions, the world is left scrambling to find a new gold standard currency. 25. You decide you don't like Hestaby being declared an outcast from Dragonkind and set about correcting that by virtue of killing off Great Dragons until she's the only creature left on Earth biologically capable of claiming the title. 26. Your team actually makes headway at 25 without being caught. 27. You decide, after 26, to turn down the cabal of Immortal Elves' payment to go for broke and exterminate Dragonkind to bring about an age of Elvish ascension, largely because you didn't want to exterminate Dragonkind, you just wanted to see your favorite living Dragon back on top of the reptile heap. 28. Your team not only successfully runs in Triassic Park without any losses, but decide to go back for another freelancing run on the island to collect animals to sell to wealthy private citizens. 29. Your team has acquired such as reputation for efficiency and reliability that Ares asks to name their new series of laser weapons after your team, and offer you retirement money to do so. 30. You turn them down after field-testing the weapon and determining that it's insufficiently reliable and efficient to grant your name to. 31. Your team acquires control of at least one Corporate Court vote. 32. One or more of your team actually sits upon the Corporate Court. 33. You own sufficient voting stock in a AAA-rated megacorporation to be the swing vote between major factions. 34. You own sufficient voting stock in a AAA-rated Megacorp to be the major voting faction against which your detractors must rally swing votes. 35. You own tyrannical controlling shares in any AAA-rated Megacorp, numerically at the point where holding votes are explicitly a formality. 36. You own sufficient voting stock to swing multiple boardroom votes. 37. The Corporate Court is unwilling or unable to attempt to censure you for the conflict of interest of holding significant voting stock in multiple AAA-rated Megas, largely because you control the court. 38. When Great Dragons and Immortal Elves enter into alliances against you for the purposes of mutual protection. 39. When you decide to make nations the dominant power in the world again, and start making serious inroads to that effect. 40. When you declare Metahumanity to be the dominant species on the planet Earth and demonstrate to any contenders that the primary reason for that claim is the lethal efficiency of your team in enforcing said claim against all who would disagree. |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
41. When the only people willing to hire on with you is "Pachinko" Mike and Mungo.
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Horror ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 ![]() |
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#12
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Neophyte Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,389 Joined: 20-August 12 From: Bunbury, western australia Member No.: 53,300 ![]() |
42: Half of Seattle's property is actually your bolt-holes. The other half is owned by your various identities.
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Neophyte Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,351 Joined: 19-September 09 From: Behind the shadows of the Resonance Member No.: 17,653 ![]() |
43: You're on at least good terms with more free spirits than Ghostwalker.
44: You can negotiate with insect spirits and convince them to return to their native metaplane without a fight. |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
45. Your character has been made Canon.
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Neophyte Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,389 Joined: 20-August 12 From: Bunbury, western australia Member No.: 53,300 ![]() |
46: You arm-wrestle with great dragons... and win.
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The ShadowComedian ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 ![]() |
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jacked in ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 9,547 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 463 ![]() |
47. You have your own trideo show.
48. Your P2.0 Centrality Rating is 0. And you are not Gary Cline. 49. When you go on a run, you just dial a few numbers and ask the people to hand over whatever you are supposed to get, because you know they will rather do it instead of having you come over. 50. All the Megacorps begin using purely legal and morally sound business practices, in order to prevent themselves from becoming the target of a shadowrun involving you. 51. You had to turn your character sheet around, in order to write down the last digit of your total Karma count, because it did not fit on the front side anymore. 52. You cannot spend your good Karma anymore, since there is nothing left to learn (too bad, you didn't choose one of the Awakened Qualities). 53. The prospect of getting deltaware installed doesn't excite you one bit. Bye Thanee |
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Horror ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 ![]() |
54. When you're given a run to acquire something preposterously large and symbolic (like a fountain,) are given a huge amount of money to perform the impossible, then calmly run some numbers and work out that it's cheaper and easier to simply purchase the desired object outright and aboveboard from its present owners and turn it over to Mr. Johnson for a massive mark-up than it is to steal it.
55. When you perform 54 and Mr. Johnson doesn't even think of shortchanging you for fear of the retaliation you wrought upon the last Johnson who betrayed you, which was both terrible, innovative, and resulted in Ares Macrotechnology being forced to issue a public apology for his actions and settle a massive suit in the Corporate Court that they're going to be feeling until the 2090s. 56. When you decide to pacify Puyallup Barrens and both Spikes and Ancients would prefer to sit down together at the negotiating table with you to hammer out the terms under which they may continue to exist in the district rather than face your wrath. 57. When, thanks largely to your diplomatic efforts, Tarislar and Carbonado become recognized as districts in their own right, with elected representation in the Metroplex governance process. 58. When your diplomatic efforts result in the birth of the first twenty-first century Superpower to rival the Megacorps by uniting what was divided. 59. When Aztechnology cleans up their act because you have sufficient blackmail material on them to basically call an Omega Order and a draconic jihad on them at any time you wished. 60. When you get offered a permanent, lifetime seat on the Corporate Court as an impartial grand magistrate. 61. When you have to turn down dinner invitations from Senators and Congressmen because it's your regular poker night with Damian Knight. |
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Shooting Target ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,973 Joined: 4-June 10 Member No.: 18,659 ![]() |
62. When "Drop trou, waggle my tackle at it, then wing it from there." is your SOP for dealing with Dragons.
62a. And it has worked. |
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Neophyte Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,113 Joined: 24-January 13 From: Here to Eternity Member No.: 70,521 ![]() |
63. Dragons 'postpone' all current operations for a physical meeting to discuss the fallout from your last run. and they don't try to kill each other.
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Horror ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 ![]() |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
65. When Kane starts calling you out for being outrageous and over-the-top.
66. You start topping Kane for being wanted. |
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Horror ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 ![]() |
65. When Kane starts calling you out for being outrageous and over-the-top. 66. You start topping Kane for being wanted. 67. When you successfully frame other Prime Runners for your runs to the point that even they're not sure whether or not they did it. 68. When you successfully frame Megacorporations for your large-scale Runs to the point that they have to choose between claiming credit and looking guilty, or denying involvement and looking incompetent. 69. When you successfully frame the G.O.D. for your datasteals. 70. When you successfully manipulate the G.O.D. into straight-up unwittingly doing your datasteals for you. 71. When the no longer have to manipulate the G.O.D. into doing your datasteals for you, because they'll voluntarily do them in order to limit the collateral damage to the Matrix at large. 72. When you pull off a Run so awesome that other Runners try to claim credit for your deeds. 73. When you're so well-known for doing insane things and succeeding that other Runners try to frame you for their deeds so people would even believe it was possible. 74. When you've got so many jobs coming in that you actually have to subcontract Runs... 75. And your subcontractors have names like NetCat and Hard Exit. 76. When you've made such good business subcontracting that you wake up one morning and realize that your job description is more accurately "Fixer" than "Runner." 77. When your character decides that that state of affairs does not suit them, and goes ahead and gets Leonized and a full genetic re-workup so they can start over as a new Runner in a new city. 78. When you try to hire Kat'o Nine Tails to compose a song about your exploits, only to find out that she's already in the middle of one. 79. When that song is a cover of Motörhead's We are the Road Crew entitled We are the Right Crew. 80. When you get into a legal tussle with the party who has the rights to Motörhead's discography over the cover, which you settle by negotiating with the record label to sign over the rights to the entire discography to you for 1 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) and a promise that you won't initiate a retaliatory Run against them for getting lawyers involved. |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
76. When you've made such good business subcontracting that you wake up one morning and realize that your job description is more accurately "Fixer" than "Runner." Worked for Bull. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 525 Joined: 20-December 12 Member No.: 66,005 ![]() |
81 You manage to successfully build a war-mech; both manually and remotely piloted ones.
a Which you not only use for yourself, but you make a lucrative business by mass-producing them and selling them. b Which also causes Ares to go out of business (and somehow be FAR more damaging to them then a defective rifle, figuratively and literally!!!) |
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