I've just started up with some new players and had our first session. I told them very specifically and weeks ahead I wanted to run a mirror shades-style campaign, realistic, preferably no ice cold spies, but starting shadowrunners that are washed out professionals or criminals moving up. I told them that they should be wary of qualitives that were difficult to play, either for mechanical or, especially, role playing reasons, like Vindictive which can be cool but end everyone in lots of trouble if not done right.

So everyone comes with good characters with solid backgrounds and some nice twists.

Except one that is really fucked up. Distinctive Style that can't be concealed, really strange background, spells like acid stream. I should probably just have vetoed the char, but I didn't, a mixture of thinking he had some point to it and could handle it, and that we needed to play and not have him make a new char.

So in game, he does strange things too. He says people react strangely to him because of his looks, and he acts strangely towards people also. His tradecraft sucks too, a mark that doesn't fall for an attempt to lure him away, he immediatedly starts very visibly throwing spells at him, in the open, undisguised and with his distinctive style showing.

I mean, fuck. I'm thinking back, why are fixers and johnsons dealing with this guy? Why are the other team members?

I have to kill him or land him in jail, soon, don't I? Hopefully without too much fallout for the other guys. At least it is a good opportunity to show them that stupidity kills, I guess.