 Run Stubs, Idea for GMs, in 100 words or less |
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 Nov 22 2005, 11:43 AM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 62 Joined: 18-August 03 From: Atlanta Member No.: 5,512  |
Here is the one we ran as our first 4th ed game last night. i will actually do a report later and let you guys critique me.
Johnson hires the runners to kidnap a local ork rockstar during one of her performances at a local club. Since security is tight, he has guns hidden under their seats. catch: Singer is a rich corp dudes daughter who likes to slum with the natives. Johnson doesn't give a damn about her. He just wants video of local thugs using his competitor's cheap plastic guns to terrorize the locals (and piss off a corp). he will assasinate the girl himself as soon as they deliver her, and leave the body for locals to find. |
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Nov 22 2005, 01:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,528 |
Another hint: The elven chick is played by Kim Basinger Btw: "Hook, Line and Sinker?" You are outing yourself here! Birdy |
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Nov 22 2005, 01:14 PM
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Mystery Archaeologist Group: Members Posts: 2,906 Joined: 19-September 05 From: The apple tree Member No.: 7,760 |
Nah you still lost me. I've never paid a lot of attention to Kim Basinger.
and outing my self as what? I know what I'm referencing. now that was a good run. |
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Nov 27 2005, 11:50 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
For the sadistic GM who wants to provide a moral delima.
An anti-awakened fundamentalist cult kidnaps a young girl who is sometype of magical prodogy. They publicly claim responsibility for the act and justify their actions with mad rantings that amount to blood libel against all magicians. The girl's parents hire the runners to get her back unharmed by a certain date. WHen the girl is rescued the runners learn that the cultists weren't quite as crazy as they seemed. The girl is, in fact, proud of her detined role as a human sacrifice and speaks of the brutals tortures tht she will endure before ending her own life in a particulary grusome manner with nothing less than joyfull anticipation. What's more, the blood ritual is meant to close a huge power site, one large enough to allow some big and nasty things to pass through. There is a maliginant force banging at the gates and only one chance to bar them. The runners can deliver the girl to a horrifying death and collect their pay or they can protect her from herself and her parents and, in doing so, unleash an unspeakable evil into the world. |
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Nov 28 2005, 12:54 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
Moral delima? Option 1 seems to supports both:
1 Get paid 2 Live long enough to spend it while option 2 does not. So what is the problem? :cyber: |
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Nov 28 2005, 01:05 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Maybe the unspeakable evil pays better.
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Nov 28 2005, 01:43 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
depends on the character. If you have some cthulhu/horror cultists/etc as runners... guess what? Bring in the horrors! :silly:
Plus, what if all these folks are just delusional cultists? They're all being manipulated by some crazed spirit/bug/<insert horror>. The runners might feel that the right thing is to stop them. I know, I'm just adding a twist to the whole thing. |
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Nov 28 2005, 01:46 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,073 Joined: 23-August 04 Member No.: 6,587 |
Almost certainly but will you live long enough to spend it. Edward |
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Nov 28 2005, 02:03 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
maybe if you join its side, it might let you live longer...
'All hail the unspeakable evil*...' * - It's probably drop bears... |
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Nov 28 2005, 02:41 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 715 Joined: 4-September 05 From: Metaplane GEPLK136 (The one with the lizards. You remember the lizards, don't you?) Member No.: 7,684 |
Wait... what? The prodigy's parents want her dead too? You get paid if she dies? I thought the options would be: 1) Protect the girl from herself and the cult, get paid, but unleash unspeakable evil (a return of popularity to Furbies?) 2) Let the girl waste herself, pick up the girl's parents as enemies instead of the cash, but stop "unspeakable evil." I do like PBTHHHHT's suggestion, which would turn it from a lose - lose, to a win-lose, but... only if you're sure they're crazy. Wether it was true or not, I'd drop hints of it, just to make the issue that much more confusing. Then I'd have the party eaten alive by the return of furbies. |
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Nov 28 2005, 03:27 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Nah, the cult that is doing the kidnapping is a bunch of fundamentalist waccos who think all magic is the work of the devil and all magicians eat babies. The fact that the girl was bred and raised specifically to be a human sacrifice is purely a coincidence. It becomes a question of which side is crazier, the misguided but altuistic hatemongers or the people who are willing to slaughter their own child in accordance with their beliefs. |
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Nov 28 2005, 04:23 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
Ok, I'll do my option. Kill all the wackos cultists, rescue the girl and any other people that can be saved, take the money from the parents, whack them too. Take all the funds from both the cultists and the parents. Send the girl to some place to be deprogrammed and then send to her a boarding school and a trust fund so that she can have a normal life. What, why are y'all looking at me like that?
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Nov 28 2005, 05:13 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 715 Joined: 4-September 05 From: Metaplane GEPLK136 (The one with the lizards. You remember the lizards, don't you?) Member No.: 7,684 |
Oh, I see. I was under the impression that it was the Cultists who had planned to sacrifice her (though she accepted it.) Makes more sense now. |
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Nov 28 2005, 06:54 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 256 Joined: 24-October 04 Member No.: 6,784 |
The runners are hired to investigate a series of magical terrorist attacks against a small to middle-ish corp's Marketing Research department. Someone keeps sending spirits in to wreak havoc for no apparent reason, but the corp doesn't have the magical knowhow to figure out whats going on. This Corp is about to roll out a new productline that could launch them into the big leagues, but someone seems intent on derailing their plans.
The catch: The Corp is being terrorized by a Free Spirit. It seems some marketing schlub came up with a catchy new name for their product, and this just happens to be the same as the spirits True Name. Whenever some corp wageslave has need to speak the name of the product line aloud, this spirit shows and wrecks up the joint. OTOH, the free spirit can't figure out how all these mundanes have gotten access to its True Name, or why they keep slamming him into this one section of Seattle on an irregular basis. The Runners are stuck with destroying a powerful spirit OR unraveling the mystery, convincing the corp to drop a name that has focus-grouped well, while at the same time convincing the free spirit that they either know nothing, or that they can be trusted with its True Name. |
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Nov 28 2005, 09:16 AM
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Deus Absconditus Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,742 Joined: 1-September 03 From: Downtown Seattle, UCAS Member No.: 5,566 |
Hats off, Deamon, that's brilliant.
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Nov 28 2005, 07:47 PM
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Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,950 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920 |
A little edit to conform to the rules. :) It also cuts down on the spirit constantly being there, and it may also provide the clue to what is happening. |
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Dec 1 2005, 09:09 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
A Johnson in the middle of a messy divorce and custody dispute hires the runners to kidnap his or her daughter from an elementry school.
The catch is that the target isn't the Johnson's daughter. The target is a Free great form Blood spirit with the human form power which just happens to look like the Johnson's dead daughter. The Johnson believes that this creature is, in fact, his or her daughter's ghost and feels that he or she has a duty to provide it with sustaince that no one will report missing. |
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Dec 1 2005, 09:37 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
or shedim for the lower power groups. The dead daughter who has miraculously come back to life. Wait, did the Johnson was the person who caused the daughter's death (accidental or intentional) and now feel such anguish and guilt about it, that now that she's back he/she's helping to protect the 'daughter'.
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Dec 2 2005, 01:34 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 560 Joined: 21-December 04 Member No.: 6,893 |
This one's simple. Take the daughter, but make sure that she gets roughed up a bit in the escape. (Of course, make it look like an accident. After all, should'nt the parents be happy that she was only knocked unconcious, as opposed to having that rocket plow through the Roadmaster's armor?) While she's out, load her full of those drugs that they use on magic-users to destroy their magical ability. A bit of Laes might also help; she would'nt know what's going on. Because you'd be knocking out her magical abilities, the anti-awakened folks would likely be happy to stage the "escape", and maybe even provide the necessary drugs, or perhaps just administer them. When the runners get back, they hand over the daughter, they'll get paid; they can claim that they did what they can to get her back in one piece, and leave. (Hopefully, they'll have a mage to shield against Lie Detector spells or the like.) This one works nicely. The fundies get what they want, and because they no longer have the girl, they don't have to worry quite as much about shadowrunners blowing them to little bits. The parents get their kid back; they won't likely admit that they had intended her for sacrifice, and will likely pay the runners. And they won't be able to sacrifice the girl, which works out well for both her and the rest of the planet. The only ones to lose would be the drop bears. |
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Dec 2 2005, 01:57 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
No, the drop bears will win. So will everyone's favorite metal elemental if the GM is sadistic enough. Remember, the ritual sacrifice is mean to close the potential gateway. It is sort of a damed if you don't less damned if you do sort of situation. I've been playing Fatal Frame III so the entire human sacrifice to close the gates of hell thing has stuck in my mind. It also fits with Shadowrun canon considering the Dragonheart trillogy. |
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