Publicity in the Shadowworld, Or- shadowrunning perks. Options

[Tiralee]

Ok, my usual insane team has developed into an even MORE insane team with fallout from the last run.

[ Spoiler ]

(Long story short, brainwashed Bug shamen in the bottom of the Redmond mall at 4 in the Morning.)

Even against the bugs, the players kicked absolute ass (Drain from the magicians was the worst effect, thank the gods for bound elementals, eg: "You lot of fire elementals, go hug that thing.")

But, the absolute cracker (Apart from tossing a shopping-trolley full of "Bug-Be-Gone" spray down an elevator followed closely by a WP grenade...) was the survivalist-horror-humour enacted by the Decker, the monsterous Troll acting as "decker overwatch" and our bow-wielding sniper.

Scene - it's a tiny Security room, the decker is curled up in the corner while Kronk (Body 17, Str 14, Quickness 8, Int 3 Troll) waits with his Ares Thunderer (only loaded with EX and Gel...like they were expecting this.) and a ballistic shield, troll-size.

Kronk - Flukes his perception and wins a reaction test to BLOCK a maddened force 6 Ant worker from coming out of the ceiling vent with his shield, Ant Spirit rolled results beyond crap for the struggle Vs Str.
I roll the the enraged squeals, etc are fraggin obvious.
Grommit, the surfer Minotaur adept runs in with 2 monster packs of bug-spray "liberated" from the recently opened Stuffer Shack (What do you THINK the decker was doing:)?) and just sprays the damn thing.

Scene: The Troll is holding this horrible thing back, quite successfully and the another Troll bursts, in, spraying the aerosols in like he's at a rave

Mass giggling by the players.

I roll Ant body - it's an irritant...what the hell...HOW MANY ones? The highest result, even including combat pool, was 3. Players are wetting themselves with laughter.

The Ant is scrabbling it's way back up the vent, after taking some S damage so Kronk does the one thing I was not expecting him to do, he tosses the shield aside, lunges up to GRAB the Ant and drags it down into the room.

God, ok, whatever, roll grapple (Unarmed/Brawling, whatever) and I roll...not AGAIN?!
-Players are on the floor after seeing the dice. Grommit is still spraying the cans of spray and they're both laying into the Ant's armoured form, in the SMALL room, with the still on-line decker, who is watching this via the room's security camera.

Grommit - "Hey, wait, open its mouth, mantibles, whatever!"
My head is on the table, I roll the damn dice. Strangely enough, with the physical pounding that they are doing to the Ant (Kronk with the Titanium Bone Lacing), the TN's are reasonable. Ant fails, horribly.

Kronk Hauls the dam thing's mouth open.
Grommit - "I'm gonna shove these cans in its kisser!"
Grommit actually scored higher then the Ant (Goddammed Init of 32, dammed adepts) so while the Ant struggled to get free (no chance) he shoved the cans down its throat.
Me: <Imagine the dull horror in my voice> What now?
Kronk & Grommit - We're gonna kick it in the thorax!
...
The Bug-spirit, battered, ichor dripping from the walls and ceiling, was duely assualted by a combined Strength attack of ~35.
It didn't have a chance.
Insecticide foaming out of it's spricles, it twitters and chrips once before it's kicked out of the security room and into the corridor.

Cue Kronk and Grommit Pumping fists, shouting, then the "V" sign into the security camera

The team's new decker had gathered some fantastic footage (Use the "punch" rules for Shadowbeat) and the resident security expert thought of selling it to an ADVERTISING AGENCY. And wrote a dammed jingle to go with the footage. (See the above spoiler for the description of the footage)

"Okay," I thought. "Here we go."

The Ad execs loved it. Me: Damn
They sold it to an insecticide manufacturer (Bug-Be-Gone, available in Household, Troll and Chicago-size packs) They said, uh, yeah, ok, it looks pretty funny...Let's see the audience acceptance. Whew

The Public loves it - it's up there with NERPS for public exposure, sales are through the roof, the Ad company awards the players mucho nuyen with an option for further work.
( I sometimes hate my dice.)

The players make off with :nuyen: 325K each for the advertisement, they made sure the people doing the hammering were unidentifiable and now they're looking to sell more footage of their exploits. (Ie: Firestone Multipurpose Runflats - they're what REAL riggers use.)

I know about the low-profile, etc...but they did their homework on this one and I'm going to have to award them Karma for sheer Bravado.

Have you GM's out there had similar situations?

-Tir

"Bug-Be-Gone...F#$G Yeah! When you've got a problem, Bug-Be-Gone! F#$G Yeah!" - excerpt of the jingle. Think "America, F#$K yeah!" but a lot better. :(