No Honor Among Thieves Options

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I was thinking about some of our other games while looking over the notoriety thread, and wanted to share some of the more interesting moments of character back stabbing that's happened in our games. Feel free to share thoughts or any of your own.

The first one was part of my mafia based campaign in New Orleans. The team consisted of two made men (well, one was a woman) and three runners. The job was to get on to a freighter coming down the river. Part of the crew was smuggling in some Ares guns and dropping them off to one of the local krewes that wasn't giving the mob it's cut. They were to leave the ships crew alive, and take out the local smuggling krewe, using the guns they were supposed to be receiving.

The team went in, and took over the ship alright. They did eventually kill the entire crew (about a dozen IIRC) because they'd jumped one of the runners, a physad, and nearly killed her.Then they went on with the mission as planned, and took out the N.O. smuggling krewe with LMGs, then took off before the NOPS got there. THis is where things got interesting.

The physad had been knocked out, and healed back up to only 9 boxes of physical damage and 5 stun. She had to be hauled out of the room filled with the ship's crews bodies. The runner pulling her out didn't think to grab her weapon focus. Another of the runners changed into a seagull with the shapechange spell. He left behind his clothes, and his commlink that he specifically stated he had in his pockets. It had all the contact information for his contacts and the team on it.

This isn't a CLUE thing because of how the rest of the group played it out. The group split up as planned for a few hours to make sure no one was being tailed. The guy that left behind his commlink realized his mistake a while later when he tried to call the group. He headed back to the ship as a seagull again. But because there had been a lot of magic (that he had cast) around the boat, there were astral mages and elementals patrolling the area. One mage spotted him and recognized the signature, and sent an air elemental to capture him. It did.

They brought him in for questioning. Eventually he decided to cop a plea in exchange for a reduced sentence, he would turn the others in. The mob's connection in the police department found out and passed on the information. The team decided to take him out, and killed him with ritual sorcery. One of the runners was a vodoun and had made sure to pick up some of his hair when he had a chance earlier.

The second character, the phys ad, was sitting quiet in a hotel room when she got enough stim patches to think clearly, and realized what had happened. She called one of the mobsters on the team, and relayed her worries. The mobster character gave her directions to the hotel room she (the mafia character) was staying at. When she showed up, the mafioso gunned her down. No loose ends.

The second one took place at the end of the adventure Bottled Demon. Arleesh had sent the team up to take out Geyswain. One of the runners didn't want to go along, but the rest of the team talked him in to it. That and Arleesh had made it clear that she wouldn't be pleased if he didn't help. The character was a physad that liked swords and pistols.

They took the elevator up. When the rest of the team stepped out, he literally tabbed one of them in the back. Said stabbed character carried a cane sword, and they went at it for a round. Then the physad, knowing he was out numbered, fired on the others with his pistol (ambidextrous) and jumped back in to the elevator and took off. They let him go.

After the run, Arleesh told them to hunt him down. They finally found him months later. It turned into a battle at a multi fuel station between the physad and the guy he had stabbed. They went at it with swords, then guns, then a fireball. They both nearly died. They're still hunting each other.

So let me know what you think. In the first game , I made it clear at the beginning that this was not going to be the typical "all for one" type team . These guys were all criminals and knew it. The second incident just happened. Also really interested in any other cut throat games people have had.