Some unusual Shadowruns?, Or: How to frag your DocWagon Contract. Options

[ShadowDragon8685]

This Run idea came to me in that place of many ideas: The Shower.


The premise is simple. Johnson wants DocWagon to hurt. Bad. Digging reveals that Johnson's <Insert Important Person Here(Brother/Wife/Whatever)> was geeked when a DocWagon responded to someone's Super Platinum and started shooting everybody in sight. He wants payback.


The 'Run' is a bounty on all DocWagon equipment destroyed or stolen, and any good Matrixwork against them. A fair sum for the wagons - maybe 5,000 Nuyen, more for the choppers - about 8,000-12,000, and if you take out a corporate office or one of their clinics, it's up to the DM.

The easiest way, of course, is to beat someone with a DocWagon bracelet up, let him call the Doc Wagon, and then just ambush it. I figure it should be easy for awhile - DocWagon is an armed response extraction team. It's (IMO) never occured to them that THEY could be the real targets.

How the Runners do it is up to them - easiest way, of course, is to just put a short-range RPG into the wagon. They're armored, but I don't think they're heavy enough to take concentrated fire. DocWagons more or less pull people out of fights where they see lots of pistols, knives, pipes, and the occasional SMG, they're not prepared for heavy artillary like LMGs, MMGs, HMGs, assault cannons, or rocket launchers.

Of course, if the runners adopt a "No unnnessessary killing" policy, I'd give them more Karma. The way I'd personally do it would involve grabbing the vic, takeing him into the Barrens, and beating him. (Best way to handle this is to pay off the local gang for their support. They don't mess with the Wagon, or the runners, or the bait.) Once your guy has called the DocWagon, you set up a roadblock, KO the bait, and wait. When th DocWagon arrives and finds themselves the target, order them (through use of loudspeakers) to throw their weapons out and come out with their hands up. This order should be enforced with a very visible heavy weapon, and make SURE to have some kind of jammer up so they can't call the Star in on you. Everybody should be disguised, of course, in the kind of clothing that makes it impossbile to distinguish a cybered out sammie from a mage, and faces covered, of course. 'escort' the DocWagon personelle into an abandoned building, gas them unconcious, torch their van. Drop the jammer, leave them their own phones, and walk away to collect your bounty.

What do you think? Interesting, hopefully unique? Or am I an idiot? You have any other interesting off-the-wall ideas?