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[Bastard]

To be continued someday?

[INACTIVE]Link to current run: Realms

EVOLUTION CAMPAIGN
The Evolution Campaign follows our characters as they begin their careers as petty criminals in the suburbs of the California Free State Bay Area, evolving into shadowrunners, and rising from the shadows as they play key roles in political and corporate wars.

I stole many missions from adventure books, and a few from the web, which I tweaked, edited or bastardized to keep everyone guessing, or to fix things I simply did not like.

Epoch - A group of criminals find themselves in over their head. Will it make or break them?
2057-2058 - Low Level Characters - Table Top
Knuckle Duster, V, The Relentless, RG, Falco, Yoshi

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MacGuffin - The runners successfully move an item only known as "the Prototype."
Out of the Smoke... - The runners are hired by another group, led by Cutlass, to move some merchandise, but soon these petty crooks find themselves having to rescue the professionals.
The Family Jewel* - A stand alone mission, that is a prequel to Survival, and though the players played different characters, RG remained, and some other characters have become contacts. The team makes a high rise raid to steal a heavily guarded Draconem Sapphire, which of course, turns out to be much, much more.
Where the Wild Things Are - The runners are hired to track down a piasma that escaped a genetic research facility.
...Into the Fire - Hired again by Cutlass, the team goes against heavy forces in this data steal, and in the process earn quite a reputation.
Evolution - The runners find themselves stealing samples from the same lab they were hired in Where the Wild Things Are. This gives them an advantage, but when recognized by their contact gained earlier, they now instead find themselves with an enemy.

*Internet inspiration

Survival - Five years in the shadows and the runners' reputations have grown. Can they survive the shadows long enough to reap the rewards of such fame?
2060-2061 Standard Level Characters - Table top and Forum
Knuckle Duster, V, The Relentless, RG, Bubba, Kliko, Ludi, Sugar, Felix, Jamie, Corsair, Starling

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Vengeance^tt - Mr. Johnson hires the runners to steal a package. Unbeknownst to them, Mr. Johnson was hired by their enemy from WtWTA and Evolutions, and the package contains a bomb. The explosion kills Yoshi and injures the others, leading them to seek out their own vengeance.
Knowledge^tt/f* - Never deal with a dragon, but is stealing from one okay? The runners steal the Kalista file from the Great Dragon Hestaby's lair on top of Mt. Shasta.
The Messenger** - Traveling to South America, the runners find themselves short on time and contacts when they unwittingly change the mission of a rocket launch, and have shootouts on the open seas and in the middle of the rain forest, leaving one of their own gravely wounded.
Cunning* - In Denver, the runners infiltrate a cult, kidnapping one of it's leaders, and finding themselves confronted by the enigmatic man in the white suit.
Mile High Mayhem - Before leaving Denver, the man in white hires the runners to do what they do best: cause destruction. Only he has a few specific targets in mind.
Veil* - Fast forwarding in the campaign a few months, the runners find themselves in Tehran, looking for a lost treasure, buried deep inside the burned down remains of the metropolis.
Realms* - The runners learn they have been employed by the great dragon Hestaby since before the run on her lair. Now she prepares them for their final run, into the astral plane.

^ttTable Top
^tt/fTable Top moved to Dumpshock Forums
*Inspired/stolen from Survival of the Fittest
**Inspired/stolen from Wake of the Comet

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CURRENT KARMA POOL
30 TEAM [Bubba, Kliko, Ludi, and Felix]
36 Total Used
10 Total Refreshed
4 Remaining

15 Used this Event
0 Due to Refresh


THREAD LINKS
IC Link
OoC Link
IC Recruitment 3
OoC Recruitment 3
Recruitment 4


IC AND OoC LINKS
Payment from Radek
Meet with Mr. Smith
Payment from Mr. Smith
Karma Award - The Messenger
Mr and Mrs Johnson Job Offer in Denver
Karma Award - Cunning
Karma Award - Mile High Mayhem
The Tehran Job offer from Mrs. Johnson
Karma Award - Veil


CURRENT LINKS FOR RUN
IC Posts, OoC Posts, Internet Links

Map Links for "Veil"
Mission Loadout


HOUSE RULES

KARMA POOL RULES

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All Karma Pool for every player is dumped into the Team Karma Pool.

When using Karma Pool for additional dice or successes, they are purchased as such:
- 1st die/success costs 1 Karma
- 2nd die/success costs 2 Karma
- 3rd die/success costs 3 Karma
- etc., etc., etc.

Minor uses of Karma Pool refresh at a rate of one-half at the end of the encounter. This is will be rounded to the players' disadvantage, of course. Minor uses include:
- Reroll one die on failure
- Additional dice (before roll)

Moderate uses of Karma Pool do not refresh until the end of the mission. Moderate uses include:
- Oops
- Add one success
- Hooper-Nelson Rule (Lower a Target Number of 12 or more)

Major uses of Karma Pool are permanently burnt. The amount of Karma spent is dependent on the situation and is determined by the GM.
- Hand of God - will not burn all Karma Pool and Good Karma. It will however, permanently burn an equal share of the Team Karma (if there are 3 players, 1/3rd burned, 4 players, 1/4th burned). In addition, that same amount is spent as Moderate Karma Pool used. Permanently burnt Karma can be divided up however the players see fit, but we will be always using Team Karma, so it shouldn't matter, so I would disperse it as evenly as possible.

KARMA FOR EDGES & FLAWS

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All Edges & Flaws must be approved by the GM

Lower Flaws
10 Karma per point lost
5 Karma per point transferred (New Flaw points balancing out reduced Flaw, one to one)

Raise Edges
5 Karma per point to balance Edges with Flaws
10 Karma per point over Flaw value (up to 2)
15 Karma per point over Flaw value (3 to 5)
20 Karma per point over Flaw value (up to 6)

QUICK RESOLUTION FOR DECKING/MATRIX RUNS

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Test – Use Computer/Decking Skill only
Target Number – System Security Value
Hacking Pool – 1 automatic success or suppress 1 piece of IC
System Pool – Negate 1 success by decker, or get one automatic success for an IC

Actions - Target
Access - Security Value
Search - Security Value
Control - Security Value
Fight - IC Rating (Opposed Test)
Escape - IC Rating (Opposed Test)

Situation Modifiers
+2 Decker lacks appropriate utility
+1 First alert triggered
+2 Second alert triggered
+1 per IC Decker has suppressed IC

GRENADES!

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Still needs to be game tested!

Throwing
Find Target Number (TN) based on distance and all modifiers
Roll applicable skill (throwing, throwing grenade, ect)
Use standard scatter direction indicator and roll 1d6 to determine direction
Roll 1d6 – successes to determine location where the grenade landed
Repeat for scatter
If zero successes roll as many d6 as the distance modifier (ie short range 4)
PCs and NPCs can dodge
Grenades explode at end of next turn (4-5 second fuse)
Hang time determined by distance, 1 second plus 1 second per distance

Bounce
Bounce a grenade off a wall x2 TN

Cook
Use one combat turn to cook, complex action
Use scatter chart and 1d6 – successes to determine the landing location of grenade
No scatter
Grenade explodes on impact
PCs and NPCs cannot make reaction test to dodge/take cover

Grenade Launchers
Short Range (0-10 meters) can be fired as direct fire
(no scatter on hit, on a miss GM to determine scatter IC)
Use standard scatter direction indicator and roll 1d6 to determine direction
Roll 2d6 – successes to determine location where the grenade landed
Use of leaf or electronic leaf will reduce TN.
Grenade explodes on impact.

THE TEAM
Original Cast
Jaruen - Jeremy Black Oak aka "Knuckle Duster" - Human, Amer-Indian - Physical Adept [KII - Eaten by Aden the Great Dragon in Tehran
baKon - Vreia aka "V" - Human Caucasian Mage/Healer [KII via Sniper headshot in Tehran]
Eggsn - Vrixa aka "the Roaming Gnome" - Weapons Specialist [MIA - Laying low, no contact]
the Relentless - Aerun Bolanti aka "the Relentless" - Decker/Face [MIA - Off grid, conducting "research"]

Recruits
Sneaky Joe - Robert Johnson aka "Bubba" - Troll - Muscle
Kliko - David Hackman aka "Kliko" - Ork - Leader/Mercenary

Recruits 2
blindfox - "Sugar" - Human, Hispanic - Ex-military [MIA - Presumed running in South America]
Mister Juan - Ludmila Soren aka "Ludi" - Covert Operative

Recruits 3
ntwi - Miguel Hernandez aka "Felix" - Human, Aztec (Hispanic) - Jaguar Shaman
galenbd - April Peng aka "Jamie" - Combat Decker [MIA - Currently doing freelancer decker work]
klinktastic - Solomon Caine aka "Corsair" - Drone Rigger [KII- Died in Urban Brawl match when he fell under his own motorcycle]

Recruits 4
Forces in Motion- Yoshida "Miyako" Mai aka "Starling" - Human, Japanese - Physical Adept [KII via devil rats swarming and eating her
lorechaser- Big Ears "Drake" - Troll - Physical Adept [KII - Drowned in a port-a-potty while working as a sanitation worker]


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This post has been edited by Bastard: Apr 25 2022, 05:55 AM

[Kliko]

Mr Juan anything to add? otherwise I'll move us forward to our rendez-vous with Sugar and Duster back in Kourou.

[SneakyJoeKDB]

Bubba is taking the Heavy Machine Gun and all AMMO. Also what other weapons did we find? And Bubba picks up the un-spent grenade. He is going to pocket this one because grenade tosses just dont seem to work.

[Kliko]

@Bastard: A short summary of gear on board would be welcome (type of machinegun, AR's, SMG's, obvious accessoires). I'm thinking of equipping Hausmann with one of the AK's (empty magazine, no round chambered) after we install his personafix-chip

[Mister Juan]

Ludi will change out into her jungle kit, or at leats, into whatever Kliko brought on board for her. She'll also finish searching and dressign Hausmann, and turn off her jammer.

Once they hit their on shore cache, she'll get her bug scanner and check their quarry over.

[Kliko]

Kliko brought everybody(incl Hausmann) a jungle pattern camo-full suit. He even brought load bearing harnesses for the ones who didn't already have a combat vest. We're going to look real smart like a pair of guerillo's out there (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

[Mister Juan]

That's exactly why I get up in the morning.

[Bastard]

Sorry for the flakiness - been super busy at work with the shutdown and major repairs and long shifts and working almost every day. I will try to do better, but I sure don't mind all the OT money! I may not have to do my own shadowrun to make the bills this month. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Since my computer is still dead, I do not have my files. So while looking for the basic weapons I found this awesome link to Gods, inc - Isle of Shadows

I was going to have you guys roll perception tests for your search, but seeing I have held you up enough, here is the important stuff you find:

As for gear, the crew had:

4 SCK Model 100 SMGs with 7 clips total (two of the SMGs happened to drop overboard)
1 AK-97 with two mags (minus rounds fired)
1 Browning Ultra Power pistol (one mag)
1 S-A M107 Machine gun with two 100-round boxes (The tripod is bolted down to the deck - nearly impossible to remove without the proper wrenches)

They also have armored vests, some with more holes than others, that have some sort of flotation material sewn into them.

There are also two boxes of rations, 12 in each. None are donut meals.

Anything else you are looking for in particular? Roll a perception test for results of each.

[Kliko]

A toolbox (because I know Bubba will bring this up):

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[17, 5, 4, 2]

The AK and magazines go to Hausmann. Best have Bubba make a B/R roll for the HMG, the M107 is some nasty piece of weaponry.

-EDIT-
Sneaky, you want to go next (and make an attempt at obtaining that M 107) or shall I forward us back to the rendez-vous?

[Bastard]

Kliko finds a satchel, like a large purse, full of simple hand tools (all metric of course, including the tape), including:

box/open wrenches
two crescent wrenches
16 oz hammer
pliers/wire cutters
channel locks
two cross tip screw drivers
two flat tip screw drivers
electric tape
duct tape
bailing wire

Bubba can take the M107 with basic skill, however, the tripod it is sitting on is firmly mounted to the deck.

[Kliko]

Kliko will just toss Bubba the bag. The rest is up to Sneaky. I'll wait for him before posting the rendez-vous.

[Bastard]

Ok... waiting on Sneaky.

I think Saturday we will be back to normalcy at work. We started up our unit today, running in circulation. Adding heat and increasing pressure tomorrow, then feed in on Friday, final steps on Saturday... hopefully.

[Kliko]

Bastard, I believe there was a brief mention that we were doing this run in the rain season? Could you give an update on the weather (hot and humid, hot with burning sun, hot and raining)? Then I can incorporate that in our rendez-vous post.

[SneakyJoeKDB]

Not sure what to roll against but Bubba will attempt remove the tripod by using the tools provided from Kliko.

Heavy weapons:

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5, 5, 4, 4, 1, 1

If this fails, Bubba will muscle the tripod using tools and strength:

Strength

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17, 10, 9, 5, 5, 5, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1

[Kliko]

@Bastard: Bubba's cell got signal?

[Bastard]

Not if the jammer is on. Once you get closer to shore there will be a cell signal.

The tripod is not hand bolted on, it was permanently fixed and is going to take the correct tools, not brute strength to remove from the deck.

[Bastard]

Not if the jammer is on. Once you get closer to shore there will be a cell signal.

The tripod is not hand bolted on, it was permanently fixed and is going to take the correct tools, not brute strength to remove from the deck.

[Bastard]

Now... Ludi is very dissappointed in you, so go over to her, tell her you're sorry and hand her your cell phone...

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif)

[Kliko]

Bastard, you prod Sneaky for a reaction? Otherwise I think it's best to move things forward.

[Bastard]

I finally got a few days off... I will update sometime tomorrow, and bump you guys ahead if there isnt activity.

[Kliko]

Something on a side note, but happy news all together: I got me a job again! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/spin.gif)

[Bastard]

Great news!

I am still working on my next post. My computer is still in boxes, my hard drive is at my friends, and thus my notes are floating in cyberspace for now.

EDIT

Post is up... I didnt add too much, as I do not want to lead you too much.

Feel free to post ahead to setting up camp, or cruising around... let me know your plans for each day. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday...

[Kliko]

Not sure whether we made specific arrangements for that in the IC.

Most likely the team makes him leave a voice- or tridmessage in a messagebox which we in turn check twice (sunset and -rise) a day through Ludi´s sat-dish, then return his call when required. It's likely JC's call, since Ludi is our designated comms-specialist (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Mister Juan]

Not sure whether we made specific arrangements for that in the IC.

Most likely the team makes him leave a voice- or tridmessage in a messagebox which we in turn check twice (sunset and -rise) a day through Ludi´s sat-dish, then return his call when required. It's likely JC's call, since Ludi is our designated comms-specialist (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

That was mainly why I had Ludi bring her collapsible sat dish. Didn't think they'd get cellular signal down in the boondocks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
So yea, we do the voice mail box thingy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Bastard]

No worries... I found some hand written notes today.

Hooray!

BTW - What is it that you are using on Hausmann, and how does it work?

[Kliko]

A rating 6 personafix-chip (rookie mercenary archetype). Basically it is a special direct input BTL that overrides the user's personality with that of the chip. They're mentioned at the end of BTL-descriptions on p. 296 of the core book. We'll be giving Hausmann a real authentic 'experience' for this one. Posing as a merc team 'on the run'. I don't have a clue how they work rules-wise. But we can always ask on the OOC forum?

@Bastard: Should we make some Wilderness-survival group tests? And is it going to rain? I believe we're in Kourou during the raining season right? (also for narrative purposes).