Shadowrunner Team Names, What's your best? Options

[fistandantilus4....]

[Ophis]

One of my favorite groups was either called (by me) Metatron's Midgets or the Freak Patrol.

Why?

Okay Metatron is basically team leader, a 6'4" blue (surged) astrally active elf sniper. His team consist of a short juman looking elf/drake adept, a short night one shamen, a dwarf thug going for a troll slayer look (orange mohawk and beard.) and a Ute dwarf Rigger. No one is normal and everyone is tiny other than metatron. Even when more tall people joined the party it was still Metatron's Midgets.

The other team I've had with a name was Alpha Team, given by their fixer who looked after several fixed teams, it differentiated them from Beta team.

[Demosthenes]

Corpus Delicti.
'Cause there's never any other evidence...
;)

[ShadowPavement]

The team I ran with for almot 10 years was called "Aucum's Razor" Since shooting everything was always the simplest answer.

The group I ran in college named thenselves "Agresion Omega" Which fit pretty well since they were often the final solution to any situation they came against. That was a great team. I still use all those PC's as NPC's in games that I run now. Ahhh...the good ole days.

[Roadspike]

Group I ran with in College ended up with the team name "Collateral Damage." This wasn't because we caused the collateral damage, but rather because for a while, there were so many people coming after us (including a dwarf with a penchant for grenade launchers) that whenever we were in public, something blew up around us. The thing is, the group was actually quite good at stealthy, quiet 'runs, so we tried very, very hard to live down the name. It never quite worked, however, and so we all snickered out of character when someone hired Collateral Damage for a stealth job...

[Bearclaw]

I GM'd a group that called itself Animal Control. THey had a wolf shifter, an owl Shaman and a troll ganger who was barely human.

[caramel frappuci...]

The Powerpuff Girls.

Blossom was a ten foot cybered up she-troll with a penchant for decapitating foes with her equally gigantic combat axe, Bubbles was a shapeshifter mage who literally worships drugs and popped at least six different joints before and after every fight, and Buttercup was a sasquatch.

[pragma]

The Honest Businessmen.

They had matching military grade armor which went well with their business cards.

[Krazy]

the cal-zones, named after a fiasco in the free state, and the general idea that we were always in a hot zone, (and an unfortunate insident inside a pizzaria)

[fistandantilus4....]

It worries me to see that the majority of the team names come from runs either getting fragged, or planed on being fragged ( as in fire fight) from the get go. Doesn't anyone shadowrun anymore?

[Jaid]

eh, well i expect some people aren't so fortunate as to have every single run go flawlessly every single time.

face it: no one remembers the shadowruns you do properly... largely because if you did it properly,

1) no one heard about it.
2) no one knows about it except you and the johnson.
3) even if people heard about it or know about it, they don't know it was you that did it.

and you're happy to have things that way, because it means that whoever/whatever you ran against, they don't know enough about you to send someone to pay a visit.

ie, even assuming half of your runs go flawlessly, the half you will remember/be known for are the ones with the fireworks.

[fistandantilus4....]

actually the most talked about run in our games was a perfectly executed run into a MCT zero zone. Only two shots fired, and those were from Ares squirts with DMSO.
But yeah, I get what you're saying. The hairy ones can be a kick.

[Roadspike]

Yeah, our team name came from a series of runs-gone-wrong (what can I say, we were amateurs then), but the team actually turned into a pretty dang good sneak-and-peek group, including several runs without a single shot being fired, and an assassination with only three shots fired, all from suppressed weapons.

[Smiley]

3 keebs and a corpse. (for our ghoul player)

[NightmareX]

The ever derivative Bad Karma. The team has been through five incarnations so far, and (as of 2060) will probably be on number 6 soon. The name comes from the only surviving member of the original crew, Nightmare, who basically runs that later teams. He has a thing for flat vid movies, and suggested Bad Karma as the name of the original team after stealing the name from an old copy of Navy Seals.

And yes, the both Bad Karma and Nightmare are the names of other teams and runners as well. That's intentional, since no one can be entirely sure which team/runner did a specific run by name alone due to the situation. 8)

[Trashman]

Dubbed my current group "The Clowns" after I had our neo-communist Caribbean/Cuban dwarf (Mr Testicles to Seattle womanhood - at least according to himself - yuck!) hose a sec guard with an antique kiddies water pump gun plus underslung tranq shot.
Before that they came close to being called "The Idiots".

[fistandantilus4....]

[Shanshu Freeman]

somebody here had a team called The Body Snatchers. Specialised in pulling out teams after runs went south. The idea was you'd pay them a retainer and reserve their services if you were expecting trouble.

[fistandantilus4....]

that's a pretty neat specialiazation. Any examples of those? I've thought of doing something similar in running my games before. Am I right in understanding that this is almost exclusvily what this team does?

[Adarael]

1) From Cyberpunk 2020: "The Panic Button." People kept hitting the Lone Star style 'panic button' around us after we told them they would be unharmed if they were good. So then we started telling them only panic-button pressers would be harmed. They kept pressing them. So eventually the nearly cyberpsycho tech in the group murdered a guy we owed some hurt to, and did so in a particularly spectacular and gruesome way, took a picture, and sent it to every police force and corp we could think of, with "DO NOT PRESS THE PANIC BUTTON" stencilled at the bottom.

Just goes to show that after you've been set up by no less than Militech, Arasaka, EBM and Biotechnica, you have very little to lose.

2) The Management. Because we did 'manage' people's problems, but more as a callback to our insane, Discordian style of severely screwing with the heads of everyone we met with, and sewing disinformation like candy wherever we went. Leaving notes in forged handwriting that read things like "KING KONG DIED FOR YOUR SINS" and "WE ARE CARPENTERS AND GARDENERS, WE ARE NOT TOMATO-MEN." The name is a reference to Markoff Cheney, in Robert Anton Wilson's "Schrodinger's Cat."

3) The Evil A-Team. From a CP2020 game, again. We had people that disturbingly mirrored the original A-Team, only they were never so free with the high-caliber rounds. Our CP2020 GM is a sadistic bastard who left us no way to run or hide, EVER.

4) The Sleeping Dragons. A triad cell. "Don't wake the sleeping dragons" was the motto people had about them.

All the other teams were too circumspect to have names.

[Lucifer]

Troubleshooting, Inc. Have trouble? Will shoot.

I and some of the other team members meant it in a less literal sense, but it turned out to be rather appropriate anyway...

[EntropicWizard]

Hehehe.. The current team I'm running is called SNAFUBAR, Inc. "You frag up, we unfrag you."

Headed up by an ex-military rigger named Hack... who happens to have his shop in a warehouse with his very own small business: "The Banshee Wails: Porn for the whole slum!"

[fistandantilus4....]

[Syd]

My group has decided to call itself 'Plan Alpha', because (until last night) Plan Alpha has never failed them.

[PBTHHHHT]

In two separate groups, one in Atlanta and one in DC. We've named ourselves, 'The Cleaning Crew'.

Course the second time was due to that book adventure and I guess my character took the cleaning crew disguise a bit too much and emphasized driving around on the floor cleaning machine. Other sad part of that adventure... when we came upon the doors with physical locks. No one in the group had taken lockpicking or brought a lockpick. heh... oh boy. It was sad.