Food Fight Revisited!, Or: Cuisine Conflict, Ration Rumble... Options

[Dissonance]

My apologies if the idea has already been brought up, as my search-fu is weak tonight, but how long do you think it'll be until Food Fight is converted (and possibly upgraded) into a SR4 starter doodad?

I, for one, long for the days of a gang of motorcycle riding ninjas to come crashing through the front doors of a Wal-Mart.

[Aku]

I know slacker has already ran it in the forums as an SR 4 game.

[Ryu]

Will we get the slacker to write up the new scenario for us?

[Aku]

this is what he has to say on the subject ( he goes to work, but as far as i can tell never really does much, so i chat with him through aim, but he doesnt have access to DS there, thanks to it being blocked:

[Nidhogg]

I just made sure that all of the gangers rolled the same number of dice for all of thier skills. I used the first edition map, because it was more interesting, and changed some of the fluff a bit (shortened the gang's name to just 'Chillers', and gave them all a gang color of blue-on-white). I gave catcher a low Bod because he is described as being severly underwieght, and had him hopped up on novacoke, gave Static a high Str and put him on cram, put Slicer and Zany on kamikaze, Wiley was hopped up on deepweed, and Spike was on nothing- he just wandered around and slap-patched his team mates when they took damage. I gave them a Profesional Rating of 1, with a bonus 1 point of personal use only Edge because they were human. Needless to say, Catcher was the leader.

[warrior_allanon]

already recreated it, now if i could just get the stats back from my GM i would post them here.

[emo samurai]

How about we make a version of food fight that takes place in a mall? It'll be Mall Maul, and its name will only make sense if you read it! Mall security's there, but they should be easy for both the gangs and the runners.

[Mr.Platinum]

[emo samurai]

It'll be fun and multileveled. The hackers in the party could try to commandeer reshelver drones and crash them into people. That would solve the "hackers have nothing to do" problem.

[Hasaku]

Ghouls! Hmm...idea. Find a reason for the runners to head to a mall and leave most of their gear behind. Unleash a horde of ravenous ghouls on the premises for whatever reason (corp mind control experiment or your cliche of choice), and put the mall on lockdown. Watch the runners come up with interesting ways to kill them.

Wait, scratch that, watch the street sam pick his nose while the mage and adept slaughter everything in sight. The hacker can probably find a way to get in on it, too. Might be fun in a magic-light group. A sort of RA:S lite with a Shaun of the Dead vibe. Could be an entertaining one-off.

[emo samurai]

Again, the hackers could try spoofing the security on the reshelver drones, depending on whether you visualize them as flying things with rotors or gigantic fucking robo-arms. I say gigantic fucking robo-arms. Also, the street sam could have guns in his cyberarms.

[Hasaku]

Yeah, it would only really work with the right group. If you did it as a one-off, you could simply make up an appropriate group and pass out character sheets.

[emo samurai]

There could be a gun store in the mall, an Ares weapons-world. The samurai would be more well-armed than if he HAD relied on his home equipment. This could totally work, especiall if there were awesome robo-arms just arbitrarily there.

[Hasaku]

If we assume someone's arranged this whole thing as a sick game, we can also assume they've removed the easy solutions like the gun store. Or find a way to delay the acquistion of heavy firepower until the end, then unleash an armed up party on the cannibal hordes.

[Drace]

Or have the gangers attack while the sam is in the gun store, and the gangers are robbing it, have all the gangers, shoppers, employees, and random bystanders going in and grabbing guns and shooting at each other (makes me hope most stores don't actually keep ammo near any guns). Have the sam's teamates trying to fight in through a mob, as the sam tries to survive, while stilling trying to get some small pointless thing he needed (like a spare empty clip, or that new fancy hidden arm slide). Then depending on how powerfull the chars are, have ghouls living in the sewer system and grabbing the odd-kid attack seeing the carnage, causing a nice mexican standoff situation. Or if the group is more powerfull, have a master shedim from Threats 2 have found away to make the recently dead come back as minor shedims (would have to slightly altered to make weaker than reg shedim, so droves can be killed). Have the master die off early, but his spell doesn't stop (maybe creates a DZ, or a area-perm affect) so the group has to elimnate large hordes of shedim, and then when npc guards,gangsters,bystanders who joined with the team die, have them come back as shedim too, soo the group is always growing.


And that way, if a pc dies, he can come back as a shedim (lower int,will,cha(he is dead),agi,and increase str, bod, give them wound resistence, 1.5X bod health line) and the player can know kill his friends.

[Mr.Platinum]

[neko128]

[redwulf25_ci]

[emo samurai]

[emo samurai]

I think I'll use that for my very first SR4 game, except instead of shedim or ghouls, it'll be force 3 bug spirits.

[Mr.Platinum]

Screw that, use gnomes that gotta beef with the characters Emo.

[emo samurai]

Why gnomes? Gnomes don't have that "Alien" vibe.

[redwulf25_ci]

[Rotbart van Dain...]

Cleansing drones. Nothing is as much fun as attacking people with automated vacuum and steam jet cleaners. :grinbig:

[emo samurai]

ROBO ARMS! ROBO ARMS! ROBO ARMS!!!