Alternative Dankwalther Deaths, Let's make up some runs for this Options

[Kremlin KOA]

As I have said multiple times previously. I like that Dankwalther was killed, but dislike the cheesy way it was done

This is not a thread for complaining about:
*Dankwalther
*His Money
*His Death
*His vendetta against Villiers

This is a thread to create alternate scenarios for how he could have been offed.

One suggestion: Novatech sends Johnsons into Dante, Penumbra, Underworld 93 and ever other major runner haunt. The johnson holds up a set of certified credsticks and says
"Each of these sticks has :nuyen: 100 000 on it. This credit will not be validated until Art Dankwalther is dead, only one per customer."
He then gives the Credsticks to, Shadowrunners, gangers, mafia, Yaks, or anyone tough enough to be able to threaten him and his bodyguard.

now the 'one per customer' limit means the teams will not be geeking each other for extra payment. This could cause the largest single shadowrunner collaboration in history, with the possible exception of the actions against the UB.

Now Novatech could make extra money on this by gifting sim recorders to everyone involved and having them record their runs for a reality TV show 'The Hunt for Red Dankwalther' Hell have the sim recorder attached to the stick...

Now some runners will want to sit on their hands and wait for someone else to succeed, then collect. But you will be hiding from every runner who missed out on getting a stick. And when they get whacked by those runners who missed out. The new runner slots the stick into his commlink and the recording continues.

Guys what do ya think?

Oh and Fanpro, remember if Art had a Saddam style Double, the real Dankwalther could still be out there for this run to happen with. Or find someone else like him, although I doubt it will be so easy to engineer another NPC with the same, Jar Jar Binks, level of hatedness amongst the fan community.

[Kagetenshi]

Suggestion:

Dankwalther takes his money from the DF. He spends it on the largest BTL binge imaginable, dying of dehydration a mere four days in.

~J

[Lindt]

Dude, they Thor shotted him. How much cooler can you get? Never mind that a prominint dumpshocker was involved in the shadowspeak for that part.... wasting him with a Thor shot indeed!

[Grinder]

Being on a DRop Bear hunt in Australia and met his fate there. It's similar to a Thor Shot (death from above) but much stranger. :D

[emo samurai]

Dude, isn't that just asking for someone to hack those credsticks?

[Edward]

Hack them if you can.

There is no cred on them. The cred will be uploaded the first time there slotted after his death has been confirmed.

Edward

[Kremlin KOA]

they only access blind accounts

and Lindt, if a GM had come up with that Thor shot idea, most players would be crying MUNCHKIN

nowlet's work on ideas for runs
Lets take this threat plot and make adventures based on it

[ShadowDragon8685]

Don't piss off Ares Macrotechnology or Saeder-Krupp too bad, or the Dragon, or else the Knight, might just thumbprint off on a thor shot into your hood.

[Kremlin KOA]

considering Knight hates villiers...

[Kanada Ten]

[ Spoiler ]

Novatech refused to admit that Danthwalker was a problem, this would defeat all their posturing prior and it’s not their style (they even prevented the news people from finding out who the target was!). The Thor Shot was Novatech’s way of saying “We ARE one of the big boys with the big toys; don’t frag with us.” The number of runs needed to locate Art, however, and gather all the proof needed for the Omega Order - all done while preventing anyone from figuring out the end target - would be impressive.

This is one I worked up where Yamatetsu helps track a Danthwalker agent in order to gain points or sway a vote with Novatech on the Corporate Court.

A pirate named Calypso, perhaps known to the runners, calls up one evening asking them to retrieve some stolen cargo for the standard payment. The thieves are making landfall in the runner’s home port that night aboard a vessel named The Transrapid, and its docking information can be sleazed from the Port Authority’s computer host or a contact. Calypso claims that just one, small box is vital to recovery and offers only a small bonus for the rest. He wants them to sit on the box until he can pick it up, and tells them to keep a low profile. This run can be overly, perhaps eerily easy or dangerous and deadly if the GM desires. The Vory thieves don’t know the full value of the box, but do know that it was the critical catch as they can keep the rest while the box is transported to their bosses back in the Motherland.

Once the runners have the box they can see it’s been damaged and the contents exposed. Inside is a stack of screamsheets and an optical data chip. Almost immediately after arriving at the safe house, the runners will get another call from a Yamatetsu Johnson. The Johnson will request that the runners bring the box and contents to the airport where he will pay them the original price along with releasing Calypso and crew (turning the phonecam to a very bruised pirate, who smiles weakly showing off his newly toothless grin). He will also apologize profusely for interfering with their business, even allowing them to negotiate the price upwards around ten percent.

The runners may want revenge, which is natural, but the security of the airport should discourage them. Either way, the Johnson is sitting in Gate X reading his pocket secretary, and right next to him is a grumpy looking Calypso. The gate is actually packed with Yamatetsu agents, including the tourist in floral beside the Johnson.

Whichever runner approaches the Johnson will be asked to sit in the only vacant seat across from the pirate. The J then hands him or her a certified credstick worth double the agreed upon price and holds out his hand for the box. If the runners try to hold out, Calypso will ask them to go through with it (Astral scanning will reveal no magical interference, though a few of the people about will be magical – and using full Spell Defense on the J). Once the box is in the Johnson’s hand, he’ll wave his left hand over it (internal bug scanner and bomb sniffer) before opening it and removing the chip, which he hands to the tourist beside him. The tourist takes the chip and places it in his mouth without looking up from the brochure in his other hand. The Johnson will make small talk with the runner(s) for a few minutes, discussing their tactics against the Vory or commenting on their cyberware. Then the tourist will remove the chip from his mouth and return it to the J who in turn places it back in the box and hands that back to Calypso; along with a second credstick. He’ll remind both the runner and the pirate that some things are best left unspoken.

Outside, Calypso asks the runners to help deliver the package to its final destination, using the credstick in his hand as payment. He explains that the Vory have instructions to steal the package (again) but he is to insure they fail, and - with half his crew in slings - a few extra hands could make all the difference. The package is on its way to some exotic local, and, with that extra cred, they could take a vacation once it’s safely out of their hands...

This run provides a chance for the runners to make some Vory enemies and gain a Yamatetsu contact along with maybe meeting a soon-to-be-declared-missing agent of Danthwalker. Perhaps before they finish their vacation one of the agent’s friends will ask for help finding the now missing person since they were among the last to see her alive... Was it gangs in a ransom scheme, insect spirits, runners, or did the Vory finally catch-up in a wildly out of control attempt to regain the package?

Bugs: The runners may replace the original chip in an attempt to fool the Johnson. The chip, if scanned, contained a huge encrypted file (rating 12) - just Danthwalker's instructions to this agent. If the runners replace it with a similar file, the Johnson will not know. The modification made by the tourist is an AOD tracking device with an unbelievable conceal of 24. If the runners drop it in the ocean or such, the Johnson will know that, however, and probably not use them again.

[Kremlin KOA]

[ Spoiler ]

yeah but apparently SK did the shot, go figure. Novatech forces did not keep the press away a SK FLI SWAT did.

Sweet run
this could be tuurned into an entire campaign

[Ophis]

The report memo, is from Sks main corp court rep to ol' golden snout, reporting on CC action. So the CC did it on Novatechs behalf.

[Kremlin KOA]

I want to know how they got that vote through...
consider that Mitsuhama, Ranraku and Ares are all run by people that WANT VILLIERS TO DIE

[Crusher Bob]

Both FDR and Chruchhill wanted Hitler's head on a stick, but they didn't want him dead enough to accomplish this by allowing the Red Army to march to the Bay of Biscay.

[Kremlin KOA]

um you might want to remember the red army and FDR and Churchill were ALLIES then, they didn't start distrusting each other until after the war....

admittedly they started the distrust mere weeks after the war

[ShadowDragon8685]

Actually, they distrusted each other long before the war's end.

But not as much as they all wanted Hitler dead.

[Kremlin KOA]

OTOH the RED army was more like a corp in that analogy than Art, Art is more like a fifth column in germany

[Backgammon]

I second Lindt, Thor shot is by far the coolest thing I've seen. I told my players about it and we all had a good laugh about how cool it was they killed him that way.

[emo samurai]

Why would Ares or Mitsuhama hate Villiers so much? I would have thought that the seething hatred would have been limited to his former partners, Yamana and Nakatomi, who run Shiawase and Renraku.

[Kremlin KOA]

whoops mistake, replace mitsuhama with shiawase

and on the ares thing
Damien Knight = David Gavilan

David Gavilan headed the Echo Mirage Platoon
Those people were his platoon for the entire duration of the war against the crash virus

Look up the term 'Brothersin Arms' to get a hint of how tight knit such a team's survivors would be

And then some pencil necked corporate dick goes and has two of your Brothers in arms murdered and takes their stuff

any questions?

[Kremlin KOA]

[Kanada Ten]

[ Spoiler ]

Declare war on the Corporate Court? Yeah, that's going to happen. Why would the UCAS be mad when the CC is destroying the largest threat to it's second largest money maker?

I cast invisibility on the Thor Shot.

[Kremlin KOA]

[ Spoiler ]

Because the new president is part of the New Revolution and wants an excuse to reunite North America

EDIT: Oh and court members don't pay taxes so No the CC is a Money DRAIN on the UCAS

[Kanada Ten]

[ Spoiler ]

But its employees do pay taxes and the CC had the sole purpose of keeping the corporations from warring amongst themselves and dragging down governments! The CC wouldn't stand in the way of the reuniting of the USA, and with so much of the populations working directly or indirectly in the megas they can't afford to move against them until after reuniting anyway. Besides, the New Revolution knows it would lose against the corps - which is why it moved against the nations first.

I'm just keeping this alive until I can work up another one. Didn't Novatech have the CC presidency (or whatever that's called), where they determined what measures were brought before the Court, which is why they went after Art and the IPO in the same period?

This post has been edited by Kanada Ten: Apr 6 2006, 12:53 AM

[Kremlin KOA]

[ Spoiler ]

corp employees are corporate citizens earning money on corpland property. No income taxes for the UCAS. Oh and the NR would win against the corp court if it holds both UCAS and CAS, it doesn't even need the NAN at that stage. if you read the data on the countries and the corps (SK being smaller in SR than Nestle is today Source: Corporate Shadowfiles) You realize that between the UCAS and CAS they have the firepower to obliterate every corp headquarters and ZO simultaneously. Then thhey just nationalize the former corp holdings and divide them into smaller corps thhat governments can control. That will give them the popularity to ressurect the US. Simple fact of the matter is, if the North American Nations ever reunite, then the safety of the CC is seriously threatened, as the resulting superpower will be able to wage a true war against the corps,one they cannot win.