How to know your runners aren't professional Options

[James McMurray]

If you've seen this, this, or this at your table, your runners are unprofessional.

[Ryu]

Guilty as charged, Guilty as charged, not guilty.

[nezumi]

I realized they weren't professional when they showed the had "plain white" non-embossed business cards with the cardmaker's logo on the bottom.

[Snow_Fox]

I thought a business card with a skull and cross bones and carrying silver plated brass knuckles was a sign of shoddiness

[Ryu]

I think it would be very fitting for gutter runners. If said gutter runners don´t want to move up.

[FlakJacket]

Evryone knows a classy business card should be subtly off-white in colour, tasefully thick and with a watermark. And that's not even getting into the actual print either. ;)

Reminds me of this trade assoociation I ran accross a while back, the National Association for Information Destruction, Inc. I'm sorry but the term or a business position using Information Destruction in the title just screams for Shadowrun useage. Especially for business cards. :D

[mfb]

for business cards, you need something with subtle off-white coloring, tasteful thickness, and a watermark. anything less, and you'll just end up murdering hookers.

[bishop186]

mfb: Okay, I just have to say that I laughed for an inordinate amount of time at that statement.

[Sahandrian]

I figured out they were unprofessional when the rigger screamed "SHORYUKEN!" and punched the adept in the face, starting a five-minute argument and fistfight. In-game, of course. Out of game, the adept's player is afraid of the rigger's player throwing him on the ground and dry-humping him again.

But I've explained my fellow players before.

Anyway... there was the time the other rigger got on the police band on the radio during a run and started arguing with the Lone Star officers chasing them. Or the same rigger starting a stealth mission off with three shotgun blasts and a grenade.

Or the face refusing to let the weapons spec through a door (inside the target building) until he could guess the password, which would up being an Ace Ventura reference.

Oh yeah. The adept ignoring everything at a meet cause he was watching South Park...

Some characters have made showing up drunk to things a regular event...

...yeah, there's a long list I can't remember anymore. Except for this one comment I recall.

"Dude, you didn't move in with me! You broke into my house and refused to leave!"

[Ryu]

Snow Fox + mfb = champagne card made of thick paper with watermarked skull and cross bones, platin plated brass knuckles.

If you ain´t got style, show you got money.


Unprofessional behaviour 2 (actually happened several times): Leaving because the target corp belongs to a tripple-A. What do they think SR is about? Gardening?

[wargear]

They insist on removing their clothes and kit at critical points during a run and posing for their Camera-Orc.

[Lindt]

Heh, we have a client that makes us wood business cards. 2 ply cherry. And they look really good. And stunningly survive in your wallet.

But thats just showing that your overpaid as a runner.

[nezumi]

Do you actually give those out or just keep them for show??

[FriendoftheDork]

How'bout firing a colt america inside our rented car on a mission in order to turn off the radio?

Yeah, that was our Technomancer. Luckily my character wasn't there as he would probably refused to work with her.

Oh yeah and none of them had sound damper cyberware either...

[Slump]

Couldn't the technomancer just have used his voodoo and asked the radio to turn off?

[Tanka]

[bishop186]

Speaking of car sound shenanigans, back in an SR3 game we had an Troll sammie, a Human weapons specialist, and a human shaman (can't remember what type). Between the three of us, we could not for the life of us work the radio like civilized runners. We punched it to make it work, ripped it out of the car to turn it off. We also had stolen that car, so we drove around with the alarm blaring, punching at the console trying to turn it off. We then proceeded to bring it back to our fixer to turn the damned thing off. Needless to say, he wasn't pleased.

None of us had any experience with cars -- the weapons specialist drove it because he was the quickest of the bunch.

It was also in that game that we kidnapped a KE because they were guarding an Arcology and tortured him, climaxing when the weapons specialist cut of the poor fragger's ear with a shaving knife (props for those who get the reference) to get security information on the place. He actually gave us the information up front when we B&E'd the house and kicked his ass -- we were just making sure.

[Fortune]

[bishop186]

Indeed it would seem so!

[fistandantilus4....]

[Muzzaro]

:S : "... not to mention a pool of dark blood on the front seat"
:| : *dips his finger in, and plops it into his mouth* "Hmmm cherry flavour"

[Snow_Fox]

the very first game we played, (1st ed kiddies) one character played an Ork sammie who claimed he didn't need body armor because of his high body rating. so while the rest of us had lined coats or armored jackets. He had a cotton t-shirt.
The very first time guns were fired in our SR careers, and he, of course, gets cut to pieces and was discribed by the GM as "Well, here he was standing there's now a broad, red smear against the wall.

[KarmaInferno]

Coolest business card I have come across was etched steel. Most of the text was surface-etched, although the logo and company name was a cutout. Pretty slick.

Hmm... it appears you can get them for a $1.60 to $1.80 apiece, with a one time $100 set-up fee. Not especially cheap, but not too horrible a price either.



-karma

[lorechaser]

[Ryu]

This choice of material is functional, as "getting noticed and remembered" is a (primary even) function of a business card ;) :P