SR4 Plot Arc Critique, My Players Stay Out Options

[Gothic Rose]

So, I'm going to be running my first Shadowrun game ever soon, and I've been working on a plot. I was hoping I could get some feedback from Dumpshockers, what they think is cool/not cool, what will be fun/not fun, etc etc etc.

The game is a magi-centric game, that will have some focus on the 4th age - 6th age crossovers.

The team is (so far as I know, some players haven't fully finalized character concepts) composed of: a dwarven Zoroastrian mage trying to redeem herself for sins committed in the employ of a corp, a forcefully retired Troll Urban Brawl player with heavy cyber and a big ass machine gun, Mr. Lucky the nature mage (high edge druid), a stealth/face adept, and a combat adept.

Gonna ask my players to not click below (That means you, Calypso, and you, Isam)

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So, basically the idea is that after a few simple runs to get the team together, they'll be hired by a Johnson to help deal with an issue - a free spirit that's taken over the body of a black ops man who works for AZT. The man has killed a mid-level employee of the Johnson's corp, and the runners will be hired to find out when the spirit possessed the black ops specialist, if it was a targetted assassination by AZT, etc etc. They're also to eliminate him.

WHat they will find out, ultimately, is that the guy is a cyber zombie...and worse. It's not a free spirit that's possessing him - it's a -very- powerful shedim that's quite happy with the superb body it's found.

Basically, what will then transpire will be a long-term chase, tracking the cyber-shedim wherever he goes, trying to take him down, so on so forth. The shedim plans on using its new host as an instrument of war, to kill a (nuclear capable) world leader and then assume that leader's place in order to instigate armageddon.

A secondary goal is to cause a major mana spike that will allow the rest of the shedim free access earth. And not just the astral shedim, but physical ones, as well - in their true form of Horrors. Another Scourge, this time too early in the mana cycle for their to be kaers and other defensive counters.

Sprinkled throughout the arc will be other, non-related jobs to fill gaps and wallets. It's a sort of epic story, and the characters (500 BP to start) will have to become capable of filling some damn big shoes.

Thoughts/critiques/comments? :)

[kzt]

Sounds cool if you like the world impacting plot stuff.

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So what happens if the runners go to AZT or Aztlan? I have the think that AZT would be kind of miffed about some crappy spirit taking out one of their very expensive and difficult to replace guys, and even more annoyed that some POS shedim wants to destroy the world. I'm pretty darn sure that summoning horrors to destroy the world is not part of the long-term Aztlan plan.

[warrior_allanon]

kzt, thats just a side problem the team will have to deal with, STBT

Rose all i have to say is 2 things, one, i wish i was playing in your game and two use the "Aliens" solution on the target

[Gothic Rose]

[sunnyside]

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A couple little logistical things, maybe. First cyberzomibes had all sorts of rules associated with them that made it a bitch for spirits to even be near them. Still a simple hand wave, Shedim like that kinda stuff, and you can avoid that.

Also I think the devs have said that the Shedim aren't the horrors. Kind of like the bug spirits they're another non horror astral baddie. Again that's just the devs, you can wave that off just as easily.

[redne]