Mr. Magoo Challenge, Taking down the elderly, SR4 style Options

[Buster]

Mr. Magoo, the venerable patriarch of Magoo Enterprises has just been fired as CEO by the board of directors of his corporation. The chairman of the board, Young Mr. Magoo (Mr. Magoo's son) wants complete control of Magoo Enterprises and was planning on politely asking his senile and domineering father to gracefully step down. However, Mr. Magoo became hysterical at the suggestion and threatened to take drastic actions at the company and disown his son. As Mr. Magoo stormed out of the corporate headquarters (at least as anyone can "storm" while hobbling along on a walker), Young Mr. Magoo realized he needed to take immediate actions or he would be ruined. As no one in the company wanted to see "drastic changes" in their little empire, Young Mr. Magoo quickly gained support for an extreme plan to permanently remove old Mr. Magoo from the corporate balance sheets. The board of directors collective spent an Edge point and have conveniently located a team of highly trained assassins that live down the block and already have their gear packed. YOU are that team of highly trained plot devices, uh I mean assassins.

Senile, but extremely paranoid, Mr. Magoo has prepared a bunker below his mansion in the suburbs of the local corporate enclave. Not even his son, Young Mr. Magoo has seen the inside of this bunker. By the time your fixer received the call (and finished his BTL session), Mr. Magoo has already reached his bunker.

Your fixer has proactively tried to find the schematics of Mr. Magoo's mansion and bunker for you, but all records of the bunker have been destroyed long ago by Mr. Magoo's agents. Not even Google Cache has a copy of them.

Young Mr. Magoo has emailed your fixer a copy of the latest medical checkup and corporate profile on Mr. Magoo so you know what you're up against (sorry, no DNA samples or astral signatures). Here is Mr. Magoo's stats:

Attributes:
Body: 1
Agility: 1
Reaction: 1
Strength: 1
Charisma: 1
Intuition: 1
Logic: 1
Willpower: 1

Edge: 7
Essence: 5 (that triple bypass last year went south in a hurry)
Magic: none.
Resonance: none.

Positive Quality:
Lucky

Negative Qualities:
Infirm (feeble, nearly blind, and almost completely deaf)
Uncouth (senile and an old codger)

Mr. Magoo has no cyberware and his extreme senility has robbed him of all skills and knowledges. His only defenses are those in the bunker. Considering his wealth and time devoted to preparing the bunker, the defenses should be considered to be really nasty. He might have bodyguards that are off the corporate payroll and he may have drones, bound spirits, wards, and paracritters guarding the bunker. The bunker does not seem to have access to the matrix.

Mr. Magoo still has friends in other corporations and in the local military and Young Mr. Magoo has informed you that you must kill old Mr. Magoo very soon or enough forces will have arrived to ensure no one will ever reach Mr. Magoo before he can wreak his revenge on Magoo Enterprises and his son.

Teams consist of standard SR4 starting characters (400 bp, etc) each with +200 karma and + 1 million nuyen. Team sizes are 6 characters max. Each character starts with a free Leadership 4 skill with a specialization in Tactics (so you as players can spend days discussing tactics that your characters will come up with in seconds).

House Rules: no custom spells. Aid Sorcery from multiple spirits do not stack (only one Aid Sorcery from a spirit at the same time).

For newcomers to this thread:
Thor shots, nukes, bunker-busting bombs, blood spirits, and ritual assassination spells have already been done to death, so read the thread and make sure you're coming up with something new before posting anything to do with those.

What everyone else has found out (the hard way):

• Mr. Magoo's army will arrive in less than 24 hours and is essentially invincible. They protect Mr. Magoo long enough for him to transmit his instructions to destroy Magoo Enterprises and his son, then Mr. Magoo dies of a massive stroke. The situation is essentially unsalvageable once the army arrives (my intention is that this adventure is "Game Over" in 24 hours).
• Mr. Magoo drifts in and out of dementia and doesn't really respond to people in a beneficial way.
• The grounds of the bunker are covered with popup gun turrets.
• There are patrols of spirits (both materializing and possession) using Detect Life and Detect Explosives spells and have Elemental Attack (electricity).
• The spirits have the knowledge skills to know when animals are behaving strangely.
• The inside of the bunker consists of a nested bunker with an outer hallway guarded by heavy machine gun turrets.
• The outer bunker and the inner bunker are protected by separate Wards.
• The bunker has it's own power generator, water reservoirs, Clean Air spells, and there are no pipes leading to the bunker.

What's your move?

This post has been edited by Buster: Aug 22 2007, 06:26 PM

[Ravor]

How soon is "soon" and is there any reason Tarantula's ritual team of death wouldn't work aside from Magoo HOGing it away?? :cyber:


Sorry, I couldn't resist... ;)

[hyzmarca]

My first move is to kill my fixer after explaining to him that yes, I do still watch classic 2Ds and no, I will not walk into certain death and the hands of Mr. Magoo's blind luck.

Edit: And then I'd take a job to steal Scrooge McDuck's Number One Dime.

[Buster]

[Ravor]

Ah, but the true beauty of the ritual team of death is that none of those are really needed with symbolic links. :cyber:

[Buster]

[Buster]

[odinson]

what about having the phys ad with all the shape changing disguise powers and huge influence skill group go disguised as the son and "make amends" and then the sniper shoot him once he's out of the bunker? is talking right out or what?

[Buster]

[Ravor]

*chuckles* Fair enough, although given Magoo's mental state and the fact that no-one knows where the team is a quick ritual mindrape to make him publicly "forgive" his son and retire should in the very least save our hides. :cyber:

[odinson]

what about a team of snipers waiting for the extraction team to take Mr. Magoo out of the house? if they take him physically out they have a shot at Magoo and if they drive a car into the house there is always the rocket launchers.

[Tarantula]

12 hours to make the symbolic link actually. Rushing the job to half the interval from the 24 hours. 1 hour for the ritual. 13 hours later hes dead. Unless he has a huge pile of counterspelling at his disposal (roughly equal to the ritual groups casting pool), hes dead at 13 hours. Period.

[Ravor]

What does the Matrix have to say about the size of the local sewer systems?

[odinson]

[Ol' Scratch]

[Ravor]

Hopefully my full six million :nuyen: worth of ( Rating 15 ) explosives. Because the best way to take down a bunker is from the outside. :cyber: *tounge firmly in cheek*

[Jaid]

[bibliophile20]

Hell, at this point, you might as well hack into one of the Thor Shot controller platforms; if that doesn't do it, nothing will.

[Ol' Scratch]

Re-read my post. Namely the minimum requirement of 8 attempts on the ritual team's part, with the first leaving a huge astral signature.

The ritual team could score so many hits that they do 1,000,000P damage. All Mr. Magoo has to do is burn one Edge and, voila, he just scored the equivalence of 1,000,004 hits on his Damage Resistance Test -- critical success!

[Buster]

[Buster]

[Ravor]

Well to be fair, as a NPC Magoo can only HOG once, he doesn't get to burn a single point of Edge per attempt like a PC can.

*Edit*

Of course to be equally fair, I've long since thrown that stupid rule right out of the window, but since we are supposed to belong to a younger videogame raised generation who screams "But it's RAW!" to win arguments it seems like a good enough fit. ;)

[Ol' Scratch]

[Buster]

[Ravor]