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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 946 Joined: 16-September 05 From: London Member No.: 7,753  |
At least 1 of the Sr novels deals with a "Corp makes zombie virus, so they can profit from the cure" storyline. In effect, you want to run the ShatterGraves area [or Cannibal Sector, for those of you who know SLA industries] as a 'play area'.. ..Enjoy your stay !! Alternatively, why play zombies as shamblers ?? Have more fun by having the Corp spec-ops as nanoware zombies - Tharkold nanoware reanimates dead people and there's a Space Gods infecton that could have the same effect [both from TORG]. I remember a Chill story where a company was using zombies as cheap data entry staff.. ..How's that for a nice surprise for your team ?? |
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Nov 14 2007, 08:46 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,838 Joined: 1-September 05 Member No.: 7,669 |
If you go with the nanites, you could even get really SF...
Have the nanites colonize the brain and take control. The nanites themselves getting general instructions from a massive wireless transmission of some kind (insert appropriate technoblable here). This gives your hackers and technomancers the chance to shine instead of the magicians that usually have the limelight. |
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Nov 14 2007, 08:52 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 946 Joined: 16-September 05 From: London Member No.: 7,753 |
Have the zombification spread in a virus-like manner using the widespread nature of those lovely wireless connections.. ..And you thought accepting the spam/porn/trojan payload from a botnet was the most that could happen !! Or, in a magic-rich world.. ..Why wouldn't there be magical infections to induce zombie-like behaviour, linked into an Astral Space being [Nestene Consciousness or Yetis, anyone ?? [both from old Dr Who]] |
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Nov 14 2007, 09:00 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 689 Joined: 16-September 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 5,623 |
Take a look at the movie"pulse". The concepts pretty cool even if the movie itself needed help.
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Nov 14 2007, 09:12 PM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
The 5 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Apocolypse Could actually happen article from Cracked is worth a read for some interesting ideas on this.
One thing to consider with something like this is where are you going to set it and is it a mass or generalised outbreak? Having it break out in some third world island country with a few hundred thousand to a million or so citizens/residents allows you to go completely apocolyptic whilst keeping the rest of the game world mostly intact, or is this a new game? Simply have the team be there on unrelated business and then sit back and watch the fun. Failing that the UN or Corporate Court quarantine the place and stonewall the other group so the runners are hired to go in and investigate and find out what's really happening for more high powered teams. |
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Nov 14 2007, 09:18 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,326 Joined: 15-April 02 Member No.: 2,600 |
Personally, I like the idea of sending them into a corporate arcology, having them fight all sorts of horrible zombie monsters, and when they climb out find out that the zombie apocalypse has hit the entire city and they're crawling out of an undead frying pan into an undead fire. All the sudden, the corporate breakdown becomes the safe zone.
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Nov 14 2007, 10:33 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: 16-June 07 Member No.: 11,924 |
Are you going for Zombie outbreak or Zombie Apocalypse?
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Nov 14 2007, 10:51 PM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
aw shit . . |
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Nov 14 2007, 11:29 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 704 Joined: 20-November 06 From: The seemingly unknown area of land between Seattle and Idaho. Member No.: 9,910 |
Here's a thought...Shedim vs. Undead vs. Metahumanity! Now accepting odds. Shotgun shells on sale at local retailers, get 'em while there in stock!
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Nov 14 2007, 11:43 PM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
shedim win hands down with undead being a close second and metahumanity not even close but third place . . avery metahuman that dies can be possessed by a shedim . . or gets turned undead . . so their numbers grow as the last number dwindles down to nothing . . every undead that gets killed REALLY dead can STILL be possessed by a shedim so their number grows even more . . hrm . . undead being not alive but dead and all could probably be possessed by shedim as well . .
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Nov 14 2007, 11:53 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,326 Joined: 15-April 02 Member No.: 2,600 |
See, now that's an interesting idea. A biochemical zombie plague that ends up generating a lot of regular corpses that the shedim inhabit until a shedim ends up inhabiting a biochemical zombie that isn't technically dead and becomes some sort of super-shedim bent on world domination through mass infection.
You know what I'd like to see here? Insect spirits. Particularly if the zombie threat was so great that people had to join forces with the bugs, or if the bugs just started exploiting the chaos. Biochemical zombie fleshforms. I'm lovin' it. |
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Nov 15 2007, 12:12 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,838 Joined: 1-September 05 Member No.: 7,669 |
Shedim + cybermancy + handwaving some rules = ? |
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Nov 15 2007, 12:37 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 689 Joined: 16-September 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 5,623 |
Going with the idea of insect spirits. Flesh forms could get the virus turning them into zombie flesh forms! The body "dies" but is still animate, super zombies of doom. Gotta figure the insect queen spirit might get a little ticked off though.
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Nov 15 2007, 12:38 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Not if she is toxic herself. ;)
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Nov 15 2007, 03:42 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: 16-June 07 Member No.: 11,924 |
Is there any reason the Shadowrun Corps/Govs. wouldn't just nuke a zombie outbreak area that isn't a flimsy plot device?
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Nov 15 2007, 04:40 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,326 Joined: 15-April 02 Member No.: 2,600 |
They might have trouble reacting as fast as they need to. Its one thing to nuke a zombie outbreak, its another if communication has broken down and no one is quite sure what's going on. How long did the Bug City Containment Zone last before they nuked it? It was about a year or so. That's the thing about last resorts, you have to do them last.
Also, since the Bug City nuke didn't exactly wrap everything up in a neat little bow, the Corp/Govs might be more reluctant to go to that well again. |
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Nov 15 2007, 11:56 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,629 Joined: 14-December 06 Member No.: 10,361 |
I was having a quick think about some things said in this thread, and there's a very elegant, surprisingly canon concept you can use. Gemini.
Let's just say a brilliant nanoscientist and his corporate research team were working on a form of nanite with full functionality, that could self-replicate independent of secondary cyberware like a nanite hive/facilitator etc. he succeeds, but on the eve of his breakthrough he heard distinctly familiar ominous music and something went TERRIBLY WRONG. Somehow, these new nanites, with the Gemini function keyed in, broke out into the nearby community and turned the general population into mindless raging killers, who transfer the replicating rage gemini nanites through the injection vector, which probably includes bites and maybe even scratches. You'll probably want a secluded location like a town in the desert, a remote country town in the nan or the yucatan, a large village in uganda, or maybe even a settlement on one of the islands in Puget sound or the Carribean League. And the best part of this, is that if you can think of a real, usefully sized town or locale, use something like google earth to find sattelite pictures and use that as a map given to your players. hell, can some-one suggest me a location + satellite image? I wanna do it myself. |
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Nov 15 2007, 12:18 PM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
Just for kicks, I'd have the "triggering effect" of the Gemini be the scent or sight of blood, too.
Say the corp was working on the rage as a means of helping combat soldiers/corporate security overcome non-immediately-disabling injuries in combat. They get hurt and see/smell blood, they freak out and go on the offensive, and maybe when the shooting stops they'll like their shiney new cyberarm or vat-grown organs better anyhow (that the company can then dock their pay for). Some pencil-head somewhere decided it would cut down on emergency medical costs somewhere, you'd no longer have to outfit every squad with a medkit, or something silly like that. |
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Nov 15 2007, 12:49 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
Awakened Rage Virus + Aqualogy = Bioshock
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Nov 15 2007, 07:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 689 Joined: 16-September 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 5,623 |
See I was thinking of a Arcology because it is enclosed and a break out could go unnoticed. Especially if the corporate owners know what is going on and are actively trying to cover it up. I hate to keep referencing movies but the whole "hive" under Racoon City in Resident Evil makes perfect sense and would play very well in the Shadowrun world.
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Nov 15 2007, 08:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 704 Joined: 20-November 06 From: The seemingly unknown area of land between Seattle and Idaho. Member No.: 9,910 |
Good location for zombie outbreak...Ephrata, Washington. It's not all wikipedia made it out to be. Relatively isolated, the nearest town is five miles away, the nearest city is seventeen miles away. Climate semiarid, few trees, lots of sagebrush, brown rolling hills as far as the eye can see. Population ~6500. Corrupt city council, corrupt businessman basically owns town. And the best mexican restaurant you will ever eat at.
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Nov 15 2007, 10:40 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Nah. I'd have the triggering effect be sexual arousal, which is far far more frightening a trigger. For opposition, blood is far more fearsome a trigger. But, for the possibility of being infected oneself, one simply can't beat sexual arousal for the horror it would produce and one certainly can't beat it for the global social changes a true epidemic will work. Picture it: a small sleepy town, not unlike the Mayberry of Andy Griffith or the Mayfield of the Beaver Cleaver. Two hormonal all-American kids drive up to Lover's Lane and have a park. Kissing turns to fondling; Fondling turns to tearing and bitting and ripping. They're found in the morning, apparently mauled to death by wild animals, but their car is locked from the inside. Of course, the investigation soon reveals what they did to each other, but it doesn't reveal the reason that they did so until it is far too late. And in a wholesome upper-middle-class family home, Mommy and Daddy decide to push their beds together for the night. When little Suzy, intrigued by strange noises, asks "Daddy, why are you hurting Mommy?", the result is not the incredibly awkward birds&bees talk that usually follows from such questions; Mommy and Daddy rip her apart and violate her corpse before finishing each other off. Of course, it is hardest on those who survive the rage and have time to calm down, having brutally murdered their lovers and worse. As it spreads, sex must be abolished in all of its forms. Even sexual thoughts are outlawed, because it is sexual thoughts that lead to arousal and arousal that leads to uncontrollable rage. All people must wear full burqas when in public; any show of skin or hair risks producing arousal and is thus illegal. Porn is outlawed, as are all other depictions of the human form. All touching is illegal; any physical contact between two human beings for any reason is a crime, because physical contact can produce arousal. Masturbation is, of course, punishable by death. People are not allowed to cohabitate; even parents and children must live in isolation from one another. Human reproduction as we know it becomes impossible. Even artificial insemination is problematic due to the need to collect sperm. Cloning becomes the norm. Personafixes that suppress sexual desire help, but aren't perfect. Every now and then a woman gets wet or a man springs a boner; such unfortunate individuals have to be put down. |
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Nov 16 2007, 09:04 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
Then you have to outlaw sleep as well. |
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Nov 16 2007, 09:26 AM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
And, while a ... fun? ... setting, you're moving pretty far away from a zombie flick at this point.
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Nov 16 2007, 11:21 AM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
and moving straigth into some religious nutjobs wet dream . . yes, that one was intended . .
not since augmentation, he doesn't neccessarely *g* make the trigger becoming tired . . everyone becomes tired some time . . and if they don't . . you knock them out and voila, instant raging zombie O.o |
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