Missions that are a little on the odd side, okay so the little part is a lie |
Missions that are a little on the odd side, okay so the little part is a lie |
Dec 13 2003, 12:53 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 3-July 03 Member No.: 4,877 |
I know i've read a post here on this same topic earlier, but what are some of the strangest ideas you can come up with to send your groups of runners on?
I'll start off. A johnson hires two groups of runners, possibly just one if it is big enough. He wants them to play paintball in the middle of a crowded office building to cause disruption and general chaos. All the runners get half their pay up front, and the winning team is will get both their and the losing teams half. Finally, you aren't allowed to hurt any of the wage slaves, with a possible exception if it is self defense. What else can you come up with? |
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Dec 13 2003, 01:06 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 488 Joined: 4-August 03 From: Amidst the ruins of Silicon Valley. Member No.: 5,242 |
Well, there was that time a Johnson sent us after a refrigerated tuna that was being transported to a certain Yakuza chieftain's restaurant.... that one was pretty damned weird.
Of course, it turned out that the reason we were going after it was because the tuna had been part of a package to smuggle in certain data and information concealed within a biological package, but that's another story entirely. |
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Dec 13 2003, 01:58 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 973 Joined: 3-October 03 Member No.: 5,677 |
We had to rescue a Johnson from a Novatech facility once. The Johnson was a little old lady. O_o
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Dec 13 2003, 02:27 AM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
The ah, non-voluntary collection of- supposedly- prime genetic material for the Johnson's insemination got a little freaky at several stages. :oB
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Dec 13 2003, 02:30 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 973 Joined: 3-October 03 Member No.: 5,677 |
... :dead: ... ...Ew.... ... |
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Dec 13 2003, 05:39 AM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
That's not too bad. Although the characters did break down into a Paper Rock Scissors mini-tournament to decided who had to do the collection. When the same GM a little while later had apparently been watching a television program on race horses and decided to run the same general idea but with a stud horse as the intended target, that's when we said enough already. No more after this.
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Dec 13 2003, 05:41 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Ya know, that reminds me of a "Keen Eddie" episode -- pretty funny, actually. :grinbig: -Siege |
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Dec 13 2003, 05:49 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 40 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Pueblo Corporate Council Member No.: 1,644 |
I once sent a group of runners to aquire a pair of "My Pet Dunkie" dolls a week before Christmas. They had to contend with hordes of crazed shoppers, only to find that every last doll in Seattle had been sold. They finally ended up locating a cargo ship with a shipment on board. Hurray for piracy!
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Dec 13 2003, 06:51 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 745 Joined: 26-July 03 From: Montréal, QC, Canada Member No.: 5,029 |
I don't know how odd this is, but I recently had my players retrieve a satellite from the ocean floor and an idol from a dragon's stomach...
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Dec 13 2003, 07:06 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 475 Joined: 17-June 02 From: Concord University, Athens, WV Member No.: 2,880 |
They once turned the entire population of Seattle blue, thanks to an old crop duster, a rainstorm, and a chemical that remains unidentified.
One player still thinks I'm an idiot for running that one. |
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Dec 13 2003, 07:55 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 777 Joined: 18-February 03 Member No.: 4,110 |
sounds like Cowboy Bebop. |
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Dec 13 2003, 08:13 AM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
I had my players go on trid gameshow and had the decker deck the station's mainframe to win the prizes.
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Dec 13 2003, 09:00 AM
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Deus Absconditus Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,742 Joined: 1-September 03 From: Downtown Seattle, UCAS Member No.: 5,566 |
Well, it wasn't exactly in the run description per se, but... The Management - which was made up of Fubar Truncheon, Miss Giles, and Agent Orange (Hugo De Naranja) - once stole a wide variety of odd objects and did a wide variety of odd things on Eyewitness.
Among them: -Bug Scanning a corporate exec's crotch, Truncheon speaking only in japanese. Miss Giles explained this as, "Ahh, it appears Mr. Truncheon is quite impressed with your member. He offers you hearty congratulations on your fine genetic material." -Theft of about seven right cyberarms. One was given to Clean Steve as a 'christmas present' (Ruthenium Polymers off, hand arm to man, say 'Merry Christmas!' turn suits back on, leave). The others we attached to random objects around the city, having programmed them to make sign language gestures to spell out "If you can't see the fnords, they won't eat you." -An idea to rig up a corpse smuggling operation to feed Ghouls. I believe one of us decided the tag line should be 'All aboard the meat train!" -Beating a man unconscious with a cyberdeck, after using it as both a bullet shield and a sword-breaker. Yes, it was heavily armored. At one other point in the run, I used it as a sushi plate. -Johnson: "Hello, my name is Wang. I'll be your Johnson. I have a proposition for you." Giles: "You're PERFECT! You don't even need a SCRIPT!" Johnson: "What?" Truncheon: "Keep ad-libbing. You'll be a hit on opening night." And, from another game: "No, I'm not in the habit of giving horrible artifacts to horrible people." Also from that game: Green Zombie, Human Runner, to Gridlock, Ghoul Runner: "Hey, if I die, man, you can totally eat me." Gridlock: "Sweet. What're the tastiest bits?" Green Zombie: "My stomach. I don't do enough situps. Ought be real tender." |
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Dec 13 2003, 03:46 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 475 Joined: 17-June 02 From: Concord University, Athens, WV Member No.: 2,880 |
That was two years before I saw the CB movie. |
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Dec 14 2003, 03:03 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 7-September 03 From: Holiday,fl Member No.: 5,595 |
The end goal of the run wasn't odd but I had my group go on a metaplanes quest to find a free sprits true name, the odd part was that one of the planes they went thru was a musical plane that whenever you went to say anything you had to sing it, and you seemed to always bust out into a dance too.....god, they hated me for that...::grin:
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Dec 14 2003, 03:04 AM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
Only slightly reminiscent of, oh, say, every musical known to man. |
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Dec 14 2003, 03:07 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 7-September 03 From: Holiday,fl Member No.: 5,595 |
True but seeing the looks on my players faces when i explained the rules of the planes was priceless.
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Dec 14 2003, 04:20 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 669 Joined: 25-May 03 Member No.: 4,634 |
A YotC run I did: The PCs are given a run to recover a statue that was stolen by a pirate gang and being kept in their hideout on an island in the Puget Sound. They accepted it and used the transportation provided by the Johnson. On the way over, knock-out gas fills their rooms. They wake up on the beach of the island. All their equipment is gone. A stag has been killed with several spears, and its body left on the beach, impaled. From one of the spears hangs the following note:
Then war drums sound in the distance... |
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Dec 14 2003, 11:01 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 2-December 03 Member No.: 5,871 |
being payed to mess with a johnsons ex-wife or soon to be ex-wife. included
putting odd things in her microwave, and breaking it. something happened to the dog....... :eek: the fridge was filled with devil rat..... er stool (dont ask) her body guards were abducted, and pictures taken of them in lude poses...... (dont ask) then, she got mad, hired runners to catch us, they caught us, she had us put in telivised gladiator dules with rusty/usless weapons. she fed us self heating burritos..........(dont ask) it was so fun...... yet so bad........ |
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Dec 14 2003, 11:22 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 777 Joined: 18-February 03 Member No.: 4,110 |
I wasn't insinuating anything, your story just triggered the memory. :D |
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Dec 14 2003, 12:44 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 139 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Cleveland-Akron Sprawl Member No.: 1,200 |
"The Delivery Guys Run"
PCs need to kidnap a kid from a gang, before she gets in too deep. Sounds pretty simple, aside from dealing with the gangers, but they're notoriously easy to find, anyway. A little snooping around, a little combat, a little sneakiness... the PCs thought they were in for easy money. PCs arrive at the meet to trade the kid for cash. A shadowy figure steps forth from a doorway and the girl runs to him, looks back at the PCs, and then runs past the figure. The PCs begin to notice hints of movement in the shadows and alleys, windows and doorways... a certain smell they couldn't quite place... and echoes of raspy laughter... What followed was a ripoff of essentially any of hundreds of moments from the Resident Evil games or Aliens. The characters were minimally equipped, somewhat wounded, surrounded by ghouls, and mad about getting screwed over. The ghouls used trucks to block/slow escapes, molotov cocktails to keep the PCs moving, and numbers to overwhelm and eventually take out all but two PCs. As one of the PCs in this, I can say that I was certain I'd be making up a new character that night. Not only was I right about that, but I was excited about it, because it brought SR to me the way I knew it could be: dark and nasty. I'm a sucker for survival horror, so this was probably one of my favorite runs. |
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Dec 14 2003, 09:50 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 35 Joined: 7-July 02 From: The Bubble Member No.: 2,944 |
I once had my players steal a toilet. A special prototype space age simlimked toilet with every toilet feature known to metahumankind admittedly but I thought they were going to kill me when the Johnson opened the crate the check and they saw the toilet.
The run also involved an explosive trapped crate of swearing furbies. :grinbig: |
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Dec 14 2003, 11:03 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 228 Joined: 7-December 03 Member No.: 5,883 |
I once had the runners waiting on a street corner for the johnson, and an opportunistic bum with a really good negotiation skill took note. now they were hanging out looking like runners. the mage was dressed in robes, the troll was armored, and the human samurai had chromed over cybereyes.
so the bum managed to get out of them what they knew about the run "are you waiting for someone" "why yes, that's me." "Yes I am looking to hire you, what have you been told already?" "Yes, the biological sample, it's being delivered by truck along this street at 2:23 today. bring me the contents and I'll reward you." "well.... thirty thousand seems like a fair price for the run, but because I like you, I'll pay you fourty." so they got the "biological sample" with no sweat and delivered it, bringing in the whole truck. the sample was a shipment of beer headed to the local grocery store. but the bum held true to his word, he paid them fourty. not fourty thousand, just fourty. not only did they get in trouble with the cops a bit on that one, but the real johnson got pissed when they weren't at the meet when he got there. |
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Dec 14 2003, 11:11 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 482 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 90 |
We were hired to go and ward/consecrate the grave of Jim Morrison in order to prevent some evil music corp from conjuring and binding his ghost to perform and record new songs.
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Dec 15 2003, 03:40 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 9-December 03 Member No.: 5,888 |
Well their was this one time I was running a game. The PC's were hired to Locate and retrieve the remains of a Mafia don who had recently passed away. The remains were stolen by a Voodoo priest and his gang who intended to turn the Don into a zombie bitch. Real nasty retribution for something the don had done to one of the Priests daughters. Anyway the PC's track the Priest and the Gang to a rather lavish hotel in Downtown Seattle.
Guns, swords, and spells a blazing, they come busting in on this voodoo party to be greeted by the priest and his posse. Now all hell breaks loose on the 10th floor of this seattle hotspot. It just so happens the Don is all zombied up standing in his casket with a diaper on. During the ensuing battle the cyber ninja adept and the russian, roid popping streetsam decide there going to go surfing with the don packed back in his casket out the window with the help of a grapple line.... The battle descended to the ground with the russian with a very fake texas accent firing his LMG down 10 floors and the cyber ninja adept thinking he's spiderman trying to negotiate there decent with minimal possible injuries. It only got better with these amazing crackheads tried to pull a New York marathon, while being chased by LoneStar and some real nasty zombie cult fanatics. P.S. A couple of hours later the scene took on the appearence of Good Fellas when Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro had to pull over to finish off what was in the trunk... Lets just say the family wasn't happy with what was left of the Don. |
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