I'm going to have to stop planning games..., I'm my own worse enemy Options

[DTFarstar]

The cow contains the answer to life, the universe, and everything?

Chris

[CanRay]

Close. But, no, when I need a "Random Number" I usually come up with 42.

My Random Number Generator must be broken.

[Ryusukanku]

You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using Letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then Execute a debt/ equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The Annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. - No Balance Sheet provided with the release.
Then when the cow pies hit the economic fan you get a bunch of shmoes to steal one cow and write up a police report as to how all but one cow was stolen by the cattle rustlers.

[CanRay]

There was a large herd. At least more than 42.

[Oenone]

The Mob are secretly growing their deltaware implants inside cows.
Or they have clone body parts hidden inside and someone important needs a new organ pronto.

[paws2sky]

Oh, I know. They were actually supposed to get cow #24.

Or the family is playing a joke on Vic The Cabbie.

[CanRay]

You know, I should have thought of that one. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Oenone]

Have the cow contain a baby clone of Vic. That would weird him out no end.

[Rasumichin]

The mob has stopped feeding corpses to pigs, as they have meat-eating cows now.
Last victim was a vatjob ninja, hence the deltaware.

[DragonDecker]

My guess would be close to the ninja one. The cow was modified with Bioware that would strengthen it's digestive enzymes. They need to get rid of it because it's cud still contains genetic evidence of it's last meal, and the last person they off'ed. They need the cow taken in by this team so that a replacement can be put in it's stall to hide the evidence.

[CanRay]

So many wonderful ideas I wish I used.

BTW, my group loves the ideas you're giving as well. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Ryu]

The real reason has to be that augmented cows don´t taste like chicken at all. Deltaware cows are good 'eating.

Or there is the superhero angle: harmless cow at day, "The Horned Avenger" at night. Hmm, troll cow shifters... it is one, yes?

[CanRay]

It is one, no.

[Jay]

I've skipped ahead after the first 1/2 a page, however, in regards to why cow #42 was/is important...


It's a big diversion for the *real* job. While the runners are sneaking the cow out, they are more than likely to
(or have if the adventure is over) engage the security guards. These distractions were a perfect cover for the team
that was in there to extract some other research/item. In fact the other team that went in could know this and during
the adventure can lead security guards to the player group. Worse comes to worse, the two teams can accidently run
into each other and the players could have to figure out why the 2nd team is there.

Depending on the make up of the party, and how closely they examined the "item" is it possible to say the cow is/was
a spirit of somekind instead of actually a cow?

[Rasumichin]

Wait, the cow used to be a biodrone superassasin for the mob and now is enrolled in the witness protection programm!

[Jaid]

Depending on the make up of the party, and how closely they examined the "item" is it possible to say the cow is/was
a spirit of somekind instead of actually a cow?

the team's mage assensed the cow and got enough hits to determine it had a bunch of bioware in it. the odds of it being a spirit are pretty slim, i'd say (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Tsuul]

Engulfed by spirit cow.... the horror.

[DocTaotsu]

Can't... resist....

In communist Russia, cow eats....

[Chrysalis]

carnivorous awakened cows fighting for bovine freedom.

I think though it could actually be a brain farm. Cows have cyberbrains and are used for processing valuable corp information. Cow #42 is Fat Tony hiding out from the mob.

[Aaron]

Awright, Canny, spill it. I'm beginning to think your cow doesn't actually have a raison d'être and you're either fishing for ideas or, and this I find more likely, leading us on. Why you gadda be a tease, mon? =ib

[CanRay]

Everyone else ready to give up as well?

[DTFarstar]

Classes started this week, and I have driven over 2k miles in the past 3 weeks, what little clever I had left in me was exhausted with my Douglas Adams reference. I give.

Chris

[CanRay]

Alright, I'll be nice. Was planning on letting this run until Friday, but this is close enough.

The Cow was fitted with custom Deltaware Stomachs and Udders to process Cocaine. You feed it Coca, let it graze as normal, and out came a mixture of Milk and Cocaine. (The "Traditionalist" thing: "Which one of my Droogs wants to hit the Milk Bar?").

It's an attempt to come up with a low-cost processing procedure for the drug to break the South American Cartels hold on the product. And, even if a failure in that respect, the Family in charge of the project was sure they could market it as a "All-Organically Processed Drug" for the richie-rich folks that care about that sort of thing at a massive mark-up. (Hollywood would be a HUGE market!).

Unfortunetly, this meant the cow was "High on it's own Supply" for the entire game, and freaking out left right and centre!

[Aaron]

Okay, that's cool.

CanRay.Karma++;

[Ryu]

Is that idea cool or what? Congratulations!

You never denied that deltaware cows are good eating... I might have another marketing idea for your trick.