Funny Moments in your runs, What has happend to YOU to make you laugh? Options

[Degausser]

Just a fun little thread to share all of your funniest moments in character or out of, with shadowrun. Because, let's face it, we can never have enough loling.


So, a friend's character took Spirit-bane, insects (because he didn't want to live to long, I guess.) Led to some funny moments with some of the not-too-bright insects.

(We are walking down the street in the Barrens.)
Random guy: "RAAAAAA, KILL YOU!"
Red: (Silently pulls out a gun and shoots him in the head, killing him.)
Me: "What was that about?"
Red: "Probably a merged insect spirit. They hate me."
Me: "Does that happen often?"
Red: "You get used to it. Oh, hey, the new Neil the Ork Barbarian Movie is comming out next month!"

[wylie]

funny moments

oh here is freesh one

i'm running the 1st part of the tempo story arch, and the PCs were hired to snatch a body from Docwagon. During legwork, the PCs learned of one of the dead body's contacts was a dealer, and the group's hand to hand expert decided to go find the guy, .....by himself.

he found the guy about the same time as a group of gangers there to kill the dealer. With acrobatic rolls & leaps, the martial arts guy grabs the dealer and pulls him into the stock room. From there, they ran out the back and down several alleyways until the hand to hand fighter was able to ambush the one ganger able to chasing and take him down.

not funny? yet??

the mechanic side: the player in question was rolling so bad that after burning several edges, changing dice, and borrowing dice from other players, he had another player roll for HIM just so he could survive the encounter

now that was funny

[Wiggles Von Beer...]

During my first campaign, my friend Mark's physad died after wrestling with a religious crisis. His second character (Van Illa) was more of a social adept, with facial sculpt and voice control.

Van is in a restaurant, getting to know the team and the way they work. He decided to show off his aptitude for disguise, and facial sculpts himself to look like the waiter. One of the team members makes a request for him to look like Jimmy Carter, leading to this:

Mark: Okay, I'd like to use facial sculpt to look like Jimmy Carter.
Teammate [interjecting]: Black Jimmy Carter!
Mark: What he said! [rolls very well]
Me: Nice, Mark. You look like black Jimmy Carter now.
Mark: Sweet! [checks character sheet] ... I don't have Melanin Control.
Me: Well then I guess you're black!

[CanRay]

I had the PCs stuck in a house that the MouseCo. SWAT Team attacked with the help from a Lawn Spirit.

The helmets on the SWAT Team Members had Mouse Ears on them. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Degausser]

Another one from my longest-lasting SR game (in SR3)

Final run, we were breaking into an Aztech military base. We find the general of the base, and freeze-foam the crap out of him. We needed the launch codes for the base.

So our Tech Guru (who was NOT a decker, but had some craptastic Deck) pipes up.

Decker: "I hack his brain."
GM: "That doesn't work . . . you . . . you cannot use someone's datajack to hack into their brain."
Decker: "Watch me!"
(Decker proceeds to use good Karma for bonus dice, rolls a couple sixes. Then re rolls them for more sixes, and more. He eventually reaches target number 32 through pure, dumb luck.)
GM: (Moment of dumb silence.) I . . . I. . . . you hack his brain, and have the launch codes.


LATER ON
GM: You reach the doors for the control room, (turns to street sam) your enhanced hearing picks up on muted sounds from the other side.
Sam: Looks like they are prepared for us . . . . hmmmmm. I go into an adjoining office, and motion everyone to follow me.
GM: Okay . . . .
Sam: I use my Dikote-ed No-Dachi to cut a hole in the drywall, bust through, and surprise the ambushers.
GM: (Depressed) Don't bother rolling initiative . . . they don't stand a chance, you kill them all.
Me: Wow, man, I almost feel sorry for them.
GM: They were setting up claymore mines on the door.
Me: Those S.O.B.s got just what they deserved, trying to ambush us like that!!!!!!

[Cardul]

So, there was an adventure I decided to run for my groups 2nd game back in 3rd edition. Adventure was One Stage Before. The PCs: A dwarf Rigger with boats, cars, and sea-copters, a Dwarf Mage with a power-focus in the form of an all metal warhammer, and an Elven sword adept.

So, at the "Ambush" portion of the adventure, the PCs decided to take their sea-copter to the meet. Needless to say, the ambush, which depended on the runners taking a land vehicle, failed horribly. Then, the final assault, the Elven adept had Friend for Life: Yakuza Oyabun, while the Dwarf had a Friend for life: Go Gang Boss..so, the final assault, they contacted their friends...and got them to help...

Of course, the most rediculous thing was the section where it was all supposed to be pitch black, but everyone had thermographic vision!

I have not run a pre-published adventure since, but, dang, it was funny!

[Snow_Fox]

I always remmber when we player "Mercurial" the GM had done a good job of showing her split personality to the point we were all ticked off at her. Then the Ork Mercinary in the team says "Ok we gotta keep her safe for 5 days, did anyone say anything about keeping were conscious?"

There was a very real look of fear on the GM's face as we discussed hitting her with a narco-jet and stuffing her ina closet for a few days.

[ICPiK]

OK. So this just happened a few hrs ago for our groups routine Sunday game. We were in the payaluup barrens trying to find a new safe house and encountered a gargantuan Toxic spirit of beast. It feared the sam/face, our hand 2 hand meat shield stood his ground and the rigger was unaffected. The hacker was out of range in the van for the first volley of fear power but not the second. Per reading the rules they will go to the nearest place of safety as quick as possible. Trying to play our jamacian Hot sim junkie when asked where would he go because the spirit was on top the van i answered full hot sim to my node which is a Caribbean beach and have a mojito. We thought it was hilarious and realistic for the character. "Another mojito MAAAAN, and there is no poison drooling beast outside the van."

[Cardul]

In my group, there is a player who has lead a very sheltered life.
In our last campaign, his character went into a bar, the GM told him the bar was "The Blue Oyster" and even, when he stepped in gave The Song from said Blue Oyster, described the patrons, and the whole nine yards. It took the PLAYER about 45 minutes to realize what kind of bar the Blue Oyster was...and this was only after one of the other players took pity on him, and asked me to let him make a Streetwise test...(Note, it took his CHARACTER about 3 hours IC time...)

After this, he left the bar, and asked me what else was around, well...The GM mentioned several bunraku parlours, and the player asked me what Bunraku Parlours were...and, I, without thinking, responded with the OTHER name I have known for them: Meat Puppets. His response was "Oh..cool..that sounds interesting..." At this point, one of the other players took this player outside, for like 10, 15 minutes...when the players came back, I swear, this guy looked like he caught his parents doing it and they asked him to join in!

Note to self: I need to work on corrupting this player more! *wicked evil grin*

[mercurywave]

Me, a fat ass slob of a dwarf rigger, whom Is renoun for spending weeks at a time in my van wearing just tighty whities covered in cheesy puff orange stains, and the orc brothers I run with were stocking up on Bomb burritos, cheesy puffs, and an assortment of other trash at the local Stuffer Shack, on the verge of the Redmond Barrens. While walking out two Yak summoned ninja spirits materialized in front of the exit as I was walking out with arms loaded down with goodies. Our tank Orc standing next to me dropped his arm full of goodies as I litterally dropped a load in my tighty whities. Hey don't judge me, it was my first time not actually observing combat through a vid screen or sensors. I wobbled my ass into the van while the orc boyz went one on one with the spirits, later supported with reliable LEBDo and the mighty Vindicator. A few wet wipes later my rigger seat was cleaned and the streak in my pride wasn't too hurt, hey I'm a slob whats new! Playing video games one thing, seeing it in person is another. (grumble..grumble)

[Issmir]

This happened last Friday. My group and I have been playing Shadowrun for maybe a month now, so I'm running them through the emergence campaign.

Their fixer has arranged a hookup with Mr Johnson in chinatown.

Me: "An incoming message from Umberto pings on your commlink; it's a picture of your Johnson"
Player: "... the hell kind of board have I been subscribing to and how drunk was I when they took that picture?"

[wylie]

this happen years ago....

the team was hired to steal a prototype bike. The group's ork rigger got hold of the bike, and sped it away as fast possible from the corp, hiding it. Soon enough, the group's gun bunny showed up. He asked where the bike was. The ork refused, saying to wait for the whole group. the gun bunny threaten to shoot the ork. The ork say "go ahead, then you won't find the bike."
so the gun bunny shot the ork rigger, killing the ork.

then in real life, the player got mad because the rigger player still won't tell where the bike was, and argued about for awhile

note: the location of the bike is still unknown (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif)

[Chrysalis]

This is an event that happened when a new character came into our game. The last character of the player got killed, which is another story all on its own.

Anyways, Charade, the new character is picked up in front of the destroyed Pizza parlour. We introduce ourselves briefly and enter the pizza parlour. Sonya identifies herself as being the team leader and specializing in breaking things. After getting into the hidden elevator to the "batcave" we ask what is her specialty. She says it is charades and starts doing impersonations of the whole team, specifically my character.

The elevator doors open to Mr Johnson seeing one team member pistol whip Charade. It took us all a will roll in not killing her there. Sonya, my character, often talks about her as Cherry. The player has yet to figure out this is not a term of endearment.

[CanRay]

The elevator doors open to Mr Johnson seeing one team member pistol whip Charade. It took us all a will roll in not killing her there. Sonya, my character, often talks about her as Cherry. The player has yet to figure out this is not a term of endearment.

Well, at least you broke your Cherry in front of Mr. Johnson.

...

I'm going to get hit for that one, aren't I?

[Chrysalis]

No but I will dangle a wet latex glove covered in yogurt in front of you.

[Chrysalis]

Remembering another funny one involving airports. This one involved a snuff using possession mage whose first act for meeting us was setting up a homeless guy as him by the water vending machine at the airport. After what can only be described as comedy gold where the possession mage jumps up from his seat next to us and starts berating the spirit for saying "all the wrong things." The next "kerfuffle" was the same mage trying to smuggle a spell focus (which the player had sunk most of his character development money into) onto a plane.

The GM aptly described it as "trying to smuggle a suitcase nuke in your hand luggage".

[ICPiK]

Awesome! You guys our hilarious please keep it up!

[Tyro]

Well, at least you broke your Cherry in front of Mr. Johnson.

...

I'm going to get hit for that one, aren't I?

Yes, but in a fun way ^_^

[LostProxy]

I once made a heavy weapons specialist/demoman and had quite the run with him before a glorious sacrifice to save the rest of the team. Basically how it went was that we stopped Renraku from using the bio nodes of technomancers to create AIs. Angry at our act of good they launched an assault on our hidden base deep in the barrens with 3 squads of Red Samurai after we made it obvious one wouldn’t be enough. With the advanced life styles in the RC I had bought an emergency exit that they didn’t know about but before I could get through they blasted it with a grenade launcher. Stuck with 6 Sams, we had killed a few, and pretty much sure I was going to die I pulled out my trump card. One of my teeth was a remote detonator to blow up all the explosive stored in structurally important places throughout the house. Now before I blow the place up I had a bit of rp with the GM.

Me: Can I ask one question before you finish me off.
Red Sam: I am a man of honor; I will allow you one last word.
Me: How do the Japanese feel about cremation of their dead?
Red Sam: Why do you ask?
Me: Because they aint gonna find enough of your ass to bury.

Then I blew the house to kingdom come along with killing a couple of basic back up soldiers outside. Burning some edge I actually survived the explosion thanks to a beam falling on me and shielding me from some of the explosion but doing quite a bit of damage to my body. My team found me later by homing in on my comlink but I needed a ton of cyber. That character retired shortly after that event and become the mentor and contact of my next character

[SincereAgape]

So I have a few players who are very paranoid out of character.

The hacker was running matrix defense over a hotel where the runners were protecting a very important VIP. The hacker used the battle of Verdun from WWI as his setting, depicting himself as a british soilder as the enemy hacker used the persona of a german soilder with a kaiser helmet.

The battle was one-sided from the beginning as the enemy hacker dropped a lot of nasty black IC on the PC. When the hacker emerged from Dumpshock I described the PC's apperance by stating that his nose was bleeding.

Byron (Who posts here): My ears are bleeding, my eyes are bleeding, and my nose is bleeding. Guys an enemy hacker has control over all of our defense systems and security cameras.

Other PC: CUT THE POWER!! CUT THE POWER!!!!

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The other incident came this Saturday when I accidently killed a PC with a streetline special. >_<

[DWC]

So I have a few players who are very paranoid out of character.

The hacker was running matrix defense over a hotel where the runners were protecting a very important VIP. The hacker used the battle of Verdun from WWI as his setting, depicting himself as a british soilder as the enemy hacker used the persona of a german soilder with a kaiser helmet.

The battle was one-sided from the beginning as the enemy hacker dropped a lot of nasty black IC on the PC. When the hacker emerged from Dumpshock I described the PC's apperance by stating that his nose was bleeding.

Byron (Who posts here): My ears are bleeding, my eyes are bleeding, and my nose is bleeding. Guys an enemy hacker has control over all of our defense systems and security cameras.

Other PC: CUT THE POWER!! CUT THE POWER!!!!

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The other incident came this Saturday when I accidently killed a PC with a streetline special. >_<

In our defense, the hacker was in better shape than the other two PCs, and the next wave of goons had just announceed their presence by breaching the perimeter with a rocket launcher.

I maintain that chasing the drunk, naked dwarf through the streets of Tacoma was funnier.

[Stahlseele]

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[Degausser]

Just happened in the first run of a game I just ran yesterday. Two great funny moments, back to back.

Setup, our Ork Heavy Weapons dude has just cornered a suspected mad bomber. They are in the ork Underground. The Bomber drops his physical Mask Spell (He looked like an Ork, but was really a human) and bolts.

Funny Moment 1
Ork PC: "I take out my pistol, wave it around, and shout 'There goes the mad bomber!"
Me (GM): Okay, make a Charisma+Leadership roll.
Ork: (Rolls, 1 success, doesn't beat the threshold)
Me: The other Orks around see someone pull a gun, and shout something about a mad bomber, they go into a panic"
Ork (Sheepishly) I put my gun away . . .

Funny Moment 2
Almost immediately afterwords, our hacker hacks the guys Commlink.

Me: Okay, you got access, it wasn't hard, this guy's comlink is crap. What do you do.
Hacker PC: I have his commlink download every piece of malware on the matrix that I know of.
Bomber NPC (Who is still running from the Ork PC): NO NO NO! STUPID COMMLINK! "Call posse," not "Order Viagra!!!!"

[GreyBrother]

We're in a fight outside a bar in the middle of Munich when a friggin Fire Elemental pops up and threatens us with flamey anger.
Our south african Orc Girl grumbles "Ich werd zum Tier!" (German: "I'will be an animal!", a phrase for utter annoyance with the situation)
The Wolf shapeshifter replies dryly: "Happens to me all the time, what's the fuss?"

When our American Bounty Hunter presented his cute Surge Claws to the group, the reaction of the Orcs brother was "Well whoopdef'ckin doo, Mister Sheffield is Catwoman!"

[SincereAgape]

So here is another one.

The runners arrive in the contested zone between the California Free State and the Tir. They are in need of a vechicle to transport them around the area. They meet a fixer who offers them a pickup truck or a GMC Bulldog Step Van. The team lacks decision making.

PC: So what car?
Other PC: You choose.

*Bickering back and forth*

The Racist Face OOC: Well you can ask yourself this question. Would you rather be a redneck or a child molester?