LMFAO Shadowrun moments, Those Special Moments in Shadowrun Options

[Umidori]

Me and my team are running discrete security for a big shot politico. We're running gearless, but we don't expect much trouble.

My character is known as One-Shot Bill: a cantankerous, uncouth, bastard of a crazed mountain man hunter-turned-sniper who typically sports a sawed off .50 anti-material rifle and a pair of hatchets. He's fidgeting uncomfortably in a slightly small, turn of the 20th century suit with his prized tree-moss beard dejectly groomed into forced obedience by one of my teammates. We're eatting lunch with the other minor lackeys of the politico in an out of the way side room, while the big cheese wines and dines some of his fellow sleazeballs in the main area. I'm doing my best to not talk, because that typically never ends well, so Bill's stuck glaring at his food, which is actually very nice but which he loathes out of principal.

Sitting with us is a former lover of the politico who he kept on as a low level secretary, jilted and fuming over her treatment. "That scumbag, who the fuck does he think he is? Before he got into the politics game he was a nobody. Hell, I could tell you stories that would ruin the careers of everyone in a hundred foot radius, if only it wouldn't get me knocked off. God damnit! So I'm good enough to sleep with but not to be seen with? Is that it? Why the fuck am I sitting at the goddamn kiddie table?"

Bill turns to her in a rare moment of gruff compassion and blurts out, "Yeah, you seem pretty okay to me. At least there's a reason for me to sittin' here." It is at that very moment that I, as a player, accidently let crack the loudest, raunchiest fart of my life, incapacitating the entire room with uncontrollable laughter for a good ten minutes.

~Umidori

This post has been edited by Umidori: Feb 19 2010, 06:38 AM

[R3u]

How does one "kinda" have a bear in their safe-house?

Well, it's been very well behaved so far. Good training, fairly inobtrusive ish. Just kinda wanders around, gets a tub icecream whenever the rest of us do, chills out with the face and the mage, and intimidates the frag out of the remaining prisoner + houseguest.

[Sengir]

Would a tampon have a RFID tag?

This is your friendly Mega-Mall Network. Your tampon has just reached 75% capacity you do not seem to be carrying a spare one. Proceed two aisles down to your right for this week's special offers in female hygiene, with NERPS for perfect protection in all situations.

[Ascalaphus]

Tampons would certainly carry an RFID tag. Any chance to demonstrate the degrading, humiliating aspects of dystopia shouldn't be passed up.

[The Jopp]

Well, SR4 DO say that RFID tags is basically into EVERYTHING (maybe except for food)...

But do I REALLY want my underwear, socks or shoes tell me the Dampness level, humidity or sweat factor - or for that matter how many hours it was since said items were changed.

Even worse - do I want them to network? Do they report back to their company so that they get a VERY personal profile of me?

Talk about targeted commercials...

[hobgoblin]

Well, SR4 DO say that RFID tags is basically into EVERYTHING (maybe except for food)...

i seem to recall rumors of energy bars with embedded rfid tags. Tho it could be from some thread trying to demonstrate the "insanity" of the SR4 matrix rules...

[The Jopp]

i seem to recall rumors of energy bars with embedded rfid tags. Tho it could be from some thread trying to demonstrate the "insanity" of the SR4 matrix rules...

>_<

Let's see...

Spike an Energy Bar with one of your own "improved" security rfid tags with an improved Signal Rating of 5.

Get the target to eat it.

hack targets cyberware by using the RFID tag as a signal relay.

[Aerospider]

i seem to recall rumors of energy bars with embedded rfid tags. Tho it could be from some thread trying to demonstrate the "insanity" of the SR4 matrix rules...

It's included in the fluff in Unwired as a warning about a runner who forgot to erase the tag he ate before infiltrating a high-security complex, but it's not something I for one would ever take seriously.

Any facility that has human traffic is going to pick up all the RFIDs from employees' personal products so if they really are that ubiquitous then the security rigger will have dozens of readings pinging information at him about underwear, hair gel, lunch choices, tooth caps, etc. and he'll get that constantly on every shift making an extra RFID or six seriously hard to spot. The facility could have an eraser system for all employees, but they might have tags they want or need to keep and erasing this many tags individually for each and every employee each and every time they enter the building is going to cost a lot of time and money.

So, ultimately, there are RFID tags in a lot of things (maybe even most things) but if you say it comes in things like chocolate bars (as per the Unwired fluff) then the whole system becomes too unwieldly to be used against you anyway.

[The Jopp]

If one decided to follow every piece of fluff seriously then each and every individual in SR4 would be their own personal spam zone from all the RFID tags.

[Blade]

It's included in the fluff in Unwired as a warning about a runner who forgot to erase the tag he ate before infiltrating a high-security complex, but it's not something I for one would ever take seriously.

Any facility that has human traffic is going to pick up all the RFIDs from employees' personal products so if they really are that ubiquitous then the security rigger will have dozens of readings pinging information at him about underwear, hair gel, lunch choices, tooth caps, etc. and he'll get that constantly on every shift making an extra RFID or six seriously hard to spot. The facility could have an eraser system for all employees, but they might have tags they want or need to keep and erasing this many tags individually for each and every employee each and every time they enter the building is going to cost a lot of time and money.

So, ultimately, there are RFID tags in a lot of things (maybe even most things) but if you say it comes in things like chocolate bars (as per the Unwired fluff) then the whole system becomes too unwieldly to be used against you anyway.

You just need to filter data correctly. This can be done at the source of the data (the PAN centralizes all the RFID's data) or at the end-point with the computer mashing all the data together in a package called "Mr. [Name of the guy"]". This way, the spider will be able to spot the extra RFID: "Moving chocolate bar" might raise a few alarms in a high-security complex.

[Warlordtheft]

Any facility that has human traffic is going to pick up all the RFIDs from employees' personal products so if they really are that ubiquitous then the security rigger will have dozens of readings pinging information at him about underwear, hair gel, lunch choices, tooth caps, etc. and he'll get that constantly on every shift making an extra RFID or six seriously hard to spot. The facility could have an eraser system for all employees, but they might have tags they want or need to keep and erasing this many tags individually for each and every employee each and every time they enter the building is going to cost a lot of time and money.

So, ultimately, there are RFID tags in a lot of things (maybe even most things) but if you say it comes in things like chocolate bars (as per the Unwired fluff) then the whole system becomes too unwieldly to be used against you anyway.

Mostly, I just assume that the paranoid runners tag erase everything. As in the example: why would there be an RFID for a gooey bar in the vault where no one else is supposed to be?

[hobgoblin]

another thing could be that said facility only allow corp approved products beyond the checkpoint. Show up with a non-corp product and bam, red flag time.

[CanadianWolverin...]

I know how we love going off topic around here but there are these threads that might prove fun reading and perhaps any further discussion could go to one of them? Sorry, don't mean this to come off as rude in anyway, I just really enjoy reading both things, the crazy LMAO stories and the sordid tales of RFID SR4A and hope this helps:

visualizing rfid fields...
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...530&hl=rfid

Tag eraser, Where is it?
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...l=rfid&st=0

Jamming RFIDs in SR4A, Too bad the Headjammer doesn't cover the whole body.
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...095&hl=rfid

RFID tags, what's the shelf life
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...078&hl=rfid

I probably missed a bunch but I hope that helps some.

[hobgoblin]

a mechanical model of a SR team plan?

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/player.sw...HCeeWCejXnHAS/c

[Umidori]

I don't understand that video.

There should be a part in there where something goes tragically wrong. Like, the arrow should have accidentally grazed a housecat who was supposed to be outside, who then flips out and runs around, knocking the burning candle flying at just the right arc to have it land in a wastebin and start a fire, which then has the cameraman scrambling for the pitcher of water, but he slips on a wet spot where it accidentally spilled and upends a table, at which point commandos storm into the building with assault rifles blazing.

~Umidori

[hobgoblin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

[Umidori]

And apparently you don't understand sarcasm and comedic irony.

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~Umidori

[hobgoblin]

i pick up on it, when there is a smiley or similar around. When its not, one either have to assume everything online is sarcasm until proven otherwise, or take everything at face value...

[Umidori]

Well it was very obvious, if you read the second paragraph at all.

You post a video of something very intricate that takes forever to set up and is needlessly complex (comparing it to Shadowrun planning sessions), I comment on how it failed to catastrophically fail due to unforseen factors and turn into a bloodbath.

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~Alja~

[Draco18s]

I comment on how it failed to catastrophically fail due to unforseen factors and turn into a bloodbath.

My reply in image format:
http://i49.tinypic.com/2yx55eh.png

[kjones]

We had a good one at our session last night. The mission was a B&E into a hidden underground lab run by Wuxing - the lab was underneath an office building run by a puppet company, and the only access the party could find was through an elevator that also serviced the rest of the building. (You needed the right access ID and passkey to get to the lab, of course.)

One of the players, looking at the floor plans, asked "The only access is this one elevator... doesn't that violate fire code or something?"

I looked back at him and said, with a straight face, "Yes, Wuxing's secret underground lab is in violation of fire codes."