Wetwork, Looking for some help/inspiration Options

[Kagetenshi]

Perhaps the Johnson decides to liquidate the team, instead of paying them, to remove loose ends. This results in the team being hunted by those that guarded the target, and those they thought they were working with.

That's not really unique to wetwork, though.

Or maybe the person they offed resurfaces the next day, apparently unscathed. Mr. J wants to know why, thus turning a simple assassination into more of a mystery.

This is why you always deliver a significant portion of the target's central nervous system to the Johnson. When this happens, you can say "that's your problem" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

(Granted, this does rely on the J being able to confirm that the CNS belongs to the target. Hm… I think I need to reread some of those rules, especially since they can't have an actual sample or they'd be able to simply use Ritual Sorcery.)

~J

[Ascalaphus]

Sniping could feel anticlimactic. What if the target avoids the kind of exposed open spaces where sniping is really a possibility? By travelling in armored cars from in-house parking garage to in-house parking garage for example.

Maybe the only place where you can get within sight of the target is at a royal banquet?

[kzt]

Yup. You can use the armored vehicle under a canopy to block LoS, Even using guys with big umbrellas would work. People who can pay a few million bucks a year for a full time security team can have minor architectural changes made to places where he likes to go.

[Brazilian_Shinob...]

Steal a couple of bus and control them with a rigger to crash the other car, with the collision rules of 4th edition, NOTHING survives a vehicle crash, NOT EVEN A GREAT DRAGON. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

[Kagetenshi]

Steal a couple of bus and control them with a rigger to crash the other car, with the collision rules of 4th edition, NOTHING survives a vehicle crash, NOT EVEN A GREAT DRAGON. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

Oh, so they kept the Body 2 Missile?

~J

[KarmaInferno]

Overall, any Wetwork mission has one constant - the target is restricted access.

If it was easy to get to the target, the runners would never have been called in to begin with.

So, whatever else you plan for the mission, the players should have to deal with trying to figure out now to GET to the target before they even start thinking about how to kill him.



-k

[Ascalaphus]

Yup. You can use the armored vehicle under a canopy to block LoS, Even using guys with big umbrellas would work. People who can pay a few million bucks a year for a full time security team can have minor architectural changes made to places where he likes to go.

An umbrella won't stop a sniper bullet though. Anyway, yeah, I hadn't thought about the possible abuses of the crash rules.

[kzt]

An umbrella won't stop a sniper bullet though. Anyway, yeah, I hadn't thought about the possible abuses of the crash rules.

It's hard to shoot people you can't see. Plus, it's SR, the world of lightweight non-hot armored clothing, so the umbrella offers some protection.

[Ascalaphus]

Spotter drone from another angle. That's pretty easy. Also, the rules for shooting through barriers give some ideas; if a brick wall won't stop a bullet, neither will an umbrella.

[kzt]

Spotter drone from another angle. That's pretty easy. Also, the rules for shooting through barriers give some ideas; if a brick wall won't stop a bullet, neither will an umbrella.

Spotter drones are easy to detect. The RF sensors will find them, and the traffic to/from the sniper will give him away too. Plus you have limited LOS due to the security around him. And layers of armor works very well in SR.

[Ascalaphus]

Spotter drones are easy to detect. The RF sensors will find them, and the traffic to/from the sniper will give him away too. Plus you have limited LOS due to the security around him. And layers of armor works very well in SR.

It's possible to protect against spy drones, but I think in SR the sky is typically filled with hundreds (if not more) small drones, advertising blimps etc, and a drone 1km distant can have sensors sufficient to act as a spotter.
Radio traffic could likewise be hidden in the mass of ordinary innocent communications.

[Snow_Fox]

getting in to the target is only part of the problem. you have to survive the get away too. If you do a one shot/burst/spell that takes down the target his guards will still be able to repsond. Us a big enough BOOM to take out all the guards and you've got a major response from Lone Star to avoid. the bigger the blast the more likely they'll want to solve it to shut up the media.

Even so how often do runners get hired for revenge for a hit, the work swings both ways. So if you get away and collected the (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) and planned to go on that little trip to Fiji and oh yeah someone comes looknig for pay back.