[X] My Assistant

[Traul]

Some hyperbole was misunderstood. He did have a cyber arm. The notion of him not having one would be an idea of a ridiculous twist.

That does not sound so complicated to deal with:

1° chop his arm off
2° implant a cyberarm
3° chop his arm off

You even get a free snack for your Tamanous friends (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

EDIT: post written before seeing the xkcd link...

[Mardrax]

Explosives are always part of Plan B.

...

Or Plan A, if I'm working on the plans.

Remember your Shadowrun ABCDE!

D stands for Demolitions. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Miri]

After having spent two entire sessions doing legwork and planning, which is how much RL time, and then however long it took in session three to get to the point they realized he was gone by a day. That is a lot of time spent essentially wasted. I as a player would have been royally steamed. As a GM I would have simply found another reason for the guy to have stuck around for one more day.. maybe one of his labs came back abnormal or something. Anything to keep two and a half sessions of game play from getting tossed out the window, which is no fun at all.

[Traul]

Remember your Shadowrun ABCDE!

D stands for Demolitions. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Air-fuel
Breaching charge
C4
Demolitions
Explosives
...

[Mardrax]

Air-fuel
Breaching charge
C4
Demolitions
Explosives
...

Awesome
Backup
Combat
Demolitions
Escape

Unless I'm recalling wrong.

[Tanegar]

You're all forgetting one. Check my sig. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Mardrax]

You're all forgetting one. Check my sig. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Failure is not an option. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[PresentPresence]

[ Spoiler ]

My group was once on a Shadowrun to kidnap old people from an old-folk's home (for use in cyborgs, but nobody did the hacking to figure that out...). Not only did they end up kidnapping like 20 people over the age of 75, they also killed like five orderlies/security guards, Powerballed the loading dock door (and some of the dock), kidnapped the holistic shaman on-premises, and dragged a few bodies with them. There were 11 drones used (which is how the first security guy died [the rigger had all 11 drones on one subscription and told that subscription to shoot the guard once with SnS - 11 shots hit the guard for 99S(e) that he heroically reduced to 77S with only 3 Bod and 6 armor that was reduced to 3]), nobody hacked the security cameras or edited/deleted the feeds, and nobody wore masks or helmets.

The way I didn't TPK the group is I created a rival Johnson from the corp that owned the old-folk's home who got their info first and started redirecting info so he could capture them himself. He sent an elite sqaud after the team (I used Tir Ghosts that I reposted here with Capsule Rounds and Slab) while they were doing downtime in their "saferoom" while monitoring the scope of the 'run they had just done. When they came to they were all strapped and constrained in BC for the Awakened facing the J who started on a spiel about how they cost his company a lot of money. As he was monologuing some medical staff took blood samples from the whole team. He went on to say something about liking their more unorthodox heavy hand and how he may have some use for them later. Then they were knocked out and held for a few weeks.

Half of the blood samples were used to force-grow full clones of the team that were placed in a car, had a chase on live-feed Matrix sites, and was attacked and detonated, after "weeks of expert detective work" - the company had the bodies of those responsible they were looking for. The other half was kept as a ritual sample so the J could Ritual cast Dream to contact them at any time to do any thing for free, as many times as he wanted. Since they were now dead, they lost all their contacts from their old life and had to get new SINs and all that, but the group "survived."

Whoah.

[CanRay]

Aren't you supposed to use children for Cyborgs, not the Elderly?

There's also less security at grade schools/school busses. Even if the kids are more heavily armed.

[Dahrken]

Both options are technically possible, each has it's advantages and it's drawbacks.

[CanRay]

*Gun drone turns on the Shadowrunners* "Are you the mailman?"

[Bodak]

My players and I got in a bit of a disagreement about a plot twist and of course, I am seeking the internet as an arbiter.

Again, I didn't come to dumpshock for arbitration,

But... you said...

[CanRay]

Don't bother looking for logic on the Internet or in any computers. There isn't any.

EDIT: As one of my friend is wont to say, "I think I saw a TWO!"

[raben-aas]

I think you're focusing on the wrong question.
Did this make the game more fun for everyone? If yes, you made the right call. If no, you made the wrong call.

This. And only this.

[Yerameyahu]

Nothing pisses me off more than the GM doing something like this. Obviously the information about the end of therapy was a given in the schedule hack, and they're right to assume you would have mentioned it if it was relevantly soon. My GM has done things like this before, and it's terribly frustrating. The reason is because your *character* knows this stuff, and is a careful badass. For him to make a silly oversight is out of character, and ruins everything. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

If the guy had legitimately left *early*, unexpectedly, that'd be fine. That's something they couldn't have known without the eyes-on updates they apparently neglected. But don't wreck things they believe they've already done.