'Hey guys... I'm, like, Mr Johnson' *Facepalm*, Not all employers are professionals. Options

[ShadowDragon8685]

Do you remember "There's Something About Mary"? When they drugged that little dog?

I had taken precautions, buying my character capsule rounds with DMSO and a pet tranquilizer. The cat hates everyone, so the plan was to dose it slightly to make it more agreeable. It was my fault, really, I had taken to naming my guns and brought both my Ares Predator IV (Greta) and my sawed-off T-250 (Gretchen).

My GM even asked me twice when I said "I draw Gretchen and use a simple action to Take Aim" and the other guys didn't even catch it. So I hit the kitty with Ex-Ex.

You deserve a Karma for robbing me of the power of breath.

Putting a deerslug through Kitty would be bad enough. Hitting her with Ex-Ex goes the extra mile.



[e]And yes, you should write that out.

[CanRay]

Putting a deerslug through Kitty would be bad enough. Hitting her with Ex-Ex goes the extra mile.

No, the Ex-explosive round threw the kitty a mile.

I wonder if a dragon ate it later?

[Speed Wraith]

My GM even asked me twice when I said "I draw Gretchen and use a simple action to Take Aim" and the other guys didn't even catch it. So I hit the kitty with Ex-Ex.

"Following the thunderous blast, you find yourselves covered with a fine red mist and tiny tufts of fur float gently through the air." Terrible, sir, just awful. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) Hitting a cat with Ex-Ex shottie probably nixed all nine lives.

[ShadowDragon8685]

No, the Ex-explosive round threw the kitty a mile.

It was probably indoors at the time, so I doubt it threw it a mile. More like splattered the poor pussy all over the floor and ceiling.


Also, it inspired a Run idea.
Mr. Johnson hates Neighbor A's cat, and Neighbor C. He hires you to blow away the cat in the most gruesomely overkill fashion available to you, and frame Neighbor C.
The Twist: Neighbor A's cat is either something ridiculous like a jaguar or a mountain lion, or a paracritter.

[CanRay]

Hell, even a Blackberry Cat is bad enough!

[ShadowDragon8685]

Hell, even a Blackberry Cat is bad enough!

A BlackBerry cat won't be any threat at all if your team sends in a troll heavy to maul kitty manually, though.

Can't hack a claymore. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Speed Wraith]

It was probably indoors at the time, so I doubt it threw it a mile. More like splattered the poor pussy all over the floor and ceiling.


Also, it inspired a Run idea.
Mr. Johnson hates Neighbor A's cat, and Neighbor C. He hires you to blow away the cat in the most gruesomely overkill fashion available to you, and frame Neighbor C.
The Twist: Neighbor A's cat is either something ridiculous like a jaguar or a mountain lion, or a paracritter.

Do they still have Taliscats? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[bannockburn]

You splatter the cat all over the common room.

Seriously though, Tosh is pretty bad as far as Johnsons go. He never picks up the tab and threatens a lot, even if he's in an inferior position.
It's part of his charm (for lack of a better word), so all is well. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Krishach]

I believe "Attitude" reminds that most Johnson's are not corporate. As well, they remind us that shadowrunners often do not meet the Johnson at all, but instead have the Fixer do such. Lastly, Attitude reminds that "favors" get traded more than nuyen.

So, when we DO meet a Johnson (or a fixer) they are typically not big-corp professionals. Given the number of other potential clients, compared to big-corp, it would make perfect sense that "big-corp" is rarely a direct client represented by a Johnson. My crews last "Mr Johnson" was a hacker looking to have the guys rip off some miltech. He was channeling a pot smoking hippy, and was a long way from "professional."

[CanRay]

Politicians need, and have always needed, "discrete assets".

Hell, in Shadowrun, sometimes a priest needs to hire a low-end crew just to get the bibles to the right church!

[KarmaInferno]

Detective Tosh Athack, worst, Johnson, ever. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

So far, I've only had one group that liked him, and that was because he was willing to hang up on the REAL Johnson who WAS trying to screw the 'runners!

Wrong season, actually.

Though Tosh can be pretty bad.



-k

[Marwynn]

You deserve a Karma for robbing me of the power of breath.

Putting a deerslug through Kitty would be bad enough. Hitting her with Ex-Ex goes the extra mile.



[e]And yes, you should write that out.

Hah, thanks. I'm writing it out right now, but it's getting more and more ridiculous by the word. It was a filler job, in between runs, for kicks, and it shows.

Once it's done, where can I post it here?


Oh, and the cat was on a windowsill at the ground level, I believe it was the kitchen as my character hid in a small garden just outside of it.

[Speed Wraith]

Hah, thanks. I'm writing it out right now, but it's getting more and more ridiculous by the word. It was a filler job, in between runs, for kicks, and it shows.

Once it's done, where can I post it here?


Oh, and the cat was on a windowsill at the ground level, I believe it was the kitchen as my character hid in a small garden just outside of it.

I actually had a lot of fun putting together an adventure I titled, "Six Seattle Shorts" for my first SR4 campaign. Five very short adventures sandwiched into a wraparound story. This sounds like it would have fit into that sort of thing perfectly. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Not a full run, but a nice mini-diversion for the characters to enjoy.

[LurkerOutThere]

I believe "Attitude" reminds that most Johnson's are not corporate. As well, they remind us that shadowrunners often do not meet the Johnson at all, but instead have the Fixer do such. Lastly, Attitude reminds that "favors" get traded more than nuyen.

Yea I have/had a lot of problems with this. For starters as bad practice as it would be the meeting with the J is part of the Shadowrun cliche' no reason to try and undermine it now.

Also while the occasional favor run is good, especially for the small time crew, favors don't (usually) pay the rent and don't (usually) get new ware installed. I don't see runners doing 'runs for favors, i see them doing jobs or errands for favors, but not full on Shadowruns. It might be a thin distinction sometimes but ther'es entirely different mindsets.

[Stahlseele]

Well, i have 2GM's who alternate between playing and GMing . . And their Characters are basically Leutnants in the Gang we are in.
So they each become johnson and runner with switching roles from time to time.
Horribly unprofessional. One time they both sat at the other side of the table and argued who was supposed to work for who this time around.

[StealthSigma]

My players are wonderful saps, and they understand that what gets you the most karma the easiest doesn't always get you the most nuyen. They seem to prefer the Karma, so they'll do jobs even when the pay is less than stellar. As long as they figure they can make rent, they're good.

I'll hit up a fixer for jobs that are well below my pay grade to see if any of them provide opportunity for the real job I'm on. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[ShadowDragon8685]

Well, i have 2GM's who alternate between playing and GMing . . And their Characters are basically Lieutenants in the Gang we are in.
So they each become johnson and runner with switching roles from time to time.
Horribly unprofessional. One time they both sat at the other side of the table and argued who was supposed to work for who this time around.

Solution: Hire each other. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I'll hit up a fixer for jobs that are well below my pay grade to see if any of them provide opportunity for the real job I'm on. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

That's sort-of what my players did during this run. They've come into a situation where they explicitly want to provoke DocWagon response calls (by bestowing physical peril on DocWagon customers until their biomonitor bracelets scream for backup,) and they decided that as long as they were going to be breaking legs, they might as well get paid twice for it. So they went to their Friendly Local Ancients Lieutenant and asked for a shit list of people with DocWagon bracelets that the ancients would pay to have beaten up professionally.

[StealthSigma]

That's sort-of what my players did during this run. They've come into a situation where they explicitly want to provoke DocWagon response calls (by bestowing physical peril on DocWagon customers until their biomonitor bracelets scream for backup,) and they decided that as long as they were going to be breaking legs, they might as well get paid twice for it. So they went to their Friendly Local Ancients Lieutenant and asked for a shit list of people with DocWagon bracelets that the ancients would pay to have beaten up professionally.

We have a run that is running at the same time as a convention. It just so happens that the convention and the target of our run are in the same city and are hosted/owned by the same mega corp. The convention provides us with plenty of sample data of legitimate megacorp personnel from around the world permitting us to potential locate employees we could impersonate that would have some access to the facility but yet be individuals that rarely visit the target and thus not readily recognizable. There's also potential distraction and misdirection that we can utilize as well depending on the run in question.

So far the offering I got has been uninspiring. A bodyguard job for some manager that wants to slum around the city and doesn't want people to know what he's doing. I mean, I guess we could kidnap the guy and have one of us impersonate him for the duration of the convention, but the time investment towards that job doesn't seem to work well with our main one.

[Elfenlied]

A BlackBerry cat won't be any threat at all if your team sends in a troll heavy to maul kitty manually, though.

Can't hack a claymore. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Actually, it can. Influence is rather nasty.

[KarmaInferno]

Hm. The mention about hacking makes me think the Bastet from Running Wild is what was meant.

Blackberry cats are magical, not technocritters.





-k

[CanRay]

Great, a Bastet and a Blackberry Cat fighting over territory in the house that they own the metahuman of.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Blackberry cats are magical, not technocritters.

Whoops. My mistake.

[Stahlseele]

Great, a Bastet and a Blackberry Cat fighting over territory in the house that they own the metahuman of.

It'd be the number one most clicked on video on the 6th world equivalent to youtube . .

[CanRay]

It'd be the number one most clicked on video on the 6th world equivalent to youtube . .

"In other financial news today, Horizon has announced the largest profits ever seen by any AAA-Level Megacorporation in a single week, all due to one video on the Matrix..."

[lorechaser]

If all your Johnsons are sibilant corporate smoothtalkers, then you are missing a trick. These days my players are worth a lot more money than they used to be, so it is mostly corp Johnsons, but in the good ol'days, I fed them all manner of Johnsons, more than one complete newbs to boot ...

Exactly! It's a nice way to mark their progression up the ladder. At the beginning their Johnsons are basically just random dudes off the street, hardly more advanced than the team. They may be low level drug runners, wanna-bes, or whatever. But you're not getting a Renraku big boy to hire a couple nobody runners to steal a datachip no one really cares about.

And at first, even those guys may seem like they know what they're doing, but as they get more savvy, they should realize that the hyperactive dude that made a point to call himself Johnson over and over, and talked about how important his employers were was not, in fact, important.