Just curious: How do you handle Mr. Johnson, Fixers, and pay? Options

[Wakshaani]

Cross-posting this on another forum, but since Dumpshock's filled with dedicated Shadowrunners, I figured I should ask here as well.

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I'm not looking for how *much* you pay your 'runners as that opens a whole war of people, so, table that part of your thoughts and keep reading.

I'm curious how you handle a few subsets of the Shadowrunner ecology. In particular:

Pay. Do you dish out pay on a per-runner basis, or do you pay out a lump sum for them to divide as they see fit?

The Fixer. Are they involved in the negotiations at all or do they point the team at a Johnson and go, "Here he is. Good luck." Does the fixer get a "finder's fee" and, if so, how is it done? Do the runners pay teh Fixer? Does Johnson? Does the fixer get a share of the team hire? Does your team *use* a fixer or do you cut out the middle man and have the team face deal only in Johnsons?

Mr. Johnson. Is Johnson usually the client or is Johnson there to *represent* a client? Does Johnson talk in code at a meeting or do they lay details out openly? Does Johnson recruit only your team or do other teams jockey for jobs? Does Johnson take a second meeting to give full 'run details or does he present everything up front?

Do you have several different fixers for a team or do they mainly stick with one? Do your fixers "headhunt" from one another to get good runners?

Do you use the same Mr Johnson several times or is each one a one-and-done?

On the issue of pay, how often do you pay in corp scrip rather than nuyen? Of those, how often is the hiring corp the one paying out instead of "planting evidence" by using another cor's scrip? How often does your Johnson offer 'perks', such as gear, stock, or access to Beta clinics, as deal sweeteners?

Been chatting with a few people here and there and gotten some interesting answers that are quite a bit different than my own game, and I'm curious how the rest of you lot handle it.