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I've been looking at some of the plots that I'm making for my campaign. It made me wonder what was the best plot I've ever made for my SR campaigns.

Usually I make a ton of backstory to my plots in the vain hope that the players will spend time and energy on researching what is going on. Normally they just move on as soon as they have been payed. In case the villian returns they shoot him and his henchmen in the head and ceases all further investigation.

One such plot was a a insect spirit related plot:

The players was hired to stop a troll gang that was moving in on a new territory. Mr. Johnson is a business man from Seattle who have flown in from USA to do it - they are in Denmark. The players succeded and as they meet with the Johnson for debriefing and payment, a mantis spirit manifests out of nowhere and mauls Mr. Johnson before it vanishes again. Mr. Johnson is flown to the nearest hospital and the players are pissed, because they didn't get paid before he was assaulted.

On top of this a mantis spirit in human form contacts them and tries to interrogate them.

The whole plot behind it was that there was an insect hive in the area where that the gang was moving into. It has been established long distance thought the carefull grooming of a young local shaman, - turning him into a insect shaman. He had infestated his whole gang and when the troll gang was moving in, he was about to hatch the queen. His tutor in Seattle - a Universal Brotherhood shaman - wanted the hive to survive, so he sent his henchman to Denmark to hire someone to stop the encroaching gang.

The players didn't give a toss about it and just walked away.

So...what is the best plot you've made for SR? and how do you write them down? just in a texteditor, do you do flowcharts? or are you more into a sandbox storytelling?

Do you have any particular good or bad things that you usually do?

/A.