[X] My Assistant

[Backgammon]

[bitrunner]

yeah, thought you were talking about someone else...

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thought you were talking about Kat there, not the vampire...

[Donner]

[linei]

[JackWill]

Mission breifing:

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The party consisited of me... suave early 30's counter-rigger/decker witha fast car and the basic but rookie gun bunny.

To start off we arrive early scope out the place, i mainly scopped out the marathon going on with the news reporters. I volenteered to run, while askign i was smoking a cigarette. Then as the time rolled over to time to watch, i hopped over and walked across the grass to the building and watched from the sidelines. My Partner was on the other side scoping it out.

I remember i found the dog, and i walked around carring it since the start of the game. Petting it and playing with it. My Parnter got fiddled around with the spirit in the game it was moving trash around and harassing him alot, nothing serious.

Rolando rolled up and gave my buddy a very hard time.. then i walked up from a distance jibbering some italian and said Papa Joe didn't say anythign about anybody, and that we got orders, and he should of got the same orders, and that i deffiintly don't want to tell Papa Joe of his insubornation. Me and Rolando chit chatted, he gave me his business card. Contact earned.

Then the Bar-b-que happened... they attacked the chick reporter that i was interviewing with earliy and hitting on her... so i dived and knocked her down, dog in hand, and cigarettin mouth, and pulled my gun and took a random shot at the halloweeners, well luck and partly skill nailed the poor bastard between the eyes with a gel round. He flew off his bike and the Lone star picked up his body, luckly i took off with petra in to a wild mass of people and talked to her and said she can repay me a date by seeing me firday night at Papa Joe's Italian Eatery. Bingo, later on i realized i scored a date with a hot reporter chick, got her number and eveything. Contact earned! My Partner was just watching the building like i told him too weee.

But while i was putting the finishing touches on the reporter, handling the lone star, Scraper started annoying my partner, trying to get him to leave his post, my partner informed me.. .and i started to walk over the long way and get behind scraper, i was going to sneak up and frighten the poor bastard with a gun to the head untill i found something skeechy.. a little garning drone was on the fitz.. so i decided to take him apart, i'm good with those things, i get him open and wow.. look and behold compound explosives, well i remove them, batch up the drone back to normal, re hook his watering line and slap it on its ass and tell it to get wattering.

Oh boy, then those stupid fly by drones.... Well i was near my car so i hoped over to it.. and freaking JAMMED the hell out them. So that cocky fixer didn't get to do much besides fly them off to the distance!

The nosey Fed came up and harrased my buddy, and he just said if you wants you can go visit the main office in redmount. Haha... fed pretty much gave up.

Well it all ended.. and we got awarded our karma and stuff.. i manage to leave with the puppy in my arms and in my car, but i got stopped.. eee.. and some suits took it from me.

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[Eugene]

Demolition Run

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So is the facility not supposed to have any outside cameras? My players all thought it was too weird and insisted that they had a second set of cameras outside that weren't connected to the host!

Things went badly for my group, though they completed the mission. The decker did a poor job, screwing around while the system tally kept going up. Eventually the system went on Active Alert and the Killer IC attacked, alerting the guards in the facility. Lone Star came by and the group waited until they left (I ruled that DocWagon wouldn't be able to send extra guards until the next shift change so they'd still have a chance.

They were ambushed by the guards and only some luck and some grenades saved them. The guy with the rifle in the shack gave them a hard time, too, as the group assumed it was a tool shed and not the control center.

[JackWill]

Demolition run:

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I went in with more of a team, my Guy KK from the missions breifing, a off the boat 6 foot black man ninja from Japan, a gun bunnies, and sigh a mage.

Well i did the bigger chunck of leg working via Petra, man she's an expensive date. Well she passed up some info to me, gave me some numbers. And i divided the numbers up and started calling and doing the meet and greet. That went well, we got the typical shifts, the number of guard you know all the normal stuff, was told they "keep a astral walker" around. I did some decking of the place and got more detailed info. And waited to get in to do more.

Well we took two cars, i took the ninja and the gun buuny took his, the mage wanted to ride with me, i have a cooler car, so i stuffed him in the back. We go there and basically parked in the woods, Walked up and took over the first guard station fairly easily. This is where i jacked in, shut down the missle turret, and feed a loop with the security camera, unlocked all the maglocks, but made it look like they still worked.

We went to the other outside booth with the mage guy... and he gave us a hard time, wouldn't talk to our mage deisded to take a bullet and feed it to his chest, yeah it dropped him and to add insult to injury i slapped a trama patch on him, and a tranq patch on him. So he wasn't moving around much.

We went inside the main building, and we caught the guard in the room all 5 of them, we decided to just hold the door shut. And the other two went down and met the troll, after a few rounds discharged he was down. The guards jumped at the door and it didn't move.. so me and the ninja moved out of the way this time and they started shooting thru the door. The ninja shoved his sword thru it and scared the bajuese of one. the door cracked and random shots were sprayed i caught a glimpse of a turned over table, so i lined my gun up withthe door and pulled the trigger, i hit one in the chest with a gel round. And we told them to slide their guns out the door and we will stop shooting, and the next time we shot it would be gels. They were like NO, and we said, the building may not be here in 10 minutes, and they mightneed a spunge to pick up the remain of their bodies. They surrenedered.. so i had 4 Hnk 227s slung over my back, and a pistol. We just hit everyone of htem out cold and tied them up.. dragged them to the woods with the mage.. called the Dog Wagon for the mage, didn't say anythign of him being a mage, we removed all the marcking of a mage on the mage... and we took off.

That was that.. i got File H, and i sold it to the MJ. We didn't do it the most subtle was, but we came out withi the most cash possible exspecially after selling off those HnK 227s And some other info and data.

[JackWill]

Forced Recon:

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Now this was fun. Party Chemistry: KK (myself, counter-rigger/decker), ork Gun Bunny, and the best way to describe this new guy "The Liar/Con artist".

This was just a fun mission from the get go... The Fixer kept saying lines like "i know you need the money" and stuff like that.. and i was thinking to myself "I have money, plenty of money" and i mentioned to teh fixer, i'm in it for the thrill. Got some funny looks from the party. And the GM, who has been the same guy for all my games. Well we find out about everythign we need to know about this building, quickly, we do everything. So we realized there was a building city code expection the next day, so we got "the liar" and appointment my sending a message to the city that they need to reschedule for next week contact tomarrow at 1700, and sent a message to the company that he will be arriving a big earlier around 1000. First we need fake IDs, uniform, and a car. I did some calling around got some stuff, the liar got himself some old city cafeteria reciepts.

THe car, that was going to be fun. I waited out side the garage scoping it out with the Ork waiting for one of those Electric running Nissans that looked perfect for a city of seattle employee would drive... we tailed it to a quit area at a stop light.. and i stopped behind him and walked up with a city map, and said "Excuse me, i know you are from around here, it says it on your car, do you know where the hospital is?" The guy was hesistant but noticed i wasn't packing anythign, and rolled his window down, he started giving me directions and i preteneded to listen, then i took the tranq patch in my back pocked and slapped it on his face. I yelled to my friend, this guy needs a doctor.. take him to the hospital..and mumble and he just gave me directions. Well my ork buddy got out... hopped in his car and took off... i drove off and we meet by my garage. We tied him up, forced some synthol down his throat and called the Liar up..

Well the liar went to work. He dorve down there to the plant he scoped out the place made sure noone was tailing him... I gave him my pager number to page me with the number 4319 for help =) Well we took off and hid in the woods with some camo, and scoped out the areay with binoculars and just kind of waited.

He did his lieing, got in, and started doing some snooping, with a mini camacorder and stuff. (we thought this would be a good idea) well they caught on to somethign fishy about him, and locked him down, he kind of whined and cried.. paged me.. .and we got up and ready to cause some problems to get him out, then the notice the security escorting him out.

We drove off, but we had ALOT of INFO on that building. We didn't complete this mission as good as we had the previous missions, but it was atleadt 90% complete.

[bitrunner]

To Jackwill:

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hilarious! obviously you're an experienced player...sounds like you had fun, and earned a lot of extra contacts to boot. Excellent non-violent method of dealing with Rolando...just what we like to see...

As for the others - good job also...it sounds like you are enjoying the campaign!

I tip my hat to you, sir!

[JackWill]

Yeah bit runner it was fun playing them..

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i am not soo sure about the 4th one tho... i was told by 4 people that i would not like it 100%. So i might just sit the 4th one out, even my GM said it not worth running really, its a good one, just not fun for the runners.

But only me and two of my regular gamers go to the conventions where the games are ran. So i ran the Missions to all our non-con goers or people that will probely never play offically in the missions, and they tend to enjoy them. I have to admit, they are getting better and better at preparing for everyhing. I remember me and my GM had to go thru some stuff together and go oh thats what you do, oh that makes sense.

But thanks very much man, i am quite experienced. I try to advoid you know Wired 3, the Ares viper sliver gun, uber mageing out (OMG that mage in our 2nd game i wanted to punch him in the face) and i almost shot in character on PURPOSE. He got mad because when i was decking, i didn't tell him everythign i found, and then he was like can't we see what he is doing and i was like i don't have that stuff, i keep my decking personal. And he was like you should get it ever decker has them, and i go "where are your watchers, every mage worth his gall has it" And combat hits, and you know the DM is like what guns do you guys pull out, and i pull out my trusty HnK (ares perdator with a different name) and i look at the mage and go "and he will pull out his Ares Viper" and load an behold theonly gun he owned was 2 of those. The said thing this was an experenced player. What is so fun about playing the character that can slove every problem the same way and with complete and easy ease. Thats why i made this guy, it can't do anythign GREAT, but he can try and hope things go good for him. So for the rest of the game i kept calling the guy playing the mage "Munchie McMuch" Pisseed him off, then i started calling is character a 2nd rate mage. And when he went and precieved.. i moved his body haha! =) bastard! I mean i know i handled the situation like a child, but you know i am 21 this guy is like 30 something. Eh.. it was almost as bad as the one time i had to play with a 40+ year old guy that was playing a "high charisma elf like in the 14s or so" And my character hit on him, and he was like "thats sick" i was like don't play a hot chick =) I really hate crossdressing roleplayers. /endrant

[bitrunner]

well, first, i'm not sure name calling is the answer, but i won't harp on that...

as to the 4th demo adventure, you say it is evidently a good one, but you won't play it because you might not enjoy it 100%??? you mean, if you only enjoyed it 80%, it wouldn't have been worth playing??? :eek:

[JackWill]

well i think he met "its a good one"mention that its well written, but its not much fun for the runners, and it seems pretty far fetched.

[Whizbang]

Which one is considered number four?

[Dark father]

A fork in Fate's Path

[Backgammon]

The only thing that sucked about "Fork" is (oh.. guess I better put a spoiler, just in case)

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is that it's totally "unrealistic" that there's no way for a runner team to do do both. I mean, come one. What's so hard about sending representatives of the team to both meeting, and either try to do both (probably impossible) or choose the one you like the most. The way the choice is forced on you is totally artificial and doesn't at all feel a choice you. You don't even know anything about the missions, it's practically a coin toss. I thought that part sucked. The actual mission was alright.

[bitrunner]

Fork Changes...

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yes, i understand...this has been discussed with the Commandos, and we're going to be changing it slightly. The rescue mission is being changed to a "just in time" or "first response" mission and the time frame tightened up to reflect its urgency.
this way, there is no way for the runners to do both missions - why should they?? it is two different missions - path A or path B - you have to make a choice!

that's one of the points of the adventure - sometimes you have to make a decision based on little or no facts, and then live with that decision.

i think what you're really complaining about is that by not "getting to play both missions" that you feel you're missing out on something...you're getting cheated on Karma or money...

in all actuality, this stuff happens in real life - you're presented with two options - you can't pick both - one or the other...this is simply one of those times and shows that sometimes shadowrun opportunities can come at inopportune times. If you're already on a shadowrun, and the call comes through, do you continue with the job, or take the new one and abandon your current job?? would it make a difference if the new job was to rescue a loved one, and the mission you're on now is just a baby-sitting job with some corp suit that you could care less about except for the nuyen??? what would be your answer then?? basically, that is what this adventure is goaled towards getting across...hopefullly the changes I'm about to make to it will make it so...

[Backgammon]

bit:

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Nah, I didn't care about not being able to play both missions. And I understand that the mission was supposed to reflect "you can't do both missions, you must make a hard choice". I get that, I really do.

But the mission didn't come out feeling like that. There was no sense of having to make a tough choice with hard consequences. I didn't give a damn about this girl to rescue. Why should I? I'd never heard of her even once before. They were both *jobs*.

One paying a LOT of money, but having to deal with an asshole fixer, while the other probably promised more karma. As a player I thought I needed the karma more than the cash right now, so might as well do that one. I'll be pissing off my contact (I'm the one who'd gained Ronaldo as a contact) but I never liked that guy anyway, so what the heck.

And prior to this sense of urgency you're inserting, I honestly couldn't see why we couldn't send a team member to the meeting for the other mission, and chose the one we prefered after knowing more about the jobs. It completely felt artificial and railroaded that we had to choose. If we *had* sent someone to the other meet, would we even have said we can't do both? The kidnapped girl obviously had a tight timeframe, but from what I heard about the warehouse mission maybe not?

In my opinion, there's no harm in letting the players go to both meets. Add a tight timeframe for both missions and it'll be obvious to the players they have to choose. No need for the uninformed decision on their part. And the choice will have far more consequences. A team that turns down the offer to rescue the girl can feel they're going to be directly responsible for her death, having chosen cash over the right thing to do.

[Deacon]

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Personally, I think the way this kind of mission should be written up is, rather than writing two separate missions and giving the players the choice, write one mission that can be played two ways, and offer the players the choice between the two. For example, let's say a simstar is coming to town. Fixer A is contacted about providing extra security and support during the simstar's stay. Fixer B, on the other hand, is contacted about an extraction on that same simstar by a rival corporation.

So the players get the choice to either guard the simstar (possibly learning something about the business and making a new contact or two) or kidnap the guy (highly illegal and dangerous but more money).

[bitrunner]

don't worry, we have some of those coming... :]

[Club]

Mission Breifing:

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I've run it twice. Both times the gangers got taken out with a spell. Once stunball, the other time Chaotic World (And crash tests). Under SR3 mages rock, but that is just too much, esp. when even the cops accept that using spells like that is self defence.

The other problem was the adept. Commanding Voice is just too brutal a power in the scenario. GO AWAY. COME BACK LATER. DON"T BOTHER US. Simple commands, but even if they wear off fast...

[linei]

Double Cross

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The runners planned for what seemed like ages. They bought shares to get 2 runners invited into the stakeholders meeting. On the day before the meeting, one of these 2 runners checked into the hotel. Using a fishing line he brought a pistol from street level into his hotel suite.
The other runner invited to the stakeholder meeting, a female shaman, used a Transformation spell to transform a third runner (no usable SIN at all) into a mouse, put him into her bag and brought him inside the hotel this way.
Inside a restroom the third runner was transformed back into human form. Then the shaman put an Improved Invisibility spell on the former mouse. The now invisible runner - naked (!), because nobody thought about bringing clothing for the mouse - was given the pistol brought in the day before, entered the ballroom and hid under a table. The two invited runners went to their table as backup.
When the time had come, the invisible runner came out from under the table - still naked - and went up to Davenport and shot him twice in the head.
In between the following commotion they started to back out of the ballroom, shot a few bursts at the HTR team, then made their way down to the front of the hotel, where the 2 remaining runners waited with their getaway car.
They arrived at the front of the hotel just in time to launch some shots at the DocWagon ambulance which then exploded.
Mission accomplished.

[Backgammon]

Double Cross

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Nothing very spectacular happened until the end, where we successfully hit the mark (13D :) ) and we were making our escape down the freight elevator when we got the radio message that we had to make SURE he was dead.

So, we get outside and run to the front. We get there first, and our decker support has the front doors locked, holding back the HTR team with the wounded target. So, that buys us some time to get the getaway car up front. The HTR APC backs into the door,. letting the HTR out. I take shots at the wounded target ("for the love of god, he MUST be dead...") They return cover fire and get in the APC.

We get the radio order to take out the APC. I have a pistol with ExEx rounds. That's it. So, desperatly grasping to our promised 12k payment, we chase the APC with out pathetic second hand Jack rabbit. We pull up next to the APC, with my desperate and dramatic plan being to jump ontop of the APC and try to use my Shock Hand to disable the truck... My TN to jump on the truck is too high to my liking, so instead I see that I can hit one of the tires instead.

Remember that our puny, unpainted Jackrabbit is as close to the truck as possible since the plan was to jump on it. Figuring, what the hell, it's all we've got, I aim and fire a shot. BOOM!!! Truck explodes violently, sending our puny Jackrabbit flying sideways straight through the window pane of a hair salon. Car is wrecked and on fire, and on top of some lady.

We crawl out and run away to our well deserved payment.

[bitrunner]

Backgammon - so YOU'RE the group with the jackrabbit i heard about....ROTFLMAO!!

[Backgammon]

:D

It wasn't MY Jackrabbit though ;)

[LynGrey]

Mission 4- fork

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Well this was interesting. I have rolando as a contact.. and i really don't like they guy.. just took his number just in case type thing. Well He give me a call.. and i'm like i check into it, my comrads.. in the game got a call from Joey.. and they give it to me also... i went.. mmm street cred or physciall cred... i've made over 25k so far, so my stick wasn't hurting, i also aready set aside cred for my vechincal, and i wanted to do something good for the shadows.

Joey was the way the party went, after convicing two members that Rolando is a chump in the biz, and will mostlikely screw us over, or use us to his advantage.

Well the mission went perfect, why guy was a dwarf heavy weapons expert, me as Kaleab (the counter rigger/decker womanizer) That decker bozo was a major thorn in the side, we took teh first night to just bust our rumps on legworking, i called a reality hacker chick and got her some nice flowers and dinner along with 200 creds, the dwarf bought some 200 cred drinks, and the other guy just some calling around and reasearch. We find out about the Coffee shop, i lone my Max power to a player, and roll in there with my Sub under the coat in a sling.. being all paranoid. We end up buying a 500 Cred cup of coffee. ((if you notice the common trend of over paying)) it works.... well we get a call.. we help that bozo guy out of town ((i personally thing he just wanted some cred to buy the next few doses of jazz)) but we get that abbandoned warehouse and bassically wired some C-4 to the office side, and to the bathroom ((we find out its the mens wwe wired up too)) mainly to provide a distraction has one guy slipped in thru the back, and the other guy slip in the hole made in the bathroom, as me and dwarf laid down some fire thru the front door. It work almost flawlessly.. the sneak popped one guy, and the guy bolted out the bath room to move to the womens, he got shot at, destorying his cover, he blasted the guys leg off.. the sneak tossed a smoke gernade to only have it shot...blasting a hole in his hand. The dwarf took down that guy that shot him, i got shot at as i approached the office.. so i launched a concussion gernade in the room and put my back to the door =)mmmmm chunky salsa. It was horrible, apparently there were other explosives in there so i got tossed and grabbed the railing dangling. Then slipped down and got on my feet.. the guy going for the bathroom found a fire elemental.. and we had to talk sense into the Mge controling him in the bathroom... we struck up a deal... we don't kill him if he gives us the girl. We grabbed her fixed her up a bit, toook her to a steet doc and returned her.

We got paid and it was a good day, we did it all in about 26 horus. So we got some complement and all. I mainly used my contact to find out about that Ares Hacker... slammer or something.. well yeah..