Just had the most fun I have had in a long time., Run report and questions. Options

[Edward]

Just had the most fun I have had in a long time.
Run report and questions.

I just finished a session where we started a run into the renraku arcology (stupid computer can’t spell these words and I have no books with me)

The GM is using the rescue an ex-resident’s wife plot suggestion. No spoilers pleas I was just having a lot of fun with it. All I knew about the arcolojy was what I read here and the drone designs where a lot of fun. (ok the character was week in the knees but I was having a ball) it is rare for a GM to actually manage to scare my characters (without resorting to magical fear effects).

I suffered my first rule of one incident (stupid 1 dice in computing) it wasn’t anything serious I just considered the idea of an expert system that could run the entire arcology to be bordering on the ludicrous. About as likely as an AI spontaneously evolving. This is so much fun.

What however do you do when you asses the emotional state of your fellow runners (using astral observation) and realise your the only one on the teem with butterflies in his stomach on entering the most secure living structure in the city if not the world.

a) Be reassured you have such stable backup
b) Worry about your ability to do your job on the mission
c) Worry that you are running with a pare of psychos that out gun you by about 300 rounds to 1 (being a mage with only 6 clips of ammunition and ally being a rigger with 6 drones)
d) Take some other action (pleas specify)

when faced with a room containing between 600 and 2000 enemy drones (the type with limbs and 5 tails) do you.

a) Charge in and initiate melee
b) Have a drone stand in the doorway and block there advance engaging with all manner of attacks (guns, grenades)
c) Close and lock the door
d) As c but have a spirit scrag the lock so it will not open for anybody (ruled possible)
e) Try to disable some of them hoping the destruct charges will set up a wave of sympathetic explosions, while your near by.
f) Try to sneak past them.

Well thanks for reading my ramble. SR is great fun.

Edward

[Toptomcat]

Holy Hell, 600-2000 drones?
Retreat, quietly put C12 on the structural supports and collapse the fsking floor on them.

[psykotisk_overle...]

1:D
Your running with a pair of cold, emotionless and hollow runners. Give them a lecture in letting their feelings flow, or something equally fluffy.

2:C, D if you have the ability. 600-2000 drones is a challenge for an army.

[Kagetenshi]

First question: C.

Second question, D, D, D, D, D again, and then D some more. When you're sick and tired of it, D for a change.

~J

[psykotisk_overle...]

Or, you could run. RUN!!

The best option would be to evade them altogether, how is it possible to stumble into 2000 drones?

[Herald of Verjig...]

[Stumps]

[Edward]

I don’t think we where ever expected to fight the large room of drones. (it may only have been 400-1000, I am a little iffy on the exact range I was making coffee at the time)

Options PCs actually considered included b, e and we finally settled on c then d because I had the spirit scrag the lock and then told the Johnson (ex red samury wanted to come with and knew the terrain) to recommend another method of entry.

I was a little concerned about the GM PC issue but the Johnson is good. He doesn’t take attention away from the players or overshadow our abilities but doesn’t require mollycoddling for his safety. And there is somebody that knows the way around

Edward

[Kagetenshi]

If this is a normal runner team, and those are really Medusae, running ought to be SOP when encountering more than four. Also when encountering more than two and not having the drop on them.

~J

[Backgammon]

Why? They just want to be your friend. Deus has your best interest at heart. Deus cares. Long live overlord Deus!

[Tanka]

[Kagetenshi]

The Computer is your friend, citizen. You aren't cleared for knowledge of drugs.

~J

[Deadeye]

"Oh computer, I, your faithful servant, have rooted out the Commie Mutie traitors that are discussing forbidden subjects. As such, I, Deadeyeblue123, faithful and loving servant of the all-knowing Computer, will dispatch these awful traitors by shooting such trouble the moment spot it, which happens to be now!
Prepare to be atomized, commie mutie secret society traitors to the glorious computer!

Um, where did they go?"

God, I miss Paranoia :D . Haven't played that game in over a decade, but nothing made for a better one-shot break from a regular campaign than finding trouble and shooting it.

[BitBasher]

How much armor does medusae have? I dont even think a weapon you can realistically carry in there can hurt them.

[Jason Farlander]

[kevyn668]

[Kagetenshi]

[Shadow]

There is no option C...


The only option is to toss in a pair of thermal nuclear grenades and run like hell. Then have the airforce Carpet bomb the whole area. It's the only way to be sure. <shrug>

[Toptomcat]

Trouble is, this is the Renraku Arcology.
Carpet bombs tickle.

[kevyn668]

[Edward]

We had previously met a single medusa and proved able to despatch it. 2 of the drones where the GM’s SC series design (ripped of the short cirket movies) and have mechanical arms and the melee contest became a mater of medusa cant hurt the SC and the SC will occasionally scratch the medusa. Then another PC went into melee with hand blades and finished it off. (duel hand blades are useful).

We also managed to secure 1000 rounds of AV assault rifle rounds. Unfortunately only the drones and the Johnson use assault rifles.

When the Johnson was later in melee with a different drone and needed rescuing I decided the best I could do was cast armour on him. Shooting is not really my thing.

Edward

[KillaJ]

[DocMortand]

You know, it would have served the GM right if you guys picked a fight with 400 drones...make him roll 400 initiatives in battle. *cackle*

Of course, you wouldn't last one initiative pass, so it may be moot.

Gah, what floor were you on? I know the arcology fairly well, and can't even imagine what floor you'd be on.

[Kagetenshi]

A lot of floors have that kind of space. The implication is that this is their entrance, though, so probably the basement or first floor.

~J

[DocMortand]

I can imagine 30-50 in any particular place on the first couple of floors, and even in the basement levels (certain areas). But not 400-1000 in one room. Even the parking garages should have max 100 wandering around. Besides, I always felt the medusae were not the common drone wandering around - that would be the spiders. The medusae were the shock troops, so there shouldn't be that many wandering around.

Eh...but that's my fertile imagination. Each GM to his own, I suppose...I know I wouldn't mess around with a room with that many medusae...that's a sign I need to go on vacation to Hawai'i or something.