[X] My Assistant

[Arethusa]

You must be joking. You actually had the guard resisting several shots to the head?

[TinkerGnome]

[Siege]

[TinkerGnome]

[Traks]

It is easy to explain - if you use pistol which code is 4L (weakest holdout pistol, as I said, usually used as really LAST resort), and roll 4 dices, even if increasing damage to 4M (no one rolled much successes, and I increased damage +1 level because it was headshot) guard have pretty good chances to resist it, getting down back to L wound. Of course I may be wrong in this case, but I think I ruled correct, at least that is how I remember those rules.

And no, I wouldn't give them too bad surprises in their first run, so no cyberskulls, although I will use that later in campaign :)

Ah yes, so they were wiped out and team mage was captured (having Improved Invis on his char sheet. But hey, that player is much of loonie type. He later said that forgot having such a spell.)

Yeah, in next post I will write how they did in last run. Almost as bad in some aspects, although no one died, they were still pretty stupid :)

[TinkerGnome]

[Traks]

I have a feeling stories about my team will be frequent here :)

Ok, next run that team is assigned to: protect the chip they were trying to steal in previous incarnation (corporation decided to invest in additional security, and hired some people while installing additional security devices).
One player tries playing videogames with lab worker, having no computer skills and low Quickness. After losing 100 nyens he stopped playing :)

So of course enemies hired more professional shadowrunner (in fact, almost beginning covert ops specialist who was much of pacifist and used GEL rounds and similar non-killing things)

She comes in, disabling guard at entrance and proceeding to room with chip.
At any time of day there is one PC shadowrunner sitting in the room and guarding it, disguised as one of laborants. Doors open and Neuro-stun grenade comes in. After few seconds ops come in and see if anyone stands. PC stands and shoots, wounding her. But receving couple of gels, gets down. Hearing gunshots other two PC's act. They see room where people are supposed to be, and there is white smoke coming out, and no people are seen. One PC say: "I am going closer and trying to SMELL what gas it is". I answer "Well, you guessed, it is neuro-stun gas. Roll body." But I am being nice and rule out that he have M stun damage instead of S. He also botches his Perception rolls and do not see how covert op retreats. But then he casts Detect enemy spell and follow covert op. Covert op is out of building and into car (heavily improved), leaving with chip. PC gets into his car, starts driving and seeing that enemy's car is much faster says: "I am trying to cast a lightning to enemy's car.) Being a nice guy I am asking "Are you sure you wanna cast a lightning through your car's window?"
After much thinking he says "Nooooo. Instead I am hitting brakes as hard as I can". I say "Sure, roll car handling". Which ends up in hitting nearest tree :)
Second PC while this all is going out, sits in his room with wet towel over his head to avoid strange white smoke and waiting crisis to end under his bed.

[TinkerGnome]

Traks, were these guys new? It sounds like an episode of that comedy SR show... what's it called? Whose Swag is This? I think.

Absolutely beautiful, though. I remember playing one game of VS where there was one high karma member of the team and the rest of us were basicly templates. The high karma guy decides he's going in through a window. We, on the outside, hear gunshots, and then he comes right back out the window and doesn't stop running till we were well away. He decided, in mid air, that we didn't need to be on that run, after all.

[Traks]

They are pretty new to Shadowrun as well as I am new to it.
But it is common sense to NOT inhale a white smoke which seems dangerous :)

This team will most likely have a run at end of this week, and probably I will post here how it turned out. I just feel that they will make another bunch of moments which deserve to be told to other players who do not fear about their sanity loss :)

[Shanshu Freeman]

[Traks]

Sooo, back to the horror stories. Turn off the lights and close the windows/doors before reading :)

Let's go!
Their team after recovering thought about easy money, and asked mafia boss to give them some task (one of players was in mafia, even married to daughter of some mafia guy). They received a task to make an assault to yakuzas, and take out their narcotics transfer point.
So far, so good. They went on investigation and while driving through the district, they spotted yakuzas who were putting black-colored polyethylene bags inside the car. So they decided to steal the car and in that way find out what those yakuzas were doing.
Mage cast Improved Inv and stole the car. They drove with it to friend's garage and opened those bags. Inside were bodies of 9 yakuzas (few members of another PC team attacked those yakuzas, and they were taking bodies to bury. Insert evil GM grin here).
While few of them went to another contact to search for means to get rid of those bodies, 3 people stayed to think watch over it. Contact of course disappeared with next flight to Europe, because district was heavily controlled by Mafia and Yakuzas.
One of them (ork) started to hack those bodies (as he said he really hated yakuzas, bla bla bla). Two others did not tolerated this, and one of them used shock glove which stunned ork completely, while other thought for few seconds and shot now helpless ork (shotgun from really near distance, coup de grace)
Further, merrier. Player who tried to stun ork, now moved and tried to get gasoline out from tank, opening tank with knife intending later burn the car. Meanwhile other player just aimed at gas tank and shot. I ruled out that gas just started leaking out, and while first player ran off second player shot once more blowing up the car and impaling first one (He got quite lucky on damage, just lost all clothes and received L physical damage). Then they ran off from this place to get weapons for mission, that mafia provided for them. While driving they got few spiders on roof (eco shaman requested money donation and they told him to fuck off) and weapons specialist shot spiders from inside the car, making couple of holes.

[Traks]

They arrived at weapons dealer and got their weapons.
While reborn ork (now dwarf repair specialist/ a little decker) came and offered to repair the car. Having no instruments, nothing to close those holes, and rolling almost all 1's (I rule that crit fumble is if you roll half or more 1's when rolling many dices), I ruled out that now both small holes are joined in one and much bigger hole :)
Team took everything from that dwarf, gave him manacles and threw him into luggage space. He also got good deck without ANY program on it. Don't ask me why :)
Then team proceeded to site where they knew that yakuza narco-van should be coming, in the middle of night of course. When they arrived near-by, dwarf made TN 14 on check if he can get rid of manacles and succeeded. Pissed off team tied him and put back manacles, while going on mission, mainly because dwarf whined about getting back his things. He succeeded on untying himself (something like TN 16) and escaped into night. After few unsuccessful tryings to untie himself (TN +2 each time) he came back to team to give up. Moron.

Till next hour of horror, when I will tell how this team tried to get he mission done.