(On my knees in the rain, screaming at the sky.)
My thread! My beautiful thread! What have you bastards done to her?!

I can see 26 quotes.

On topic, I played a shaman once that decided to try a music career - Shadowbeat inspired. When it was showtime and time to judge the performance, the GM said I had to sing. A charisma 1 or 2 person playing a charisma 8 character, I declined. I convinced him to just roll for it or we'd act out the next melee encounter instead of just rolling for it.

ODG, just thinking of what some of my friends do.

SR - one went out and bought a murasame to represent his katana. Another went out and got his car and showed (using toilet paper tubes and tape) where he would plant the bombs. Another bought an airsoft gun to show what he wanted his gun to look like. Another made a homemade armour jacket (using an old leather vest and some thin sheet metal) to show what his looked like, embroiderery and all. We had also once had a paintball gun fight to represent a run where the characters get into a Urban Brawl game. Once I made a cd with a simple grid for a matrix, and then made each node have its stats displayed. A player made a mix cd for when we went into different clubs/bars. And the last one I can remember was when a player, who was upset his char got hit by a car while running through a 4 lane High way, runs back and forth between a 4 lane highway!

D&D - One guy died his hair, ripped his cloths and put on makeup to show how beat up his D&D char was. Another made his own weapons at the local highschool out of spare metal and wood (he also made his own scale mail lol). Had two people duel each other with swords (By this time we all had a large collection lol) and the winner in RL won in the game duel (they had basically the same stats and were both Fighters)

Also my group has decided now that during games, if our characters have a drink, we do too, which leads to some interesting roleplaying.

That reminds me of a security breach at Super K-Mart...One night while I was cleaning up the store security chased a shoplifter out the front door. The shoplifter had a bunch of bras & panties and such stuffted in her pants and she was supposed to hop in a waiting car to get away. The car booked out when the driver saw that the snatch was going awry and rather than be caught the shoplifter headed for the highway. We had a big parking lot and there was a large grass/dirt drainage ditch between the lot and the 8 lane divided highway. She must have been a sprinter because she ran the .25 mile to the end of the lot slid down the ditch and ran up the other side. We figured she would stop there but she then proceeded to run across the 4 north lanes, hurdle the median, and continue to the other side where she was picked up by the getaway car.
Security didn't run 20 feet from the door to the store...we all just stood there watching her go.

Or get help. Either one, really.

I am quite sure one of you two is referring to the wrong item.
My guess is that the LARPy dude went to the local stffer shack variant an got one of those cheap, horrible katana lookalikes. One of my friends has one and it was listed in the store's catalogue as -believe me- a "hunting knife". (funny legal loophole IMO)

Cheers,

Max

erg... Hey Drace, could ya make your friend run across the highway again... blindfolded? And also have the guys duel to the death with the weapons? We can eliminate some more folks from the gene pool.

This is assuming you survived the initial impact.

-Siege

my thoughts exactly. Can it be guaranteed that you'll live the impact? What about paralyzation? I'd rather not.

Actually the Super K thing was IRL...and we were just so dumbfounded at her speed that it was more awe than anything. One of the sec guys was a few steps behind her for ~50' but she outpaced him in a few seconds (she was really fast) so he just stopped & walked back.

As for the cars...it was 03:00 on a weeknight in San Antonio...not many cars on 281 at that time of night.

Using the local as a run would be interesting but, it would probably be similar to a stuffer shack (or the food fight mod) depending on the time of day & the location of the store. If nothing it would make a good "fun run" for some keystone cops type run.

So, are you suggesting that a run against a not-so-local Stuffer Shack could in fact be profitable? Without pulling a gun on the clerk, or even doing anything stupid?

Depending on your lifestyle, a Stuffer Shack run could be amazingly profitable.

Especially if they stock medkits.

-Siege

I don't think they do, sadly. I know they don't stock tramau patches.

In the original Food Fight, medkit supplies are in aisle 3, in First Run, in aisle 6. Both state, along with a big sign reading: "Don't Wait To Get Hit... Stock Your Medkit!" A medkit has the same availability as medkit supplies, 2. Maybe your GM figured since trauma patches have a street index of 4 they would not be found in a Stuffer Shack.

Consider some of the stuff the mafia & other criminal groups to to make money...hijack freight trucks for the booze or cigs then sell the merch at rock bottom prices in heavily taxed areas. And where could some decent runners get a large supply of said items that a fence would readily buy...!?

Entire campaigns could be built on shadowy dealings of mass market retail chains vs. other chains and/or mom+pop stores or vice versa. The trouble with SR is that only the big picture stuff is written about (AAA corps doing this & that, 1mil spent on..., hijack a researcher for..., etc) while there are tons of seemingly little jobs that could be done locally that may affect things on a larger scale. The Stuffer shack adventure is a good example of what I'm talking about as is the animal control adventure.
Ask the employees at the stores to tell you some of the high-jinks that go on or what they learned/saw with the in-house training videos (some give you a crash course in successful shoplifting).