1) What magic traditions wold come out of what school, if any.
We speculate that TA&M&M would be part of the Corps, focusing on Healing, Combat, and Agricultural magic And that UT would develop an ancillary frat called the Order of ST. Arnold, The patron Saint of BEER! Learning Detox, and Cure Disease early saves from many an embarrassing frat party. Oh and the Orgy Spell. A like of Sight Mass Orgasm. All I gotta Say here, Is find a tower and have fun.


2) Whats the best way of moving material to a Submarine that you have stolen from the Azzies. Contemplating making some sort of amphibious truck and having a crane in the subs cargo bays. ( I know that most subs do not have Cargo bays and that all cargo is loaded by hand.where appropriate)

3) if a player is naturally ambidextrous and has the right gear, is it possible to control 2 firelance turrets at once, and if so can he use his pistols skill. I say no and no. just because its too darn weird and munchkin.


4) who would build a $4M (AUD) cyber-hound in the 70's?

and How much exactly would the Azzies pay to get the sub back? I was thinking 11M each??? but thats still a bargain.

4): The characters should pray, that they did not leave any evidence, especially nothing that could be used for ritual sorcery. Stealing something as valuable as a larger sub would certainly be enough to have some blood mages being sent after you...

A cargo bay is a good idea. An indoor docking facility within a warehouse is a good plan for that. Make it so the sub goes through a tunnel though so its subtle. Opening doors and no large ships going through would be obvious.

Any weapons corp might want to build a 4M$ hound, if you feel like it. Cybered pets were mostly discredited in the past as bad investments, but there's always a crazy scientist somewhere with enough budget that's just certain his cybered pet will work well. And all the meags have weapons divisions. Could be Aztech, Ares, Renraku, SK.. any and all.

Your post doesn't mention the context, but if I'm correct in assuming the Shadowrunners somehow managed to kill or otherwise get rid of the crew of submarines and then somehow drive away with them, the Azzies would do/say/promise anything to the runner's, but then proceed to use any and all military/shadowrunner assets to hunt down and kill the runners, and retrieve or destroy the submarines.

this is how the sub snatch went down. players have been doing jobs against the azzies for about2 years gathering intel against them and selling the less valuable bits. The party decker runs some research and puts together what they are doing. Building a prototype submarine that can, out run, out dive and out stealth everyone out there.

They arrange for a Hi Alt No opening drop from a c-130 in specialized hard suits that can take the pressure of impact and dropping down the 4 KM down to where the sub is.
They get there and start immediately receiving S.O.S signals when they cross the hot layers of water, and they are thinking we are already hosed here. Drop Team Docks with the airlocks in the med bay. And the doors open up to see a landscape of dead pools of people; dessicated disease ridden dead. They start counting bodies one the way to the objective- at least 270 dead. Three rooms in they are ambushed by Doberman drones, our anti security gets hammered, and his armor becomes rupture, he fails all of his body tests and becomes the new subject 0. Seems the places chemical/ bio warfare labs suffered 2 containment leaks, gamma anthrax, and ebola plus. Our gunslinger polishes off the drones in 2 combat action with the help of some mad shotgunning from our rigger.

Turns out that the only person on the sub is a janitor . Locked himself in when he heard the alarms go off. Only systems that work on board are the front lazers, life support for 40 people and the hydrogen fuel plant. The ships OS isn't fully operational, and she has no charts, and connectig to the matrix would be a bad idea from the boat right now.

new question, Where is the best place to buy torpedoes? I am thinking from Ares West Africa, or Hong Kong, just 'cuz you can get anything there.

More chatter from the Kronkness Monster: If an physical addiction is cause by the or substance replacing or substituting Dopamine or some other neurotransmitter, can cure disease solve the physical need for the drug, while the alleviate addiction spell gives the body time to work its way back to normal?

If the sub has a large diving hatch, you should be able to seal whatever packages you want in lots of plastic, toss them overboard from a barge, pilot the sub over them, and use divers and winches to haul the packages inside.

We are working off the premise that staying in one coastal country for more than 2 weeks is a VERY bad idea. For everything under 500lbs wrapping it in a plastic sheet and throwing it overboard should do.

Have you read the Pirates book for SR? That should also give you an idea of how they can live with this sub

I had a copy CF but I . .. uhh lost it moving a while ago. I remember really liking it, but no luck for me there.


But I think it would be awesome if we could swing Submarine based piracy, YARRR. but that has Major problems.

#1 being getting up from sea to ship level forcefully.

another question, long time contention this one. Kit wants to use his fragging huge pistols pool to operate the targeting designators for the fire lance lazers. I say no, but he argues that it should be a no brainer to wire up some software to make it work.

Since you're building fraggin' torps anyway , make a couple extra ones that will hold those special suits you jacked the sub with in the first place. Add a hell of a lot of padding and fire them through the hull of your chosen victim. Open the hatch and "viola!" instand heavily armed/armored boarding party already in the vitals of the ship you want to snatch. Link up of the entire boarding party should be priority one for the first 30 sec. of your boarding action, after that, rock and roll!! Halo 2 had a good space based example of this, but your little boarding leeches would be significantly smaller. If you've got the tech savvy, have them "porpoise" right before impact and hit above the waterline of the target vessel, easier to repair after you take over. BUT if you hit below the water line, it'll keep the target from just punching them back out again and scuttling before you can take over.

Another way to use those fancy suites might be a "boarding party mortar" shoot your troops on deck and take the fight straight into them. A la "human cannonball."

Shouldn't be any crazier than High Alt. NO Open drops.

Another question for the gallery.

Where would I look to find the bounties for ,say a Juggernaut, or a Megalodon?
failing that what would the bounty be?
I mean they talk about it in the Paranoid Animals books.

Sorry, I was actually talking about the Paranormal books.

lol

Ya know I worry for the day when we have awakened Raccoons I really do.I mean when rodents can open the front door, wander in, and loot my house, then I am going to move to Arizona. If cats start to get magic powers, then I am buying a shot gun and committing a complete speiciecide of the feline persuasion.I have a 15 point allergy to cat dander.

Which leads me to a left turn here. OK, Remember when I mentioned the Cybermutt awhile ago? Well, turns out that he wanted to come with us rather than go back to the looser he was hanging out with. As it happens he has a datajack and a few skill softs. So the dog can drive a big rig, speak English and Spanish with a comlink, chew through steel girders if he tried. I put him together as a character with slightly better than dog stats, but with drek loads of 'wear Dog with friggin str 10, 12 with the adrenal pump going. I decided that giving a dog a max rating adrenal pump would be a bad idea, considering how excitable dogs can get.

Anyway. What would a dog have to say? Other than: Play??, Play!! , Play NOW! or food please?!!? or, Sex would be good, or wonder whats in here?

Toss me a line here with your thoughts.
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The Kronkness