Has your group ever had an amazingly brilliant idea for how to handle a run? Something awe-inspiring? The kind of plan that inspires laughs, tears, karma awards and movie adaptations?

If so, post it here.

To set the tone, I'll go first:

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Operation Shitstorm/Clean Sweep
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Our team was hired to take out a drone/weapons factory tonight. The idea was to put them out of commission for at least a few months. After doing the obligatory legwork, we tossed around numerous plans of attack--then I had a stroke of genius...

...evil genius.

I had specifically asked for info on the utilities (water/sewer/ect) around and under the facility, thinking we might float charges downstream and sink the place like Venice meets Krakatoa, (we have a lot of explosives) or at least disrupt service as a distraction.

Instead, we set careful charges in the sewer lines surrounding the facility, hacked their communications, and the security cameras for the entire block.

After moving a safe distance away in our fully-stealthed amphibious citymaster, we detonated the explosives and started recording the camera feeds. The blast-wave caused multiple tsunami's of wastewater to converge below the facility and burst up through the pipes, flooding the factory and sending one poor worker on the ride of his life as the toilet he was using rocketed into the air and then dumped him in a pool of filth.

Naturally, the factory called for a cleaning crew.

We intercepted the call and routed it to a burner commlink bought specifically for this purpose. Posing as a disaster cleanup service specializing in high-security facilities, our face got us the job, and the access codes for everything--including the secure areas. We told them we'd need a few hours to gather men and supplies, since it was such a big job...

...meanwhile, our technomancer is hijacking a fleet of cleaning drones from a local mall. They drive into the parking garage, whose cameras are mysteriously not working, and disappear. Surely they weren't loaded into an invisible citymaster no one saw leave.

Fun fact: Cleaning drones have a 10 liter fluid capacity for the cleansers they spray upon various surfaces. 1 liter of liquid explosives is equivalent to 1 kg of plastic explosives when calculating damage.

You can see where this is going.

Unfortunately, we had to leave before completing the scene, so I can't tell you how this ends yet. When we left off, our chameleon coated van had pulled up outside the factory, displaying the logo of our fake cleaning company: Jiffy Clean. Our motto? We get the job done in a flash.

Security guards escorted us into the facility, all of us in hazmat suits and our team wearing nanopaste disguises under. We've set the drones to work spraying down the equipment, and left for the night, informing the guards that the drones clean automatically, without wireless link, to ensure our clients privacy. One of the many security conscious features of Jiffy Clean service. The chemicals we use are somewhat hazardous, so no one should go in there until we come back tuesday to pick up the drones.

The truth is, we already have full blueprints of the facility, and have programmed the drones to hose the whole place down, then detonate the explosives. When they call Jiffy Clean back, they will receive a recorded message from the (now abandoned) burner commlink:

"Thank you for using Jiffy Clean, like our motto says: We get the job done in a flash."

As for the surveillance footage we recorded? We're going to send it to "6th World's Funniest Videos" (under a cover identity) and try to win 10,000 The footage of the explosion we're selling to "Matrix's Most Amazing Videos".

When I used to play D&D when I was younger I had actually made my GM cry twice by totally foiling days of planning for a dramatic final clash. Wasn't the best GM and I didn't actually know that he spent all that time of the adventures at the time. One time was that we were going to fight a sleeping dragon in a cave with a long tunnel leading into it (go figure.) Our conversation was

Me: "So we are going into a cave right?"
Him: "Yes..."
Me: "And are their any stalactites in the cave?"
Him: "Yes..."
Me: "Are there any sharp bends and turns in the tunnel leading into where the dragon is sleeping?"
Him: "Yes I don't see why not."

We basically pissed off the dragon so that it would come running towards us. We picked a sharp bend in the cave had all the stalactites fall on the dragon by using the thief's trap skills and magic missile. When the dragon used the cone of fire we just ducked around the bend in the cave. The thief managed to backstab the dragon and the mage hit him with his staff d6 +1 staff and killed it. There were other moments, but I kinda felt bad for making him cry with some of my other more inventive plans. In a different game it was opening a hole in a space stations shields knocking out it's big defensive gun on that side of the station and slamming it with very very large asteroids, pulling back, and watching the pieces of the station crash into the planet it was orbiting. Then blasting the crashed pieces from orbit. I had a way of making his "epic battles" not so epic very quickly. It came to the point where he would just make me have to get insanely lucky rolls to do even the most basic of plans that would screw over those epic battles..... oh Elliott.....

Nothing that epic; however, I had a personally interesting event the first time I played DnD:

My fighter (go figure) was with the party escorting a caravan from one city to the next when bandits attacked. They took up positions around all of us with the leader in front of my character. All were armed with heavy crossbows and weren't afraid to use them. My fighter had a rather low Wisdom score and the DM and I had decided that he lacked common sense but wasn't stupid. He normally just didn't think things through. (What do you mean there is no ledge? I already jumped.)

So, he decided that he would just charge the lead bandit. The poor sod failed his surprise check as did his men and our group won the day.

A run I ran for my players involved them having to kill a guy and make it look like an accident, and their timetable would get much more difficult after 4 days, because he was flying down to Los Angeles.

So they snuck into TT, jacked an advance warning radar station from the 8 or so guys stationed there, and gave a false weapons free alert to the TT SAM batteries that his plane was trying to aquire radar lock. They ended up having the guy shot down by TT's missile defenses, and making it into a huge international incident between Ares and TT, with neither side willing to admit anything was wrong.

It was pretty nuts.

While I will have to say that TT SAM story gives me some heinous ideas, I'll get to them later.

My run wasn't nearly awesome or subtle. We were in SanFran and we were trying to rob a Yakuza Gambling hall (yeah, bad call, right?) so we figured we'd geek their mage's body while he's on patrol. Few bullet holes later, we're trying think of a way for it not to come back on us.... so we tag the Yak's place with a Mob mark.

Well it so happened that next run, we were ruining a mob charity event... Rather than keeping it simple, we marked them with a Vory (Russian Mafia) Mark. So to complete the circle, we went out of our way and tagged a Vory dealer's location with a Yakuza mark and laid low for a few weeks.

Suffice to say, it took till our party left SF for Seattle did we face our consequences. *sniff* They blew up my city master.

When we first played Mercurial the GM so well played her psychosis that inside of 15 minutes we understood why she needed body guards. One of our street sami's, fingering his narcojet, asked "We have to keep her alive, does she have to be conscious?"

The GM watched us very quickly plan how she could spend the next 5 days doped to the gills hanging in a closet by her ankles!

"Do it."
*Narcoject fires*
"Ouch!"
"Nighty Night."
"Oh. My. God. You just shot me. I can't believe this drek. Frag you, man. You just wait til the studio hears about this. I can't believe you shot me. That really hurt! I need a snack. And where the frag is my fraggin soya mocha-chocalatte?"
"Shoot her again."

Hah, I remember an old starwars game and the GM wanted my character and another to escort a secretly princess from one planet to another. When we met her, the GM was playing her up crazily also to the point where I said my character sets his blaster on stun and shoots her. Had the other character dress her up in another outfit and off we went, she wasn't happy about it, but we got her to the destination. Albeit she wasn't conscious for most of the trip.

Right now there is a guy that we call "so fuc*ed guy" who we basically stuffed in an anti-wifi painted box and forced him into hot sim or took him out of hot sim and tranq patched him. So far he has been in the box for four days so we can use him in a meeting as a diversion to snatch our real target. We had to put an IV in him for fluids and whatnot and hopefully he will live for another 10 hours if we are lucky, although something tells me he will probably be in there for forever. It's been great though as our group has had to deal with people stuffed in boxes, although this is the first one we actually made a decision to stuff someone into a box.

ha ha I can just think what was going on inside your GM's head. Set phasers to stun and goodbye love interest. We did have some little girls who we were supposed to extract from a facility give us trouble at one point. My character tried to slap tranq patches on them to keep them from complaining as we were going to try and stuff them inside of cleaning drones. The basically only white hat in our party was the combat troll and proceeded to almost break his wrist. It was basically that they didn't want to get into the dirty cleaning drones to which I said we are trying to save their lives. They refused so it would have been nice to knock them out and stuff them into the drones... instead we spent a few extra minutes arguing, and then cleaning out the drones *sigh*

That is brilliant, I have to use that sometime.