So what's the weirdest or oddest thing that you as the GM have set a team or as a team have been hired to do? For mine I think it would have to be a spot of light grave robbing. Short version is that the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria hired the team to break into the St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, recover the remains of Saint Mark and bring them back to Alexandria for reburial. Apparently they were still a bit miffed about that whole episode back in 828 when a bunch of Italian sailors stole and ran off to Venice with them.

We had to kill a dead guy once.

~J

Had to steal the last known un opened glass bottle of classic coke once.

The PCs had to steal a 100 kg abstract stone sculpture and deliver it intact.

Fruitcake.

delicious cake

The cake was a lie

Cake is never a lie. Only your soul can be untrue.

~J

You don't know. You weren't there.

it's so delicious and moist. look at me, talking when there's science to do!

A cow.

For proof that a natural foods company was using gene-engineered animals in their "All Natural" product line.

Cows are also delicious and moist.

~J

I hate "good guy" runs. They make me nervous. I feel like I'll get bad karma "working for the man" and not keeping it real.

Amen, brother! Every run that does not contribute to tearing down the social order and ripping it to pieces is a run wasted. Every run that bolsters the social order is an abomination, a sin of the worst kind.

Resist the post-cyberpunk blight!

~J

Somebody better say "Hitler porn"

Once had the team hired to move a painting from one room in a building to another room in the same building.

-Frank

Knight Industries Two Thousand

Not sure that it's all that strange, but I gave a group the objective of babysitting a rich programmer that wanted to play shadowrunner for a day once.

How about flying half way around the world to steal a stuffed toy bear? Or driving half way across North America to move a coffee table one inch to the left?

Couch...

intended as a gift to a poor octogenarian lady living in an upper floor apartment in a building without an elevator in the barrens... couch was accessorized with a dead hooker, which caused all sorts of problems.

hey, i've heard that one before . . some crusader like troll adept?

had a run setup to steal a 1990 Ford Thunderbird from a private collector for the orginally owner. They old guy wanted to be buried in his car.

The cake is always a lie.

So far the odd ball one was genetic material. They never figured out that it means 'Ritual sample'. It has yet to bite them.

Similar to Franks pating moving I had my players break into a salaryman condo and rearrange his furniture just so, also one of the shrubs in his garden.

Uh huh!

See now, I was going to guess Debbie Does Dallas.

~J

Damn! Now I have to go watch that ... again! Purely for research purposes, of course.

Dunno if this qualifies for this thread, but I've had PC's try and steal the ball from an Urban Brawl game... in progress.

in shadowrun, especially in asia, feng shui is a powerfull thing . . read it up in year of the comet for example . . geomancy is not much more than feng shui on a LARGE scale *g* and of course there's also that angle:"i've been here and you did not have the power to do anything about it . . i can come and go as i please . . think about that one a bit before trying to meddle in my business again . ."
Big D and Lofwyrs Brother(whose name i just can't seem to memoryze for some reason) i think had something similar going on with their fruit cakes delivered to the home in use at that moment *g*

yeah, that one . . considering how often i am reading Uncle Ancients stuff i should know his name by now <.< . .