Ares and the Runners didn't KNOW that it was a bug hunt at the time. All they knew was that a couple of people from Ares disappeared and needed someone to find out why.

It was only later that they discovered the bugs, as he said, it was 5k at first, but got 10k each in the end.

Yeah, the initial run was merely an inspection.

The Firewatch team that got sent in on the actual, honest-to-god bug hunt is probably up to their eyeballs in novacoke, hookers and stock options right now.

It isn't entirely clear whether "The team ended up getting twice that as a bonus" means the pay was doubled, or the bonus they got was double the original pay. It does sound more like 10k, but it is possible he could also have meant 5k pay + 10k bonus.

Not to mention the fact that having an Ares Johnson who knows your team can handle minor bug encounters is a pretty sweet deal, provided they're not having you killed.

It really does seem more a case of suicide than murder...

Many roleplayers can make a character with a tragic flaw.

Very few can make one, then knowingly play it through to it's inevitable conclusion.

<golf clap>

They are also researching a way to use bdellovibrio, a natural bacterial predator, to control Staph and Strep infections. It originally seemed promising, but they've been having setbacks lately.

Chris

SR may not be as dark and gritty as Cyberpunk, but it's twice as paranoid - what other game gave us the immortal phrase, "it ain't a shadowrun until your Johnson screws you twice"?

I run into a femme fatale in an abandoned, deeply underground location and my "oh drek" radar implodes. She says anything resembling "for the life you have given me" and I'll lose about ten pounds in ammo and assorted munitions on the damned spot.

I don't think you should feel particularly guilty - it wasn't an Orbital Cow Strike or a Thermonuclear Device in a Pizza Box scenario. Your players didn't consider the implications and didn't, from the sound of it, plan for medical emergencies, so there isn't too much more you can do.

-Siege

Hey Seige long time no see where have you been hiding?

Fort Jackson, Fort Lee, Fort Bragg, Anaconda and now back in Bragg.

-Siege

Once someone did a mini CoC d20 game for me and, wanting to save time on chargen, the guy let me run a 1st edition Oriental Adventures sohei character I'd created earlier.

I tried to stab the femme fatale with the 1d3 damage chopsticks but it didn't work.

What, are you role-playing in prison?

...with one GM I had, PC death would have been preferable as this person had a thing for pitting us against Great Dragons (and not the ATGM variety). I retired three characters, two of which after only two missions into the campaign just to avoid the GM from turning another one of my PCs into an GD's NPC minion (I had already lost two this way). It was so ridiculous I wondered if I wasn't playng "Shadowrun the Gathering - the collectible character game" (with the GM doing all the collecting) instead of just plain ol' Shadowrun.

It's the d20 scenario - players are invariably a lot more cautious at 1st level because they know death is one stray goblin arrow away.

-Siege

Although with "goblins" being a somewhat obscure HMHVV-dwarf variant, you don't see a lot of them.

I'm sorry - I dont understand the problem. Have the spirit make its Inhabitation roll as per normal, and if the spirit manages a Good Merge, the character can be played as good old Thrall, plus some new beefy abilities.

If you obtain a Hybrid merge, you can still play the character, as he retains some memory.

If the spirit results in True Form, then the player can play that particular Mantid spirit in True Form.

What exactly is the problem? I'm creating a fly PC as we speak.

The "problem" is that the PC is possessed by a spirit, his personality is gone, and he is an NPC. The possibility of letting Thrall be played by the character was considered, and rejected, by the GM. Creating a Fly PC? Good for you, sounds fun, but obviously your GM is house ruling some things for that to happen.

Another problem is the decision was made months ago. Try to avoid resurrecting threads with no relevance to anything current.

Well, I'll always drink to a player character death...

My Hacker/Technomancer was the first to die. The group was hired by the mob to hit a vory goon before the drek hit the fan. I has doing remote hacking at a cyberbar and cafe shop, after I finished and was back in the meat. I saw a Vory goon smiling at me and asked me to follow him for a short talk. We had 2 big runs against the Vory to begin with, so I pulled my gun and fired, 2 rounds later I was died but used my deadmans action to fire once more and killed the Vory goon. Also before the run I borrowed 2k from the merc mage inthe group to get system rating 6. He was not happy. The 2nd death was the Face/adept who was a LS mole, he died by the gillette dumping a car on him.

good death! rat had it coming, I guess...

Cheers!

Max

In the old days, I played with a pair of exceptionally lethal GMs. I think that the average life expectancy of a PC was about one session and a half. A lot of that, I'll admit, is because I refused to powergame to the extent that most of the others did, so that challenges scaled to their levels were pretty much totally overwhelming for me, but the others all died constantly, too, so I'm sure it's not just that.

On the up side, though, at least it got me to devote a lot of gear and whatnot to memory so that I could more quickly make a replacement and get back in the game.

Me. The first thought that leaps to mind is "Evil Seductress!"

And my first thought is always: how can I pull off banging her and getting away with it... because I'm totally a manwhore like that in game...

That would actually be pretty cosmically awesome. Kind of like when you lure a kitten with a piece of bacon with the intention to capture it and drown it but instead it manages to snatch the bacon, pee on your hand, and escape.

Never, ever remove a Players right to play their character in a foolish manner. But never reward them for it either. I'd say the OP was completely fine in how he handled the situation.


Isshia

Even though it happened a while back, and his campaign has progressed past this point, I have to give the OP a thumbs up. Also whoever the player was thumbs up for playing your weakness to the end.