To start I started my SR4 campaign about 2 months after the first printing of the rule book so the game has been running for awhile now. We started off with Myself (the gamemaster) a Human Phys Adept, an Elven Technomancer (female), a Dwarven Mage, and an Elven Weapons Specialist (AKA Army ranger type). Over the coarse of the last few years we have had a few extra players come and go and up untill a year ago we kept the original four players. Then our Technomancer player moved away. There was a falling out of sorts with the guy who played the Dwarven Mage, and the Elven Weapon specialist got married and just doesnt have the time or the drive to really game anymore. Which has left me over the last year with one player (the human Phys Adept) who I do run solo games for every now and then. Which he honestly loves because it has given him alot of time to really get into his character. Even though we only get to play about once every other weekend due to scheduling. Im a trucker in RL which means I am gone alot.
Anyway over the last year my adept player has went thru hell (literally). On his way to initiation his character died in a burning building, and ended up going to hell for all the atrocities his character had commited while living. Ohh by the way he was lured into the building by a whispering voice, and had been suffering strange dreams of himself standing before and commanding a massive army. The dreams all started when he payed the points ahead of time to initiate. Well while in the building he was lured into a spirit (unbeknownst to him a MUSE from hell), tried to convince him with rewards of power and granduer to pretty much to work for him, and for his payments he would be lead an army to help conquer the world, (honestly I dont know what I would have done if he said yes) but he turned the Spirit down, which while on the material plane looked like a black clould with burning yellow eyes and smelled of sulfur. Well the spirit didnt like being turned down and attacked him and mocked him along the way claiming that if he wouldnt join the army while living he would join it in the afterlife. Unfortunately for my adept player his gun proved pretty much useless. At the time he entered the building all he had on him was a concealed auto pistol. His sword was at home (even it wouldnt have helped much because it wasnt magical) Anyway the muse set the building ablaze and his character died a horrific death more from the building than the MUSE and ended up in hell.
While in hell his characters soul felt the burning fires of the abyss and was about to get torn apart by soldier demons while the same muse that killed him on the material world mocked him for not accepting his offer. That Was when an angel flew down from the heavens and plucked him out of hell, telling him it was not his time to die yet, that he had a greater destiny and placed his soul back in is his charred and severely burnt corpse. (NOW ENTER the church) his character awoke Still completely scarred in a bed with a priest watching over him.
Well he found out his character has been in a coma for about 6 months. Shortly after awakening his character was then visited by another member of the church well in a round about sort of way, this person claimed to be a member of the Knights Templar. And that he had been given a 2nd chance on life that the abilities he was given were gifts from god etc etc etc. Any he was told about a war that had been going on since the dawn of creation, a war for the very souls of the living. A war that had already spread to countless worlds and would if not stopped would eventually come to ours. That it was the responsibilities of the Knights Templar to ensure that didnt happen. There was also alot of other things that were said regarding the rules of the angels and the demons themselves and what they could and could not do... Anyway he was asked to use this 2nd chance to make up for his past sins and help to prevent this war by using his divine (adpet) abilities for their cause. Anyway he ended up accepting, he was given a new indentity and ended up training to become a Knight himself.
Now you have to realize I did all this because my friend who is also a paladin playing DnD fanatic saw in street magic about the church and thought it would be cool to have an actual good guy in Shadowrun. a paladin like character So i took him down this path... Now it hasnt all been centered around stopping the war. His current run he is attempting to save this guys daughter who works for aries (who also has ties to the knighthood) from the troll kingdom in The Black Forrest. The guy whos daughter was kidnapped works for ares corp and has info regarding deliveries of weapons heading to germany from france. Anway they kidnapped his daughter to get the weapons manifest and shipping schedules and routes. He was told not to speak to his superiors or the authorities about it or his daughter would die. So instead he went to the Knights Templar. So like I said I still have some classic Shadowrun style missions going.
Also it looks like we are possibly going to be picking up 2 new players. However Bringing on the Apocolypse. Some of the back plots concerning a few of the old original players is about to start playing itself out and twisting itself into my phys adpets players story line.
Anyway Here is the gist of what is going to happen. A young girl who caused a mysterious explosion in past games and was linked to another one of my players characters. Who also creates a mana vortex around her sucking in all ambient mana. (meaning spells cant be cast within her vicinity) is going to be hired to get this girl before she is put on a plane to Saedder Krupp (spelling?) Lofwyr has personal interest in the girl. Anyway The new players alongside my adpet player (who will be playing a different character at the time) will be hired to get this girl while in transit to the airport.... Which i'm sure they will do.. Anyway the the delivery time a Troll Druid takes the girl orders her bodygaurds to end the dragons trail here and kill the shadowrunners and casts her get away spell. While this is happening my friend Adept will show up (he will be brought to seattle for something else dealing with old friends who have tracked him down) with the old dwarven mage from the old group (both played by me at the time) The dwarf yells for the the adept to get the girl. Who will make a beeline to the troll casting the getaway spell. IN between him and the troll is my friends New character (ohh by the way he is the one who is going to be hiring the 2 new players he is loyal to the troll druid) and now he is going to get to slug it out with his adept to protect the troll druid in her get away. Should be interessting.. Cause hes not going to realize this is going to happen but when I show the picture of this fully armored guy that looks like some sort of kngiht wielding a massive greatsword he will then know what i am doing lol.
Anyway the girl will be ended up getting used to open up a gateway to hell at stonehenge by the druids who have been lied to and conned believing they were summoning a god they worshipped into the world intead they end up opening w up a hellgate. From which forth demons will spill out into england and london... Now this will happen awhile later. This will give my new players some time to adapt to shadowrun. One of them hasnt played since first edition and one has never played (another DnDer). Pretty much the apocolypse. I am debating on whether or not allowing the army alongside the knights templar to at least to contain it in the england area. still havent decided that yet. But here is some inspiration for what is going to happen in my shadowrun world. Ohh ya that girl could also be the key to saving the world in the long run
here is a link to something that kind of has inspired me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T4lzDUxNlk...feature=related
or here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T4lzDUxNlk...feature=related