No capes, darling. They are so silver-age....also, you remember what happened to Captain Amazing? Sucked into a jet engine and BOOM! No more Capt. Amazing. So, no capes!

...Can I keep the spandex at least?

It breaths like Egyptian cotton!

This used to be so much easier in SR3: no need for fancy gear, a bunch of stim patches would do.

You... did point out that it was not a how-to guide, yes?


While I have seen many pink-mohawk moments, and even had a handful, I sadly can't remember them. My neurons are all caked with Mountain Dew residue, they don't work as they once did. Plus now that my group and I are all grownups we don't play as often as we used to... like, hardly ever.

I do recall that my most recent character, a 19 y/o hacker with authority issues, has a rather bizarre way of getting back at teammates when they piss him off: he edits footage of their heads onto gay porn and then sends it to everybody's commlink. Thankfully as the team became more cohesive and professional this stopped happening.

I often try to have mohawk moments... but unfortunately the dice let me down. Like the time I threw a grenade at some bug spirits, but got no successes and the scatter table just rolled it at my feet...

Don't worry, our party isn't -that- lacking in clues. ;P


(I confess -- I'm the hacker Cube mentioned.)


We haven't gotten far enough for a Pink Mohawk Moment, sadly, but I get the feeling they'll be happening a lot once the rigger shows up...

Hahaha... In the game I'm running, our 24 y/o hacker just used that trick to spectacularly mohawky effect. Long story short, the small, relatively novice PC team had been working under duress with another team of runners who had been competing for the same payday until both had discovered that they couldn't do it alone. The PCs found out that the other team had been withholding vital information, so they arranged a meeting under false pretenses with the intention of getting the drop on their slightly more numerous and experienced "partners" and getting their answers from the ones they opted to leave conscious.

The PC hacker, Surge, was a wet-behind-the-ears 24 y/o GoodGet (think BestBuy) techie trying to make ends meet on the mean streets of Bellevue because of a difference in morals with his rich Ares-loyal parents, and he was about as useless in combat as a character can be. He didn't even bother to bring any weapons to this meet, trusting to the mage, the gunbunny, and the element of surprise to see him through. During the talk, the other team's mage assensed well enough to tell that something fishy was going on, at which point their twitchy meat tank Mr. Bucket drew his bigassed revolver and bullets started flying from both sides. What does Surge do? The only thing he can do. Find a place to cower, hack Bucket's comm, and spam him with incessant gay porn popups.

That would have been mildly amusing if Mr. Bucket hadn't been struggling with severe cyberpsychosis. He suffered a psychotic break, bellowed "peeeeeniiiiiis!" whilst waving his gun around in the air as if to dispel the images, and then threw off his raincoat and started indiscriminately firing the shoulder-mounted sawed-off assault cannon his team leader had allowed him to bring for intimidation purposes.

Both teams lost about half their roster, but damn was it fun to watch

wait what?

Awesome!

When you say shoulder-mounted, do you mean that he had some kind of harness or that the cannon was grafted onto the guy?

shoulder-mounted sawed-off assault cannon that couldn't get much pinker or mohawky.

I'm totally loving the responses to "shoulder-mounted sawed-off assault cannon".

Seriously, aside from the whole post being a decent narrative and pretty funny, it hits pink mohawk with that phrase.

Deep in my heart of hearts, I feel like that should be the name of some kind of award. Or, even better, if the 'shoulder-mounted sawed-off assault cannon' could be made into some kind of statuette.

I have very limited exp with SR, but here goes.

We're playing "Wetwork, Pure and Simple" from Missions and due to strict OOG time constraints, we have ten minutes IRL to do the actual "accidental" assassination.

So here's what we come up with to do away with the target whilst he's skiing.

I Physical Mask (into a Sasquatch), then turn Invisible, the Troll Face, who I then Levitate to the ski party. The Invisibility is dropped, so it appears a suddenly violent, eco-activist, territorial, Awakened Sasquatch has flown (literally) into a berserker rage and proceeds to beat the target into red paste and fly away.

Sir, I have no idea how to follow that. I suppose "death by sasquatch" is an acceptable accidental death in some areas.

"Shoulder mounted sawed-off assault cannon" is a streetsam-troll-physad-with-a-pink-mohawk-on-fire-riding-a-an-exploding-motorcycle-into-Lofwyr's-house PINK MOHAWK EXAMPLE!!!

Just so long as nobody lived and got to take the damned thing with them. That's craaaazy...

Lol, it's like a plasmacaster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_technology

First thing I thought of-

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hunchback

Grafted, essentially. He was a very large, very ferrous man, and the thing was attached to a ramshackle bracing system on his cybertorso. It was junktech, and just as criminally insane in the game as it sounds out of it. I actually gave them an initiative pass while it flipped into place and he engaged his foot anchors, and the look on their faces was priceless.


The hacker died, the mage was crippled, and the physad ended up with two boxes left on her condition monitor, not to mention the enemy casualties. The team only finally beat him by siccing five Earth Elementals on him at once, and there wasn't enough remaining to salvage anything. His was the only body they left at the scene, but when the debacle made the news that night initial reports still indicated that it had been a massacre involving at least two people and three large drones.

Ouchies. Five earth elementals? Damn. But the foot anchors are a nice touch, very Glitterboy...

Number one reason to always get a DocWagon contract: your own teammates.


I'm a fan of the foot anchors.

I'm a fan of the whole thing! This sort of thing should be in Urban Brawl, or the Desert Wars!

You, sir, just won this topic.

I was just thinking that an action like that needs an epic battle cry, but, alas....

Yah, both things that came to mind for me too ^^
Hrm . . Sawed off Gauss-rifle and you have the Hollander O.o

The gauss on the Hollander wasn't sawed off.

Jebus, foot anchors? thats the best, although, wouldnt that have some kind of negative to his dodge score. I just want to see one of your runners roll a grenade to his feet and watch him frantically try and disengage said foot anchors before the thing goes off.

Ive been wanting to shoot a guard or some one in a group of people with a dart gun dart filled with the K10 drug from aresenal, even an officeworker. Also possibly cast the SR version of force suggestion to prompt him to attack someone, i think the beserk would set him off and the +6 to strength will keep him killing stuff, at least until his heart explodes.

Oh, he was basically immobile. At one point, the hacker actually used him as cover. The mage was tied up with staying alive, but the physad was tagging him with every shot. He either soaked it or his pain editor took care of it. I actually developed an intellectual curiosity about how long he could last, but they called down those elementals the first chance they got once they realized how much tank rounds hurt. (They eventually discovered that he earned the street name "Mr. Bucket" because that's the type of container he used to haul in his first dead-or-alive bounty.)

I'm glad so many of you seem to have derived some enjoyment from this

Jimbo, your flying sasquatch has just made the top ten list of actions I am eventually going to steal from this thread with the in-character justification that I saw it on ShadwoSea.

Most of our ridiculous moments revolve around one reckless player, lets call him Ryan.

Incident 1: Ryan's character is an expert of demolitions. The meet is at a bar, and he does not know the Johnson so is extra paranoid. He shows up early, and plants explosives all around the bar (because if someone is going to betray him, he will kill EVERYONE).

Another player decided to go early for recon, and watches Ryan's character planting the bombs. The recon player sends a spirit out to gather up all of the bombs and place them beneath Ryan's characters car.

The meet goes bad, all the players end up fleeing. Ryan's character gets to his car and decides, screw the other runners, I am blowing the place up. He starts to drive off as he detonates the explosives. The car is mostly toasted, and his character is only mildly injured. He hears sirens, so he jumps out of his burning car, and goes to the truck where the rest of his explosives are. He stands over his BURNING car and begins to grab all of the most expensive explosives out before they catch fire. He gets an armload into his jacket before BOOM... the trunk blows. Through burning edge, the player is blown clear of the car and lands a few meters away. Still hearing sirens, he begins lobbing explosives into the street, detonating them as the cops arrive. Finally he throws a powder keg into a burning cop car as a distraction, and (after getting blown off his feet again) flees down an alley way. He survives. Bleh!

Incident 2: The group finishes a meet in a club, then on their way out they are ambushed by Mafia. Jack, a rigger, gets his vehicles to drive up and lay waste to the mafia cars, and the group makes for its escape. Ryan, dissatisfied with how few people he had blow up in the encounter takes off his socks and begins filling them with grenades. He then turns and starts walking back into the club (we asked him later, he was planning on holding the place hostage for their loose change... seriously!?).

Seeing what is happening and wanting to get on with the job, Jack drives his van in between Ryan and the club and points a shotgun out the window at him. 'Get in the van so we can go complete the job, or I will shoot you in the face.' Ryan complies.

After the mission is completed and the runners are paid, the Johnson leaves the meet and the players are standing around. Jack has unspent edge, so being a weenie metagamer he decides to make perception tests on the other players, using his edge up. Then Ryan says to himself, what a nice van he has. I will take it. He then pulls his assault rifle and does a long burst into Jack's head, instantly killing him. Jacks van (with a nice pilot and an Agent giving direction) flees the scene. Ryan shrugs, 'Oh well, I dont drive well anyway.'

Incident 3: Priscus, a giant cyber troll is stealing a motorcycle from in front of an enemies building. As he is carrying it away the bad guys see what is going on and begin shooting at him, someone throwing a grenade at his feet. Afraid the grenade will mess up his nifty new bike he is running off with, he sets the bike down and LAYS down on the GRENADE to protect his bike! He takes 5 boxes of damage, then gets up and overstresses his cyberlimbs in order to flip a car over into the entrance of the enemy building, covering his retreat. He happily runs off with the bike, gladly willing to pay the cost of repairing his armor in return for a nifty new bike!

Sounds like I probably would have booted Ryan from my group by now.

That type of player can be fun if the whole group is geared to enjoy Pink Mohawk games, but when DK described him as a "weenie metagamer" I was forced to put him on my naughty list.

Priscus, though... was he played by Ryan, too? I like Priscus's style.

Actually, I was calling Jack a weenie metagamer for using his last edge at the end of the run on perception. Ryan was a bit of a metagamer too because he used his player knowledge that Jack used up his edge in order to know it was a good time to attack him.

Ryan is crazy. It often screws up runs, but we think it is all hilarious, and enjoy it when it plays. He has not played in awhile... he usually ends up getting killed (by himself, the other players, and NPCs in equal distribution). Its always a treat when he plays.

The last time he played he was being a serious ninja. The players were ambushing a van in an alleyway. Van was full of gun carrying mooks, and a mage. The mage was blasting the other players away with Sonic blast. The ninja (Ryan) followed along the top the alley roof using Thermo vision to try and pick out the mage. Once he did, He jumped down and stabbed her through the roof with a sword (doing like 5 damage, she used the vehicle armor as bonus armor for her own armor, so it wasnt a killing blow) then immediately did a stealth backflip off the back of the van, Leaving the sword IN the mage (sticking her to the roof). The mooks and mage all blast at the roof, shredding it with bullets and spells. The ninja then stands up behind the van and stabs in the back window, taking out the closest bodyguard, beforing dropping prone and going beneath the van.

Ninja style. Whatever he does, its over the top goodness.


Priscus was played by another character. My own elf sammy was with Priscus when it happened. I turned and ran when I saw the nade. When he jumped on it, I nearly shat myself (as a player AND as a character). My elf was so impressed (assuming that Priscus was actually trying to save the elf, not his bike) that he became his best friend after that. OOC it was hilarious knowing that he really just didnt want his bike to get dinged up.

One thing to add about incident 1. While he did survive, it was just barely (one box from full physical and stun each) and when he decided to hide out with a street doc (found through a contact of a contact), another runner soon showed up to collect the bounty placed on his head by the police since he killed about a dozen or so cops. All this on that character's first (and last) run.


DK,
wasn't the character in incident 2 the same one that later skipped out on a run, refuse to return anyone's call asking where he went, and gave all the run info to his contact on the SWAT team expecting no one to figure out who sold them out?

The Ninja is pure badass!
As is the Troll. I love them ^^

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Guess he did die from that didnt he

Yes, I remember that explicitly. The run was so foobar they had to call it quits. When Ryan found out he couldnt make it to the next gaming session, he contacted the GM (was YOU cloud) and had his character rat out the team to his SWAT contact. Why... because he was being a bastage.

After a difficult run (invading a corp building, dealing with two different security teams and feisty scientists) we were ambushed by a full SWAT team while trying to get back to our floating platform that was waiting outside the 40th floor window. After dealing with swat (EVERYONE dropped except for the mage, who used stimpacks to get people back up and drag their arses back onto the floating Catwalk) we got outside and immediately began to get SNIPED by SWAT snipers.

Surprisingly enough, we all survived (though the troll had to burn edge) and I dont think we ever figured out that it was his character who screwed the job for us.

Thanks!

And sadly, the mode of death did not meet the Johnson's criteria of "accidental", so the rest of the team was executed when they went to get payment...

While reading this, I assumed at this point, as it's SR, that he was hiding somewhere and hacking the Pilot system to validate a new user or something, then I read this.

Well, I suppose that makes things simpler.

Yeah, this is what happens when the group has too much Cyber Muscle and not enough hacking skills. His plan consisted of, 'I will pick it up, carry it to my van and dump it in the back, then find somebody smart to make it work for me.'

That's is the difference between logic and intuition.
You can make it work with either. If done right. ^^

My gm wants to have a troll hacker. *PUNCH FIST INTO SERVER* "Dis hard drive. I take. Decrypt later wif brainiac."

Thats what you get for packing explosives that explode when set alight should have packed C12 and such.

Sounds like one of my old hacker characters "Thunk". Thunk had no social skills, uncouth, and a very.... basic education. He was surprisingly intelligent, just had very little in his actual skills.

I thought everyone figured it out, lured him to a secret location, interrogated him to make sure he did it (with mind probe), then crippled him for life and altered his memory so that he thought he was in a really bad car wreck and wanted to retire so that he would become our full time armor-smith.

[Edit: That was short-lived however and we eventually just had to kill him. One of the other characters was so paranoid that even after we killed him deader than dead, he never would believe he would stay dead and visited his grave often so that if he somehow lived or was resurrected, maybe he would see that character grieving and not suspected he was involved.]

I ran a group of characters who once tied themselves to an ICBM and launched it to make a getaway.

..did they make it? I mean, did they live?

It's my birthday. And what i got from my gaming buddies was:
A Shadowrun Game with us being Gangers and it being Cyber-Punk instead of Black Trenchcoat . .
Basically, we went around, gathered money from our gangs protection racket and talked to people.
One of whom was a nice little older Human, the owner of Harry's Hardware. Who had no problem
with selling stuff to Ganger-Trolls like my character. And after some talking, we found out, that his
niece had been kidnapped. OK, so of course, trying to make our gang look good, we agreed to help.
We did some Legwork for some hours, beat people up to get information. And found out who had her.
And where she was kept. In an old Storage Facility . . Of course . . it's allways an old Storage Facility.
So, to make a long Story short, we went in and killed all of them in a pretty bloody manner by doing:
THE THREE STOOGES PLUS AN INVISIBLE TROLL!
Our Mage had cast improved Invisibility on me. The Mage, the Rigger and the Decker were in the car.
Me too, of course. And then they simply drove the van through the main gate into the building.
And fell out of the car, playing completely irredeemably drunk. All three of them. And they did the 3
stooges Routine. To distract the NPC's in there who had the Girl. While i sneaked my invisible trolls
ass into backstab position. Backstabbed the guy guarding a Door with a poisoned Blade to the neck.
Noticed he did not have a key or something to the door. And the other NPC's were getting nervous.
One of them attacked the Combat Decker. And got a forearm snap-blade to the gut for daring that.
And then i started shooting 0,5m long steel bars from my Bow into the fray, sticking people to stuff.
One of the NPC's turned around and tried to flee, completely overlooking my invisible trolls ass.
So i calmly put away my Bow, took out my telscoping combat staff. That's a combined Reach of 3!
Waited for him to get close enough, shouted FORE! as in Golfing, and basically did a homerun with
that one. Then, still invisible, i busted open the Door. Got shot in the Face due to the one inside
just spraying the exploded door with bullets. Soaked it all. Did flinch and cough both from the
impact of the bullets and the dust from the busted door. But i continued on my way anyway.
And again, did a homerun using that one as the baseball again using my telescoping staff.
The girl, drugged out of her mind starts screeching loud as all hell. I turn around and walk out of
the small little room she was being held in. And of course, i run straight into the combat decker,
who had just decided to enter the room. And he tells me i am in the way. "I am bigger, stronger,
tougher and more invisible than you. You are in the way." Lifted him up, walked out of the door,
put him into the doorway again only to hear a quiet:"OK" Started picking up my arrows to take
back to clean them off and use them again. And then i went home. While still very much invisible.
Ah, it was epic.
and then i, as the player, went home too. Don't know what if anything, happened afterwards.
Or if anyone remembers that i am still invisible O.o



Also, this just in:
http://jalopnik.com/5564966/student-throws...es-on-bulldozer

Yup. They used HALO parachutes to touch down in the ocean moments before the rest of the ICBMs they rigged with C4 detonated, taking out the entire ocean facility... It was epic, and I couldn't stop cracking up.

They...rigged it with...what?! Was...was the ICBM not enough?!

...
Fucking epic

I seem to remember we were transporting a prisoner cross country on the highway. A corp sec team intercepted us, shot out the tires on our car and ziplined down from a helicopter. Our juiced sammy (no cyber, just combat drugs) said "Boarding action!" and climbed up the 10m ziplines to copter on his first IP, chopped the pilots head off with his second IP and jumped clear on his third IP.

The chopper crashed (no pilot) and we used the distance to the ground as it's speed since it was starting from a hover. The chopper took 2 boxes of damage and stopped. The whole group got on board and left the corp sec team standing on the highway with a truck that was down some tires.

And then there is the tale of "The man with the golden gun". We also have a completely unaugmented guy that is modled on pulp detectives, he has skills and contacts. Half the group is being pinned down by fire from another corpsec helicopter. Good old hank gets out his Ares Pred, aims for the main rotor (the only part of the copter he can see) and fires off a round. Now he did spend edge, but he ended up with like 11 net hits (the copter pilot couldn't see him and was unaware of the attack). Needless to say with all the damage that got through the copter's soak, the pilot saw too many blinking red lights and he flew away.

My group did that, only the copter was airborn at the time and he took a called shot on the tail rotor. The copter went down and made a pretty cherry blossom.

GM declared that we couldn't take called shots on vehicles for damage ever again.

Oh yeah?

My group was running, out of supplies and ammunition, from a very well-equipped criminal orginization (this wasn't Seattle), so they decided to run into a turn-of-the-century reenactment park for cover. To escape the eyes of the chopper, they ran into a crowded ircus tent, where they were preparing to fire a man out of a cannon. This gang, however, was moe pissed than they originally gussed, and the LMG gunner started opening fire through the roof of the tent, slaughtering the innocent giraffe (which pissed off my group) and the ringleader. That was when they realized that the chopper wasn't going to leave until he (and, just as likely as not, everyone else) was dead. Out of ammunition, however, they had no way of combating the chopper.

And then they noticed the man inside the cannon, tryng to wriggle out.

The group rotated the cannon a few degrees, and FIRED! They were pissed when the flailing, screaming man missed the chopper entirely, sailing over and splatting into the ground. "Out of ammo, AGAIN!"

The troll hurt-sponge, acting on impulse, turned to a screaming passerby, picked her up, and stuffed her into the cannon. "Not anymore!"

"Alright!" Screamed the kamikaze-d gunbunny.

One called shot, a burnt edge point, and the most sixes I've ever seen in my life, they fired the flailing woman into the chopper's tail rotor, jamming it and sending the chopper spinning down into a reenactment McDonalds.

Now we don't have "Pink Mohawk moments". We prefer to call them "Combat Man Cannon moments" and "Flaming Chihuahua moments" (different story).

Awful. Just awful.