Meh.

An under boss dealing with runners is going to have to weigh the cost of double crossing them. People steal because they think they can get away with it. Runners are different in that they have the skills and tools to be a huge pain in the ass for someone that double crosses them. Double cross a hacker? He can really mess up your nodes. Double cross a samurai? He can really mess up your body. Double cross a face? She could probably seduce your wife from you.

This works more often than you'd think.

Heh.

Can I get that on video? as proof

Pics or it's not real!

I'm glad someone caught that.

He can really mess up your nodes AKA slip a warrant for your arrest into the local cop's systems, take control of your home node can cause it to feed you poison (or laxatives for humor) or just mess up your clocks so you're late for meetings (The Mafia hates people who are late for meetings). Oh, and hope you've never accessed a bank account on your commlink before, because you're going to be providing them with a personal donation.

He can really mess up your body AKA Well, does this really need explanation? Knives, pistols, assault weapons, panther cannons, sniper rifles, max ranks in Intimidation (torture), pressure points, whatever.

She could probably seduce your wife from you... and your girl on the side... and your daughter... and your boss.

It's not like powerful organized crime bosses don't have matrix, physical, and ridiculously-overpowered-social-rules security of their own.

Replace "powerful organized crime bosses" with "triple A mega corps".

Yep. Given that most runners go up against AAA mega corps as par for the course, I don't think organized crime defenses are going to shake them.

Buy exotic and impractical pets. (See Running Wild.)

Runners go up against little parts of those. We all know how weak and fragile runners are.

True, but they'd also be going up against little parts of the Mafia or whatever other group.

Oh, I thought they were talking about bosses.

Yeah, but bosses aren't the entire Mafia. That's like saying a exec in a corp is the entire corp.

Right, but I thought they were talking about the bosses specifically. With the investments and the screwing? Anyway, whatever.

Add a trap door and a pit to your main safehouse so you can feed those that offend you to the Rancor... I mean Piasma. Or a pit full of molten cheese for a very painful, ignoble, fonduey death.

"Where does that pit go?" "Oh, that's Larry's room." "Larry?" "My roommate. He pays half the rent, the cable 'Trid bill, and doesn't eat too much from my fridge. Mainly because he's a Ghoul. Drinks all my beer, however..."

Sounds like the perfect example of Perfect Roommate to me.....

"Larry! Help me clean up this..... disagreement." "Hell yeah! Delivery!"

Actually, the first time I GMed Shadowrun, one PC had what we called "The Safehouse From Hell". It was such a miserable and horrible place that no one wanted to stay there.

And, yes, he had a Ghoul Roommate. He was a driver for Ghoul Cab.

And there was a feral Hellhound that stayed around the place. Boy, was the group pissed when he started chewing on things. Like the car.

Oh yeah, definitely going to throw that into my extremely broken Advanced Lifestyles lifestyle.

Between you two I'm laughing out loud a lot. Man, that's gold.

I mean, why not? What better to add to a luxury lifestyle that only cost me 2,000 a month that has so many flaws any enemy can find it? Just need Larry and someone with the skills of Dexter, haha.

Does pose a question...... TO ANOTHER THREAD....!

And turn them into biodrones.

Shiawase Cybertooth tiger augmentation(dont recal the page) 750k (Roundabouts)

And it dies in one full long burst. It was written poorly I think.

Heck, just buy a Warform dog. It's less than 500:nuyen: for a dog with its Reaction, Intuition, Logic, and Agility 50% higher - and then you can bio/cyber it a little but leave it as just a dog. Get it trained for combat situations and some other things and you're still at less than 5k (plus 'ware) for an actual companion that has a much, much lower chance of stabbing you in the back.

Don't most things die in one full long burst?

But none the less, I agree, just get a dog, or even better, a pack of dogs with pack training to get TacSoft like bonuses.

Really depends on who makes them.

Even with only 1 net hit, you're talking about 16P damage. Unless you're a troll in heavy milspec armor, that's going to be hard to soak enough to not go down.

Cyberdogs with a PackSoft bonus, I like it. They remind me of the Tines from A Fire Upon the Deep.

My adept has a merlin hawk pet that according to the RAW knows and can cast ALL ILLUSION AND DETECTION SPELLS or some shit. It hasn't come in handy...yet. But it was definitely the result of a "what do I do with this NUUUUUUUUUUUUUYEN" purchase. (I would have bought a focus if I had the Karma.)

For a TM, should always have an Evo Orderly or similar drone. Why? Put a registered machine/tutor sprite inside it with the command to keep you alive while you're gone, plug yourself in, and then go into the resonance realms for submersion or something else. Remember, time flows in weird ways while there, you could be gone 3 minutes or 3 days.

GET THIS NOW.

That is all.

Now you know why I sometimes feel guilty playing my drone rigger.

Most street level opposition simply isn't designed to face off against a battery of machine guns and grenade launchers.





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Most non-tanks aren't designed for that.

I've been able to wrap my mind around being someone that can bend space and time to their will, but I can't wrap my mind around owning that. I think I would be too afraid of my Twisted Metal reflexes kicking in and having me drive over other cars to ever drive it.

Heh.

I will say that hearing "W-what the hell is that, a fragging minigun?!" from the opposition just before they're verbally drowned out by gunfire is pretty sweet.



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I'm just saying that I want a fleet of them... if I won the lotto...

heh

I'll take 7.

I'll never be cut off in traffic again...

And the great part is, in 2070 caseless ammo means you don't even need to run the wipers to get rid of the rainstorm of brass...

"In sports, an anonymous person purchased the Seattle Mariners today, and has released a press release stating that they will now be officially named the Seadogs..."

They've used that on Mythbusters a few times. Good stuff.

Really? Awesome. <3

Is there anything like a pop-up ring mount in SR?

Pop up turret sure, but not ring mount.

Sure looks like a swiveling ring mount to me.