I've run it twice. Both times the gangers got taken out with a spell. Once stunball, the other time Chaotic World (And crash tests). Under SR3 mages rock, but that is just too much, esp. when even the cops accept that using spells like that is self defence.

The other problem was the adept. Commanding Voice is just too brutal a power in the scenario. GO AWAY. COME BACK LATER. DON"T BOTHER US. Simple commands, but even if they wear off fast...

The runners planned for what seemed like ages. They bought shares to get 2 runners invited into the stakeholders meeting. On the day before the meeting, one of these 2 runners checked into the hotel. Using a fishing line he brought a pistol from street level into his hotel suite.
The other runner invited to the stakeholder meeting, a female shaman, used a Transformation spell to transform a third runner (no usable SIN at all) into a mouse, put him into her bag and brought him inside the hotel this way.
Inside a restroom the third runner was transformed back into human form. Then the shaman put an Improved Invisibility spell on the former mouse. The now invisible runner - naked (!), because nobody thought about bringing clothing for the mouse - was given the pistol brought in the day before, entered the ballroom and hid under a table. The two invited runners went to their table as backup.
When the time had come, the invisible runner came out from under the table - still naked - and went up to Davenport and shot him twice in the head.
In between the following commotion they started to back out of the ballroom, shot a few bursts at the HTR team, then made their way down to the front of the hotel, where the 2 remaining runners waited with their getaway car.
They arrived at the front of the hotel just in time to launch some shots at the DocWagon ambulance which then exploded.
Mission accomplished.

Nothing very spectacular happened until the end, where we successfully hit the mark (13D ) and we were making our escape down the freight elevator when we got the radio message that we had to make SURE he was dead.

So, we get outside and run to the front. We get there first, and our decker support has the front doors locked, holding back the HTR team with the wounded target. So, that buys us some time to get the getaway car up front. The HTR APC backs into the door,. letting the HTR out. I take shots at the wounded target ("for the love of god, he MUST be dead...") They return cover fire and get in the APC.

We get the radio order to take out the APC. I have a pistol with ExEx rounds. That's it. So, desperatly grasping to our promised 12k payment, we chase the APC with out pathetic second hand Jack rabbit. We pull up next to the APC, with my desperate and dramatic plan being to jump ontop of the APC and try to use my Shock Hand to disable the truck... My TN to jump on the truck is too high to my liking, so instead I see that I can hit one of the tires instead.

Remember that our puny, unpainted Jackrabbit is as close to the truck as possible since the plan was to jump on it. Figuring, what the hell, it's all we've got, I aim and fire a shot. BOOM!!! Truck explodes violently, sending our puny Jackrabbit flying sideways straight through the window pane of a hair salon. Car is wrecked and on fire, and on top of some lady.

We crawl out and run away to our well deserved payment.

Well this was interesting. I have rolando as a contact.. and i really don't like they guy.. just took his number just in case type thing. Well He give me a call.. and i'm like i check into it, my comrads.. in the game got a call from Joey.. and they give it to me also... i went.. mmm street cred or physciall cred... i've made over 25k so far, so my stick wasn't hurting, i also aready set aside cred for my vechincal, and i wanted to do something good for the shadows.

Joey was the way the party went, after convicing two members that Rolando is a chump in the biz, and will mostlikely screw us over, or use us to his advantage.

Well the mission went perfect, why guy was a dwarf heavy weapons expert, me as Kaleab (the counter rigger/decker womanizer) That decker bozo was a major thorn in the side, we took teh first night to just bust our rumps on legworking, i called a reality hacker chick and got her some nice flowers and dinner along with 200 creds, the dwarf bought some 200 cred drinks, and the other guy just some calling around and reasearch. We find out about the Coffee shop, i lone my Max power to a player, and roll in there with my Sub under the coat in a sling.. being all paranoid. We end up buying a 500 Cred cup of coffee. ((if you notice the common trend of over paying)) it works.... well we get a call.. we help that bozo guy out of town ((i personally thing he just wanted some cred to buy the next few doses of jazz)) but we get that abbandoned warehouse and bassically wired some C-4 to the office side, and to the bathroom ((we find out its the mens wwe wired up too)) mainly to provide a distraction has one guy slipped in thru the back, and the other guy slip in the hole made in the bathroom, as me and dwarf laid down some fire thru the front door. It work almost flawlessly.. the sneak popped one guy, and the guy bolted out the bath room to move to the womens, he got shot at, destorying his cover, he blasted the guys leg off.. the sneak tossed a smoke gernade to only have it shot...blasting a hole in his hand. The dwarf took down that guy that shot him, i got shot at as i approached the office.. so i launched a concussion gernade in the room and put my back to the door =)mmmmm chunky salsa. It was horrible, apparently there were other explosives in there so i got tossed and grabbed the railing dangling. Then slipped down and got on my feet.. the guy going for the bathroom found a fire elemental.. and we had to talk sense into the Mge controling him in the bathroom... we struck up a deal... we don't kill him if he gives us the girl. We grabbed her fixed her up a bit, toook her to a steet doc and returned her.

We got paid and it was a good day, we did it all in about 26 horus. So we got some complement and all. I mainly used my contact to find out about that Ares Hacker... slammer or something.. well yeah..

Well i came in the game half and hour late... how did this... i loned my Max power and didn't get it back...i forgot to ask.. so i call the bum i loned it too.. and was like.. yo can i get my gun back. And he was like well chum, kind of using it now.. care to help us out? So i drove over to the Destoryed building.. parked my car, straped on my Sub and camos and ran over to the Dwarf with a rat shaman follwing him and link up our frequencies and Find out the guy with my gun is climbing thru the top of the building.. so i rush over and stay about 5m behind him.

We find out first victim, we help the dwarf heavy weapons guy, and the shaman up in the building. She goes improved invis... then she cast silence on the guard... and the guy wanted to know a range and the gm wouldn't give it because the guy asking didn't have anything to tell range welllll... being the ex Forward Observer, i have an orentation system, Nav Dat GPS cyberware, a Math SPU, and RangeFinder... so i just traianulate and feed it to him over the radio..we line up some shots and pop, pop guard down.. i take his helmet we drag him up and hide him.

We move in, after freaking flipping out over the elevator. We find a regular worker sleeping, so i slap him in teh face as an ugly dwarf holding and a guy holding a gun to his face convince him about the plant and all this... ((we are recording all this... and i am mapping it out in my head (ultrasound)with the above stuff and we find another worker so we just basically club him and lock him in a room. We go down another floor.. the alarm goes off.. we here gun shots we get nuttsy. and start looking around.. we find the chick, and some perosnall belongs, throw the chick in a body bag and move up.. we find "john, and we take him up"
we place some c-4 on the bug tubes... and some extra... and the new security comes in.. and we just sneak right pass them as they come in.. we go up and then we blast the elevtor up and the c-4 in the building... hehe we are evil sonsabitches and then i see the glorious Chopper out there.. i start fiddling around.. and realize that i can't fly the dumb thing so i unbolt the captians chair.. and toss it in the trunk of my car and teh dwarf straps some C4 to the chopper and blast it....

I only got cash from what we collected and carried out.. which was quite a bit =) we sold the tape about on the net, and basicalyl did as told.. But if you guys know whats going on.. you will see what we really messed up at... grrrr.. lost karma.. booooo!! But my character is sitting on 25 at this point in time, and i think 5 or 6 contacts, and 30 creds. =) And for my Free week i had a memonic enhancer installed =p

We got fairly lucky on this one. Me, playing a pure street sam, managed to do the unexplicapable, and actually be useful during the legwork phase!

Having a street doc contact, I decided to check if he could hook me up with someone on the inside willing to take bribes. Succedding at the rather high Etiquette roll, turns out he did (The dude who let people in to soak in the protein mix).

Meanwhile, our otherwise excellent decker got friend in the Matrix and comes up emty-handed. Our other well-connected runner (his contacts may or may not include Jesus Himself) managed to pull some floorplans.

So, we have floorplans, and a tentative way in. We also learn a second runner team is due to hit the place later that night.

We had a pathetic level of intel on the place, and were not very happy with going in. But, we figured we'd at least try, and as a backup plan, I contacted some mafia soldier backup to hit the runner team when they would come out with hopefully our work done for us. Of course, that meant me, a heavily armed street sam with a M23 and a SPAS burst shotgun (very decent) plus 2 goon backup, vs 6 well trained black ops shadowrunner.... not very good odds. And there was also the chance that the runner team would come in by chopper or something else, against which we wouldn't be able to do much against (leading to my quote: "What if they come in by helicopter?" "Well, then, we, uh, shoot it.")

Anyway, turns out bribing the guy worked AMAZINGLY well. He lets in our boys, who then take control of him via gunpoint, let me and my mafia boyz in, we grab everything and zoom away in our truck. Not a single gunshot, alarm or collateral damage inflicted. A Perfect Run.

They did some legwork, but never looked around the place in person. They looked through the cameras, but those were only on the inside. They looked at the building plans, but those didn't say what the three concrete pads in back were for. Their astral magician couldn't find the place when he flew out from Seattle, and he never tried again.

They came in hot, flying close to the ground, with everyone (but the Decker) in the Vehicle Rigger's combat chopper. Just before rising up over the fence, the shaman had his mist spirit envelop the chopper in fog. No problem, the rigger has flown by radar many times. His radar points out three hard obstacles in the back yard, but with skillful flying he decides he can set the chopper down between two of them.

The most abrupt finish to an adventure that I have ever seen.

The Decker and the Shaman-Sniper that survived Demolition Run (above) both died in this one.

Decking succeeded in posting a notice to the guards that a DHL shipment of biohazardous material was to arrive at the loading dock at 8 PM. The guards were to unlock the door at the loading dock, but let the shipping crew handle everything else. The team rented a U-haul truck. Had it painted to look like a DHL delivery vehicle, and obtained a large crate to put in the back. They loaded the crate with lots of characters. A decker, a deck, a shaman and a sniper rifle were part of the load.

The Decker never bothered to examine the shipping logs (easily available) to discover that all shipments happened during the day (typically 10AM and 3PM), and that 99% of the shipments were via a Doc Wagon truck and going to or coming from another Doc Wagon facility. As security guards do, they called someone to verify the shipment.

One character followed the 'DHL' truck by a couple blocks. As the truck pulled around back of the building to the loading dock the following character noticed three Lone Star vehicles drive out of nearby alleys and park in front of the Doc Wagon building. By the time he called the characters in the 'DHL' truck there were 8 Doc Wagon vehicles there.

Did the DHL truck flee? Did the characters flee? Nope.

At the loading dock, a guard with a clipboard checked their DHL papers (forged) and had them sign on the clip board. Then he left the loading area as his instructions said. The decker started hacking the security system from within the loading area. The team emptied the truck into the interior loading area, pulled characters out of the crate, and started closing the outer door. A dwarf magician got cold feet and ducked outside just before the door closed.

After the outer door closed the lock clicked and the characters could hear the sound of gas being pumped into the loading area. OH NO! The door to the hall was locked. The decker finished hacking the security system and unlocked the inner door. Anxious voices from the far side of the opening door: "Oh No! Don't open the door yet, the gas hasn't done its work!"

Suddenly the team was facing 10 Lone Star officers who had expected to just pick up unconscious characters and carry them away. A big fight, ending with lots of unconscious Lone Star. Also one sniper-shaman PC on the ground after taking full-auto from 6 meters away.

Most of the team ran to the stairs down, leaving the decker to handle security and one character to protect the decker. The protector stood a couple feet from the decker, facing out. A minute later a small spirit materialized beside the decker, unplugged him and started fighting the protector. After some time the protector won. Lugging the unconscious decker he headed toward the stairs.

Only to surprise two Doc Wagon security members in the hallway. The protector dropped the decker and dove down the stairway. The decker is now in the hall. The shaman-sniper is still in the loading area.

On the Vault level everything worked fine. Characters started moving Primary and Seconday targets to the Pump room. While the others set explosives on the tanks, two characters ran back up the stairs to get the Shaman and the Decker. As they neared the top of the stairs they heard someone yelling at the top, "Get back, I hear them coming." The two characters tossed IPE concussion grenades to the top of the stairs. This took out the Doc Wagon and Lone Star officers at the top of the stairs. Also killed the Decker.

Running to the loading area, they surprised 6 Doc Wagon medics tending to 10 Lone Star officers. Tossing more IPE Concussion grenades into the loading doc area, they knocked them out, killing any Lone Star officer that wasn't yet dead, and making doubly sure that the shaman-sniper was dead. For some unknown reason they carried both the dead bodies down to the lower level. Perhaps they saw this as an honorable thing to do for their fallen comrades.

While opening the drain they heard the explosives blow the huge glass tanks on the Vault level above. Below the sewer grating they gave up the Decker's body and the Shaman's body in exchange for passage. Then the water from the huge tanks reached the sub-basement and the drain. It started running through their tunnels while they tried to enlarge the passageway till it was big enough for them. Many hours later they could finally pull themselves through. Only to find that with no nutrient bath, no oxygen feed, and no intravenus liquids, four of their 7 objectives had not survived the time it took to dig.

So the surviving decker and shaman-sniper from Demolition Run met their tasty end in Strings Attached. THe Dwarf Magician didn't make it either. But his premonition of doom was correct.

something yet, but this is from an oooold run.

Harken back to the days of yore, when "QuickStart" was new and fresh... I'm talking about Prototype Envy.

Yes, the rules were simplified, no it wasn't really too difficult, but the players (Myself included) made it that way.

Ok, chatted with the nice rep from Saederkrupt, got the info, hustled some transport and were just a liiiiiiiiitle queasy at how smooth the setup was. As experienced gamers, we expected blood and tears and legwork, not something as well-packaged as a soyburger meal at McHughs.

Anyhoo, Troll Mage (Player Favourite), slightly manic human gun-fetishist and an albino Maxed/min elven Mage walk into a facility. Sure, they could burn this place down to the bedrock, but what's the fun in that?
So we did the usual "Nothing to worry about, clean this place up good now, yessir." act while perception rolls got us nowhere. We were driving that dammed floor polisher (GM ruled, 1/3 of the speed of the slowest one there, so quickness 2 - it'll make sense later...) everywhere, doing a seriously good job at cleaning...THEN the pile hit the fan when some inhuman perception rolls noted that:
"Hey, it looks like this bookcase opens into the Security Room"
2 seconds later - Pistol freak has the troll (Stunbolt ready) open the door and successfully takes down the hapless Security guard with 2 taser & Neurostun darts. Did I mention Amberdexterity 8? Yes. One of _those_.
After ransacking the place, shutting down the cameras (Much rejoycing on THAT) and stiffing the guard a couple more times for good measure, the Pistol freak notices the Armoury.
"Let's go shopping!"
A couple of quick dice rolls, the Troll acting as handy transport and the amoury is now filled with the rubbish we collected and the trash recpticles full of guns, ammo and vests...as the Troll didn't bring any.
After dicking around a little more, the elf mage and the bunny go off to find out the target ("Oh, it's implanted in some poor schmo's head. And I forgot my Dikoted Katana. Well, let's see if he can walk?") While the troll mage, with an electronics skill of _2_ manages to figure out how to:
1: Shut down the emergency generators, backups, etc.
2: Scavenge enough electrical kit to
3: Booby-trap the room so that the power is routed from the main feed into the maglocks/door fittings. [Henious rolls there.]
While this happens, the mage and bunny have managed to figure out a working plan, signal the troll and open the door in question.
Troll hits the lights, mage tosses stunball into crowd (Harsh, no drain, highest resist was a 3....evil dice.) while bunny opens door, pumps schmo with assorted toxins and then tossed him into a handy area lined with vests. (Gotta keep the merch safe.)
While escaping, ON THE QUICKNESS 2 FLOOR POLISHER, was nailed by the Armed and alert security chief (Bunny wears armour). 2 Narcoject darts later and security chief was feeling no pain. Then the cavalry arrives, nailing the bunny quite harshly until the combined mage-mojo did very bad things (Powerball, _massive_ case of "Rule-of-6, oh, more successes", TN was 14. Yeah, one of those nights, eh?)
At this case, the team had not killed anyone.
Driving over the unconcious bodies of the guards, STILL ON THE POLISHER, bunny picked off some other ducking for cover with her HK227, loaded with gel. No worries.
This creeping escape vehicle made it, with payload, piles of guns, etc, to the final exit, the loading dock, where an alert guard (In his nice safe cubbyhole with armoured windows, etc) potted the Troll. Bunny has managed to keep her bloodthirsty instincts in check until now, drag out her other HK227, loaded with E-Ex rounds and blows the crap out of the security station.
(Yes, I KNOW the barrier ratings, ok? Didn't do much after the first few rounds made a hole big enough for the Troll.) Guard had vest with plates, lowest the bunny rolled was something like 11D for a single round.

Then they drove the polisher off the loading dock, collected their ill-gotten gear, including developer notes, etc, piled the lot into the car, reluctantly leaving behind the bullet-riddled polisher and drove off happily secure in the knowledge that that was one of their better runs.

Sometimes the dice love you, sometimes...sheesh.
-fear