Dee, our decker assumed that the decker had a better deck than his. After seeing the quality of the goods the team had, he was sure the decker too got good tech. However, he assumed he had a Renraku Kraftwerk or better. That's why he supposed the decker had a 400000 deck in the office where he was doing his decking.

This scenario didn't go in the details like every other scenarios. That's why a GM had to assume and improvise things a lot. Like the fact that the decker was decking in the office.

Desiring to avenge themselves, the runners waited until most of the security quitted, and only Kirkpatrick and his technicians remained to work on the show. They enterred into the facility and managed to force Kirkpatrick and his team to completely erase all the data. However, one of the technician decided to punish them severly for what they had done. While everyone was busy erasing their data, he activated the drones and sent them a command to kill the runners as soon as they exit the building. After everything was done, the runners forced everyone to get out. And the technician who activated the drone knew what would happen... As soon as the door opened, the drones filled the corridor with a storm of bullets. All the technicians and Kirkpatrick were killed, but miraculously the runners stayed alive and managed to escape unharmed. How? Grizzly Bob, the team shaman was sustaining a Improved Invisibility all that time on the other runners. That was enough to fool the drones sensor systems!

After a quick start the characters took a huge amount of time to just circle the building, find all guards, get them alive and question them.
This took that long, that they made it just down to the first level of the facility before time was running out and the containment team arrived. Making their way out of the facility was quite a close call.
Oh, did I mention that the stun ball spell in the elevator left the troll unconscious ? The team had to carry him around for the rest of the adventure. Fun times.

One of the characters (first-time Missions player) was a graduate student of cybertechnology at Seattle University. So the "Field Trip" was used easily.
One other character called a favour from his dad (owning a rental plane company) for a bird's eye image of the facility.
The best thing came at the end: The Shaman positioned himself opposite the gate, using Improved Invisibility to stay undetected. When she saw a civilian (non-uniformed) leave the gate in a private car, she cast the Influence-spell on him, making him stop his car a quarter of a mile down the road. Subsequent casting of the Influence-spell made him talk at length about his research in the facility to a bush (where a voicerecorder had been hidden). The final Influence-spell made him leave his security card at the bush before he left. Of course, the card would be useless a day later, but at least the research report was greatly appreciated.

The PC drove up the facility, took a look, than turned and drove away to start planning. About a mile from the facility a DocWagon truck came down the road driving up to the facility (the next shift arriving).
The PC decided that this was just a delivery truck, picking up some medkits or something like that. So they stopped and waited for the truck to return. They planned to ambush the truck, subdue the driver, take his entry card for the facility and infiltrate it using the card.
Well, not so luckily for the PC, the leaving shift was in the truck, giving them quite a firefight.
When the smoke settled, the whole leaving shift was dead, most PC severely injured and Lone Star on their way.
So the PC drove away to hide somewhere in the sprawl.
The team decker hacked his way into the matrix node of the facility. As time was running out and the team was severely wounded, I let them use the rocket launchers to destroy the facility through the matrix in order to salvage the run as good as possible.

We had 2 covert ops in the group so we made short work of scouting the scene. Bypassing the security system in the elevator shaft was a pain though.

What we found and fought inside freaked us out more than anything. One of the best lines in the game, IMO, came from me, a newbie to the game:
"Errr... guys, do ghouls register under thermo imaging?"

Of course, the group sends in the filmsy elf (me) into the scene of carnage. Matt the GM toyed with me and said my chemsuit ripped on the way in. Naturally I freaked out and wanted out. The group wanted me to stay for detox. There's no way I was staying, especially with signs of a T-bird flying in. So I bolted for the exit. The funny thing is, it just so happens that the Cha 8 Elf comes face-to-face with the spirit. My character squished it in 2 turns.

The fun did not end there though. Halfway to our getaway car with the injured man from the lab, the orc demolition specialist asks: "Did we scan him astrally?"
"Hmm... no"
::scans::
::everyone freaks out and start pumping lead into the guy::
::scans::
"Okay, it's dead"
::runs::

We had a blast and had our dosage of fear & paranoia.

Once again the orc demolition specialist (played by Mike) made the run that much easier. He got the entire team a job as the cleaning crew for the facility through an equal opportunity agency (yes, even a job for the "disadvantaged" elf).

With my covert ops' eye camera and fingerprint scanner, we had the entire place mapped out and all the personnel IDed.

The best line came from the GM though.
"Are you guys actually going to do a good job cleaning the place?"
The entire team responds enthusiastically "Yeah!"
The GM looks in disbelieve "Shadowrunners actually doing hard, honest work?"

We did such a good job cleaning the place that we have a special contact with the cleaning agency. We can get a job there anytime if we want to switch from shadow running to janitorial work.

With no magical support in the group, we had to rely on decking and legwork for recon. Of course the no-fly zone made it that much more difficult. We spent a lot of time trying to gather info on the place but didn't get much so we had to go in blind and play by ear. With so much uncertainity, there were many surprises on both sides.

The first shocker came when we arrived at the loading dock and discovered it was locked from the inside with no outside controls. That's when the orc demolition specialist pulled a fast one on Bitrunner the GM and pulled out his private stash of C4s.
Bitrunner gasped in shock: "You LIED to Mr Johnson?!?"
(previously we told our Johnson we didn't have any explosives so he supplied us with crapload of C4s)
The entire table cracked up.

Once we got through the loading area we saw the building-inside-a-building and finally found out why we got two separate floorplans. This is when the guard inside the guardhouse pulled out an assault rifle on me. I shocked everyone when my QCK 11 elf ran across the field to the side of the guardhouse (away from the firing end of the rifle), turned around, stuck my pistol through the firing slit, and fired several gel rounds into the guard, all in one combat turn.

Time was running out so it didn't occur to us to use the missile launchers (though we thought about lifting several of the missiles). But Mr Johnson gave us enough C4s to level the place so we got the job done.

A group of 15 year old players who open up with their big guns on the Fixer who is late to the meeting, just minutes into their job. To cover their escape one of them uses a LAW rocket on the convention center for a 'diversion'.

4 characters ALL use their skill on THE drone, and ALL use a Karma Pool for rerolling failures, and NONE has a success. 40 dice in all.

The punk (former ganger) character who rolls a great perception test on a man coming from the convention center, and recognizes a SMG under his jacket. Punk says, "Hey mister, I have a Preditor-2" and pulls out his Pistol, "see, it's cool". Man pulls out his SMG (pointing skyward) "Yup, I have an H and K 227, it's cool too." Punk: "I also have a knife" drawing one from a boot. Man: "I also have a badge" (showing it), "do you have a permit?"

Two motorcycles drive into the park. Character: "Allright! Finally! Something we can shoot."

Troll who throws puppy onto the I-5 Interstate.

Two characters kill themselves after uncoordinated attacks fail to dent an organized defense.

The character with Demolitions 2 who proudly tells the Team that he'll provide the demolitions skill, so they don't need to hire anyone else. His third test is a critical failure, so he uses his only Kama pool to turn it into a simple failure. He has to do the remaining checks with two dice and no remaining pool.

The 12 players who divided up between two tables playing different paths, always thinking that they'd get to go up against the other table before the adventure was over.

The team that assaulted the shelter in order to get clues. And they stole the cookies from the oven.

The team with no vehicles.

The character with a backpack full of explosives who, after many failed attempts, finally decides that none of the equipment on his character sheet will get him through the locked door and into the facility.

Our Demolition skill was rather lacking. I'm still not sure the newbie knew what he was doing with it...but at least it went boom in the end. Anyways, our decker got the floor plans and File H (still wondering what that is), and so we ploted. We assumed the warded room was the control room and planned accordingly. To get in, the Levithan shaman toxic waved our way in (I've got to get that spell...) We were running out of time by then, so the GM went theatric. I was rather satisfied with making the outhouse go boom with a fireball, and only coming out with moderate damage. We with our limited knowledge just stuck C4 everywhere, timers at different times, and ran for our lives, just barely getting out of dodge in time.

Surprisingly my team ran this fairly professionally, though the character who wanted to take Snoop home, not to butcher him for parts but because he liked beagles and wanted a pet, that was amusing.

None of the team wanted to even go anywhere near the facility. Only the team shaman took an astral flyby -- learning a lot. But they came up with an ingenious plan -- they discovered one of the on-site contractors, tailed him to a stuffer shack, used Control Thoughts on him to make him give them the detailed plans for the facility, and then made him forget all about it (using Alter Memory).

This isn't a spoiler about the run but comments from the author -- What were you people -doing-?!? If the team has no Demolition skills then the fixer -- Saint James -- goes in afterwards with the demo packs to blow the place up. And the missiles are not controllable from the Matrix, it even says so in the text of the adventure -- it doesn't make sense for someone to be able to deck in from so far away and use the missiles to destroy DocWagon's own facility. If this were possible the system would have been far more heavily guarded.
PLEASE NOTE: All comments are meant in fun, please do not be offended.

With the entire team having either low-light or thermographic vision, the only problem was dealing with the rain -- which went away as soon as they got into the building. As the entire team had run before in the last three adventures, there was no friendly fire to deal with. The only problem was that they got into the elevator and immediately went to the fourth floor -- there went half the adventure! The shaman was terrified of the background count and the Force 15 Wards and never thought to assense 'John', the carpenter -- so never discovered his true nature. The Invae have another servant loose upon the city...

The characters searched Downtown for Halloweeners. For hours. When they finally found three of them, they send their most gang-like looking member and inquired for Burpie. After quite some talking (and exchange of money) they got the adress for Eddie's Coffee Shop.
There the same character again had to convince Eddie that they were there for the good of Burpie. Funnily, the team expected the Ravenwing-girl to be a close friend of Burpie. So the gang-like character talked to Eddie about 'a friend of Burpie', they needed to find and help.
The assault on the warehouse went not so good. The troll just went in through the front door, made his way to the restroom (incidently the one were the girl was held), broke right through that door, took the girl and ... well, tried to break through the outer wall of the warehouse. While trying to get through he was shot and spend the rest of the scene unconscious.
The rest of the characters went in more cautiously. But even so ... had I played out 'The Elimators' as written (former SpecOps, ...), they would easily have wiped the floor with the characters.
Finally, they made it out alive, with the girl.

These SR Missions-adventures are quite usefull to present relative weak (because they are new) characters with an opposing force that won't be conquered through pure firepower. So congratulation to the authors of these adventures on this point.

Just ran this last night. I had 3 characters, decker (southern style - complete with drawl and idiosyncrasies), Medium weight sammy with good stealth and decent b/e skills (real rough and tumble, uncouth dwarf) , physad with good stealth - light sammy - face - and b/e skills (ex covert operative, really suave, picture james bond except female). They all relied quite a bit on skillwires to cover many different positions on the team. The group had some to moderate experience, no noobs.

It came off without a hitch. Given that they didnt have any magic support I through the mage in there only to make them nervous.

They scouted the facilty by night and day. Did all the legwork/matrixwork. They even took legwork to new levels that I had to addlib to satisfy their insatiable thirst for knowledge. Finally curbing them by mentioning the profile they were creating with so much investigation.

They went in the next evening following the meet. Right after the shift change.

The Stealth/Sammy and Physad went in with the decker providing matrix overwatch. I found it interesting that the system stats had 6s with a 12 for Slave. Given that he edited the video feeds and then provided info to the onsite team as to the location of the guards (that he could see), it made that a bit of a challenge.

The onsite team had Ruthenium suits, along with stealths of 7 and 8 and traceless walk, they made short work of the guards. They took out all the guards with tasers and were only spotted/heard twice - right as they shot the Security guard in the shack and one guard on partol. Neither got so much as a word out before collapsing convulsively. Judicious use of Plasteel restraints and duct tape kept them all quiet.

I rolled randomly for locations of guards when they went into the buildings and then played it from there. The troll opened a door just as they had lined up on it and took one dart in the chest, down he went.

They even looted the place and moved the missiles to point at the building - just in case the demolitions packs didnt level it. While one guy was settings explosives looting and adjusting the missiles, the other ran 2 klicks to the car and drove up to the compound to load everything up.

They did have a challenge getting the unconcious troll out of the basement though. Dwarf str 6, and human str 2. They spent a while rolling him around and used the elevator.

Overall I was very impressed with the characters handle on everything. There was definately some humor as the various personality types interacted.

#1 "Ready to come up the elevator, where's the guard?"
Decker "What guard?"
#1"The one working on the machine above me!"
Decker "heck, he's on the floor"
#1 "whats he doing on the floor?"
Decker "drooling it looks like"
#1 "what?!?"
#2 "He's tagged and bagged, sorry I didnt update you"

I thought of all kinds of ways I could have made this even more challenging, but my goal is not to wipe the floor with the characters. Excellent legwork and planning, good stealth, a broad set of skills (except for magic), and they got the job done like a top flight Spec Ops team should.


Sorry for such the long post, but It was the first of the Missions that I have GM'd and am pretty excited about it.
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