Because of course Deus is just all sweetness and llight.

I think anything Deus implants should be at least Beta.

Bitch had it comin', yo. "Blah blah blah this place is secure, blah blah blah we'll tell you what we think you need to know, blah blah blah aaiigh we're under attack by Blues when you're in your street clothes and half of you have no guns, and it's all my fault! Save me, save me!"

Are you implying you are one of the authors of Brainscan?

Which parts?

He's not implying anything. He is one of the authors of Brainscan.

In which case the follow up question would be what ending was originnaly planned?

It's funny because it seems so out of character from an outsider's perspective that half the team had no guns.

Of course, I'm one to talk. I had a PC inside when the Arc shut down. He was asphyxiated even after the GM (not Dave) warned me. Twice.

Yep, I am. The original idea of Brainscan was my pitch, and I wrote the Revelations and Outside Influence chapters. Though really, the whole thing was a very collaborative effort, so there's bits of other peoples' ideas in my chapters and bits of my ideas in the other chapters.

But it was also my first writing project with FASA, and Dave's second, so there was some heavy editing attention put on it. In some places, for good, in others, for bad, in my opinion.

Anyway, the original ending had a physical fight and a Matrix fight happening simultaneously. While the deckers were inside the SCIRE, the physical characters in the PCs' group had to escort another team of deckers to the roof of the Arcology, so a connection to the outside world could be setup and Megaera could be let in. That part also included the PCs using micro-parachutes to parachute down the elevator shafts of the Arcology afterwards, which I always thought was a cool touch that got cut.

What a coincidence !!

Yeah, Entrapment does have its moments.

Hey, don't look at me. The Meet was in a nice place, and we went straight from the Meet to the warehouse -- but it's not like there's any rule against keeping a piece in your car, or something. *I* had a gun. *I* had two of them, in fact, which is why only "half" the party didn't.

Still, if Ronni-poo had been all up front with us about just how secure the place was, I'd'a gone in there all kitted out and ready for bear, not carrying a few casual sidearms and then getting jumped by guys with HVLMGs, thankyouverymuch. S'why he got that nice brick wall all scuffed up with his face, later. "Need to know" stops being cool when it almost gets you killed.

Man. We really gotta finish that gig, someday, WK. Get onnit.

i'll kill you and steal your twin LCDs.

and, yes. finishing BS would be cool.

Well, nice job then. I think Brainscan is great campaign and I'm eager to run it.

I've owned it for years but I bought it just before my group entered a SR downcycle... We're back, playing in late 58 through the events of Mob War / BITBR. I'll have them in the arcology when it goes offline. I'm sure most will manage to get out, it's too early in the game for the Arcology to be perfectly sealed. If possible, at least one friendly NPC will die in these events, though. When they come back, it'll be personal.

The ending is also something I thought could have been a little more grounded for some PCs. As a story, I think it isn't a bad ending. If it was a novel for example, it would be ok. But for many PCs, it's anticlimatic. The decker is gonna be a star, which is nice, but the mage is gonna sit on his ass. No utilities on his deck and his main skill is sorcery and has no computer to fall back on. Yay. I don't mind seeing some PC underused in some segment, but usually not the end of a scenario, never the end of a campaign.

Your ending is better that way. Plus, if someone falls along the way, he can always be jacked in as originally planned. He had his chance, so a second chance in the UV host is better than nothing at all.

I thought i had read somewhere Deus rather good skills at implanting the same packages that Essence was further reduced by 10% ??

Demonseed Elite
The ending for the Arcology was flawed in that it is basically a Dungeon Bash. Moving through the Arcology, an encounter or 2 was used to make my player realise how bad things were but the end i just read out as to what happened.

At first they complained, but when i mention that they had very little chance of making it they shut up, more so when i mention that i was being generous and gave my own PC only a 50/50 chance of survival that let it ly.

Then Kagetenshi did his short story and i let them read it. They became VERY happy with my decision.
[BTW Kagetenshi anychance of E-mailing me that story?]


I got bored with Dungeon Bash's about 14 years ago.

Well to be fair my criticism is directed primarily at Mr. Throwing Stars.

Although the post that he made when he realized all he had on him were throwing stars was great.

Gladly. I'll finish compiling it to a single file as soon as I've done a once-over on some old game files for AH and intimidated my webhost into letting me know why SotSW is offline.

~J