You can get an antidote patch for pepper punch? O.o
Cool!
New entry for my little black book.

Team leader: "Okay, it's simple. We just *five minutes of explanation*"
Friend: "You lost me at 'it's simple'."

I didn't want to derail the thread myself with that, but now that someone else brought it up I can't resist, heh.

While Pepper Punch is in the toxins section of the book there's no way there can be an antidote patch for it, it's an irritant. The best you could manage is an anti-histamine and that won't do much against any proper pepper spray/tear gas.

Antidote patches add to resist tests, so a rating 6 means 6 more dice to resist it (so she had enough dice to completly resist the effects completly when all was said and done, though if I remember she wound up with 2 boxes of stun vs the many the gangers had... so she was at -2 or -3 from stun. But they were at full damage or passed out in one case... add in thermal smoke and they were at a major disavantage for fighting a girl with a heavy pistol. I do know I slapped on a stim patch so was more or less back to normal)

Vic the Cabbie: "Come on, let's go kidnap us a cartoon." (And they did.).

Maybe in the real world, but this is Shadowrun... Toxins have Antidotes unless otherwise noted in the entry (See Naga Venom for an example of such)

It makes as much sense as letting antidote patches work on acid attacks.

The team I was with was tracing a person who was able to overdrive headware until it burned out, killing the person with the 'ware. We finally traced it to an old library in a decent-if-run-down part of the city, where we found a (pre)teen at an old data terminal in the back pressing buttons with some unknown program running.

When questioned he gave no information, seeming to know nothing of the events. Our adept punched him to try and get him to talk, but he just screamed bloody murder, so we knocked him out. When someone responded to the noise, our other adept decided to open fire.

After a few tense (heh) moments in the slaughterhou- er, I mean, library, we made it to my limousine (I played a refined elven mage) with our captive. When he finally came to, we questioned him some more and found out he was in fact oblivious to the head/malware. The program he was running was the program doing it, but he was paid by a guy to enter certain commands when things came up - the perfect dummy.

So I knocked him out again. I told my friend (I being the refined one, the gunslinger adept [assault rifles, not pistols] was my driver) to take us to the front of a police department in the area. He gave me a look but complied. When we got close, I told him to keep driving, just slow - don't stop. At the steps to the precinct, I opened the door and threw the kid (who was restrained with plastic ties) on the ground, then calmly told the adept to keep driving.

My gaming table all looked at me.

GM "What was that?"
Me, with a shrug "Catch and Release program. He was a small one - couldn't keep him."

Funniest one yet. They're all funny, but this one just stuck!

Team flying in a helicopter as F8+ bloodspirit flies after them and the orc streetsam throws himself out of the chopper straight down into the swirling mass of the spirit.

After holding his own for a combat turn we hear him scream "FLY YOU FOOLS!"

That's when we decided to save his hoop and get out of there. There was NO WAY we were gonna let him get away with killing off his character with such a cheesy movie line.

I think he died of old age after that.

Well, acid (by RAW) isn't a toxin but an elemental effect so it shouldn't work.

Wouldn't that be an alkali?

I pity the fool who puts on an alkali patch

Walking by a store with witty t-shirts in the window at the mall

My TM :"Hmm, I wonder if they will make me a shirt kinda like that one that says 'Okay I'll drop everything I am doing, and work on your problem now'"

Face: "oh?"

TM :"Yeah but I want it to say 'Okay I'll drop everything I am doing, get my shotgun, and fix your problems'"

Face: "Yep, that sounds about right for you"

New guy to the adept : "She is starting to scare me"

Adept to new guy: "Starting to? Damn you're either braver or dumber than I thought"

So Des and the new crew have taken some work to fund their little investigation. Seemed simple enough at first, rescue a corporate wageslave's kid from some gangers out in Redmond, bring them back, things unfortunately have gone to hell quick. The plan was for Slam and Hellion to provide a distraction while Desperado sneaks in, grabs the kid and gets him to Toyoda's waiting "republic cruiser" (a van modified to hover and mounting some rather large guns). Well, Hellion goes out from drain after two spells and Slam gets pinned down by two gang members up on the roof with hunting rifles (stick n' shock load so they can bring the enemy in for "fun" later), Desperado does manage to get the kid out, but with Hellion and Slam still out front it comes down to Toyoda and Des to effect and extraction under fire. Toyoda's drone body/avatar uses a grapple gun to get to the roof and using some internal weapon drops the guaards, seemingly only by extending a hand (classic force push gesture). when asked how he did it he replied "The force, my ally is, and a powerfull ally it is."

What makes you think an antidote patch for Pepper Punch isn't chock full of 2070s-era anti-histamines, anti-inflamatories, and similar blockers?

And to not drift too far from threat content ...

Chordae: (Healing magician, after the player mentions she'll be missing the next session): "I'll leave med kits in the refrigerator with reheating instructions."

Ajax (face): "So Baethan, what exactly are you packing?"
Baethan (sammie): "I can't go anywhere."

Me (GM who wants to keep the story moving): "I'm supposed to ask you for a Perception Test here, but you know what, I don't care. You find it."

Ajax: "Don't farm out shooting your dog if you can do it yourself. My grandmother used to say that all the time, 'cause she had a lot of dogs."

Ajax (hacking a van to steal it for a run): "Excuse me Mr. Car, you're in a rather bad relationship and should come away with me now."

Chordae (magical MD): "There's nothing following us, and the baby is a technomancer."
Ajax (team leader): "Is there anything you can do about that?"
Baethan (psychotic killer): "I can."
Ajax: "Baethan, your contribution to the rest of this run is quiet."

GM: "So you got your upstairs and you've got your downstairs, which I'll draw for you [on the whiteboard], just so you can get a better idea of it, not for any tactical reason ..."

From a new player, making a character for a merc campaign, as he glances through the equipment list.

"'Generic Assault Cannon'. That sounds like something my character should have."

cases worth of baking soda, or better yet, diving into a lake is better.

Are you kidding? Do you *KNOW* what lives in Lakes?

Well, honestly, I don't know either, but it tends to slither out onto bridges and eat cars.

I'm more worried about what lives in the bays.

Besides, if you're covered in acid you're the last thing they want to eat!

Be one hell of a spicy meatball!

yeah, no, i'm not driving my boat over oner of those O.o

During a discussion of what it would take to raise a magical barrier strong enough to stop a THOR shot:

"We could sacrifice every blood mage in the city to summon the Spirit of Irony?"

Talking to one of the folks in my group who is about to start GMing about my character concept: "So my character is a Pinkskin from the Salish-Shidhe Council, who grew up on a Reserve the Amer-Indians made for White Folks..." "Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirony."

“Mister Knight, stop hitting on my girlfriend or I’m going to turn your testicles to goo.”

After reading about the cow-stealing run in this thread, I decided to send my PCs on a mission based on the same idea. However, they were intercepting the cow from the Mafia for their Yakuza contact. While they actually came up with a pretty good plan for getting the cow by semi legal means--pretending to be surprise livestock inspectors come for a quality-control examination--the street sam was the only one who could see the run potentially getting complicated or going sour. She was also one of only two PCs who considered that the cow could be anything but a normal beef cow.

To be fair, only the street sam and the hacker were familiar with the setting. But, the hacker couldn't wrap her mind around how stealing a cow could be anything but cake. To quote the 'sam, "Don't be simple. This is a Mafia cow, it is highly suspect! Unless it's Kobe beef..."

The cow is actually the mafia's top ranking hitman, with more than 400 kills under its udder.

Would that make it a moorderer?

I'm sorry, that was udderly awful.

He mowed them down like so much...cattle.

In certain South American circles, he is known as El Heifer.

You're milking these jokes for all they're worth. This cud go on for a while.

Nothing butter to do than grab the bull by the horns.

Just be dairy, dairy careful.

When the Mafia first trained the cow to murder, he didn't have the stomach for it...

Thankfully he had three more.

Next person makes a cow pun, I'm going to show them what a Panther assault canon can do when inserted into a surprising orifice.

Turn someone into hamburger with that kind of ordinance.



HAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAA

Since Doc was the next person to make a pun, I feel I can make jokes and Abstruse will have no beef with me.

The real question is, who shoves a gun in the face of and threatens to kill someone who is tied up and gagged?

*raises hand 4m high and smiles innocently*

Cheese it, guys. It's not like you have a steak in this.

I assure, you, good sir(loin), we're just getting started. It'll be a while before we're (well) done.

Still beating the dead cow?

They haven't realized the mooment has passed.

They're slowing down. I think the joke's been put out to pasture.

Apparently, Abstruse isn't in the mooooood for our jokes.

It's rare that these pun sessions go on so long.

Well, some of them are tough like jerky . . or old leather . . and they dissolve into spam sooner or later . .

We're milking it dry.

Eventually, this whole thread will just devolve into so much bull shit.

We'll need to steer it in the right direction.

But if it gets too out-of-hand, someone might have a cow. It behooves us to get this back on topic.

I don't think that's going to happen short of some Bovine Intervention.