Well, that's one way to use a negative reputation!

Notoriety does give an intimidation boost in certain circumstances. s'in the rules too.

Yeah I think the new guy is starting to understand her rep the more he deals with the little psychopath

This evenings game: As the troll kicks in a door, after firing off two unsilenced Ares Predator shots into some gangers. "Subtlety is not on my char sheet."

new guy to the team sans my TM who is elswhere: Umm why do you guys run with her?
Face: Hmm, you mean the scary little thing that we call pup?
NG: yeah her. She's a little off the edge of sanity
Adept: Little, she's batshit insane. But loyal to her friends
face: yep, we're kinda the only family she has.
Troll: Cause if we didn't it hurt da pup's feelings. That be bad for us
Face: that too

This little gem is from Doc Chase "The other team says 'lolno.' They've heard about this team of poachers with the robotic land narwhal,"

This one from a friend who just started playing SR, and made a street sam character, who in his first fight took out three guys with his SMG, and another two with his vibrosword. Then, couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.

"I've decided that the reason I keep missing is because I'm too busy singing my own theme song."

Pfff. At least set the scene before you besmirch my good name!

The Short Cart Crew was hired to be on-site medical assistance for a group of licensed telesma/paracritter hunters out in the Rockies. They were left at the base camp while the hunter team struck out to their site, a few Samurai drones there for physical security.

Our intrepid heroes set off on a different path after they heard the cry of an injured bird. An Astral Perception scan of the area showed astral tracks headed in that direction that matched the fated pawprint of her guide, Dog. Since he got her to agree to a nameless task in the near future, she figured this must be the one.

To cut a long story short, they find the critter, free it, heal it, and take down a drone disguised as an Awakened paracritter: The Land Narwhal (or as I called it, "the closest goddamn thing to a unicorn this setting will ever have"). Two good success rates on tasers and a Force 6 Lightning Bolt with a ton of hits completely fry this thing. This drone belonged to a group of poachers, who saw the SCC and gave chase. The team doctor snakes the narwhal horn off the drone, and gets shocked in the forehead and shot in the ass for his trouble.

Back at camp, all three teams converge: The paracritter hunters, the poachers, and the Short Cart Crew. The poachers wanted the crew to give back the horn (mite be telesma, amirite gaiz), and pay for their wrecked drone.

To which the paracritter hunters said, "lolno. We've heard about you guys and the robotic land narwhal."

And that is why the Short Cart Crew will no longer pester me about Drop Bears. Right?

I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about, sir.

I still think there should be Drop Bears.

There are, they live in Australia.

They want them in Denver.

They should also beware for what they wish for.

Only in Shadowrun.

I recently introduced Vampiric Drop Bears in a Rifts game. As a player, no less.

I was on a user-made game website the other day, and I noticed a game called "Operation Drop-Bear" though it did not appear to be connected to the Dumpshock Drop-Bears it still remind me of this.

OK, now I have the idea of cloning Private Wojtek, making him an officer, and getting him to train Paratroopers...

OH GOD, THE HUMANITY.

1 - see the list of things not to do

After handing the J a box and telling him to hold it while I check the data and credsticks... I narrow my character's eyes and hmmmm.. a few times just to mess with him (J screwed up and he knew it in regards to his insider help). My TM nods and smiles "it's all good" and has the standard bust-a-move pop open the box and rawr at the J

J: ARRGH! Damn it girl!
TM: What, I knew you wouldn't deliberately screw us over. So wanted to pound it into you to work harder on checking your stuff...
Face: Girl, that wasn't nice.
TM: Nope, it wasn't.. the puddle is a bonus.
J: Give me one good reason not to have you all shot!
New Guy: uhh we're fucked now
Troll: yep
Adept notices the TM is grinning like a maniac (well she is one): Umm, maybe not.
Face: oh no..
TM points at the nearby ad blimp just over the parking lot through the sunroof window of the J's limo and has it open the hidden weapons ports... revealing some very heavy ordance leveled at the location "Cause I own that, and if I flat line or lose connection. This parking lot gets turned into a crater."
J with a very pale complexion "Good answer"

Everyone else just stares at her, except the rigger who is drooling at the blimp

TM: What, did you think I spent my money on barbie dolls or some shit?

There seems to be an awful lot of heavily armed blimps these days...

They've been en vogue since Crash 2.0. If they're good enough for Winternight, they're good enough for runners.

Hey, how long has Kane had his?

OK, sure, he's a Pirate, but still...

Honestly? I've only heard of him using boats and skimmers, so the blimp is probably since Crash 2.0 as well. I don't see him out and about a lot, though. Could be wrong.

<insert appropriate XKCD strip featuring Cory Doctorow's balloon>

<insert appropriate XKCD strip featuring Ron Paul's blimp>

Not that I found either one. :-\
But yes.

Here and here.

Got a few good quotes from all these years.

From my first gaming session ever (SR2 no less)-

Me- Okay, I quick draw my predator.
GM- Okay, roll your Firearms skill...
Me-... Firearms skill?

From my second gaming session ever (Again, SR2, and I had remedied that Firearms skill problem)

Me- I'm lobbing a grenade at the cockroach shaman.
GM- Roll your Throwing skill.
Me- ...Throwing skill?

And now as a much wiser and more experienced GM myself (SR3 this time), the team was on an Astral Quest in the realm of Fear. My buddy had this enemy elf mage...-

Me- Okay, he's 12 ft. tall and his eyes are made of fire. He's casually walking your way, obviously intent on killing the shit out of you.
Buddy- I'm shooting in the face. I got Pistols, Smartlink, Combat Pool ::The sound of an enormous handful of dice being rattled for the roll of a lifetime::
Me- Cool. You want to roll that, or should I just tell you how it fails?

Yes, thanks.
(And I swear that Cory's red hot-air balloon was featured at least once).

"I'm going to Magic Finger the kitty."

In my best (Which still isn't too good) Irish Accent: "I got a bus." Says the Elven IRA Member the Shadowrunners were working with one mission.

The scary thing is, he's airtight sealed the bus, and commented about getting the right mix of propane for it...

"Ok, don't forget - we need to take the Locksmith alive."

"Right - I'll go around the back of the shop whilst you go in the front?"

"Why?"

"In case he makes a bolt for the door..."

arrgh

*Introducing the Ork Hacker to the rest of the group, none of which suffer from HMHVV* "Looks, here's a Crucifix or a Star of David, or whatever makes you go away. I didn't watch the movie."

One that I got reminded of recently. I was GMing at the time and right in the middle of a section of narration, I sneezed violently. A couple sniffles later to clear the nasal passage, I remarked: "Apparently I'm allergic to plot."

"There's no 'Grid! How do I steeeer?!"

(Also applicable in a SR3 game when our hacker shut down gridguide. People weren't expecting that.)

WHAT.

Please don't titillate the employees animals.

"Did you just say you're trying to mount the narwhal?"

It is good to see that this thread finally Mooves in the right direction.

The group is negotiating with an Elven IRA (In Exile) Member to use his "Bus" as a distraction on a 'Run. His price, a replacement bus.

Ork Hacker: "Vehicles in this man's possession tend to depreciate rather quickly!"

Elven IRA Member: "And in multiple directions."

*Note: The "Bus" in question scared the rest of his IRA buddies. It also failed to go off.*

Ankh-Morpork's Alchemist Guild was across the street from the Beggers Guild. This was unusual as it was normally above it, below it, or falling in bits around it.

Can't remember if I put this up, but the group went to LA in order to perform a 'Run that involved... An extraction of Goofy from DisneyLand:

Vic the Cabbie: "Alright folks, let's go kidnap us a Cartoon!"

While talking with one of my Gamer buddies that isn't in my group:

"Top ten indications you went too far in Shadowrun. At number one... After you cripple the nun the Jesus on the crucifix behind you comes down off the cross and uses it to beat the Hell out of you."

And in #2:
"And Keith gets the highest body count (and I didn't know we were supposed to keep track). As he released a neurotoxin into a hotel ventilation system."

I should note: the hotel was a block down the street from the jobsite. Most everyone else died (and the rest went to prison also died). Except Keith, who decided to get into the hotel and kill everyone (and two other characters, who were backstabbing bastards, working for Lone Star and "no one in particular, especially not us" respectively).

In a recent game. The dice rolls were just running in favor of the runners. The bad guys were just not hitting anything except the side of a truck and a hedge. The security boss finally yelled in frustration "Why won't you just die?"
One of the players said "My naturally contrary nature I guess." and shot him dead.

You thought that was in character? oops.

With you it can be difficult to tell.

Gaff the Ork Hacker: *Activating his attack program, and having his Persona throw a Pokeball* "I choose you, Optimus Prime!"

lol. nice to know even in this community there are people you can look at and declare -geek!

and/or a failure at geeking . .
mixing up transformers and pokemon, the nerve <.<;,