So ya, the run im doing right now is really really boring. I need something to spice it up. Any ideas?

Vampire ninjas.

Pirates! Aaarrrgh!

Ninja-Pirates fighting Vampires.

The easiest idea to spice up a run is Someone Else. Either a different running team is on the premesis (may or may not be after the same thing you are) or just someone unexpected shows up. Doing a simple B&E for datafiles and a rep from the AAA Mega that owns the company shows up to do a spot inspection? I hope you can deal with the added security... Or, maybe, a local go-gang chased some poor slob from the expressway now you have Lonestar crawling all over the area looking for the PanicButton Pusher.

another runner team going for the same target

the team was hired by an old enemy that is acutally setting them up:
- notifies target
- doesn't notify target, does set up some sort of sting
- such as video recordings of the runners that they broadcast

good ol' fashion bar fight

major plot twist
-run was to nab prototype A017. A017 is acutally...
- a vampire sealed in an airtight coffin (that was fun to run)
- an otaku, kidnapped from tribe
- a child
- insect spirit host
- a pet project of Lowfyr;s
- code name for new strand if Vitas, Vitas-4

Run goes off without a hitch. Everything goes aboslutely perfectly, no mistakes at all. Group spends the next two weeks being paraniod because things never do that well.
- OR - Mr. Johnson stiffs them on the bill

Have Mr. J cancel the run out of the blue, say.... JUST before the runners make their move. THen have people start shadowing them, trying to find their Johnson

Have something WAY out of the blue happen. Like the blackout that happens during the Brainscan adventure.

How is it possible that nobody has mentioned the obvious:
Cybered Drop Bear Ninjas.

Seriously, Slump has a good idea there, toss something that is pretty unrelated into the equation and things start getting pretty interesting. Try not to through too big a loop, or the players might get frusterated over thier plans now being worthless (alternately, some groups are masochistic enough to enjoy that).

A Western Dragon with twinned dikoted cyberspurs shows up. What he lacks in Magical Skills he makes up for with the stabbity.

Cyber Drop Bear Ninja Legionnaires.

How about a minor war? If the PCs are usually the quiet types, have a bunch of loud-mouth, shoot-em-ups as NPCs that broke in and are involved in military-style combat with the guards. Unfortunately, the PCs have to also fight these people, as they are in the way. Worse, the guards won't care and will shoot at the PCs anyway.

i find, one of the most effective ways to occassionally make things interesting, is to remember that you're in a CITY. Police chases, fires local to the run, hit and run style accidents so theres a chalk outline of some large metahuman on the sideaalk across from where the run is... things that can be fiated, but still (hopefully) get the players heart pumping.

Don't forget good ol' fashion sex appeal! Having a sexy vixen show up with her own agenda for the PC's is always interesting.

Make something break. Not permanently, but long enought to be massively inconvenient.

For example the covert ops specialist on the roof is going to be really pissed off if the tool laser he bought specially for this job has a bubble in the lens which makes it no more effective than a flashlight (granted a flashlight that can tan an elephant at 50 feet, but a flashlight none the less).

So, is that Shadowcode for "I hate my players and wish to kill their characters?"

true... sex does sell. Though I have to admit, I can't tell one drop bear from the next and they will never be sexy to me.

Oh and its spelled vixen I think.

I think I already saw that movie...