Alright, just to see how zany the rest of ya are compared to people i have played with, what are some of the wierdest ideas you've seen out there? For example, one time, an idea was brought up for a dwarven projectile throwing tree-bucket (trebuchet) to get inside some high security fencing. Never went into production (thank god), but it was a quasi serious suggestion at the time from one of my players. And yes, we had just watched Monty Python and the Holy grail the night before (with the cow).

Dude, what else was a troll designed for, except for tossing dwarves with ropes tied to their belts?

-Siege

Wierdest moment? *thinking thinking thinking* Oh Yeah... here's one that actually was done.

Here's the Scene:

Three people are hired to hunt down a cybered Barghest that has been set out into an area to terrorize and do nasty things to people.

Yours truly was riding a Scorpion at the time the Barghest actually howled. The GM told me I could still move, but I was terrified. Okay. Now, I'm not yer normal everyday person that would run away screaming.

I basically cracked the throttle wide open and, seeing as it was aimed in the right direction, we had a nice little trip across the clear area to use the beast as a skid pad. There was barely enough of it left for the rest of the crew to end it's life. hehe

I, however, had to lay the bike down so as not to hit something solid. But hey, I got to have fun.

And that's my wierd event for the day,
NightWind

Hmmm. A Gnome Adept twinked out to be a grappling hook...

Alright . I was playing my French Troll Pepe Le Pew.

We went into a town house to pull an extraction , and walked into a major ambush . Our street sam on point hit Deadly on the first turn of combat going thru the door so I dragged him out and poped him on my shoulder so we could retreat . Right when I turned around our Mage screamed that her watcher spotted som more shooters across the street in a van . As they where deploying one of them pooped a gernade in our direction . Thinking fast I popped our sam down , and swung with the full glory of the babe , and pulled 4 success above 10 to pop the gernade right into the van useing him as a bat .
Unfortantly I forgot I was still in the door way but troll strength put him right thru the wall , and he went from mosetly dead to realy dead .
I got a few Karma for laughs , and he was even laughin g so hard he didn't care that he just bought it .

One of the weirdest/fun things we ever did was during a wetwork run. After a coupla failed plans (which never reached the point of actually threatening the target), someone mentioned dropping a safe on the mark. We seriously considered doing that (we had a rigger with a yellowjacket, if I recall correctly) for a coupla hours before ditching the idea...

Using a water balloon slingshot/launcher, as an improvised morter to launch hand grenades into a remote compound as a cover distraction.

My player tried to mug someone on the street with a sledge hammer. Go Corr

Namer18

Realized mid-run that they didn't have anyone on the team that could open a safe, so, they blew it out of the wall and had the troll carry it back to their war wagon which then scraped it's way (under the weight) back to the safe house.

Well, I have a couple of weirdos in my group.
So, situation:
Enemy agent snuck in building, disabling a couple of guards and threw in gas grenade in room with people and information she needed. Then she used a respirator and went in.

Patrolling mage (PC, they were hired as additional security) sees room full with smoke, and no one has come out. What he does? He says "I go closer and try to smell what that gas is".

Well, he learned that it was neuro-paralytic gas

I had quite a pair with me one time. Only two people in the area played Shadowrun, so I came up with a quick in-and-out snatch job. The plan they came up with? Enter the building. During the day. On a weekday when the office is full.

That's not even the fun part. This is the fun part. They need to get to the roof to get what they need to get. How do they do that? I made the mistake of letting one character buy about 1000 kilos of C-XII. Instead of bothering going upstairs to get what they needed and wade through all the security, they decided to bring it downstairs to them.

1,042 were killed or seriously injured in the blast that brought the building down.

Oh, then there was the clerk at the Stuffer Shack that gave a PC mage some lip. He did a quick mind probe and figured out the guy was allergic to plastics. So he took his cigarette lighter, melted the tip of his credstick, and smeared it on the guy's upper lip.

The Abstruse One

I once had a player use a jar of grape jelly to kill a baddie in the alley 5 stories below him. His Throwing roll was so good that I storied it in that he beaned a perfect spiral all the way down, square into the fraggers noggin. The jar shattered and lacerated the poor schmo's head all to pieces. We laughed good and hard about that one.

Hey Abtruse,

That's what I call Bringing Down the House. Or in this case, the Office?

My question would be, Did they get what they wanted?

NightWind

Yep, they got it. They also got a borderline-great feathered serpent hunting them down for it. And an assassin from TT...

The Abstruse One

Funny, well stuff like:

A group posing as a maintenance team (after snatching the real team) using their passcards but failing to check wether the metatypes match? And realizing only when standing at the gate with alert guards checking them?

A group sneaking through a building having killed the guard accompaning them and put one of theirs in the armor. Great idea unless an all american runner group does a job in germany and the guy in the armor is the only one not! speaking german!

A group dropping a container with the prime component of a high-powered glue down a stairshaft, adding component two after the guards took up position


Birdy

One of the quickest run I saw... The players really surprised me. They had to "terminate" a target, and started hanging out at his bar to start gathering info. Late one night, the target went to the bathroom. The team was in a corner, with the two trolls kinda hiding the mage and the physad. The mage projected to see if he was alone; not only was he alone, but sitting on the throne as well. The players looked at each other, started smiling, and I started sweating. The mage casted an Improved Invisibility spell on the physad, one of the trolls got up and went to take a wizz, the physad climbed on his back. The physad jumped into the booth, killed the target by surprise. I was totally dumbfounded and swore at myself for weeks on end.

I have to admit, that was one of the more colorful approaches to a situation.

-Siege

Not sure how good this is, but it had our GM in stitches of laughter last week...

Its an unorthodox campign in which we are all Magically active (Adepts & Mages etc) employed as Troubleshooters for the Atlantean Foundation, currently tasked with tracking down and acquiring various spirit jars that form part of a powerful magic artefact. The latest run has seen us find out that one of the jars is in the possesion of a corp wageslave who has inherited it forn a deceased relative. We find this out and break in to his empty apartment in San Fransisco only to find evidence that he has left to trade it to agents of Winternight.

The catch is that the trade is to be done during the course of a six week carribean cruise some time before it reaches St Kitts... the ship leaves from Miami the next day.... so I say I'll ring the office to let them know that the team of 5 is booking Sub Orbital flights to Miami on the next flight, as well as a 6-week carribean cruise and suitable clothing... all on company expenses!

For some reason the GM just burst into a fit of laughter before saying that they reluctantly agree...

It seems he expected we would pay for it out of our own pocket ...

Ahh, one additional stuff which happened as players just started to play and were unsure of how to handle system. But that was more of their own stupidity that led to TPK.

I am giving them "quick run" with infiltration and chip stealing, almost canonical, with slightly weakened defenses. Mind you, they were 3 players and I have fnished this run being on team of two.

So, they come in, so far so good. Proceed to room where security guard is sitting and watching monitors/guarding doors where their AK weapons are.
Team is leaving all good weapons that they took on run in janitor's toolbox they carried around and attack guard... almost unarmed.

One player tries to wound the guard, hitting with knife his body armor, second one tries to kick him in face almost without unarmed combat skills. They see no result and go for grapple, and end up one choking the guard for 1 stun/round (he was kinda weak, but guard did not make the checks safely) and second one takes his holdout pistol that is tied to his leg (as last resort) and starts shooting the guard in head. Without using dice pool, and having low skill on pistols, resulting in 1 physical/turn. So they fought for many rounds and at last killed the guard, but of course arrived all security team and wiped them out, because now they were alerted. Now they have learned that dice pools should be used, and that planning is appropriate before action.

And another bit of wisdom:

<ancient old wise sage voice> Do not attempt kill in which you have no skill</sage voice>

-Siege

You must be joking. You actually had the guard resisting several shots to the head?

It is easy to explain - if you use pistol which code is 4L (weakest holdout pistol, as I said, usually used as really LAST resort), and roll 4 dices, even if increasing damage to 4M (no one rolled much successes, and I increased damage +1 level because it was headshot) guard have pretty good chances to resist it, getting down back to L wound. Of course I may be wrong in this case, but I think I ruled correct, at least that is how I remember those rules.

And no, I wouldn't give them too bad surprises in their first run, so no cyberskulls, although I will use that later in campaign

Ah yes, so they were wiped out and team mage was captured (having Improved Invis on his char sheet. But hey, that player is much of loonie type. He later said that forgot having such a spell.)

Yeah, in next post I will write how they did in last run. Almost as bad in some aspects, although no one died, they were still pretty stupid

I have a feeling stories about my team will be frequent here

Ok, next run that team is assigned to: protect the chip they were trying to steal in previous incarnation (corporation decided to invest in additional security, and hired some people while installing additional security devices).
One player tries playing videogames with lab worker, having no computer skills and low Quickness. After losing 100 nyens he stopped playing

So of course enemies hired more professional shadowrunner (in fact, almost beginning covert ops specialist who was much of pacifist and used GEL rounds and similar non-killing things)

She comes in, disabling guard at entrance and proceeding to room with chip.
At any time of day there is one PC shadowrunner sitting in the room and guarding it, disguised as one of laborants. Doors open and Neuro-stun grenade comes in. After few seconds ops come in and see if anyone stands. PC stands and shoots, wounding her. But receving couple of gels, gets down. Hearing gunshots other two PC's act. They see room where people are supposed to be, and there is white smoke coming out, and no people are seen. One PC say: "I am going closer and trying to SMELL what gas it is". I answer "Well, you guessed, it is neuro-stun gas. Roll body." But I am being nice and rule out that he have M stun damage instead of S. He also botches his Perception rolls and do not see how covert op retreats. But then he casts Detect enemy spell and follow covert op. Covert op is out of building and into car (heavily improved), leaving with chip. PC gets into his car, starts driving and seeing that enemy's car is much faster says: "I am trying to cast a lightning to enemy's car.) Being a nice guy I am asking "Are you sure you wanna cast a lightning through your car's window?"
After much thinking he says "Nooooo. Instead I am hitting brakes as hard as I can". I say "Sure, roll car handling". Which ends up in hitting nearest tree
Second PC while this all is going out, sits in his room with wet towel over his head to avoid strange white smoke and waiting crisis to end under his bed.

Traks, were these guys new? It sounds like an episode of that comedy SR show... what's it called? Whose Swag is This? I think.

Absolutely beautiful, though. I remember playing one game of VS where there was one high karma member of the team and the rest of us were basicly templates. The high karma guy decides he's going in through a window. We, on the outside, hear gunshots, and then he comes right back out the window and doesn't stop running till we were well away. He decided, in mid air, that we didn't need to be on that run, after all.

They are pretty new to Shadowrun as well as I am new to it.
But it is common sense to NOT inhale a white smoke which seems dangerous

This team will most likely have a run at end of this week, and probably I will post here how it turned out. I just feel that they will make another bunch of moments which deserve to be told to other players who do not fear about their sanity loss

Sooo, back to the horror stories. Turn off the lights and close the windows/doors before reading

Let's go!
Their team after recovering thought about easy money, and asked mafia boss to give them some task (one of players was in mafia, even married to daughter of some mafia guy). They received a task to make an assault to yakuzas, and take out their narcotics transfer point.
So far, so good. They went on investigation and while driving through the district, they spotted yakuzas who were putting black-colored polyethylene bags inside the car. So they decided to steal the car and in that way find out what those yakuzas were doing.
Mage cast Improved Inv and stole the car. They drove with it to friend's garage and opened those bags. Inside were bodies of 9 yakuzas (few members of another PC team attacked those yakuzas, and they were taking bodies to bury. Insert evil GM grin here).
While few of them went to another contact to search for means to get rid of those bodies, 3 people stayed to think watch over it. Contact of course disappeared with next flight to Europe, because district was heavily controlled by Mafia and Yakuzas.
One of them (ork) started to hack those bodies (as he said he really hated yakuzas, bla bla bla). Two others did not tolerated this, and one of them used shock glove which stunned ork completely, while other thought for few seconds and shot now helpless ork (shotgun from really near distance, coup de grace)
Further, merrier. Player who tried to stun ork, now moved and tried to get gasoline out from tank, opening tank with knife intending later burn the car. Meanwhile other player just aimed at gas tank and shot. I ruled out that gas just started leaking out, and while first player ran off second player shot once more blowing up the car and impaling first one (He got quite lucky on damage, just lost all clothes and received L physical damage). Then they ran off from this place to get weapons for mission, that mafia provided for them. While driving they got few spiders on roof (eco shaman requested money donation and they told him to fuck off) and weapons specialist shot spiders from inside the car, making couple of holes.

They arrived at weapons dealer and got their weapons.
While reborn ork (now dwarf repair specialist/ a little decker) came and offered to repair the car. Having no instruments, nothing to close those holes, and rolling almost all 1's (I rule that crit fumble is if you roll half or more 1's when rolling many dices), I ruled out that now both small holes are joined in one and much bigger hole
Team took everything from that dwarf, gave him manacles and threw him into luggage space. He also got good deck without ANY program on it. Don't ask me why
Then team proceeded to site where they knew that yakuza narco-van should be coming, in the middle of night of course. When they arrived near-by, dwarf made TN 14 on check if he can get rid of manacles and succeeded. Pissed off team tied him and put back manacles, while going on mission, mainly because dwarf whined about getting back his things. He succeeded on untying himself (something like TN 16) and escaped into night. After few unsuccessful tryings to untie himself (TN +2 each time) he came back to team to give up. Moron.

Till next hour of horror, when I will tell how this team tried to get he mission done.