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Message no. 1
From: Barbie <barbie@**********.COM>
Subject: Living in Bug City before it was: Re: FASA's On/Off Course?
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 00:41:24 +0100
At 09-Mai-98 wrote losthalo:



>I have also thought about running adventures in SR wherein the PCs have to
>defuse a nuke, or other serious disaster situation, and if they don't,
>BOOM. They get to deal with the consequences afterward, try to live in a
>post-war world... Think if you were involved in Chicago for instance, when
>the Bugs first made their way into town, and saw the whole thing building
>up, gradually, until one day all the electrics in your area shorted, shock
>wave, blast... And you realize how bad things have become. :)


I ran a campaign in Bug city, started before the breakout...
Muchas fun.
The runners were hired as body guards for a action Simsinse star on her UCAS
promo tour.
In the beginning the players thought it was a simple job well more or less
simple
but nothing unusual. Somewhere during the tour they found out that the `star`
was
in fact a runner who sold her runs as action sims, with ties to the Mafia and
some arms manufactures testing the new weapons on the runs.
So the runners were pretty sure at this point what will come down on them what
fools
they were :)
So after a little action on some points of the tour, the final tour date
was set in Chicago.
Well it got realy hot pretty fast, a corp team, Mafia goons all striking at
the same time pretty pissed at her, because of what she had done.
And in the middle of the fight the bugs breakout, storming the place and all
went down in a mess...
The rest is history of a survival struggle :)


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Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Living in Bug City before it was: Re: FASA's On/Off Course?
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 10:47:00 +0100
Barbie said on 0:41/12 May 98...

> I ran a campaign in Bug city, started before the breakout...
> Muchas fun.
> The runners were hired as body guards for a action Simsinse star on her
> UCAS promo tour.

I did something similar; kept Bug City out of sight of the players, and
all knowledge of the imminent bug breakout away from them. Then I put
them on an investigation of a missing cousin of one of the runners. The
lead took them from New York (where the cousin lived) to Atlanta (where
they found him), and from there to Chicago (where his girlfriend lived,
but he'd lost contact with her -- could they look into it, please?
Please? :) They met someone there who claimed to know something about the
girlfriend, and the runners ended up near ground zero of the breakout...

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