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Message no. 1
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: Adventure idea [Spoiler!]
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 11:46:22 +0100
David Buehrer said on 9:05/23 May 96...

> A character in a commercial series has become extremely popular. So
> much that they've got their own international fan club. A competitor
> can't stand it anymore and hires the runners to temporarily kidnap the
> actor. This one could be a lot of fun as the runners hide from the
> director and producer of the commercials, the members of the fan club,
> the other competitors who want to take advantage of the situation and
> kill the character (actor) once and for all, the media who want to
> cover the big story, and who knows who else? Rent "It's a Mad, Mad,
> Mad, Mad World" for some theme ideas and have fun.

Maybe it's just me, but this looks very much like the first adventure in
Queen Euphoria, where the players get hired to kidnap this simsense star
who advertises some honey-like stuff (made by ant spirits, but nobody
knows that). No hiding from the media and stuff, but a slight twist to the
story and the above is what you get...

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Message no. 2
From: Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net>
Subject: Re: Adventure idea [Spoiler!]
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 18:32:06 -0500
>> A character in a commercial series has become extremely popular. So
>> much that they've got their own international fan club. A competitor
>> can't stand it anymore and hires the runners to temporarily kidnap the
>> actor.
>
>Maybe it's just me, but this looks very much like the first adventure in
>Queen Euphoria,

Any adventure that starts with the runners kidnapping a famous person is
going to smack of Queen Euphoria. Maybe that'll work out quite well: While
everyone is looking out for non-existant bugs, they won't see the real
threat coming. Heck, I did an adventure similar to that, only it was a
beauty pageant contestant (Miss CFS) being kidnapped while the local yak and
mafia were trying to win money betting on the outcome. It was a fun run
(although two of the characters wound up in the hospital; one for a week,
one for a month).


-Thomas Deeny
Cartoonist At Large

"Maybe, just maybe, my boys'll hold 'em off. And maybe I'm a Chinese test
pilot."
-Ash, _[Bruce Campbell vs.] The Army Of Darkness_
Message no. 3
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: Adventure idea [Spoiler!]
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 21:59:19 -0400 (EDT)
At 06:32 PM 5/24/96 -0500, you wrote:

>Any adventure that starts with the runners kidnapping a famous person is
>going to smack of Queen Euphoria. Maybe that'll work out quite well: While
>everyone is looking out for non-existant bugs, they won't see the real
>threat coming. Heck, I did an adventure similar to that, only it was a
>beauty pageant contestant (Miss CFS) being kidnapped while the local yak and
>mafia were trying to win money betting on the outcome. It was a fun run
>(although two of the characters wound up in the hospital; one for a week,
>one for a month).

Not to mention being able to use some ideas I've had floating around in my head.

After the party takes the celebreity to a posh hideaay...

GM: "You see a man wearing an armored jacket and some heat trying to shove a
package wrapped in plain brown paper into the door slot.."

Players: "Yikes! It's a bomb! Shoot him!"

*blam blam blam*

GM: "Congratulations. You just killed the postman!"

Players: "Doooh!"

Repeat with the meter reader, garbage man, and whomeever else you can think
of. *grin*

--
"I remember my first sexual encounter because I kept the recipe."
- Jeff Dahmer
Message no. 4
From: Tom Pendergrast <pendergr@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: Adventure idea [Spoiler!]
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 00:08:56 -0700 (PDT)
<snip>

> Not to mention being able to use some ideas I've had floating around
in my head. >
> After the party takes the celebreity to a posh hideaay...
>
> GM: "You see a man wearing an armored jacket and some heat trying to shove a
> package wrapped in plain brown paper into the door slot.."
>
> Players: "Yikes! It's a bomb! Shoot him!"
>
> *blam blam blam*
>
> GM: "Congratulations. You just killed the postman!"
>
> Players: "Doooh!"
>
> Repeat with the meter reader, garbage man, and whomeever else you can think
> of. *grin*

If any of your players actually do this they're idiots... (sorry,
not trying to start anything), I mean, they shouldn't let the dude NEAR
the place 'Um, thank you sir, I'll take that, I'm right here...", if
someone wanted to off said person, and that person actually made it to
the door, they're gacked...


---Tom---
Message no. 5
From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: Adventure idea [Spoiler!]
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 08:35:01 -0400 (EDT)
At 12:08 AM 5/25/96 -0700, you wrote:

>> After the party takes the celebreity to a posh hideaay...
>>
>> GM: "You see a man wearing an armored jacket and some heat trying to shove a
>> package wrapped in plain brown paper into the door slot.."
>>
>> Players: "Yikes! It's a bomb! Shoot him!"
>>
>> *blam blam blam*
>>
>> GM: "Congratulations. You just killed the postman!"
>>
>> Players: "Doooh!"
>>
>> Repeat with the meter reader, garbage man, and whomeever else you can think
>> of. *grin*
>
> If any of your players actually do this they're idiots... (sorry,
>not trying to start anything), I mean, they shouldn't let the dude NEAR
>the place 'Um, thank you sir, I'll take that, I'm right here...", if
>someone wanted to off said person, and that person actually made it to
>the door, they're gacked...

True, but the point was that the runners probally wouldn't know what a
postal carrier was. After all, who would deliver mail in the barrens?

--
"I remember my first sexual encounter because I kept the recipe."
- Jeff Dahmer
Message no. 6
From: Tom Pendergrast <pendergr@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: Adventure idea [Spoiler!]
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 12:01:31 -0700 (PDT)
> >> After the party takes the celebreity to a posh hideaay...

<snip, killing the postman>

> >> Repeat with the meter reader, garbage man, and whomeever else you can think
> >> of. *grin*
> >
> > If any of your players actually do this they're idiots... (sorry,
> >not trying to start anything), I mean, they shouldn't let the dude NEAR
> >the place 'Um, thank you sir, I'll take that, I'm right here...", if
> >someone wanted to off said person, and that person actually made it to
> >the door, they're gacked...
>
> True, but the point was that the runners probally wouldn't know what a
> postal carrier was. After all, who would deliver mail in the barrens?

What is a postal carrier? I don't know about you, but I hardly
even check my snail-mail anymore... you think by 205X EVERYTHING would be
electronic...

(Next) And, if the 'runners are protecting this celeb, they're
professionals right? Well, if they're pros, they should know about the
world outside of the barrens (my chars avoid tha place like the
black-fraggin-plague)... I mean a postal-man or whatever shouldn't shock
them in the least... they should know what they're getting into...


---Tom---
Message no. 7
From: Hairy Smurf <ab130f92@*******.adelphi.edu>
Subject: Re: Adventure idea [Spoiler!]
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 21:48:03 -0400 (EDT)
At 12:01 5/25/96 -0700, you wrote:
>
> What is a postal carrier? I don't know about you, but I hardly
>even check my snail-mail anymore... you think by 205X EVERYTHING would be
>electronic...
>
>
> ---Tom---

Since when did you get cookies from mom throguh your e-mail? (Bad example
but you get my point.)

Sasquatch

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