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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Aewyn)
Subject: Amnesiac campaigns
Date: Fri Mar 16 10:55:01 2001
Well, after reading this thread and re-reading R:AS (I was bored
yesterday), an evil idea popped up in my head.

Anyone saw the movie Cube?

[evil grin]


What I was thinking about was giving the players a list of character
archetypes and having each of them choose one.
I'm wondering, tho, if those archetypes should be mainly shadworunners, mob
soldiers and other characters used to combat and security devices, or if
they should be mostly "normals" with a street sam/mage thrown in to make
sure they stay alive for some time? Or maybe a member of Red Samurai, who
found out about the shtuodwn *before* it happened, was drugged, woke up in
in a maze?
Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Jeff)
Subject: Amnesiac campaigns
Date: Fri Mar 16 22:40:01 2001
> or if
> they should be mostly "normals" with a street
> sam/mage thrown in to make

You should put some "normal" in the list if not most
of them. I had a campaign going on in RA:S where I had
2 Security Red Samurai, 1 doctor with minimal fighting
experience and a programmer with almost no fighting
experience. They were all employees of Renraku when it
shut down. I gave them minimal ressources and it was
the best games we had, with lots of ideas, and
planning like I rarely seen in a game.

====Jeff

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Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Hahns Shin)
Subject: Amnesiac Campaigns
Date: Sat Mar 17 03:20:01 2001
> Well, after reading this thread and re-reading R:AS (I was bored
> yesterday), an evil idea popped up in my head.
>
> Anyone saw the movie Cube?
A must see for the monofilament net at the very beginning. A guy
hits a trap and falls into pieces. Neat demonstration of monofilament.

> What I was thinking about was giving the players a list of character
> archetypes and having each of them choose one.
<snip>

I ran an Arcology game recently, where I made 5 characters and
had all of the players choose one, ranging from Red Samurai to
a scared 16 year old girl. I eventually finagled a way to get them
to meet (separated into different parts of the Arco), and they had
to work their way past the various dangers of the Arcology (There
was an interesting segment when one of the characters was
running to divert the attention of 5 Medusae. It was Aliens-esque).
The weird thing was that parts of the Arcology seemed to be
totally untouched... there were residents who thought everything
was normal.

They found out a few sessions later (after discovering several
bizarre "magical" events) that the whole time, they were actually
jacked into the UV system, along with many of the other arcology
residents. They were running in a "virtual" arcology, set up a la
Matrix to dupe the minds of the residents trapped in the arcology
(Obviously, Deus needs all those minds in his "great plan" at the
end of Brainscan, not spoiling what the "great plan" is for you
readers out there). When they finally escaped and jacked out,
then the REAL escape began. 2 of the characters died, and
had to be replaced with other characters (a resistance fighter
and an otaku), but a lot of fun was had by all. The best part was
the last session jacked into the UV node, when the players all
realized that they were in a UV node. Then they started to use
their Computer skills (all the characters had a 4 or higher) to
start pulling twists of the computer-generated reality. There was
an especially suspenseful swordplay session against some of
Deus's otaku, everyone armed w/ a blade of some sort and
performing Adept-like maneuvers on each other.

Hahns Shin, MS I
Budding cybersurgeon
Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth)
Subject: Amnesiac campaigns
Date: Sat Mar 17 06:30:06 2001
According to Aewyn, on Fri, 16 Mar 2001 the word on the street was...

> Well, after reading this thread and re-reading R:AS (I was bored
> yesterday), an evil idea popped up in my head.
>
> Anyone saw the movie Cube?

Yep. I even recommended it to the list for those GMing a RA:S campaign a
few months back.

> [evil grin]

Exactly :)

> What I was thinking about was giving the players a list of character
> archetypes and having each of them choose one.
> I'm wondering, tho, if those archetypes should be mainly shadworunners, mob
> soldiers and other characters used to combat and security devices, or if
> they should be mostly "normals" with a street sam/mage thrown in to make
> sure they stay alive for some time? Or maybe a member of Red Samurai, who
> found out about the shtuodwn *before* it happened, was drugged, woke up in
> in a maze?

Someone who knows what they're doing would be good :) You could do this
with just about any group of characters, though obviously if everyone is
playing a street sam then things can be made a lot tougher on them.

If you want to run an adventure like this, IMO the only thing you need to
make sure of is the PCs will have a wide range of skills regardless of
which character types the player choose. This is not all that easy, because
the players could all pick characters with the same skills -- unless you
first let them choose and only create the characters (or at least their
skill lists) after that.

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Message no. 5
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Scott W)
Subject: Amnesiac Campaigns
Date: Sat Mar 17 12:00:01 2001
> I ran an Arcology game recently, where I made 5 characters and had
all of the players choose one, ranging from Red Samurai to a scared
16 year old girl. I eventually finagled a way to get them to meet

<snip, snip, snippety-snip>

Wow. You running any PBEMs anytime soon? :)

-Boondocker

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Message no. 6
From: shadowrn@*********.com (shadowrn@*********.com)
Subject: Amnesiac Campaigns
Date: Sat Mar 17 18:35:01 2001
From: "Hahns Shin" <hahns@****.org>
>They found out a few sessions later (after discovering several
>bizarre "magical" events) that the whole time, they were actually
>jacked into the UV system, along with many of the other arcology
>residents. They were running in a "virtual" arcology, set up a la
>Matrix to dupe the minds of the residents trapped in the arcology

The origional plot of the movie "The Matrix" was very similar to this, and
set in the shadowrun universe, at least, that's what I've heard.
Message no. 7
From: shadowrn@*********.com (shadowrn@*********.com)
Subject: Amnesiac Campaigns
Date: Sat Mar 17 19:15:00 2001
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> The origional plot of the movie "The Matrix" was very similar to this, and
>

I woulda loved to see that.

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Message no. 8
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Roadford)
Subject: Amnesiac campaigns
Date: Sun Mar 18 02:10:01 2001
When last we left our hero's Aewyn had said.

> Well, after reading this thread and re-reading R:AS (I was bored
> yesterday), an evil idea popped up in my head.
>
> Anyone saw the movie Cube?
>
> [evil grin]
>
>
> What I was thinking about was giving the players a list of character
> archetypes and having each of them choose one.
> I'm wondering, tho, if those archetypes should be mainly shadworunners,
mob
> soldiers and other characters used to combat and security devices, or if
> they should be mostly "normals" with a street sam/mage thrown in to make
> sure they stay alive for some time? Or maybe a member of Red Samurai, who
> found out about the shtuodwn *before* it happened, was drugged, woke up in
> in a maze?
>

i have a sugestion for you. What if it is a test by Dues. Yes I can see it
now. The "People" wake up in the middle of this cube that is acctualy in
the middle of the archology. (heh heh heh).
Speaking of Deus and the Archology, what ever happened with it. First thing
I know, Dues is running it and the Archology is shut down. The next thing I
know (a la Matrix and Target Matrix) Renraku and UCAS has retaken it. What
book(s) did this happen in. More information for the ignorant please!

Thank you

- do the voices in my head bother you?
Message no. 9
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Scott W)
Subject: Amnesiac campaigns
Date: Sun Mar 18 11:15:00 2001
> Speaking of Deus and the Archology, what ever happened with it.
First thing I know, Dues is running it and the Archology is shut
down. The next thing I know (a la Matrix and Target Matrix) Renraku
and UCAS has retaken it. What book(s) did this happen in. More
information for the ignorant please!

Brainscan. Reading that one clears up a LOT of things... 'course
now I must forget everything since I'm playing the module.

-Boondocker (who... must... forget... plot! Must... forget!)

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