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Message no. 1
From: Steven A. Tinner bluewizard@*****.com
Subject: Bachelor Party Run (BULL, KEEP OUT - SPOILER!)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:52:46 -0500
You want to know just how big a gamer geek I am?
Guess what we're doing for my upcoming bachelor party?
If you said SR Marathon, you'd be right! ;-)

That should tell you what kind of masochist I am too, since I'll be running
for some of the most powerful old characters to ever appear in my campaign.
We;re going to dust off the old PC's and attempt to wrap up EVERY loose plot
thread still hanging from a campaign that has existed since SR1 first
appeared. ;-)

Anyway, while the old plotlines should keep us plenty busy, I still am
looking for a few new encounters to throw at the lads.
That's where you all come in!
I want to hear all your most depraved, evil, sadistic plot-bombs you've
always wanted to run, but never could.
I want to hear all about the storylines so twisted you could never run them
with your campaign, because I'll run them in mine!
If you've been here for awhile, then you know the kind of over-the-top
stories I like, and just exactly how harshly I like to treat my players.

Here's your chance to earn your EvilGM Merit Badge, without having to grind
down your own players!
All I ask is that you leave some spoiler space, since Bull will be going on
this run, and I'm sure he doesn't want to have the fun ruined.

Thanks for the help with this, and I'm anxiously awaiting your ideas!

Steven A. Tinner
bluewizard@*****.com
http://listen.to/tinner
" If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college." -
Louis Black
Message no. 2
From: Hunter griffinhq@****.com
Subject: Bachelor Party Run (BULL, KEEP OUT - SPOILER!)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:03:29 -0500
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:52:46 -0500 "Steven A. Tinner"
<bluewizard@*****.com> writes:
> You want to know just how big a gamer geek I am?
> Guess what we're doing for my upcoming bachelor party?
> If you said SR Marathon, you'd be right! ;-)
>
> Here's your chance to earn your EvilGM Merit Badge, without having
> to grind
> down your own players!
> All I ask is that you leave some spoiler space, since Bull will be
> going on
> this run, and I'm sure he doesn't want to have the fun ruined.
>
> Thanks for the help with this, and I'm anxiously awaiting your
> ideas!
>
<Heh>
I'll just dig out my old GMs plot lines.

Okay, how about SAMAS suits? (from Rifts)
How about Zentran and Marduk warriors? (from Macross 2)
Or the all time group favorite . . . a Greater Named Horror summoned
across the divide. (in this case Druidstadt)

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Message no. 3
From: Steven A. Tinner bluewizard@*****.com
Subject: Bachelor Party Run (BULL, KEEP OUT - SPOILER!)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:14:58 -0500
> > Here's your chance to earn your EvilGM Merit Badge, without having
> > to grind
> > down your own players!
> > All I ask is that you leave some spoiler space, since Bull will be
> > going on
> > this run, and I'm sure he doesn't want to have the fun ruined.
> >
> > Thanks for the help with this, and I'm anxiously awaiting your
> > ideas!

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> <Heh>
> I'll just dig out my old GMs plot lines.
>
> Okay, how about SAMAS suits? (from Rifts)
> How about Zentran and Marduk warriors? (from Macross 2)
> Or the all time group favorite . . . a Greater Named Horror summoned
> across the divide. (in this case Druidstadt

Fortunately, I've used all but one of these (The Macross 2 one is the one I
haven't done!)
But I just wanted to remind everyone to leave that SPOILER SPACE in there,
now that Bull is sure to have seen your suggestions, I can't very well use
them, can I? ;-)

Steven A. Tinner
bluewizard@*****.com
http://listen.to/tinner
" If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college." -
Louis Black
Message no. 4
From: Hunter griffinhq@****.com
Subject: Bachelor Party Run (BULL, KEEP OUT - SPOILER!)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 02:20:23 -0500
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:14:58 -0500 "Steven A. Tinner"
<bluewizard@*****.com> writes:
> Y
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> > <Heh>
> > I'll just dig out my old GMs plot lines.
> >
> > Okay, how about SAMAS suits? (from Rifts)
> > How about Zentran and Marduk warriors? (from Macross 2)
> > Or the all time group favorite . . . a Greater Named Horror
> summoned
> > across the divide. (in this case Druidstadt
>
> Fortunately, I've used all but one of these (The Macross 2 one is
> the one I
> haven't done!)

Try fighting Zentran. It's fun. Average Body 40, Average Quickness 8,
Average Strength 40....I think you get the idea.

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Message no. 5
From: Wildfire@*************.com Wildfire@*************.com
Subject: Bachelor Party Run (BULL, KEEP OUT - SPOILER!)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:30:11 GMT
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 02:20:23 -0500 shadowrn@*********.com wrote:
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> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:14:58 -0500 "Steven A. Tinner"
> <bluewizard@*****.com> writes:
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> > > <Heh>
> > > I'll just dig out my old GMs plot lines.
> > >
> > > Okay, how about SAMAS suits? (from Rifts)
> > > How about Zentran and Marduk warriors? (from Macross 2)
> > > Or the all time group favorite . . . a Greater Named Horror
> > summoned
> > > across the divide. (in this case Druidstadt
> >
> > Fortunately, I've used all but one of these (The Macross 2 one is
> > the one I
> > haven't done!)
>
> Try fighting Zentran. It's fun. Average Body 40, Average Quickness
> 8,
> Average Strength 40....I think you get the idea.
>
>


Some personal favorites, some of which have come up for discussion here before:

1) Their least favorites Corp(because its fun) just created Mechalus in the Shadowrun
world
2) Anime plot #1 - Rayearth Syndrome
The runners are having a perfectly normal day until some force up and yanks them to
another dimension, where they're supposed to be legendary heros. Unfortunatly, they know
absolutely nothing about the world, its weapons, etc. and the person/thing who knows how
they can get home seems to be missing...
3) Anime Plot #2 - Macross/Virus Syndrome
BOOM! Large alien spaceship crashes in a corporate extraterritorial area. Who gets to
investigate it? Expendable resources of course! Nothing happens, except everyone who
comes into contact with the runners ends up in a coma after about a week. After the corp
seals the runners in with the ship <egmg>, the owners come looking for it. Of
course, by now the runners have figured out that the cure lies with them keeping the ship,
and so think wonderful accidents when trying to keep off the aliens, like the whole fold
thing, main cannon, lots of accidental mass destruction while trying to figure out how to
save their friends and family, and the guy who owes them money for this run...

S'all for now, I'll remember some more later...

Wildfire (sometimes with a DC)
Terminally Behind SOTA
Message no. 6
From: dbuehrer@******.carl.org dbuehrer@******.carl.org
Subject: Bachelor Party Run (BULL, KEEP OUT - SPOILER!)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:23:50 -0700
Steven A. Tinner wrote:

>Anyway, while the old plotlines should keep us plenty busy, I still am
>looking for a few new encounters to throw at the lads.
>That's where you all come in!
>I want to hear all your most depraved, evil, sadistic plot-bombs you've
>always wanted to run, but never could.
>I want to hear all about the storylines so twisted you could never run them
>with your campaign, because I'll run them in mine!
>If you've been here for awhile, then you know the kind of over-the-top
>stories I like, and just exactly how harshly I like to treat my players.

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Here's a set of adventures that I'm planning on running in my campaign.

First Adventure: A cybermancer at a delta clinic hires the characters to
hunt down and kill a cyberzombie that got away from them. After it escaped
it should have died on it's own, but something is keeping the damn thing
alive. And it's killing quite a few people. LS thinks they have a typical
serial killer on their hands in Seattle and have no idea it's a cyberzombie
(lead off the adventure with news reports of a very active serial killer
plaguing the streets of Seattle).

The cyberzombie has been marked by a horror <EGMG>. The horror stuck
halfway between earth and where ever it is that horrors come from, and
marked the cyberzombie to feed. The horror is maintaining the
cyberzombie's lifeforce.

The cyberzombie leads the characters on a merry chase through Seattle, with
LS close on their heels. Clues and evidence eventually lead the characters
to the cyberzombie's hideout. LS arrives at the same time, in force. In a
grand battle the cyberzombie kills the entire LS force (in an Aliens sneak
up on them and kill them one at a time kind of way). When the character
finally confront the cyberzombie, the cyberzombie regains it's senses just
long enough to beg the characters to kill it, and hold still for a split
second for them to do the deed.

This should leave the characters with a lot of questions. There are no
clues whatsoever implicating the horror.

Second Adventure: A wraith is loose in Seattle. After the demise of the
cyberzombie the horror found a wraith to do it's dirty work. After being
decimated by the cyberzombie, LS cannot deal with the wraith in the short
term (reinforcements are on the way from other cities). A juicy bounty is
put on the wraith's head that the runners can't resist. This one is pretty
much just a short series of battles as the runners respond to reports of
death and destruction and try to catch the wraith in the act. They also
have to deal with the wraith's victims, who will attack the runners given
the opportunity. In the first two encounters the wraith will run away
rather than confront the characters. In the third and final encounter the
wraith has managed to control another runner team that got there first (if
you want to be really evil this could be a team that the runners know and
respect). With the firepower of the runner team the wraith will stand it's
ground, giving the runners a chance to take it out.

Third adventure: The horror, after mulling things over, figures out that
the magic used to create the cyberzombie could be used to fully summon it
to earth. It easily tracks down and marks the cybermancer at the Delta
clinic. The cybermancer begins to "collect" other mages and shamans for
the ritual required to summon the horror. This collection process requires
that the other mages and shamans be marked, through the cybermancer. (The
relationship between the cybermancer and the horror is similar to the
relationship between an insect queen and a shaman.)

The character enter the picture when they are hired to track down a missing
person. An NPC hires the characters to find his sister, a mage studying at
MIT&M's extended campus in Seattle. The sister is in her early 20s, blond,
and beautiful (the brother has a picture). She is also in the top of her
class (the brother mentions this as he is very proud of his sister).

A series of clues (think Buffy the Vampire Slayer + Sherlock Holmes)
eventually leads the characters to the cybermancer's home (a large home in
a AAA neighborhood) and they enter to find the gathered mages in the act of
summoning the horror. A few of the mages/shamans break away from the
ritual to deal with the characters. If they don't stop the ritual... well,
things won't be happy go lucky in Seattle anymore.

Please note that they have a beautiful woman to save :) You can't get more
heroic than that <EGMG>.

BTW, congratulations on finding the love of your life, and you'll have to
post pictures of the wedding on the web somewhere for us :)

To Life,
-Graht
http://www.users.uswest.net/~abaker3
--
"What you are doing at the moment must be exactly what
you are doing at the moment--and nothing else."
Message no. 7
From: Simon Fuller sfuller@******.com.au
Subject: Bachelor Party Run (BULL, KEEP OUT - SPOILER!)
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:12:33 +1100
-----Original Message-----
From: dbuehrer@******.carl.org <dbuehrer@******.carl.org>
To: shadowrn@*********.com <shadowrn@*********.com>
Date: Saturday, February 26, 2000 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: Bachelor Party Run (BULL, KEEP OUT - SPOILER!)


>Steven A. Tinner wrote:
>
>>Anyway, while the old plotlines should keep us plenty busy, I still am
>>looking for a few new encounters to throw at the lads.
>>That's where you all come in!
>>I want to hear all your most depraved, evil, sadistic plot-bombs you've
>>always wanted to run, but never could.
>>I want to hear all about the storylines so twisted you could never run
them
>>with your campaign, because I'll run them in mine!
>>If you've been here for awhile, then you know the kind of over-the-top
>>stories I like, and just exactly how harshly I like to treat my players.
>
>Spoiler space
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Every single person the party knows, every conact, every family member,
every fixer, is an insect spirit, and they have been manipulating the group
since day one. Sending them on missions that aid the hive, destroying
rivals, that sort of thing, with a few inconsequential runs thrown in for
camoflage. The hive started out small, but thanks to the runners, it has
taken over every aspect of their lives. It is All Their Fault. By the end of
the night, the group is back to square one, their funds and equipment are
gone, they have no contacts, the word on the street is that they are lackeys
to insect spirits, and they are basically hung out to dry. A great analogy
to getting married, leaving the old life behind and starting again, and you
know you are going to alienate all your single friends sooner or later!


>BTW, congratulations on finding the love of your life, and you'll have to
>post pictures of the wedding on the web somewhere for us :)
>
>To Life,
>-Graht


Seconded.
Message no. 8
From: Andrew Murdoch toreador@***.bc.ca
Subject: Bachelor Party Run (BULL, KEEP OUT - SPOILER!)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:05:51 -0800 (PST)
- Steven A. Tinner <00:52/25-Feb-2000>

>
> You want to know just how big a gamer geek I am?
> Guess what we're doing for my upcoming bachelor party?
> If you said SR Marathon, you'd be right! ;-)
>
> That should tell you what kind of masochist I am too, since I'll be running
> for some of the most powerful old characters to ever appear in my campaign.
> We;re going to dust off the old PC's and attempt to wrap up EVERY loose plot
> thread still hanging from a campaign that has existed since SR1 first
> appeared. ;-)
>
> Anyway, while the old plotlines should keep us plenty busy, I still am
> looking for a few new encounters to throw at the lads.
> That's where you all come in!
> I want to hear all your most depraved, evil, sadistic plot-bombs you've
> always wanted to run, but never could.
> I want to hear all about the storylines so twisted you could never run them
> with your campaign, because I'll run them in mine!
> If you've been here for awhile, then you know the kind of over-the-top
> stories I like, and just exactly how harshly I like to treat my players.
>
> Here's your chance to earn your EvilGM Merit Badge, without having to grind
> down your own players!
> All I ask is that you leave some spoiler space, since Bull will be going on
> this run, and I'm sure he doesn't want to have the fun ruined.
>
> Thanks for the help with this, and I'm anxiously awaiting your ideas!
>
> Steven A. Tinner
> bluewizard@*****.com
> http://listen.to/tinner
> " If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college." -
> Louis Black

>>>>>[EL SPOILER SPACE!]<<<<<

















Any characters have missing relatives/friends/lovers/etc? Bug
shamans. >=) Doin' that to my own wife's character! Mwa ha ha.
--
Raven
Sometimes known as Andrew C. Murdoch
toreador@***.bc.ca
http://members.xoom.com/corvisraven
Message no. 9
From: Simon Nixon a_9365@*******.com
Subject: Bachelor Party Run (BULL, KEEP OUT - SPOILER!)
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:58:58 GMT
Not sure if this is the sort of thing you want but I thounght it might be
appropriate in an evil kind o way. Have the PC Bull's playing get completely
wasted one night on a mammoth binge. Next morning he wakes up at around
12.00 with no memory of what happened between then and about 10.30 the
previous evening, in one of the most expensive hotels in Seattle. He's got a
*massive* hangover and there's the most beautiful women he's ever seen lying
there naked next to him. He's got no idea of who the lady is. He turns over
and on the bedside cabinet sees an empty packet of condoms and a marriage
license with his name on and some ladies - the women lying next to him.
while he's just starting to drek himself the lady wakes up.

Now you've got a couple of option. Option one is that he simply got wasted
and hitched in a quickie 50 nuyen marriage at the Church of Elvis, all
perfectly legal. He's even got the badly done photo of him, the bride and
the Elvis priest in full regalia to prove it.

Another option is that she happens to be the daughter of the head of a
*major* crime family - the head Yakuza guy has a daughter IIRC in Mob War
adventures. Now they were estranged, but he happens to be *very* protective
of his little girl even though she's fully grown up and running the shadows
now. And he really wants to introduce the guy that seduced his little girl
to a pair of handcuffs and a cheese grater.

The third and most evil option though is that after waking the women turns
out to be a mantis spirit as he finds out when she manifests after telling
him 'that was really wonderful last night'. He's married a bug. And slept
with a bug <play retchwave_file>. And we all know what happens to a female
mantis spirit's mate after doing the dirty. Yup, the female eats them. So
here he is with only a pistol, buck naked with no clothes as he vaguely
remembers sending them to be cleaned, in one of the most expensive hotels in
Seattle with his mantis spirit wife about to eat him. If he gets away from
the bug/wife even getting out of the hotel is going to be hard as hotel
security will be getting loads of calls about naked madmen running through
the halls with a gun.

If you tack this onto the end of an adventure it can be really funny as if
Lowfyr wants words about why they stole one of his personal projects, the PC
has to dodge both a great dragon's vengeance as well as an irate wife
literally out for his blood. I'm just wondering which one would be worse :)
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