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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Patrick 'Arcaist' Theiner)
Subject: Best cover?
Date: Fri Aug 2 06:35:01 2002
Hi there, I'm not exactly new to this list, but took a break (for
about two years ; ).

Here's my question:
What's the best 'day job'-cover you (or one of your fellow players)
have created for a runner? Do you use day jobs at all?

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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Downtym)
Subject: Best cover?
Date: Sat Aug 3 00:10:01 2002
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Patrick 'Arcaist' Theiner wrote:

>
> Hi there, I'm not exactly new to this list, but took a break (for
> about two years ; ).
>
> Here's my question:
> What's the best 'day job'-cover you (or one of your fellow players)
> have created for a runner? Do you use day jobs at all?

Bouncer. Yes.

Downtym |
Email: gte138j@*****.gatech.edu | Post no bills
Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Sean Goodroad)
Subject: Best cover?
Date: Sat Aug 3 03:50:01 2002
It was a troll that worked at a fast food resturant.

Thanks,
Sean

> Here's my question:
> What's the best 'day job'-cover you (or one of your fellow players)
> have created for a runner? Do you use day jobs at all?
>
> --
> Patrick "Arcaist" Theiner
Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (pete filipe)
Subject: Best cover?
Date: Sun Aug 4 20:05:01 2002
--- Patrick 'Arcaist' Theiner
<arcaist@************.de> wrote:
> Here's my question:
> What's the best 'day job'-cover you (or one of your
> fellow players)
> have created for a runner? Do you use day jobs at
> all?

We use day jobs both as a cover and a means to launder
cash. Some of the covers we've used are: a
photojournalist, a cabbie (well, a combat cabbie),
corp wageslaves, DocWagon medics, an exec protection
specialist, and a talismonger.

====Pete
player, GM, and general SR addict.

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Message no. 5
From: shadowrn@*********.com (shadowrn@*********.com)
Subject: Best cover?
Date: Mon Aug 5 01:50:01 2002
Hmmm. 'Best'? I don't think I've really had a 'best'. Bouncer (one or two
of those), bounty hunter (had to come up with rules/costs for that), bar
owner (had to pay for that, too)... vehicle shop owner. Low-stakes stock-car
driver. Rock band member -- actually, the whole group was the band. (Please
note that not all of these are PCs, some are NPCs.) Mmmm.... gang member,
but that's both your day-job AND your 'runner job ...

Then again ...

I think the best 'day job' that we had was when the decker -- whose younger
sister had run away from home, then disappeared -again- -- started to do the
'lost/missing/kidnapped children' sort of thing, trying to find her sister.
And wound up starting to do the same sort of thing for other people.



The Wyrm Ouroboros
'Half Russian mathemetician,
half Silicon Valley code freak.'
Message no. 6
From: shadowrn@*********.com (shadowrn@*********.com)
Subject: Best cover?
Date: Tue Aug 6 08:05:01 2002
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Patrick 'Arcaist' Theiner [mailto:arcaist@************.de]
>Sent: Friday, 2, August, 2002 06:39 AM
>To: shadowrn@*********.com
>Subject: Best cover?
>
>
>
>
>Here's my question:
>What's the best 'day job'-cover you (or one of your fellow players)
>have created for a runner? Do you use day jobs at all?

My best cover as a day job was as a rigger cab driver. This allowed the
character a certain amount of flexibility and movement throughout Seatle and
meetings with Johnsons were dead easy. The only down side was that you
couldn't get your cab all shot up.

Coyote
Message no. 7
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Christian Casavant)
Subject: Best cover?
Date: Tue Aug 6 08:15:01 2002
> My best cover as a day job was as a rigger cab driver. This allowed the
> character a certain amount of flexibility and movement throughout Seatle and
> meetings with Johnsons were dead easy. The only down side was that you
> couldn't get your cab all shot up.

If you're cab *wasn't* shot up, they'ld know something was wrong!

I used to like to carry around a very high rating fake IRS (or Inland
Revenue) ID. I don't know how convincing it was for my 6'8 cybered Ork
street sam, but the phrase, "You don't need a tax audit right now, do
you?" really seemed effective sometimes.

Xian.
Message no. 8
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Bryan Pow)
Subject: Best cover?
Date: Tue Aug 6 18:40:01 2002
I've seen one character that was a cab driver, well actually he stole
the cab and used it to rob people who got in...... ... so it wasn't
really a cover.
Another character was a bar owner. he put all his money into improving
his bar. The character was a Shadowrunning Bogun (sp).
A mafia character started up his own Law firm and Magical School
Some other characters started up a corporation and took over a small
chunk of france
Aaaah, one guy had a character who's day job was a building demolitions
expert.
Another character had the F**kin Genius edge, an intelligence of 8 and
was a student at Seattle University who was discovering the Graviton
Particle. He was a Shadowrunner because he was not quite clued up on
what was acceptable behavior and wanted to be a Hero, since someone back
in Tir Nan Og said he could only marry his love if he was someone big
(she's a noble).




--
Winged shadow Downtown
Heat of sun and heat of fire
Man I hate Dragons
Message no. 9
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Rand Ratinac)
Subject: Best cover?
Date: Tue Aug 6 20:50:01 2002
> > My best cover as a day job was as a rigger cab
driver. This allowed the character a certain amount
of flexibility and movement throughout Seatle and
meetings with Johnsons were dead easy. The only down
side was that you couldn't get your cab all shot up.
>
> If you're cab *wasn't* shot up, they'ld know
something was wrong!

Very true, if you drove near the Barrens. :)

> I used to like to carry around a very high rating
fake IRS (or Inland Revenue) ID. I don't know how
convincing it was for my 6'8 cybered Ork street sam,
but the phrase, "You don't need a tax audit right now,
do you?" really seemed effective sometimes.
> Xian.

Well, check out all those old shadowtalk entries from
the Chromed Accountant. :) Apparently the IRS has
muscle-boy teams for dealing with those recalcitrant
and heavily armed tax defaulters. ;)

Me, I've always liked bodyguard IDs for runners. They
let you go around armed, for one thing. Being a
licensed PI may be even better, as it gives you an
excuse to ask those interesting questions. ;) Of
course, the weapons for both identities would have to
be licensed, but that just means you have two sets of
guns - one licensed, one unlicensed - and you don't
use the licensed ones for illegal stuff.

A good way for a rigger to meet interesting people,
overhear interesting discussions and get into
interesting places? Get a job as a limo driver. ;)

====Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow, aka Doc'booner, aka Doc' Vader)

.sig Sauer

If you SMELL what the DOC' is COOKING!!!

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