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Message no. 1
From: Jeff Norrell <norrell@*******.ME.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject: Changed to general GM'ing
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 14:37:33 +0600
I have a query for all of you SR folks out there...

As a former DMer for $$&$, I have recently made the switch to GMing SR.
I'm in the process of trying to lay out a run and had the idea to center it
around the college I'm at. I've been for over 6 years so know the local area
pretty well also.

The question is... Does anyone have plot suggestions? I've got a great locale
but few ideas as what to do with it.

Thanks ya'll.
-Jeff
Message no. 2
From: Stephane Lafrance <Stephane.Lafrance@***.ULAVAL.CA>
Subject: Re: Changed to general GM'ing
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 16:21:14 EDT
----------------------[Reply - Original Message]----------------------
Sent by:Jeff Norrell <norrell@*******.me.utexas.edu>
The question is... Does anyone have plot suggestions? I've got a great locale
but few ideas as what to do with it.

-Jeff
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If you have the Sprawl sourcebook you can have plenty of ideas in it.

I'll come back later with more personal ideas

Stephan
Message no. 3
From: Christopher Hemme <hemme@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: Changed to general GM'ing
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 15:45:58 -0600
>
> I have a query for all of you SR folks out there...
>
> As a former DMer for $$&$, I have recently made the switch to GMing SR.
> I'm in the process of trying to lay out a run and had the idea to center it
> around the college I'm at. I've been for over 6 years so know the local area
> pretty well also.
>
> The question is... Does anyone have plot suggestions? I've got a great locale
> but few ideas as what to do with it.
>
Here's an idea...

The local Johnson sends the 'runners to the Registrar's Office to
get their majors changed. Comedy ensues.

For an added bonus, have them try to get freshman chemistry credit
or pick up their Stafford Loan checks. Corps are nothing compared to any
university system.

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* Chris "Weedhopper" Hemme * "If this doesn't work, I'm gonna feel *
* Junior * really stupid..." *
* BioChem/Life Sciences * *
* * "I am NOT going to pay a lot for this *
* University of Missouri- * muffler!" *
* Rolla * The Mask *
* * *
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Message no. 4
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Changed to general GM'ing
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 15:55:41 -0500
On Tue, 4 Oct 1994, Jeff Norrell wrote:

> The question is... Does anyone have plot suggestions? I've got a great locale
> but few ideas as what to do with it.

President of college starts making weird decisions. Investigation
discovers he's under the control of Toxics. Fix the situation.

Chemistry students all suddenly died. What caused it?

An inturrpretive dance student summons up a dragon spirit, who's not very
happy at being woken up.

The president is coming for a visit. The SS rounds up all of the
"rowdies". Escape so you can disrupt the pres's speech.

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Message no. 5
From: Erik S Jameson <esj@***.UUG.ARIZONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Changed to general GM'ing
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 15:13:40 -0700
Some pretty damn good ideas so far from everybody (hey, you mind if I
steal them?).

How about these additions?

The university is recieving funding from your friendly neighborhood evil
corporation. I mean, BIG funding. This gives the following options...

1) The corp is demanding that research be done in a certain area (illegal
black IC, illegal cyberware and/or bioware research, etc.) and is
threatening to pull out its money if it isn't done. All very hush-hush
of course. What is a poor university administrator to do? Please note
that the amount of moeny in question would shut the school down if it
isn't there.

2) The president decides he's had enough of being a corporate toad. He
wants to get rid of the corp influence. How? ;)

3) The runners are hired to infiltrate an underground campus group
(eco-terrorists, radio-free university, the College Republicans, etc.).
This group may (or may not) actually have anything evil or nefarious
planned, but until the runners find this out, they have to go to classes,
take midterms, suffer school cafeteria food, and so on. Fun for the
whole family!

4) Or maybe the school simply needs more money (like that's something
new), and instead of raising tuition and fees yet again, and pissing of
an already very unhappy student, the president turns to the runners to
make moeny for the university. The runners get a cut from everything.
Makes for an interesting Mr. Johnson, huh? An even more interesting
reason to run the shadows.

Well, that's about my 4 cents.

Erik
Message no. 6
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Changed to general GM'ing
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 16:47:22 -0700
>> The question is... Does anyone have plot suggestions? I've got a great locale
>> but few ideas as what to do with it.

have the decker try and setup a local shadowland BBS.

Entails
1. becoming and Sysop on one or more computers - or atleast beinging
able to fake it

2. hise the traces of the BBS from sysops

3. keep moving it from computer to computer across campus


People have gone missing - time for the Runners to investigate Marriot who is
the food service corp for the campus. (yes Mariott does my campus here)
1. Mariott is chopping up people to put it food
2. Mariott is drugging food and stealling away people for experiments
3. Mariott drugs people then sells them to wendigo's
4. People found out what mariott is really up to a were removed
you may be next !!!!!

I'm happy my player in Talk doesn't read Run - he would find out that to much
from this last post - the runners have to investigate marriott!!!!

Nightfox

BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!
Daniel Waisley + SCA - March of Ered Sul - Flagstaff AZ
DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU + Nau fencing club.
"Nightfox" + Brotherhood of the Cryptic Demesne -household
BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!
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Message no. 7
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Changed to general GM'ing
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 16:11:45 -0700
>The question is... Does anyone have plot suggestions? I've got a great locale
>but few ideas as what to do with it.

Campus and small town plots

To many cases of agrivated Rape that the police don't repsond too.
1. They are a part of it
2. They can't get any leads
3. They have been bought off

Unsolved murders

Bodyguarding a VIP that while be speaking at the college - they think
<insert faction> wants to kill him

A spree of deckers dumping the school system and changing grades
1. Your decker is highered to beaf up security
2. Your decker and team is to find out who did it

A corp wants to biuld an unwanted landfill or something near the town
you get highered to terrorize the site

An experiment escapes from the <insert> biulding
1. Biology experiment
2. The paranormal animal on display breaks free
3. the samurai that who was the physicology subject freaks
and goes on a killing spree

Old president is leaving, there is a campaign going for a new one
your job is to dig up whatever you can find on the other canidates.


Basically, there are lots of small runs that you can do, just try and
brain-storm ideas or concepts and you should be able to come up with things.

Help on brain-storming
1. No idea is bad
2. Do not criticize ideas
3. Throw out anything you think of be they one word or a sentence
4. Ok to biuld off other ideas


Nightfox

BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!
Daniel Waisley + SCA - March of Ered Sul - Flagstaff AZ
DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU + Nau fencing club.
"Nightfox" + Brotherhood of the Cryptic Demesne -household
BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!
Geek code V2.1 GE d-? H++ s+:->++: g+ p? !au(-) a21! w++ v+* C++$(++++)
U(-) p? L !3 E? N K- W M+ V+ -po+(---) Y+ t+ 5+++! j-x R+(++) G' tv
b+(+++) D(+) B--- e+ u+*(++)(**) h(*) f+(*) r-->+++ !n- y+*>++
Message no. 8
From: Chris Lubrecht <lubrecht@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: Changed to general GM'ing
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 10:24:34 -0400
Try reasearch with an evil agenda, that exisits only to make a profit.

Nigel

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