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Message no. 1
From: Michel Racine <racine@********.HYDRO.QC.CA>
Subject: Games idea for nearly all city
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 09:55:57 EDT
If you have an university in thou town, let's make this run!

One of the students is making research on artificially intelligent and
self operating robot. The kind of that can guard an area with a high threat
rating. The robot is equip with chain gun, full of ammo and targetting system
(something with ressemblance to mechanical armor in Battlelords, but less
lethal).

But the student is stuck on a problem and he had engaged(or will, depend on
you!) some shadowrunners to steel some equipement from a corp. This equip
could be anything from a special integrated computer from a Renraku Computer
System departement to a special targetting system from Ares. Anyway, the
equipement must have been stolen from a MegaCorp.

Next part is that the corp(Ares, Renraku or whatever) is engaging shadowrunners
to take a look and get back their equipement. The player must go to the
university, find the equipment and bring it back. That mean also get
a false student card with the rigth permissions or getting throught the
security systems of the university. Look in the Neo Arnarchist Guide for
Real Life for nasty security systems.

Meanwhile, another group of researchers have heard about the recent progress
of their thief competitor. And this new group send some shadowrunners against
him to steel his documents.

The funny part is when all these folks meets in a nasty firefigth where
the robot prototype engage in the combat(do you hear the gunshots?).

I mean the same night (or day) that the player go to the university, the other
group of shadowrunners are going as well. And all those will meet.

And the epilogue can be an happyend(i.e. the players get paid if they have
bring back the equipement) or a nasty ending: the megacorp will try to
kill them to avoid publicity about their stolen equipement.

Wathever you think about this, or if you have ideas that can help, write it
and send it!

I didn't play it yet, but soon will be.

-Racine
Message no. 2
From: MB Overton <u4d41@**.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Games idea for nearly all city
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 14:32:40 +0100
>
> If you have an university in thou town, let's make this run!
>
> One of the students is making research on artificially intelligent and
> self operating robot. The kind of that can guard an area with a high threat
> rating. The robot is equip with chain gun, full of ammo and targetting system
> (something with ressemblance to mechanical armor in Battlelords, but less
> lethal).
>
> But the student is stuck on a problem and he had engaged(or will, depend on
> you!) some shadowrunners to steel some equipement from a corp. This equip
> could be anything from a special integrated computer from a Renraku Computer
> System departement to a special targetting system from Ares. Anyway, the
> equipement must have been stolen from a MegaCorp.
>
> Next part is that the corp(Ares, Renraku or whatever) is engaging
shadowrunners
> to take a look and get back their equipement. The player must go to the
> university, find the equipment and bring it back. That mean also get
> a false student card with the rigth permissions or getting throught the
> security systems of the university. Look in the Neo Arnarchist Guide for
> Real Life for nasty security systems.
>
> Meanwhile, another group of researchers have heard about the recent progress
> of their thief competitor. And this new group send some shadowrunners against
> him to steel his documents.
>
> The funny part is when all these folks meets in a nasty firefigth where
> the robot prototype engage in the combat(do you hear the gunshots?).
>
> I mean the same night (or day) that the player go to the university, the other
> group of shadowrunners are going as well. And all those will meet.
>
> And the epilogue can be an happyend(i.e. the players get paid if they have
> bring back the equipement) or a nasty ending: the megacorp will try to
> kill them to avoid publicity about their stolen equipement.
>
> Wathever you think about this, or if you have ideas that can help, write it
> and send it!
>
> I didn't play it yet, but soon will be.
>
> -Racine
>

Why not bring in something of an undercover element, e.g. university
security is too strict for a simple 'run, so players must (temporarily)
masquerade as students. It adds an extra layer because of the risk of
discovery as impostors. Also, why not make the target hidden - after all,
some university projects _are_ top-security - so that players need to
negotiate the university campus to find their target (and believe me, if
it's anything like my uni, that's a whole campaign in itself...

Equinox
u4d41@*****.ac.uk

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