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Message no. 1
From: Mike Bobroff <AirWisp@***.COM>
Subject: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 07:01:08 EST
Okay, here is something that happened in last weekends game that should give
everyone a good laugh and ranks in the current top 20 list here in the home
game for especially stupid things done ...

The group was breaking a prisoner out of a county jail and had gotten some of
the team (with the team mage) into an interview area where they chatted as if
they wanted to be her legal counsel ...

Well, a fight broke out ..

The mage decided that the one guy left standing was becoming a nuisance and
decided to cast an AoE spell that would have encompassed the entire room ...

The mage and party members were still in the room ... player had no figured
that part out yet ...

The spell cast was Mob Mood ... and the desired emotion was "Lust" ...

Everyone in the room failed ... and the mage no longer had any reason to stop
sustaining the spell anymore ...

One of the pcs went for the Fillipino prisoner (he was also Filipino) ...

The other party member was elf as was the mage and they went for each other
...

The remaining guard liked the elven pc ...

Elven pc did not want to share so he decked the guard ...

And the next 20 minutes was spent laughing our tails off ...

And I enjoyed seeing some of the guys squirm ...

Any other good stories out there .. besides the ones already mentioned before
?

Mike
Message no. 2
From: Fade <runefo@***.UIO.NO>
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:40:52 +0000
>*snip* Mike's recounting of the unintended effect of a mob mood
>(lust) spell.

*sick grin*

Guess they could count themselves fortunate none of the guards were
trolls...

BTW, did any of the people afterwards consider cacking the mage, or
was it tolerated as a mistake?

Brings me to another point, actually - how much higher threshold is
it for a PC to cack another PC rather than an NPC?
--
Fade

And the Prince of Lies said:
"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven."
-John Milton, Paradise Lost
Message no. 3
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 10:13:57 EST
In a message dated 98-02-15 08:44:20 EST, runefo@***.UIO.NO writes:

> *sick grin*
>
> Guess they could count themselves fortunate none of the guards were
> trolls...
>
> BTW, did any of the people afterwards consider cacking the mage, or
> was it tolerated as a mistake?
>
> Brings me to another point, actually - how much higher threshold is
> it for a PC to cack another PC rather than an NPC?
>
OH no, Binder and Tobias (Rick's Decker) were in the CCSS and Matrix overwatch
systems for the prison. We have pictures...Christmas Cards are SO much fun
around here.

The "cacking" part was when the stupid, dork, or a samurai-rigger thought of
firing a warning shot at the police helicopters BLADES and didn't pay
attention to what kind of gun the appropriated police chopper had.

Yep, one went down, did a "If we're going down, you're going down with us" and
shot the pcs vehicle, police chopper hits ground in flaming heap from over 100
meters up (smokey mountains and forest with nearby river in GA). Binder and
Jen (the mage mentioned previously) were in a boat, turned around and tried to
help the police pilots (didn't want what happened later to happen) but
couldn't save them. "Toasty Fries" was a good description.

Binder took the black box and high-tailed it out of there.

Everything went into Fubar Overdrive from that point as now the team had been
labeled "copkillers".

It was a BAD situation...

-K
Message no. 4
From: Stefan <casanova@******.PASSAGEN.SE>
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 17:21:16 +0000
Well since everybody is in the sharing mood of stupid runner stories.

Last session, the one with the fuel cost problem they rented a truck
they where going to use when breakin' in and taking the big and evil
mainframe.

And they where surprised when Lone Star stod outside there secret
hideout ....

They didn't check for trackin' devices on the truck or anything ....

/Stefan
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Message no. 5
From: Dust <rogan@******.ORG>
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:20:05 -0800
Lol,

I love these. I've shared this story 'bout a year ago but I'll do it
again. See I was running a British campaign and there was a sun druid and
a mage.

This bear charges the three of them in a forest. The sun druid decides to
control its actions and make it stop. The mage uses transform on it to
turn it into a mouse. The druid then makes the bear (now mouse) crawl up
the pants leg of another PC whom they did not like too much. Then the
mage dropped the transform spell.

What happenned next wasn't pretty.

Lates,

Dust
Message no. 6
From: Mike Bobroff <AirWisp@***.COM>
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:33:55 EST
In a message dated 98-02-15 08:44:22 EST, you write:

> *sick grin*
>
> Guess they could count themselves fortunate none of the guards were
> trolls...

They were rather lucky ... exept for the jokes about the prison guards
entering into the AoE and becoming enamored with each other ...

> BTW, did any of the people afterwards consider cacking the mage, or
> was it tolerated as a mistake?

The possibility was considered ... though the female elven mage had both large
tracks of land and a very high charisma .. so the thought was rather quick ...

> Brings me to another point, actually - how much higher threshold is
> it for a PC to cack another PC rather than an NPC?

When I first joined this group, when it was Keith's, the players were all
backstabbers to the hilt ... slowly that has changed ... we find that getting
even through humor and pulling stunts on each other in the game a lot more fun
(and even in real life we do the same) ... it is much healthier to have fun
together than to plot each other's demise ... which is what is happening with
most of the former members of the group ... pity ...

Mike
Message no. 7
From: Mike Bobroff <AirWisp@***.COM>
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:41:26 EST
In a message dated 98-02-15 11:22:03 EST, you write:

> Well since everybody is in the sharing mood of stupid runner stories.
>
> Last session, the one with the fuel cost problem they rented a truck
> they where going to use when breakin' in and taking the big and evil
> mainframe.
>
> And they where surprised when Lone Star stod outside there secret
> hideout ....
>
> They didn't check for trackin' devices on the truck or anything ....
>
Oooh .. frightening ... very frightening ... I'm going to have to start
checking my car from now ... I keep getting goosed by a patrol car every
evening going to work ...

Mike
Message no. 8
From: Mike Bobroff <AirWisp@***.COM>
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:43:07 EST
In a message dated 98-02-15 12:19:01 EST, you write:

> I love these. I've shared this story 'bout a year ago but I'll do it
> again. See I was running a British campaign and there was a sun druid and
> a mage.
>
> This bear charges the three of them in a forest. The sun druid decides to
> control its actions and make it stop. The mage uses transform on it to
> turn it into a mouse. The druid then makes the bear (now mouse) crawl up
> the pants leg of another PC whom they did not like too much. Then the
> mage dropped the transform spell.
>
> What happenned next wasn't pretty.
>
Dust, that's akin to cruelty ... I'm having asymptomatic pains right now
thinking about it ... what did the guy to deserve such a ball-shredding
experience ?

Mike (who will probably be cringing for a while)
Message no. 9
From: "Graves, Durand E. (Temporary at ALCOA)" <Durand.Graves@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:50:12 -0500
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From: Mike Bobroff[SMTP:AirWisp@***.COM]
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 1998 1:33 PM
To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...

>In a message dated 98-02-15 08:44:22 EST, you write:
>> Guess they could count themselves fortunate none of the guards were
>> trolls...

>They were rather lucky ... exept for the jokes about the prison guards
>entering into the AoE and becoming enamored with each other ...

What about the Ghoul? I missed that one.

>Mike


-DEG.
Message no. 10
From: "David R. Lowe" <dlowe@****.COM>
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:03:14 -0800
At 7:01 AM -0500 2/15/98, Mike Bobroff wrote:

>Any other good stories out there .. besides the ones already mentioned before
>?

A couple of sessions ago two of our players (a quasi-street sam/infiltrator
and a Racoon shamantic adept) totally flubbed a simple break-in at a small
office building. When lone star kicked in the door, they found our Racoon
adept stripped naked and our sam high-tailing it up the air duct. You see,
he was preparing to cast a transform spell and didn't want to lose his
stuff, so he gave it all to our sam.

So, he gets busted for breaking and entering, indecent exposure and aiding
a known felon (our sam's been in a bit of trouble lately). Then he knocks
himself out in the back of the police car trying to banish the Cop Mage's
elemental.

When the rest of us finally arrived (OK, we were at our decker's place
playing NHL '56 on her Nintendo. Don't ask. We figured "how hard could it
be?" They wouldn't need backup and would never know we never showed.) a few
services from my Cat shaman's spirt (fear and then confusion) sent Lone
Star packing and we busted him out of the cop car. Course we had to take a
few polaroids of him in front of the cop car, etc., before we had to leave.

Did I mention our Racoon adept loves us?

D.

David R. Lowe (dlowe@*********.com)
Photography/Design

Hey, there's a URL in my sig file now!
Check it out at: http://www.lowephoto.com.

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Message no. 11
From: Zixx <t_berghoff@*********.NETSURF.DE>
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 23:44:05 +0000
On 15 Feb 98 at 17:21, Stefan wrote:

> Well since everybody is in the sharing mood of stupid runner stories.

OK, here's another one:

THis is actually a two (or three?)-in-one story. It's about a female mage
in my group. She's a headhunter and got a job to find some exec's boy and
brind him back to daddy. Doing some ritual sorcery she figured out he was
in some building at the docks. So she drove there to check it out (I may
have to add that she got a fire-elemental in astral-space, which was
ordered to protect her).

Player: "So what kind of building is this?"
Me: "Some former warehouse, I'd say. Now a club of some sort."
Player: "What "sort"?"
Me: "Does "Fun with little boys" ring any bells?"
Player: "Huh?"
Me (in the most ironic voice ever heared): "You know, a CASINO."
Player: "I go inside"
Me:"The ork at the door tells you it's a "man-only"-club."
Player: "How do his eyes look like?"
Me: "Normal."
Player: "I cast invisiblity and then go inside."
Me:"He knocks you down."
The elemental did rescue her. And giving her a lot of burns in the process.
:)


Tobias Berghoff a.k.a Zixx a.k.a. Charon, your friendly werepanther physad.

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Message no. 12
From: Lort Gob <teunissen@***.NL>
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:15:32 +0100
>I love these. I've shared this story 'bout a year ago but I'll do it
>again. See I was running a British campaign and there was a sun druid and
>a mage.
>
>This bear charges the three of them in a forest. The sun druid decides to
>control its actions and make it stop. The mage uses transform on it to
>turn it into a mouse. The druid then makes the bear (now mouse) crawl up
>the pants leg of another PC whom they did not like too much. Then the
>mage dropped the transform spell.
>
>What happenned next wasn't pretty.
>
This reminds me of some ADnD ( yeah, shoot me ! ) session....
We were battling an mage. Unfortanely for him, he had a crow on his
shoulder. He didn't liked it when we polymorphed the thing in a hippo...:)

Cu,

Lort Gob
teunissen@***.nl
UIN: 4812743
Message no. 13
From: Mike Bobroff <AirWisp@***.COM>
Subject: Re: More Stupid Runner Stories ...
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 07:53:58 EST
In a message dated 98-02-15 16:04:05 EST, you write:

> They wouldn't need backup and would never know we never showed.) a few
> services from my Cat shaman's spirt (fear and then confusion) sent Lone
> Star packing and we busted him out of the cop car. Course we had to take a
> few polaroids of him in front of the cop car, etc., before we had to leave.
>
> Did I mention our Racoon adept loves us?

David, has anyone mentioned anything about making the pictures into the covers
for some Xmas cards or some other appropriate holiday ... especially when the
images are doctored with other people and images ... don't you just love
modern day technology ?

Mike

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