Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: Tobias.D@********.de (Burning Avatar)
Subject: need help after silly player actions...
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:28:58 +0200
Hi all!

Yesterdays session ends up in a desaster, at least from the players pov.
As only the half group came to the session, I run something easy, I
thought so...

The chars where hired to kidnap some guy from a DocWagon hospital and
bring him to Johnson. That's (relative) simple, right?

They manipulated some databanks and had a date (without any equipment,
so they wont be cached for that) with the assistant medical director
from the station the target was. I thougth they would go there to see
what security measures where made and afterwards prepare for the run.
Instead they startet the extraction by killing the assistant and the
guard infront the guys room.

IRC that was the silliest action the players ever did (in nearly ten
years), resulting in a hunt through the hole city with some nice
pictures in the news, a contract breach with Johnson (they told him to
pay ten times the money or kill the guy, later during the meeting they
opend the fire when Johnson only gave them 50% extra) and the chars
sitting with the guy (slowly dieing because of his serious wounds) in a
savehouse after they lost their appartment due tor a little grenade
explosion. They're hounted by the cops, Johnson and a AA kon for the guy
and various things they did during the hunt...

Planed as a stopgap and now looks like the the main plot for the next
sessions...

Problem is, the background for the extraction don't fit with that.

The guy is only the contact person to some gangs in the area the kon
controles, who doesn't know any worthy things, except for Johnson...

Any ideas/comments except let them bleed for their stupidity, what they
propable will?


- Burning Avatar

--

Rudolphs red nose is not alcohol related

Burning Avatars Data Haven
http://home.t-online.de/home/tobias.d/shadowrun

PGP User ID: 0x825CE007
Message no. 2
From: pentaj2@****.edu (Penta John C)
Subject: need help after silly player actions...
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:51:43 -0400
----- Original Message -----
From: Tobias.D@********.de (Burning Avatar)
Date: Sunday, October 13, 2002 7:28 am
Subject: need help after silly player actions...

> Any ideas/comments except let them bleed for their stupidity, what
> theypropable will?

My thought: Be merciful to the half that WASN'T there. Just hand-wave
it. Say it never happened.

If you want to gain the EGM merit badge, you can have it all as a sim
they were hooked up to without their knowledge. They then are unhooked
and sent on their way.

Great way of screwing with their minds. Whats real, whats not?

They may never know.
Message no. 3
From: KiltedJamesman@***.com (KiltedJamesman@***.com)
Subject: need help after silly player actions...
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:48:39 EDT
In a message dated 10/13/2002 1:52:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
pentaj2@****.edu writes:

> > Any ideas/comments except let them bleed for their stupidity, what
> > theypropable will?
>
> My thought: Be merciful to the half that WASN'T there. Just hand-wave
> it. Say it never happened.
>

My slightly (?!?) more evil and twisted thought: The half that wasn't there
is hired to take out the half that was for their lack of professionalism.
Warning! As has been explored previously on this list, this is only an option
if the players are capable of bearing in mind that actions performed by the
characters are not to be taken as personal affronts by the players behind
them! This carries a lot of risk with it, but you know your players better
than I do for obvious reasons...

Just my .02¥
Message no. 4
From: loneeagle@********.co.uk (Lone Eagle)
Subject: need help after silly player actions...
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:47:28 +0100
At 01:51 PM 13/10/2002 -0400, Tobias wrote:
>If you want to gain the EGM merit badge, you can have it all as a sim
>they were hooked up to without their knowledge. They then are unhooked
>and sent on their way.
>
>Great way of screwing with their minds. Whats real, whats not?
>
>They may never know.


I've actually written a 'run almost exactly like that one; in an attempt to
teach some of my players the value of doing their legwork.


--
Lone Eagle
"Hold up lads, I got an idea."

www.wyrmtalk.co.uk - Please be patient, this site is under construction
"Geek Code"
"SR Geek Code"
GCC0.2: Y75>?.uk[NN] G87 S@:@@[SR] B+++ f+ RM(RR) rm++ rr++ l++(--) m- w
s+(+++) GM+++(-) A GS+(-) h++ LA+++ CG--- F c+

"Drugged by God!"
"Drugged by Baldric actually, but the effect is much the same."
Blackadder II (Money)
Message no. 5
From: Tobias.D@********.de (Burning Avatar)
Subject: need help after silly player actions...
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:45:33 +0200
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:51:43 -0400
Penta John C <pentaj2@****.edu> wrote:

> My thought: Be merciful to the half that WASN'T there. Just hand-wave
> it. Say it never happened.

Why should I involve them. I expect, that the other pc's involve them,
but when the hunters have succsess, chances are high that they can
escape...

> If you want to gain the EGM merit badge, you can have it all as a sim
> they were hooked up to without their knowledge. They then are unhooked
>
> and sent on their way.
>
> Great way of screwing with their minds. Whats real, whats not?

I'll get the badge, because I wont do that this time ;) It's real, and
they have to solve the consequenses.

- Burning Avatar

--

Rudolphs red nose is not alcohol related

Burning Avatars Data Haven
http://home.t-online.de/home/tobias.d/shadowrun

PGP User ID: 0x825CE007
Message no. 6
From: Tobias.D@********.de (Burning Avatar)
Subject: need help after silly player actions...
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:37:46 +0200
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 14:48:39 EDT
KiltedJamesman@***.com wrote:

> My slightly (?!?) more evil and twisted thought: The half that wasn't
> there is hired to take out the half that was for their lack of
> professionalism. Warning! As has been explored previously on this
> list, this is only an option if the players are capable of bearing in
> mind that actions performed by the characters are not to be taken as
> personal affronts by the players behind them! This carries a lot of
> risk with it, but you know your players better than I do for obvious
> reasons...

Even if I think they wouldn't (what I don't), it would be David vs.
Goliath or unexperienced vs. experienced. I even think, if one (or more)
of the unexperienced pc where killed, chances are high that they are not
going to make a new character ;(

- Burning Avatar

--

Rudolphs red nose is not alcohol related

Burning Avatars Data Haven
http://home.t-online.de/home/tobias.d/shadowrun

PGP User ID: 0x825CE007

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about need help after silly player actions..., you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.

Thwap!