| From: | "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM> |
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| Subject: | What do you mean don't let Tinner read this! (Was - Outrageous |
| Date: | Fri, 5 Dec 1997 01:12:56 -0500 |
>Don't let Tinner read this. His reply will give us nightmares for
>monthes. :)
Too late! ;-)
Ahh ... where to start ...
Well there was Kyle "Unkillable" Morgan for starters - I didn't create the
character, but I have made good use of the world's greatest assassin, and
his dragon sidekick.
It's amazing, but after a few bombs in the PC's car seats/stereos/dinners,
they won't even speak the name aloud now.
He is know only as KM, or "The Benefactor" since they've now made their
peace with him.
The best part is I only have to whisper the name Kyle Morgan and I can make
Bull scream!
Another fun one actually started as a PC.
George Burke, who used to be on this list is the resident looney in our
group. He desgned a character that was little more than a robot waiting for
instructions. Renraku built him and set him loose in the shadow community.
The plan was that they would monitor him, and help head off possible runs
against them, he would also video and identify all known shadowrunners,
aiding them in their black ops program - thus was born Oni.
Oni was a bit of a loose cannon - he would arrive with the PC's for the
meet. Wait quietly until the team had contracted for the run, then he would
ask for "Mission Parameters?" Once he had those he IMMEDIATELY set off to
acheive them. This usually meant leaving the team behind, then returning to
the team's safehouse while they were preparing for the run, with at least
one objective already fulfilled.
He played it perfectly, and baffled the team completely.
The other fun thing about Oni was the fact that he had a split personality,
and a limited vocabulary. Basically Renraku implanted the Oni robotic
personality on top of the persaonality of the original body. Every now and
then the original personality would pop up and mutter something completely
insane. The rest of the time Oni would simply deliver his lines in a total
monotone. The only real phrase he mastered was "General Foods Ma'am." ...
the first line the team ever got him to use as a cover story.
"Where are you folks from again?"
"General Foods Ma'am."
At which point the rest of the runners had to jump in and help cover Oni's
lies.
Anyway, it turned out that I eventually took over Oni, and seperated the
Oni/robot personality from the human mind inside him. The human was
implanted into another meat body, while Oni became self aware and set out to
ensure that Renraku could never reproduce him (They had plans for a line of
Oni-drones)
As an NPC, Oni lead the players on a merry chase, thwarting Renraku time and
again, and always there to harrass, hinder, or simply shake up the PC's. A
knock at the door, followed by "General Foods, Ma'am" sends my players
running for weapons.
Then there's Becky, Bull's kids godmother, and Johnny 99's wife's ex-lover
turned Mantis Queen.
And of course there was Ramirez, a male petro voudoun of Ougun carrying the
loa's avatar as a child destined to fight our good voudoun to the death.
However I think my favorite bad guy has to be Sensei.
Sensei was a total ripoff of Tutor from Threats to start out, except instead
of "helping" mages, he liked to "help" samurai.
I had the misfortune of having a terrible munchkin in one of our games.
Debate the term all you like, and as much as I hate the term, there really
ARE some twinks out there who simply MUST play combat monsters with NO
persoanlity, style or redeeming factors.
I'm a firm believer that it's my DUTY to help this twinks see the error of
their ways.
To do so I waited until the player was badly injured and outnumbers in a
fight. He was down, and about to be devoured by a pack of ravenous compys
(yes, the dinosaurs - don't interrupt me) when a little voice in his head
asked "Would you like some help?"
Of course his answer was yes, and he instantly leapt to his feetm healed,
and made short work of the pesky dinos.
He should have known better ... NOTHING in my world is that easy!
The spirit offered him more and more power, and asked little in return.
At first it only wanted him to remove his cyberware. A small price to pay,
he ditched the Wired 3 and was rewarded with physad like reaction
enhancement.
Then Sensei wanted more, it asked Codis to kill someone for him.
The guys was a dirtball, so Codis gladly did so ... now he was in serious
trouble.
Codis woke up one morning with a splitting headache and discovered a pretty
little college girl beaten and tied up in his bed. He had NO recollection of
how she got there!
FOR THE SAKE OF THE SQUEAMISH - DO NOT CONTINUE IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
Codis planned to just let he go, but the little voice insisted that he
"wanted this one!"
Codis told that little voice that his sick game was over, at which point
Sensei was forced to use his control actions spell to force Codis to do his
bidding.
Codis violently raped, abused and tortured this girl, then called a contact
of his that knew a local organlegger, and sold the still living girl to her,
even as she screamed and begged him not to do this.
It gets worse.
Codis was VERY worried, and had spoken to several mages and shamans about
how to get rid of sensei, but he was having no luck.
Christmas Eve rolled around, and Codis woke up on the steeple of a nearby
church putting the "finishing touches" on his grisly work.
Sensei had forced him to kidnap, abuse and murder an 8 year old choirgirl,
then hang her remains from the church steeple as a gory, perverted
"decoration"
Codis rapidly attempted to take the girl down, but he was soon spotted by
the police and passers-by below, eh fled into the night.
Codis was haunted that night until with the help of a mantis spirit he was
able to free himself from the beast. But that night I had the PLAYER on the
floor in a fetal position rocking back and forth muttering
"nononononononononononooooooooooooo!!!!!"
As a word of explanation, this player was and IS a friend of mine, I do not
normally engage in depictions of violence this brutal or savage.
However Brian had me worried about some of his characters attitudes as well
as some of his own.
I wanted to really shock him back to his senses, and it worked.
His character Codis has a new-found respect for freedom and life, as well as
more respect for women, (his earlier attitudes left a LOT to be desired both
IC and OOC!)
This game was roleplayed completely one on one, so no one who didn;t want to
hear these things did.
That session was beyond a doubt the most over the top, visceral game I have
ever played in.
It showed me exactly how powerful RPG's can be at their best, as well as the
fact that an irresponsible GM CAN abuse his players if he's not careful.
That much said, I also have to agree that Sensei was a great villain.
Completely alien, completely evil, and yet very understandable.
Steven A. Tinner
bluewizard@*****.com
http://www.ncweb.com/users/bluewizard
"What are we gonna do? Arrest them for interdimensional fishing without a
permit? There's gotta be a law about that somewhere ..." - Itzak, Euthanatos
Cop
