From:	Doctor Doom <JCH8169@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject:	Stupid ShadowRun tricks...
Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 92 01:53:52 CET

Stupid ShadowRun tricks? Well, here is one, randomly selected for your reading
pleasure...

Whilst walking the streets of Detroit in an effort to gain some
information about some individuals involved in a run we were engaged in, our
group happened upon a trideo theater with the recent movie, "Neil, the Orc
Barbarian, Goes Bad". Apparently, Neil, hero of millions, had been infected
with HMHVV and had become a Wendigo as a result. Our group ran across a crowd
that was vacating from the most recent showing of the film. Most unfortun-
ately, one woman in the crowd was startled by one of our group members. I must
mention that Flare is a northern sasquatch, and thus his fur is white. It is
understandable that the woman would make the mistake, but problems developed
when our resident Cat shaman tried dealing with the problem in her own way...

In her own effort to diffuse the situation, she cast Influence on the
woman in question. She immediately walked over to Flare, bearing him no ill
will, of course. HOWEVER, this group of people had just watched a film on the
life of a wendigo, and had, at least, a passing knowledge of wendigo powers,
one of which is INFLUENCE. The crowd immediately started to shout, "Wendigo!",
and thus attract attention. Our Cat shaman, again in an attempt to quell the
growing stress, cast Invisibility on Flare--another tactic wendigo often
employ.Most who witnessed this immediately started screaming, "Wendigo!", and
a panic ensued, which grew into a full-scale riot.
I was livid--it is one thing to be killed for one's own stupidity, but
to be terminated for someone else's in another thing entirely. Admittedly, we
did NOT die... I, for one, managed to melt into the crowd before the media
showed up (muttering to myself something to the effect of: "I am going to kill
her, as God as my witness, I am going to kill her...")
The worse part about this whole escapade was that the Cat shaman did
it perfectly naturally, without any GM prompting, and without thinking,
obviously. [ It was all the GM could to to keep talking, he was laughing so
hard. ]


Colonel Count von Hohenzollern und von Doom, DMSc, DSc, PhD.

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