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From: Paul Jonathan Adam <Paul@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Another Odd Plot Idea
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 17:03:54 GMT
> Reading the paper this morning, I had an idea: The runners are hired to
> extract a pharmaceutical manufacturing system by a rival megacorp. They
> have to go into a plant that's making an expensive and difficult to
> manufacture drug and steal whatever it is that the corp is using to make
> the stuff.
>
> The catch? It's a genetically-altered cow. The cow has been modified to
> produce the drug in its milk. Just milk the cow and extrac the drug from
> the milk. Now, how is the average run team going to deal with trying to
> steal and deliver a live cow?

Oh, man... I LOVE this idea! Award that man a medal!

I mean... you expected to steal a formula for a molecular synthesiser, or
a piece of machinery... and instead you've got Bessie the Cow.

I can imagine *so many* ways to torment the players with this one...
<evil GM chuckle>. (All to make them have fun being inventive, of course...)

--
"When you have shot and killed a man, you have defined your attitude towards
him. You have offered a definite answer to a definite problem. For better
or for worse, you have acted decisively.
In fact, the next move is up to him." <R.A. Lafferty>

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk

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