From:	"Andre' Selmer" <031ANDRE@******.wits.ac.za>
Subject:	Re: Killing in Shadowrun...
Date:	Tue, 21 May 1996 10:17:26 GMT + 2:00

@ > > A couple of weeks ago, (in the middle of the Sammie & mage
@ > > discussion), I said I was going to bring something up I had been thinking
@
@ > > about for a while. Well, here it is...
@ > >
@ > > Is it my imagination, or do 98.2% of the Shadowrun chars out
@ > > there kill casually? I mean, think about it, people generally don't go
@ > > around offing people... usually there is some extreme emotion involved.

No. Our characters have a sort indirect moto, do what has to
be done. In most cases we rarely kill unless it is nessessary or in
character. It is a case we will do what we have to do to survive.

For example my character has little or no qualms about
offing an invisible mage, after if he's invisible, hes up to no good.
Or take another of our characters, he hates all forms of dogs after a
particularly nasty incident, most of the dogs that we saw after that
where jellied poodle. Almost made headlines.

One thing that we do play, is that the lower your essence, the less
your emotions impact on you. For instance our shamen won't kill but
would run away. Our street sam doesn't give a damn about killing
legitimate targets such as corp goons firing at us, but on one run
he couldn't bring himself to shoot a pair of farmers that where
calling in the groups location to some military base.

@ > My present group doesn't do wetwork, we don't kill casually, we
have
@ > killed cyborgs, and some guys who were wacked out on combat drugs. We
@ > killed them because we couldn't knock them down, knock them out, or other
@ > wise incapacitate them. The gaurd doing his job usually doesn't know
@ > we're there, if he does, he usually goes 'nite-nite', and wakes up with a
@ > slight headache. (via stunbolt, sleep spell, or a good old fashioned thump
@ > to the back of the head)
@ >
@ > We're actually proud not to have left a trail of bodies where ever we go.

We tried on wetwork mission, hated it and haven't done any since.

We found that subtlty works the best. One of the better runs ended up
with us stealing the data, with no one the wiser about what happened.
The cameras showed nothing, and a guard woke up the next morning with
a headache from sleeping in the wrongposition.

Andre'

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