| From: | Pete Sims <petesims@********.demon.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Oh Dear, hate mail...:) |
| Date: | Sun, 22 Sep 1996 01:52:09 +0100 |
<chaos@*****.com> writes
>>
>>All in all, the run netted them 12,000 each, and cost them in excess of
>>75,000 - 100,000 each to replace vehicles and equipment. I was quite
>>pleased with the result, but for some strange reason I've been getting
>>hate mail ever since.
>>
>>Anyone got any ideas why????
>>
>Oh, you are an evil GM... Tinner's fond of doing the same thing. My
>character had spent several months in game time and I personally spent
>several hours in real time designing and buildinga heavily modified GMC
>Bulldog combat vehicle. I also spent in exgggcess of 500,000 nuyen, money
>that I'd been saving for a LONG time. Well, the first run we take it on, I
>assume my character (intelligence 8) would be smart enough to automatically
>set the security sustem on the vehicle (rating 8 at the time). I didn't
>bother specifically saying I was arming trhe security system, though. I
>really should know better.
>
Doc, one of the player characters currently hating me, had a similar
problem, he had just fiunished a fairly lucrative run and purchased a
very expensive automobile, he then proceded to park it in the Redmond
Barrens. 24 hours later when he returned to it, he found the car had
been stripped down to the axles. 8-)
He wasn't happy.
He also, unfortunately, believed that someone had lanted a bomb on one
of his vehicles (a chevy I think). Anyway, he thought ight be a gooask
a local gang he was friendly with, if they'd strip the car down, and
check it out for him, 5,000 nuyen later they'd stripped the car to it's
component parts, and informed him it was bomb free, unfortunately he
hadn't stated or paid to have the car reassembled again..... <cackle
cackle, manic snigger> When he finally got the vehicle back (he'd
requested that it be "camouflaged" to fit in with Seattle life) it came
back as a pimp mobile. He wasn't happy - don't know why. 8-)
Another player, Dewdrop, the Mage had a passion for LAW rocket
launchers, that is, until he was reduced to firing one whilst *inside* a
Nissan Jackrabbit, he survived, the Jackrabbit didn't. Ooops.
>Well, we get back from fighting a VERY nasty battle with cockroaches and
>Dzoo Noo Qua (SP?) in Calamit Swamp in Chicago, and we find the tires have
>been stripped! So our shaman, who is badly hurt, summons up a force 5 (I
>think) air spirit to carry the vanback to Little Earth, one of the Enclaves
>we'd been working out of. We get there, Johnny tell the spirit to put the
>van down, and it does, from 10 feet off the ground doing about 15 miles per
>hour... Needless to say, we took ANOTHER beating, ripped the entire
>underside of thevan apart, AND took out the side of a building. Pleasent.
>
Reminds me of an incident with a boat, a player, and Pier 13.
Hahahaha....
>All that work and I got to drive it once. Well, instead of designing
>another, I've simply kept rebuilding or replacing it. Over the course of 2
>years, I've replaced the van 4 times, and currently need to rplace the roof
>(and the gun turrets...)...
>
Funny that, my players tend to use public transport these days, their
bikes are locked up tight, and only used when absolutely necessary.
Except for Doc, who has a RV, which he lives in. Hmm, I wonder if I
could get away with victimising him again... 8-)
>Also, my right arm has been replaced six times, once with a cyber (gee,
>thanks Johnny...). I also think we've had three apartments destroyed now...
>
Apartments, love 'em. I think my players will agree that these are the
most expensive investment a character can make. And, as they've found
to their detriment, the most likely to get trashed. My wife's character
and one of the other PC's, lived in a couple of flats in a small
apartment block near the Club Penumbra, whilst they were out enjoying a
quiet chat and drink, I had a sec team trash their appartments 8-),
looking for goods the team had "acquired". Tragic really, the PCs
returned near the end of the trashing session, and helped to destroy two
floors, and a couple of elevators - I told them they should have
considered insurance.
I don't know why, but when they have a lucrative run, they all look at
me with deep suspicion in their eyes, and have taken to doing strange
things, like "saving money" for some obscure reason called "in case of
circumstances" whatever that means.
>Steve just LOVES to make us replace things...
>
So do I, it keeps the characters mean and hungry. 8-)
>Some days, Bull doesn't even want to get out of bed...
>
>
>"The kids are drinking what? Neuro stun? and they want more?"
>
>"Daddy, look at this neat trick. It's Suburban Removal... <sound of wall
>collapsing and Bull fainting>"
>
ROFLOL
TTYL
Pete
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