| From: | bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner) |
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| Subject: | Re: PC's Morality |
| Date: | Wed, 25 Sep 1996 02:41:52 -0500 (EST) |
>about a year (not by choice mine you). And the PC's were indirectly
>involved with the death of 149 "innocent" children being held
>in a corp facility.
DEAR GOD!
>Mind you the corp is offering a reward for any information leading to the
capture of >said PCs, whom they had a relatively good video of. I asked the
players if they felt >any remorse whatsoever about the deaths. And they
said "No." My
>question is should I as a GM make their lives a living hell? I mean
>being somewhat resposible for the deaths of a 149 children, wouldn't
>it ruin their street reputations for getting jobs? What would you
>other GM's do, if this type of situation came up in your campaign?
First, if word hits the street that these merciless SOB's are responsible
for this action, they will suffer, no they MUST suffer!
Some Johnsons will not hire anyone who behaves in such a manner, esp. if
they are unrepentatnt!
In fact, there will probably be Johnsons hiring teams to wax such runners.
OTOH, there will also be cold hearted rat bastards looking to hire such
stone-killers.
I'd play on the players' sense of well being by offering them nothing but
really evil runs to show them how they are now perceived.
For a Looooong time, they'd get nothing but offers for wetwork and worse,
maybe legbreakings or other terror tactics. (Modesty forbids my mentioning
really evil twisted things, but several come to mind.)
If ya wanna really make 'em squirm, have some sicko serial killer try to
hook up with the team to kill some more kiddies!
Have the media and the Star nickname them the Baby Killer Runner Team.
Have other runners avoid/insult/humiliate them in public.
Have a mother of one of the kids try to hunt them down herself.
Have one of the runners personal friends/relatives/parents/kids find out
about this and leave them! (See Renny's letter to Mrs. Halberstam in the
back of VR 1.0 for more ideas on how to play this one.)
All told, I'd really make them question their ethics.
There are plenty of references to why runners use non-lethal/minimum force
necessary on runs.
Help your players understand that Corp X won't be nearly as vindictive if
all they do is KO a few guards, and do some property damage, compared to
killing innocent kids.
If your players just don't care, maybe their PC's really ARE cold hearted
rat bastards and want to take the game this direction. If that's what you
and they are comfortable with, fine, do it. But I'd still do a lot of the
same things just for logic's sake!
Hope this helps.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
"Bad monkey! Somone should spank that monkey!"
