| From: | "Sedah Drol" <sedahdro@****.holli.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: PC's Morality |
| Date: | Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:57:47 +500 |
> > are, to make their lives a living HELL, and I say you have evry reason to.
> > Even in the Shadowrun world, where morals aren't exactly the most popular
> > trait for a runner to have, only the most ruthless, cold-hearted bastards
> > would view the death of 149 children that lightly. Have the corp offer a
> > LARGE bounty on the characters, dead or alive, and have evryone, including
> > contacts and friends trying to turn them in. This, if nothing else, will
> > teach them a little compassion for innocents, or at least not to kill in the
> > interest of self preservation...
>
> Welllllll... hold the vitriol for a moment, we need to know some more
> about the situation:
>
> 1. Did the runners know that there were 150 innocent children around?
Yes, they were in the Genetech(TM) facility which at the time they
thought it was a private corp school, to retrieve a child that
their Johnson said was her son, but of course it wasn't. So they
ended up talking to every child looking for the kid. They found out
that the kid was moved to what they refered to as "the room" which
turned out to be a underground genetic research facility under the
school.
> 2. Did they know that their actions would cause the deaths of these children?
Let's see, when they shot up the cloning chambers and the ICC they
inadvertently set off the facilitie's "self-destruct", which it had
because of the very sensitive research that was going on in the
cloning labs. Which I announced to the players as an audible
countdown alarm. They had ample time to leave the building and
rescue the other children. Of course one of their comrads was
stunned unconscious and there target was also unconscious. Their
only thoughts were to get the hell out of dodge before anymore
security arrived.
> 3. Was there any other way for them to do their job?
They had the skills to discover the trigger mechanisms, so they could
have not set off the "self-destruct". They also could have evacuated
the children.
>
> In short, a summary of the run, please?
Female Johsnon from rival corp hires runners to extract a child that
she said was hers. She wanted child because husband wanted to
defect. Child was being held in private school ran by the corp.
Runner's legwork reveals to them that the building is allegedly
abandoned. Runners decide to scope out the building, find out that
their legwork was incorrect. Runners decide to raid the building,
Security gets caught off guard. Runners remove security. Runners
question Children. Runners make a more thorough search of building.
DocWagon arrives to help the "removed" security. Runners find
entrance to underground facility. Runners proceed on room by room
search, eliminating security. One runner gets mana bolted by mage in
ICC. Other Runners remove ICC threat. Conscious runners find
target. Runners destroy all research (which by the way surprise the
hell out of me, I figured they would take all research that they
could for loot, not these guys no "let's destroy everything")
initiating the automated "self-destruct" sequence. Runners here
countdown, carry their comrad an target out of building to vehicle
where rigger is waiting to roll out. Sqauter notices runners
carrying bodies. Squater calls Lone Star. Runners drive off.
Lonestar passes runners, notices that he passed them, proceeds to
pursue runners. Runners non-lethally remove Lonestar threat and
deliver child to Johnson. Child cries out that's not my mommy.
Runners get paid and leave. Runners see face of one of there
comrads on TV. GM hands out Karma. Players go home.
---Sedah Drol
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