From:	"Bruce H. Nagel" <NAGELBH@******.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Runners vs Corps
Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 1997 01:35:50 -0500

> Well my first question would be, how do your runners get hired in the
> first place? The most common answer is a fixer who has corp ties and
> who knows how to get in touch with your particular group of runners.
> is this guy going to stick his neck in the noose for a couple of
> razorboys when the corp comes a callin'. Hell no he is gonna spill
> his guts and rat out the runners in a New York minute. If your
> runners are doing business they have contacts if they have contacts
> they have a trail and if they have a trail they can be taken out.
If he lets the corp's razorboys get within a mile of him he isn't worthy of the
title 'Fixer'. Fixers see to it that stuff like that happens to other people,
they don't fall prey to it unless they're stupid or incompetent. They're minor
crime lords, and act the part.

> First lets assume that your runners would be able to make this
> flawless escape from the secure site as you suggest, an occurance
> which I find doubtful. Assuming the team has accomplished this minor
> miracle think of all the toungues that could be made to wag with the
> kind of cash a corp can spend. It alcomes back to the profit motive
> in the end and that is just a fact of the streets.>
As someone else said, theyu'd be unlikely to get reliable info from this, nor
are there that many 'witnesses' to question/bribe usually near the site (if
they were, it was a pretty lousy op in the first place). How many people today
ignore things because they don't want to 'get involved'? Also, getting away
depends more on stealth than anything. If the job was quiet, getting away is
easy, you walk away. If things went to hell (and we all know they go to hell a
lot of the time, if only to keep life exciting for the PCs) then planning ahead
still really helps their chances. Having magical support certainly helps,
especially considering that even serious magical staff for a corp has to be
spread rather thin (there just aren't many mages to go around). Nature spirits
to keep them busy, or elementals just to carry on the fight while you
retreat...

losthalo