From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: Least Favorite Adventure
Date:	Sun, 14 Dec 1997 02:14:28 +0000

In article <3.0.16.19971213181914.2a6fb452@*****.com>, Bull
<chaos@*****.COM> writes
>At 05:31 PM 12/13/97 +0000, Paul J. Adam wrote these timeless words:
>>In article <199712121511.IAA17626@******.carl.org>, David Buehrer
>><dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG> writes
>>>To date my least favorite adventure is Divided Assets.
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>>Agree totally.
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>>It really, really sucked. This rich kid is upset because Mommy and Daddy
>>split up, and he isn't happy with Mommy in her uptown penthouse, and
>>Daddy went away...
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>>Big f***ing deal, to an Elven street samurai from Tarislar.

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>For us, this was exactly what made the run interesting, and a major
>dilemma. Bull has a wife and 2 (3? 2? 2.5?) kids, and is NOT a cold
>hearted Shadowrunner. He ended up taking the kid into his family. Didn;t
>seem to have much of a choice as far as he was concerned...

>This wasn;t my favorite adventure by any stretch of the imagination, but
>for our characters and their personalities, it was enjoyable. I can
>definately see how it could be a bad adventure for more "normal" Runners
>(Never have claimed that Bull was normal :))

That's the problem. Most of our street types would (and did) despise the
kid on general principles - try feeding him. He doesn't like nutrisoy?
Then he's gonna either get really hungry, or decide he likes nutrisoy :)
No, he can't go to the park. You don't want to be in the park here
during the day, let alone at night.

Again; the kid's Someone Else's Problem. He's not going to starve to
death with his mommy. So he's not ecstatic about living there, big deal,
a week in Redmond and he'll be screaming to be let back into his nice
safe corporate enclave where the water doesn't make you sick and where
food is just a walk to the refrigerator away.

Maybe it's just that in our game we emphasise the difference between
"have" and "have-not" more, but this adventure seriously sucked.
--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk