From:	Fade <runefo@***.UIO.NO>
Subject:	Re: Sniping in SR
Date:	Sun, 31 May 1998 03:11:58 +0000

Arc Light wrote:
*snip nobody watches the roofs*
> The bodyguards? Rooftops are the most watched places when dealing with
> threats like this. Ever watched some VIP politicians visting town? TV
> always shows police snipers on rooftops, searching for threats! And you
> can bet your a&% that there are some more in the dark, watching for the
> professionals..

Open windows are, of course, also not completely ignored, to say the
least, and the optics of shooting through glass, especially at an
angle, isn't perfect. (I think.). It is not easy to pull things like
that off.

Which leaves us in the normal Shadowrunner's position - be creative
or be dead.

Most 'public' assassinations are from a guy in the crowd pulling a
pistol and firing at the target, right? (Not all, but I think those
incidents are a lot more common than a guy in the shadows with a
rifle. Premeditation is harder to prove, for one.).

It appears a safer bet to do things like this at non-public
arrangements. The security measures when a VIP is out with his wife
shopping, or eating dinner, or whatever, is a lot less than at large
arrangements. Even then, it's not a safe deal, of course. But the
effect of a 'public event' is a lot greater, so that's what runners
might be hired for, right?

(The current team supposedly is ethically aware, so they won't take
missions like that. Which is good.).

--
Fade

And the Prince of Lies said:
"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven."
-John Milton, Paradise Lost