From:	Kama kama@*******.net
Subject:	Holiday Adventures (was Re:Quiet)
Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:30:52 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Tony Rabiola wrote:

>
> >Well, it's just me too then. I'm starting to consider signing up on
> some
> >additional list serves just to generate the level of traffic necesary
> to
> >keep me from being bored to death at work. Hmmm . . . maybe I should
> go to
> >less extreme measures and route through my stuff to see if I can find
> >anything worth posting . . .
>
>
> I'd vote for the second option, Kama. Give us something to argue over
> and generate some traffic that way...
>

Ask and ye shall receive.

My husband and I were inspired by the Dunky and World Series posts (yes, I
know they were a while ago, so I will recap them) to consider putting
together a series of adventures with holidays and annual events as the
theme. The idea would be to provide the neccesary story seeds, NPCs, etc.
for running the adventures while not having anything to year specific in
the adventures (so that a GM could use the ideas in pretty much any year
that his campaign was set in). Our brainstorming (added to the two
original seeds provided) produce the following list. What refinements,
alternative ideas, additional ideas, suggestions, and wisecracks does
anybody have to offer:

The World Series: Enraged by the murderof helpless trees on account of a
sport, Terra First hires the runners to steal the wooden bats from the
world series and place an Earth First message on the electronic
scoreboard. The bigest problem lies in getting all those bats out of the
stadium.

Christmas: Few beings are more dangerous than the Christmas shopper in
search of the elusive "Dunky". Face them if you dare. Better yet, raid the
warehouse and avoid the rush. (Unfortunately, another team had the same
plan.)

New Year's Eve: Smuggling is nothing new to most shadowrunners. Smuggling
vintage champagne to a New Year's Eve party is easeir then most cargo - it
doesn't call for help and is unlikely to blow up. The problem lies in
making delivery to the Johnson. Currently, he is in hiding in Denver,
avoiding corporate attention. They have discovered he is in Denver, which
caused him to take the party on the road, resulting in a treasure hunt for
the runners as they follow his trail trying to find the Johnson, and their
new yen, before the corp.

Valentine's day: What could be more wonderful than two young people
in love? What could be more romantic than a Valentine's day proposal? What
could be easier than being hired to make sure the engagement ring is where
it supposed to be, when it supposed to be there, and provide security for
the proposal? A lot, especially when the ring was stolen (a family
heirloom our young Romeo took), Juliet's parents are determined to
keep her from tainting their elven bloodline with a human
son-in-law, and both sets of parents are willing to spend lots of new yen
to make sure Romeo never pops the question.

Mother's Day: A series of simple extractions. Three targets, all
to be delivered to the same address at the same time on Sunday. No harm is
to come to the extractees or their families. The fact that all three
"victims" turn out to be siblings should be sufficent warning for the
runners. Unfortuantely, they may still get caught up in the fray caused by
Dad making sure that all three of his errant children finally turn up for
the family Mother's day picnic. (my husband hates this one - so I really
would appreiate help with it. I just love the idea of sticking the runners
in the middle of a vicious family arguement where they can't use lethal
force.)

Holloween: Nothing could be easier than stealing candy from a
baby. Or could it? The runners are hired to provide security while a
courier makes delivery to a dwarf disguised as Superman at the local
shopping mall. The stolen top secret chip is hidden in a snickers bar. The
problems is that the sweet went to the wrong trick-or- treater. The runners
will need to find the kid who got the wrong sweet and relieve him of this
valuable item, before the corporate flunkys looking for the chip figure
out what is up and get there first, or the candy bar gets X-rayed in the
food court, or the kid eats the chip - just one question, which "superman"
was it?

Not only would I enjoy feedback and refinements on these ideas, but any
addiitonal holdiays and ideas. (St. Patrick's Day? Union Day? Easter?)

Thanks,

Kama