| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Runner mishaps (was: Re:Second Hand) |
| Date: | Sat, 4 Sep 1999 20:18:01 +0200 |
the street was...
[snip]
> So one of the players (not me) shot it down: called shot:searchlight,
> full auto burst, result: 15D with 10 boxes of overdamage. The heli went
> down hard.
[more snip]
Although this is worse than something my character did (in some ways),
it's nonetheless very similar:
We were playing one of the FASA-published adventures, whose name I won't
mention for spoiler reasons, and were in a little village in the NAN. The
bad guys come in with two helicopters, and I fire a missile (which we jury-
rigged out of some old weaponry they had there) at each of them.
Unfortunately, I forgot to check where exactly they were flying... The
resulting two crashes (I rolled rather well) happened right on top of two
blocks of houses where most of the village's inhabitants were hiding from
the firefight...
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Another screw-up story, of which I'll only give the highlights here
because it's rather long otherwise, is probably the worst set of mistakes
made by any group I've played in. Some of you may already know about this
one...
This was the very first session of our Cyberpirates campaign, after we'd
made the characters. The players needed a boat, and decided to steal a
luxury yacht in order to get one. They make their way on board just after
the captain, the owner, and his wife left for an evening on the town; the
owner's daughter seized the opportunity to have a party on board with
about 20 of her friends.
The only thing that kept the players from stealing the boat was that it
never occurred to them that there would be a lock on the controls -- a
keypad, to be precise -- and so they hadn't brought any tools and didn't
really have the skills either (Electronics 2 was the best they could do,
IIRC). This caused a lot of messing around in many attempts to override
the keypad (without success) and trying to find the girl to see if she
knew the code (which she didn't).
The shark shaman (the same one who was mentioned in my Toxic Wave
warning...) decided to summon a sea spirit to help move the boat out into
open water, but went for a Force 8 one and failed to get any successes. No
spirit, but he did take physical damage from the Drain. Which triggered a
frenzy, making him cast Toxic Wave at Deadly damage at two people on the
front deck. That melted part away the windscreen and part of the ship's
bow, severed the mooring rope, as well as knocking the shaman unconscious.
Two of the other PCs decided to abandon the ship at this time, and so did
most of the party-goers. Unfortunately, most of them had been drinking
heavily, and drunk people don't swim well... The yacht continued to float
to the other side of the marina where it hit some other yachts, at which
point the only remaining, conscious pirate also left, taking the KO shaman
with him.
Net result: several damaged yachts, about ten dead kids, much-tightened
security in and around the marina, and the pirates laying low for several
weeks while trying to prevent word getting out that they were the ones who
caused all that.
The only good thing to come out of this run (apart from a lot of laughs
for the players and especially the GM -- i.e., me :) was that they planned
on most eventualities for their next attempt.
--
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