| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Damion Milliken) |
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| Subject: | A new kind of meet |
| Date: | Wed Sep 26 07:55:01 2001 |
> Cute and gimmicky, from a game point of view, but totally unprofessional
> from a gameworld point of view. There are better ways of transmitting an
> undetectable message than via a very distracting encounter which
> incidentally puts the Johnson somewhat at risk (if the stereotypical
> Johnsons vs. runners confrontationalism is followed in your game). It would
> certainly drastically skew the future attitude and behaviour of that
> Johnson; it'd be hard to play cooler-than-thou when you know you were
> slinking all over that guy's lap last week.
Cute and gimmicky, yeah. Unprofessional from a Johnson's point of view,
yeah. But what if the Johnson actually _was_ a lap dancer? Not all Mr J's
are nameless, steoretypical corp suits, you know ;-). In fact, some of the
more intersting runs I remember had Johnsons who were anything but. What if
she's hiring the runners because she's afraid that her now ex boyfriend's
corp "buddies" are gunning for her, because he asked her to "mind" a
datachip for him, and then died messily a day later? Maybe she's got enough
street smarts to figure that they could be watching her to see if she might
know anything, and so she tries to be "subtle" about hiring help.
<shrug> Well, it's only an idea. It'd make for a memorable meeting, if
nothing else. Most Mr J meets are usually one of the _least_ memorable
moments of the run :-).
OTOH, the Willpower idea would only work if your players and their
characters went along with it. It would be unlikely to work on, for
instance, a chromed to the max androgynous sammy who had had it's genitals
removed to "improve it's capcity for clear thought" <grin>. Now that
sounds
like an interesting character concept... :-)
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Damion Milliken University of Wollongong
Unofficial Shadowrun Guru E-mail: dam01@***.edu.au
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