[Omnibobatron]

I was thinking about making a kind of "horror" campaign. I had a few ideas but I don't know how to make something bigger out of it. Some of my ideas are:

1) Mutation - Cyberware related: The drugs used to help ones body accept cyberlimbs has a side effect that mutates the person horribly

2) Malfunctions - Cyberware stops responding to commands. Not in everyone, and not all at once, but slowly more and more people begin to lose control of their 'ware. Perhaps the 'ware gets commands from somewhere else or something else, im not sure.

3) The runners are contracted to check up on a "secret" facility that has gone dark. (Almost any Corp). Upon arriving the somehow get sealed in to this underground facility while an outbreak of something is occurring. Perhaps test creatures got out or an AI got control of all the drones or something, I'm not entirely sure yet. But the "go check up on these people" becomes a "survive and get out". They'd have the choice of working with any survivors or abandoning them or straight up murdering them for any kind of passcodes/data/keys that would help them get out. (I'm thinking something like a bio-engineered virus broke out and is turning people into monsters)

What do you guys think of these ideas? Do you have any other ideas or ways I could make an adventure/campaign out of them?

[RHat]

It seems like you're unduly focusing on screwing things up for people with augmentations.

[Omnibobatron]

Oh I should have been clearer - it wouldn't affect the PCs (at least right away). it would be a race against time to stop it before they suffer that fate.

[Mirikon]

If you want to do a horror-style shadowrun campaign, scrap points 1&2 entirely, hit yourself with a phonebook, and then pick up Universal Brotherhood - Missing Blood, Bug City, and Renraku Arcology - Shutdown those are the quintessential horror stories for Shadowrun, so base it off something like that, instead of intentionally screwing one set of players under the pretense of horror. There's a difference between horror and "HA! Sucks to be you!"

Hell, you could just string together a few missions from the last season, including Brothers United and Romero and Juliet, and have a solid horror campaign. Also remember that what makes horror hit hard is when it is limited in scope. The Ravenloft setting ceases to have that much of a horror aspect when you've been there for a while, and are used to it. But going through a normal campaign, and then you stumble upon this little place called Barovia...

[Mantis]

I'll second that. The runs Mirikon  listed are basically your point #3 in premise. Go in an do something, bad stuff happens so now you have to get out alive. Renraku Shutdown is especially this.
Something you can try out is a facility that shedim have infested. They are trapped in there now for some reason (Wards perhaps? Something special about the location?) and they want out. The PCs are sent in to find out why the place has gone dark and now have to deal with the shedim hopping from body to body while making sure they don't get out. It becomes the classic who can you trust sort of situation. Watch Fallen for an example of how you could play this.

[Angelone]

I like the facility idea, like in Shutdown, I still get chills from that and bug spirits still get me too. I was GMing recently and got lazy and stole the shedim filled hospital from Romero and Juliet but in a much larger facility and during it I slammed my hand down on the table and everyone jumped. It was funny and great until I got hit with a Mountain Dew bottle.

[Crimsondude]

Or you could get caught up in a battle between shedim and bug spirits.


/looks away innocently

[Omnibobatron]

If you want to do a horror-style shadowrun campaign, scrap points 1&2 entirely, hit yourself with a phonebook, and then pick up Universal Brotherhood - Missing Blood, Bug City, and Renraku Arcology - Shutdown those are the quintessential horror stories for Shadowrun, so base it off something like that, instead of intentionally screwing one set of players under the pretense of horror. There's a difference between horror and "HA! Sucks to be you!"

I actually did hit myself with a phonebook. I did some research and will be picking up Renraku Arcology. Thanks for setting me straight :3

[Black]

Or you could get caught up in a battle between shedim and bug spirits.


/looks away innocently

Didn't that already a happen in... oh, right.

[All4BigGuns]

Or you could get caught up in a battle between shedim and bug spirits.


/looks away innocently

Blood-Invoked bug spirits possessing Nosferatu. 

[Black]

Or you could get caught up in a battle between shedim and bug spirits.


/looks away innocently

Blood-Invoked bug spirits possessing Nosferatu. 

Now that's orginal... and wrong, so very wrong.  Feel it might well for a misquito spirit though...

[Mirikon]

Or you could get caught up in a battle between shedim and bug spirits.


/looks away innocently

Blood-Invoked bug spirits possessing Nosferatu. 

No, Blood-invoked bug spirits possessing dragons.

EDIT: Now I'm picturing a Dragon Wasp Shaman with the Sacrifice metamagic...

[All4BigGuns]

Or you could get caught up in a battle between shedim and bug spirits.


/looks away innocently

Blood-Invoked bug spirits possessing Nosferatu. 

No, Blood-invoked bug spirits possessing dragons.

Nah, at least the Nosferatu possessed ones would be feasible to defeat.

[Black]

Or you could get caught up in a battle between shedim and bug spirits.


/looks away innocently

Blood-Invoked bug spirits possessing Nosferatu. 

Tried it out in Herolab.  Herolab said No.  It then took out a ePhone Book and swotted me several times in the end.  Now all I get is a PEBKAC error, whatever that means...
No, Blood-invoked bug spirits possessing dragons.

EDIT: Now I'm picturing a Dragon Wasp Shaman with the Sacrifice metamagic...

[Elektrycerze3]

While on topic: I really want to try out the Shutdown too, but I lack any knowledge of the 3rd Ed. Is there any translation doc out there, 3rd to 4thA?

Thanks in advance!