[theKernel]

I just got the idea of making an area where we all talk about the adventures we are in.
So I'll start:
My character that I just created needed a job baaaad so the team and I accepted a job where we were told that we were transporting drugs into azlan.
Long story short I became the transport.
Then I got shot and it set off what we thought was a drug.
It turns out it was some kind of bug thing. I found it in the matrix inside of my persona (I'm a technomancer) It is trying to connect to my brain and when I attacked it, it hurt me so two hours later after we stopped the game I figured out what it was.
It is a experimental piece of tech made to make people into technomancers(my GM is one of those "creative" types)
I don't know if I should try and befriend this thing or get it out of my head.
It may make make me stronger. It may kill me I don't know.
Now before you go "Whaaaat?" you have to realize I left alot of what happened out.
I just thought it was interesting.

Sooooo your turn give me a good story or recap of what you just played!

[Usda Beph]

Our group was given a job to execute some scientist who previously was in trouble for experimenting on Metas. We go to teh location and find it moderately guarded by some pretty professional security. They have jurisdiction to use deadly force. We have made our way into the building thanks to our new Sentient AI and have eliminated the internal security & locked out the external for now. However we have not found the target.

I'm getting short haired cause I'm thinking this might be a double cross or set up.

[Chaotic Insane]

MODERATELY GUARDED!? There were what, 8 on the roof alone!? I hate roof guards in every system forever and for always.

Nathan has learned that he needs a better crossbow is what he's learned. Injection bolts are fun, but getting through armor is not. Code's popped in and out of existence as I have lost and then found the top page of his character sheet a couple times. Dad should totally print me out another blank 10 page sheet tomorrow since he loves me so much.

There's a lot of "wtf new guy?" going on right now since we all have two characters on this run. Code's getting pissy that he has competition for being the most morally destitute member of the party since even he was kinda iffy on the other elf capping some random running chick to try and scare the nerds into giving up the mark's location. A little too high to really care, but still. Dust now has company in the "relatively normal human somehow stuck with this pack of crazies" club with Nathan.

AND NO GIVING DOOM IDEAS. I already have a feeling our party's going to cap each other at some point. XD Either Nathan's going to make Piati take a nap or Code's going to get paranoid and/or jealous and revoke his finger privileges. As far as he's concerned there's only enough room in the party for one person's moral standing to be lying down.

EDIT: also, Doom and I were joking about how long it was going to take you to reply to this thread, dad. XD

[The Doomed One]

AND NO GIVING DOOM IDEAS.

Ignore this^, give me more ideas; they are fun.

[FastJack]

AND NO GIVING DOOM IDEAS.

Ignore this^, give me more ideas; they are fun.

Offer the runner a job where they have to find and recover a scientist working on Collimater Axis Kinetic Elements* project for Aztechnology. Have them break into the super-secure research laboratory, only to find a Jaguar Squad waiting to capture the team and force them to raid an Yucatan Rebel's camp, planting evidence that the betrayal came from within. If they refuse, blood sacrifice.



*The C.A.K.E. is a lie.

[Nomad Zophiel]

I'm in an online PBP game right now, so we have a couple of groups active in the game world. The two Posession Trad mages were hired to non-fatally stop some young elves from beating up the Humanis Policlub. Bad press before the election and all. They just finished that part only to find out that two of the kids were taken by ghouls allegedly hired by Humanis right before the PC's showed up. So now they're off to save the day.

There's an Investigator, an Infiltrator, one of the Posession Trad mages and a couple of others who have been hired by Aztechnology for reasons unknown so far (the briefing is still going on).

There's muscle, a tech/medic and a dronomancer who got a "simple" smash and grab job for a proprietary genetic design (data, not a critter).

Then there's the group I'm with. We've got a technomancer fresh off the boat from Tokyo who's looking for her brother. Turns out he ran away from home to become one of the Seattle Yak's top assassins. So one thread involves chasing intel on him without tipping our hand. Then there's the Adept/rockerboy whose girlfriend is a Yak operative. He likes playing classic Tir na nOg ceremonial music as punk. He also likes drinking and women. The Face is a dryad with a sideline as a community organizer for his neighborhood and friends with a rogue AI. Finally, we have a cybered merc to round things out. Oh yeah, and they're all Elves, although the merc looks more like a human.

Current plan - We just got done with an impromptu concert in the Barrens where everyone met up. The Face is on his way to negotiate with the management of Dante's to get the rockerboy booked to replace a last minute cancellation. That way he can take his girlfriend backstage and pump her for information without having to worry much about being overheard. The technomancer just met the Face's AI friend, who may actually be a Free Sprite or something else spooky. She'll be at Dante's in full "Johnson with powerful backers" mode so that the Face and the Merc can see who's taking an interest in her. Meanwhile, the Face is inviting a few of his highly placed contacts because favors for contacts are a good thing to do. He will be looking for real work while rubbing elbows with the rich and infamous. So far we're getting paid as a side benefit of following everyone's personal plot threads. I like that style, personally.

[Usda Beph]

MODERATELY GUARDED!? There were what, 8 on the roof alone!? I hate roof guards in every system forever and for always.

Nathan has learned that he needs a better crossbow is what he's learned. Injection bolts are fun, but getting through armor is not. Code's popped in and out of existence as I have lost and then found the top page of his character sheet a couple times. Dad should totally print me out another blank 10 page sheet tomorrow since he loves me so much.

There's a lot of "wtf new guy?" going on right now since we all have two characters on this run. Code's getting pissy that he has competition for being the most morally destitute member of the party since even he was kinda iffy on the other elf capping some random running chick to try and scare the nerds into giving up the mark's location. A little too high to really care, but still. Dust now has company in the "relatively normal human somehow stuck with this pack of crazies" club with Nathan.

AND NO GIVING DOOM IDEAS. I already have a feeling our party's going to cap each other at some point. XD Either Nathan's going to make Piati take a nap or Code's going to get paranoid and/or jealous and revoke his finger privileges. As far as he's concerned there's only enough room in the party for one person's moral standing to be lying down.

EDIT: also, Doom and I were joking about how long it was going to take you to reply to this thread, dad. XD

First of all when one in in possession of Assault Rifles Numbers are not that big a factor... relatively. The Guards on the roof were an issue but only because we couldn't lob a few dozen HE grenades up there.

As for Piati's aditude towards psy warefare... I thought it could be an interesting twist to someone who's primary job is to score us jobs as a face. All smiles and "let's do lunch" while on down time, but cold and heartless on a mission. I don't know how long I can play a character like this but it is a test of my abilities. After all You know my professed stance on illegal immigration!I can see Usda and Piati having problems on a philisophical level very soon also.

[Chaotic Insane]

XD It's hard for me to play a hero. Coderizon's more my style. Nathan's slowly losing faith in his ability to hang on to claiming he's a good person.

And doesn't only dust have the damn assault rifles? Do you even have his machine gun still? XD Remember my characters only have a whip, a couple tazers, a pistol crossbow, and a couple pistols between the both of them. Not exactly direct-frontal-assault material. And if the damn building would have been in the middle of nowhere, yeah, no problem! Just lob a few grenades up there and storm in! But no. It's smack dab in the middle of downtown Seattle.

And I should really be hopping in the shower and getting dressed so Doom can take me to coffee or ice cream, but he doesn't know the last part yet. XD

[Ed]

When I last looked in on my runners of Impossible, Inc., things were not going very well.

After pulling a job in the CAS around the Mobile metroplex, the team had ended up in the Big Easy where they were laying over (and laying low) before rolling back out towards Seattle.  Calamity, our Fox shaman, had picked up a quick job pulling security for the Live Oak Boys, a group of some local talismongers in New Orleans while they went out into the local swamps to do their biz.

Half the group went out with the Boys while the rest stayed at the safehouse in the City to work on loose ends from the previous job and prep for the next move.

Calamity didn’t do all her homework and failed to figure out that the LO Boys were crosswise with the Zobop, a local criminal syndicate who has an active interest in controlling as much of the talislegging trade as possible in the Crescent City.  The Zobop are a gang oriented around the voodoo tradition and heavily into magic and magic associated trades (i.e. talislegging).

Long story long, Calamity, DT (razor) and Adrar (adept) find an ambush in the swamps near the Delta and with most of the LO Boys wiped out or escaped into the woods, end up face to face with a really irritated Hougan and his team of Cajun hitters.   Adrar is seriously injured and bleeding badly from a glitched damage resistance roll.  Calamity escapes into the swamps because being a fox shapeshifter is really, really awesome when you need to haul ass into the woods on no notice.

The Zobop drag Adrar and DT back to the City with the intent to ransom them to the team after they have sorted through their gear and determined this is a group of accomplished and well-outfitted shadowrunners (present performance excluded).

A stark naked Calamity makes it to a local highway after a run-in with some Awakened water moccasins (yikes) but has no comlink to flag down any of the automated transport vehicles running the roads and she is trying to avoid the ‘helpful’ law enforcement presence.  Fortunantly, a local fisherman is kind enough to give her a lift to the fringe of the city after an amazing roll on a Con check and a well-timed Influence spell.  In Awakened Louisiana it’s apparently not unusual to be flagged down by a naked chick in the middle of the night.

The Zobop have contacted the other team members by this time; the team is advised that the hougan who has introduced himself as Brother Bile intends to attempt a new possession ritual on the unwilling Adrar OR the team can perform a job for him in return for the freeing of Adrar sans the equipment (including foci) captured by the Zobop during the initial ambush.

Further, the team is treated to an AR transmission of Brother Bile’s zombies sealing DT into a large 55 gallon metal drum and dumping him into what they believe is the Mississippi.  Brother Bile states that DT has no meat left in his body (mainly bioware but I guess that tastes bad to voodoun) and is useless to him; as an incentive to the team, Brother Bile remarks that he doubts submersion in water will slow down DT much (OXSYS cybergill) and that should the team agree to work for him, Brother Bile will disclose the location of the dump site.

As the barrel sinks into the muddy waters, DT’s player arrives late to the game (Life Lesson: don’t be late to the game, punctuality is important)  and the team decides they need to kill Brother Bile A LOT, real quick-like and double-cross Brother Bile's double-crossedness.

[Chaotic Insane]

We finally killed that &$#(%&. It ended in the most anti-climactic way, too. Jackass locked himself in a panic room we just could not break into, so Dust snags one of the tiny drones Codac took over, duct tapes a smart linked gun to it, and caps his ass.

Duct tape. And pretty much an RC helicopter. We fail. XD

[The Cat]

The group I'm currently playing with is a rather odd mix of personalities.

We have the "rigger/decker" (yeah, I still use the terms) who is horrendously agoraphobic and operates 99% of the time via drones, including most team interactions and refuses to go to meetings.

We have the Sammy who is Ms Chromed-to-the-gills but flat out refuses to engage in hand-to-hand combat unless absolutely necessary.

We have a shaman who is always sullen, a drug addict and incapable of getting along with anyone who she's not directly working with.

We have the troll ex-bouncer who is basically a pacifistic Buddhist monk except for the robes.

And then there's me, the weird one.  I play a low skill FACE with a pacifistic streak a mile wide.  However, he's also a complete mental case who suffers from a split personality and the OTHER half is a very skilled adept who's basically a barely restrained psychotic.  THink Jekyll and Hyde with magic.  Worse, the FACE knows his "other half" is out of his mind but is unaware he's an adept (he is consistently surprised when some adept ability assists him naturally).  Even worse than that, the "other self" is slightly aware of what the FACE knows, meaning he acts on some knowledge the FACE has but the FACE cannot act on what the nutjob knows.  To keep the "fun" going with him, his FACE persona has an innate ability to basically use a significant amount of masking to hide his aura without knowing it.

The fixer that common uses the team has figured out most of their quirks and uses them for jobs they'd all not have a problem with, but recently she got leaned on to slip them a wetwork job, something much of the team would refuse to do.  So, she couched it in an extraction and data steal with the assassination target being the extraction target and his personnel file being the data steal.  The data file had enough nasty stuff in it about the target to possibly set someone off to doing him in.  She figured she could, at the very least get her hands on the target and do the killing herself, but she was also fairly confident at some point the FACE's "other self" would take down the target just for self amusement.  Both jobs actually went unusually well, we we just having an "on" night and we got in, out and away with very little violence necessary.  However, after breaking the file open to see what they'd gotten, The FACE's other self made an appearance and when the opportunity presented itself, he tortured the target to death.

The fixer was happy but acted upset and cut their pay.  The team was extremely pissed, but couldn't go after the FACE because he didn't even know or understand exactly what had happened.  When the other side finally put in another appearance, they verbally went after him before the rigger realized it had been an assassination the whole time.  They confronted their fixer about it, she finally, out of fear for he life, admitted it and made sure they were better compensated.  Now the team has gotten paranoid, they can't trust their jobs, they're spooked of each other and the poor FACE has no clue what is going on or why everyone is acting so hinky.

[Chaotic Insane]

Your.

Group.

Is.

... AMAZING! <3

[FastJack]

Agreed. Can I play in your group Cat?

That being said, my current group is in the middle of this gun battle with some orks and ... Oh, just go read it: Road to Redmond

[Usda Beph]

Yeah what Chaotic missed was our AI now has decided to try to make this place his Home Node for a while! We want to get the BFG found in the weapons lab on the roof... you know for the door to door salesmen.

I have Usda's ThunderStroke... with all 10 rounds! We have access to teh armory and all the toys & ammo there. Life will be good!

[Chaotic Insane]

I heard a little bit of it. I told Doom and he said there's no way in hell that thing is leaving the basement since it's just so damn big. It did leave a 6' hole in the wall that was almost a 6' hole in Piati because he's a n00b and DIDN'T LOOK UNDER THE DOOR FIRST.