[DeathofVirtue]

  It's that time of year again so I thought I would help people get in the mood by making this thread for Christmas themed missions/one shot runs.

Post your ideas up here and share the christmas spirits.

Rules:
  This is intended to be something light and fun so lets not have any religious arguments and the like.
  Have a laugh.
  Be friendly.
  Grinches will be shot, survivors will be shot again.

  Enjoy.
  -Death

[Jack_Spade]

Well, one memorable run I GMed was based loosely on a Simpson episode:

The runners are hired to "recall" a defect toy robot that could create serious damage to the kids but also the company. Normally a formal recall would be issued, but the manager in question has already to many black marks to risk that.

Luckily, most of the defective batch is still in the warehouse of a large retailer. Only two others have gone out: One to the daughter of the manager's boss and a whole crate as part of a marketing opportunity to an orphanage.

The runners have to save Christmas through arson, stealing toys from orphans and wreaking a family's Christmas dinner (as this is the only time they can reliably enter the villa)

[DeathofVirtue]

  I actually really like that one.  With your permission I will write it down for later use.

  My first Christmas mission starts with a meet to eliminate a defective prototype drone.
After talking to the suit it turns out it's out of control and breaking into peoples property, they want you to retrieve it intact and quietly and replace any items it took without alerting the owners or authorities to avoid the bad pr.

  As it progresses the runners discover it's a repurposed military drone with no cable matrix or ai input, pilot only, ufortunatley it's bat drek insane and is breaking into high end residential housing at night and stealing stuff all while dressed as Santa, why is unclear.

  When the runners eventually track it down at night (Christmas eve) they discover it's wrapping the stolen items and writing down where they were taken from before throwing them in a sack.  After a brief struggle the runners restrain the drone and after calling to get it picked up find themselves breaking into peoples properties to deliver the stolen goods back to the houses just in time for christmas.

  It's then revealed the drone was supposed to be an attempt to sell very outdated military drones the company had an overstock of as expensive automated christmas decorations to shift dead stock, however the attempt was sabotaged by a disgruntled employee.

  P.s  Sorry for the rushed description I realised I have somewhere I need to be halfway through typing.  Lol

[Senko]

I admit the first thing that popped into my head was an old horror movie where a kid saw his parents murdered on Christmas then years later due to abuse and seeing the girl he liked with someone else snapped and started killing people in a Christmas suit. One of those rare government jobs the runners are hired as there is a serial killer slaughtering people left and right on Christmas eve in a santa suit. The initial police response went badly wrong when a panicky rookie gunned down a deaf priest in a santa suit who was coming to deliver toy's to orphans. Now the runners have been hired to find and neutralize the real killer with a second hidden plot that they need to uncover they are already intended to be the scapegoats for the priests killing as well that they need to get round.

[cantrip]

I think a 'Die Hard' themed run in a Corporate Enclave could be fun. Tie in for players could be various: hired as 'status' bodyguards (ie all look, no weapons); hired to break in during a christmas party and terrorist take over the building; players invited to a holiday party by accident (prank by a decker friend).

The main thing would be to get them into the corporate headquarters with minimal gear and low threat expectations (if you can get them barefoot, all the better!) and then have the HQ taken over by hostiles loaded with milspec gear. I'd keep it tongue in cheek like the film - lots of cinematic action and explosions. Gotta be explosions. 

[DeathofVirtue]

  One I have set for my group this weekend is what I call the jingle bomb mission.  The runners are hired as additional "plainclothes" security by a mega who wants some deniable hard hitters who blend in to deal with what they believe is a credible bomb threat  to a public facility.  There is at least one bomb in the building, possibly more, they arent allowed to tip off the civies as a public bomb threat during the christmas period would CRUSH estimated sales and the companies bottom line in that part of town.  If they suspect somone they identify them over secure comms and corpsec will bring them in for questioning.

  There is a twist or two however.  Firstly the run is a framejob by the corp, pinning it on the runners, it's been running in big big dept this past quarter year and they want to wipe their records for the fiscal year and get the insurance.

  Secondly the head of this branches corpsec is a deep cover lonestar agent who is feeding intel back and preparing to take the runners and head office down in a bust.

  Finally one of the runners (I suggest the dekker or other runner with appropriate data contact) is approached by a third party after accepting the job, they are interested in obtaining the financial records of the corp for this year as they suspect the public domain ones are fake.

   The runners may find hint's of the first two as the game plays out, depending on events, but they start out in the dark.

  I have left most of the specifics blank so you can tailor.

  Death.

[Sphinx]

An 8-year-old boy just inherited his family's considerable fortune, and he wants to hire shadowrunners to go to the North Pole and bring back proof that Santa is real. If the runners take the kid's money and do the job, they'll find a Saeder-Krupp corporate bunker embedded in the ice at 90 degrees north latitude, inside the bunker is an elevator down to a submarine research station suspended below the polar ice. S-K saved 20 percent off the construction costs by designing maintenance and habitat spaces at dwarf scale, so most of the facility's technical staff are dwarfs. The director is human, though -- Boris Kristovich, a fat Russian with bushy white hair and beard. Surveillance footage of the director surrounded by dwarf technicians is a credible enough representation of Santa and his elves to satisfy the kid's requirements. But the runners encounter trouble when they're ready to leave ... a fierce storm, a toxic spirit, rampaging paracritters, a rival corporate strike team, or all of the above, forcing them to ally with the S-K group for survival.

[Fizzygoo]

Runner's get hired to make sure an armored car with light security does not reach it's destination tonight. Johnson doesn't care about the contents, if any, of the vehicle and offers anything they find as bonus to the base pay of ~10,000¥ (or 2,000¥ per runner). Johnson has the planned route of where best to hit it (but it's not obvious if starting and end points are included [they are not]), time scheduled to be along that route (happening soon), maximum one other security escort of 2-4 corpsec level individuals, 2 with the vehicle itselt, etc. Should be a cakewalk if the runner's have the gear to take out a Ares Citymaster style vehicle.

Then runners may find all or some of the following out via legwork. Or maybe it just seems easy enough that they dive right in without any legwork, the GM description going something like this;

You're immediately on your guard as you see the telltale reflections of  security lights off the surrounding buildings down the block. But then around the corner instead of the usual patrol car or other emergency vehicle comes a lumbersome Ares Citymaster, your target, at an achingly slow 8 kph...The whole of it's body has been painted or decorated in red and white stripes like some candycane mecha's foot, instead of pressurize water - tinsel (in both real life and AR) flutters out the nozzles of the water cannons, as its speakers blare out Alex the Awakened Squirrel's most recent Christmas songs from Ares Global Entertainment division.

Jonson works for Lone Star. Wants to give bad press to KE but isn't smart enough to frame KE for something big so just hiring runners to blow up the vehicle transporting the Christmas toys, puppies, and kittens, all for starving orphan kids with terminal cancer is the best the Johnson could come up with.