[Mystic]

Nah, the SA just used some of their funds to hire a pretty twisted (and powerful) street shaman to constantly harass the runners with various spirits after the runners decided to be jackasses and turn bucket jacking into a fun sport and almost killed one of of the bucket jockeys. And please, I say that with joking respect because my family benefited from their kindness many years ago so please no flack.

Everywhere the runners went  they either get narc-ed on, or they hear..."ding...ding...ding...ding". Night and day, "ding...ding...ding". Nothing sucks more than something tripping the alarm then in the middle of things the team hears "ding...ding...ding..." Bad thing for the team is that they pissed off so many people, no one will help them.

"Ding...ding...ding...."

[rasmusnicolaj]

 
Maybe they should try with an appology and a donation?

Rasmus

[Mystic]

Maybe they should try with an appology and a donation?

Rasmus

What makes you think they haven't?

 

[rasmusnicolaj]

If they still a visited by the spirits their appology wasn't hearthfelt enough and the donation not nearly big enough.
They should try harder 

Rasmus

[FastJack]

Nah, the SA just used some of their funds to hire a pretty twisted (and powerful) street shaman to constantly harass the runners with various spirits after the runners decided to be jackasses and turn bucket jacking into a fun sport and almost killed one of of the bucket jockeys. And please, I say that with joking respect because my family benefited from their kindness many years ago so please no flack.

Everywhere the runners went  they either get narc-ed on, or they hear..."ding...ding...ding...ding". Night and day, "ding...ding...ding". Nothing sucks more than something tripping the alarm then in the middle of things the team hears "ding...ding...ding..." Bad thing for the team is that they pissed off so many people, no one will help them.

"Ding...ding...ding...."

That is ... delicious.

And, I can picture spirits being summoned:

"What services do you require?"
"Find these runners and ring this bell all around them."
"That's it?"
"Yep."
"Heck, I'll do that for nothing."

[bigity]

Swarms of devil rats with a demon rat or two thrown in.

You never know what's gonna pop out of that manhole you just moved the cover off of.

I haven't read the SR4 critter books yet, do demon rats exist?  Nasty nasty things.

[CanRay]

Maybe they should try with an appology and a donation?

Rasmus

Depending on the Officers (They're almost always married couples) they offended and are in charge of said Shadowrun, no amount of money would sway them.

Of course, there's always ways to repent...  Doing God's Work is one of them. 

[Preacher]

I'm a big fan of using the Mafia and low-key street gangs.  But then I tend to GM a game that feels more like something out of Snatch or Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, too.  Namely seemingly unrelated stories that eventually merge together into a plot that wasn't so unrelated after all.

[Phylos Fett]

These are pretty much standard in one of my games:

Lone Star/Knight Errant have always been one of my favorites.

Gangs are always good, as well as the Yakuza (sometimes starting with a gang that is funded by the Yaks, and then moving on to the Yakuza themselves).

For the megacorps I have a leaning towards Ares and S-K - they just seem like good opposition.

Depending on the mix of players, I like to throw in a Magic Group, and some sort of "mastermind"

[Mystic]

Maybe they should try with an appology and a donation?

Rasmus

Depending on the Officers (They're almost always married couples) they offended and are in charge of said Shadowrun, no amount of money would sway them.

Of course, there's always ways to repent...  Doing God's Work is one of them. 

No, I think God's I'm having too much fun with this and I think, they think, I forgot about it. Maybe when they start back up, Ill get a new bell. Suprisingly, the one I used dissappeared. How about a ringtone on my phone so they don't see it coming? Maybe just after they break into that high-security building with the HRT level security ...

"ding...ding...ding..."

[kirk]

Maybe they should try with an appology and a donation?

Rasmus

Depending on the Officers (They're almost always married couples) they offended and are in charge of said Shadowrun, no amount of money would sway them.

Of course, there's always ways to repent...  Doing God's Work is one of them. 

No, I think God's I'm having too much fun with this and I think, they think, I forgot about it. Maybe when they start back up, Ill get a new bell. Suprisingly, the one I used dissappeared. How about a ringtone on my phone so they don't see it coming? Maybe just after they break into that high-security building with the HRT level security ...

"ding...ding...ding..."

And then there's the psychological game. Bring the bell, set it openly among your tools so they can see it, but don't use it. Toy with it, move it, whatever. -2 distraction, real-life.

[CanRay]

Nothing like doing God's work... 

[Mystic]

Nothing like doing God's work... 

Ah-men.

 

[rasmusnicolaj]

And then there's the psychological game. Bring the bell, set it openly among your tools so they can see it, but don't use it. Toy with it, move it, whatever. -2 distraction, real-life.

Briliant idea. Thumbs up 

Must buy a bell right now. Never know, when I need one 

Rasmus

[Reaver]

For me it all depends on who the player piss off 

Currently I am throwing alot of "hired" hit squads mixed with Aztechnology "goons" at the players... but that is cause they just finished running "Ghost Cartels" and litterally went out of their way to piss off Ding Ramos (the aztech "druglord" boardmember!)

I have also used corp security to come after them after a bad run, or KE if they are making an ass of themselves on "protected" city streets. (cause KE couldn't give a rats ass what happens in the barrens... as long as it stays there!)

That's the great thing about SR, the players get to "choose" their antagonists through their own actions/inactions