Hopeless
2012-11-19, 05:12 AM
So this weekend played Shadowrun for the first time in a very long time as I recall that was a decker that was foisted on me after they killed off my former soldier whilst I was busy running an Earthdawn game at the Hermitage (when it was still open or the rpg club was!). This time I was playing a human Rigger or driver (shows you how much I know about Shadowrun!) the others played a former Troll Brawl sportsman cybered to the hilt, an orc mage and a human girl (?) shaman.
So we turned up for an "audition" along with a human decker with a prosthetic leg who being an npc stayed in cyberspace for most of the time we're in the same room. "Mr Johnson" turns up with two bodyguards and asks us to pick up a Mr Brown from a cheap hotel and escort him to the airport noting we might have company wishing to take Mr brown elsewhere but that at the very least we need to make sure Mr Brown's briefcase gets to the exchange point if things get nasty... for Mr Brown that is!
This is in return for 5000 nuyen so the Troll heads out to fetch his weapons, I ask the other two where to pick them up before we head onto the hotel after I get an alternative ride. They did ask why I don't use my own truck but I wanted to use another vehicle no rigger linkable hardware aboard rather than risk being identified during the job. Anyway I go and pick up a Mystery Van lookalike and managed to keep it operational (but just barely!:smallwink:) and return to pick them up having chosen the van over the saloon alternative simply because we have Troll PC... well at least I tried!:smallbiggrin:
Also picked up a medical kit since I figure someones going to get hurt and if its me I'm making sure I've got something to bandage myself up with!:smallannoyed:
Anyway dropped them off at the hotel and drove around the block a few times before finding a suitable parking place around the front and waited for them to come back out and got rung by the decker who was apparently getting bored so I told him I'd ring back in a half hour...Meanwhile they went to the 2nd floor and found a pair of goons outside Mr Brown's door, one posing as a waiter hid a taser behind his back and used the other hand to knock on the door whilst his comrade stood down the corridor with his hand gun drawn. The Troll beating everyone's initative chose to rush down the hall... and the waiter turned the Taser on the approaching Troll... the Troll's player had 20d6 to counter a difficulty 6 Taser hit, he rolled 7 1's and no successes and promptly passed out atop of the waiter!:smallbiggrin:
The second goon became the focus of two spells straining both the shaman and the mage but managing to have the goon discharge his gun into the ceiling at which point he took off...
So the pair move forward and the Shaman relieves the unconscious waiter of his taser and after checking to see if the Troll can be waked stands up... at which point Mr Brown opens the door and comes face to face with the pair looking down at the massive bulk of the unconscious troll and then back at the pair realising that the only weapon present is the Taser in the underaged child's hand...:smallcool: He of course needs no persuading to leave the hotel so they leave the troll behind although the Orc tries to wake him as the pair use the lift to go downstairs and failing to wake him she runs down the stairs to catch up Mr Brown and the Shaman before they reach the ground floor and head out of the hotel.:smallamused: So they contact me and I move to the front and pick them up having taken the place just left of another car who picked up a man who is highly agitated for some reason...
So everyone was rolling lots of 1's including me but I was rolling more 6's so the worst roll I had was a result of 1 failure during the entire session well barring the no successes whatsoever but still no 1's was still a better result?:smalltongue: Anyway using whats described as New York driving style rushed through the traffic but couldn't out run out pursuers until i turn back to the airport down a tight alleyway and then came to a full stop!:smallwink:
They didn't bother chasing me after that can't imagine why maybe there was a queue at the ER so he couldn't drop his friend who didn't bother to belt up properly? (OW!) Oh did I mention I was the only one in the van who was belted up?:smallamused: Well I did tell Mr Brown to stick to staying out of sight on the floor at the back of the van, strangely he had nothing to say after my two female comrades fell atop of him... well it is a strange world after all...:smallwink:
Anyway we had a chat to decide whether I'd just drop them off or go park and we go as a group. After the gm mentioned it would take quite a bit of time I dropped them off and parked the van as the Troll is woken up back at the Hotel and interrogated... well they tried interrogating him but several sessions later the interrogator knocked the Troll out after shooting him grazing his neck trying to intimidate the Troll but he's too concussed to even notice!:smallamused:
Anyway the decker contacts me whilst parking and then rings them revealing they're supposed to take Mr Brown to the men's washroom... so they wait for me to catch up and I lead him inside and a few rounds of misunderstanding that I was acting very inappropriately to Mr Brown well thats what Mr Brown assumed I was busy trying to make sure he stayed alive!!!:smallredface:
Well one of Mr Johnson's bodyguards turns and relieve Mr Brown of his briefcase allowing him to leave and I use the washroom facilities and leave after the guard hands me a data chip with the location of where to meet that evening.
We then go back to the Hotel to find the Troll and I hand the Orc the medical kit as they go in. I'm still rolling far too many 6's compared to everybody else, its a shame I don't have the first aid skill I might have been able to help with the Troll but probably only get back problems from lifting him back to the van... glad I stayed in the van then!:smalltongue The Troll slept in the back of the van whilst the others went off to where ever until that evening and I left a note on the van whilst i went to get something food, drink a shower and a change of clothes... strange normally around my place they ignore signs saying "Do Not Disturb, Troll Sleeping Inside!" maybe it was because the Troll snored quite loudly!:smallbiggrin: So picked the others up and went to the meeting point turns out it was all a set up and Mr Brown told Mr Johnson's guards what happened to the Troll and the Troll's player intimidated my character because I couldn't believe he had been knocked out by a Taser... the fact Mr Brown thought the Troll was knocked out by an undersized teenaged girl... well I didn't know that!:smallbiggrin:
Well we got paid and told we would be contacted on another mission and we went home... I had spent 500 nuyen renting the van (250 nuyen per day) and another 200 nuyen on the medical kit that i gave to the Orc, so had 4300 left afterwards so used that and another 700 nuyen from my cash to increase how many months my lifestyle was paid for from 6 months to 7 months... Was told we ought to pay more attention as rookie shadowrunners but...
Anyway my character was nicknamed Sal and initially chose Natsu Salamander as his name well I have been watching and reading far too much Fairy Tail of late!:smallbiggrin: however I based the character image on the guy from the Matrix who betrayed the others and even told them that will have to change my nickname but also the actual name but will keep Sal as his given name though...
So what did you think?
Was there something I missed or should know for the next time he runs another game of this?
Get paid in advance was about the only bit I thought of but still...
So we turned up for an "audition" along with a human decker with a prosthetic leg who being an npc stayed in cyberspace for most of the time we're in the same room. "Mr Johnson" turns up with two bodyguards and asks us to pick up a Mr Brown from a cheap hotel and escort him to the airport noting we might have company wishing to take Mr brown elsewhere but that at the very least we need to make sure Mr Brown's briefcase gets to the exchange point if things get nasty... for Mr Brown that is!
This is in return for 5000 nuyen so the Troll heads out to fetch his weapons, I ask the other two where to pick them up before we head onto the hotel after I get an alternative ride. They did ask why I don't use my own truck but I wanted to use another vehicle no rigger linkable hardware aboard rather than risk being identified during the job. Anyway I go and pick up a Mystery Van lookalike and managed to keep it operational (but just barely!:smallwink:) and return to pick them up having chosen the van over the saloon alternative simply because we have Troll PC... well at least I tried!:smallbiggrin:
Also picked up a medical kit since I figure someones going to get hurt and if its me I'm making sure I've got something to bandage myself up with!:smallannoyed:
Anyway dropped them off at the hotel and drove around the block a few times before finding a suitable parking place around the front and waited for them to come back out and got rung by the decker who was apparently getting bored so I told him I'd ring back in a half hour...Meanwhile they went to the 2nd floor and found a pair of goons outside Mr Brown's door, one posing as a waiter hid a taser behind his back and used the other hand to knock on the door whilst his comrade stood down the corridor with his hand gun drawn. The Troll beating everyone's initative chose to rush down the hall... and the waiter turned the Taser on the approaching Troll... the Troll's player had 20d6 to counter a difficulty 6 Taser hit, he rolled 7 1's and no successes and promptly passed out atop of the waiter!:smallbiggrin:
The second goon became the focus of two spells straining both the shaman and the mage but managing to have the goon discharge his gun into the ceiling at which point he took off...
So the pair move forward and the Shaman relieves the unconscious waiter of his taser and after checking to see if the Troll can be waked stands up... at which point Mr Brown opens the door and comes face to face with the pair looking down at the massive bulk of the unconscious troll and then back at the pair realising that the only weapon present is the Taser in the underaged child's hand...:smallcool: He of course needs no persuading to leave the hotel so they leave the troll behind although the Orc tries to wake him as the pair use the lift to go downstairs and failing to wake him she runs down the stairs to catch up Mr Brown and the Shaman before they reach the ground floor and head out of the hotel.:smallamused: So they contact me and I move to the front and pick them up having taken the place just left of another car who picked up a man who is highly agitated for some reason...
So everyone was rolling lots of 1's including me but I was rolling more 6's so the worst roll I had was a result of 1 failure during the entire session well barring the no successes whatsoever but still no 1's was still a better result?:smalltongue: Anyway using whats described as New York driving style rushed through the traffic but couldn't out run out pursuers until i turn back to the airport down a tight alleyway and then came to a full stop!:smallwink:
They didn't bother chasing me after that can't imagine why maybe there was a queue at the ER so he couldn't drop his friend who didn't bother to belt up properly? (OW!) Oh did I mention I was the only one in the van who was belted up?:smallamused: Well I did tell Mr Brown to stick to staying out of sight on the floor at the back of the van, strangely he had nothing to say after my two female comrades fell atop of him... well it is a strange world after all...:smallwink:
Anyway we had a chat to decide whether I'd just drop them off or go park and we go as a group. After the gm mentioned it would take quite a bit of time I dropped them off and parked the van as the Troll is woken up back at the Hotel and interrogated... well they tried interrogating him but several sessions later the interrogator knocked the Troll out after shooting him grazing his neck trying to intimidate the Troll but he's too concussed to even notice!:smallamused:
Anyway the decker contacts me whilst parking and then rings them revealing they're supposed to take Mr Brown to the men's washroom... so they wait for me to catch up and I lead him inside and a few rounds of misunderstanding that I was acting very inappropriately to Mr Brown well thats what Mr Brown assumed I was busy trying to make sure he stayed alive!!!:smallredface:
Well one of Mr Johnson's bodyguards turns and relieve Mr Brown of his briefcase allowing him to leave and I use the washroom facilities and leave after the guard hands me a data chip with the location of where to meet that evening.
We then go back to the Hotel to find the Troll and I hand the Orc the medical kit as they go in. I'm still rolling far too many 6's compared to everybody else, its a shame I don't have the first aid skill I might have been able to help with the Troll but probably only get back problems from lifting him back to the van... glad I stayed in the van then!:smalltongue The Troll slept in the back of the van whilst the others went off to where ever until that evening and I left a note on the van whilst i went to get something food, drink a shower and a change of clothes... strange normally around my place they ignore signs saying "Do Not Disturb, Troll Sleeping Inside!" maybe it was because the Troll snored quite loudly!:smallbiggrin: So picked the others up and went to the meeting point turns out it was all a set up and Mr Brown told Mr Johnson's guards what happened to the Troll and the Troll's player intimidated my character because I couldn't believe he had been knocked out by a Taser... the fact Mr Brown thought the Troll was knocked out by an undersized teenaged girl... well I didn't know that!:smallbiggrin:
Well we got paid and told we would be contacted on another mission and we went home... I had spent 500 nuyen renting the van (250 nuyen per day) and another 200 nuyen on the medical kit that i gave to the Orc, so had 4300 left afterwards so used that and another 700 nuyen from my cash to increase how many months my lifestyle was paid for from 6 months to 7 months... Was told we ought to pay more attention as rookie shadowrunners but...
Anyway my character was nicknamed Sal and initially chose Natsu Salamander as his name well I have been watching and reading far too much Fairy Tail of late!:smallbiggrin: however I based the character image on the guy from the Matrix who betrayed the others and even told them that will have to change my nickname but also the actual name but will keep Sal as his given name though...
So what did you think?
Was there something I missed or should know for the next time he runs another game of this?
Get paid in advance was about the only bit I thought of but still...