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Shadowrun RPG Play-By-Post Games => Welcome to the Shadows => Topic started by: kv on April 18, 2006, 11:10:48 PM
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To avoid confusion, this thread is specifically designed for the players to talk out of character, allow the rest of you cretins (and Zone) to heckle them, and general discussions that ensue.
Enjoy.
-kv
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HAHAHA Raymond is Soooo cool.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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He ain't cool man he LEET! Represent my man. lol
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and he's the winnorz!
he's got the shirt to prove it.
because nothing helps you blend into a crowd like a flashing neon shirt.
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Am I doing a recap of all the information he gave you? Supplying you with maps? Or what?
-kv
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I was just uploading whatever was there to their PDA's.
*shrug* I figure if we really need to go over the informaion again, we can, but I was waiting for a nice starting off conversation.
I was more than happy to talk about whatever in the original meet location. they wanted to go someplace more secure. *shrug* I figure it's their turn to start talking about how they want to go about doing this.
-Ruski
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Just waiting on AJ honestly I thought I said a good bit.
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even tho thier orginal location was probly more secure
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well, if they wanetd to spy on us, they wouldn't have told us to leave. LOL
actually, if was going to spy, I'd put a little something-something extra in the PDA, but that's just me.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I dont think blueprints were included
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*shrugs* She just did a quick scan when they were at the club.
Even if there aren't blueprints in the information provided, she'd ask Raymond to see what he can find.
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I could walk over and draw something up on a napkin.
LOL
raymond is good with technology, but he's not much of a decker pr. say.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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You know I was going t o say torch the place lol. Line stealer
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Hey, it's a good idea.
but did you think to put a dead body in the fire?
-Ruski
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Ooh, I want to see how you guys improvise when things go wrong on this run. Because, let's be honest. You know they will. ;D
-kv
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*Shrugs* I'll just hit anyone who gets in the way ;)
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Man portable aztechy rocket launcher best way to go lol.
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Not all problems can be solved by violence.
No, I take that back. Not all problems can be solved WELL with violence.
-kv
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Ooh, I want to see how you guys improvise when things go wrong on this run. Because, let's be honest. You know they will.
funny, I was just reading CLUEfiles on the other tab.
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*shrug* i dunno... sometimes after the run you get picked up by sim-stars and live the rest of your life making XXX tri-D movies.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Only if all the other players stop posting, and after two months of trying you finally finish the run, and get the happiest ending any shadowrunner has ever seen.
Yeah, pretty much only then.
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*shrug* well, it had to happen to someone.
it's like winning the lottery...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Or getting struck by lightning. . .
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Odds of Winning Lottery = Odds of being stuck in the head by lightning more than once.
More people are struck by lightning than win the lottery.
I used to sell lottery tickets, and I told (and still tell) people that it's a tax for people who are bad at math. ;D
-kv
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that's why it's better to just rob the stuffer shack.
better odds.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Actually, every time I've seen gangers try and rob a stuffer shack, the runners kill 100% of gangers!
So you have to wonder what the odds are that there are runners there, that would be low enough that Gangers would still consider it optional.
-kv
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No shortage of poor desperate people on the streets.
-Ruski
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Ooh... robbing a morgue. Or where to get bodies in general. I think it's an interesting problem, finding a corpse that no one will miss or ask questions about.
-kv
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Pose as a johnson, and hire a runner with a reputation for screwing up jobs. Ice him at the meeting, and Voila'; new unwanted corpse!
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if you wanted to just go pick up some random joy-boy you could do that. *shrug* killing random people for money though... that's a slippery slope... seems easyer to bribe / steal from a moruge a john-doe.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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hahahha... I saw that Norm McDonald movie... that doesn't always go as planned. ;D
"Wait... this isn't him! This guy is old... and black... and a midget!"
-kv
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well, the beauty of 'fire' is that just so long as it's about the right shape... you can burn off all the other parts that don't match up...
although, prefreably, if they died in an actual fire... the disection would confirm that they weren't like shot to death, and then just burned.
-Ruski
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I can just see you making those joy-girls into accomplices to murder.
"Hey can you give us a ride?"
"Sure!"
"Hey can we dump this body-shaped carpet in the trunk?"
"Uh, I guess. . ."
"Is it leaking?"
"Don't worry about that. . . "
"But it's red!"
And so forth. . .
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you do relize that that trick wont hold up for long right
sop when a body is found in a fire is to do a autopsy and id the vic
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Yeah, but it'll work long enough for us to get away and whoever we're working for to stash the real guy somewhere...unless of course we end up killing him anyway.
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Well, normally they just do the autopsy to figure out the cause of death... to see if there is any 'foul play' involved.
the ID can easily be provided by a whole housefull of stuff, and a wallet with his ID in it.
there's no reason to check the fingerprints on a corpse you already know the identity of...
and if they just 'happend' to be burned off... well, so much more the shame...
-Ruski
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I suppose we could always steal a car. There's some people I really wouldn't mind getting back at and blaming the run on them would be perfect...
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Okay, so we steal a car from your ex-whatever, and use that to go pick up a dead body. we'll need a picture of this guy to get some proper atire for the body, then we'll burn off anything that dosn't match with a blowtoarch. hair, eyes, fingerprints. drop the burned body in the apartment, torch the apartment, and get out with the goodies / our main man.
sound good?
what's our shopping list look like so far?
1) info on our boy, including pictures and body type.
2) info on his pad, so we'll know what security we are going up aghinst.
3) dead body that died in a fire, of aproxametly the right demensions.
4) some clothes that match our boy in question, and a blowtorch.
5) a stolen car, prefreably with a nice roomey trunk.
6) a bunch of ice. (don't wnat to body to start decomposing premeturely...)
7) gear to circumvent whatever security is in place.
8) a big ol' tranqu patch to subdue our target. I think hoping for him to be okay with this is a bit too optimistic.
9) ... new clothes for the party at the club afterwards.
10) uhh... if we have time, perhaps some newyen spent trying to figure out who our boss is, to make sure he dosn't double cross us, and put together a plan to make sure we get paid.
how does that sound? any additions?
-Raymond
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Works for me. As for the car, it's not so much an ex, as it is a member of a group that killed some friends of mine.
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hmmm... okay. *shrug* can you hotwire this car and go get it on your own, or do you want to just walk up and shoot whoever is driving it, and get it that way?
or would you like me to help you ... liberate it... from it's oppressive owners?
-Raymond
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Actually, ID in the case of fire is usually done by dental records. The corp might have those one file somewhere, seeing as how they're his dentist. ;D
But you guys have fun planning. Don't let me interrupt. ;D
-kv
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We could kill two birds with one stone: Use the former owner as the body double.
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get the clothes from the targets place
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if you get the clothes from the guy, that means you have to sit there with a blowtoarch in the living room and burn the body there...
(the burns on the clothing have to match up with the burns on the body... if the plastic synthleather isn't partially fused with the fat from the body, they'll know the clotes were changed after the death.
-Ruski
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That really depends on how bad the fire is... I mean, if all that's left of the corpse is a withered husk, they're not going to check and see if fat bound to synth-leather. Plus, who wears synth leather in their own home in the middle of the night?
... I mean, other than Gabe?
-kv
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also if the fire isnt seve enough the stoy of him dying in a fire and being burn to a crisp wont wash
a fire hot enought totaly char the body is going to cuase some surios daMGE especialy if you dont want it to look like arson
wich reminds me how you going to keep it from looking like arson
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Curris's solution to Mercy's question.
It won't look like arson if it seriously, overwhelmingly looks like an accident. For instance, drive an oil tanker into the building, as it runs a redlight. . . (or the rigger is sleeping, whatever) Does enough damage to finish the corpse off, and it doesn't look like arson at all, it looks like a fraggin' tanker smashed it and blew up! ;D
Course that's just me.
P.S. There is no sarcasm in this text
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Actually, most people that die in fires don't die from the flames. (directly) they die from the smoke.
so, it's not normally a husk that they find, it's a body, wearing clotes they expect to see, and when they do an autopsy to find the cause of death (they do that first, before identifying it) they find out that it was killed by smoke inhelations...
ID is provided by the surroundings, and the people who knew that he was there.
no reason to pay a couple thousand newyen to run a DNA test when everything points to it being him.
and at best, the DNA test takes two weeks. he'll be replaced by that point, and so far gone that it won't even be worth looking for him.
and, household fires happen all the time. you splash arround a little bit of booze, and put a pack of cigeretes on a nearby counter, and voalla! instant fire-hazard. turn off the smoke detectors (most people who smoke do this anyways) and then you have the reason it got to the lethal stage before the neighbors noticed.
not super easy, but easy enough for out job.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Does he smoke, though?
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The perfect alibi. . .
A wizard did it! ;D
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*shrug*
"you're never to young to start!!!"
-Water World.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Or we could blame it on someone else...
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bad electrical outlet and some cleaning suplys under the sink would work as well. lab equipment and a notebook... there are lots of ways to make accidental fires.
-Ruski
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I have to admit, I like the cigarettes and booze idea- it hadn't occured to me, which makes it the very best of ideas.
-kv
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Leading cause of household fires.
*shrug* the easyest solutions are often the best.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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it might pay to check out what vices tge guy might have
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Like I asked earlier, does he even smoke?
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well, we can find that out. but lots of people have a hidden smoking habbit that they try to hide from people.
*shrug*
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Sorry about that. I kept waiting for someone else to post, and it turns out that person we were all waiting to post was me.
Oops.
Okay, so we're started and back on track. AJ, it's going to take a couple of hours before your contact (new best friend!) calls you back. What are you guys going to do in the mean time?
-kv
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Is this a Vs. fight, or against the computer?
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hahaha... does it really matter? Either you're going to be fighting the computer (me) or an NPC (me). ;D
Unless Rayman wants to get in on this. ;D
-kv
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only if i've beat my top score on the other game.
-Ruski
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Just curious. BTW, do I get to use my actual fighting stats?
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Yup. Even though you're only fighting a graphical representation of the other player, you're able to kick and flip and spin around- the wires are hooked up to a special harness in the ceiling to allow you to move.
Or there's the low-action of the datajack, but most of these kids are a better fighter that way in any case.
-kv
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eh. Not like I have a datajack. Besides, I'd probably be more comfortable actually moving.
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Anyone but a decker usually is. ;D
-kv
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Do I get to use improvements from my adept abilities in this (I.e. improved reflexes)?
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Dosn't really matter how good of a fighter you are.
Deckers cheat.
*shrug* or at least I do.
-Raymond.
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I'll go ahead and let you use your improved reflexes, but I gotta warn you, it's going to mean that you have tougher fights later on.
-kv
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Force feedback dosn't quite do real dammage, so that's not much of a threat.
-Ruski
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I was thinking a biofeedback of '2L' when you got hit bad enough, and '3M' when you died, just to make the game interesting.
-kv
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ahh... all the more reason for me to cheat when I play it. LOL
-Raymond.
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I assume it's all stun damage?
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Yeah, but you have to play with it, so if you get hurt really badly in one round, you have to play hurt until you die.
This is the game of the future!
-kv
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Refresh my memory (Since I don't have my book with me) Dodging is part of the resistance check?
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Seperate part. You can attempt a dodge, which means that you set aside combat pool to roll for the dodge test. If you roll more successes than they did, you dodge the hit/shot. If you don't, then you have to resist, now without the combat pool you set aside to dodge.
-kv
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OK. I have five combat pool left from the attack. I can split that?
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Normally, if it's the end of the round, or if you feel like going at the rest of the turn without any combat pool, you can dump all your dice into the dodge pool.
you can't do it for very long, or aghinst very many oponents, but aghinst one slow guy... it works wonders.
-Ruski
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You can split it pretty much any way you want. You only need one success to match him, so throwing three or four dice into it will assure that you dodge his hit.
This is double-round elimination, so once you beat him, you'll be fighting this same guy again in a moment.
-kv
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Okay, picking up where we left off- Rayman has bolted, yelling about someone coming- but neither of you see anyone around.
-kv
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Okey dokey
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Okay, so I've had no luck recruiting more players- so it's up to you two.
-kv
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just to keep this going in case someone returns for the run