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General => Creative Corner => Topic started by: Ruski on November 22, 2004, 04:22:09 PM

Title: get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on November 22, 2004, 04:22:09 PM

Okay, well, upon Apoc's advice (it's alwies a good idea to listen to dragons) i think this will be a thread deticated to the stupid things we've done as runners, and how it went from there.

Like the time myself (as a rigger) decided to fly a T-Bird. the T-Bird was carrying an exec J who was trying to kill us. she was one heckuva *BLEEP*, and we were expecting it, but we weren't expecting the T-Bird. in preperation for her arrival, we broke into her house, and opend up all the gas lines and were waiting inside the house (with quite the headaches) so that we had something to blow up as a distraction later. turns out we distracted them sooner (rather than later) when they landed their corperate T-Bird, guns drawn, and we went out to greet them. aparently some static electricity was built up when we closed the door behind us, and the house exploded, killing the girl, knocking over the T-Bird, and frying us in the process, now through the carefull burning of some karma we lived, but the lone-star was on it's way, as were some ground based corperate supporters, so, haveing nothing better to do, we climed into the dammaged T-Bird, and mannaged to fly it for about five blocks before it crashed again, then we had to steal a car, and drive someplace for docwagon to come pick us up. (but at least we didn't need the assault pickup fees added on there)

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: mercy on November 22, 2004, 10:40:17 PM

ok  this happen in a AD&D  session I was leading a group to the desert
to beat on slavers the city oppsed this so sent a group to stop us  one member of our party who was with the vity military deciced to switch sides
well the biggest badestt Mouther on our side was a lev16 weapon masyer with a 19 strg  well the triater decides he is going to lasso the weapion Master  and try to hog tie him
mine you the triater is only 7  and  a 18/23
strg

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: APOCALYPSE on November 23, 2004, 05:15:05 AM

This is kind of sketchy since it has been years...but I remember run where they guys had to burn everything, etc...to dispose of evidence for some kidnapping, etc.. After everybody, set the explosives and dumped fuel, etc.. then one guy said as a joke...."Who brought the lighter?".... then the village idiot said without a second glance...."Oh, I got one and it still works. See :o!" BOOM....needless to say...that ended the run.

It's a bit sketchy but the details are there. I remember my buddy and the idiot getting into a fight or something over that ;D

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on November 23, 2004, 07:17:45 AM

Once, when driveing through this little dump of a town on a cross country smuggleing route we got in some trouble with the local enforcement, seems they wanted to take all our money and kill us, or at least leave us in the middle of nowhere with only our socks to keep us warm, so as they come up to our car we open up and blow the crap out of them, but not before they call for backup. so we switch cars (takeing their cruser) and head back into town, on the way in we see some headlights. so we play chicken with them. no one finched.
we got away with moderate wounds, but the other car was actually a truck with ten guys in the back. they didn't fair so well (aparently didn't have seat belts back there)

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 08, 2004, 01:32:53 PM

OK, the runners are in the middle of the Cascade Mountains. They have just taken out an entire regiment of Salishe-Shidhe regular army troops who were on a training mission. They did this by geeking a trooper and taking all of his splash grenades full of Gama-Scopolamine and emptying them into a the trooper's helmet. Then they summoned a wind spirit to manifest and vaporize the GS into a mist. Then the spirit just blew through the camp. *Thud* Instant catatonic grunts. Since the runners were feeling so damn smug, one of them decideds to check out one of the 3 T-Birds parked in a perimiter around the camp and directly behind a group of trikes and 4-wheelers the runners were goign to use to get out of the forrest. Said runner had NO experience with anything other than a bike, so when he started screwing with the T-Bird's controls, he ended up firing the main gun directly into the trikes/4-wheelers/cargo carriers. The others grabbed cover QUICK, and the runner in the T-Bird got spooked and started blasting the controls with a shotgun. The T-Bird takes off, unguided (the runner dives out the back) and crashes into a tree, grounding itself and stalling. Miraculously, no one was hurt or killed, but all of the bikes/trikes/etc. wee blasted about 20' away and were now bright hunter's orange. The cannon was loaded with paint rounds for the training exercise.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: mercy on December 08, 2004, 09:08:38 PM

lol am guessing they took one of the other t-birds

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: kv on December 09, 2004, 01:49:58 AM

"No Officer, this is my bike. I LIKE orange!"

  HAHAHAHAHA! ;D

  -Kid Vid

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ingo Monk on December 09, 2004, 12:51:28 PM

rofl Kid!

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 09, 2004, 01:23:34 PM

LOL, now, they headed cross country in a BIG truck and used spirits to smugggle the hardware across the border. ANd since they had brought a bunch of fishing gear with them when they cross into S-S territory, they just looked like they had come back from a particularly drekky fishing trip.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 13, 2004, 11:19:47 AM

So... did ya' catch anything?

"some paint. the insides of my pants are all oarnge from where i had to sit on it while it was still wet."

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 13, 2004, 11:40:12 AM

No fish, just one pissed off elf and some bad-blodd between use and the S-S boys and girls.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 13, 2004, 02:09:23 PM

LOL how about "you should have seen the one that got away! it was the size of a T-Bird!"

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 15, 2004, 05:36:21 AM

LOL! THat would have been great. I doubt the border guards would have laughed much, though.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 15, 2004, 01:51:00 PM

they never do seem to have a sence of humor about thoes sort of things.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: mercy on December 15, 2004, 02:23:34 PM

boarder guards a sense of humor thoose two words dont go togher

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 15, 2004, 03:48:04 PM

Perhaps it's a point question on the 'becomeing a border guard exam'

?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Do you, or do you not have a sence of humor?
T)True
F)False

(if you laughed at the dificult wording of this question please shoot yourself in the head. if you got confused and picked either A or B in an attempt to bluff your way through this question, shoot yourself in the head. if you left it blank on the moral grounds of avoiding humor at all costs, please procede to the next question.)

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: APOCALYPSE on December 15, 2004, 10:15:07 PM

So, what's the next question? ;)

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 16, 2004, 05:46:07 AM

There is no "next question." Those guys are just a bunch of humorless metermaid-wannabes. They couldn't find their hoops with both hands and an inplanted GPS tracker.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 16, 2004, 08:32:35 AM

next question:

how do you activate the GPS tracking unit implanted in your Hoop.
A)True
B)False

(If you answerd 'true' shoot yourself in the head. you aren't suppose to know about that tracking unit. if you answered False, shoot yourself in the head because you said no to someone in authority. that someone being this peace of paper. you need to learn to respect paper. if you left this question blank because you avoid humor at all cost, procede on to the next question.)

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: mercy on December 16, 2004, 02:10:08 PM

um just cause no hummor dont underestamte them

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 16, 2004, 03:35:11 PM

that's in question 3.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: APOCALYPSE on December 16, 2004, 03:38:05 PM

I should go out for this ;)

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 16, 2004, 04:27:22 PM

so you already took this quiz huh?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: APOCALYPSE on December 16, 2004, 04:35:46 PM

Yeah, I left it blank basically except for my name. I put that down and failed.....something about not having to know my name ???....oh well, next time. ;D

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 16, 2004, 04:53:13 PM

NO NO NO NO NO

you are just suppose to put 'Mook'

under name.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: APOCALYPSE on December 16, 2004, 04:58:30 PM

That's why I didn't pass..oh well, I like my job anyway. ;D

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 17, 2004, 07:06:38 AM

Yeah, your nametag has the code GFM #435872 on it. That stands for Generic Fraggin' Mook #435872. ;)

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: kv on December 17, 2004, 01:23:42 PM

Heeheehee... reminds me of a movie quote:

"I can't see,  :censored: mook! I have no eyes!"

  -Kid Vid

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 17, 2004, 01:45:00 PM

Which movie was that??

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 17, 2004, 03:38:44 PM

*shrug* got me on that one.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: kv on December 18, 2004, 02:43:44 AM

Once upon a time in mexico.

Toward the end of the movie, when Johny Depp has had his eyes cut out by the cartel because he saw too much that he wasn't supposed to see.

He finds this kid to lead him (be his eyes), and they get in a cab, and head for the part of town where everything is going to hell.

The cab drivers stops, and Depp asks "Where are we, why have we stopped?"

The cab driver, without even looking around, says "Open your eyes! It's a :censored: coup de etat out there!"

Wherein Johnny Depp says the previously quoted line.

"I can't see :censored: mook! I have no eyes!"

  -Kid Vid

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: APOCALYPSE on December 18, 2004, 02:17:53 PM

I thought that was a terrible movie.

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 20, 2004, 08:00:51 AM

i agree. it was a terrible movie, with the ocasional cool line.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: kv on December 20, 2004, 02:58:53 PM

I liked it.

 But I hated Torque, so apparently we have different tastes in movies.

Wait... I already knew that. ;D

  -Kid Vid

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 21, 2004, 05:54:27 AM

Kid_Vid, I have to say that this is one time where I think you really MUST have been dropping acid before you watched a movie. Without getting into a scathing movie review, I'll just say that I really conbsidered asking for my money back after that one.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: kv on December 21, 2004, 11:16:33 PM

It might've been the company. I watched it with one of my best friends.

 -Kid Vid

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 22, 2004, 05:56:09 AM

Now I can see how that happens. To this day, I love the movie "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask" simply because I watched with mey then-best friend. The scene where Gene Wilder is sitting on the sidewalk, broke and homeless drinking Woolite still cracks me up. ;D

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: ROOTless on December 22, 2004, 05:56:19 AM

with the "incence" going in the background?

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: APOCALYPSE on December 22, 2004, 06:05:50 AM

And he has the Love Oil beside that..... ;)

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 22, 2004, 08:36:28 AM

never saw it... although with a description like that... hmm... yea. probibly never see it.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 22, 2004, 08:44:39 AM

I can't believe none of you have seen this one. Maybe I should just move it to the Obstucre Movie thread??

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 22, 2004, 09:11:43 AM

well, unless you want it to end up in the C.L.U.E. files...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: APOCALYPSE on December 23, 2004, 05:19:56 AM

Quote from: Gabriel on December 22, 2004, 05:56:09 AM

Now I can see how that happens. To this day, I love the movie "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask" simply because I watched with mey then-best friend. The scene where Gene Wilder is sitting on the sidewalk, broke and homeless drinking Woolite still cracks me up. ;D

Gabriel

It sounds familiar but I just can't recall it to memory.

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 23, 2004, 05:56:14 AM

It's an old Woody Allen flick. It's pretty good, but the humor is VERY dated.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 23, 2004, 08:48:59 AM

yea... good ol' woodie has very dated humor. very dry, very dated.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 23, 2004, 08:58:18 AM

There were a lot of one-liners, which I didn't really like. But otherwise it was pretty funny.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 23, 2004, 09:27:18 AM

one liners are good, heck,... it's practicly what this pub is based on, but a whole movie of them just gets dull after awhile.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 23, 2004, 11:04:13 AM

Yep. Of course there are other good tihngs about it. It's just that the one-line humor gets really old.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 23, 2004, 11:25:32 AM

rewatch value goes down too.

-RuskIFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Zone on December 24, 2004, 01:07:20 PM

Generally I hate Woody Allen but I did see that one - the one funny bit was when the sperm were all lining up for launch and there's the one confused black guy.  

But I see we're way off topic again... :D

so.....


Dumbest thing I ever heard was when Lone Star came screaming up to the building the runners were in, they surround the place and the troll leans out of the CEO's office window and yells down "It's okay, we're shadowrunners!"

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: mercy on December 24, 2004, 01:10:54 PM

and the wierd thing it probly worked had the star totaly distracted with laughter

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: kv on December 26, 2004, 12:07:50 AM

Well, after they shot the troll.

We had a run again tonight!

Made me remember some good times!

  -Kid Vid

(nothing worthy of the Clue Files this time)

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 30, 2004, 10:21:53 AM

you don't think that destroying three of the runners cars, and getting another stolen count as non-clue-ish?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: mercy on December 30, 2004, 10:44:10 AM

your hard on thier wheels

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 30, 2004, 10:53:16 AM

Yeah really. You should provide each of your runners with a life-time supply of bus passes. ;)

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: kv on December 30, 2004, 11:40:41 AM

Well, we did okay.

I'll post the story sunday when I finally have more time off, unless Ruski wants to do the honors this time around. ;D

   His version will probably be funnier anyway. ;D

  -Kid Vid

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 30, 2004, 11:48:41 AM

i doubt that. but let's just say that we lost a honda with nitrus 5 push, a yamaha rapier, a euro westwind turbo, another eurowestwind turbo, a f-350 truck, and countless mook vehicles, a dozen motorcycles, two or three 10 second japanese cars, four SUV's...

the honda with NOS was mine... *sigh* oh well... i got enough to get a new one with upgrades... perhaps i'll just steal one instead...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: mercy on December 30, 2004, 12:12:19 PM

ouchie shame about the westwind turbo

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on December 30, 2004, 01:03:13 PM

I'm slinching about the Yamaha Rapier. My favorite bike right there.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on December 30, 2004, 04:47:21 PM

two of the westwind turbos.
only one was a PC's though.

the other belonged to our mark.

and the rapier went down on the hood of my honda.

*sigh* that's what i get for letting kid drive my car.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

(but then, i was buisy useing the SMG on the biker gang following us at 120MPH)

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on January 04, 2005, 11:03:25 AM

Why does this remnd me of one of Ruski & Kid_Vid's games???

Gabriel

http://www.anothersite.co.uk/gallery/mediatemp/ninja-advert.wvx (http://www.anothersite.co.uk/gallery/mediatemp/ninja-advert.wvx)

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on January 04, 2005, 11:13:43 AM

LOL

ninja partners huh?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on January 04, 2005, 11:48:47 AM

I mean if that isn't from one of your games, I don't know what is. ;)

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on January 04, 2005, 11:56:22 AM

Just our games?

i thought everyone's games were like that!

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: kv on January 05, 2005, 10:13:30 AM

BWHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 :D :D :D ;D ;D :D :D :D ;D ;D :D :D :D

That's awesome, Gabe!

 -Kid Vid

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on January 05, 2005, 10:28:54 AM

did we ever post a rundown of our last run?

-RuskiFace the pIrate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: mercy on January 05, 2005, 12:17:22 PM

lol it was cute and no you didnt

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on January 05, 2005, 12:20:46 PM

okay, well, i'm going to lunch now, to eat some chefboyardee, play final fantasy I on my gameboy, and when i get back, i'll see what i can do for ya'

-RUskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Zone on February 05, 2005, 12:39:16 PM

LOL  :D
You have to read this conversation I found and then tell me if your reaction would have been the same as mine...

A runner group had made an enemy of a small Corp by 'liberating' some experimental firmware. This Corp. had identified one of the runners (the Sammy) and, in order to retrieve their property, had the Sammy's father kidnapped. The Corp Johnson then called the Sammy, and told him to "be at this address if you ever want to see your father alive again". The Sammy frantically calls his contacts/family, and ascertains that his father is indeed missing. He calls his chummers and they make the meet.

Unfortunately, the Sammy was running dangerously low on Clues. We go now to a "blow-by-blow" account, as submitted by one of the players in this sordid story.

GM - "You arrive at the address. It's a four story apartment building. The voice indicated an apartment on the 3rd floor".
Sammy - "Fine. I draw my Predator. We go in and proceed to the apartment door. We listen at the door."
GM - "Good. You hear nothing."

It was right about now that the Clues ran out.

Sammy - "I kick in the door".
GM - "What?"
Sammy - "I kick in the door."
GM (stunned silence for 3 seconds). "OK, the door bursts open."
Sammy - "We go in. What do we see?"
GM - "It's a small, bare apartment. The only furniture in the living room is a metal folding chair. In the chair is a middle-aged woman in a suit".
Sammy - "I kick her"
GM - "What?"
Sammy - "I use my Unarmed Combat - Martial Arts - Kicks. I use all my combat pool. I kick her"
GM - (more stunned silence). "OK, roll". Dice hit the table. "Your round -house kick catches her in the side of the head. It does physical damage. She sprawls on the floor, unconscious. She looks seriously hurt". This was followed by a "Hummm", which most players who have a clue know is the GM deciding if he kills the character tonight or not.
Sammy - "OK. Do with windows have curtains?"
GM - "Excuse me. What?"
Sammy - "Curtains. Do the Windows in the apartment have curtains?
GM - (tentatively) "Yes"

By now the other player and I were wondering what we should be doing. We didn't like the way this was progressing. The player running the Sam seemed to have a plan, and he was talking very confidently like he know what he was doing, so we went along.
Sammy - "I use my Bowie knife to cut the curtains into strips. I tie the woman's hands behind her back, and I tie her ankles to her wrists".
GM - "OK - she's hog-tied".
Sammy - "I splash water from the sink on her to wake her up"
GM - "She wakes up. "Who are you?""
Sammy - "Where's my father?"
GM - "What"
Sammy - "Where's my father?"
GM - "I don't know what you're talking about"
Sammy - I slap her. "Where's my father?"
GM - "I don't know what you mean."
Sammy - "I grab one of her fingers. I bend it backward until it snaps. I ask her 'Where's my father?'"
GM (more stunned silence) "She says 'I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just a temporary secretary. I was just told to come here and deliver a message'"
Sammy - "I don't believe her. I slap her some more. Break a few more fingers.
GM - "Does your character have the Interrogation or Intimidation skill?"
Sammy - "No. I have no Social Skills". Everyone in the room agreed with him.
GM - "Fine, fine. The woman, in tears, is sobbing in pain. She says in a weak voice that she is a professional temporary secretary and her service sent her over for this one night job and all she was told to do was deliver a message."
Sammy - "I still don't believe her. Is she wearing shoes? I take off her shoes".
GM - "OK OK OK. You all hear a noise at the door. In the doorway is a man in a dark, tailored suit. He looks like a Johnson.
Sammy - "Now we're getting somewhere. I kick him" (the room is now filled with groans).
GM - Alright Already. You wrestle him to the ground and tie him up.
Sammy - "Where's my father?"
GM - "We have your father. He is safe. We would like to...'"
Sammy - "No deals. Tell me where he is."
GM - "You must co-operate if you want him to remain unharmed"
Sammy - I take out my gun and hold it to his head. 'Tell me where he is'"
GM - "If you kill me, you'll never see your father alive again".
Sammy - tI yell "You Bastard" and pull the trigger ( at this time the player has a triumphant grin on his face).
GM - "I can't believe it. You killed the Johnson"
Sammy - (still grinning) "Yeah. That will show them who they can boss around and who they cant"
GM - "Yeah... but you killed him BEFORE he told you where your father is..."
Sammy - *!@))$*&!!!

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: kv on February 06, 2005, 09:55:44 PM

Even at our worst, we're 200% brighter than that guy.

  -Kid Vid

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: mercy on February 07, 2005, 01:56:04 PM

ah one of the famous clueless files from the clue pages

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on February 07, 2005, 01:58:18 PM

LOL, speak for yourself, my runners actually interogated a PIZZA BOY for 30 minutes before I tranqued him and smacked the others in the backs of their pointy heads!

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Poison on February 08, 2005, 12:22:16 AM

..so Zone, what was the result of all this?  My money's on the corp figuring the Sammy is completely Section 8, hosing the father and sending a strike team after the Sammy and all of his companions.  Terminate with extreme prejudice...

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on February 08, 2005, 06:21:47 AM

Or maybe the GM just let it kind of go since everyone was already there and some of them may have been really pissed if the game went south so soon into it? Anyway, you should have just shot the guy.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on February 08, 2005, 12:17:06 PM

yea, i'd add that sammy to my 'blocked call' list, and pretend that my phone was broken, never running with him again.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Zone on February 08, 2005, 01:33:56 PM

It wasn't my run, but my understanding was the run was a bust, and the old man 'dissappeared'.  Bet he was a proud poppa.

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on February 08, 2005, 01:37:06 PM

A few of my runners ended up getting black-mailed like that once. We handled it a bit better, but then again, I think a retarded seware rat could have handled it better than that guy.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on February 08, 2005, 01:38:36 PM

a retarded sewer rat with three legs and a thing for mousetraps could have handeled that better.

-RuskIFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on February 08, 2005, 01:54:41 PM

Ah, touche'.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on February 08, 2005, 02:35:39 PM

because it would have been more difficult for that rat to go arround kicking everything.

"i need to go shopping."
"okay."
"i kick open my door."
"it's already broken."
"okay, well, i look for people to kick down the stairs as i leave."
"there's a pile of dead bodies at the foot of the stairs, and everyone runs as they hear you stomp out of your pad."
"okay, i kick the dead bodies, and go to the store."
"alright. you make it to the store."
"i kick it."
"the store?"
"yes. unitll it breaks. i use all my combat pool."
"okay... you kick a hole in the wall next to the door and emerge into the store through a chip display."
"okay. now i need to see if they sell shoes. i go over and kick the cleark."
"okay, you beat the cleark unconcious."
"i kick him again, untill he tells me if they sell shoes."
"okay, you kick his unconcious form untill it dies."
"dam. i hate it when that happens. i look for shoes."
"no. this is a stuffer shack, they have nerps slippers though."
"i kick thoes arround while i try to think of where to get shoes."

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on February 09, 2005, 10:58:27 AM

[size=15]LOL!!!!!!!!![/size]

Damn, I actually had to stop myself from falling over after readin ghtat. If I could applaud you twice, I would!!!

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on February 09, 2005, 12:27:19 PM

i think that perhaps he has a foot fetish.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Retread on February 10, 2005, 05:23:13 PM

Throwaway Characters are fun sometimes. I just hope that WAS a throwaway character :P

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Retread on February 10, 2005, 05:51:42 PM

Okay, here's one:


Shi New the Tiger Shapeshifter Adept and his "buddy" Dros the Incredibly Vindictive Mage decide to strongarm a group of Smuggler's dropping of a load of Magical Reagents at their spot under the Mercer Bridge (Towards Council Island) Dros pretends to be a retarded bum while the boat moors at the beach under the bridge. Dros then summons a Water Elemental and proceeds to have it engulf the passengers. All of the smugglers drown horribly. The Runners proceed to loot the boat. I trapped most of the boxes and Dros already figured I would, so he has Shi New do the "disarming." Like the smart kitty he is, he gets stuck with some poisoned razor blades, a cyanide dart, and some monowire (he lives through all of it.) During the search they find several kilos of unrefined quartz, refined rubies and emeralds and some virgin balsa wood. Dros slips some of the rubies into his pockets

Above, the guards at the checkpoint start on the megaphone. Dros leaves all the stuff behind and bolts. Shi New, the very smart kitty, decides that he wants to keep the boat and rears it in reverse and barrels away across the lake. The guards open fire, dealing deadly damage several times. Shi New, having NO BOAT SKILL keeps going. He moors at a nearby dock. A dock worker, working the nightshift asks him what the frag he's doing.

Shi New replies, "Nothing." The worker, obviously not convinced, gets ready to yell. Then kitty speaks up and says, "Here! You can have this boat, just let me get this stuff off of it." The worker agrees, not aware of the 3 drowned bodies in the cabin below. Shi New offloads only the Talismans and then high-tails it way, carrying a large crate of quartz and balsa wood. He then gets a cab and heads off to offload the goods.

Later, using Dros' Talismonger contact, Shi New sells the goods, but then Dros sneaks the contact to the side and agrees to sell his rubies at an inflated price and for him to buy the rest of the stuff at a dramatically lower price. Shi New ends up with like 5000 nuyen and Dros gets like 20000.


Total Value of a GMC Riverine with Assault Cannon plus all the cyberware and gear that the Smugglers had?

Around 250,000 nuyen, which now belongs to Lonestar and modified to be an anti-smuggling patrol boat.

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on February 11, 2005, 07:43:34 PM

I'm all about keeping the boat. that's a job winner there. i'd learn to drive the thing, and bribe the dock worker to help me move it somewhere sneekey by giving them all of the cargo.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Retread on February 11, 2005, 07:59:59 PM

Yes, from that point on, I made it a point NEVER to let anyone play a Shapeshifter. They're just too uber.

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on February 11, 2005, 08:05:26 PM

Yea. i don't mind throwing the PC's into a fight with one, just to see the sad look on their faces when after they run out of ammo it get's back up...

but i don't think it would be much fun to let them play one.

i've already gone down the super-power path, and i didn't like the end of it.

"okay, you are all powerfull. God wants to fight you."
"I kick his ASS! (rolls dice) okay,... then add three billiion..."
"Fine. you kill god. what are you going to do now."
"uh... well, i could walk in lava for awhile... i'm immune to it you see, that could be fun..."

-Ruskiface the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Zone on February 12, 2005, 07:01:15 AM

http://archive.dumpshock.com/CLUE/ShowCLUE.php3?page=casefile31.htm

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Retread on February 13, 2005, 10:18:34 AM

Well well! If you ask me, the fraggin' shapeshifter was much more intelligent than the rest of the group :P

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on February 14, 2005, 08:22:11 AM

LOL, again, didn't take much though.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on February 15, 2005, 05:47:09 AM

But see, that was the problem. Who needs to be smart when you can regenerate from anything short of your head being blown up?

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on February 15, 2005, 08:51:38 AM

yea. same reason i don't like it when super chrome trogs run amuck in my campaigns... they can live through the drek that hits the fan, but the rest of the party is kinda screwed...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Poison on February 15, 2005, 05:33:43 PM

I guess in that case you need to separate the offenders from the non-offenders, and have the law or corp goons only come after the offenders  :-\

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Retread on February 15, 2005, 06:32:02 PM

You could simply have a chromed up cybered cow fall on the offending runner, right?

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on February 16, 2005, 08:35:55 AM

but the hand of god and 'random crashing metior' are so... tactless...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: kv on March 01, 2005, 09:42:27 PM

Usually, one of three things happens.

1) We decide as a party that the trog will cover our escape, because he can both take and dish out enough damage to allow us to do that.

2) The character gets into so much drek that none of us can possibly save them. (see previously told story about falling down the elevator shaft)

3) Rarely, VERY RARELy. As in, only once, the player will retire the character because they're too high-powered to run with the party. (and this was my youngest brother who did this, by the way)

  -Kid Vid

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 02, 2005, 08:41:31 AM

Yea.
mostly they just die.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on March 03, 2005, 09:38:24 AM

Now see that, you people have NOT been paying attention! You have to hit a character where it hurts if you want to keep game balance. Damn! just toss in a few canisters of Neurostun X or Green Ring 8. Hell a splash grenade full of slip spray, a canister of freeze foam, and a sharp throat-slitting knife are a great comination for a guy like that. Or, a water hose and 8 security guards with tasers and stun batons.

And check this out, certain kinds of bone lacing can be considered to be conductive or insulative. Now this is completely noncanon, but I work at an engineering firm, so I checked this one out. Ceramic Bone Lacing can actually insulate against electrical attacks. Say it counts as 2 points of protection against an electical attack. However, Alluminum Bone Lacing is just the opposite. Aluminum is a great conductor (although not as good as copper or gold) and could actually CONDUCT the electrical attack into that PC. Thus it would give a +2 to the TN to resist the electrical attack. Add in a healthy soaking of water (shich should count as at least a +1TN) and you have a little edge there.

And if you STILL can't take a guy like that down, summon a level 3 hearth spirit to confuse the guy into walking down the wrong hall, into the elevator, and toss all the above mentioned stuff into THAT. If he STILL survives the chunky salsa effect, all the gas, the non-lethals, and the electrical damage, just stop and smack the drek out of both yourself and your player. You both deserve it.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 03, 2005, 04:02:53 PM

well, there's always more than one way to skin a cat, but the point of the argument was that it was annoying to have to go skin cats all the time, even if there is a variety of ways to do it.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on March 04, 2005, 07:07:59 AM

Well good point.

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 04, 2005, 09:50:01 AM

plus skinless cats don't have a lot of use...

who wants a cat skin coat?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on March 04, 2005, 11:05:08 AM

A dog shapeshifter????

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 04, 2005, 11:21:09 AM

they'd just make their own.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on March 04, 2005, 12:04:13 PM

A Mouse shaman????

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 04, 2005, 01:11:28 PM

wouldn't that be inviting desaster?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Gabriel on March 07, 2005, 07:00:39 AM

No, that would be one KILLER Mouse shaman! Her street name could be Morrisbane or something. ;)

Gabriel

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: kv on March 07, 2005, 05:46:53 PM

Well, I knew heard of a chummer who had a dragonskin coat.

Pissed off the dragons something feirce.

I think he had been in Seattle about three hours before one of them took it out on him. Smelled like a burned porkchop, and crunched like a bag full of pretzels.

Not so pretty.

I'll stick to not antagonizing things higher on the food chain than me.

 -Kid Vid

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 08, 2005, 03:46:18 PM

I knew a guy that took out a dracoform, and made a jacket out of it. didn't wear it out much, but he did keep it.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: mercy on March 17, 2005, 10:32:09 AM

there are also spells that effects  cyberware

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: luna on March 19, 2005, 04:49:11 AM

sounds like the dude has issues  :P im not the brightest here but omg i have seen better on a bathroom wall...as for you gabe the only reason you would interogate the pizza dude is when the next sales gonna be or does he have any extras in the car he can give ya  :P

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 21, 2005, 10:49:44 AM

You could steal his car...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: luna on March 22, 2005, 09:28:33 AM

hahah probably and then drive it around and pick everyone up and go for a ride with the pizza in it :P

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 22, 2005, 10:31:39 AM

or you could eat the pizza...

i like pizza.

hmm... anchovies...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: luna on March 22, 2005, 12:46:41 PM

ok i take it back your not snoopy your garfield or snoopy :P pizza rules

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 22, 2005, 02:21:38 PM

Snoopie liked cookies, and garfield liked lasagna... wouldn't i be more like a ninjaturtle?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: luna on March 22, 2005, 06:16:36 PM

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaa thats it micholangalo.... :P

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: mercy on March 25, 2005, 09:17:03 PM

nope the turtles hated annchovies

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: luna on March 26, 2005, 07:36:21 AM

so does most humans lol even those that like fish... :P

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 29, 2005, 11:28:21 AM

You'd think that a turtle would like anchovies...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: luna on March 29, 2005, 01:16:32 PM

yea you would lol but they r more prone to sea weed lol or pizza :P

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 29, 2005, 02:40:30 PM

I think someone else here is very suseptable to a weed that has very little to do with 'sea'

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: luna on March 29, 2005, 03:42:25 PM

who me neva :o

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 30, 2005, 09:09:41 AM

Riiiiiiight.

read the subject line.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: luna on March 30, 2005, 01:31:57 PM

hahaha get a clue  :P

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 30, 2005, 04:34:31 PM

Althought if you've ever read the CLUE files, you'd have a better idea about what this thread was originally ment for.

they are quite entertaining if you have an hour you don't know what to do with.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: luna on March 31, 2005, 10:44:49 AM

am reading them now  :P

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on March 31, 2005, 02:50:11 PM

So, what's the funnyest one you've read so far?

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: luna on April 04, 2005, 02:38:08 PM

was about the pilot i think he was and how he was on a mission and flubbed it  :-\

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on April 04, 2005, 04:50:42 PM

I think that most all of the missions in the clue files could be considered 'flubbed'

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: luna on April 04, 2005, 05:59:18 PM

then its a great word to use got them in my favs so i can read them more  :P

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: ROOTless on July 20, 2005, 01:56:53 PM

http://archive.dumpshock.com/CLUE/ShowCLUE.php3?page=casefile31.htm (http://archive.dumpshock.com/CLUE/ShowCLUE.php3?page=casefile31.htm)

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on July 20, 2005, 03:15:11 PM

I saw that one awhile ago, she hasn't done Drek with her current site though.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Pimp-Boy 2000 on July 20, 2005, 04:21:17 PM

What a bitch.  >:(

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on July 21, 2005, 08:21:40 AM

I think she's buisy with her horse.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Poison on July 21, 2005, 10:13:01 PM

Me want more CLUEless!!! :banghead:

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on July 25, 2005, 08:10:30 AM

we started a petition at one point here to just make our own.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Poison on August 04, 2005, 06:53:27 PM

I think the problem with that is that no-one here has played for ages.

What's with that?  >:(

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ingo Monk on August 04, 2005, 10:58:43 PM

Yeah, what's with that?  grrrr!

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on August 05, 2005, 08:35:05 AM

I play about once a month or so. Not counting the Play by Post.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ingo Monk on August 06, 2005, 12:49:20 AM

D00d, I'm so about to raid your next gaming party!

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on August 08, 2005, 07:36:35 AM

Okay. It's next weekend.
One of my nerd friends is getting married, and for his batchlor party we are having a gaming session.

It's the one where they are all going to die in the Congo.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: ROOTless on August 08, 2005, 09:10:56 AM

Very suitable for a bachelor party, neh?

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on August 08, 2005, 04:50:57 PM

well, we could take him to a club, and get him drunk with strippers i suppose, but he's not really that type of guy, and if you haven't done it before, a batchlor party isn't really the point to be introduced to it.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: ROOTless on August 09, 2005, 12:10:31 PM

Oh, I agree. The only bachelor/stag night sort of thing I've taken part in arranging, was a bit like that too, only more so.

He was fetched from his home early in the morning, given a shield and a latex sword, as well as a costume. Then moved off-site to a ruin we knew, were he had to fight off the "ravening horde" (the rest of us, in similar get-ups, mostly) to find the clue. Then back into town for a quick round of laser tag, then he was accompanied down through the city center (still in costume and with latex sword etc, the guy walking with him was in a rather ugly wizard's out fit.) to 3 posts where he had to answer series of questions to gain the next clue, oh, and lunch.

It was the "getting killed" bit I commented on, and no, for once I wasn't particularly sarcastic.
My apologies for having forgotten my <not sarcastic></not sarcastic> -tags.
After lunch, we took jim out to an area near town where the viking markets take place and the viking groups practice (a bit like ren-fair, but with better research on average. Way better.) Here he had to walk along a path, through a number of "ambushes", before it was revealed that the "wizard" who'd helped him along was the bad guy, and had to be felled as well. And then we went to someone's place to eat plenty of beaf ;)

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on August 09, 2005, 04:01:28 PM

Yup. Nerd-ness at it's best right there.

-RuskIFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: mercy on September 21, 2005, 12:40:20 AM

sounds way cool if i i ever tie the knot have have you guys thro the party  my friends ideal is the get drunk and strippers

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on September 21, 2005, 09:54:58 AM

you are a bit far for us to be your best men, *shrug*, but if it works out that way...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

Title: Re:get a CLUE!
Post by: Ruski on February 01, 2006, 03:19:35 PM

This is a post to keep the General Fiction area full of nice old things to read.

-RF