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Post by Canuovea on Sept 12, 2015 1:54:56 GMT
I've actually got none of my own. Except that one time I played Shadowrun with Tiberia. That involved stabbing up some Yakuza for information, then handcuffing them in a public area to use them as bait for other Yakuza to get more information, then locking those other ones to the same place and calling the police and making sure they get away before going off to shoot the target I needed that information to find with a repeating crossbow. A couple of times. Instead I offer this: geekandsundry.com/five-famous-tabletop-rpg-tales-too-epic-to-believe/
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Post by Harkovast on Sept 12, 2015 3:29:36 GMT
When were you playing shadowrun with Tiberia? Was this over the internet?
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Post by Canuovea on Sept 12, 2015 4:04:41 GMT
A while ago we did a little one off.
I'm going to try with a few more people tomorrow actually.
And yeah, it was fun. I've also played a bit of OSRIC with Tempest. This is all your fault, of course, getting me willing to try these things.
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Post by TempestFennac on Sept 12, 2015 6:38:05 GMT
Which system will you be trying tomorrow and what will you be playing as?
(For the benefit of people who don't know what OSRIC is, it's basically a clone of 1st/2nd Edition D&D; I offered to run something for Can due to the fact that he'd just read the whole Binder of Shame and the fact that we were often online at the same time a while back. And I kind of wanted to try the system.)
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Post by Canuovea on Sept 12, 2015 6:50:02 GMT
Shadowrun again with Tiberia. And playing as an Elf. Because Elves are the best and it doesn't matter what Hark says about how much he hates them.
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Post by TempestFennac on Sept 12, 2015 6:53:05 GMT
Good luck. What skills and background do they have if you don't mind me asking?
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Post by Canuovea on Sept 12, 2015 7:22:38 GMT
Technophobe and likes swords, also carries a crossbow. More sort of a wanderer type than anything else.
Cliche as all hell, but oh well.
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Post by Canuovea on Sept 13, 2015 4:36:03 GMT
I'll give a quick report of what happened in the game today.
So a 19 year old elf with a trailer full of drones, a tough gunslinging elf, an anthropomorphic otter mage who used to be an elf, and a technophobic politely spoken sword wielding maniac elf all walk into a 7/11. Really it isn't called a 7/11 but it is kinda like a big 7/11 and I can't remember the actual name of the place. Shadowrun then turns into a Guy Ritchie movie crossed with a "Shoot Em Up" parody. Sure, it is apparently a rather common starting scenario, but anyway...
While all the characters, having arrived independently, go about their business of finding items they require, shit gets serious quick. First off, Drone Lady wanted water but the only water available was Aztechnology water, and I don't know about you but the chance that said water was involved with some kind of blood sacrifice is too high for me, so she goes to leave. The technophobe decides to settle for nutrient infused tasteless soy. The heavily indebted Otter is having trouble finding toilet paper. At that point the woman with the baby rushes in.
A car bomb goes off and the woman has a row of things fall on her and three goons walk in with weapons, looking for her, and obviously up to no good. You have to feel sorry for the poor bastards, there is no way they could have known what they were walking into. There are two fellows with guns and one mage, they then spread out. The one in the middle makes the mistake of asking the Maniac to get down on the ground and points his gun at him. Having figured out that the woman is in danger, and the goons are, well, goons, the Maniac has decided to deal with this in the way he knows best. At the raising of the gun, the Maniac says "I'm going to have to consider that a hostile response."
Roll initiative. Goon 1 gets cut right in half by the shear amount of sword damage before he can bring the gun to bear. He gets a scream out, which causes the other two to turn to the source of the noise. The Gunslinger takes his opportunity and shoots at the Goon Mage, who dodges the first shots only to take a full burst fire salvo to the chest a moment later and slips into unconsciousness. Drone lady sends her little dragonfly drone (meant to disassemble other drones with its vibroknives) to disassemble Goon 3, who survives but is not happy. After shooting a bit and making a break for it he gets out of the 7/11...
And there right in front of him are two drones. The first is armed with an Elephant gun.
Amazingly, he manages to dodge and soak the damage from both shots. He really wanted to live, but alas, the second drone opened up with a heavy machine gun and threw him, quite dead, back into the store and onto the nearest shelf where the dragonfly drone continued to disassemble his face.
The woman and child were alright and everyone worked to patch them up. They even stabilized the goon mage because the Otter was feeling charitable. Of course, Lonestar was on their way. Lonestar being the protection racket that masquerades as a police force and who compete with the San Francisco PD. Every PC but the Otter cleared out, with Drone Lady taking the Maniac with her and watching the unfolding scene via her dragonfly cam, much to the confusion of the Maniac who seemed to not really grasp the whole idea behind drones.
Lonestar officers arrive, freak out over the state of the bodies, copious amounts of ammo casings from the drones, the fact that one guy is just unconscious (which is weird), and best of all? "Frank, come here, look, this guy's an otter!"
Specifically a River Otter of Dwarven size. Not a Sea Otter, who are vicious rape machines with a penchant for kidnapping a female otter's pups until she mates with them (and possibly loses a nose in the process), but a more gentle River Otter. At least he wasn't a dolphin (of a certain type) who when bored and horny enough will rape seals to death. This fact courtesy of a certain partial observer who some of you can no doubt guess the identity of. That got dark quickly.
The officers question the Otter, wonder aloud whether this was done by insect magic, like a big man slicing in half mantis, which apparently happened rather violently in Chicago, and if they should kill the unconscious guy just in case. They then go to check the video tapes. This results in the Drone Lady deciding that, no, they won't be doing that. She has her dragonfly drone in the ventilation ducts and sends it outside to remove the circuit and circuitbreaker, plunging the building into darkness. Lonestar officers begin to freak out. Otter ushers the WomanWBaby out. The drone then sneaks its way into the camera room and begins "disassembling" the server with the data.
The store attendant is, however, in the room hiding under the table. He looks up to see this bug creature pulling the server apart, flips his shit, and runs out screaming "Chicago! It is Chicago all over again!" The Lonestar officers panic and, as the drone leaves via airducts, decide "Shit, wait, we've got grenades!" And throw a salvo of grenades into the server room.
All the players are laughing uncontrollably. Then Drone Lady quickly edits out faces and identifiable features, and puts the drone's perspective of the entire event on the equivalent of YouTube under the title of "LoneStar Incompetence" followed by whatever large number required.
Drone Lady and Maniac get in her van and meet up with Otter and WomanWBaby (who were being tailed by the dragonfly drone). After some persuasion, Drone Lady makes the point that "well, come with us, or wait for more of the people who were after her to get the two of you alone."
As Otter wisely observed: "Well, go with the murder hobos you know."
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Post by TempestFennac on Sept 13, 2015 5:22:13 GMT
Lol. That sounds like it was fun. I never knew dolphins raped seals either (I know sea otters also do that with baby seals while also drowning them). When you say the otter is Dwarven size, do you mean he's about 4' something?
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Post by Canuovea on Sept 13, 2015 5:28:08 GMT
Yeah, that size. Bit over 4'
Turns out Dolphins, bottlenosed ones apparently, and sea otters are kinda evil.
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Post by TempestFennac on Sept 13, 2015 5:32:36 GMT
Thanks (if he's clawless too I'd be tempted to assume his player's a Lutrai fan). I think male Sea Otters also keep cubs hostage until the cub's mothers give them food as well. I'll admit to being pleased that I don't live near and of them (or dolphins).
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Post by Canuovea on Sept 13, 2015 5:35:57 GMT
Some Otters and some dolphins are fine. They've only seen this kind of freakishly violent behaviour in a couple of species it seems.
It did end up with one of the Lonestar officers saying "oh, a River Otter, that's okay then."
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Post by TempestFennac on Sept 13, 2015 5:37:39 GMT
That's good at least. I think anthros in Shadow Run are always the result of extensive genetic engineering, aren't they?
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Post by Canuovea on Sept 13, 2015 5:44:43 GMT
I believe that this one was actually the result of magic. It just kind of pop and happened. He was not keen on it at the time at least.
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Post by TempestFennac on Sept 13, 2015 5:53:06 GMT
That's interesting. Is he trying to find a way to reverse it or has he decided he likes being adorable?
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