i've had a few memorable moments since i started running cpunk, but i think my favorite is just known as "the Jay Incident".
so, intrepid fixer Le Madame and her low-moral edgerunner team meet a new guy who's looking into Red Tiger, a new combat drug on the street - he's actually an undercover cop trying to bust the Red Tiger thing wide open and LM's name was given as a pretty level-headed individual who might be able to help (this was before i realized the paranoia level she's been getting since the game started).
aside : i TOLD the player that playing a cop would mean his life expectancy was going to be much shorter than it otherwise would have been. even after this repeated warning, he insisted that this was what he wanted to play. so don't say i didn't warn him.
so, jay (the cop) hooks up with the fixer to get information on this drug. unbeknownst to jay, the team was actually somewhat involved in Red Tiger's precursor, the not-fully-tested black prime, which they tried to get rid of as soon as they realized what it was (the team isn't a big fan of drugs 'cos they cause way more problems than they solve).
the fixer gets a hold of a netrunner buddy to find out about this jay guy and see what his deal is, who he's working for, etc. well, NCPD keeps stuff like that nice and secure, but after a lucky streetdeal roll (nearly a 30, iirc), i had to give 'em something. they find out about the cop's real job, and decide to frag him to save their own asses - he had seen their faces, and knew what they were up to.
so the fixer sets up a meeting between jay and Striker (the solo) and Yuri (the nomad sniper), with instructions that yuri and striker are to 'deal with this cop permanently.' what happens? the two hardened killers do their job and all is well? of course not. THIS is the hit job where they decide to get a conscience and try to talk to this guy to find out what he knows and if he's even gonna turn them in for anything - which he wasn't. so, they talk and have a good time, and end up friends. at least, not enemies.
cut to fixer finding out about the non-killing. leads to one of the greatest (read: most amusing) plans i've ever heard in a game.
the plan is: get a van. get the cop to get a drek-ton of cash from the cops to do a drug deal - the fixer can find it if the cop's willing to play ball. the cop's supposed to get the cash, call the fixer, and instead of going to the meet, they're going to double-cross the cops, and take off with the money. how? the team is gonna wait until the cop gets the money, pull up to him in the van, "we're gonna shoot him in the face" (direct quote), pull him into the van, give him some first aid, get to a ripperdoc capable of plastic surgery, get him a new face and bug out of town, laying low for a while. note that "shoot him in the face" is the active part of the plan, which the cop only questioned after about four or five times of it being said. "why the face? you guys better have first aid." which nobody did. "well, at least get a chip." okay. fine. i as GM get a note that says "instead of First Aid, i buy a chip of porn." so, the nomad now knows the history of twentieth century pornography, albeit at a basic level.
the prowler, meanwhile, has found out about the real plan, which is to do the "shoot him in the face" but not anything past that, other than maybe getting rid of a body. he decides to take the cop out to dinner - "it might be your last, you know. it should be nice." and tells him that the rest of the team is going to kill him.
so the cop pretends to still go along with the plan, calls in for backup, and lets the team know that he'll be getting the dropoff in a parking garage. they decide to just meet him there and off him in the garage.
well, the Solo, the nomad, and the "i hate combat" prowler show up at the garage. (the fixer, meanwhile, has a solo on bodyguard duty and is safely across the city) they get to the cop, who's sitting in the back of his van with a gun pointed at the door. when the nomad goes to open the door, BLAM! shotgun! nomad takes it in the arm, ducks back for cover, the prowler hides behind the car, the solo goes to the trunk and pulls out the rifle. while the nomad fires his pistol as 'cover fire' and the cop is staying in his van attempting to blow chunks out of the nomad. couple seconds later, the solo fires, gets a lucky location shot (head) and jay's head becomes chunks of meat and blood all over the van. sirens start. shouting, and vehicles begin blocking off entrances to the garage. the team gets into the van (with the cop-corpse) and busts through the barricade of cars at the exit, under a hail of bullets. the nomad, with one good arm, is driving while the solo is laughing and firing an AR out the back of the van, while the prowler is huddled in the passenger seat hoping not to die.
as this is going down, the fixer notices cops outside her building. her and her solo (acid-boy, due to his face being scarred from an accident) hightail it out of the city, pretty sure they haven't been followed. not so the rest of the team. after a grand total of 12 NCPD officers being killed (including jay the undercover), they manage to hide out in the desert where the nomad calls in a favor and the team can lay low for a few months.
yeah... after-effects from this little murder end up with the fixer having her Night City privileges revoked (to paraphrase pulp fiction) from some of the other crime bosses who basically kick her to LA. but that's another story.
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i've had a few memorable moments since i started running cpunk, but i think my favorite is just known as "the Jay Incident".
so, intrepid fixer Le Madame and her low-moral edgerunner team meet a new guy who's looking into Red Tiger, a new combat drug on the street - he's actually an undercover cop trying to bust the Red Tiger thing wide open and LM's name was given as a pretty level-headed individual who might be able to help (this was before i realized the paranoia level she's been getting since the game started).
aside : i TOLD the player that playing a cop would mean his life expectancy was going to be much shorter than it otherwise would have been. even after this repeated warning, he insisted that this was what he wanted to play. so don't say i didn't warn him.
so, jay (the cop) hooks up with the fixer to get information on this drug. unbeknownst to jay, the team was actually somewhat involved in Red Tiger's precursor, the not-fully-tested black prime, which they tried to get rid of as soon as they realized what it was (the team isn't a big fan of drugs 'cos they cause way more problems than they solve).
the fixer gets a hold of a netrunner buddy to find out about this jay guy and see what his deal is, who he's working for, etc. well, NCPD keeps stuff like that nice and secure, but after a lucky streetdeal roll (nearly a 30, iirc), i had to give 'em something. they find out about the cop's real job, and decide to frag him to save their own asses - he had seen their faces, and knew what they were up to.
so the fixer sets up a meeting between jay and Striker (the solo) and Yuri (the nomad sniper), with instructions that yuri and striker are to 'deal with this cop permanently.' what happens? the two hardened killers do their job and all is well? of course not. THIS is the hit job where they decide to get a conscience and try to talk to this guy to find out what he knows and if he's even gonna turn them in for anything - which he wasn't. so, they talk and have a good time, and end up friends. at least, not enemies.
cut to fixer finding out about the non-killing. leads to one of the greatest (read: most amusing) plans i've ever heard in a game.
the plan is: get a van. get the cop to get a drek-ton of cash from the cops to do a drug deal - the fixer can find it if the cop's willing to play ball. the cop's supposed to get the cash, call the fixer, and instead of going to the meet, they're going to double-cross the cops, and take off with the money. how? the team is gonna wait until the cop gets the money, pull up to him in the van, "we're gonna shoot him in the face" (direct quote), pull him into the van, give him some first aid, get to a ripperdoc capable of plastic surgery, get him a new face and bug out of town, laying low for a while. note that "shoot him in the face" is the active part of the plan, which the cop only questioned after about four or five times of it being said. "why the face? you guys better have first aid." which nobody did. "well, at least get a chip." okay. fine. i as GM get a note that says "instead of First Aid, i buy a chip of porn." so, the nomad now knows the history of twentieth century pornography, albeit at a basic level.
the prowler, meanwhile, has found out about the real plan, which is to do the "shoot him in the face" but not anything past that, other than maybe getting rid of a body. he decides to take the cop out to dinner - "it might be your last, you know. it should be nice." and tells him that the rest of the team is going to kill him.
so the cop pretends to still go along with the plan, calls in for backup, and lets the team know that he'll be getting the dropoff in a parking garage. they decide to just meet him there and off him in the garage.
well, the Solo, the nomad, and the "i hate combat" prowler show up at the garage. (the fixer, meanwhile, has a solo on bodyguard duty and is safely across the city) they get to the cop, who's sitting in the back of his van with a gun pointed at the door. when the nomad goes to open the door, BLAM! shotgun! nomad takes it in the arm, ducks back for cover, the prowler hides behind the car, the solo goes to the trunk and pulls out the rifle. while the nomad fires his pistol as 'cover fire' and the cop is staying in his van attempting to blow chunks out of the nomad. couple seconds later, the solo fires, gets a lucky location shot (head) and jay's head becomes chunks of meat and blood all over the van. sirens start. shouting, and vehicles begin blocking off entrances to the garage. the team gets into the van (with the cop-corpse) and busts through the barricade of cars at the exit, under a hail of bullets. the nomad, with one good arm, is driving while the solo is laughing and firing an AR out the back of the van, while the prowler is huddled in the passenger seat hoping not to die.
as this is going down, the fixer notices cops outside her building. her and her solo (acid-boy, due to his face being scarred from an accident) hightail it out of the city, pretty sure they haven't been followed. not so the rest of the team. after a grand total of 12 NCPD officers being killed (including jay the undercover), they manage to hide out in the desert where the nomad calls in a favor and the team can lay low for a few months.
yeah... after-effects from this little murder end up with the fixer having her Night City privileges revoked (to paraphrase pulp fiction) from some of the other crime bosses who basically kick her to LA. but that's another story.