Enjoyment of course is mandatory, as is reporting back to friend computer with your feedback!  The (honestly) anti-climatix end of our Shadowrun campaign should be up next week, and I’m still trying to figure out where to take it from here.  I may be lazy, but I’ll keep going, so stayed tuned!

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Next time should tie this one up, not sure where we are going to go with this campaign after this, but I’ll keep ya’ll informed.  Hit me back!

Next time has the semi-dramatic conclusion to this part of the run, so stayed tuned, check it out, and tell me what you think!

More up later today, let me know what you think!

Todays run picked up where the last run left off, that is with one of the characters badly wounded, so this first section is dedicated to resolving that.  The only good source of healing the players have left is Pamela, an unusual Shaman with connections to some uncomfortable powers.  I try not to spoil things in these summaries, but the encounter was both fun, ironic, and highly amusing, as the player in question’s character went to see Pamela earlier, and had an encounter that was very similar (though it ended differently).

More coming soon, so stay tuned and tell me what yah think.

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I’ll post the next half tomorrow (we forgot to split things nicely again). Tell us what you think!

All in all this session went very well I thought. And although we stayed late actually time wise it isn’t that much longer than most of my runs, a little shorter actually. We’ll pick up with this one tomorrow, though Smash Brothers Brawl came out, so that will probably eat into our playtime somewhat.

The only downside of all this that the run ran considerably longer than usual.  I didn’t expect the fire-fight to take as long as it did and so I didn’t cut this up into the smaller sections I usually do.  So tomorrows will actually be pretty short.  We didn’t finish it either, so this will be our first two-parter on This-is-Shadowrun.  Stay tuned to see how it turns out and give me some feedback!

John picked Bubba’s truck powered massacre on the door steps of Ares NYC headquarters. This happened just before the campaign started and the repercussions of it are dealt with in our first recorded session. I have to say this was probably the most memorable moment in the campaign so far. And the rest of us would have probably picked it if he hadn’t.

Aron picked one of Thralls (Trevor’s old character) exploits, though his recollection of it and mine differ in some respects. All the PCs had received unmarked packages at their domiciles. Most of the PCs took reasonable precautions against these unknown packages (paying a hobo to open it for example). Thrall took some fairly unreasonable precautions, which some how involved the post-office. Hilarity ensued. Some how (probably through my good graces) he escaped. The packages turned out to contain gear they had been looking for delivered by Ares/Dorothy as a kind of subtle message (we know where you live, but we like you a bit).

Trevor also picked one of Bubba’s escapades. Some how John managed to land his troll in jail before the campaign really even began. Before the first meet even. I put a pretty detailed post about it up on dumpshock. It was not an auspicious beginning of our campaign. Though maybe listening to Bubba’s 20 Questions, can give you a better idea of his mentality.

Travis, who has not been playing as long as the rest of us, choose the most recent event. His recent drive-by swording of a DocWagon paramedic. Though as I think about it now it may have actually been just some random doc-wagon guy who’s uniform he wanted. Or maybe there was more than one drive-by-swording in that session. Either way we recorded that incident, so you can check out the details yourself and correct our recollection if you like.

Going last I (Austin) picked an event from WAY back in my SR history. One that happened back in SR2 ed, before any of my current players joined my group. Still its one of my favorite stories that Carey and Kelly (to of my players currently out of town) loved to retell so I though I would throw it out there for you guys as well. It also involves a troll, they seem to be the source of all trouble/entertainment in SR.

Anyways let us know what you think! Reminiscing about Shadowrun seems to be half the fun!

We all stand on the shoulders of giants.  But Mr. Gygax stands taller than most.  I salute you sir, and give you my thanks.

Thus I was pretty tired when we got to this part. I wanted to call it a night before this began, but they convinced me to continue. My tiredness shows and the trip over to the Ghoul HQ and the confrontation there-in were not handled well IMO. The only cool thing I got to try out was the new spell I designed, “Sluge Lightsource” which the Ghoul leader used to blow out the parties lights, which had the intended effect of freaking them out. Still I was to tired to run this encounter right and kind of let them off easy.

Now the PCs have possession of a mysterious magical artifact, the Jade Dragon. What is it? What can it do? All this shall (probably) be eventually revealed in a later episodes. That is, after I make up my mind, feel free to send me your (preferable evil) suggestions. Also I think I am going to develope the Ghouls into a full-blown crime syndicate, lead by a fearsome character, probably a vampire. Stayed tuned and hit me back with some feedback!

Next part up tomorrow.

Or so I thought. Check out next time for their actions at the NYC fanciest Hotel. Also, this weeks run will be chopped into 4 parts instead of 3, as we ran kind of long this week. Let me know what you think.

This segment of it was awesome I thought though. The runners travel deep beneath the NYC sewers/subway system to meet up with one of the campaigns major NPCs, Pamela. I was expecting a big fire-fight, but was pleasantly supprised when that didn’t happen. That made this section shorter than expected, but I thought it was still enjoyable. Tell me what you think!

Oh, and updates to the campaign setting should continue to happen spread throughout the week. John’s new character should go up at some point as well. I’ve updated the sight with a new theme which is possibly not as cool, but more readable. Tell me if it doesn’t render right on your browser or something.

So instead of the usual podcast updates I’ll focus on updating the site (such as it is) with more details on the remaining players (Aron), the GM (me Austin), and some other stuff.  If there was something you were curious about in terms of our campaign and wanted to know more about, this would be a good time to let me know.  Post a comment here or at dumpshock, PM me, or even e-mail me (MaxMahem@cablone.net).  I’ll try and fill in all the gaps this week.  Next Mondays run should be on as scheduled.  Tune in then!

Looking back on it though, I made the escape much to easy for them.  After the hit the PCs are able to pretty much throw down the rifle and leave.  Not that I think that it was terribly unrealistic on my part.  I’m not sure what the polices response would be to a sniper at a big game, but I am pretty sure that unrestricted (or barely restricted) chaos would result, so just walking out might very well be possible.  However that was a bit to easy for my players on there current level.

If I had it to do over again I would have had the secound half of the guns program call some spotlights or something up on the snipers position.  Sounds like just the sort of double cross Lady Jade would have done, security would then lock that part of the building down fairly quickly.  This would have been even more exciting, but knowing the other players they simply would have abandoned Go to his fate, instead of trying to rescue him.  Building team loyalty has not been very successful this go around at least.

In any case enjoy and tell me what you think!