Post by shasta on Mar 30, 2007 19:31:03 GMT -5
A RL campaign I played in, back in my second-edition, high school days. We had one friend who wasn't really into role-playing games, and as such was playing more of a chauffeur than an actually rigger, until we got into a running gun battle with the cops and he rolled out the drones, remote rigging them from his van.
Unfortunately for Chris, some Lone Star responding to the calls of their fellows spotted the fellow remote rigging from the side of the road not 3 blocks from the firefight, and decided to come tapping on his window.
Still plugged in, half his attention on the firefight, the cops asked him "What are you doing here?"
Chris decided to reply that he was running vehicles for a courier operation, he rolled his fast-talk of 3 - and came up with three ones. The cops became more agitated, telling him they new he was lying, and he'd better tell them what he was actually doing there, or fragging else.
This time, Chris came up with a better story - he was a cameraman for KONG, covering the running firefight between the Star and the runners with eye-in-the-sky cameras. We all agreed that it was a pretty good cover story. The GM even gave him bonuses to his fast talk roll. Of course, this failed to help when he came up with another three ones. A point of Karma Pool to re-roll failures resulted in another 3 ones.
By this stage, the Star officers were pretty sure he was involved with the firefight they had been called to. Being the caring and people-oriented police force that they are, and in light of the two botched rolls, one Star officer smashed in the drivers side window with a stun baton. The other reached in, hauled Chris halfway out, and put a gun to his head.
"You've got one last chance!" yelled the cop. "Tell us what you're doing here!"
Chris, disgusted with his streak of terrible rolling, and convinced that they would believe the opposite of whatever he said, decides to have his character reply "I'm killing all your friends". Roll for fast talk comes up 5, 10, & 16 - thoroughly convincing the cops that he was doing just that.
We rounded the corner looking to escape in the van - our rigger was lying by the van, half his head spread across the tarmac, the cops were in our getaway vehicle, and our drone support had shut down - the brains of the operation were on the pavement...
Unfortunately for Chris, some Lone Star responding to the calls of their fellows spotted the fellow remote rigging from the side of the road not 3 blocks from the firefight, and decided to come tapping on his window.
Still plugged in, half his attention on the firefight, the cops asked him "What are you doing here?"
Chris decided to reply that he was running vehicles for a courier operation, he rolled his fast-talk of 3 - and came up with three ones. The cops became more agitated, telling him they new he was lying, and he'd better tell them what he was actually doing there, or fragging else.
This time, Chris came up with a better story - he was a cameraman for KONG, covering the running firefight between the Star and the runners with eye-in-the-sky cameras. We all agreed that it was a pretty good cover story. The GM even gave him bonuses to his fast talk roll. Of course, this failed to help when he came up with another three ones. A point of Karma Pool to re-roll failures resulted in another 3 ones.
By this stage, the Star officers were pretty sure he was involved with the firefight they had been called to. Being the caring and people-oriented police force that they are, and in light of the two botched rolls, one Star officer smashed in the drivers side window with a stun baton. The other reached in, hauled Chris halfway out, and put a gun to his head.
"You've got one last chance!" yelled the cop. "Tell us what you're doing here!"
Chris, disgusted with his streak of terrible rolling, and convinced that they would believe the opposite of whatever he said, decides to have his character reply "I'm killing all your friends". Roll for fast talk comes up 5, 10, & 16 - thoroughly convincing the cops that he was doing just that.
We rounded the corner looking to escape in the van - our rigger was lying by the van, half his head spread across the tarmac, the cops were in our getaway vehicle, and our drone support had shut down - the brains of the operation were on the pavement...