[TheWanderingJewels]

Okay, We've all seen this sort of thing. The Players like psuhing the edge of what they can get away with, but there are certain things that they do that just make you (and some players) go "What the Hell, Runner?"

Here are some examples of insanity I've had from game sessions

1. We had a hacker that had a genuinely perverse sense of humor, a lot of haxor skillz, and very little surivival instinct. he hacked his way into S-K Prime and left some data that was a older report for Lofwyr, labelled as and item of interest (he was very good at forging ID tags). it did look like a virtual report that the Big L might look at...and after about 10 second of a trideo of a S-K middle manager filing a report, it switched to a converted trideo of the old Rick Ashtley chestnut. Yes, I can honestly say a player RickRolled Lofwyr

I thought about the response to this for a while, and the amount of trouble it would cause in S-K Prime as the Extraction Team was launched to get said hacker (alive, as Lofwyr was actually impressed, if a bit annoyed, at the antics and wanted to speak to the hacker personally).

It ended up with half the party terminated as I occasionally have suicidal players who are overly paranoid and tend to think the worse of any situation (kinda bone headed if you ask me). All I said at the end of the session was "Hand over your character sheet. Lofwyr is making a 'deal'."

Any other tales of bone headed ness (players and gms welcome on this one).

 

[bigity]

I would think Lowfyr would resurrect ole Ashtley and then send him out to kill the decker and his friends and family.  All the while singing his one hit song.

[Canticle]

I'm all for dusting the stupid hacker, but how did he even get into S-K Prime without getting BlackHammered back to the first Crash? One of the legion of S-K spiders would have noticed something going amiss.

[baronspam]

Dear GOD.

Did any of the other characters know?  Honestly, if the hacker walks into the rec room and says, "Hay, lolz, I just rickrolled Lofwyr!!!" pretty much the only thing to do is activate your emergency travel id, relocate to a small town in Indonesia, and start digging a hole.

[TheWanderingJewels]

I'm all for dusting the stupid hacker, but how did he even get into S-K Prime without getting BlackHammered back to the first Crash? One of the legion of S-K spiders would have noticed something going amiss.

So far the player has been pretty good about cracking ICE and has been a long time player through several editions. He's been RPing as the occasional flake, so the players do keep and eye on him on runs, but by in large when it's important he delivers. That and he hit a subsidiary mail server in S-K Prime that wasn't very high priority and did a incredible job doctoring the trid (no viri or anything malevolent that would set off alarms), and tagged it from said 'middle manager'. The S-K bots that manage the systme had no reason to stop the transmission as it was seamless.

The players went ballistic when they found out and were about to geek him (ended up getting geeked later, but that's another story), when a S-K rep showed up with V-card and politely asked to speak with him (you gonna say no?)

After sweating it a bit, it turns out Lofwyr was not happy with the hack as it showed security really needed an overhaul, but anyone talented enough to do so was worth keeping in a file. So S-K Security (through Gritted Teeth) were ordered to pay a 15k Nuyen 'consultant's fee' and get his information (or else...for both parties), and a request to not do that again. Unless asked.

My players are now utterly terrified because the big lizard knows about them

[TheWanderingJewels]

And at least he didn't Trololo Lofwyr....that would have required the Thor Shot