[Barskor]

 We have decided to do a comperhensive security service company we comin evaluate and recomend changes and up grades with a few routine jobs guarding places we fob off to lesser runners we want to test.

[Phylos Fett]

We have decided to do a comperhensive security service company we comin evaluate and recomend changes and up grades with a few routine jobs guarding places we fob off to lesser runners we want to test.

I'd be careful fobbing off anything to someone that you haven't thoroughly screened and might not trust 100%. It only takes one idiot to ruin the reputation of an entire company, especially when it is small and just starting out.

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

I'd be careful fobbing off anything to someone that you haven't thoroughly screened and might not trust 100%. It only takes one idiot to ruin the reputation of an entire company, especially when it is small and just starting out.

Yeah, never hire other runners unless you're using them as distractions or bait -- which usually works out to the same thing.  Go with someone reputable -- hit the online merc office out of Lisbon, see who's in Seattle, get a couple of bonded military sorts to do the guarding for you.  Of course, you gotta understand that they'll cost you ...

[Barskor]

The hireing of other runners is a easy way to get other players in the game Weshould screen out the wackos and slackers

[kirk]

Once upon a time, in a different game system, my character stumbled upon a way to get wealthy, obscenely wealthy, by becoming a merchant in rare and exotic goods. The keystone was realizing that one could hire "adventurers" to seek and recover goods for far less than one could purchase them from other merchants or collectors. For the truly interesting and difficult, this merchant would "hire" his acquaintances and himself.

The group didn't figure it out for almost two years of play; not till the thief decided this Really Rich Merchant would be a good target for his new scheme and brought his friends in to help.

[Phylos Fett]

Once upon a time, in a different game system, my character stumbled upon a way to get wealthy, obscenely wealthy, by becoming a merchant in rare and exotic goods. The keystone was realizing that one could hire "adventurers" to seek and recover goods for far less than one could purchase them from other merchants or collectors. For the truly interesting and difficult, this merchant would "hire" his acquaintances and himself.

I've seen this latter part done in Shadowrun before, and done well.

The group didn't figure it out for almost two years of play; not till the thief decided this Really Rich Merchant would be a good target for his new scheme and brought his friends in to help.

In the above mentioned Shadowrun, there was a similar twist, when one of the characters convinced the rest of the group that they should all meet with Mr J, not just the Face that had been negotiating deals for them all this time.