September the 11th book burning.

[sciolist]

Those wacky guys.

Jesus and Mo provide balanced commentary as ever:
"Chaos as cretins provoke morons"

http://www.jesusandmo.net/2010/09/08/crass/

Whee! Eberron this weekend! we can go rescue Karst Shayla!

Comments

[ankaret]

Daring rescue OR another exciting philosophical discussion of what the good alignment permits - you guys have so many choices!

technically Good actions.

[sciolist]

I think that if the victim is a heartless kidnapper of your proto-girlfriend and the hearthstone of your clan - Drenak's code may not only permit but actually mandate pliers and a blowtorch.

Re: technically Good actions.

[ankaret]

Well, if they were talking to the *real* Karst Juko at the end of the session she's not actually the Hearthstone, the kidnappers just told her she was to make her go with them. So maybe it depends on how much of a social climber Drenak is. :p

Nice icon, where's it from?

[sciolist]

Black_Dragon_by_g_man318 - looted from DeviantArt for the ninja thug I was playing in the ill-fated monday shadowrun.

[ankaret]

What happened in the Monday Shadowrun? Fatal collision between players and plot?

[sciolist]

Kinda.
Session 1 - We get hired to do over a rival gang by one of our Yakuza contacts.
Session 2 - We discover (the hard way) that the rival gang leader is a Dragon. We beg for our puny mammalian lives and agree to work for him.
Session 3 - Our new dragon overlord tells us that the Yakuza contact is also a dragon and suggests we do something lower rent - like try to stop a rival gang gain a foothold in the city.
Session 4 - We get intel that the new rival gang leader is coming to SanFrancisco in his tour bus! We borrow a tank, and prepare an ambush by mining the road.
Session 5 - Flawless ambush! Except... his 'bus' is a hovertank with an illusory glamour of a tour bus. We shell his tank. Lots. He gets out of the smoking wreckage. We shell him, lots. His Phoenix spirit girlfriend gets out of the tank and incorporeally penetrates our tank. Our troll archer shoots the gangleader in the head, lots. The gangleader seems dismayed, rather than dead and draws his katana.
Session 6 - cleanup. We last about another half a combat round.

The 'rival gang leader' was a vampiric shaman of the Phoenix totem. Once any damage actually notices despite his phenomenal regenerative undead powers and he dies - the Power of the Phoenix reanimates him on full health the following round.

So, we're starting players, beginning to run the shadows. We meet 2 dragons and a vampire unkillable fave recurring NPC and his murderous girlfriend spirit - 'She was designed to kill a party much harder than you guys!'

I think we started to play something else, after that.

[ankaret]

Ooooh, dear. Never go up against the unkillable favourite NPC. :(