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Have you ever accidently encouraged bad behavior in your PCs?

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Mon, 2014-05-12 22:52
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ShadowDragon8685 ShadowDragon8685's picture
Have you ever accidently encouraged bad behavior in your PCs?
Okay, so... One of my players was checking on the rep of an anarchist saboteur when she had, for a brief moment, unrestricted access to all of the woman's rep scores. She worked out that one of the other woman's identities had been linked to some criminal act, and I told her that the other woman had worked her way onto Oversight's 10,000 Most Wanted. Then the character, curiously, enquired as to her own location on that list. She had, days before, very publicly taken credit for leading a squad of Scum who attacked a triad hotel in Elysium's Chinatown, liberated over 140 indentures, and burnt the place to the ground, in the process killing a lot of Triads and a great many uninvolved parties, mostly the poor bastards who were in the hotel lobby when they lead with grenades. So I told her she was on the top 5,000 list, and now I'm afraid she's going to keep trying to climb up that list until she makes Oversight's Most Wanted. What do?
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Mon, 2014-05-12 23:20
bibliophile20 bibliophile20's picture
Fork her, have one of the
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What do?
Fork her, have one of the forks act as a stalking horse and, as a recreational activity, take down the resulting surge of bounty hunters that have more greed than sense?
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Tue, 2014-05-13 06:01
Lorsa Lorsa's picture
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:So I
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:
So I told her she was on the top 5,000 list, and now I'm afraid she's going to keep trying to climb up that list until she makes Oversight's Most Wanted. What do?
Sounds like great adventure material to me. If the player characters have motivations that will lead them into trouble without you having to do anything you should be thankful! Just go with it and see where it leads you, which will hopefully be fun for everyone?
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Tue, 2014-05-13 06:25
Capitalocracy Capitalocracy's picture
Is it a Firewall campaign?
Firewall will NOT be pleased with someone deliberately trying to gain ranks in Oversight's Most Wanted List. Kind of conflicts with the whole "secret conspiracy" idea. So there's one less-obvious consequence. The obvious consequence, of course, is that she's just begging for rope to hang herself. Talk to her OOC if constantly being hounded by bounty hunters isn't the campaign you're looking for.
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Tue, 2014-05-13 08:18
Lorsa Lorsa's picture
Capitalocracy wrote:Firewall
Capitalocracy wrote:
Firewall will NOT be pleased with someone deliberately trying to gain ranks in Oversight's Most Wanted List. Kind of conflicts with the whole "secret conspiracy" idea. So there's one less-obvious consequence. The obvious consequence, of course, is that she's just begging for rope to hang herself. Talk to her OOC if constantly being hounded by bounty hunters isn't the campaign you're looking for.
Assuming the character works for Firewall at all, getting higher on a Most Wanted List will probably give a lot of g-rep in the process. Good guanxi contacts is something Firewall is always looking for. And as long as the character manages to stay away from Oversight, what's the harm? Yes, of course she's looking for rope to hang herself in. When my players do that I think it's a good thing since it saves me the trouble of supplying the rope for them... :)
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Tue, 2014-05-13 08:33
ShadowDragon8685 ShadowDragon8685's picture
Lorsa wrote:Assuming the
Lorsa wrote:
Assuming the character works for Firewall at all, getting higher on a Most Wanted List will probably give a lot of g-rep in the process. Good guanxi contacts is something Firewall is always looking for. And as long as the character manages to stay away from Oversight, what's the harm?
I ruled that they didn't get much g-rep out of it, because while the Shui Fong's enemies are always thankful to see the Triad's plans going up in literal smoke, most criminals aren't going to respect the kind of person who would do soemthing so unsubtle for the purposes of liberation. Now, [b]@-Rep[/b] is another matter. She was so public about this (and she took the time to publicize it on the Circle-A list) that she got 10 @-Rep [i]and[/i] a Gold Star on @-List... And another level of Black Mark on c-Net, of course. Firewall needs good Autonomists, right?
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Yes, of course she's looking for rope to hang herself in. When my players do that I think it's a good thing since it saves me the trouble of supplying the rope for them... :)
Yeah, but the problem is when they buy rope in bulk and the rest of the group winds up on the gallows with them.
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Tue, 2014-05-13 11:35
Urthdigger Urthdigger's picture
I'm fairly certain Laowai
I'm fairly certain Laowai would do the stuff that's get her on the wanted list anyhow. Don't worry :)
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Tue, 2014-05-13 12:06
Freedom Geek Freedom Geek's picture
Lorsa wrote:Assuming the
Lorsa wrote:
Assuming the character works for Firewall at all, getting higher on a Most Wanted List will probably give a lot of g-rep in the process. Good guanxi contacts is something Firewall is always looking for. And as long as the character manages to stay away from Oversight, what's the harm?
There's also the fact that if Firewall works out that she wants to piss off Oversight then she becomes a great candidate for being given jobs that have a high probability of pissing off oversight. ...Or for that matter being the fall girl for a operating gone wrong. Plot hook! Suddenly one day news reports indicate that she's been linked to this huge crime. Large enough to catapult her forwards in the ranking list. This crime is certainly something consistent with her belief system ... but the only problem is she had absolutely nothing to do with it. Firewall sends her a message and says that there was a screw up in one of their operations and as a last ditch move to stop someone who definitely did not want to be on that wanted list from being identified, someone who had a lot to lose from that happening, they planted false evidence linking her. Problem? This is what you wanted, right?
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Tue, 2014-05-13 18:25
Lorsa Lorsa's picture
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:Yeah,
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:
Yeah, but the problem is when they buy rope in bulk and the rest of the group winds up on the gallows with them.
Yes, this can happen quite a lot. Hopefully the rest of the group is somewhat aware of what is going on and can take measures to stop her if she goes out of control?
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Sat, 2014-05-17 03:35
Capitalocracy Capitalocracy's picture
Speaking of bad behavior...
Speaking of bad behavior, my group just eelwared their team leader, tied him up, put him in a vacsuit with 3 hours of air, tied him to a rock, threw him into a river, and MIGHT come back for him later.
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Sat, 2014-05-17 04:05
ShadowDragon8685 ShadowDragon8685's picture
Capitalocracy wrote:Speaking
Capitalocracy wrote:
Speaking of bad behavior, my group just eelwared their team leader, tied him up, put him in a vacsuit with 3 hours of air, tied him to a rock, threw him into a river, and MIGHT come back for him later.
Where did they find a river?
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Sat, 2014-05-17 06:15
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ShadowDragon8685 wrote
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:
Capitalocracy wrote:
Speaking of bad behavior, my group just eelwared their team leader, tied him up, put him in a vacsuit with 3 hours of air, tied him to a rock, threw him into a river, and MIGHT come back for him later.
Where did they find a river?
On Mars?
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Sat, 2014-05-17 09:35
ShadowDragon8685 ShadowDragon8685's picture
Lorsa wrote:ShadowDragon8685
Lorsa wrote:
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:
Capitalocracy wrote:
Speaking of bad behavior, my group just eelwared their team leader, tied him up, put him in a vacsuit with 3 hours of air, tied him to a rock, threw him into a river, and MIGHT come back for him later.
Where did they find a river?
On Mars?
I thought the pressure on Mars was still too low for liquid water not to evaporate almost immediately?
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Sat, 2014-05-17 10:02
Lorsa Lorsa's picture
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:Lorsa
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:
Lorsa wrote:
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:
Capitalocracy wrote:
Speaking of bad behavior, my group just eelwared their team leader, tied him up, put him in a vacsuit with 3 hours of air, tied him to a rock, threw him into a river, and MIGHT come back for him later.
Where did they find a river?
On Mars?
I thought the pressure on Mars was still too low for liquid water not to evaporate almost immediately?
According to Sunward, the area around Valles New Shanghai has some actual rivers and trees growing alongside it. The atmosphere is thick enough to be breathable with enhanced respiration augmentations. So yeah, they've come further than one assumes with terraforming on Mars.
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Sat, 2014-05-17 11:14
ShadowDragon8685 ShadowDragon8685's picture
Lorsa wrote:ShadowDragon8685
Lorsa wrote:
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:
Lorsa wrote:
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:
Capitalocracy wrote:
Speaking of bad behavior, my group just eelwared their team leader, tied him up, put him in a vacsuit with 3 hours of air, tied him to a rock, threw him into a river, and MIGHT come back for him later.
Where did they find a river?
On Mars?
I thought the pressure on Mars was still too low for liquid water not to evaporate almost immediately?
According to Sunward, the area around Valles New Shanghai has some actual rivers and trees growing alongside it. The atmosphere is thick enough to be breathable with enhanced respiration augmentations. So yeah, they've come further than one assumes with terraforming on Mars.
Hrm... I... Didn't realize that. That's handy to know, actually, assuming my players stay on Mars for very long. They probably won't.
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Tue, 2014-05-20 07:56
Eridan Eridan's picture
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:Okay,
ShadowDragon8685 wrote:
Okay, so... One of my players was checking on the rep of an anarchist saboteur when she had, for a brief moment, unrestricted access to all of the woman's rep scores. She worked out that one of the other woman's identities had been linked to some criminal act, and I told her that the other woman had worked her way onto Oversight's 10,000 Most Wanted. Then the character, curiously, enquired as to her own location on that list. She had, days before, very publicly taken credit for leading a squad of Scum who attacked a triad hotel in Elysium's Chinatown, liberated over 140 indentures, and burnt the place to the ground, in the process killing a lot of Triads and a great many uninvolved parties, mostly the poor bastards who were in the hotel lobby when they lead with grenades. So I told her she was on the top 5,000 list, and now I'm afraid she's going to keep trying to climb up that list until she makes Oversight's Most Wanted. What do?
To me, this doesn't sound so much like "bad behavior" as "the game". Run with it. It'll be fun :)
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Tue, 2014-05-20 13:13
Rags Rags's picture
Capitalocracy wrote:Speaking
Capitalocracy wrote:
Speaking of bad behavior, my group just eelwared their team leader, tied him up, put him in a vacsuit with 3 hours of air, tied him to a rock, threw him into a river, and MIGHT come back for him later.
Hey just because a proxy ordered Hedwig to be our teamleader doesn't make it so. Also I thought he only had 2 hours.
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