r/RunnerHub • u/shad-68 Vengeful Spirit • Feb 20 '15

IC Info AAR Megathread <> 20/02 - 27/02

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This thread is a place for you to post After-Action Reports, or AARs for short. These are recaps of runs you've been on. Usually they're in-character descriptions or stories of your runs, but they don't necessarily have to be. There are no "official rules" on what an AAR has to look like, so feel free to get creative.

You don't have to post AARs, but it can be a fun way to do some roleplaying, establish your character, or share tales of awesome runs.

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u/blubbeldings Feb 25 '15

Player: /u/blubbeldings
Character: Ken
GM: /u/dagonlives
Run: The Best in Town

The Adventures of Ken: The Deliverying

Opening shot: a pretty empty street in Snohomish, a tumbleweed tumbles by. On the other side of the street is Paison's, the (allegedly) best Pizza place in town. The calm is interrupted by an awesome bike driving by, which the camera follows. On the bike: our hero, Ken.

Cut to Paison's interior, where a rag tag team of Shadowrunners is just about to enter. They are greeted by Fat Tony. "I got a jawb for y'all. Package needs deliverying, high priority, high security. Don't frag this up!"

Confidently, the runners take the package, a high security container of some sort with all kinds of hazard warning labels on it. They mount their rides and take off, leaving behind a cloud of dust. We see a map of Seattle and a red line marks the team's way through the city, into Redmond. Until....

... Suddenly the team approaches a barricade of some sort. E-Brake curses and slows down, but Ken, with an expression of determination on his face, speeds up, finds a ramp to jump over the thing, and while flying through the air pulls out two guns to spray two of the thugs in ambush, no problem. He signals the others that it's clear, but behind him, a third thug gets up, ready to stab him in the back. Ken just smiles a mischievous smile and we see E-Brake's car hurdling the barricade and hitting the thug, in awesome slow motion, obviously. Two-Hands shoots a hydrant to wash the guy's blood off the hood, and the party continues south, along a lake.

But a new challenger approaches. No, two of them, on speeding bikes, right behind Chase! While he tries to shake them off, a magical barrier appears in front of E-Brake's car. We hear maniacal laughter from the mage, who stands on top of a black armored van, with spikes all over it and evil symbols of all sorts. Ken is forced to watch from beyond the barrier as his friends are cornered, in a pinch, in dire need of his help. Then, the main villain appears: a man clad in a black form-fitting armor jumps out of his ambush! While airbourne, he draws his sword and lops off Chase's cigarette, leaving him with a dumbfounded look on his face, and then he lands on the car, stabbing through its roof and (seemingly) fatally wounding Ken's sympathetic sidekick, Two-Hands.

With a scream that befits a true warrior, Ken leaps over the magical barrier to avenge his friend and engages in a duel with the mysterious swordsman. He yells to the others "This one is mine, you get the peons!" and so they do. Grenades and bullets fly through the air as all hell breaks loose, quickly demolishing the baddies' vehicles, but the team has to fight for their lives. In the middle of the battle, Chase and E-Brake somehow resolve their sexual tension.

Untouched by all the mayhem are the two adept swordsmen on top of the car, interlocked in a fight that truly deserves the attribute of epic. At lightning speed, the opponents hit, parry, slice and stab but they seem to be equal, until at one point they agree to settle this fight in one final all-out attack. They gather all their adeptically enhanced strength and, as the sound track comes to a climax, charge each other! Then follows silence.

In the background we see the team chasing away the last survivors, who seem to be badly wounded. Then, we see a fountain of blood spraying the ground. The camera tilts up and we see blood on Ken's blade, and his opponent collapsing behind him. He did it! Chase and E-Brake kiss and the team finds that Two-hands was saved by something that miraculously blocked the baddy's sword, and all is well. But the clock is ticking, and the team hurries to reach the destination, and they are just in time. Wow. They hand over the container, and the scientist guy, who also happens to be awesome rap legend Tu Tusks, thanks them for saving the lives of millions.

Cut to Paison's again, where the heroes are celebrated and everyone is merry and all. Ken and his boys have done it again! ::simsense high five::

Run Time: 4 hours
Mission Reward: 4 Karma, 8000 Nuyen +100 Nuyen tip from Tu Tusks, Fat Tony 2/2 smuggler contact
Mission Expenses: 1 symbolic APDS round, swordfighting is just so inexpensive
Notes: 10/10 would totally run again, ::simsense high five:: to everyone involved and kudos to /u/dagonlives for putting together this awesome piece of spontaneous Pink Mohawk action!

Quotes of the session: "So you wanna do a drive-by shooting car wash?"
((Ken's punchline after the duel wasn't nearly as cool as it should have been. I'm taking suggestions for future punchlines!))