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Jargum had this to say about dark elf butts:
start on riggers!

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I'm tired, so I'll just hit a few of the highlights.

First off, you don't just plug yourself into any old car and go. The car (or other vehicle) has to be adapted to Rigger control. That acutally degrades the performance of the car slightly for normal control.

Second, when you plug yourself in, you get sensory input from the car, much like how a decker gets sensory input from his icon. You want to see, hear, and feel the road as you race along? Sensors. High quality, and lots of them. Rigger adaption only assumes that you have the basics installed.

Weapons. If they are set into the rigging controls, and have aiming servos, then you can control them. Just slapping an assult rifle into a firmpoint doesn't do it. Once again, good sensors will help you to see and aim.

If you don't want every goon with a badge and a gun pulling you over and taking your toys away, you need to hide them. Pop-up mounts are available, but they take up more room and can be expensive. Also, don't forget ammo.

Reports are that Smartlink 2 is compatable with some makes of VCR. Check with your cyberware dealer for details.

The car itself. Standard is lame, you can't settle for that. Soup it up, twink it out, and make it badass. All sorts of things are doable in Shadowrun if you have the cash and the mechanic to do it for you. RVs that can act as submarines can be good for short range smuggling, or for hiding from the law. (Just don't forget the life support package, and extra air tanks). Armor plating, turbo charging, bucket seats (with extra armor, just in case), satalite uplinks, and more await you when you shop for toys.

Fitting it in. Most cars can't carry all the stuff you want, it just won't fit. The few that can will be getting crap for fuel use due to the weight. Plus, you've just used up all your trunk space. Where are you gonna put that dead Jhonson now, hua?

Parking your ride. You have now (somehow) managed to make your very own Batmobile. Congratulations! Now, where are you keeping it? Park it on the street in the bad part of town, and it's gone. Park it in a garage in the bad part of town, and it's still gone unless you're paying off the local gang for security. Park it in the good part of town, and the cops will say "Hey, isn't that the van that popped out a rotary auto-cannon and blew that Presidental canadite to kibble?" So, you may not want to park it there either.

In fact, you don't want the cops to be able to ID your car as the car of a Shadowrunner. If they can, the best thing you can do is get rid of it, or have it totally reworked. And while you're having it reworked to look different, I hear that there's a new turbo charger out that could get you an extra 2 horse out of it, maybe even 3! Go for it, 'cause second place is for corp wannabes.

(Also) Riggers can be your worst nightmare where you least expect them, indoors. Some buildings have rigger controls worked into their security systems. The rigger jacks in, and IS the building. Eyes and ears everywhere. You walk over a pressure pad, and he feels it on his skin. Hundreds of electronic eyes watching your every move. Hands closing to shut security doors, and his voice over the radio telling security just where you are. For runners, a security rigger is a Bad Thing. (unless you can geek him, and have your own rigger jack in)

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Panther Assault Cannon: It's not a weapon, it's a national emergency.

Two of my old SR characters were turned to chunky salsa by someone with an PAC.

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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
Two of my old SR characters were turned to chunky salsa by someone with an PAC.

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I'm not sure, but I think one of mine was killed by one too. It missed him, but knocked him off of the roof he had been on.

It was a 10 floor building. Mr Adept just didn't have enough magic points into that safefall power.

While the PAC is fun, I love the mini-grenade pistol. Half my characters had those things.

Second time it was a fellow party member who got me. We were at a research facility doing industrial espionage and had the corp deck jockies on the run. I was flushing people down from the second floor to the first with this other person. She gets shot by like the token security guy, and calls down to the guys on the first level that we're taking fire and that she's been hit. I'm flushing people down, they're coming down the stairs and the corpsec guy is nowhere to be seen. I jump in the elevator and race the people in the stairs down thinking I might catch the guy on his way out. Instead, the guy with the PAC on the ground floor hears the elevator ding...deck jockeys have been coming out the stairs...guy in elevator must be security. Door opens, he fires, I'm laminated all over the inside of the elevator.

After that I made a rigger and kept my scrawny ass in the damned van and sent robot drones in when they needed me inside for something.

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Fennar had this to say about the Spice Girls:
2) a Full auto shotgun! for when you REALLY dont like the looks of the croud over there.

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and a Ranger Arms Sniper rifle.

side arm is a Colt American l36

...Is it wrong that I got chills when I read the thing about deckers?

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This one time, at Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael camp:
*Big Deth brings its large armored foot down on Geeorn*

<Big Deth> Damned Zealots.

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* lies on the ground dead a moment with an odd, cross shaped grey thingie sticking out of his chest. Is the revived fully.

and that reminds me, since when did "OMG i r s0 d4rk 4nd 4ngsty" and Mrs. Pine Sol have the same patron Diety?

And they worship the same deity. Just different aspects or something. I don't ask. I don't muck about in religion, they don't screw around in mad science.

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Geeorn had this to say about Robocop:
and a Ranger Arms Sniper rifle.

side arm is a Colt American l36

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Tactical Nuke?

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So quoth Fighter:
Something that uses swords. Preferably dual pistols and swords. Armour comes last.

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not familiar with the mechanics of the game are we hmm? A street corner punk with a 1-shot zipgun could kill you in this game

*Flashy swordplay in an attempt to look intimidating*

*BANG* *thud*

*thug picks up blades*
"Wonder how much I can hock these for"

as for my street sammy-ness. no guns. just a custom made monofilamint katana. collapsable blade into the hilt, yet as tough as steel when extended

(idea courtesy of Rai from Valiant Comics)

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There was much rejoicing when Niklas said this:
woah, gotta be careful of that monofilament stuff... it cuts like wire throguh cheese through pretty much anything if it is a strong enough monofilament..

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yep. GM made special considerations for my character with that blade. Anybody else trying to use it suffers the same penalty as a monofilamint whip (ie: if you roll all 1's, you hit yourself with it)

Wait... I think I got confused somewhere. =/

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Fennar's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
Ok, for all you Sammys, Its time to play that game called Pick your weapon!

1) A panther assult cannon! This belt fed monster of a gun can take out 9 out of 10 people in one shot! The down sides include a report that can be heard accross town, and a tendacy to inspire a "Shoot first, shoot Second, and then shoot some more" responce from lonestar and corp security.

2) a Full auto shotgun! for when you REALLY dont like the looks of the croud over there.

3) a Preditor 3 heavy pistol! Sporting a good balance of firepower and conciblty, this is the standard backup weapon of the shadows, plus Lonestar dosent freekout if they catch you with one.

4) any other weapon from the books, Ava <>

(Yea, yea, I'm promoteing everyone to prime runner levels, so quit yer bitching)

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Red Mage was listening to Cher while typing:
Cue video clip from Indiana Jones.

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That scene was Awesome