Pissing people off.
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 6:59 am
So in every game, the PCs end up pissing people off. Also making friends sometimes, but that's more group dependent I think. So recently a new player came into our Shadowrun game, so we filled up the white board with all the groups that the PCs had hacked off and/or allied themselves with. And because I want to get some sort of conversation started, here it is, the wall of shame (in order of appearence):
[*] + The Black Spiral: A terrorist organization based out of Amazonia (the PCs have reason to believe that they are also funded in whole or in part by that government), The Black Spitral has hired our heroes to perform various actions against the government of the Tir. They have been very happy to provide the PCs with explosives and targetting information, in addition to paying them money to destroy crap.
[*] - Mary Kay Kommandos: The armed forces of the Mary Kay Cosmetics Corporation (a division of Ares Macrotechnology), these guys got pissed off when one of their labs in the Tir was destroyed. They have limited information about our heroes, but are really pissed off.
[*] + The Jacksonian Separatist Movement: Jackson is a proposed nation composed of the lower third of the Tir and a small part of the northern end of the California Free State. It is supposed to be founded on Libertarian principles and Frontier values. It's capitol is supposed to be in Redding. And yes, its supporters are just as creepy and hickish as that sounds. But the PCs gave their cause a major boost by delivering them a bunch of heavy ordnance and traffic control systems (ie.: land mines), and killed a good sized collection of secret police members while doing so. And while this was all at the behest of The Black Spiral, the Jacksonian Separatists consider the PCs to be part of the movement.
[*] - The Government of Tir Tairngire: The PCs have gratuitously insulted upstanding Knights of the Realm (in addition to outright killing more than a few, they stole one of their vehicles and trashed a knight's house down to mixing the sauces in the fridge together and hiding perishables behind furniture); they armed rebels against the state; they killed large contingents of the personal guards of multiple princes; they impersonated retainers of a prince; they are known to be members of a terrorist organization; they looted and destroyed the mansion of a prominent member of the council of princes; and so far every last assassin team that Tir Tairngire has sent against them has failed. They are pissed.
[*] + Green War: Green War is an environamentalist organization which attempts to use the methodology of the modern era to fight the corporations and polluters in a language they understand - high profile assassinations and expensive sabotage. The PCs went halvesies with these guys in a hit to destroy the home of a Tir Prince whose policies were not approved of by Green War. The PCs actually suspect that most of the cell were plants and/or agent provocateurs (except Carl the Toxic shaman, they were pretty sure he was legit) like they were. But in any case Green War international seems to think this mission was a success, and the PCs are official members of Green War as far as they care.
[*] + The Triads: Once they hit the Bay Area of the California Free State, they hooked up with the Triads pretty quickly, and have done a number of things for them. They work alternately with several different branches of that organization: Papa Wong (of Papa Wong's Crabs) was their way into the organization and had them working smuggling, character assassination, and guard duty - he is played by Victor Wong and runs the company and his section of the criminal network with his daughter Jeneane Wong; General Liang is a massive Troll and military operative of the Triads, they spent some time hanging out with his family but mostly he has them shoot the hell out of Yakuza members. General Liang can provide large numbers of Phillipinos with SMGs and machettes, and usually wants them to perform missions in the peninsula that involve setting Yakuza stuff on fire; "68" runs some stylist operations, and also runs some medium-scale prostitution rings. He has gone in with them in making a brothel in Halferville (Fremont), as well as getting them to work on making Yakuza and Imperial forces afraid to stick their valuables into the East Bay.
[*] - The Yakuza: The PCs have set their cars and bussinesses on fire. They've killed their soldiers both on and off the job. They've collected blackmail information on an Oyabun. They've arranged situations where prominent members of the organization had to commit suicide. They've pissed these guys off so hard that there are general descriptions floating around in Chiba with orders to hitmen to kill on sight.
[*] - The Phillipines Governor General of the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere: Our heroes have used missiles to shoot down attack helicopters provided by this authority. Also they moved stolen personal property of the Governor himself. He is so completely unhappy with them that he actually thinks about them from time to time instead of delegating that all to underlings.
[*] - Mitsuhama Computer Technologies: As part of a complex plan, the PCs arranged for a troupe of zombies with six shooters and cowboy hats to assault an MCT gated community, followed by having unmanned drones filled with plastic explosives to detonate all over said gated community and hurl a full-sized truck filled with napalm barrels into said community. Subsequently, they also assassinated an advertisement executive in Nagaland who worked as an MCT armsdealer across the border with Trollish Myanmar. MCT currently doesn't know who our heroes are, but if they ever found out, they'd know exactly what to do with that information.
[*] + Voodoo Ben: The self-proclaimed "Most powerful Houngan on the West Coast", Voodoo Ben lives in a creepy mansion in the Berkley Hills. He dresses in an admiral's uniform jacket and a grass skirt. His ally spirit inhabits the body of a very attractive (and dead) woman. He hires them to do really weird shit, but he also invites them to parties. The parties are also weird.
[*] - World Recording Industry Army: Formerly the Recording Industry Association of America, the modern organization is armed to the teeth and lays dubious extraterritoriality claims to all recorded music and information. They've caught the party decker file sharing, they just haven't caught him...
[*] + Yarborough: Yarborough is an entirely online fixer who speaks only in card metaphors and communicates through text messages displayed on an ancient video poker setup. He has made a lot of money off of them, and they've done some stuff for him. He seems to concern himself with South Asian smuggling and the military balance of power there. Also, he knows a lot of deckers.
[*] - Dr. Fenigris: Looks like a creepy old cat lady on the physical, but she's a giant and way creepier looking cat lady on the astral. The PCs were hired to deliver a magic item to her and then destroy it completely after she took full possession of it (by Voodoo Ben). They did that, and they last say her screaming in rage.
[*] = The Foreign Affairs Office of the Lagos Necropolis: The international operatives of the Ghoul Nation (formerly Southern Nigeria), they are dedicated to making the world safer for Ghouls all over the globe. The PCs met these guys at a party at Voodoo Ben's, and were offered jobs hunting Vampires. They were busy at the time, but kept the LTG number...
[*] + The Athabaskan Council: The PCs participated in a suga run to Anchorage, so the AC is vaguely in support of their activities.
[*] = The Vladivostock Auction House: Vlodivostock is the most capitalist city on earth, having no laws or free services. Everything costs, and everything can be bought. People are expected to pay each other money even for minor services in a giant circle of payment that leaves visitors confused. Hidden fees surround every action and purchase, no matter how minor. V-Bay is an auction house that sells expensive items and takes a modest 70% off the top of anything you sell through them. They have no loyalty to anyone and respond only to the bottom line, but the bottom line is that our heroes sold Manet's "Chez Tortoni" through them. Unfortunately, they forgot to pay the "don't fvcking spy on us fee" and information about their time there has been sold to everyone who figured out the right questions to put money behind.
[*] - Universal Omnitech: One of the PCs is a genetically augmented killing machine who is technically UO property. He has rather strong feelings about this, and the group has started blowing up UO property. Including scientists. And mages. And Research facilities.
[*] - The Nation of Nagaland: After bombing a research facility in Cheng Ki, Nagaland, the PCs stole three cars, shot a roadside checkpoint with an assault cannon, deliberately caused a massive pileup on the main road into Kohima, and generally pissed off the Nagaland military police so much that they almost wouldn't have needed money and advisors from Universal Omnitech to get them to undergo a bout of martial law to attempt to flush them out. All this excitement triggered troop deployments from land-hungry Assam, and Dimapur came under threat. Again. It's the only airport in the country and it's right on the Assam border, so this happens a lot.
[*] + The Calcutta Yacht Club: Nestled in the Western and more Hindu portion of United Bengal, Calcutta is patrolled (and patrollable) only from the air by the company with the law enforcement contract (Vedicorp). But while the streets are clogged with people at all times, the well-to-do escape to the nearby Indian Ocean to travel about in style. Or at least, our heroes do now that they are members of the Calcutta Yacht Club and have purchased a Princessa-class Yacht from them. The club is very exclusive, and headed by a Free Spirit Fire Elemental.
[*] = Coke and Pepsi: While the Cola Wars 2 rage in South Asia, the PCs have managed to stay mostly neutral. They have so far avoided conscription into either army. They have so far leaned towards Pepsi in this confrontation, blatantly purchasing a Pepsi in Coca-Cola territory (right in sight of the giant red billboard with Santa holding a Coke bottle and the text "COKE PROTECTS YOU NOW"), but haven't made any move big enough to be blacklisted by either organization. So far, they've refused all Cola War missions from both camps.
[*] - The Royal Navy of Australia: When the HMAS Owens (a light cruiser) demanded that they subject their yacht to boarding and taxation while in international waters, the PCs took sufficient offense that they ended up killing everyone on board and stealing a cruise missile off it before detonating the rest in an attempt to scuttle the ship. The Australian Navy has only a limited grasp of who they are, but they are livid.
[*] + The Borneo Coastal Defense Force: After the PCs created a giant international incident in the Arafura Sea, they limped back to Benjarmasin, where they unloaded a bunch of Australian wartoys on the Coastal Defense Force in a vaguely plausibly deniable fashion.
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So if anyone has any questions or wants to post the enemies list from one of their games, go ahead. I think that would be cool.
-Username17
[*] + The Black Spiral: A terrorist organization based out of Amazonia (the PCs have reason to believe that they are also funded in whole or in part by that government), The Black Spitral has hired our heroes to perform various actions against the government of the Tir. They have been very happy to provide the PCs with explosives and targetting information, in addition to paying them money to destroy crap.
[*] - Mary Kay Kommandos: The armed forces of the Mary Kay Cosmetics Corporation (a division of Ares Macrotechnology), these guys got pissed off when one of their labs in the Tir was destroyed. They have limited information about our heroes, but are really pissed off.
[*] + The Jacksonian Separatist Movement: Jackson is a proposed nation composed of the lower third of the Tir and a small part of the northern end of the California Free State. It is supposed to be founded on Libertarian principles and Frontier values. It's capitol is supposed to be in Redding. And yes, its supporters are just as creepy and hickish as that sounds. But the PCs gave their cause a major boost by delivering them a bunch of heavy ordnance and traffic control systems (ie.: land mines), and killed a good sized collection of secret police members while doing so. And while this was all at the behest of The Black Spiral, the Jacksonian Separatists consider the PCs to be part of the movement.
[*] - The Government of Tir Tairngire: The PCs have gratuitously insulted upstanding Knights of the Realm (in addition to outright killing more than a few, they stole one of their vehicles and trashed a knight's house down to mixing the sauces in the fridge together and hiding perishables behind furniture); they armed rebels against the state; they killed large contingents of the personal guards of multiple princes; they impersonated retainers of a prince; they are known to be members of a terrorist organization; they looted and destroyed the mansion of a prominent member of the council of princes; and so far every last assassin team that Tir Tairngire has sent against them has failed. They are pissed.
[*] + Green War: Green War is an environamentalist organization which attempts to use the methodology of the modern era to fight the corporations and polluters in a language they understand - high profile assassinations and expensive sabotage. The PCs went halvesies with these guys in a hit to destroy the home of a Tir Prince whose policies were not approved of by Green War. The PCs actually suspect that most of the cell were plants and/or agent provocateurs (except Carl the Toxic shaman, they were pretty sure he was legit) like they were. But in any case Green War international seems to think this mission was a success, and the PCs are official members of Green War as far as they care.
[*] + The Triads: Once they hit the Bay Area of the California Free State, they hooked up with the Triads pretty quickly, and have done a number of things for them. They work alternately with several different branches of that organization: Papa Wong (of Papa Wong's Crabs) was their way into the organization and had them working smuggling, character assassination, and guard duty - he is played by Victor Wong and runs the company and his section of the criminal network with his daughter Jeneane Wong; General Liang is a massive Troll and military operative of the Triads, they spent some time hanging out with his family but mostly he has them shoot the hell out of Yakuza members. General Liang can provide large numbers of Phillipinos with SMGs and machettes, and usually wants them to perform missions in the peninsula that involve setting Yakuza stuff on fire; "68" runs some stylist operations, and also runs some medium-scale prostitution rings. He has gone in with them in making a brothel in Halferville (Fremont), as well as getting them to work on making Yakuza and Imperial forces afraid to stick their valuables into the East Bay.
[*] - The Yakuza: The PCs have set their cars and bussinesses on fire. They've killed their soldiers both on and off the job. They've collected blackmail information on an Oyabun. They've arranged situations where prominent members of the organization had to commit suicide. They've pissed these guys off so hard that there are general descriptions floating around in Chiba with orders to hitmen to kill on sight.
[*] - The Phillipines Governor General of the East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere: Our heroes have used missiles to shoot down attack helicopters provided by this authority. Also they moved stolen personal property of the Governor himself. He is so completely unhappy with them that he actually thinks about them from time to time instead of delegating that all to underlings.
[*] - Mitsuhama Computer Technologies: As part of a complex plan, the PCs arranged for a troupe of zombies with six shooters and cowboy hats to assault an MCT gated community, followed by having unmanned drones filled with plastic explosives to detonate all over said gated community and hurl a full-sized truck filled with napalm barrels into said community. Subsequently, they also assassinated an advertisement executive in Nagaland who worked as an MCT armsdealer across the border with Trollish Myanmar. MCT currently doesn't know who our heroes are, but if they ever found out, they'd know exactly what to do with that information.
[*] + Voodoo Ben: The self-proclaimed "Most powerful Houngan on the West Coast", Voodoo Ben lives in a creepy mansion in the Berkley Hills. He dresses in an admiral's uniform jacket and a grass skirt. His ally spirit inhabits the body of a very attractive (and dead) woman. He hires them to do really weird shit, but he also invites them to parties. The parties are also weird.
[*] - World Recording Industry Army: Formerly the Recording Industry Association of America, the modern organization is armed to the teeth and lays dubious extraterritoriality claims to all recorded music and information. They've caught the party decker file sharing, they just haven't caught him...
[*] + Yarborough: Yarborough is an entirely online fixer who speaks only in card metaphors and communicates through text messages displayed on an ancient video poker setup. He has made a lot of money off of them, and they've done some stuff for him. He seems to concern himself with South Asian smuggling and the military balance of power there. Also, he knows a lot of deckers.
[*] - Dr. Fenigris: Looks like a creepy old cat lady on the physical, but she's a giant and way creepier looking cat lady on the astral. The PCs were hired to deliver a magic item to her and then destroy it completely after she took full possession of it (by Voodoo Ben). They did that, and they last say her screaming in rage.
[*] = The Foreign Affairs Office of the Lagos Necropolis: The international operatives of the Ghoul Nation (formerly Southern Nigeria), they are dedicated to making the world safer for Ghouls all over the globe. The PCs met these guys at a party at Voodoo Ben's, and were offered jobs hunting Vampires. They were busy at the time, but kept the LTG number...
[*] + The Athabaskan Council: The PCs participated in a suga run to Anchorage, so the AC is vaguely in support of their activities.
[*] = The Vladivostock Auction House: Vlodivostock is the most capitalist city on earth, having no laws or free services. Everything costs, and everything can be bought. People are expected to pay each other money even for minor services in a giant circle of payment that leaves visitors confused. Hidden fees surround every action and purchase, no matter how minor. V-Bay is an auction house that sells expensive items and takes a modest 70% off the top of anything you sell through them. They have no loyalty to anyone and respond only to the bottom line, but the bottom line is that our heroes sold Manet's "Chez Tortoni" through them. Unfortunately, they forgot to pay the "don't fvcking spy on us fee" and information about their time there has been sold to everyone who figured out the right questions to put money behind.
[*] - Universal Omnitech: One of the PCs is a genetically augmented killing machine who is technically UO property. He has rather strong feelings about this, and the group has started blowing up UO property. Including scientists. And mages. And Research facilities.
[*] - The Nation of Nagaland: After bombing a research facility in Cheng Ki, Nagaland, the PCs stole three cars, shot a roadside checkpoint with an assault cannon, deliberately caused a massive pileup on the main road into Kohima, and generally pissed off the Nagaland military police so much that they almost wouldn't have needed money and advisors from Universal Omnitech to get them to undergo a bout of martial law to attempt to flush them out. All this excitement triggered troop deployments from land-hungry Assam, and Dimapur came under threat. Again. It's the only airport in the country and it's right on the Assam border, so this happens a lot.
[*] + The Calcutta Yacht Club: Nestled in the Western and more Hindu portion of United Bengal, Calcutta is patrolled (and patrollable) only from the air by the company with the law enforcement contract (Vedicorp). But while the streets are clogged with people at all times, the well-to-do escape to the nearby Indian Ocean to travel about in style. Or at least, our heroes do now that they are members of the Calcutta Yacht Club and have purchased a Princessa-class Yacht from them. The club is very exclusive, and headed by a Free Spirit Fire Elemental.
[*] = Coke and Pepsi: While the Cola Wars 2 rage in South Asia, the PCs have managed to stay mostly neutral. They have so far avoided conscription into either army. They have so far leaned towards Pepsi in this confrontation, blatantly purchasing a Pepsi in Coca-Cola territory (right in sight of the giant red billboard with Santa holding a Coke bottle and the text "COKE PROTECTS YOU NOW"), but haven't made any move big enough to be blacklisted by either organization. So far, they've refused all Cola War missions from both camps.
[*] - The Royal Navy of Australia: When the HMAS Owens (a light cruiser) demanded that they subject their yacht to boarding and taxation while in international waters, the PCs took sufficient offense that they ended up killing everyone on board and stealing a cruise missile off it before detonating the rest in an attempt to scuttle the ship. The Australian Navy has only a limited grasp of who they are, but they are livid.
[*] + The Borneo Coastal Defense Force: After the PCs created a giant international incident in the Arafura Sea, they limped back to Benjarmasin, where they unloaded a bunch of Australian wartoys on the Coastal Defense Force in a vaguely plausibly deniable fashion.
---
So if anyone has any questions or wants to post the enemies list from one of their games, go ahead. I think that would be cool.
-Username17