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Living In Corporate Shadows: Let's Play (SNES) Shadowrun!

eklektyk

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well this looks positevly interesting. do continue good Sir! :obviously:
 
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-st saying it's a viable tactic and we have the money to do it now.


Carpet bombing everything that moves would probably work, but it's also extremely wasteful.


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If the payment is even higher than last time who cares?


And you plan on getting them...where? I don't see Morgan Freeman around smuggling grenades in his ass.


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Who?


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Wait a minute. I get that these are supposed to be our secret weapon, but how am I going to apply them in mid volley? Won't he shoot me to pieces?


Silly Jake, don't you know? You have money now and that means logic doesn't apply to you.


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Really?


I'm 80% positive you won't die horribly.






At first the strategy was to stay nearby and force the Samurai Warrior to rely on his close-range attack. Jake dealt a pretty good amount of damage doing that. But then he juked away and...



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Ow ow ow!


Do it now!


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FUCK THE RULES I HAVE MONEY!!!



*Two patches later*

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It actually worked?


This is why you should listen to me more.



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It's not the size of the gun that matters, it's how you use it.


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Compared to the Samurai Warrior, the Ferocious Orc is a joke. Oh he's tougher than the rest that came before, but a definite difficulty drop.


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Jake managed to outlast him without even using a patch, though it was close.


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But hey, 3 karma and 5000 nuyen buys a whole lot of appreciation.


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Along with hardware and the knowledge to use it.


That too. So Jake went back and rested up for what we thought to be a joyride after the unpleasant speed bump.



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Car analogy meet the wall you will break upon. Otherwise known as the Gang Leader.


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The Gang Leader does not have a separate close-range attack with horrible accuracy and average damage, and he does not need time to spool up his weapon. Also, he doesn't fucking stand still. No, what he does is start shooting and never stops until you are dead. His gun is nearly as powerful as the Samurai Warrior's (high of 7 instead of 8), with none of the awkward pauses, and he moves like he's on crack. He will literally dance circles around you at high speed and it's a bitch dialing in.


What I'm trying to say is that Jake got his ass handed to him and was made to like it.


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Fuck your money and your patches. I have firepower.


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Think of it this way; we can leave now and there's enough in the coffers to buy all kinds of stuff. Eventually you'll get your own overpowered equipment.

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Then I'm going to come back and ***** him with a rusty ***** ***** while ***** angels sing and his mother watches.


Oh my.


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Question.


Shoot.


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Wasn't there an option to fight instead of paying? I've grown a lot since we arrived and he couldn't have been harder than the Ferocious Orc.


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Fuck!


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This is why you should listen to me more!


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Might as well finish asking him things while we're here, the first time I talked him he answered nearly every question with an invitation to fight. Now he's calmed down a bit.


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Really?


Can't always solve your problems with a gun.


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The bullets in my ass and the creds in our pockets beg to differ.



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We paid 1000 credits for this. Sure let's just piss it all away.


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Outside the caryards there's a whole new district to explore.



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And people to poke until they say something interesting.


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Unless they happen to be NPC space fillers.


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Look at that, an open monorail. Don't see a reason to rush though.


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Feeding Glutman his own face?


He'll keep.


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Now is that a shop or an alleyway? Because I don't think I like alleyways anymore.


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A pub.


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Well that's okay then.


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Still dunno what he meant by the first part of that.



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Boring.


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*Snore*


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Suddenly I'm interested again.




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Didn't you have a mohawk?


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You know what this means, right?


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Hamfist?


Hamfist.


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Ugh.



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And you look like an unwashed hippie with a cosplay fetish. I know a girl who might dig you.


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If that name sounds familiar it should. Wastelands was the name on that box of matches Jake had on him when he woke.


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A weapon shop and someone who might be able to shed light on our mysterious cranial accessory? What a convenient place we've landed in.



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With a title like that I wonder where his specialty lies?


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Scrabble?


How many points for transposition?


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We do not speak of Super Mega Ultra Clam. He is legend! Shh!


*Snort*


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Wouldn't somebody with that name draw his strength from the water?


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Fuck your logic he has money! Probably. Maybe. Those clothes...


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Uh I'll have to get back to you on that. Maybe when the shellfish align-


Just go.


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Oh joy, another filthy Orc.


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We hear you two, y'know?


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I did not. Sir.



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W-


Noted.


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He's talking about the guy who refuses to leave the Vidphone, next to lazy bastard.


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Get outta here breeder.


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And finally the guy behind the bar. Usually they're veritable fountains of information and pleasant to boot.



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He's the exception. Doesn't know shit and wouldn't tell you anyway.


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Have a nice day 'friend'.


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I kinda had to go...


Piss in the entryway. I'm sure he won't mind.
 
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Has anyone played Nightshade? It's a NES game made by the same company which is supposed to be pretty similar to this (an adventure action hybrid).

Downloaded and sitting in a file, actually. Read up on the company after I started this LP and was interested to see if they made anything similar.
 
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Somewhere down this road is the place we need to prepare Jake for challenges ahead.


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And blow big goddamn holes in people.



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Who really knows anyone?


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Maybe she wasn't in the mood for philosophical debate?


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I can't help but notice you running past something.



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That is not another hole-in-the-wall bar. That is an alley.


So?


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So I'm not going in there until I have enough firepower to fend off a full blown Waaaaagh.



Wrong type of Orc, chummer.





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Hold that thought.


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Hey honey, want a guy who can protect you and is a proven money earner?


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Rejected. Such a shame.


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Probably for the best. I'd keep mistaking one of the twenty identical women around here for her and get in trouble.


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For someone whose title is 'Gang Member', both of those women were surprisingly well mannered.



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Not so good at reading gibberish, but one of those probably has firearms and the other magic.



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An even worse case of NPC space fillers, these two don't have dialogue.


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You definitely made the right choice. Schwing!


This must be what Ted Nugent sees every time he thinks of heaven.


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Was she still talking about guns or referencing your...uh...wedding tackle?


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No wedding required where I'm concerned, baby.


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Ah, one of *that* type.


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Can we keep him?



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Let's see what there is to work with.


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Bit expensive for my taste. Hey, why is she looking at a pistol if she suggests moving up from one?


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Women.



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Eh.


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Way too expensive.


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That thing will have a starring role in my dreams tonight. None will be rated PG.


Ew.


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The best defense is-


Armor that lets you walk through a hail of bullets and beat them to death with their own gun. Don't quote tired cliche shit to me.


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Touche.



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Hm.


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10,000 can buy a lot of grenades.


Haha, no.



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The extreme opposite end of the spectrum from the T-250. Might as well stick with the Baretta instead and save money.



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What does the other store have to offer?


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Besides a way to waste more of my time?


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I was just joking about the grenades in the graveyard. Seriously. Please don't curse me.


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???


Don't think it's the same guy, act casual.


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HELLO MY GOOD MAN, HOW 'BOUT THAT SUNSHINE?



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Is he retarded?


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Why does everyone keep asking that?!




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Gained topic Talismans.


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Learning how to cast Magic would be a nice start.



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Gained topic Shaman, and his contact number.


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Well there's one spell in specific we can try asking him about.


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Our inventory's chock-full of patches. Is this really necessary?


Learn how to cast Heal, and we don't need to buy as many patches in the future. Which means more money for...


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Alrighty then. Teach me some healin'!


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Five credits on our lone source being in the graveyard holding his guts together.


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No bet.


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There's a nice selection of, well, whatever these are but also two problems; we still can't use Magic and not a single thing here tells us what it does.


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Useless.


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Something we could fashion with a tree branch and accompanying slow afternoon. Also, useless.


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I have a suggestion.


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You're right, I'm feeling much better already. Guess Magic will have to wait.


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A few purchases later....


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And Jake is kitted out and ready for action. 5,000 nuyen for the armor and 4,000 for the firearm.


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Which means the old shit can be gotten rid of.


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The Leather Jacket from the Orc assassin sold for a substantial amount.


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Whereas our crippled friend's Baretta sold for a fifth the price. No wonder he died.


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Still, selling our old equipment has given us a respectable cash reserve again.


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Jake promptly blows a chunk of it on explosives.


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Bite me.


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Heresy!


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A monorail station waiting to be explored and instead you take me back here.


Quit whining.


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When this goes tits up remember I told you so.


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See? Not a hitman in sight.


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Who knows what he might do to us?!


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Yuck it up.

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Gained topic examination.


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Wait for it....


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Here it comes...


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Fucking told you so!!!


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Gained topic cortex bomb.



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You don't say!


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I am never going in another alley again. You dumbass.
 

SCO

Arcane
In My Safe Space
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You maybe shouldn't have sold the leather jacket since it's the only thing that the kitsune will wear (you can change their armor and guns, though guns are useless for magic users apparently).

Really should have a way to increase STR of followers... as well as dismissing them...
 
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You maybe shouldn't have sold the leather jacket since it's the only thing that the kitsune will wear (you can change their armor and guns, though guns are useless for magic users apparently).

Really should have a way to increase STR of followers... as well as dismissing them...

Consequence of playing blind, I guess. Kitsune the shape changer who saves Jake in the intro?
 

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Hint: You'll have to buy the Shaman's weird stuff for certain puzzles later, so don't forget where these things are.
 

SCO

Arcane
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Kitsune the shape changer who saves Jake in the intro?
Yes. She's 'special' for
if you do a certain mission with her in the party she will stay with you as long as she survives (killed shadowrunners respawn at their original locations, and they always go away after some time)... but it's not very important since she's very weak and won't survive the endgame anyway (STR is the attribute that governs equipment), and the other stronger shadowrunners time limit is generous.
Her healing spell is nice for everything until the very end (you'll likely want to have jake do spells too, but mana is not infinite).

Also, btw, the game is full of exploits, one in particular will allow you to max all stats on Jake... shameless
 
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I'm back after a relatively uneventful vacation and with the biggest chapter to date in tow. New posts will go back to their regular schedule of one every couple days. Enjoy!



Recap: Detours abounded but Jake finally arrived at his goal, a gun store. Oh, and it turns out datajacks sometimes have cortex bombs piggybacked as a defensive measure. Now we've got less than thirty hours to deactivate it before Jake's head pops like a grape.



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He's not taking it all that well.


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With this area tapped out now seems a good time to investigate the Monorail. One line likely takes us back to the morgue, Jake's apartment and Glutman, and the other to the place where we can find better qualified street docs.


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Hopefully 'straight ahead' was the correct choice.


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No hobos sleeping on the seats and a decently clean interior to boot. Not bad.


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Did the station near your apartment have a name?


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.....


Right, moving on.


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Hmph.


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Wha? Why wo-


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Know anything about cortex bombs?


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Then you're useless.


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Let's go.


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Guys you really don't want to start anything right now.


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Ex~cellent.


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Your partner died like a bitch.


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The people who sent you, why did they put this in my head? Answer me!



Gained topic Rust Stilettos.


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Tch.


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Uh, Jake?


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What?

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That ain't the end of it man. Look down the stairs.


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*Ka-click*


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Jake step back and think carefully about your next step.


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'Kay.


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Done.


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What does Dog have to say about exploding heads?! Ask him that!


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If Dog frowns on you shooting innocent people it probably goes double for his messengers.


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Then he can take it up with me himself.


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The station has multiple exits, for now we take the southern.


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It leads to an open-air market crowded with people.


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Love of travel, excitement and danger?


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Ah, a Corp man. Think of American mining towns in the late 19th/early 20th century, where a sponsoring company governed nearly every aspect of the citizens' lives. In Shadowrun there are people who prefer that over the alternatives.


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NPC space filler.


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What do you know about cortex bombs?



For fuck's sake, Jake.


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Huh? A mugger?


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...and then it all goes boom.



Yeah I probably wouldn't trust him either.



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Path #1


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Nrgh.


Yes it's an alley but look, nothing here.


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Nothing except a graveyard where we'll probably exterminate lots of ghouls in the future.


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Getting paid for what I'd do freely *is* appealing.


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Path #2 (much wider)


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Leads to yet another graveyard. Fun for boys and ghouls.


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That was awful.


Everyone's a critic. At least his funk is coming to an end.



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Path #3 Looks kinda like a parking lot or a road.


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Addendum: Road confirmed!


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Dog dammit!

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You heard nothing, got that?


Uh huh.


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Don't remember stumbling upon a pass anywhere. Plenty of keys though.


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I am the Keymaster.


And I am the Gatekeeper. Your pop culture references are suspiciously old school.

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Please stop.


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Never know if you don't try.


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:rage:


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It's not over yet, Runner!


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You're the only ones that followed.


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...shit.


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*Whistles merrily*


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Pardon me, do you know anything about corte-


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Wait here.


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You'll fall eventually Armitage!



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Brother!

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You killed him!


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'Prepare to die', right?



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Hey Jake you mind talking to that guy in the lower corner? He didn't pause even once during the entire firefight. The gyrations...they're hypnotic.


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Uh, okay.



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That explains it.


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I can't find the weasels.


Pretty sure they don't exist.


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Aw~.


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I already hate it here.


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Hey she doesn't use the standard bitch-face portrait. There's a good sign.


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Mr-


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Maplethorpe?!



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Oh thank Dog!


Hah!


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That didn't happen.


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Holes in his memory large enough to chuck orcs through and an irrational fear of alleyways.



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He meant the bomb. Douche.


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"Oops!"


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*Sigh*


Gained topic Cyberware.


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Good news! Also, gained topic head computer.


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Gained topic Matrix Systems.


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We don't have much nuyen left, but better safe than sorry.


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You're telling me. What info is there on Matrix Systems?


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Little short for a guy we just gave 2000 creds.


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At this point he could call me Betty and I wouldn't care.


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Do you have layaway?

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No.

Payment plans?

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No.

Take a check?

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No.


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Then frak no!



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And yes, all up front.


Question retracted.


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But that won't stop me from raiding his fridge(s).


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Really?


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What, you expected some horde of free items? I just got rid of an explosive attached to your friend's brain. Stop busting my balls.


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Now that you're no longer a ticking time bomb, we can explore this whole new area at our leisure. Places to go, people to see...and even more to kill and take their stuff!


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Gonna be a big job. Let's do it.


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You're looking better, get some weight off your shoulders?


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Thanks. I'm feeling better than I have in awhile. Please die.
 
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Alright everyone-


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Oh. Um, enjoy the post! There'll be another, similarly sized one sometime tomorrow night.




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So I can't help but notice you've gone back to the Monorail Station.


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Can't slip anything past you.



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Care to explain why? There's a plethora of new experiences right around the corner.


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I hate loose ends.


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Jake found himself temporarily back in Oldtown, home of gun stores and extortionist junkyards. It was just a stopover on the way to the true objective; Tenth Street. As guessed earlier the Station's right-most rail car did indeed lead there.


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Man it feels good to be back. I'd kill for a nap.


Stick around long enough and it'll probably happen.


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There's an opportunity for social commentary or snark, but damned if I can think of anything.



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My head feels fuzzy.


Maybe sleep *would* do you a spot of good.

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'can still do that just fine.


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What to spend it on, hm...


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So comfy.


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I have it on good authority 6 is about the highest Firearms needs to go, so we'll take care of that now.



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ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz

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Still have yet to figure out what Negotiation actually does (lower prices on 'Runners, better pay?), but then there hasn't been much need for Computer either. Why not make them equal?


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This is much better.


And it didn't take half a dozen Slap Patches. Praise abusable resting systems!


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Did I just become part of the :decline: ?


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Ah, now I see where you're going with this.


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Huh, almost feels cruel to keep doing this now.


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Kemosabe, I presume?


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Don't think I know that one.


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...he's butchering...two...others...to make it.


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So I get to hear voices in my head but still can't actually cast a spell? It's all disadvantages!


Yo.



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Gained topic magic fetish.



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The prophecy might as well come with Drake's name tattooed on its ass.



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Speaking of crazy mystical concepts, you ever hear of Dog? Not a dog, but Dog? Sends mangy messengers who speak in gibberish?


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...totem? I thought he was a god.


News to me.

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I've been getting jerked around by, what, my fraking spirit animal?!


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Says the Shaman who spent the entirety of this LP moaning and rolling in his own bodily fluids.


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Peace out drekheads.


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And with the flick of a hand and wink of his eye-


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-Chrome Coyote left the building.


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Pft. Showoff.


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Just not doing it for me anymore.


Find where they hand out the Ghoul Hunting jobs and a big check might change that tune.


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*Sigh*


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We keep dumping points into Negotiation and everyone might start calling your voice magical.


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Hey yeah, wonder if I could convince the guys involved in all this to kill themselves and save me the trouble?


What do you think this is, Fallout?


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Well definitely not Fallout 3.


Eh?


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The character animation here is too good.


Ha!



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:hmmm: Not going to touch that one. It's too easy.


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His spiel includes mentions of fetishes meant to draw out and enhance your magic, but bring up magic festishes and..."Oh, don't carry those anymore."


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...and what is that supposed to even mean?!


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I think I prefer eccentricity when it's coming from a dwarf, or something not immune to grenades to the face.



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On the rail again~


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*Finally* back at the new frontier, this time Jake exits stage left.


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"I'll sue you till your dick falls off."


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More space fillers.



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I..don't think so. The blue one has a badge.





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Oh ho!


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Yes he does in fact pimp walk off the screen. Thumbs up, bro.


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Liking this part of town already.
 
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Yes yes I know, but it's a much better read than what I originally planned to put up. Enjoy.




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And still nothing. Cheap bastards.


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?


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'ello sweetie, how did a cute number like you end up in a dump like this?


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Don't get too attached, she's on a hair trigger.



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Danger is the spice that makes good relationships great.


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With an attitude like that you must be raring to go exploring, right?



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Sure.


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Over here.


Uh huh.


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Oh look they sent out a welcoming committee.


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Someone's feeling froggy.


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Hop to it, bro.




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The fuc-


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*Whistles*


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No wonder his balls were so brassy, he's got mobile artillery!


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Heh. Excellent.


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You're a rather eccentric fellow. Tell me, what's your opinion on taking grenades to the face?


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I don't think he's a fan.


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Pussy.



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Uh, I surrender?



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Random punks drop more creds downtown.


Good thing we're not the type to exploit the bed back at your apartment to farm money and Karma.



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.....


.....



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Hahahahahahahaha!



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Roadblock!


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Nah, the first two schmucks we met from this group had the solution on them.


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After you.


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With all those points in Body I do make a pretty good meat shield.


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I'll have mine medium rare, thanks.


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Would it be weird to admit I have a stiffy right now?



Yes, yes it would.


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Nevermind then.


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Lead poisoning, the Orc's fatal weakness.



Did you hear something?


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Sounded like a door.


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Thanks to the way weapons work, Shadowrun has the old school form of cover system. As long as Jake's behind the wall those two can blast away all they wish. It'll never get through. Conversely Jake can't hit them either.


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No?


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Unless you use weapons with an arc like grenades.


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Explosives don't give two shits about walls.


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The rest of our rather limited supply is used up figuring out the limitations of weapons vs obstructions. For grenades there aren't any, save for range, and guns start being effective again when nearby smaller partitions. Also, those are damn hardy Orcs.


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We who just killed your stank ass salute you.


Ah....close enough.



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My first melee weapon!


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Wait, why the hell is it in my item inventory and not weapons?! : x


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You motherfu-


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Frak me.


Dude.


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We'll see ourselves out, take care!

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.....


Alright, this can probably wait for another time. Preferably when we have enough firepower to blow up Cuba. If you don't want to hit the alley, we can head in one of the other directions at the crossroads.



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Why wait at all?


Eh?


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There's a readily available source of firepower chomping at the bit to be let loose. All it takes is a handful of credits and a cause.


You don't mean-


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We're going to form a WAAAaaaaggh! of our own.


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Perfect.



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Is that...hey Jake, you're never going to believe who's off th-


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Give me a second.


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:troll: That's the kind of moxie I want! You're hired you scabby brutish tech geek.


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Knowing us you're bound to get very acquainted with Ghouls.


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Negotiation allows Jake to haggle over the price of Shadowrunners and pay less to hire them.
The higher this skill, the greater the discount. This skill can be raised to level 6.





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Whereas before Hamfist's price was set at 500, we got a 100 Nuyen discount. Thanks Negotiation! It's not much, but over time I'm sure the savings will be significant.


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By the cyber Christ's holy balls, he's off the Vidphone!


I tried to tell-


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Shhhh.



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I'm going to regret this, aren't I?


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Gah! Does magic mess up the face of anyone who uses it?



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Trust me boy, just stick with technology.



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I don't think he's going to come as cheaply as Hamfist.



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Hamfist think of it as being good samaritan. Helping you while helping himself.


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Ghouls aren't really a problem for anyone with a point in anything and a stick.


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Or crowbar, or scalpel or heavy stone weight I found on a desk yet still can't bludgeon peons with.



Oh get over it.



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Actually I like where that was going.

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Pass. There's someone else I can hire without having to spend an afternoon shooting stoolies.


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Gee, wonder what might be hiding in that conspicuous new hole?


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Got i-


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Done.


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Sonuvabitch! Was that a shotgun?



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Hamfist prefer term 'wide-spread peace maker'.

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Thought you lot were told to leave.


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Hey craggy


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Stumpy.

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Try on yourself first, Hamfist judge results.



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Har har!

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Now this we can swing, with change left over for supplies.


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Hey you scabbers I was talking to you!



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What?:mob:



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Ah...have a good day gentlemen.

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Unfortunately there's only enough Nuyen to buy a couple Patches. Definitely need to rectify that later.


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But with these two that might not even be necessary.


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Dammit!


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Heh.

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Round two, drekheads.


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Come at me Dog.


Invoking totems doesn't work that way, Jake.


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I must have replayed this fight a dozen times. The Gang Leader in the upper corner doesn't move around like his arena counterpart, but he still deals crazy damage and has a large health pool. Ignoring him at first is the best way to go, though. Focus on the Heavy Dudes flanking him, as well as the one in the bottom portion of the screen. The Gang Leader usually went after Hamfist who soaks up damage like crazy (definitely better armor and health than us), while occasionally taking potshots at Jake.

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For this reason Hamfist got priority when it came to healing if Jake wasn't about to drop dead. They seem to work better on him anyway. If you don't heal him he *will* eventually drop and you'll be overwhelmed.


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For some reason the punk that usually tosses firebombs all over the place will never do that here. Probably for fairness since he'd hit everyone grouped up and even if you moved, your allies wouldn't. Instead he runs in and uses his melee attack on either Jake or Orifice. He's not really a danger to Jake by himself (like the Samurai Warrior it misses a lot), but combined with all the other potshots it adds up. If he focuses on Orifice he's a non-factor because Orifice just laughs at him and calls him a twink.


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Come on hit me more! I'm feelin' randy!


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After that the path to the Gang Leader is wide open. Light him up like a marshmallow.


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Being careful not to drop dead yourself in the excitement, of course. Happened to me once.



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It hurt. A lot.



Eventually you'll gain 8 Karma (woah) and...

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All the people giving me guff lately look like that human disease factory boinking my ex-girlfriend. Coincidence, or cosmic 'Fuck you'?


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So you weren't a noob-ish lunkhead talking garbage, eh? This job is going to be fun.


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See how he likes it when I send an armed squad of goons to shoot *him* in the ass.


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He was right about that. Shortly afterwards this happened;




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He made his own name the password, what an egotist.


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If more Corps were that stupid Hamfist would have a mansion.


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These guys were loaded and we're in a room filled with their dead bodies.



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Which means...



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Payday!
 

lightbane

Arcane
Joined
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Messages
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I love the fact that the game is open-ended enough to do things in different ways, I've followed a different strategy for that unruly gang (to be specific I bought the heaviest armor and gun I could afford and started shooting until everyone was dead, it was equally effective as yours).
 
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Messages
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Location
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Despite what the first screenshot would have you believe this post is going to be mostly based on mass info-gathering and thus set up differently once I hit a certain location. You'll see what I mean.



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Jake serves as bullet bait while Hamfist and Orifice turn the Hitman into a human punch card. Normal, right? Bzzt. What you didn't see is the number of times there were multiple 'windows' open and our WAAaaaaaghh! got slaughtered. Both of them are extremely low on health at the moment, just one or two attacks they'd usually laugh off is lethal. Apparently we were *this* close to dying horribly against the Gang Leader.


Getting back to the apartment took some finesse.


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Well, we're only one level away from maxing Charisma. That'd unlock the ability to hire three Shadowrunners and complete our party. Screw lone commando, bury them in the horde! 'Course going that route is very Nuyen intensive.



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Good thing I'm picking Body, then.


Excuse me?


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Did you just have your life flash before your eyes and realize the half you could remember was shit? No? Then shut up and give me another point in Body. Hurry up before the orcs try to kill and eat each other in the hallway.


:retarded:


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Yes sir!



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Ah, blissful reassurance against mortal frailties.



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'EY BOSS, YOU TAKIN' A SHIT IN THERE?!



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QUIET DOWN YOU CRETINS!



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MAKE ME!


*Blam*


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And you want to get better at hiring more of these guys?



Think of how annoying they are to everyone else.


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The hell? Hamfist has less than half our HP, and worse armor. How is he so good at tanking?


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O-R-C. Say it with me.


At least he has a higher computer score...though only by one point. We could equal that with about five minutes of grinding random punks around town.



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So let's do it.



Not unless you want to dramatically shorten the time left on Hamfist and Orifice's contracts. The length is wittled down by number of battles fought.




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And they've got plenty of employment opportunities.


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Better HP than Hamfist, definitely better combat skills but same item loadout. He won't be getting us into any secure systems, either.


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Not without a lot of dynamite.



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Orifice prefer the simple approach.



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Never said it was a bad philosophy!



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Okay, everyone rested up? Ready to run in those shadows?


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Ready.




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Fuck those shadows!




*30 Minutes Later*





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-rytime you make me go into one, something bad happens. I get shot at or a cosmic hallucination sends its messengers to hump my leg...or my brain almost explodes!



Jake, this time you've got backup. I doubt whatever is in there is capable of taking on the three of you.



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Oh no they'd frak us all.



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Yup.


What?


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Dis is Wastelands. Good chunk of the city's 'runners hang here.



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We'd get gibbed.



Wastelands.



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You mean...?


The name on the matchbox we found at the morgue. Of all the places...suppose it makes sense. If you were a Shadowrunner of course you'd come here.


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Enjoy boss.


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Let go of me you stupid-



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Huh, what are the odds?



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He'll do as a substitute.


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I don't pay you to throw me down stairs!


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-nd when was the last time you bothered to wash the stank off?! Change your fraking underwear!



Little late for that, he's dead.



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This will go towards buying bodywash in your memory.


Really?



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Of course not. I'm getting grenades for Hamfist and Orifice's severance package.



That last part should have probably been in quotes.



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*Bwaaaaaa-bum-de-de-dum-de-bwaaaa-dum-de-bum*


Not bad, sounds kinda like tunes from the old Genesis era Road Rashes.



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They're no Maria Mercurial.


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The dance...it is hypnotic...wait there aren't weasels in here, right?


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What?



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Huh?



Exactly.



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I'm confused.




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Hopefully this guy is a bit friendlier than the last place. I'd hate to have to ruin the entrance carpet.



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I only did that because I was desperate, don't make plans around it!



Sure thing Piss Stain. Heh.



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You mean I'M the one Orifice gave that name?! You've been laughing behind my back, it's in the title of an index link!



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Praise Clockwork Buddha! I love you man.



Gained topic Ice.


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With other folks (deckers mostly) I imagine Ice has an entirely different meaning. We'll be coming back to this one.



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In other words this is the Shadowrunner mecca. Shall we introduce ourselves?



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Knock yourself out you arse, I'm staying right here.




Then try to be useful and do a little networking.




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Are all dwarfs like this? I've only met a couple but it's setting a certain stereotype.





*Meanwhile at the bar*



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Not the best music, eh?
(Man I'm smooth)



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Ever been to The Cage? She played over there a few days ago.



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I don't think I even had it until recently, and it's done nothing but cause me trouble since.






*In the corner*



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I wouldn't call Hamfist or Orifice dumb, per se. They just have a much simpler way about doing things.



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Exactly.




*At the Bar*



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Well what are your rates? At the moment we're a bit short of cash, so...




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Oh I'm sure a couple openings will free up real soon. :fight:




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Can I get back to you in a second, chummer?



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How do you think that sweet ass got together with a greaser? He must have a HUGE-



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...bank account. Ah, um...




Now familiar with the important figures of Wastelands, Jake and I each set out to dredge up whatever information we could. At first it wasn't that great, mostly rumors about groups that had already been fragged.




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But it did confirm that Drake hadn't just hired them as a one-off. They'd been propped up and given unofficial Corp sanction, allow them to crush rivals in the area. Why bother with small timers, though?



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I've got a couple candidates when it comes to magic users (though both are hideously expensive), but Deckers could be problematic.



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Besides Hamfist the only Decker we know doesn't want to touch the matter with a ten foot pole and a howitzer. Jake thinks he's spiff anyway, but Norbert isn't impressed.



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Someone else may know of the solution to our dilemma.


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Gained topics Akimi and Steelflight.


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Well I used to be one, probably good at it too! Can't remember so well after...getting left for dead in the street. Hrm.



As time went on the Shadowrunners started clamming up.


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But we still managed to get a few tidbits, some more useful than others.


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Gained topic Raitsov


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Drake had the head of Matrix Systems, Raitsov, killed. Why? Espionage or a personal agenda?



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And with that Show and Tell was over.


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Have fun?


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The music wasn't completely terrible, and Jetboy's cool.




If you like Shadowrunners that double as scared little bitches.



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What, did the dwarf say that?




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How was it Boss?



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You're pricks.





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That's classic Piss Stain for ya.



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Hah!



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Next time you need a Patch I'm poisoning it first.





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I think there's a big green fella you need to talk with inside, Orifice. Please don't try to kill him.



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Eat the Dwarf.
 

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