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This weekend I GMed a more or less impromptu game of Shadowrun followed by the live conclusion of our internet storyline. It is tiring GMing one game, let alone two in short succession. It requires a lot of creative energy to maintain the story under pressure from the players and I feel drained, so there won’t be any comprehensive recapping this week. But I would like to post a few highlights.

In the impromptu game the team was asked by the Yakuza to defend a drug deal with the Ancients from gang interference. The deal was going down in the barrens, so the team decided to check out the surrounding buildings before the deal, in case there were gangers lurking inside waiting to ambush. Maverick the team hard-ass walked into a body mod shop filled with cybered up orks and trolls and was immediately greeted by a troll with a shiny cyberarm. The troll asked Maverick what he wanted in a fairly confrontational manner and Maverick froze. The troll repeated himself more forcefully and Maverick turned tail and fled without saying a word.

As events unfolded the drug deal was ambushed by the Night Hunters, a human racist gang. The Ancient gangers with the drugs decided to make a quick exit rather than stick around to see who won. Payment from the Yakuza was contingent on the deal going through, so Wraith tried to flag the Ancients down to tell them that the Shadowrunners had everything under control. He needed to roll a Charisma + Leadership test, but he didn’t have any Leadership and his Charisma is 1. I asked if he wanted to add his edge to the roll and he decided that was probably a good idea. Wraith rolled three dice and got three hits, successfully flagging down the Ancients.

In the second game of the evening the team were hastily packing their bus with sedated paracritters while a security response team was speeding towards them. The team hatched a daring plan to delay the response team by crashing their vehicle. Wraith remotely piloted two of the firms own security cars and crashed them head on into the response team’s truck, completely demolishing both the truck and any chance the security team had of catching up with the shadowrunners.

I’m a novice when it comes to GMing and there’s still a lot of rules I don’t have a complete mastery of, but I think everyone (except Jed) had fun and that’s the most important thing.