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 Shadowrun? Isn't that a PnP/Genesis game? It is! Both the SNES and Genesis versions are based off the pencil and paper version. The Genesis version is a lot closer to the mechanics of the PnP game, while the SNES version treats itself as more of a straight adventure game. There's an archived LP of the Genesis version here if you're curious about it. Wait, what the heck HAPPENED to our world? So yeah, things got REALLY out of hand on planet earth. Remember the whole mayan apocalypse thing in 2012? Well that happened, but instead of just a straight up rapture or what have you, a bunch of dragons and aboriginal gods resurrected. Here's a bit of a run down on what's different. -All the Aboriginal religions in the Americas were right. -Magic is real. -Dragons are real, but instead of flying around being assholes, they're CEOs of megacorporations... and assholes. -Speaking of megacorporations, they have militaries and own nations now, also everything got crazy and now a lot of countries are just gone. If you're curious, Here's a map of North America nowadays. -A lot of people are cyborgs now, and it's awesome. -A lot of magical creatures exist now too, when poo poo went down, a lot of people turned into Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and Trolls. They're about what you'd expect. What exactly does "Shadowrun" mean? So basically, in this crapsack world, Shadowrunners are freelance mercenaries. If you're a megacorp, and you want to deliver a package, sabotage a computer system, or straight out assassinate a dude, you hire yourself a Shadowrunner. Shadowrunners talk big, but really, any dickhole with a handgun and a cell phone can be a Shadowrunner. The more expensive the runner, the less likely you are to just be paying to mess up your rival company's floor. Most runs are coordinated by a Mister Johnson, a handle for anyone who sets up runs. You talk to Mister Johnson, who talks to the runner, who gets your poo poo done. Being a Johnson also loving sucks because any well paying job might also make the megacorp want to shut you up, and unfortunately you're in a field of work that's full of greedy gun-toting sociopaths. Aside from being able to hire runners as party members, none of this comes up as a game mechanic. I just thought it was neat.  Hey wait a minute! You got X detail wrong! Okay so let me be honest. As much as I love the Shadowrun universe and all the video games, I never got to play a single game of the pen and paper version. I had the book, but somehow I was apparently the one person in my town who wanted to play. In any case, I might get a detail or two wrong when I bring it up. Feel free to correct me on it. What's the deal with spoilers? The big plot of the game is the fact that we're trying to piece together our past, so let's try to keep the spoilers to the minimum. Spoiler tags are okay if you REALLY need to talk about something. Honestly even if you start talking about the second half, no one would understand anyway, but even so, let's keep it as spoiler-free as possible.  Updates!Update 1: Auspicious Beginnings Update 2: Grind of Thrones. Bonus Update: The Amazing Zip Gun! Update 3: Champion of the Thunderdome Update Four: Ahead of the Game Update 5: What Kind of Name is "Rust Stiletto" Anyway? Update 6: This Subplot Would Be Moot If This Were Canada Update 7: We Get Ditched Danaru fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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Update 1: Auspicious Beginnings Come on everyone! Let's start our Shadowrun adventure!    Welp!   Well, we may not be off to the best start, but at least we have an animal friend!  er, wait   Well that got wierdly anime for a second.  And here comes one of the morgue guys already. These guys work FAST.  Seattle is the central area that a lot of the Shadowrun stories take place in. It's sort of like how there's always some superpowered rear end in a top hat attacking Gotham city, except in this case the entire city is populated with superpowered assholes. Also no The Matrix jokes. Shadowrun did it first.     I wasn't kidding by the way, that was one of the morticians. Our hero apparently got the really cheap version of the Docwagon bracelet, where instead of calling a mercenary ambulance, it just tells the clean-up crew where to find most of your corpse  You get what you pay for, people.  I'm going to be straight up with you guys, I work hospital security for the biggest hospitals in the province, and every time I go into the morgue I think of this scene. Other people get nervous because there's dead people, my first thought is "hope a shadowrunner doesn't pop out  "  Turns out being gunned down in the streets is bad for our memory. In any case, we get control of the character here, and our health bar appears in the top right corner. If it doesn't look like much, that's because it isn't. Fortunately Shadowrun is an RPG, so by the end of the game we'll get that health bar going halfway across the screen. It's also an adventure game, so let's collect some items!  So the giant hand there in front of our hero's face is the cursor for examining stuff. We get a couple other cursors later on, but this is the one you'll be using most often. With this you can examine and screw around with stuff. Let's check out our slab.  J. Armitage, eh? Well at least we have our last name. (Which is a reference to Neuromancer, for what it's worth.) Also a thing fell out, so let's read it.  This memo won't be relevant for roughly half the game, and even then it won't be all that relevant. I don't think I even picked it up. A lot of items like this you don't need to keep with you, they're just there to give you plot fluff or keywords for dialogue. But enough of this, let's loot some actually useful items!  In the fridge we find a slap patch, apparently bandages need to be kept cool in the future. The left fridge is empty. We also find a scalpel (which isn't a weapon unfortunately  ) on one of the tables at the bottom of the screen. You can tell because it's clearly a sprite and doesn't mesh with the table at all. Don't think I'm complaining by the way. There's a couple items that would be pure pixel hunts if they didn't look off like that. I'm almost willing to chalk it up as a purposeful design decision. In any case, with their workspace freshly looted, let's go ask these two fine gentlemen if they can tell us what the rest of our name is.  Pictured: Exactly how I would react. Well the two morgue dudes locked themselves in the closet. Any time you enter this room they'll do the same thing, so it looks like we'll have to go elsewhere for info.  Shadowrun has some great music by the way. This is also one of my favourite tracks in the game. Sadly it only plays in the morgue, and in another area that we rarely need to go to.   Upon making it outside, some dude starts yelling at us.   "Ahh! A dead dude!" "Ahh! A red dude!"So here's how dialogue works. You'll notice that the word "Hitmen" is bolded. That means that "Hitmen" is something we can ask about. The dialogue system is pretty great, although it can be a pain if you miss a keyword and you're not sure how to ask about something. "Wait, Hitmen? What hitmen?" "You're crazy showing your face around here again. You'd better get smart like me and pack a Firearm, or you'll wind up dead!" "Erh, too late for that I suppose, although I don't really want to make this place my permanent residence. Where'd you get your Firearm anyway?" "I aint got time to talk to a corpse. If those guys find out I was with you, I'll get creamed too!" "But you called to ME!"In any case, Red bails on us. The game wants us to follow him, but right now there's more important things to check out.  If we hang out by the fountain for a second...  "Doggie!" No really  Mister Armitage is a dog person apparently. Let's open the gate so we can pat the pup.   Well uh... "..." Well in any case, this is an adventure game, and that's an item, so let's take it. By the way, we can totally talk to all the people milling about here.  They're all jerks and no one says anything interesting, but you can talk to all of them.  Speaking of jerks let's go see what Red was up to. He ran off to our left and down an alley.  Oh poo poo.  The second the screen loads, we hear a scream. Apparently Red wasn't kidding, we are in DEEP poo poo. Well, alright, the game is pretty lenient given that this is the first combat in the game. For reference, we have 30 HP. The fact that we don't have a firearm is a really bad thing though. Wait, didn't Red say he had a firearm?  Sweet! Sorry Red, we hardly knew ye. Hopefully your gun serves me a little better than it did you. Yoink!  Orc dude over there is constantly firing at us, by the way. Fortunately he's sorta garbage at his job. Remember when I said any dickhole with a gun and a cell phone could be a shadowrunner?   Like I said, you get what you pay for, people. Every human enemy turns into the giant purple blob, then into the generic corpse sprite. It looks nicer in motion. Either way, we looted one corpse, why not go for two?    Our first weapon AND our first piece of armour! The Leather Jacket provides one point of armour, which isn't much, but it's extremely noticeable when you forget to equip it. In any case, this alley is clearly full of loot, so let's go see what else is here. Doggie!  (Click for music, you should listen to this) "Uhh"  "...Uhhhhhhh" "..." "...Starting to think my brain might have been more than just burnt."...Right, anyway let's get the hell out of this alley. It's wierd now. By the way, that music is used for a few conversations. It tends to be reserved for more plot heavy conversations, or just unsettling encounters in general. It played when Red confronted us as well. There's another conversation theme that I'll bring up when it's more relevant.  Now that we have the Beretta, the game takes off the kid gloves. Assassins will randomly spawn in certain areas to try to take you out. We apparently REALLY made someone mad on our brain-burning business bender.  At this point we're not really given a lot of direction. The game just kinda says "go explore ya crazy kid". A sentiment I miss about old adventure games.  In any case, new buildings usually means new items, so let's check it out!  gently caress. Well let's rifle through his stuff I guess. Maybe he's someone who's connected to our past.  Oh hey, he totally was! Well that means we probably got him killed. At least we're learning a bit more, apparently we were supposed to be taking something to Matrix Systems. Also apparently we were only getting a 30% cut, totally not worth waking up in a morgue.   Well, we looted the last two, it would be unfair NOT to loot this one too.  Yoink!  So let's take a look at our stats screen here. Here you can see what we have equipped  Our body skill directly correlates to our HP, at 10 HP per body. Magic means nothing to us since we're neither a mage or a shaman. This is important to Shadowrunners we can hire though as it's the 'body' of MP. One magic = 10 MP. Strength is important later on, since better equipment needs higher strength. We won't be seeing any of it for a while though. Charisma dictates how many Shadowrunners we can have at a time. 3 means one runner, 4 and 5 is two runners, and 6 is three runners. 6 is also the charisma cap. If you're planning a solo run, you can ignore Charisma completely. We aren't because that's boring We're also broke and have no karma. Karma is how you level up skills, but I'll talk more about it next update.  We can also examine inventory items! In this case we examine the matchbook, which we started the game with. "Wastelands club" is apparently a place we've been to.  We also check out the key we jacked from the stiff. Not very helpful a tip though.  We looted all we can in this room, let's check behind door number two!  "GAHH rear end in a top hat"There are a number of places around the game which are just enemy spawners In this case, the shooter is just slightly off screen, you can see his gun in the top left.These rooms are mostly just there to make you feel the heat of whoever is hiring swathes of assassins. It works fairly well. An important thing to note is that our only means of making money is by cracking down the would-be assassins.  "God DAMMIT."Although sometimes they can pop shots at you while they're even further off screen  No one can stop whatsit Armitage   Alright apparently this is an apartment building, so maybe we-- hey wait a second.  Apartment number six, eh? I got a key with your number on it.  Nailed it! Well, we broke into a tiny apartment. The phone on the wall is beeping.  So let's ignore it. We've got files to rifle through!  Well great, if we knew what the hell a Sassie was, we'd be able to call it.  We also loot twenty bucks from whatever rear end in a top hat owns this place Alright let's check that phone.   Well poo poo. Whoever this Jake guy is must be having a terrible... ...Waaaiiiit a minute Cancel the run, that means this guy was a Shadowrunner. Hand over the files, that means the run was a courier job. We mean business, so this Drake guy was willing to kill the dude if he didn't comply. That means... "...God dammit I'M Jake!"Well at least we have the name of the dude who's out for blood and our own name for that matter. Also it turns out that was our 20 bucks anyway. "Also wait why the hell did that guy have the key to my apartment? Maybe it's a good thing he got ganked."By the way, we can't use our own phone to call Sassie. It turns out all the phones in the future are payphones.  Also the only cell phone we can get was dummied out and can only be obtained if I use a game shark. At least we can get some sweet shades though   Let's just pop these on here, and...   "Eeyyyy"Now that we have the sunglasses, we can... look cooler I guess. Let's take what small victories we can.   Speaking of small victories, let's go the hell to bed. Maybe we can sleep this day off like a bad hangover.  "...Seattle loving sucks."
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FredMSloniker posted:Am I right in thinking/remembering that this game is adventurey in a very old-school, Sierra-era way? Like, you can easily miss a lot of what you showed off in the first update (like the dog giving you a conversational keyword), only to be boned much later in the game? It's really hard to make the game unwinnable, but it's really easy to get stuck for a long time because you forgot to ask some random drek about boots or something. For instance, if you don't "Talk" to Dog (So his dialogue starts, and you immediately exit without using the talk option), the Dog encounter will happen again and again until you get the Dog keyword. Actually, there's a fun thing we can do later on regarding triggers based on keywords, but that won't be for quite some time. idonotlikepeas posted:There's even one super-rare situation that the devs accounted for, but that would be a spoiler to talk about now. (Will mention it when we get there if Danaru doesn't.) If it's the stupidly difficult to do by accident thing that happens before we go to the next area, yeah I'm going to do it  It's just such a ridiculous resolution to a ridiculous problem, I love it.Also I fixed the smilie issue with the post. I'm a smilie addict, I know I have a problem 
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Update 2: Grind of Thrones. So let's talk a bit about the level system. The level system is fairly simple in Shadowrun. each enemy is worth a certain amount of EXP, an invisible stat. 8 EXP = 1 Karma, no matter what, all throughout the game. This'll make sense in a second.  Every time you sleep, you get the option to use karma, let's go ahead and do that now.  So right now our body stat is at 7. In order to level up a stat, you need the same amount of karma as your current level.  So now we have eight! That's all there is to it. Simple but effective. The only real problem is you'll get to points where you have to grind a bit of karma. That's what all those random rooms with jerks in them are for.  By the way, uh, so in preparation for this update, I did a bunch of grinding off screen. Basically while I was watching the Game of Thrones finale, I just absentmindedly kept swinging through mook rooms and slaughtering the goons inside, then running to bed when I got hurt and doing it again. We have Computer and Charisma fully maxed out at 6. Firearms maxes out at a much higher level, but after level seven, there's no benefit since the Beretta never misses at seven, and every other weapon has better accuracy with one exception...  You guys really aren't missing anything by not seeing Jake level up more organically, This just makes my life easier, and your lp more awesome. I also turned off Bilinear filtering on the screenshots. Maybe Jake's shades have corrective lenses  In any case, we've got no memory, we've got a computer in our head we have no idea about, thousands of men are trying to kill us because some douche named Drake wants some package we lost a while back, what would you do in this situation?    Well I don't have a matchbook for this place, but I think it'll do just fine. This place has some pretty great music too. Let's hit up the bartender and see what he's got.  "Wait, you know who I am?" "Kinda hard to miss the blonde dude who never wears anything but a trenchcoat. One iced tea, comin' right up!" "That better be slang for something powerful." Barkeep is off to get us a drink, so let's chat up some of the others.  "Well, I'm pretty sure I was dead for a while, if you call that 'wrong'. That and the hordes of gunmen." "You'd best be prepared. I've had to heal enough men who thought they were safe running in the shadows." "If you know someone who could heal a burnt brain, I'd be happy to hear any suggestions." "Forget all that talk of magic, you're better off leaving yourself in the hands of a skilled street doc." "Might not be a bad idea, it's not like a check-up could hurt. Maybe a street doc could give me some answers." "Pity I'm retired, but there are some good ones around. Most can handle tech like that datajack of yours." Doc's got some good advice, but our drink is ready. "Wait, this is seriously just an iced tea." "Sorry Jake, it's a Nintendo game. Best I can do is iced tea and grape juice." "I bet Joshua doesn't have to deal with this crap." "So what's been happening with you? Last I heard, some Mr. Johnson had you lined up for a run." "You'd know better than I do." "Something wrong? Last time I saw you, you didn't have that datajack. Can't you remember even having it fitted?" "This thing? No idea. I assumed I always had it. Woke up at the morgue with no memories. Had to find out my name from a threatening voicemail. Fortunately the guy left his name at the end of it too. And that's not even mentioning the hundreds of hitmen I've been fighting off" "Someone after you? Maybe you should hire some Shadowrunners to watch your back!" "That's not a bad idea, I'm kinda swimming in cash right now. Where can I find these shadowrunners?" "There's a few who are regulars. Deckers mostly. Why, you thinking of hiring?" "I will be. A guy needs friends after all." "No better friend to have than a shadowrunner when you've got guys like that after you. Good luck out there, Jake." We still have a couple of folks to talk to. We're apparently a regular at this place, so someone might know us.  "Believe me, chum. I know the feeling." "Look, I just want to relax and unwind."Looks like our new friend is giving us a hint that he wants to be left alone. This is, in fact, a puzzle.  I got stuck on this forever. You have to actually give this guy your iced tea. You can't actually drink it yourself. "Cheers chummer. My favourite too..." "Null sweat. Actually I had a questi--" "I almost had them, I had the tickets in my hand! *SOB*SOB*" No really, the "*SOB*SOB*" is in there. This guy is really broken up over it. "Tickets, right, but I wanted to know if--" "Tickets to the Maria Mercurial concert. They were almost mine. I even gave Grinder the money!" "The hell kind of name is Grinder?" "Poor Grinder. He got wasted by Lone Star. The morgue guys carried off what was left of him." "Probably snatched him before he hit the ground. Those guys are like rocket vultures." The fellow with the cape won't talk to us since he's on the phone, so let's talk to this guy.  "Uh, alright, so are you a shadowrunner or something?" "You think I'm dumb! Done a hundred runs and I haven't lost one neuron yet!" "Well you WERE referring to yourself in the third person..." "English not Hamfist's first language. Shame on you for making assumptions." "Anyway, you said you were a Decker?" "Hamfist chop up cyberspace real good. Been in the grid more times than I care to remember." Fortunately we have 4520 nuyen right now, so we can more than afford to hire Hamfist. Generally Hamfist is just an introduction to the fact that you CAN hire shadowrunners, but let's take him on anyway.  Shadowrunners can be great, one of their biggest advantages is that they work on similar AI to the enemy. NPC combatants will instantly lock on to their opponent instead of having to manually aim like we do. That means Hamfist here started unloading on the rear end in a top hat in the window the second he appeared. "...Hamfist notices we've killed three people and only been on the job for twenty seconds." "Welcome to my life now, Hamfist." Hey this guy looks sufficiently sketchy! What do you have to say?  "Errrr what" "You don't seem to know what I mean! Are you a shadowrunner?" "Oh, yeah, totally. Apparently I've been a Shadowrunner for a while." "If you're hiring, they have almost any skill you want." "The hiring process seems simple enough" "You're going to need plenty of money... at least 500 Nuyen. If you're a fast talker you might negotiate your way to something better." THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET THE "NEGOTIATE" KEYWORD FOR AN OPTIONAL AND VERY MISSABLE SIDEQUEST  By the way, if we mention Lone Star to this guy, he'll set us up with a falsified Lone Star badge.   BY THE WAY CAN YOU SPOT WHICH WINDOW A GUNMAN POPPED OUT OF?  A bit tougher, but can you spot the item we're grabbing in this room?  This one's a bit less obvious since it's a black item, but you can still see the outline in the first image. Also don't worry, this is an optional item. this is an adventure game, but it's not full on King's Quest.  This office is a bit less violent. Let's ask the lady here what's up.   "I'm sure I didn't have you scheduled in anyway!" Well that's all she'll give us. Despite telling us that, she doesn't actually care enough to do anything about us busting into her boss' office.  oh MY yes, now that we have a cyberdeck, we can enter The Matrix! Let's jack in to this computer here  "Ow, gently caress" "Great, so I wake up with a datajack, and the drat thing is broken." "...Ahem" Fortunately we just so happen to have someone who DIDN'T wake up as a corpse in the party. Maybe Hamfist will have better luck.   Much better!  The Matrix plays differently from the rest. It plays as a sort of minesweeper-esque game.  When you enter a tile, it'll say whether any IC is detected around you, but not where the IC is. If you step into a tile with IC on it, you'll take damage. You can use the information to get around the IC though.  Or you can just attack the IC outright.  Either way, once we make it to those glass cube looking things, we can take the delicious, delicious data. We can also jack out at any time. By the way, Hamfist got wrecked by the IC, as you can see from the top bar. The bottom bar is how much data you can store. I... don't think there's any part of the game where you can't take everything from a matrix section  So let's see what we got!  We jacked a bunch of bitcoins Suck on that, Glutman! We also found a file called DF_BADNEWS A bit more information, maybe if we can find this Glutman guy, we can find out what the hell's going on.  By the way, Hamfist got REALLY messed up by the IC. Fortunately a nap at Jake's place fixes us both up.  "Scared of the morgue?" "Why on earth would you want to go to the morgue?" "I dunno, the only lead I have are those Maria Mercurial tickets, so why not?" "..." Now that we're wearing shades, the morticians no longer run away from us. Seriously.   "Nice shades! Do you always wear them indoors?" "Hee hee, but seriously, I'm looking for a dude named Grinder"   We find the tickets in Grinder's file, but also...  We find this! This means we can finally use our phone!   We only have the one number, so let's give it a ring.  "Not entirely incorrect, are you alright? Why are you posing like that?" "I got myself a new boyfriend and everything. The last of your stuff was just thrown out. You're still getting calls. Tell your buddies to stop calling us!" "What?! I was dead for like an hour tops! What the hell do you mean you threw out all my stuff?! And who's calls?" "Some Glutman guy keeps calling. His number is 934-782." "Glutman? This is really important, what did he tell you?" "Bye Jake!" Well whatever, let's just call Glutman directly.  This is actually opens a dialogue directly to the secretary character we met before. We could have also just gone to her in person now that we have the Glutman keyword. "Yo, I'm looking for Mr. Glutman" "Mr. Glutman is out at the moment. He was going to The Cage club. Maybe you can find him there..."So THAT'S why we were so desparate to get Grinder's tickets! Seriously though, you can't call Sassie at any point before you get Grinder's tickets and the credstick. You can get into The Cage before calling Sassie and the secretary, but Glutman won't be there until you have "The Cage" as a keyword. We have it now, so let's hit the club!  Located scenically beside the graveyard We could go in there, but it's better that we save that for later. "Oh yeah, Hamfist." "What?" "Hold my gun for a bit." The bouncer will block your way until he gets your tickets. Not really someone we'd want to deal with   So this is The Cage! It has it's own musical theme! I think one other place uses this, but most clubs use the same song as the Wasteland. This is also the only club where no shadowrunners are available for hire, so this place blows.   You can talk to most people who aren't dancing in here, but no one really provides any good info. Let's just go right to Glutman.  "No poo poo, Glutman. Listen, I need some answers. Someone is trying to kill me, and succeeded once. I'd rather not go back to the morgue in a body bag again." "Go now, my men hide you. No charge. Glutman owe you favor, ya! I fix everything! We hide you real good, you betcha![/img] "You're going to clean this up? Alright good, once we're safe I have some questions about what happened." "All in good time, Armitage! First things first, this a dangerous place for ya. Come with my men and I."  "By the way Jake, You wouldn't know nothin' about a grand goin' missing from one of my accounts, would ya?" "Huh?" "Nevermind, nevermind. Enjoy yer stay, Armitage!" ...the hell is this place.  "Oh you've got to be loving kidding me! GLUTMAN!"Well, you know what they say, out of the frying pan, into the caryards "Seattle loving SUCKS!"
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Bonus Update: The Amazing Zip Gun! So you might be wondering "Danaru, why the gently caress would you give away your gun?". First of all, I don't like your tone. Second of all, the game noticed we had somehow managed to get to this point and not have a gun. Glutman graciously gives us the Zip Gun! The Zip Gun is a failsafe, after this point you can't get the Beretta from Red's still warm corpse, and you will be stuck in an area where you can't even get to a weapon shop without having to fight first. The only possible way you could get in this situation is: -You sell it to this guy: for a cool 200 nuyen. He will not sell it back to you.-You give it to Hamfist, who already has a way better weapon anyway. -If you somehow don't get the Beretta at all To this effect, let's talk about gun stats for a second. The two most important things about a gun are their attack power and accuracy. The beretta for instance has an attack of 3 and an accuracy of 1. The accuracy adds on to your firearm skill, so if you have a firearms skill of 3, and a beretta, you have an effective accuracy of 6. An effective accuracy of 8 means you never miss. The eagle eyed among you may remember we have 7 Firearms skill. That means that as long as we have even a single accuracy point with our weapon, we'll never miss. The Zip Gun has an attack of three, like the beretta, and an accuracy of zero. The Zip Gun is the only gun in the game that we can use and still miss a shot. EDIT: Crystalgate posted:A small correction on accuracy, the chance to hit is actually (1 + Firearms + Accuracy)/8, so you cannot miss even with the Zip gun with a Firearms skill of 7. 6 will guarantee a hit with any other weapon. Even better, we're good enough to maintain 100% accuracy even with this thing! Frankly I love the zip gun, it's a way of saying "here, you need a gun for the next section, but also you're a loving idiot, so we're giving you the only thing worse than your starter gun. You somehow lost your beretta, so you don't DESERVE it."  We don't need good guns anyway. We'll bust out of these caryards with our broken rear end weapon that might actually just be a pellet gun. gently caress you Glutman. Also hey I finally remembered to equip this thing The blood is probably dry now so we don't even need to clean it
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HGH posted:Actually, couldn't you buy something else from the Lone Star guy? I can't recall what it was but it wasn't too expensive either. You can buy grenades for 150 each by asking about firearms, I've never been a huge fan of them though.
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Crystalgate posted:A small correction on accuracy, the chance to hit is actually (1 + Firearms + Accuracy)/8, so you cannot miss even with the Zip gun with a Firearms skill of 7. 6 will guarantee a hit with any other weapon. Oh hey, I thought it was just (firearms + accuracy)/8. I'll add that into the post, thanks!
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Update 3: Champion of the Thunderdome Well, we've been in worse situations I guess. At least we know what our name is. Anyway, let's find some information about this place, and try to avoid getting a shiv in the ribs. By the way, get used to recycled portraits. There are actually a ton of portraits, but there's also a ton of NPCs to talk to. As of right now I have 18 portraits uploaded to lpix, excluding both of Jake's. "I'm starting to suspect that Glutman was being sarcastic." "None of us are here by choice... things just turn out this way sometimes." "I'm more interested in getting out than why I'm in. How well do you know the Caryards? Want to be the Sean Connery to my Nic Cage?" "Didn't they break INTO a prison?" "...erh, right, brain burnt and all that." "The King is your only way out of here!" "...I can already see where this is going." "I don't think the King would like it if he saw me talking to you." Well that's just plain rude. Let's go talk to someone else.  "Hey pal! Why so blue? " "I used to be the best there was in the Matrix" "Probably not much access to the Matrix in this kind of place, is there?" "No IC could stop me. My Datajack and my cyberdeck allowed me to do as I wanted in the Matrix. I could open any door or grab any data you needed. I was the best!" "You wouldn't happen to know a street doc who could check out a Datajack, would you?" "I don't know... I guess I've been here too long..." The caryards aren't quite a jaunty romp. Below the decker is a guy with the same sprite as the "Heavy Dude" enemy. "Hahaha oh god you're serious, I've killed well over a hundred of guys like you, and it was so uneventful it was done between updates." "...admittedly I thought the others were making that up." "Nope. I pretty much put those Mortician guys' kids through college and we're only on update three. Drake is probably going to have a job fair soon." "Now that I've seen ya, I can't see what he's getting all worked up about. You don't look that dangerous!" "What the hell, disembodied voice?! He just outright said he'd try to kill me!"So this is what happens if you try to kill a semi-important NPC. The game is a little wierd on who you can shoot and who you can't. Those NPCs that were hanging out in that little square where the doggie was can be killed with impunity, but Drake's goon here can't. Also if you continue to shoot one of these NPCs, the game will reset your karma to zero.  "Yeah, apparently Glutman's real scared of the world's worst assassins trying to chase me down." "Hey!" "Quiet you, the only reason you're alive is because God or whoever will wipe out my experience if I keep shooting you." "The King don't allow just anybody in here. He don't want the heat coming down on this place!" "I'm hearing quite a bit about this King fellow. What's his deal?" "Most of us here are hiding from someone. The King makes sure no one can get at you... for a price!"The game is actually fairly vague on some plot points, and leaves it more to your own interperatation. The Caryards are actually a fairly safe place for people in Jake's situation, where some rear end in a top hat has a billion dudes looking for them, but at the same time we're stuck here until either Glutman pays, or we pay. Did Glutman set us up in here to protect us while he tries to sort out the problem? Or was Glutman paid off to 'dispose' of us in a place like this? Glutman never shows up again, by the way. Either he got taken out by Drake like the nameless Johnson who set up the run, or he took a pay from Drake and got the hell out of dodge. Or the writers just kinda forgot about him since he's intensely irrelevant at this point in the plot.   "Everyone's hiding from someone or something. Just don't ask too many questions!"I really only posted this because I don't remember this portrait being used anywhere else in the game. Most of the hirable and named Shadowrunners don't even get unique portraits, but this guy with two lines does.   Case in point "So uh, you run the place, eh?" "Sure do! If you wanna leave, you gotta pay me!" "And if I don't have the money?" "You ask that as if it was my problem." We actually have more than enough to pay off the King, but Jake is a cheapskate, so let's wander around a bit more.  "How the heck did YOU get in here?" "Had a run that went south, turns out the guy I fragged was the son of some Renraku big-shot. Johnson turned on me, and now Renraku's out for revenge." "drat, that's messed up, kid." "I blame the public school system."The kid will sell you slap patches if you need them, which you might if you're not a pro like me*  "Someone heavy must be after you for that big fixer dude to bring you here." "Someone named Drake who apparently never heard of "Quality over Quantity"." "You pissed off Drake? Haha I thought I was hosed!" "Yeah yeah, anyway what's up with this shithole?" "People come here to hide. The King get's paid by the fixers sometimes. Otherwise, you have to pay him to leave. Most guys though don't make it. They usually die trying to get the money together by fighting in the arena." "That sounds like the opposite of protecting people. I'm starting to think the King might not be the sharpest tool in the shed." "How much is the King asking to let you leave! He wants 100 nuyen before he let's me go! I guess I'll be here for a while!" "Wow, you butchered those exclamation marks, kid. Maybe you were right about that school system." "This might be the first good thing to happen to me in recent memory." So this is the RPG mandated arena! The combat may not be the biggest drawing point of the game, but this is one of the best ways to make a ton of money early on.  Talk to this guy here, and he'll ask if you want to fight, but before we do that...  Let's finish that little sidequest.  A thousand bucks seems pretty steep, but wait until you see the amount of money we'll get from fighting. Plus, by learning negotiation, we can lower our escape price from 4000 to 2000, netting a 1000 nuyen savings! If we were losers, anyway. More on that later.  "Wait, is that it?" "Yup" "You made me pay a thousand nuyen for THAT?" "That's the power of Negotiation." "...You know, I think I get it now."And now for the moment you've all been waiting for! Let's kill people for the glory we deserve! BATTLE ONE: GANG MEMBER  Dude's got a knife and he runs like a psycho. He'll usually just run up to you and stab you in the face repeatedly.  Gang Member also... has pathing issues.  In any case, we get him stuck on a barrel and shoot him until he drops. We also got three karma for it. I have to kill four of drake's goons for a single karma point, for reference. "You good fighter. We like good fight. Here's 300 nuyen. Money better if fight again."And fight again we will! BATTLE TWO: HEAVY DUDE   It's just one of Drake's goons. I think he has a little more HP. He was somehow easier than the idiot who got stuck on the barrel. "You good fighter. We like good fight. Here's 700 nuyen. Money better if fight again."There, that's the negotiation skill paid off. But we're not done yet! BATTLE THREE: HEAVY DUDE 2   Aside from looking like he put his gun on my shoulder and shot behind me, nothing to talk about here. He had a little more attack power and got a couple good shots in, but you could survive this fight with your base stats. "You good fighter. We like good fight. Here's 1000 nuyen. Money better if fight again."BATTLE FOUR: MAGE  "The hell does that even MEAN?"Mage is a bit tough, he has the same attack power as Heavy 2, and a bit more health.  If you didn't do any grinding, this fight might be rough, but since we literally can't miss, we're alright. "You good fighter. We like good fight. Here's 2000 nuyen. Money better if fight again."For those not counting, that's 4000 in total arena earnings. Unless you somehow managed to waste a ton of money on slap patches, you can get out now. BATTLE FIVE: MAGE 2   Same fight, higher damage.  "You good fighter. We like good fight. Here's 3000 nuyen. Money better if fight again."BATTLE SIX: SAMURAI WARRIOR  Alright so this battle is probably the first legitimately difficult one. Samurai Warrior is a bit hectic, but there's a way to exploit his attack pattern.  Samurai Warrior's first attack is to run up and slash you with wolverine claws. This does a lot of 1s and 2s of damage, and might look scary at first.  Samurai Warrior's second attack is to run away and start shooting at you.  This hurts. A lot. The best tactic is to keep running up to Samurai Warrior so he keeps trying to use his claws. Eventually he'll drop like the rest.  "You good fighter. We like good fight. Here's 4000 nuyen. Money better if fight again."BATTLE SEVEN: FEROCIOUS ORC  Hey Ferocious Orc! How the hell are ya? Ferocious Orc likes to smack talk, but he's not very good at it. No tactics here, just keep shooting the giant green man.  "You good fighter. We like good fight. Here's 5000 nuyen. Money better if fight again."BATTLE EIGHT: GANG LEADER So here's the thing about Gang Leader.  Gang Leader doesn't gently caress around. This is literally the first frame that isn't the game loading and he's already hit me for three damage  He also runs around in circles and sometimes shrugs off your shooting cursor. Gang Leader is a MESS. Gang Leader is the second hardest fight in the arena, and it shows. The best part about doing an SSLP is that I can use save states all I want, and no one will ever know .So that's the end of our arena stint for now, we'll be back for Samurai Warrior another time. I guess we can just pay our way and head out.  OR WE CAN JUST KILL THE KING OURSELVES The King can be an annoying fight, mainly because he likes to run around a lot. Usually he'll run to one side, shoot at you, then run to the other side, and shoot at you again.  Other times he'll run off screen This means you have to run over, at which point he'll shoot at you while you're getting your attack icon up again. Overall, the King is a pain, but once again, you can exploit his AI a bit.  When he's off screen, he'll just stand around and wait for you to come chase him. If you're lucky, you can just slightly get him on screen without him noticing, and unload on him. If you're unlucky, he THINKS he's on screen when he isn't, and he gets a ton of free shots on you.  But if you can get the screen juuuuuuust right...  Not only do we not pay 4000, or even 3000, we GET nuyen! "I don't believe it. You beat the King! Here's 3000 nuyen!"And with that, we're free to leave the caryards! CARYARDS EPILOGUE Ended up moving back to Tenth Street with her twin sister, who was fired from her job as a secretary because her boss got gunned down by a bunch of really terrible assassins. Got really confused from spending so long in the caryards, and became a carpenter who specializes in building decks. Best decker you've ever seen. Still too scared to leave the caryards after watching Jake kill most of the arena combatants. Got killed in a carpenter gang war because the rival gang thought he was that other blue dude. Seriously, who the gently caress is this guy. Moves out east and becomes the Terror From the West. Eventually hits puberty and has an irritating teenage on-again-off-again relationship that no one cares about. Some say he never left the arena, waiting for the next good fight. Some still hear the faint whisper of "money better if fight again" when they walk by. Really, really dead.*May not actually be a pro at all.
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NAME REDACTED posted:Oh, man. I've been waiting to see a Shadowrun LP since Returns came out. I have spent an entirely unreasonable amount of time on Returns. You'll understand after the next couple updates  Shadowrun Returns is absolutely fantastic. I was actually one of the $500 backers back when I had a great job, I was thinking of doing a bonus update to show all the neat stuff that came with that tier.
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Update 4: Ahead of the Game With our new found freedom, we find our selves in Old Town. This is, sadly, the only other place besides the morgue that has that song I really like. It's also the smallest and least relevant area, we've already done nearly everything we can in this place due to escaping the caryards.  There's also a bar! It's the hangout for bar-none ( ) the WORST shadowrunner in the game. We might talk to him in another update. For now let's just talk to the barkeep.  "Cut the yappin'. Ya want something or not?"This bar loving sucks. One of the patrons of this bar (I didn't get a screenshot of it because I almost never come into this shithole) apparently mentions that he got his datajack fixed by a Doctor Ed somewhere in Old Town. I never realized this since it's actually kind of easy to wander into Ed's office by accident. For now though, let's check out the Old Town sites!  "Seattle is Seattle no matter where you go, I guess. At least that one guy already disposed of himself." At the end of the street are two shops. The one on the left is a magic shop for all kinds of chotchkes we don't really care about. The one on the RIGHT however...  "GUNS! " Before we start browsing, let's speak to the proprietor of this fine establishment.  "I can already tell you and I are going to get along just fine." "You want to buy this gun? Good buy! Only one owner. He's no longer around if ya know what I mean! Yar ho tee hee har." "Nah, I already had a slightly used gun. Right now I'm stuck with this hunk of crap." "Huh? Come on lad let's set our hair on fire!" "You know, I think I'm just going to take a look around."The shop here sells a bunch of different kind of guns, but really there's only one choice. You'll understand why in a moment. Let's take a look: Colt American L36 Pistol Required Strength: 1 Attack Power: 3 Accuracy: 1 Price: 500 The L36 is precisely the same as the Beretta. There's literally no reason to buy this unless you never leveled up firearms and are stuck with the zip gun, in which case how the gently caress did you get out of the caryards. Fichetti Light Pistol Required Strength: 1 Attack Power: 4 Accuracy: 1 Price: 2000 An extra damage point, not worth the money. Ares Viper Heavy Pistol Required Strength: 2 Attack Power: 4 Accuracy: 2 Price: 4000 Pass.Ruger Warhawk Pistol Required Strength: 3 Attack Power: 6 Accuracy: 2 Price: 9000 Now we're getting somewhere. 6 damage is a nice little bundle, but there's one more gun left.  Defiance T-250 Shotgun Required Strength: 4 Attack Power: 8 Accuracy: 2 Price: 15000 This baby right here. This is expensive as hell and worth every penny. Eight dick-punching points of pain packed into each shot. This is legitimately the best weapon we'll have available for a while, so you should absolutely save your money for it. Forget about the other weapons, the Defiance T-250 is all we're going to need.  We also get a mesh jacket, which has two armour points. In a surprising departure from normal Danaru style, I actually remembered to equip it right away.  There are three main areas in Shadowrun. Tenth street is where we started off, we just basically finished most of Old Town. The third area is Downtown, easily the biggest of the areas. Spoilers, we won't get there this update.  To get between the area, you take the subway. The subway looks something like this: [Tenth Street] <----> [Old Town] <----> [Downtown} We actually have some unfinished business on Tenth Street, so let's head on over.  "What a loving day. Started off the night by dying, killed a ton of guys, got thrown into a caryard, killed everyone there, at least the whole "keep shooting until the problem is resolved" approach has been working well. This data-thinger is driving me nuts though. There's no way it's supposed to be this itchy." "Well heck, who knows, maybe Drake forgot about me, or sent all his dudes to Old Town after realizing I wasn't here anymore." "Yeah even I didn't believe that one."Tenth Street is exactly how we left it. Literally. It's 100% the same except that Glutman isn't at that club anymore. Maria's still playing, and Glutman's secretary is none the wiser.  "Heyyyyyyyyy buddy" "Tabernac! J'y pens-- ahem, Hamfist thought you were dead! Heard you wound up in the caryards. How'd you get out?" "Let's just say, The King..." "...has left the building." "...huh?" "I killed him." "Oh, drat, that'll do it." "Anyway come on, we've got poo poo to do." "'We'? Hamfist stood outside that club the entire duration of the run you paid for. You gotta pay for a brand new run." "You do realize I just told you I killed the guy that made everyone scared of the caryards right?" "Hamfist is open to price negotiations." So if you remember, Hamfist used to charge us 500 nuyen, with our negotiation skill maxed out, he lowers it to 300. It doesn't seem like much now, but it'll save a lot of money when we start hitting up the expensive runners. "Oh yeah, Hamfist" "Yeah?" "Let's have that gun back."This is the only way to have both the Beretta and the Zip-gun in your inventory at the same time. There's... no real reason to ever do this, but there you go.  "So where are we headed, anyway?" "Well the only place we haven't explored yet in this area is the graveyard, so we have to check to see if there's treasure in there." "...That makes zero sense, but I'm getting paid anyway."Naturally, as a graveyard in an action adventure/RPG, it'll be a completely normal place for respecting the dea--  "SKELETONS!"  In all seriousness, that was the best shot I could get of one of the ghouls still being alive. Hamfist usually does what he does in the last screenshot and one-hits the ghouls the second they come out of the ground. If we were still looking for karma, this would be a fairly decent spot to grind. By running around and letting Hamfist kill everything, you can make a decent amount. The ghouls get slightly harder every time you leave and re-enter to get them to respawn though, so keep that in mind.  The doors on the crypts are all locked, so we use the scalpel we stole in the beginning of the game to... pick the lock? I have no idea. "What's so special about this crypt that makes you want to get in so bad?" "Locked doors can mean only one thing; treasure! Who knows what could be in here, it could be a secret weapon! It could be gold! It could be..." "...A dying Native American." "Aboriginal." "Right, what did I say?" "Native American." "Wait, what's wrong with Native American'?" "Well America doesn't really exist anymore." "I always thought it referred to the two Americas, the continents. Those still exist, right?" "Cough... Blrf..." "Oh, right, let's save the semantics for when he's not bleeding out." Our new friend is in rough shape, but fortunately we have just the thing.  That slap patch we stole from the morgue! Any slap patch will do, so if you use this one yourself, you can go buy one from the kid in the caryards.  All better! One band-aid and he's immediately stabilized. It's wierd, but it makes more sense than giving our ice tea to some random dude to learn about concert tickets.  "By the way, I prefer 'First Nations'" "Your portrait looks a lot more Jamaican than your sprite implied." "Just a big fan of Reggae" "I can respect that. Anyway I think you've got the wrong guy, I only found you because I was looking for treasure." "A little keepsake for you man... take this Magic Fetish" "Wait, like, getting turned on by people using magic?" "No, no, it's a magical item." "Okay good, because that would be weird." "...er... yeah... real weird..." "I'm not sure what I'll be able to do with it though, I'm no Shaman" "If you be a true shaman, you are one with the Earth. She provides the power for your magic." "...I just said I wasn't though." "Your totem calls to you. Appease his wishes and he will serve you well..." "Are you being annoyingly cryptic on purpose?" "Heh, yeah. Normies really eat that poo poo up." "Right. So what's up with the Magic Fetish" "I see a need for it in your future. He who seeks it is a bearer of untruth!" "You're not going to give me any info I can use, are you." "Nope! Chrome Coyote awaaaay!" And with that, our cryptic friend disappears in a cloud of smoke. "...What just happened?" "I have no idea. His name makes him sound like a member of Foxhound though."With that done, we leave the graveyard. The other crypts just contain more ghouls and sometimes 10-20 nuyen.  Let's head back to Old Town and get this drat Datajack looked at.  This is clearly the entrance to a reputable medical practice.  "Seriously Jake, this is way too sketchy for me." "Wuss." Hey Kiddo!  "Yeah doc, this drat thing's been itching and sparking for a while now." "Well if you're having trouble getting in to the Matrix, that could be your problem. I can do a quick Examination for 500 nuyen." "Sounds good. Examination it is."  "I hope your medical skills are better than your humour skills."    "A WHAT." "A CORTEX BOMB?!" "It's um... designed to destroy anything stored in your head computer if it is tampered with!" "You've GOT to be making GBS threads me. Can't you get it the hell out?!" "Um, I think it started ticking... if it goes off, it's likely to take a good portion of your head along with it. Sorry, here's a refund... try some aspirin. I don't think I can help you."By the way, if you don't talk to Ed, he totally won't give you a refund. Make sure to use the Talk option.  "Ed I swear, if you didn't give me my money back, I'd gun you down right where you are." "I uh, I'm glad you feel that way. You should really find an actual doctor though" "An 'actual' doctor? Are you telling me you're not an actual doctor?!" "Well um, 'Doctor' is my nickname, so uh, I guess you could say I'm a Doctor..." With that said, here's our current stats. Next time we'll try to find a doctor who can save us from going all Darkseed 2 on the sidewalk
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Pierzak posted:Does the game have alternative scenes in case Jake isn't wearing his goggles? Nope, if you don't put on the sunglasses, the morgue dudes will always run into the closet screaming when you enter the morgue again, making it impossible to get the tickets to get into the club where Glutman is. That's a puzzle, seriously. Gabriel Pope posted:If I remember correctly, the game does let you murder Ed after he arms the cortex bomb. Given the designers' thoroughness and level of detail, I can only assume that it was deliberate rather than an accidental oversight. Yep, Ed is one of the few non-combat named NPCs that you can kill. I never do though, he's an idiot, but he's not evil
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Seyser Koze posted:Actually all the native Americans I've met in real life say they settled on "American Indian" as the preferred term. Oh well. That was mostly my Canadian-ness coming out. You're probably going to notice that a lot. I've actually totally never heard the term "American Indian" before Crystalgate posted:
I'm in the same boat as you, I never caught it before I recorded this LP. Same with the memo that Jake wakes up with, I usually just stuff it in my pocket and never actually read it. That one is way less foreshadowey though.
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Update 5: What Kind of Name is "Rust Stiletto" Anyway? I'm giving you the SHITTIEST review on ratemds.com  "Well that was quick, your datajack fixed now?" "The jack's fixed, but so is the bomb that's apparently in my skull. Also THERE'S A BOMB IN MY SKULL." "Is it bad that I kind of expected that? Maybe not a bomb, but something was going to happen." "...Honestly? No. I should have seen it coming too." At this point, all three areas are unlocked, and we could have went Downtown earlier, but it's best to get the datajack subplot over with quick so you can jack into the Matrix yourself.  Also we have 30 hours to stop the bomb, this is shockingly generous, and translates to 30 minutes of real life time. If you know where to go, you can get it disabled in less than two minutes, but what's the fun in that?  "So uh, what exactly is the plan?" "Well we'll head Downtown, wander around for a while, probably get ambushed..." "Yep, there we go. I'm hoping we can find some locals who don't immediately open fire, and see if they know where the local street doc is." "Hamfist never actually been Downtown, although it's already reminiscent of Tenth street." "You seriously have problems with first person pronouns, but you use words like 'remniscent'?" "English is a silly language." Downtown by the way! Downtown's theme is pretty great. It has that feeling of "now we're getting somewhere!" After we kill this one, he has some dying exposition to give us.   "Drek, you've bought into more trouble than you know. The Rust Stilletos always finish a job! Aaarrggh, bye sucker!" "I have to say, these people have the WORST battle cries and last words." "Censorship is a bitch." In this picture you'll note that I took the money off the corpse, but left a very obvious item. In my defense I was playing this while watching that recording of the Retsupurae RTX panel Also doggie!  "Yeah yeah, I know, get off my back" "Did that dog just ta--" "Later, we have poo poo to do." Pup runs off after giving us another annoyingly cryptic instruction. In any case, we have business to attend to.  "Downtown hitmen are stepping up their game a bit." "I should hope so, I was one-shotting everyone in old town." On the ground here is a grenade, almost everyone who plays will want to grab the obvious item on the ground, but if you examine it...  The second you pick it up, the handle pops off and the grenade explodes. It also only does like three damage, but I'm still not giving them the satisfaction.  "Bomb in my head, Hamfist is a loser who doesn't want to go to a club, and don't pick up the grenade. Got it." Inside the Wastelands club, some guy shoots at us, he dies. Next. Hey wait a sec, Wastelands, we've got a matchbook from this place! It doesn't mean a great deal plotwise, but at elast we know we were downtown before things got crazy.  "Been a crazy day, chum. Woke up in a morgue, escaped from the caryards, and now I got a bomb in my head." "Say what? Man, what a bummer! Want an iced tea? I'll have to hold the ice." "No ice? Brutal. At this point I'd settle for iced tea without even complaining." "Sorry, no ice. The freezer's on the fritz. We're waiting on a delivery..." "Hope the delivery guy doesn't get cold feet. Anyway, it was ice to see you, stay frosty." "Please stop" "Don't give me the cold shoulder, it's not very cool. Just chill out " "By the way, you ran up quite a tab when you were here last" "Whoops, gotta go." As we know, where there's a club, there are shadowrunners! Let's talk to the two near the bar.  "Me too, for a few minutes anyway, then I got dumped in a junkyard." "I see you have a datajack... is that just for show, or do you put it to use?" "I actually can't tell if you're serious, or if you're coming on to me."Jetboy is a decker, like Hamfist. He has the exact same computer skill, but his firearms skill is a little better. He makes up for this by having a beretta while Hamfist has a shotgun, Making Hamfist actually better than him.  He's also costs 500 nuyen more than Hamfist, and manages to be a whiny bitch before he's even hired. There's almost no reason to hire Jetboy, except for one thing we're going to do in a minute. My point is Jetboy loving sucks, and also Hamfist is great for how early you can hire him, and how cheap he is. " "On the opposite end of the bar is a much better guy. Meet Anders.  "I already like you." "Talk is cheap. Hiring me isn't. You get what you pay for!" "I've been saying that all day. Let's get down to business. What's your price?" So not only does Anders have a better firearms skill, more health, a better set of armour, and a god drat uzi, but he's the same price as Jetboy. Anders is a pretty great mid-game runner. There are way better runners of course, but not for three digits. Outside of the club and to the right, we find...  "Oh I'm going to enjoy this." There are a TON of Rust Stilettos around, but their biggest problem is that they love to spread out the damage, never focusing their fire on a single person. With four people, it makes it pretty easy to not take a lot of damage. A lot of people play solo just because they feel it's more pure, I say screw that. Dan's rule number two is "Keep it legal, but never fight fair."  With all the Rust Stilettos out here dead, we can... er... "...er... hm... this is..." "What's wrong, boss?" "Let me check my inventory here, I thought I..." "Can we get going? My feet hurt..." "Okay I don't have a key, how do I not have the key to this door?" "Oh hey, I remember seeing a key" "Where?" Back to the subway. This is a neat image because I managed to catch one of the middle frames of the dying animation. Sometimes it doesn't seem to happen, I've walked through other animations frame by frame trying to catch this particular one, and then just gave up. I also caught a random little encounter. The mage looking guy near the bottom talks with another dude, then starts shooting at him. The other dude understandably cheeses it, and the mage runs after him. Unfortunately I happened to trigger this while entering from the ONLY entrance where you can't see the scene happen.  Also 26 hours left.  "Polite of them to take the corpse but leave the key." "I'll never understand how the coroners of this city operate." "This is the wrong way." "No it isn't, I need a nap. All this key stuff is making me tired." "Aren't you on a time limit?" "Ehhhh." "Loud bunch, eh?" "Who would build a 24/7 club next to a hotel?! The Jagged Nails is the bane of my existance!" "Right, cool, anyway I want a room." So here's the catch. In tenth street, we had Jake's apartment, in Oldtown, we had the bed in the caryards, in Downtown, we have to pay 50 bucks every time we want to heal or save. That's like one, maybe two hitmen to kill and loot. It's not worth it to be cheap and take the subway to Oldtown. By the way, even though your runners don't come to bed with you, since that would be too close to fanfiction material, they heal as well. Also if you're curious, no time passes while we sleep. Maybe the bomb timer is only active while we're concious.  "Alright, back to business." "We could have been done already..." "If you say another word, I'm going to shoot you in eleven screenshots." "what?" "Exactly. Anyway, let's get in there and..." "...um" "...um" "...mu" "Not sure what I expected, but whatever."The Rust Stilettos HQ is actually less daunting than it looks. The enemies are tough, but the layout lets you take them on one by one.  This way, the enemies can't really do any significantly serious damage, while you and your runners can tear into them. It looks way worse than it actually is.  These guys here hurl molotovs, which can be bad because places like these generally make your runners bunch up together. I tried to get him to hurl them at me alone instead, but he didn't take the bait.  Once everyone's dead in here, these two wander out. They're nothing special, but...  YOU NEED THIS CROWBAR.  Also 24 minutes left before Jake explodes.  This back room area is dangerous. There's a ton of guys, and the Gang Leader is not someone to be trifled with. He's like the dude in the arena, except stationary. If you lose any runners, it'll probably be here. Once you kill the leader, he has some words for you.  "Pffhahaha "The Drake", he sounds like a frat boy" This is the ONLY reason to hire Jetboy. For some reason, he's the only one who can find two thousand bucks on the Gang Leader's corpse. Also I like how even the game doesn't like him enough to call him by name. At the very least, we made a 1200 profit from dragging him along.  We also find a password on the gang leader's corpse. "Well that's the Rust Stilettos all dead. We now have a crowbar, a password, and two thousand bucks." "Wait, that money's mine." "Excuse me?" "It's mine, I found it." "So just to be sure, you're claiming that because you found a bunch of money on a corpse, it belongs to you, is that right?" "Yeah." "And there we go, now it belongs to me in accordance to Jetboy's rules." "You know usually I'd be upset about team killing, but man that guy had it coming." "Jake has killed for WAY less than two thousand bucks." "So just out of curiosity, how exactly did that help us with the bomb situation?" "...Oh yeah."Well uh, at least we exterminated an entire gang for shooting at us that one time, next time maybe we'll make some actual progress on the bomb thing.
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Syncopated posted:Can you go back to the first place you met the dog and meet him again? That's what I would have done after that other dog talked to me. Nope, it's actually the same dog, we'll be seeing him again soon enough. Seyser Koze posted:OK, I remember that you have to fight these guys to establish your street cred so that a bouncer will let you into another club, but was there any kind of hook telling you that you had to do this? Not overly, sort of like how we really only went after the Maria Mercurial tickets because it was our only lead, they give you the Rust Stilettos plotline, and then assume you'll go "Well I might as well go butcher those guys". Usually you want to get the bomb situation fixed first, but there's actually a small hint most people don't know about later on that ties up the bomb subplot a little nicer. Shadowrun is a very non-hand holding game. Technically we could go seige the second-last dungeon right now with everything we've collected. We'd die nearly instantly, but we COULD. Rockopolis posted:As I recall, the Rusted Stilettos are an Ork and Troll gang that lives in the radioactive toxic wasteland part of the Redmond Barrens. They do tons of drugs, are completely nuts, and look kind of like the ghouls from Fallout. Slick, I didn't actually know that, are the Halloweeners that were in the Genesis version a real gang from the tabletop game too?
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Update 6: This Subplot Would Be Moot If This Were Canada : "You know, we can kind of consider ourselves heroes, we did clear an entire gang off the streets.": "By going to their home and wholesale slaughtering every single one of them": "So wait, is the lesson we're supposed to learn here 'Violence will solve all problems'? Because that's what I've learned.": "Or at least 'Don't be a smartass when you're hired by a guy with a bomb in his head'": "Seriously though, killing Jetboy was the highlight of my night so far, heh." : "Okay there was totally only two windows here last time, what the hell.": "I'm all for killing a ton of gang bangers, but what exactly is our next step?": "Actually I was thinking of checking out that Jagged Nails club. That hotel guy said it was awesome.": "...I thought he said it was the bane of his existence.": "I wasn't actually listening, to be honest." : "Hah! I have you noURGH": "Wow, that guy actually had a decent idea at least. He's better than the entire Rust Stilettos gang.": "Well, was.": "I didn't say he was MUCH better." The Jagged Nails is an exclusive club. In fact the bouncers will tell you to piss off if you haven't crushed the Rust Stilettos gang yet. They also call you a wiener and put up a "no girls allowed" sign. Roughly three quarters of this paragraph is true.  : "GLUTMAN?!": "gently caress. I mean, er, hey.": "What the hell are you doing as a bouncer?!": "Wait, YOU were supposed to be stuck in the caryards!": "The king wanted me to pay 4000 nuyen to get out! Way to ditch me and skimp on the bill!": "Well I know for sure you were at least a quarter of the way there!": "Hey! Technically I'M not the one who stole that money!": "...Think I'm going to pop around the corner for a smoke.": "Yeah, uh, I'll come too.": "You're dangerous to be around, Jake. I don't even dare go back to my office with this Drake guy around. Hell my secretary still thinks I'm at that Maria Mercurial concert.": "No poo poo, What the hell is in my head?": "Not so sure myself. The only thing I know is that you were supposed to hit up Matrix Systems down by the docks, they'd upload some stuff, then you were supposed to get it to me. Further instructions were to come later. I didn't survive this long by asking questions. Actually I was planning to be out of here by now, but you took the money I was going to spend on a fake passport.": "At least you haven't DIRECTLY tried to kill me yet. It's been a rough night, I'm willing to look past it. How about letting me in the club?" : "Oh you are a dick.": "Hey, if you enter 19 more times, we're even." Well here we are at the... surprisingly empty Jagged Nails. In fact there are only two patrons, and neither are on this half of the club. Something sure looks familiar about that screenshot though...  : "Hey, how much do you know about brain bombs?" "I let Cecil do the socializing. I merely serve the customers, dear!": "Oh, well uh, it's a little important. Do you know of any Street docs around here?" "I don't know... how about some juice?": "...Got any iced tea?" Over here are two shadowrunners. These two are two of the best, but most expensive runners in the game. We'll meet them when we get to that point. For now let's ask the barkeep about our more pressing issue.  : "Thanks! Everyone here is super nice. Also the 'aftershave' is probably just dry gore, FYI. " "Ooooh, oodles of entertainment tonight. Kitsune's performing until twelve, and I get off at one.": "Kitsune?" "Hmmmph! Well catch her act if you've got the time. She just uses this place as a cover to pick up on any good runs on offer.": "Is she any good?" "Are you kidding? She has almost every song by Journey memorized.": "Woah, really?" "Yep, One time someone got taken away by Docwagon for motivation poisoning.": "Actually speaking of doctors, you don't happen to know of a Street doc that might know how to hypothetically work with a brain bomb?" : "You're going to CHARGE me for it?!" "Hey, a nice outfit and a cute face only gets you so far, I gotta pay bills too.": "Well the alternative is my head exploding, so here." So now we finally have the phone number to a doctor that won't get us killed, but first...  Let's have a chat with this familiar figure.  : "Holy crap that was awesome!" "Urghk... Oh god... give me a sec, that always gives me crazy vertigo for a bit...": "...uh..." "Alright, okay, I'm good. Where were we..." Jake Armitage: Cute. : "Wow, you got hit by censorship like a freight train, didn't you?" "You have NO idea." So hey! It's the lady from the intro who healed our corpse! Finally a friendly face! There are actually two cuts of this game apparently, one was a bit more explicit. the first noticable difference is that one refers to the coroners as "Morgue guys" and one calls them "Chop Shop guys". In the "Chop Shop guys" cut, Kitsune is a LOT more overtly flirty, with lines like "Ever snuggled down with a fox? Do you want to?". Honestly it might be a case of doing something you KNOW the censors will hate to get smaller stuff under the radar. : "Spirit guide? Do you mean that Dog that keeps showing up and berating me?" "He will guide you in your destiny. Here, take these enchanted leaves. They will help you if you're in trouble again.": "Oh, er, thanks. So, uh, Kitsune right? What's your deal?" "I'm a shapeshifter, silly! What's the matter, never seen a fox before?": "Not one that can resurrect the dead and sing Separate Ways at the same time." "Heh heh": "Oh yeah, you seem to know about magical crap. Know anything about this Magical Fetish?" "Looks interesting... but I've never seen anything like it before.": "drat. Too bad. By the way, the bartender mentioned you're a Shadowrunner. It just so happens that I have an open spot available on my team." "As much as I hate to do this, I'm going to have to ask for 3000 nuyen if you want me on a run." Kitsune is a PRICEY mage. With that said, there are reasons she's so pricey. She has a TON of mana, and has a really high leveled heal spell. Each spell will easily fully heal any of your runners, and will heal Jake completely unless he has a super high amount of HP, at which point it'll still heal him enough to forget about health for a long rear end time.With that said, Kitsune is less on the offensive side, and is a bit squishy as you'd expect from a mage. If you can keep her alive though, she's an excellent support character, especially since she can heal SEVENTEEN TIMES between bed rests. There's also an event later on which will make her price a bit more understandable. It kicks the poo poo out of Jetboy's unique trait.  The perks of a maxed out negotiation skill.  Now then, with Kitsune now in tow, we have one more thing to do before we take off.  We now have the number for Doctor M, let's give them a ring!  : "WHERE ARE YOU PLEASE" : "The office is located just around the corner of the Aneki building": "Where is the Aneki building?!" "Oh I know where that is, it's just across the street from the subway.": "..." By the way, I did all this in nine minutes.  : "So if I had decided to take a left coming out of the station instead of a right, I would have blundered into the doc's office by accident and not had to destroy a gang and yell at my old boss to find it." "Yep.": "I could have told you that, boss. I didn't realize that's where you were trying to go.": "You don't exactly explicitly state your goals very well, Jake.": "You guys are assholes, you kno--" : "JESUS CHRIST" "GET OFF THE ROAD! HURRY!": "SACREMENT! OSTI DE TABERNAC DE CALICE!": "THE CROSSWALK MEANS NOTHING! THE CROSSWALK MEANS NOTHIIIIING!!" : "Holy poo poo, that one crosswalk was scarier than the entire Rust Stilettos gang.": "I'm glad we're already going to the doctor, I think that car bruised my entire torso. Front and back." : "We look like we're late for a JRPG.": "Are you about to give a speech about friendship?": "gently caress friendship." Inside the office is the same secretary we talked to on the phone, we just have to mention the cortex bomb to her, and...  Yay! We can finally get this drat bomb out of our head, and not have to worry abou--  : "Excuse me" "Oh hey I think I heard someone call my name outside, I better go check that out." : "Oh my GOD."So unfortunately, I, being the master of foresight, blew all my money on hiring Kitsune. While we have quite a bit of time, considering we pick up an average of 20-30 nuyen per dead hitman, we might actually not have enough time to just grind for money. How the heck can we get that much money fast?!  : "Alright let's make this quick."BATTLE EIGHT: GANG LEADER  Gang Leader is still a complete bitch, but we have some better armour, and a shotgun, so the fight is actually doable now.  Honestly the hardest part about this fight is actually keeping your cursor ON him.  It's all about being aware of your cursor. If you can avoid letting him shrug it off of him, he goes down fairly quick to the shotgun. "You good fighter. We like good fight. Here's 6000 nuyen. Money better if fight again."That'll do just fine, but who IS next in the arena? BATTLE NINE: TROLL DECKER   Troll Decker is honestly one of the most difficult fights in the entire game. Thats a 12 up there, by the way. Also this situation made me imagine the coroners starting up an autopsy, and Jake's head just suddenly exploding without them having any idea why. "Alright Sam, let's make a quick incision around the abdomen to--"SPLORTGF "GOD WHY" Once more across the nightmare gauntlet.  : "Alright I'll be back.": "How much do you want to bet there's a second bomb that activates when the first is disarmed?": "Don't even joke about that."  "Nice to meet you Jake. I hear you have a problem with your head.: "My head's fine, I'd just like to keep it that way. What can you do about this Cortex bomb?"  : "Please don't be a second bomb please don't be a second bomb please don't be a second bomb please don't be a second bomb" : "Yeah, no offense Doc, but can you wait until your hands are no longer inside my skull before advertising your stuff?" "The data in your head computer looks like some bio-storage graft. I couldn't access it with my equipment. The maker is Matrix Systems, a little outfit over by the bay.": "Huh, know anything about Matrix Systems" "I know very little about them. Except their work mainly revolved around software for the Matrix.": "...You don't say. Any idea how to get into my Head computer?" "I'm afraid I can't access it. You'll have to find someone who knows what's in there and how to get it out."  Doctor Maplethorpe also has these on the table, what could they be? Suffice to say we'll be coming back to check these out in more detail. But for now, we no longer have a bomb in our head!
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THE Green Ranger posted:Really enjoying this so far! I had never heard of this game before this thread. Seems like the snes had a lot of hidden gems. Even though there are only two pages in the thread, would you mind updating the first post with links to the updates? It would help a lot, especially to know when a new update is posted. Thanks! Done! Deceitful Penguin posted:I'm getting really confused on what the differences are between this game and the other one on the Genesis. Maybe it's just that I only strongly remember DOG and who Drake is. They're not even remotely similar. The Genesis version is a lot more sandbox-ey, while SNES is more of a straight adventure game. The only real similarity is that they both take place in Seattle.
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Chokes McGee posted:This is gonna get wacky before the end, I just know it. Oh I think it'll get wacky sooner than you think. Update Seven: We Get Ditched  : "Whoo! I'm bomb-free! " "Can you please wait until you're out of my operating room to dance?": "Nope!" : "Alright, now that I'm no longer in danger of exploding all over you guys..." "Pffheheh": "Apparently the dicks who put the bomb in my head are located on the docks, I'd like to have a few words with them." : "Oh come ON": "Who the hell does Maplethorpe share his building with?!" : "Alright Jake, seriously, I can't do this any more. I've killed more people in this one night than I've killed in my entire career before now. I can't even feel my right hand anymore." "...pffh": "Wait, what are you saying?": "I'm saying..." : "You're leaving NOW?!" : "Fine, I don't even NEED Hamfist. I only brought him along because I had money to burn.": "At least I'm still here, boss.": "Thanks, uh... I'll be honest, I forgot your name.": "It's Anders.": "Pretty sure it was Rob." : "There seem to be a ton of guys around this building.": "Huh, I wonder what that's about." "Oh, ooh...": "...Maybe we should leave, boss.": "What?" : "Alright, let's find this Matrix Systems place." "Why would an IT firm be on the docks?" : "I have no idea, but I'm assuming we're in the right place.": "...To be fair, I don't think we can use the presence of enemies as an indicator of progress anymore."  : "Well, here we... are I guess." "...So I'm noticing an IT firm has two computers for four desks.": "But they had the money to shell out for a skull bomb. Thanks guys." : "Well let's see if they have any e-loot." So now that we have our datajack fixed and the bomb out of our head, we can use our Cyberdeck (which we stole from Glutman ) to enter the matrix ourselves. This is good because somewhere along the line, I maxed out our computer skill, making us twice the decker Hamfist was.Yeah, we don't need him. We don't need anybody.  The Matrix Systems... system is really simple. Just walk forward, melt the IC, and grab the data. Systems get more advanced later on, this is sort of a softball.  That's... about all there is too it. Let's see what we got!  An e-mail, and...  More money! Let's see what that e-mail says.  : "That sounds like the opposite of protecting the data. "So according to this, some dick named Raitsov uploaded an anti-AI program, and Glutman was supposed to help us get it to Pushkin. After they uploaded the stuff to us, Drake's goons cleaned out Matrix Systems and then shot up Jake, according to that e-mail we found on Glutman's PC. That means Raitsov is no doubt fish food, but this Pushkin guy is someone to look out for. The fact that they destroyed any copy of the Anti-AI stuff is interesting too, that means Drake's goons weren't able to get a copy, which means they can't reverse engineer it! We just need to find out what this was designed to target. We're not really getting paid for this anymore, but if Drake doesn't want us to succeed, I'm willing to go through the effort just to make his day shittier.  : "Three... Four..." "What's up?": "Just a thought, I woke up with a memo in my pocket that said "Warehouse No. 5. So if there's a fifth warehouse..." : "Number 5, just like you said.": "You know, if we're searching for it, I guess that makes it a WHERE house! " : "What the hell, Rob.": "Nope. I'm not dealing with these puns.": "Are you saying all the good things I did have been pundone? " : "Yeah well I didn't need him either." "You're on thin ice, mister.": "You really don't want me to go down that road." : "...huh." "Someone you know?" : "You could... say that...": "I'm sorry we ever broke up, Jake. Come closer... don't leave me!" "Careful Jake, I've seen people go down this path before. Remember rule number one.": "Rule number one?" "Don't stick your dick in crazy.": "Does that... apply to your gender?" "Sometimes the D is metaphorical."Seriously people, the message is important regardless of what gender you are or who you're attracted to, it's NEVER worth it.   It's never worth it IT'S NEVER WORTH IT  So uh, Octopus. Octopus has 90 hitpoints and fairly high defence. That 5 up there was a crit. It's not really a DIFFICULT fight, just a slog.  However considering our two heavy hitters ditched us, and it's just us and the low-HP mage, Kitsune can be in trouble here. Fortunately, we can tell her to cast a spell. There's about a full second after we pick "Cast Spell" where the runner will just stand there while you both get shot, making ordering runners to cast spells REALLY lovely to do mid-combat.  Kitsune has a lot of powerful magic, but unfortunately Powerball and Summon Spirit are sort of lame for how much MP you use. I tend to have Kitsune top up the party when we need health, or use invincibility on extreme occasions.  And now Kitsune is fully healed! Back to shooting...  Eventually it finally dies. So what do we get?  Some ink which we can't pick up... because it's ink.  And two thousand bucks! : "I always found seafood pretty rich" "Stop.": "No, really. I don't like seafood." The door to our right is locked, but this one here is open. : "Whatever is in here can't be any more ridiculous than an octopus pretending to be my abusive ex. I STILL have no idea where she dumped all my stuff." : "Dude! A sumo ring!" "I don't... think that's a sumo ring.": "No, check it. So like, when I say go, you try to push me ou--" "Jake, I'm a fox shape shifter. I'm from Japan. I know what sumo wrestling is.": "Really? You're Japanese?" "My name is KITSUNE, you never caught that?": "Hey you saw what happened to me, I don't even know what country I'M from." : "Ohhhh this is going to get weird isn't it." "Oh hey Dog! So this is where you're hanging out!" : "WHAT'S HAPPENING" : "Uh, hey, I'm Jake." : "I know who you are, Jake. I was the one who guided Kitsune to your aid." "You're welcome.": "I have also guided you here. Your essence has been polluted with cyberware, but I can help you regain your powers. For now I have given you back your ability to heal wounds.": "Man, I don't know what the gently caress.": "Prove to be that you are truly a friend to the Dog, and I shall grant you my guidance. Destroy the Rat shaman and then return. You will find the entrance to his lair where souls are at rest."So in order to commune with Dog, you need three items. an item of Man, of Creature, and of Earth. Those are respectively the Magic Fetish, the Dog Collar, and the Magic Leaves that Kitsune gave us. Once we take out Dog's enemy, we can give him more random garbage and give him more spells. If we don't have all three of those, Dog will just tell you to get the gently caress out and come back when you're serious. And also you can't GET the leaves before wiping out the Rust Stilettos, because : "Go now! Do not return until you have vanquished your enemy.": "Uhh, okay." : "...This street makes me extremely uncomfortable for some reason." "It... might be best not to think about it too much." : "So what do you know about shamanism?" "Well my magic comes from a different source, but you're basically communing with the spirits of the earth, rather than some mages who rip the energy from spirits they forced to be boun--": "No, I mean like how do I shoot lightning out of my hands and poo poo." "Oh god." "Wait, what are we doing here again?": "Hoochi... Hooc... Dog said something about cyberware, and Maplethorpe said something about cyberware, so I figure that's a hint on what to do next.": "I said cyberware POLLUTED your essence. It's BAD.": "Wait, you can just TALK to me now?": "I always could, who do you think told you not to shoot that man in the caryards?": "And you never thought to just TELL me what happened?!": "I felt you needed to make your own progress.": "...Magic spirits are dicks." "Hey!": "Well not you, you're nice." "drat right." The Skill Software here gives us access to the Leadership ability, this makes it so any Shadowrunners we hire will stay with us longer the more we level up the skill. We have enough karma to just max it out immediately.  : "Yay! I'm polluted!"So in Tabletop Shadowrun terms, each person has a set amount of Essence. More cyberware = less human, so each piece of cyberware you have, the worse off you are spellcasting. Apparently you can fairly safely get a datajack, but anything more starts hitting the essence hard. In this case, Dog is apparently pretty lenient, because we can put all the poo poo we want into our body and it doesn't effect spellcasting at all. Essence was a big deal in the Genesis version, but maybe that's because Dog is better than Gator.  : "Alright, I have a plan." " 'You will find the entrance to his lair where souls are at rest.' seems to imply a grave yard.": "I know one other place where souls rest!"BATTLE NINE: TROLL DECKER  So first off, run to the left. You don't want to be anywhere NEAR the center of this area.  Troll Decker will come in and rip your poo poo apart, but after a while, he'll run to the right. Normally he'd still be able to hit you, but since we're over here, he runs out of range.  This gives us prime healing time. He'll generally repeat this pattern, so just heal up whenever he runs off.  "You good fighter. We like good fight. Here's 7000 nuyen. Money better if fight again." FINAL BATTLE: REPLICATING MAGE  Replicating mage... replicates. You can tell which one's a clone because the shotgun usually one-shots them.  He has a lot of health, but he's hampered by the fact that he can only damage us if he lands a crit.[/b] No seriously, with the mesh jacket, most of his attacks can't damage us.  I didn't heal a single time that battle. Honestly most of the damage I took was because I put down the controller to talk to Grace, and didn't care enough to pause. Replicating Mage sucks rear end. "You good fighter. We like good fight. Here's 8000 nuyen. Money better if fight again.": "Sure, let's see who's next." "No more fighters left. You is one tough dude!": "But you said money better if fight again ." "I feel like this might not be where the Rat shaman hangs out.": "Do I get a championship belt for beating the Rat shaman?" "You get the power of spirit magic.": "...Alright fine, there's no one left to shoot here anyway."Next time we'll track down the elusive Rat shaman! Unless something more interesting comes along. Also I want to get "Sometimes The D Is Metaphorical" put on my gravestone.
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IMJack posted:You can go rehire them where you found them. They're only gone for good if they get killed. Actually nope, if they die they respawn just like if they left of their own accord, they don't even hold a grudge. We could even go rehire Jetboy if we wanted to. We don't though. Keksen posted:I'm surprised that there's talk about AI and it's connected to that lovely little IT company operating from a warehouse. In the Shadowrun universe, (true) AI is kind of a big deal. Then again that company will probably just end up being a front for a corp or something. I also like how it supposedly specializes in IC and yet there's almost none to be found in its own system. I like to imagine Matrix Systems was like, a start up company that just moved out of the founder's garage and into a cheap, lovely office. Then Drake pulled a Walmart on them, except instead of stealing their business, he just had their entire employee-base killed. Business is ruthless. I dont know posted:It's also worth mentioning that in the tabletop, shape shifters do exist, they have metahuman level intelligence, but they are not actually metahumans. Shapeshifters aren't humans that can turn into a specific animal, but rather an animal that can turn into a human. So Kitsune was born as a fox from parents who were foxes. Actually I always wondered, are rules in place for playable shape shifters in the tabletop game?
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I dont know posted:For instance, Jake is a Dog shaman. Dog values companionship, protections, and loyalty. I REALLY hope Dog wasn't watching during that whole Jetboy incident. Oh, also: Update Eight: The New Team  : "I'm going to miss that place.": "It did have a certain je ne sais quoi about it.": "I don't understand Japanese.": "...That was fr... nevermind. ": "I remember there being a lovely bar around here, we should round up some meat shields now that Dave and Hamfist are gone.": "You could have found a nicer way to word it, but I agree regardless." : "Hey look! It's a pallet swap of OUR orc!": "The hell is that supposed to mean?": "He even has the same portrait!" So this is Orifice. He's basically a slightly beefier Hamfist. There are... drawbacks, but they'll crop up later on.  According to the "City Speak" page of the shadowrun wiki: jander – “to strut” (walk in an arrogant yet casual manner) I totally thought this was just a typo of "wander".  Orifice is the same price as Hamfist, which is dirt cheap. He's also a bit of a douche, but he can fire a shotgun well enough. On the other side of the bar is another runner.  Dances with Clams is... honestly the worst runner in the game. He has the bare minimum of HP, he has less magic than JAKE does, he has the same slow magic attack as Kitsune, except Kitsune can at least deal damage with it. His spells are all either trash, or Kitsune has a better version of it, and...  All that for a thousand bucks. Without the negotiation skill he demands TWO THOUSAND NUYEN. Dances with Clams can gently caress right off. : "I command my magic from the land! If it is strong, I am strong!": "Wow, the environment must be straight up hosed then. Hey someone with your portrait gave me this Magic Fetish, what's up with that.": "It looks like the fetish of an evil being. You had best ask someone who knows of these things.": "Great. You had a single opportunity to be useful and you blew it.": "I think there's a magic shop around here somewhere. I don't come around these parts often, but Cecil mentioned it.": "Oh yeah, I remember that, I ignored it because I wasn't a shaman. Also there was a gun store beside it.": "Wow, that magic shop didn't stand a chance." Haha Orifice your HP is outclassed by a magic user!  : "Look out, a sniper!": "You're in for a surprise when we go Downtown again." The magic shop! there's three things on sale right now, but let's talk to the owner first.  : "Hello, apparently I'm a shaman now or something. I don't really get it." : "I have most anything you need to give power to your magic!": "Neat, hey I've been showing off my Magic Fetish to everyone today, what do you think?": "I'm going to be a little sad when you no longer have a reason to say 'magic fetish'.": "It is very evil. I used to deal in such an item. They are very hard to come by. I sell them no more.": "Great. I still have no idea what to do with this thing. I'm new to the whole Shaman business.": "A shaman can find most anything he needs to give power to his spells. If I do not have it, then you best seek it yourself!": "...So if you don't have it, find it somewhere else. Sage advice. What were those Talismans you mentioned?": "You shaman? You need talisman to cast magic! My number is 416-822 if you ever need to contact me.": "Cool, that means we have almost no reason to ever come back to Old Town." : "Or it will, once we buy everything here.": "What do we need a black potion bottle for?": "Dunno, I'm a shaman now, so I figure I should just gather all the magical crap I can."  And so we do. This is all crap for later by the way. I just don't want to come back later on.  : "The only graveyard I've seen is that one where I found the first nations dude who gave me the magical thing.": "Aww.": "Why exactly are we going to a graveyard anyway?": "The magical dog on the docks told me to find some guy worshipping a rat and kill him.": "...Wow." : "Come to think of it, we're still a man down.": "Isn't there a bar around here?": "...Well, yes, but..." : "Oh hey, it's Hamfist! Bonjour!": "Salut.": "You know this guy?": "...": "Oh god, this is immediately nauseating. Not-Hamfist, you shut up for a while.": "So uh, how's the whole vengeance thing going?": "I fought and killed an octopus disguised as my girlfriend, then found a dog spirit who taught me how to heal wounds through magic. He also told me to find a rat man in a graveyard and kill him.": "...Did you wake up in the morgue again": "No seriously, that's what happened. Maybe if you didn't duck out before the going got good you would have seen it.": "Hey you only paid me three hundred nuyen, I think that's a nuyen per person I killed.": "Oh big whoop, you don't see Kitsune or Jack complaining.": "...Jack?": "Anders left soon after you did, right before the octopus.": "Wait, that actually happened?" : "Did you hire a pallet swap of me?": "I aint a pallet swap of no-one, spug.": "Hey, I said no talking. In fact, no one's allowed to talk when someone with the same portrait is involved.": "That should be easy enough.": "Anyway I don't need a betrayer like you, I'm just fine on my own. I just came in for a drink.": "...But you came over to talk to me": "...Yeah well uh, your mom.": "Don't let him see you cry, champ." At the bar is a Jamaican fellow. Last time we saw him, he was on the phone. You can actually 'unlock' him before you go to the caryards, but... why would you, you'd lose him when you went to the caryards anyway.  : "Oh god I thought we were done with this when Ibn and Carlos were killed.": "Wow, no one is going to get that reference." : "Jangadance give a hand for 800 nuyen. You look like you need it... badly!": "I feel like that might be an insult, but whatever. Here's your money." Jangadance is AMPED. Jangadance is mostly a mage, which usually means he's useless if Kitsune is around, but he's also smart enough to carry around a gun and wear a mesh jacket. He's infinitely better than Dances with Clams. Also just look at his portrait. How could you NOT hire that? : "So you say you're looking for a rat shaman?": "Yep, apparently he's near a place where souls rest.": "Fair enough, I'll keep you safe. Ghoul fighting is my specialty!"The game touts Jangadance as a ghoul fighting specialist, but he doesn't seem to kill ghouls any faster than the rest of us. Whatever, let him have his fun. : "You might want to grab that.": "The disgusting, rot-stenched human bone?": "Yep.": "Why would I EVER want that?": "I'm a shaman too, your totem likely asks for wierd poo poo in exchange for power just like mine.": "Oh huh, I thought it was just Dog being a wierdo." Jangadance is 100% correct of course, so we grab it up. We also search the area, but there's no Rat shaman to be found. : "What the hell, we searched the place up and down, but nothing. The longer it takes me to find him, the more painful I'm going to make that rat shaman's death.": "Come to think of it, there is one other graveyard...": "Really? Where?" : "Are you making GBS threads me?": "Wow, I live nearby and even I didn't know this was here."So yeah, tucked away in the corner of a downtown area is the entrance to this graveyard with a whopping two graves. Right next to it is a sewer. The only way you would know this was here is if you happened to see it from another map segment.: "Thanks for nothing, Dog." : "Are you serious?! I JUST hired you!": "Yeah well tough. I earned my money.": "I think I have a newfound respect for Hamfist and Rick."So yeah, despite being the same price and only slightly stronger, Orifice is the LEAST loyal shadowrunner in the game, usually leaving long before being useful. He's a waste even at 300 nuyen. : "I swear, EVERYONE is betraying me tonight." : "This really IS turning into a JRPG.": "How the hell did my life get to this point.": "At least this probably means a rat shaman is nearby.": "Suddenly I feel lucky to be a dog shaman." So yeah, rats are... harmless mostly, at least these ones are. There are two types, one that basically does nothing, and another that throws poo poo (oh god I hope not literally ) at you. The ones that throw poo poo are actually very dangerous since they throw a LOT of it. The sewer is also a maze, because it's a 90s game with a sewer.  This was from two thrower rats. This place can be really dangerous on a solo run.  There's only like, three sections of this that you have to go through, all the other paths lead to dead ends full of thrower rats. this place sucks. : "These sewers go on for... quite a while, don't they?": "Story of my life." : "Oh poo poo! Here he is!": "Finally, god drat." Rat Shaman is a nuisance. He runs around a lot, has a super high defense, and a lot of HP. He also uses magic like Freeze, which he did to Kitsune. It... well freezes the character, making them unable to move or attack.  He also makes explosions happen, which sucks considering your shadowrunners' obsessions with grouping together as close as possible.  Eventually the fucker FINALLY drops. Now we can get back to dog and...  : "Why does everything I do end up adding another thing I have to do. What the hell even ARE you." : "Is this a joke.": "Be careful Jake. I've heard of the Jester Spirit before. It's a dangerous foe." : "Do you like games, little man? How about one where you guess my name! If you return lacking that simple truth, I'm afraid there are no losers... I'll just vaporize you! Ha ha ha ha!!!": "...Wouldn't getting vaporized mean I lost?": "Don't mock me, human. I'm more powerful than you can imagine!": "You're... also a jester though, it's hard to be scared of that.": "Run and hide, flesh bag. Time is on your side, but nothing is going to save you! Ha ha ha ha!!!": "Alright, well uh, is your name uhhhh Jester Spirit?": "Not so fast! You leave me no time to toy with you... and neverytheless, you are wrong. Do not return as foolish as you are!": "Wait, I thought you said you'd vaporize me if I'm wrong, do you even HAVE any powers?": "I'm giving you another chance since that guess was so ridiculous, do you know anyone just named 'human'?": "Well I don't really have a basis for what spirits are usually called. Heck, Kitsune just goes by 'Kitsune'": "Don't insult me. Laughlyn is a WAY better name than 'Kitsune'.": "...": "...": "...": "Did you ju--": "Whoops, left the stove on! Gotta go!" And off he goes. He just leaves, by the way. He'll never actually come chasing us down. Technically I'm pretty sure we COULD just ignore him and move on, but there's a very good reason to go through with this sidequest. The game expects us to go chase down the Jester Spirit, anyway.  : "Heh, yeah, we're pretty good together. Where's Jangadance?": "Oh he died like thirty seconds into the fight.": "Aww, I didn't completely hate him.": "I better stick with you now. Someone has to look after you (*SIGH*)": "You know, I'd almost think that you were looking for an excuse to hang around.": "Heh heh, now what makes you think that I wonder?"So if you bring along Kitsune to the Rat Shaman fight, she'll have this dialogue with you. After this dialogue is triggered, she will never quit on you saying she earned her money. For as long as we keep her alive, she's a part of Team Armitage until the very end. If she dies, she'll make you pay to hire her again. So let me level with you guys, this right here is why Kitsune is one of my favourite characters. She might not be the best shadowrunner, or even mage in the game, but just the fact that in this hell hole of a world, where loyalty is bought and sold as a commodity, where friendship is just an invitation to plant a knife in your back, there's ONE person who kept Jake alive without even knowing who he was, who helped you find dog and gave you the item you need to summon him, and now who's joining our fight out of decency instead of just for the money. Kitsune is also the ONLY character except maybe Dog who doesn't betray or ditch you. It's a shocking amount of magnanimity in a world devoid of selflessness. Maybe I'm just reading way too much into it, but I just REALLY like Kitsune as a character. : "So you seemed to recognize that, uh, Jester Spirit thing. What's the deal?": "They say he commands a lot of power. From what I've heard, someone at the Dark Blade knows where he haunts.": "The hell is a Dark Blade? It sounds like a lovely vampire fanfiction story.": "Ever see how much those Vampires hate sunlight?": "Wait, Vampires?! Are you joking?!": "I have a tail and you got magic from a dog god. Are vampires that hard to believe?": "Ughhh.": "They're very dangerous. I wouldn't trust them.": "You don't say.": "If you want to know more, you might want to ask Cecil back at the Jagged Nails. I've seen some vampire-types go in there before. He might know something.": "Well why not. Fighting vampires STILL won't be the most ridiculous thing I've done all day." At least we're done in the sewers forever! Also this still isn't the wierdest poo poo we'll see in this game.
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Andy Waltfeld posted:Two Saints Row references in one update, hot off the heels of ChaosArgate's SR4 wrapping up, and Kitsune thinks no one would catch them. I do too, it seems. I didn't actually (purposely) make any Saints Row references 
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Blackray Jack posted:I'm guessing you have a plan that eventually shows off all the shadowrunners in the game? If not, shame on you for ignoring one of the best runners in the game that we have yet to see. < If you're talking about a certain red haired gentleman who hangs out in the Wastelands club, you'll be seeing him very soon. Andy Waltfeld posted:I don't remember there being an Ibn in SR2, but there was a Carlos and he got ganked as a result of...no, wait, he got involved with the Brotherhood, not the Sons of Samedi. So that torpedoes any vaguely Rastafarian involvement in his demise. That was actually a reference to a (completely loving unwatchable aside from Grace's commentary  ) VLP I did of Jungle Strike, where my co-commentator brought up a song called "Jungle Dance". Jangadance's face is roughly how I felt every time that song was sung.This belongs in an art museum  Also really enjoying the Shadowrun chat, I've honestly never heard of cyberzombies and I'm a little sad I didn't.
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Update Nine: Twilight Jokes Are Forbidden. : "Is it wierd that I'm a little excited about this?": "For anyone else, sure. I'd be worried if you WEREN'T excited.": "Seriously though, this is way better than ghoul hunting." : "Or lovely hitman hunting.": "There's such a thing as too much of a good thing. You're planning to head to the Jagged Nails like I suggested, right?": "Not yet, I need a nap." I figured I'd show it, but I've been raising Jake's stats every once in a while when I sneak in heals between screenshots. Jake's gotten pretty tanky by now, which is always a good thing. For the most part, magic isn't quite as important. I tend to use Jake as a mid-battle healer if a runner is dangerously close to dying. Otherwise they can wait for the carnage to die down so Kitsune can do her thing. Jake also gets some cooler spells later, but we can slack on the magic level for now.  I want to know if this guy had to roll over all the mook corpses to make enough room for him to duck under the bushes. He probably should have taken the hint.  : "Last time I was in here, there were as many customers as there were bartenders.": "Heh heh." : "What, are you just going to hang out here with Glutman?": "Sup": "I was kind of supposed to be on stage all night, I don't imagine Darrin and Cecil will have anything nice to say about me jumping ship mid-performance.": "You know, I didn't actually think about that. Hopefully they don't recognize me as the guy who stole their show.": "Just pop in, see what they know about Dark Blade, and come back out.": "Alright, back in a few.": "...": "...": "...": "...So uh, you like Legend of Zelda?" I just wanted to throw this in, I never tried asking him about Kitsune before. It seems he might not be as excited about Kitsune's singing as everyone else . If you didn't have Kitsune to talk to, you can get the Vampires key word by asking him about Dark Blade. But you also still need to get the Dark Blade keyword from Kitsune, so what the hell are you even doing?  Our other bartender friend has some better information, apparently some vampire got all poo poo off because of some blinking lights. You'd think if you were sensitive to blinking lights, a dance club would be the last place you'd hang out at. : "We just got a new lighting rig. Makes the place look much nicer. The old ones are around here somewhere." Back over to the other bar.  Now we've got the strobes! We can use these to piss off any vampires we find.: "OK but bring it back when you're finished.": "I'll be honest, you're never seeing these again." : "How about the Wastelands? You don't work there after all.": "Yeah, no thanks. Last time I was there, this wierdo wouldn't leave me alone. Went by... Jack boy or something.": "Was that the one with the sunglasses? Or the one I shot?": "I'm assuming, and hoping, the latter." New runner time! Wastelands actually has the most runners per club, while all the others have two (Jagged Nails has three if you count Kitsune), Wastelands has four. We already met Anders and Jetboy, so let's see who else is around.  : "You're instantly hired."Norbert is just plain great. He packs an Uzi, has 60 health and a mesh jacket, and hangs around for a ridiculous amount of time. If you keep him healed up, he can stick around long enough for you to forget that runners leave the party.  As a result, he's a bit pricey, although still a fairly good price for end-game runners. Also this line is why Norbert is one of my favourites.  We can even manage to negotiate Norbet's price down a bit. 1500 bills are more than enough to roll in.  : "And then he says 'I guess this is a WHERE-house'": "I don't get it.": "Like, instead of 'Ware', it's 'Where'.": "Like as in Werewolf?": "What? No, that's loving stupid. That's not even a joke. Who would laugh at that?": "I'm so using that with Kitsune when we go back to the docks." The next new runner is this fellow, who's... staring at a wall?  Interestingly, he has a Troll's portrait, but an Orc's sprite. I guess having a troll runner would probably break things.  Didn't Hamfist say something like this too? Why is everyone so defensive about their intelligence? While Hamfist had some skills in computer, Frogtongue here is just a straight up bruiser. Maybe he's just upset about living the orcs = dumb muscle stereotype. Frogtongue has 70 health and an assault rifle, as well as a bulletproof vest. With Kitsune as a mage and Jake as cyber-magic-shotgun-Jesus, this rounds out Team Pain pretty well.  Frogtongue is a bit cheaper than Norbert, but not as versatile. Or jovial  : "Alright, so just to get you up to speed, I died and woke up in a morgue, got stuffed in the caryards by my old boss, killed literally everyone in there including the king, activated a bomb in my head, destroyed a street gang, DEACTIVATED a bomb in my head, met and hired a woman with a tail, killed an octopus disguised as my abusive ex-girlfriend, shot up a magic dude in the sewers and unleashed a jester spirit on the world. Now I'm on a mission to interrogate a bunch of vampires using disco lights to find out the name of the spirit.": "Har! Sounds like an awesome night!": "I know, right?" : "Sorry, I zoned out around when you got the bomb in your head. Is that still an issue?": "Nope": "Cool. Let's roll." So NOW what? This is sort of an infamous sticking point. If you're lucky enough to have Kitsune in the party, she points you towards the Dark Blade, if not, you have to specifically seek her out. Dog might say a bit, but I don't think he mentions the Dark Blade at all. Even if he does, he sure as gently caress won't direct you to the Jagged Nails. Even WITH Kitsune's direction, we have the strobes, but where can we go now? If we try to assail the Dark Blade right now, we're stymied by a locked gate anyway, and no amount of shotguns, uzis, or assault rifles can get through that. We need to find someone who would know about evil, magical creatures...  : "I feel like I'm forgetting something."By the way, there's some dummied out dialogue that implies that Norbert and the owner of the nearby gun store (Who's name is Vivyan apparently) are buddies. The dialogue is still in the game, but the keyword Norbert isn't actually obtainable.  : "Hello!": "Hello again child. You kind of bought out my entire stock last time, I don't have anything to sell.": "That's cool, actually I was wondering if you knew anything about the Dark Blade." : "How are your magical learnings coming along?": "The doggie told me to kill a dude in the sewer.": "The spirits work in mysterious ways."She sadly doesn't know anything about our friend Jester Spirit. Still, she was able to point us in the right direction to find the Dark Blade. She's the only one who will give us this phone number.One problem, there's no phones in Old Town. Some of the clever among you may have noticed that we could have avoided this entire side trip due to some stuff I did earlier specifically to avoid this side trip. This is what the Dark Blade manor looks like from outside, there's nothing specifically indicating that this is the DB house, but the gargoyles make it a bit obvious.  And here's that one screen where you see the 'graveyard' There's nothing ON this screen, and you'll only ever see it before now if you take a wrong turn. By the way, ever since we got that password from the Rust Stilettos, we can totally siege Drake tower. The enemies in there are leveled for way later though, it can be dangerous, but profitable. For the sake of the narrative I'm probably going to keep out until we're supposed to be there.So here's the deal, we need a phone so we can call up the Dark Blade. We have a phone in our apartment, sure, but that's all the way back on Tenth street. Where is a closer phone?  : "I just want to use the phone": "And I just want to get out of Seattle. Pay up." Oops! We totally could have just called the Talisman shop instead of taking the subway! With an added bonus, we could have also hung up and immediately called the Dark Blade. Either way, we accomplished the same thing, we just took longer.  I want to imagine Jake is thinking of the phrase "DBlade" in the same tone as "Dbag"  : "drat, I should have saved that 'Why so blue' comment." : "What can I help you with?"So here's another sticking point. If we ask Johan here about the Jester Spirit, he tells us we have the wrong number. He also says this about any topic he doesn't care about, so it might be that he straight up doesn't know about it. Johan's just a bit player, we want someone with some clout. But how do we get them to come out? : "Jake pulls out his Magic Fetish" Now THAT got his attention! : "Jake feels a strange pulling sensation." : "--lways a point where everyone gets so mad that everyone else gets mad and starts killing each other. Then goblins show up.": "You'd be surprised how far a good dining room can take you. The new version even let's you see the gruesome stuff they carve on the wall! Yar har!": "I still prefer the ascii graphics, honestly, even after the Matrix enabling update.": "Hey, I agreed to give a potentially evil artefact to a being of immense power in exchange for the Jester Spirit's name.": "Isn't it Laughlyn?": "Yeah, but no one's said it in bold yet." : "Also Laughlyn is NOT a better name than Kitsune.": "You're more in a position to smack me in the face with magic, so I agree." Johan opened the gates, so we can go right in.  I think you're contractually obligated to have dead spooky trees in your yard when you're a vampire. Vampires have a tough union.  : "drat, this place is HUGE.": "Man, I'm in the wrong profession.": "Ahem." : "Oh hey, we just talked over the phone.": "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to ask you to leave the premises.": "I hear that line every time I'm in a fancy place like this.": "Dude, we talked on a video phone like two minutes ago, about the Magic Fetish, remember?" : "Yeah suddenly now you remember what's up.": "A vampire named Vladimir. How stereotypical do you think we're going to get?"  : "Oh god it's like a Saturday morning cartoon!": "Ha ha! You could say this place sucks!": "Your puns are driving me batty!": "That joke bites.": "I'mma torch this place to the ground! Har!": "Batty, oh man I liked that one.": "You're a terrible influence." : "You come here on business? I'd be happy to have you for dinner!": "Hee hee. As much as I'm loving this poo poo, I came here about this Magic Fetish.": "An amulet inscribed with a bat? You have my interest. What do you ask for such a prize?": "I need to know the name of the Jester Spirit." : "Alright cool, let me ju--" : "Ooh a computer, I'll give you the fetish in a sec.": "Hey, get away fro--": "Pff, you guys are using the same cheap-poo poo Control System Glutman was using? I think he only used it because it was free." Welcome to Vlad's computer network! He might have tons of money, but he didn't invest a cent into network security. I'm legitimately embarrassed for the dude.  loving look at this, one single IC was in the way, and it went down in a single attack. All the other IC was away from the network nodes.  Same thing up here, what the hell is this poo poo Vlad?! Pay your loving network admin! I feel disgusted for having spent time in this garbage network. I'm tempted to kick his rear end solely for his lack of giving a poo poo about his network. I raided three nodes and only saw two IC. That's two thirds of an IC per node.  We got a single data file. The other two nodes were full of trash data that we immediately discarded. I'm going to punch this guy square in the bat-balls.  Sensing the impending crotch carnage, Vlad makes a break for it. : "Oh god oh god oh god" : "What?! Is that a thing that vampires can DO?": "I feel like it's bullshit, but I don't know enough about vampires to argue.": "Hyar! I can go through walls!": "You can?": "Aye! Give me twenty minutes and an axe!": "Maybe we should just go the long way.": "Give me twenty seconds and some explosives!" Apparently Johan got the message that Vlad's no longer our friend, so he decides to attack us.  He's not a clever man.  In this room we start seeing new enemies. Cruel Man and Street Samurai. Cruel Man is just a beefed up mage, and Street Samurai is a cheap knock off of Anders. If you haven't been keeping up with your levels, the street samurai can ruin your day.  When I was recording this, I missed the HUGE OBVIOUS GIANT KEY ON THE BOOKSHELF somehow. I'm probably the least qualified person to actually be doing this LP.  : "Hey that guy dropped something extra with his money." Free mesh jacket! We can actually sell the jacket we're wearing, but the shop keeper tells you to piss off if you try to sell him this one, saying it's evil or some poo poo. Stat-wise they're identical. I also gave Kitsune the leather jacket we had lying around, since she doesn't have the strength to wear a mesh one. The only magic users with strength above one is Jangadance and Dances with Clams.  The room we were in before magically filled with mooks. Nothing special.  : "Who DESIGNED this place?!": "Now this was the kind of dining room I was talking about, lass.": "I think I see what you mean." Inside the kitchen, a cruel man and a samurai are just kind of hanging out. Raiding the fridge for snacks will not be tolerated. You probably don't want a vampire's snacks anyway. Yeah you probably don't want any snacks from a kitchen with a crypt gate in it. So here's the deal. The ghouls down here are BAD-rear end. They have a ton of health, do a ton of damage, and your runners will insist on fighting every single one like idiots. The best thing to do is to just bolt.  : "Blarhar! Bones and dust! Bones and dust!": "Come ON Norbert, we've got poo poo to do." In this room, there are four 'boss' ghouls. They can throw their head at you and kill your runners really fast. Once again, run right past them. The pittance of karma you get isn't worth paying a runner again.  Yeah, Vlad, I'm not so sure you're a good guy. Vlad is effectively invincible, since vampires are badasses. What do we do?  : "Let's get this party started, Motherfucker!": "Any way you want it, that's the way you need it!" That 1 is from Vlad socking me in the jaw, not from the strobes. The ghouls did more damage than he does.  Vampire! We blinded him, but NOW what? : "You know, if Vlad is THAT stereotypical of a vampire..." : "...You just happened to be carrying a stake?": "Hey, the way my night's been going, I NEED to stay prepared." Let's make with the stabbin'!  : "I'll tell you anything! Anything! Just keep that stake away from me!": "I need that name!": "That's it?! I was going to tell you the name if you gave me the amulet!": "Then you shouldn't have ran! Tell me the name of the Jester Spirit!" : "There! How hard was that! You shouldn't have ran, then I would have given you the amulet.": "You shouldn't have jacked into my computer without my permission!": "Hey that's right, I never did read that e-mail.": "Er, wait, hold on" : "...": "...": "Vlad you're seriously pissing me off."One apparently wasn't enough, so let's try again. Stabby stabby!  : "This room is full of skeletons! Cut the bullshit and tell me the name of the Jester Spirit!" : "There, finally. Christ.": "I told you what you wanted, now go away!": "Alright fine. We'll get out of your hair.": "Wait, really?": "Haha nope!"  The third stab kills him. There's a fail safe here where as long as you don't know the right keywords, Vlad won't die properly, so you can't accidentally kill him without getting the Laughlyn keyword. This game has lots of ways to keep you from loving yourself. Also if you're wondering, you CAN give Vlad the magic fetish. It doesn't effect you in any way, but he gives you the name Nirwanda, meaning you'll get all the way to Bremerton only to say Nirwanda, and Jester Spirit will kick sand in your face and laugh. You HAVE to shank him with the stake, so you might as well keep your crap. Plus it's funnier to watch him run away in terror after looking up his browser history. Decking, apparently, counts as a hostile action.  And here's our stats to cap this update off. Next time, we're off to Bremerton! Apparently!
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Nidoking posted:So was the mansion your only stop at the Dark Blade hideout, or were you saving the full tour for later? We'll hit up the last room on our way out
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Keksen posted:Maybe I'm missing something here but didn't Jake originally start with this whole thing to find out who almost murdered him and go after them? Now he's killing giant rats and vampires because Narrative-wise, we know Drake is our guy, but he's too powerful to go after directly, so we're doing this side quest for Dog to get our shaman powers back and get strong enough. It's basically a very long, very wierd training montage. Gameplay-wise, Laughlyn is the only one who can say a plot critical keyword.
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Sorry about the slow updates and rare posting, life's been hitting like a freight train even more than usual lately Update Ten: Hot and Cold  : "Give me... one second.": "What are you doing?": "Adding 'Vampire' to the list of poo poo I've killed.": "That list is getting longer and longer as the night goes on." By the way, everyone in the thread who was so sure that I was leaving this computer for this update, you guys are way too confident in my competency. I honestly never knew both computers were hackable. Another system running Alpha, get ready for a real challenge!  This one actually has something we haven't seen before. You need to attack this node to open the lines. Some systems later on will require you to download a password from a node first. They also let you download a phone book, which I'm... not 100% certain what it does. You can download it multiple times and fill up your head computer though, forcing you to jack out and back in. That's also the only way I've seen so far to not have enough room to download every single node.  gently caress off.  Okay that's certainly worth the trouble.: "But wherever could we SPEND this?": "How do you feel about money piles?" Now this is something some people can miss, which can make the end-game content painful and nearly unwinnable. I'm not sure if anything really hints to it. I only found it because I read someone talking about it. You MIGHT be tempted to just head out and, I dunno, go see what Dog's watching on TV, but if you head right instead...   : "Oh wow, a place even sketchier than where I bought that Lone Star badge.": "Wait, you have a Lone Star badge?": "I... did... huh, actually I seem to have lost it some time before I was taken to the caryards...": "Lone Star! Freeze!": "poo poo! Five-oh!": "You have the right to remain silent! Also give me your wallet!": "Wait, are you a cop or a robber?": "I'm Lone Star, son! That makes me both!": "Ah well, who cares." Right now this place doesn't have any real upgrades to our equipment. We could have slogged through the game with the zip gun to save three thousand by getting the shotgun now, but I also could have just shot myself.  The only upgrade is to the Uzi III, which is a drat nice gun but that price tag.The viability of the Uzi is often debated, it mainly comes down to whether you're playing solo or with runners. If you're playing solo, you probably have the money from grinding and not paying runners. If you're like me, even if you HAVE the money, you might as well save it. With 30000 nuyen, we could hire Norbert twenty times. I'm sticking with the shotgun, since frankly we're only an update or two away from an even better weapons upgrade. Grenades are 80 bucks here instead of 100 at Vivyan's, or 150 at tenth street, but I'm still not going to use them since I'm stubborn and set in my ways. :shakefist:  I can't read a single line of this guy's dialogue without the thickest Jersey accent.  : "I've got pieces you can't even get on the open market. There's some more stuff coming soon. I'm just waiting for the heat to die down.": "Is the heat going to die down at convenient points in my own personal plot?": "I'm not saying yes, but come back when you beat the Jester Spirit. And bring money." He says this when we try to sell him the mesh jacket that we found last update, but he'll buy our other one for 2500.  : "Huh, you know we never actually did go tell Dog that we killed the Rat Shaman, did we?": "Can't he talk to you in your head?": "Yeah, but apparently he only does it when he wants to yell at me." We made bank with karma at the Dark Blade. I ended up spending all 23 points on getting Body up to 13. More body = more human  In any case, let's head down to the docks and raid Dog's fridge. Dude owes us a beer by now.  I love this picture because the mage looks like he's just staring disbelieving at the three people gunning him down. like "Oh god how could I have known". Also at this point I rarely fight the random mooks that spawn while I'm going somewhere. Street mooks tend to get mowed down before I get the gun cursor on them anyway.  : "Woah what the gently caress": "Yeah hey, don't prepare us for anything.": "Oh, whoops. This is Dog, he's uh, a dog.": "Greetings, friends of Armitage. I am H'oochin-ikwa.": "I'm Norbert!": "I'm still kind of creeped out." : "Wait I thought I already traveled with you at my side.": "Yes, but now I'll actually help you instead of just dropping cryptic clues. Also I can give you more powers.": "Well, alright.": "Jake, you are in truth a shaman. Follow your calling. You know it to be true. Technology has been thrust upon you. You are fated to use it to destroy your nemesis.": "I was counting more on destroying my nemesis with, say, a shotgun. I guess I can read Drake's e-mails though. That might piss him off. What's up with the Jester Spirit anyway?": "A powerful enemy! He toys with you. He is a spirit of technology in decay. Find such a place, and you will have found his lair. Recite his true name, and you will have bound him to your will." This is what Dog says about Dark Blade by the way. Apparently Johan just had a skin condition.  Powerball kind of sucks. At level one it's not even as powerful as the shotgun. I usually skip it entirely.  Now Freeze on the other hand is a very nice spell. But where can we find the residue of two sea creatures?  : "Wow, good thing that didn't soak into the wooden floor." Yes, this is what you need the black bottle for. You CANNOT scoop up ink in any other container.  And now we have the Incubus Ink! : "I suppose that made it an inkub--": "I will slap you." We need to get to Bremerton to show the drat Jester Spirit what's up, fortunately there's a ferry at the docks. Also there's a giant orc who's stronger than the usual idiots we find.  I wasn't paying attention and kept shooting for a few seconds after he died. He might be a bit stronger, but he still wasn't strong enough for me to care. He was, however, carrying something I DO care about.  : "Oooh, don't mind if I do.": "What was a random dude doing with an explosive device?": "Everyone needs some just-in-case bombs! Gyahar!" Lighting makes a huge difference apparently. : "Who ye be?": "We be me! Ye be he?": "Aye": "Blow the man down and all that. Who are you?": "Longhorn Jack they call me. Finest taxi-boat driver in this fine city.": "Cool, we're looking to go to Bremerton. How much?": "Bremeton - sorry, that be not possible. Mermaids in the waters 'round here attack anybody who heads in that direction.": "...Mermaids.": "They turned up a while back and have been here ever since. They seem to like the warm run-off from the sewers. Keeps the waters warm. Can't say I don't like it myself, but it's been bad for business.": "...Mermaids.": "So now what? How do we even go about solving an issue like this?": "Hey, wait a sec...": "Sorry, no ice. The freezer's on the fritz. We're waiting on a delivery...": "They seem to like the warm run-off from the sewers. Keeps the waters warm.": "Sorry, no ice. The freezer's on the fritz. We're waiting on a delivery...": "They seem to like the warm run-off from the sewers. Keeps the waters warm.": "Sorry, no ice. The freezer's on the fritz. We're waiting on a delivery...": "They seem to like the warm run-off from the sewers. Keeps the waters warm.": "You know what guys? I think I have a plan." : "Admittedly I thought you had some plan to cool the water.": "The hell with that, let's just go in there and shoot Drake in his stupid face." This mage awaits you if you wander in at too low a level. Without a shotgun, you can't really hurt this guy, and he does a lot of damage. He's your last warning before you head into the meat grinder.  With the password we got way back when we killed the Rust Stilettos leader, we can open the elevator. That's the only thing preventing us from getting through the door.  : "Huh, I wonder what Drake Volcano means." This system is ridiculously easy, mainly because it's basically just a button for the elevator. Drake tower is where you either need to have your Computer skill maxed, or have a decker hired.  We're a master decker at this point though, so we're good.   So your first thought may be "Oh poo poo that's a lot of samurai". There's actually so many that it lagged the emulator a bit, which makes casting heal spells really difficult.    They also talk a lot. You may notice the elevator that opened to the right. This is the elevator back down. Drake made it so elevators only go one way.  The answer is to hunt down computers and hack them to open the left elevator. There's multiple hackable computers per floor, but only one opens the elevator. We're hacking everything we can, of course.  See now THIS is a network. It's mostly trash data, but still.   Pretty good haul, let's check out the data file. Looks like we only got part of it, DF_DR 1-4. We'll need to track down the other three to read it. If you attack the main node in an elevator control area, it blows up all the IC in the block. Not super useful but fairly satisfying    Next floor is more of the same, except they have a mage with an AOE attack.  I wasn't paying much attention and I took a ton of damage. Drake don't gently caress around. I keep trying to think of a Legend of Dragoon reference whenever I see Drake Volcano, but nothing is coming to me  This is the first time we find a system where we need to get a password from another block to progress.  If you're like me, and you grab every node (which you should because money), you'll end up doing this by accident anyway.  Sometimes it's kind of a waste.    [img]http://lpix.org/1766074/Shadowrun10.mp4.Still085.jpg[/img]  I was honestly dreading this update a bit because Holy gently caress it's all just hacking. Matrix sections are fun to play but man, they're not interesting to look at.  : "Alright, there. God drat. Alright, let's get... wait, where's Norbert?": "He dropped when those five samurai were shooting at us." : "Oh hell no, let's stop this for a bit.": "Is that... okay?": "Well we killed like half of Drake's staff, the other half will still be here." : "Hey Norbert! You're looking surprisingly good for someone who just got shot up.": "Har! A bit o'lead never done no one harblurghHGKH": "Is uh, is that an organ?": "Prob'ly. Y'know 1500 nuyen should get me a replacement." : "I don't think that's quite enough for that, but hey you're hired... again": "Repeat customers are important." While we're here, why not see how our buddy is doing?  : "Things are like so cool! Especially now that the guy with the ice delivered.": "Oh hey good for you guys. Is the ice dude still around?": "Wow, no puns?": "One of my companions is dangerously close to magic-ing me in the back.": "The chiller is the dude over there in the corner." The chiller is chilling over here.  He's not a cool guy. Until you talk about something he cares about at least   : "Sure I can get you ice. I only deal in it a ton at a time though. Cost you 100 nuyen. You interested?": "That... uh, okay, yeah." : "Just dump it all right into the ocean, down by the docks": "You got it! I'll do it as soon as the band finishes this song.": "Heh heh, gently caress you mermaids." With the crew reunited, let's head back to Drake's house.    We now have three parts of the data file we've been tracking down.        Drake tower is an absolute SLOG, but we're making enough money to be worth our while.  We also got the last section, putting it together we get these two data files.  Now this sheds some light on what Matrix Systems was up to. Apparently Drake and someone named Aneki have some AI shenanigans going on, and we have the solution to it. At least we know we're not just carrying around Pushkin's porn collection or something.  DF_DR_VOLCANO is an angry memo from Drake telling his goons not to gently caress up. It also tells them not to make him leave his secret Volcano fort or god help him he'll slap a motherfucker. Also if you haven't caught on, Drake has a loving volcano base. Say what you will about the guy, he knows how to be evil in STYLE.   The samurai are still annoying but liveable, although we're popping heals like crazy. Fortunately both Jake and Kitsune have a ton of MP.  : "...You know, I just had a thought." : "Give me a sec, I need to make a phone call.": "Who on earth would you need to call NOW of all times?" : "Hello! Do you have Dunkelzahn in a can?" : "Armitage! You!": "Then you better let him out! Hahahahahaha!": "You're dead Armitage!" : "Oh god that was so worth it.": "Huh, I didn't think the name was literal.": "Neither did I, and I'm a little worried about being this unsurprised.": "Ask him if his fridge is running!" We made it to the roof! These sentry guns are a lot less imposing than you'd expect. They're also the only enemies up here.  However, this is something we can use. Given that Drake is in his volcano lair and clearly not in the tower, since otherwise we would have shot him up too.  He's also more than willing to turncoat. I like you, helicopter man.  : "You need to tell me where you want me to fly this bird, chummer.": "That's easy, I want to... uhhh...": "...uhhhhhhhh": "...uhhhhhhhh" : "...uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" : "...I can't... say it yet.": "...What?": "...I don't have the keyword, I can't tell you where I want to go yet.": "Oh my god.": ""Looks like we can't get off the plot railroad. Looks like we're headed to Bremerton after all.  Also the pilot won't take you.  We did unlock this in the shop though! We get something even better when we beat the Bremerton area (Yes, the better armour appears earlier in the narrative than this. This item is thoroughly useless.) : "At least we got to prank call Drake. That's worth a fortune.": "I think Norbert is vomiting blood."
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Shadow225 posted:I think the tables are broken. Honestly, I thought a better gun was unlocked by reaching the roof of Drake Tower, also I didn't really want to do the Bremerton section yet.  We learn the Volcano keyword during that area.Rockopolis posted:I guess the shopkeeper won't buy the mesh jacket because it's his neighbor's? He doesn't want anything to do with the Dark Blade? Apparently they do exist, and they look like this: 
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Aug 11, 2014 01:37
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I'd be 100% down with a goon run Shadowrun group
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Aug 18, 2014 01:59
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Really glad to see the excitement over playing some Shadowrun. I'd be interested in seeing some campaigns with the different folks here. Maybe we should gather everyone interested into a Skype group so we can coordinate a bit easier? Oh and also: Bonus Update: Shadowrun Returns Stuff! So hey, I figured to disguise the fact that I totally forgot to record and pull screenshots from the game, I'd show off some of the swag Shadowrun Returns backers got! So back when this started, I had a pretty good job working tech support and had a bit of money to chuck around. I dropped 500 large on the project considering how excited I was that not only was Shadowrun coming back in video game form, but it even had some of the SNES game guys too! In fact, the Shadowrun Returns soundtrack even went as far as to sample some of the SNES music. Not to mention Jake loving Armitage. Then my company told me five minutes before the end of my last shift that they were selling the building, and that there was a taxi waiting for me outside. Corps got no respect, man. In any case, the $500 reward tier got some swanky stuff, including all of the physical rewards. The next tier up was having your face as one of the characters in the game at $1000.  First up is an art book, I decided not to take many pictures of the inside since that seems a little douchey. It has some slick art, including concept art of areas in the game.  And it's signed! The signatures are from Mike Mulvihill, Jordan Weisman, and "M. Hol", who I'm not quite sure the identity of. I love them regardless.  I also got this fellow. It's a set of dog tags, but one of the tags is actually a 7 gigabyte flash drive.  A closer look at the other tag.  With the top level tier, you get all three of the shirts they were offering, only one of which fits anymore since I lost like fifty pounds in between pledging and the game actually coming out  A poster which I completely forgot about, tucked into the art book. It's above my computer now.  One of my favourite things is this, the Doc Wagon card. Platinum of course . It features my name and my ugly mug, as well as being surprisingly a realistic card. The back is hard to read, but it says the following: YOUR BODY IS OUR BOTTOM LINE. This card and the body it represents are the property of the issuing DOC WAGON franchise. Use of this card signifies agreement to the current conditions set forth by DOC WAGON. Cardholder agrees to surrender the card to DOC WAGON upon demand. The cardholder understands that DOC WAGON is not responsible to provide any rehabilitative care, but guarantees only to stabilize the cardholder's medical condition. If, in the judgement of DOC WAGON personnel, any part of the cardholder will no longer serve the cardholder, it becomes DOC WAGON property. DOC WAGON is not responsible to provide medical attention within any set period of time, but will always use it's best judgement on the routing of it's personnel. DOC WAGON will also apply "Combat Surcharges" where it deems appropriate. ...poo poo I really should have read that fine print.  Now you might have noticed this QR code. If you scan that, you're sent to this link. Shadowrun Returns is loving fantastic by the way, and you should absolutely play it.
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Cape Cod Crab Chip posted:You dropped five hundred thousands!? Chris Kluwe ain't got poo poo on you, man. Whoops, I meant just five hundred I don't know money terms, probably because I have no money anymore.Update 11: I's the b'y that raids the boat  Well that was a waste of time. Let's go see if Dog has any ideas. : "See, now I'm curious. We dropped everyone in Drake Towers, so where are these guys even coming from now?": "Maybe from the Volcano. Volcaaano.": "Your sass is getting more biting over the course of this journey.": "I've made more puns tonight than I ever have before, and it terrifies me.": "It's a disease." On this dock, an exceptionally difficult to see item is here. : "Oh gross.": "Are those... mermaid scales?": "It looks like it. A mermaid must have gotten stuck on th... Why are you picking them up.": "I dunno, Dog might want them. He wanted those leaves you had.": "Those were sacred leaves from my homeland.": "He also wanted a paperweight and a zombie bone." : "Jake, are you carrying mermaid scales? And octopus ink?": "Yup": "With these items, I can confer unto you the Freeze Spell.": "Oh no": "Oh YES."Freeze is a pretty great spell Also oh lordy the ice puns it enables. : "I'm not even going to make any right now. I'm going to save them." : "Yeah, I'm going to pop out for now, I don't want to be around when the pun storm happens.": "Category five hurripain, baby.": "Right. If you need me, come see me at the Wastelands.": "Can't I just rehire you now?": "Nope. Once I blow this thousand nuyen on drinks, I'll take another thousand though.": "Fair enough." So we COULD go to the Wastelands and pick up Froguetongue again, but we have a couple more runners we haven't spoken to yet.  Back to the Jagged Nails. You might remember the other two people we saw in here, given they were two of the three patrons. Including Jake.  : "Sup. Here.": "Don't give me that look." The fellow on the left is a Decker, and also one of the best runners overall. He's also REALLY loving EXPENSIVE. as in five keys expensive without Negotiation maxed out. Fuuuuuuuck that. On the left is a bit more fiscally responsible choice.  This line wierds me the gently caress out. Technomancers were (As far as I know, I might be so loving wrong about this) introduced in the 4th Edition of Shadowrun, released in 2005. This game was released in 1993, concurrent with 2e. Technomancers also first appeared after the Matrix Crash in 2064, the game clearly states this is 2050. So Technomancers don't exist in-universe OR as a game mechanic for twelve more years. What is your deal, Spatter.  : "Don't insult me! We're talking more like 2000 nuyen if you want the magic on your side. Money buys power!": "I don't like this man.": "What's the matter, scared I'm a better caster than you?": "Sounds like someone in the room is begging for a fist to their nard--": "KITSUNE WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN": "Whoops, I'm gonna go hang with Glutman for a bit.": "I PAID YOU FOURTY THOUSAND NUYEN FOR THIS SHOW": "Hey just an FYI, I'm taking one of your two customers. Also I lost your strobes, probably." "DON'T INSULT ME I WANT TWO THOUSAND yes probably one and a half is good enough" Spatter is a moron.  Spatter is also a really meh mage. He has powerball, which is useless, a lesser heal than either Kitsune or Jake, and only 80 MP. The ONLY magical advantage he has is the Armour spell, which is only really useful for half of Drake Tower. He is however, a decent enough gunslinger, but if you wanted a gunslinger, Anders and Frogtongue are both far better. Norbert's on a whole other level.  I also took the time to level up Freeze. Powerball will be left at level one. gently caress powerball.  Let's head back to the docks and see if the ferryman has had a change of heart.  : "Aye.": "Aye?": "Aye.": "Aye. Mermaids are gone.": "Where did they go?": "Someone dumped a truck full of ice into the harbour. Drove them all off and killed all the babies that couldn't swim fast enough. Not sure who did it.": "I.": "Aye?": "Aye.": "I..." You need to have 1000 nuyen to hire the boat, but once we pay him once, he'll take us whenever we want.  Off to Bremerton we go!  : "Admittedly I don't remember anything before I woke up in the morgue, but I'm decently sure this isn't Bremerton." : "Yeah, pretty sure this isn't it.": "Dog said something about the Jester Spirit being a spirit of "Technology in Decay"": "This is more technology torpedoed to poo poo." So this is the boat level. If any of you saw the two and a half hour nightmare of a Jurassic Park LP from the 2007 LP thread, you'll know Boats and Danaru don't mix at all. I cut out a TON of confused backtracking here. It's not even that difficult of an area, I'm just REALLY incompetent.  The upper deck is just really a straight shot, but you may notice a lot of doors. They're all rusted shut.  A dog attacks us up here. We get "Dog Tag" from it. You can probably guess who it's for.  Now this door, this door is different. It LOOKS the same, but if you remember, we have a crowbar we looted from a dead Rust Stilettos member. God help you if you forgot that crowbar.  : "Ewwwwww.": "Jake, how is shooting the puddle of ooze going to..." : "...Well apparently you CAN solve any problem by shooting it.": "Been saying that all my life." There's a button here. It looks kinda like a light, but it opens the door downstairs. it's a fairly good way of conveying what you're supposed to be looking for. Also yes there will be button puzzles.  For now though, they're keeping it simple. Push button, open door.  The boat can be kind of confusing, especially compared to Drake Towers' straight shot upward. To most people it would be a fairly simple maze. I am no normal man.    There are three identical flights of stairs downwards here. What the hell kind of ship IS this  At the very bottom is this guy and a safe. Safe means presents!  Conveniently, he had the key on him. For as many "Want to make progress?! Hope you knew to steal that scalpel and save the shaman to get a magical action figure motherfucker!" dick moves there are, there's a lot of simple gimmes too. It's like the devs couldn't figure out if they liked or hated the player.  Inside are two items, a detonator!  ...And a broken bottle. The bottle has no use. Zero. None.  The detonator on the other hand, immediately combines with the explosives we stole from the dude on the dock to make the Time Bomb. : "eeeeeee" The broken bottle had Toxic Desolver in it. But it's broken, so it doesn't anymore. Why was this item put in the game but the cell phone was dummied out. Dick move guys.  A couple more guys respawned along the stair case. Honestly nothing in here is as strong as what we fought in Drake Tower. I rarely even had to heal the gang. : "This boat doesn't even seem to be that damaged aside from that one hole in the deck. She still floats just fine, and apparently houses a good sized crew.": "Who cares, let's just get this over with.": "What's wrong? Scared of a couple goons and a spirit?": "Sick of the wet-dog smell, more like it.": "I'm a FOX you little poo poo": "Down girl, I spent fifteen hundred on him, don't kill him.": "Grrr..." There are a lot of paths to go down, but most of them either loop, or go immediately to a dead end.  In this room, everyone starts blasting that black puddle over there for some reason.  : "Like I need provocation to shoot something." Once it... dies? It leaves behind a gross puddle.  : "What am I doing with my life?" And now we have the toxic water. Whoo.  ANOTHER set of three identical flights of stairs, but these are slightly less identical.  : "Button!" : ""Well that does nothing, let's continue down.  : "Button!" : "Uhhhh": "Do you hear someone banging and shouting?": "Oh hey, maybe that other button works now!"Let's head back up!  : "Okay yeah I definitely heard the screams that time.": "Nice to see those ears aren't just for show.": "I swear to god.": "Man, that is a TERRIBLE way to die." : "Well let's go look for loot." So here's the deal, let's imagine you, the sharp-eyed adventure game player that you are, decides to come all the way down without pushing the buttons first. You're immediately greeted by four invincible orcs. They can ONLY be killed by drowning/crushing them through water pressure. Which was easy for you because you spotted those buttons the first time. You think you're better than me, don't you.  : "At least this is safe! "The safe key doesn't work, so let's confer to our panel of party members for ideas. : "Who cares about some stupid safe, are we going to finish this run or what?": "Do we have a way of picking the lock? or just straight up destroying the door?": "I already planted that time bomb." The explosion somehow did zero damage to both Jake and Kitsune. At least it did the job of destroying the door!  Inside is a bottle of Toxic Dissolver. An unbroken bottle. So the bottle can clearly survive an explosion. Meaning they purposely put a broken bottle in the other safe. Drake's goons are loving idiots.  Heading back up, we kill more of them. Who cares.      : "Gah what the hell?"This green slime immediately beelines for Jake and starts stunlocking him. It can actually damage him too, unlike most of the goons on the ship. You might be thinking "Use the toxic dissolver!", which is the obvious answer.  The... obvious answer that doesn't work. There's no way to get rid of this slime.  However, if we manage to tank our way past it...  We're back where we started! gently caress you too, Shadowrun.  I'm not letting some slime force me to take the long way around again. I will literally walk through acid solely to spite the acid.  In fact, you never need to go through the slime room to progress. If you're smart, you don't go through it at all. If you're stupid, you go through it twice.  Gang Leaders are a hilariously obsolete enemy by now. They're also shadows of the one we saw in the arena. I don't even think these guys are as strong as the gang leader over in the Rust Stiletto's house.  : "I'm no boat expert, but I'm decently sure the water's supposed to be on the outside.": "Seek a door that carries a [9]" Once again we come upon green slimes, but if our toxic dissolver doesn't work, and shooting it doesn't work, what works?  Oh wait, the toxic dissolver works now. Okay. Whatever. I'm not even mad about it.  Buttons! Having the left one on and the right one off makes the mines in the next room explode. Nothing hints at that, or at the fact that there are mines in the next room.  This button just opens the door.  : "Har! HAR!": "Awesome!": "What's that on the other side? Is that..." : "Yeeahhh that's a portal.": "The hell?": "Well, let's head in I guess. Maybe it'll take us somewhere nice." : "Oh huh, not as bad as I was expecting.": "What?!": "Tonight's events have made me a bit of a pessimist." : "That is the goofiest thing I've seen all night."This is the Naga. It looks fairly doofy, but it can dish out a respectable amount of damage. It also has a fair amount of defense, but it's health is only 30. It's not really an issue unless you're going solo.  That's all there really is to it. I guess we could have used Spatters' armour spell but who cares.  : "This place is gross.": "Wimp.": "I can't believe this is the second time we can bring up Dark Seed. This place is totally Geiger." Bubbles! You can't kill these, but you can make them stop vomitting bubbles everywhere by shooting them a bit. Pictured here are more bubbles. If you shoot them, they bounce and you can jump under them. Your dudes will become obsessed with shooting them forever, so keep walking.  : "Are ALL spirit dimensions like this?!": "Some of them. This isn't my first rodeo in a metaplane. Some of them are actually kind of nice.": "You have? Really?": "I've had to put some uppity spirits in their place before. Or lovely mages.": "The hell is that supposed to mean?": "Haha you reacted when I said "lovely Mage" as if I was talking about you": "...": "I WAS, but still, haha": "Yeah okay so about these streams of fireballs hurtling at us." So while you're in this room, fireballs will hurl in straight lines at you. SERPENTINE for christ's sake. One fireball can easily nail all of your party members.  Play your cards right and you should get to Giggles here no problem.  Jester Spirit has some harsh moves, and there's not a lot you can do about them. If you're careful, you CAN dodge them, but they're fast, so he'll keep you on the defensive.  Also stay as close to the wall as you can, Jester Spirit will fly backwards to try to mess up your cursor lock, which can waste a lot of aiming time.  When he says this, you won the fight. He'll keep attacking you, but unless you're an idiot, you'll immediately know what to do.  : "God you are SO lame.": "Run, run, run as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm the razorblade man!": "Uuuuuuuuugh": "Just say his name already, he's so lame he's making puns seem funny.": "I would NEVER deign to partake in puns. They're the lowest form of comedy.": "Your name is Laughlyn, that's basically a pun" : "Oh, right, hey"If you say Nirwanda here, he just says "You guessed wrong, little man!", and then you have to figure out Vlad lied to you and go stab him. Or stab him again if you only stabbed him once and accepted Nirwanda as the name. Thank god I'm the hacker equivalent of a kleptomaniac. And the regular equivalent I guess. : "Choose wisely where you wish to summon my power, for only once it will be.": "Tell me what you know about Drake": "Protector of the jokers. You will be in for a warm reception if you plan to challenge him, for a Volcano is his home. If this is where you intend to call on me, then so be it!": "VOLCANO": "There, gently caress, now we can go to the stupid volcano": "VULCAYNUH": "Are you done": "VULCAYNUH JEHK ERMATERGE": "I must say, human, I'm impressed. I did not expect you to find out my true name. What will you do with my powers?": "Stuff you in my pants for now, who knows what'll come up." GO THROUGH THIS PORTAL. It is 100% possible to backtrack, and if you immediately run out, you might not notice the portal coming down. Going through this portal activates a couple VERY important flags. Gun related flags.  Wait for it to come down, and then...  : "WHAT THE HELL WAS ANY OF THAT" Back up through Drake Tower, we've got a key word to say!  : "...What?": "Are you betraying us?": "Die, dirtbag!": "I think he's betraying us.": "...I uh, I was expecting a bunch of Drake's men to back me up, he said...": "Yeah we sorta slaughtered everyone in the building before we even hired you.": "...Oh.": "Kitsune, if you don't mind?": "Oh I've SO been waiting for this." So yeah, if you're doing this normally, and Spatter betrays you amidst all the street samurai, it can be extremely dangerous. As it is, he died in seconds. Also yeah he's dead forever. Who cares.  He also somehow lost 1400 nuyen in the last while. So now it's just a straight shot to the roof. Let's head to the volcano! Or... Actually, let's not. The game pulled a LOT of dick moves on us this update. Why don't we pay the game back a bit?  Talking to Kitsune, you may notice a lot of our keywords are gone. At a couple points in the game, it'll clean up your inventory of useless items and keywords to get rid of clutter. Specifically, you'll notice Laughlyn and Nirwanda are gone.  Before we get started, we finally have a new tier of weapon. Our current shotgun has a damage level of eight, this has a damage of ten, and requires a strength of five. Five is the max strength you'll ever need.  We also have this. Our current jacket has a defence of two, while this baby has a defense of FIVE. We basically can't get hurt by street mooks anymore. But now we're broke, and we can't have that, but how can we make some more money?  : "How am I alive?! Why am I alive?!": "Heeeeyyyyy buddy!": "No no NO!"That's right! Vlad is programmed to always be here if you don't know the word Laughlyn, to avoid killing him permanently and making Laughlyn unlearnable. That means we can kill him again!   And that's five thousand more nuyen! But that's not quite enough, is it?  Let's take a quick trip back to the boat. Everyone's dead, so aside from the bubbles (which will start battles and eventually cause you to run out of time with your runners, but who cares.) it's a clean shot through.  Back through the portal and... : "Hey I forgot the Jester Spirit's name again! Let's go see Vlad!" : "Why are you doing this?!": "I need money fast!": "This is... REALLY messed up."You can do this INFINITE times. It's free money. There are NO drawbacks to this. I'm not going to do it forever since I have some semblance of integrity, but I did it enough times to get ourselves some cyberware. This game OWES me for my childhood.  And the cyberware that's available is great! These boosted reflexes let us shoot faster, from 2.6 shots a second to 1.8.  Maplethorpe also updated his stock with this! Dermal Plating adds two armour points to whatever you're wearing, meaning we went from two armour points to SEVEN. And all we had to do was resurrect a vampire specifically to murder him! BY THE WAY YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT THE LAST TWO SCREENSHOTS LOOK DIFFERENT, IT'S BECAUSE I FINALLY REALIZED THAT THE SCREEN WAS EVER SO SLIGHTLY RESIZED SMALLER THAN NORMAL AND THAT'S WHY EVERY SCREENSHOT BEFORE LOOKED LIKE IT WAS RESIZED INCORRECTLY. IT TOOK ME ELEVEN UPDATES TO FIGURE OUT WHY IT WAS HAPPENING. I'M SO COMPETENT IT PHYSICALLY HURTS. Seriously though CirclMastr this is the level of stupid you're letting into your pen and paper RPG. I hope you're ready. : "Okay the datajack and the skill software were low essence, but this is seriously going to cause you problems, Jake.": "Ehhhhh it'll get done."
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Update 12: This Update Tends to Drag-On : "I just don't understand why you're so upset. I even went through the portal one last time to make sure he stays alive. He should be THANKING me.": "You aren't having any existential thoughts about the meaning of life and death right now?": "Not really, we needed the money to hire Norbert back on.": "Aye, and I thank ye for it. Yer sending me kids through college!": "You have kids?": "Well, by kids I mean beer, and by college I mean my stomach.": "This is why we keep hiring you, Norbert." As I mentioned last update, this guy next to where Spatter was is one of the last runners we have yet to see.  Steelflight sells himself as a Decker, but if you have the money to hire him, you have the karma to upgrade your Computer level to the max of six. He's also a drat good gunslinger and weighs in at 100 HP. He'll also hang around for 70 battles, like Norbert. 70 is also the highest amount of battles anyone will put up with aside from Kitsune's score of "Forever".  : "An Elf of my skill does not come cheap!"He MEANS this. Last update I mentioned he wants 5000 nuyen to join up, but even with negotiation maxed, he wants 4000. Frankly, I never hire him because he's not super worth the price tag, but this is a 100% completion and 0% skill LP, dammit.  He's also sort of a prick. : "You make it sound simpler than I'm sure it is! I'll do it for 4000 nuyen.": "Fortunately I ganked Vlad one last time to afford this.": "Excuse me?": "Forget it, you'll get into the swing of things soon enough."Also just a note, the Jagged Nails is now officially patronless.  We introduce Steelflight to the team the Armitage way.  : "But first it's nap time.": "Yeah no worries, Drake isn't going anywhere.": "Your sarcasm fuels me." 63 Karma is quite a bit. We finish upgrading Freeze, and knock a few points into Body and Magic, satisfyingly ending us at zero karma. Just kinda keep that in your head that we're at zero karma. No real reason. Zero Karma.  : "So hey new guy, how do you feel about volcanos?": "I can't... say I'm particularly a fan.": "Can you at least SAY volcano?": "That was NOT my fault, don't put that on me.": "I don't need to worry about you calling me names since no one said it in bold.": "I'm starting to think I should have charged the full five thousand": "Har, that be a BIG pile t'roll in!"  : "Heeeeyyyyy buddy.": "Oh hey, I figured my best chance at survival was to hang out until you... finished your business.": "Wow, you're the only smart person Drake has employed.": "Also Drake never leaves his volcano, while you're specifically pointing a gun at me at the moment.": "He never leaves the what?": "By the way, you mind NOT pointing that gun at me?": "Whoops, sorry, force of habit." I swear they did this on purpose just to drive the point home. : "The Drake Volcano? It's YOUR funeral! Climb aboard and get that gun outta my face!": "Woah you turned surly all of a sudden.": "Yeah well I didn't think you'd want me to fly you straight to my boss, the dragon, so he can see I specifically brought you there.": "Would it make you feel better if I told you we're going to kill him?": "...Actually it would, the severance package for people who quit is usually a shallow grave." : "I've been on a lot of vehicles tonight." : "Make sure you confirm your kill. I'm going to be filling out an application for Ares while you're in there.": "Cool, we won't be long." : "Gotta give Drake credit, this is kind of awesome.": "Who would have thought a place like this even existed?": "Any decent fortress would have flooded this with magma by now. I'm not impressed.": "Honestly I wouldn't be super surprised if that happened." Drake Volcano is way different from Drake Tower. Where the tower was just a straight fight upward, the volcano is winding and maze-like. It's not as bad as the ship, but it also has way more respawning enemies than the ship did.  Sub-level 1 is a pain in the rear end because it also leads around in a circle with multiple rooms branching off. Each floor is similar to the tower, where you need to hack a computer in order to open the elevator downwards. The other floors have mostly straight lines dotted with side-rooms, floor one is just a straight up guessing game.  Troll Deckers are a normal enemy now, by the way. I can't tell if they're neutered from the first one in the arena, or if I'm just overpowered and bought friends, but frankly they're no big deal. However, one very important thing to do is to watch your runners' health. Kitsune has 50, and Norbert has 60. Each enemy does minimal damage due to spreading the hits among our four people, but that can compound pretty quick. Steelflight is sitting pretty at 100, so you don't have to watch him as closely.  : "I'm hoping we can keep it on the down-low for a while, and get the drop on Drake that way.": "Someone must have heard us shoot that troll a second ago.": "You need to abandon logic if you want to understand Drake's goons. We could probably put a few rounds into some of them before they notice us." : "Well that guy noticed.": "I almost ran face first into that guy before he opened fire." The damage output on these trolls is kind of embarassing. These are Drake's best of the best. This is from both of those trolls by the way. I didn't heal in between.  : "Uh, uh, I'm the volcano's cook.": "Wow." So this happens any time you enter a room on the first floor. The alarm means trolls will constantly respawn any time you enter a hallway. You can turn it off through one computer on the floor, but it's not honestly that big a deal.  You CAN kill any of the scientists in the complex, but honestly, they're going to be unemployed pretty soon. Their day is already going bad enough. : "Get out of the way, I want to hack that computer behind you."   At this point, hacking is a bit dangerous. IC naturally doesn't give a poo poo about how much armour you have, so while the trolls are lucky to get a one damage, IC can do up to a maximum of Fourty Eight damage at this point in the game if you're really unlucky. It rarely ever does that much, but even tens and twenties build up a lot over time.  The systems in Drake Volcano also tend to be a bit more winding and longer than usual, so it becomes a bit of an endurance game. If we didn't have Kitsune, this might be a bit dangerous.  Our goal once again are these green diamond fellows. They control the elevators.  And with that, we can head to floor 2.  : "Dude, I'm not planning to kill you, but keep this up and I might rethink it." : "Alright, let's bounce." This red filter blinks on and off during the extent of the alarm. It makes screenshots look a bit wierd, but it's a cool effect. It's nice knowing we're finally getting the respect we deserve.  Floor 1 is honestly super short if you know what you're doing. Getting lost can end up wearing down your health and magic, so just getting through this quick gives us an advantage.  Floor 2 is a bit more straight forward, as you'll see.  : "Two levels down and not a single sign of magma.": "I imagine this volcano is inactive. Who would build a fortress in an ACTIVE volcano?": "You make me sick." This scientist usually kills himself by throwing a bunch of explosives. He didn't get a chance to this time.  The door on the left contains the computer we need to hack.  ...So we hack it. Floor 2 is really boring okay?  Although we do meet THIS enemy. Unlike the sentry guns we blew up on the roof of Drake Tower, these ones are invincible. However as you may have guessed, killing the operator stops it from shooting. Kill the engineer before sapping the sentry, this is basic stuff.  The problem is it can be tough to get the right shot. This is even WORSE if your runners aren't all in the same spot, since when they rotate to shoot at each runner, your shoot cursor does NOT lock onto them, since they technically aren't moving. Your runners, thankfully, don't have this issue, but since Jake is the primary damage output, having the scientist rotating around like an rear end in a top hat can end with your runners getting hurt bad.  It's also merciful that we only had to deal with one. Later on we'll see up to three at once.  : "I wonder how much a place like this costs.": "It feels like with a bit of basic planning, it would cost a lot less. This is the least space-economical place I've ever seen.": "When yer a dragon, ye can pretty much afford anything.": "Wait, was that pilot serious when he said his boss was a dragon?!" Floor 3 is another fairly linear one, although it also has some very important and missable things.  This scientist actually managed to throw a bomb at us.    : "Uh, hello gentlemen. ": "Don't shoot!": "Are you planning to throw bombs at me?": "Bombs?": "Nope, no bombs, no guns, we're unarmed, don't hurt us.": "Cool, then just step aside, I need to use your computer." : "Er, wait, can I save my work first?": "You won't need it. Also I'd copy your resume to something soon, just a heads up." This is a rather large network. Floor three in general is fairly hack-heavy.    I don't care if it's mostly trash data, this is super satisfying.  And so is that!  We also jack one of Drake's e-mails. Let's see who's saying what.  : "Pfffhahaha Drake's getting yelled at by his boss!": "Haha!": "Har har!": "Heh... but seriously is he actually a dragon?" Sentry guns are infinitely easier to deal with when they're between Jake and the 'camera', since they're wide open to be aimed at by the cursor. gently caress logic.  It's VERY important to go straight through the door ahead, otherwise you can miss out on some stuff.  : "Hello.": "Ahhh!": "I know, I know."There are THREE hackable computers in this room.  This one contains money!   This one over here contains a data file! "WHATEVER YOU DO MAKE SURE JAKE NEVER GETS THIS PHONE NUMBER, ALSO HERE'S THE PHONE NUMBER." Drake is the worst dragon, seriously.  And in computer number three...  We're priority one! The one attempt is referring specifically to hiring the Rust Stilettos. Let me run down the plan they came up with:Step One: Send two guys, including the only gang member with the key to our hideout, to kill Jake at the subway. Step Two: Spray paint "UM" all over the hideout. You're a loving dragon, Drake. Hire Golgo 13 or something, you HAVE the money.  In the next room is the computer we need to hack. I'm skipping most of the hacking sequences since they're mostly the same now.  God drat sentries. In any case, that's Floor 3 down, we're onto the last floor.  Maximum Security  : "Huh, I wonder what that was": "Oh my god, I thought I was joking about being able to shoot them without me noticing.": "It'd be depressing if he weren't gettin' what he deserved." THIS ROOM IS A CLUSTERFUCK. It's not so bad now, considering we can cheese it slightly by knocking off that one guy who didn't notice the four people shooting him, and slowly revealing the others one or two at a time, but there are a TON of enemies. Be extremely careful with your runners here.  You might be able to run and tank enough to get to the top right corner, which is a place you'll want to be anyway. : "See I like this. Long hallways usually mean treasure.": "Or a boss monster.": "What are the odds of--" : "Lame.": "Oh god it's happening AGAIN!"The Naga, despite being just as goofy, is significantly weaker. It got off one attack, which hit but didn't damage Jake.  And then died slightly off screen. Cool. : "Alright, long hallway AND a boss monster. That definitely means treasure is up ne--" : "Oh come ON." It's literally the exact same naga again. I don't remember if this one even got a shot off.  In the THIRD hall is a Golden Naga. It has twice as much health as the other two. Which means it lasts about four seconds instead of two. Whoo.  I still love how goofy these things look. :3 Just look at him. Him and that "Hey Kiddo!" Orc should do a show together.  : "Long rear end hallway. Three 'boss' monsters. This is going to be amazing.": "It must be something good, if Drake had three nagas guarding it.": "drat right, we EARNED this. Let's see what we get!" : "Kitsune": "Yeah?": "You saw we went down a long corridor.": "We did.": "You saw we fought three nagas, including a pallet swap.": "We did.": "Now it looks to me that this is an empty room with an unhackable computer.": "It looks that way.": "And an empty room implies no treasure.": "That's what it implies.": "That is what that implies.": "...heh heh, see, now it's on.": "Are you... okay?": "No, no I'm not okay. And neither is anything else.": "Jake you seem... worse than usual.": "See, killing me was alright, annoying, but whatever. The constant hitmen pissed me off. Getting stuffed in the caryards, kind of infuriating. Cortex bomb, the Rust Stilettos, the vampire bullshit, even the volcano keyword fiasco. All pissed me off, but I got over it. Do you know why?": "Why?": "Because it was fair. I suffered, I overcame, I got prizes. That's how it works. I fight an enemy, I get money. I fight a big enemy, I get presents. But this. This isn't playing fair.": "Maybe it's some kind of punishment for exploiting Vlad?": "They want to see exploit?! I'll SHOW them Exploit."So this is it. This is the big one. The game slapped us in the face, so we're going to burn it's god drat house down. You think farming Vlad was cheating? Vlad's not even on the same map as this. See, there's a familiar quirk with the gold naga. It drops a spell reagent, which much like Vlad, means it's programmed to spawn as long as you don't have the item. "So you can farm the gold naga? big deal" you say. First of all don't interrupt me. Douche. Second of all, the gold naga has another quirk. It expects you to come from the front, a reasonable assumption. However if you come from the back, the gold naga doesn't spawn quite right. It takes a quarter of a second to reach full health. But no one is good enough to shoot it THAT fast.  Except for your runners, who open fire the second anything spawns. As long as you have a runner that uses guns, the gold naga will get one-shot every single time.  And say you entered this room again, then went back, you don't have the spell reagent, therefore...  : "Yes. YES! YES."You can do this forever. As long as you never pick up the scales, the naga keeps spawning. As long as you have a runner with a gun (Since Kitsune's magic attack takes too long to charge), you can get another 6-7 karma in seconds. You can leave the volcano, rehire a runner, come back, and continue farming this son of a bitch.  I only did this for about two minutes, since I honestly felt a little bad for the game. Two minutes to get 132 karma. : "The lesson is simple. Give me the prizes I'm owed, or I will take it.[/b]" I did pick up the scales, by the way. We've got some running around to do for Dog later on.  This room is even worse from this entry. That sentry dude up top keeps rotating around and is nearly impossible to hit. It's generally worth it to just run and heal your dudes in the next room. Much better. There's a couple trolls in here, but you'll likely activate them one at a time unless you're running around like an idiot.   In the next room are some bomb chucking scientists. You know how to handle them by now. : "There better god drat be something good down THIS path.": "Who the hell dares t-- Armitage!": "Oh that'll do just fine." Holy poo poo it's DrakeDrake is easily the hardest battle yet, and without preparation, this could be a game ender. He starts off the fight by dropping ice blocks on you, which freeze you if they hit, just like the Rat Shaman's freeze spell. : "You have NO idea how long I've been waiting for this.": "I could say the same to you. I'm impressed by how you managed to evade my agents. But this is where your journey ends!" : "Drake, it sounds like you need to COOL OFF" : "What the hell?! You have the power of magic?!": "CHILL OUT" : "ICE TO SEE YOU" : "COOL PARTY" : "STAY FROSTY" : "OH JESUS, JESUS SWEET GOD THE PAIN LIFE IS A NIGHTMARE" : "Are you alright Jake?": "I'm good, I just need to COOL DOWN": "Stand still you son of a bitch!" : "DO YOU KNOW WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS?!" : "THE ICE AGE"     : "Did we just kill a god drat dragon?": "Did he just turn into stone?": "How the hell do you know that many quotes from the worst Mister Freeze rendition ever?": "Holy poo poo it's over. Drake is dead.": "We did it! Yarhar!": "How does it feel?": "Honestly this feels... wierd. I still don't remember anything from before I woke up in the morgue, and planning to kill Drake is really all I had.": "Nothing aside from ancient movie references, anyway.": "I wonder if anyone is even going to believe this. Even I barely do.": "We should check out the door over there. It's gotta be somethin' important if it's right beside Drake's chamber.": "One sec, let me make sure of it." : "WHAT?"So in case you're impressed, using the freeze spell basically neuters Drake for 30 seconds at a time. Even with it, it took four freeze spells worth of straight up wailing on the dude to bring him down. Also for some reason shooting his corpse will dock you karma.  Through the door to the north is... a dude. and no treasure.  Holy poo poo it's Pushkin.If you forgot, Pushkin is the dude who was supposed to get the Anti-AI in Jake's head and go ruin Aneki's day. The only way that plan could have gone worse is if Kitsune decided to ignore Dog and go get loaded instead of saving Jake's corpse in the intro.  : "I have been kept a prisoner like a caged animal. Drake is after an ANTI-AI program professor Raitsov was meant to send me. The courier never arrived.": "What an rear end in a top hat. What the hell was with Drake anyway?": "Drake is working for Aneki. Aneki has developed an AI computer that can dominate the whole Matrix. If they succeed, they will control the world!": "What?!": "THAT'S what the AI is for?!": "...Er, fer us less knowledgeable about the matrix, how bad is that?": "Imagine one corporation being able to control all digital communication worldwide. Not only that, but everything running on the matrix would come under their control too.": "Cameras, databases, hell even street lights run on the matrix nowadays. Aneki could seize control over the entire world overnight.": "Oh, that IS bad.": "The AI also has the ability to directly attack anyone connected to it, much like a black IC. I see the two of you have datajacks, so you can surely understand how grave that is. That is why I had Raitsov create a program to destroy it. But without that program...": "Well I might have a little surprise for you in the ol' head computer." : "Then there's still time.": "How long do we have?": "Not long. Hours at the most. Drake was holding me here so I couldn't interfere with the final stages. They're going to make their move very soon.": "Well we have the solution. I nearly had my head explode trying to fix this datajack, I'm not about to let the Matrix get destroyed so soon afterwards.": "Let's get back to the chopper. We can let the pilot know he can send in that application now.": "You three go ahead, I must speak with Armitage for a moment.": "Right, let's go.": "We'll meet you topside.": "So what's the big deal, doc?": "I feel that you should know what you're getting into.": "I have questions for you, about my past, but I can save them for after we save the world.": "I mentioned before that the AI has the ability to attack anyone decking into it. That will include when you upload the ANTI-AI. This isn't going to be just a matter of uploading the program and leaving. You're going to need to be fast, and frankly, lucky.": "I've been having extreme bouts of luck today, extremely good and extremely bad. Let's hope for the former.": "You should also know that... Aneki is very protective of what's theirs. I intercepted messages from an Aneki representative to Drake. They've wired their entire system and building to self destruct if the AI is destroyed.": "...You're not giving me much good news here.": "For the sake of my conscience, I need you to be aware. Once you jack in to where the AI is located, whether you upload the ANTI-AI or not, you may not be able to jack out. And if you do, it's extremely unlikely that you'll be able to escape in time.": "So... this is a suicide mission, is that what you're saying?": "I'm afraid so. I may be able to assist by simulating a massive attack on Aneki's network, drawing attention from their security and giving you a bit of breathing room, but even then, there's not much I can do about the self destruct.": "...Well, I don't plan to just sit by and let Aneki have their way. I'll cross that bridge when we come to it.": "You are an admirable man, Jake Armitage.": "Don't you dare say that in front of Kitsune. She might get the idea that I'm a decent person.": "What took so long?": "Nothing, Pushkin just gave me the run down on how to upload the Anti-AI. Let's head to Aneki.": "I think I remember seein' that building near that Maplethorpe' fella's place.": "Let's go smash us an AI."
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HGH posted:Uh. Oh gently caress me I completely forgot to use the Jester Spirit, I was so focused on freezing Drake's rear end. For anyone who doesn't know, Chuckles will wreck a gently caress ton of HP off of Drake. Drake has a max of 250 HP, and using JS right off the bat drops that down to SEVENTY. How the gently caress did I manage to make twelve updates to this LP without it screeching off the rails and burning due to my incompetence
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Eldataluta posted:Is there another part of the game that you can use the jester spirit, or is this the only fight you can use it in? You can use it any time to do a poo poo ton of damage to any enemies on screen, but Drake is really the only time you SHOULD use him.
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Blackray Jack posted:What? No you can't.... you can't.............................can you? Just tried it myself, that's wierd I could have sworn you could use it on random mooks. Looks like he's stuck in Jake's pants for the rest of time.
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Update 13: Aneki to Watashi : "Listen, I'm going to head off for a bit. I've got some contacts that might know about Aneki.": "Alright, we have a few things to take care of before we get started." And so we do. Aneki is the last part of the game, and while we can leave when we're inside, there's some business we should finish before going there at all.  First thing's first, let's use up some of our ill-gotten karmic gains.  We managed to max out Body at 20, giving us the most possible health, and also jacked our Magic skill up to 16. That gives us 160, almost as much as Kitsune. : "Almost." Just for reference. Remember when I said we'd be getting a bigger health bar? I wasn't kidding.  We're also heading back to Tenth Street for the final reagent of the game!  Back where we first met that doggie and got his collar is a fountain.  We want to scoop up some water using our potion bottles we bought forever ago  And with that, we're done with Tenth Street completely.   On the way back, I accidentally talked to Norbert when I went to check his stats. He says this when you use the "Talk" option, and honestly why didn't Pushkin just think of this instead of his cyber-courier bullshit gambit.  : "My gun senses are tingling.": "Maybe we should finish the Aneki business first before you take care of your tingling gun.": "No no, I sense it. On the chopper ride back from the volcano, we triggered a gun related flag." : "Swiggety swooty I'm comin' for that shooty" : "Oh god YES."This is the god drat nuclear option of Shadowrun. Where our current weapon has 10 attack, this thing has TWENTY. It also has six accuracy points, so even if we never upgraded our weapons skill, we still wouldn't be able to miss.  Who care's about the price, I'd pay a god drat kidney for this weapon. Not mine specifically but we killed enough dudes to take a kidney from. : "It costs an Armitage and a leg! ": "That doesn't even make SENSE"We also unlocked a new set of armour it's an extra point of armour who gives a gently caress we already can't get hurt by most bullets.  Aneki Tower is right in front of that intersection where the cars try to run you down. It's easy to come up here by accident and get yelled at.  : "Oh I've got a pass RIGHT HERE." The Enfield AS-7 is AWESOME.  Just behind him are three more orcs, just in case you came here early and managed to cheese the first guy. If you get inside, you need Pushkin's password to call the elevator anyway, so  THE AS-7 IS AWESOME.  : "Well this looks familiar.": "I wonder if this'll be another 'activate the elevator on each floor' buildin'": "We did it twice, let's go for a hat trick.": "...A hat... what?": "...Chrome Coyote would have gotten what I was saying." Just like Drake Tower, we have to hack this computer before the elevator opens.   Also like Drake Tower, without the password you can't get past this segment.  The hacking segments are a nightmare in Aneki tower. I mentioned watching your health in the volcano, but it goes doubly so here. The main reason I didn't bother with the next set of armour is because all the damage you'll be taking is from IC.  The first computer is easy, of course, but poo poo gets intense later on.  Aneki Tower is also a lot bigger than Drake Tower. Each floor has a middle section with the up and down elevator, a west wing, and an east wing.  Both wings are generally full of angry dudes.  : "Woah, you okay Kitsune?": "SLIGHTLY ON FIRE" I shouldn't need to say it but KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR RUNNERS. Oddly enough I had the hardest time keeping Norbert alive. Dude just refused to stop getting shot.  Whereas each floor of Drake's house had multiple computers, Aneki has one computer per wing per floor. It makes up for it by ramping up the difficulty in the matrix.  Some of these systems might look a bit familiar. A few of the 'rooms' in each segment are recycled from earlier parts of the game. Except with more and stronger IC.  And plenty of trash data. : "What the hell even IS "nextlife.avs"?! They should be paying me to clean out their network." We did find someone's e-mail at least, maybe it's more of our enemies getting yelled at.  This actually deactivates a wall in a network on the other wing, much like how we needed the password to get through the network on the basement floor.  : "Oh hey, I saved them ten million bucks. They should pay me for that too.": "Ye'd have to kill Vlad a LOT of times for that kind of money." The other wing has even more dudes than the first They also love running off screen since they have more room to run around. They'll also hide behind their drat dialogue boxes  Clean out the jerks, hack a PC. You get into a rhythm eventually.  A lot of the networks in Aneki Tower have nodes that open other nodes.  It's neat, but nodes that open other nodes don't give money.  You'll also notice my health draining fairly steadily. Don't be afraid to jack out and heal up if you need to. Between Jake and Kitsune we have 33 heal spells.   With that done, this floor is cleared out, and we're on to the next!  Also for the love of god heal before you go up. In fact, just never stop healing, alright? Jake is safe from bullets, but Norbert and Kitsune still have souls and aren't wearing a car.   : "Woah! Hey kiddo!" : "That guy would have had an awesome plan if I weren't basically a walking A-10 right now.": "I feel like I should get in on this soul sellin' stuff.": "You metahumans..." : "Alright, maybe I can understand you getting the dermal plating.": "My blood hurts." I'll watch you get a fist sized hole put in your chest, you fireball throwing rear end in a top hat.  : "Whoever designed this system is a hack. More like network badmin" : "...it's not as fun when Kitsune isn't around to get upset. " : "That should do it, let's see what we got."     : "P.S. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.": "Does it actually say that last part?": "The fact that you had to ask tells you what kind of people we're dealing with." : "All this campy villiany reminded me of something.": "What is it?": "We should call up that person Drake didn't want us to call.": "So they can help us?": "I dunno, I just know Drake didn't want us to call them, and gently caress that guy.": "We're kind of on a time limit here.": "Yeah well there's only like five telephones in this entire city. We won't be long." : "Well you have your own portrait, so you must be important.": "Aww." : "I ask you again why have you disturbed me. I resent the intrusions of idiots.": "You're gonna HATE me then." So this is Akimi, she's touted as the best runner in the game, and she IS pretty great, but she's not nearly good enough to warrant being such a dickhole. Akimi is a bit interesting too because she has a few choice things to say about certain subjects.  : "Yeah, Jake. We never did get a thank you for that.": "I sure hope you like unfulfilled revenge fantasies because we sorta killed the dude.": "You expect me to believe YOU defeated a dragon?": "You wouldn't believe the night I've been having." She also has this to say if you mention the Jester Spirit You can't get her number without finishing the entire Jester Spirit quest line though.: "Oh hey I forgot about that guy, he's still in my pants.": "Please kill me.": "Wait, you defeated Drake WITHOUT the assistance of the Jester Spirit?": "....Ohhhhh. That is sorta why we did that whole thing isn't it.": "I'm... impressed but also confused.": "Welcome to tonight. His name is Laughlyn by the way.": "Why would you tell her that?!": "Because you were a prick to me. I'm renting out a billboard to put your name on once we're done with this Aneki business.": "Awww sad clown. Heh heh." SHE'S ALSO SUPER EXPENSIVE. If I weren't showing everyone off, I wouldn't hire her OR Steelflight. Although we could hire Steelflight twice for this amount.  Akimi is different, since you call her to hire her, you have to meet her at the subway station.   And now the gang's all here! Let's go kick some artificially intelligent rear end! ...Or not, we've got some poo poo to give to Dog first.  By the way, here's Akimi's spell list. The problem is, if you're into magic, you probably have better spells than these. If you're NOT into magic, like me, then you just generally won't want to use any of them.  : "Hey Dog! Check out all the stuff I found!"   We now have a full spell list! The major takeaway is the Armour spell, which renders the castee invincible for a bit. I frankly should have been taking advantage of this like crazy, but I kinda forgot.  I DID remember to upgrade it to max level though, so that's something. The others remain at one.  : "AUGH WHAT THE HELL?": "That was basically your team initiation." Back into Aneki Tower we go, we've got more jerks to slaughter. Despite being a bit slower, Akimi does do a decent amount of damage with her normal attack.  Also, since we have so many enemies in here, I told akimi to use her Summon Spirit attack. The spirit being the little fox above her head.  Awww I forgot how cute this spell is   Overall, it doesn't do enough damage to warrant the pain in the rear end it is to tell another runner to cast something mid-battle, but there you go.  Check your runners CHECK YOUR RUNNERS.   This is an interesting network, we see some new areas.  One is what you'd expect a storage center on a network to look like.  The other one is... a face?! What the gently caress Aneki engineers? Well anyway, we're up to the fourth floor now. whatever.  : "I must say I've never been a part of a run quite so... brazen. Normally people will at least attempt to sneak in.": "Subtle is a word Jake doesn't know. Among others.": "Honestly, tonight has just been a chain of me going somewhere and killing everyone there. The Caryards, the Rust Stilettos, Dark Blade manor, everywhere with Drake in the name of it...": "Wait, you killed everyone at Dark Blade?": "Some more than once. I left that salesman alive though, he gave me this artillery cannon I've been blasting people with.": "But... Why? It was just a bunch of guys pretending to be vampires.": "...Uh, you're aware Vlad is a real vampire, right?": "Had to use a stake to kill him and everything.": "Walked through a wall without even bothering to set it on fire. Bah.": "I... I had no idea, he hid it so well.": "Well it's alright, he's still technically alive": "Didn't Kitsune sa--": "It's a long story. Ask Vlad about it."   : "We've bought just about everything we need, but hey, it means Aneki has less money." Another sneaky jerk.   : "This must be the wierdest office environment if the only people you hire are gunmen."  Not much to this level, just get through it and move on.  I'll be honest I'm only using that move because it's so cute.    Oh come ON There has to be something better than that!   Okay, that'll do just fine.  As I mentioned, the IC can REALLY mess you up, since you take 100% of the damage. There's no cyber armour for you, so be careful. : "I'm getting that Armitage feeling...": "Is your gun tingling again?": "I have that feeling something's about to go south. Time to try out that new spell I learned." Both Armour and Invincibility are extremely useful on solo runs, but they're less effective on group runs.  In this case it's a bit justified. With everyone armoured up, let's see what's in the next room!  Oh crap the spell doesn't stay between transitions Otto, the Troll over there, is a bit beefy, but honestly not that tough. He's certainly less of a boss than Drake. With everyone else re-armoured, we can leisurely pick everyone off. I didn't bother armouring Jake just to show how he's basically already invincible.  Otto will say this when he's hurt, I'm not sure how hurt exactly since he died while I was reading it.    We even snatch a bit of cash, because why not? : "Alright, here's the plan. The building is all cleared out now, so I want you three to head outside.": "And leave you alone?": "Unless these guys rapidly zombify, I don't think I'll have any problems. What I AM worried about is Aneki bringing in more assholes, and us getting swarmed. I want you guys outside and across the street to ambush any goons coming in.": "That's not a bad plan, actually.": "Har, let's do it then.": "...": "I'll give you a few minutes to set up. This is probably going to set off some alarms and get the hornet's nest buzzing.": "Right, see you when you're done. We'll keep the place clear.": "Heh, be careful not to get hit by any cars." : "...Hard to believe it all came down to this. The others should be at a safe distance by now. Let's get this over with." : "Urgh, poo poo. I can already feel it. It's like the air around me is burning" : "Dammit, that seems to have pissed it off, it feels like my brain is on fire." : "Come on Armitage... It's right there... just a bit..." : "Fucker... Just... Get it..." : "Out... Jack out..." : "...God drat, I think my nose is bleeding. My brain feels burnt all over again... I swear if this thing doesn't take..." : "...Heh heh, Raitsov you clever son of a bitch, looks like you really did have their number... Dammit I'm feeling dizzy..." : "Explode all you want you son of a bitch. Even if you take me with you, you're still done for.": "You were actually going to do it." : "The hell? I told...": "And I ignored it. These ears aren't just for show, I heard everything Pushkin told you. You colossal idiot.": "What can I say? I was the only one with the program, I couldn't just let all this be... jesus my head is burning.": "Here, let me heal you. This isn't the worst condition I've seen you in tonight.": "...Ohh, that's much better.": "You are a drat fool, Jake Armitage. What did you hope to accomplish by going off and getting yourself killed?": "I had to think about this pragmatically. There's no sense in sacrificing anyone more than is needed.": "When the hell did you become a pragmatic person? I don't care what you say, I'm not about to let you just roll over and die like this. That's not the Jake Armitage I know.": "..." : "Unlike you, I have no plans on dying here. Let's head to the roof, I sent Norbert to fetch us a surprise." : "How the hell is going UP going to help us?": "Just trust me." : "Oh you've GOT to be kidding.": "Not part of your plan then?" : "Not quite. Lay into them, we only have about ten seconds!" : "Who the hell ARE you?" : "Oh poo poo, let's bury this rear end in a top hat quick, the explosions almost on top of us.": "Now THAT'S the Armitage I know!"  : "Look what I found!" : "Step on it Norbert!": "Yar har! To the skies!"
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Update 14: The End : "...Erh... I'm not good at this, but... Thank you.": "For what?": "You know what.": "drat right I do, but I want to hear you say it."  : "I didn't tell you because I was worried you'd... well, do the exact thing you did. Except without the foresight of securing a helicopter. Thanks for the ride, by the way, Norbert.": "No problem, That guy at the Drake Tower left the keys in the ignition.": "Why do you think I decided to stick around after the Rat Shaman? Your idea of a contingency plan is "smash problem with face".": "I only did that once, and the problem was a head bomb."  : "Still, I'm impressed. I really didn't think you cared enough to consider sacrificing yourself to save the Matrix.": "It was... wierd. After we killed Drake, I felt... almost purposeless. Killing Drake was my only real goal, and once that was done, and we found out about Aneki, I felt like I had to do whatever I could to finish the job.": "...Well how about this, if anyone asks, we'll say your motivation was to piss on Drake's memory even more.": "I like that."  : "Since we're on the way to Pushkin to let him know how it went, we should be able to get some clues about your past.": "...You know, maybe we should leave the past in the past.": "Why do say that?" : "Honestly, think about it. Nothing I've ever done in the past is going to top killing a dragon and an AI all in the same night. Regardless of who I used to be, I'm a different man now, and I think I'm coming to terms with that.": "That's a surprising amount of maturity coming from you.": "I blame you for it."    : "All that remains is to find out what to do next. I guess now that the Matrix is safe, Shadowrunner is still a drat viable career choice.": "Not a bad idea, although you might need some assistance with magic.": "I think you're right. And how about you, Norbert? I think we could use a gunslinger and demolitions expert on the team.": "Har har har! If every night is as fun as this has been, I might consider letting you pay me in explosions!"  : "Then it's settled. Maybe we should go let Glutman know he can move back to his office.": "Maybe we should let him keep his job at the Jagged Nails for a bit longer. He's probably going to be fired once they realize he's keeping everyone but you out.": "I don't imagine they'd be too happy to learn I killed one of their only customers." : "Wait, are we losing altitude?": "What's an altitude?": "Norbert, please tell me you DO know how to fly a helicopter.": "Nope! I've just been pushing any buttons that start blinking! It's been working so far.": "What! Norbert!": "Oh hey! Look who's little miss foresight now!": "Compensate! Keep us level!": "What does "Empty Tank" mean?": "NORBERT!": "Haha! Now we're cooking with gas! Or maybe we're just full of hot ai--" : "Thank you, Dog. I couldn't have done this without you.": "I was happy to have been able to give you guidance.": "I meant specifically the freeze spell. Drake would have wrecked me if I wasn't able to freeze him a ton.": "...good enough."  : "I wonder if it would make me a jerk to thank you for the freeze spell too "  : "With the rat shaman out of the way, I was able to purify this land of the rat menace.": "They weren't... really threatening anyone. The rat spirit is just a dick. Screw that guy." : "After my... experiences with Jake, I decided to turn over a new leaf. I still have plenty of money, so I decided to become a partner at the local hospital. With my money, they were able to get all sorts of new equipment. All I ask in return is a percentage of the incoming stock to the blood bank. Heh heh..." : "So it turns out fleecing every single customer isn't good business practice, so I ended up quitting before that place became a resume stain. Turns out the bounty was rescinded on account of the bounty giver getting, heh, 'iced'. Did I do that right?": "Anyway, you need a fixer, you come to Glutman. Also, Jake, about that cyberdeck you've been running around with, I want that back." : "The funniest part is, I would have left you alone if you would have just told me the keyword when we first met.": "I regret everything I've ever done." : "AAAARGH " : "Turns out Ares held a job fair right after Jake killed our CEO, so we all ended up getting way nicer jobs.": "I like how little my new boss threatens to immolate me if I'm late with my work."  Another plan that just didn't pan out for Drake. We got a new game eventually, buddy, although you weren't in it.  : "Hamfist wandered into a place in Old Town, where a bunch of people were hanging out in a caryard. Everyone started calling Hamfist "The King". It might be a little racist, but they pay Hamfist good money. Hamfist might just hang out here for a while." : "A lot of people be askin' me. Jangadance, how do you bust them ghouls so good? Well I'm gonna let ya in on a little secret today mon.": "I shoot 'em. A lot. Usually in the face. That be really all it takes, but no one else wants'ta do it."  : "Losers. Who cares what they think." : "A dragon? Really? Given how your night was going, I actually believe you. That and the fact that you smashed your helicopter into the Wastelands bar." : "And no one got seriously injured. Except Jetboy. Haha.": "That lady with the tail was nice to heal everyone though. Although I noticed she left Jetboy under that helicopter door." : "She knows the score." : "Nice work with Aneki, boss. I'm glad I was able to help you with the Rust Stilettos.": "You were a big help, Andrew. I like that you didn't try to take my money.": "One of these days you might get even get it right." : "Please get this off me.": "Maybe after this song. The folks are really digging the warzone look. I might not even charge that sunglasses guy." : "The way I see's it, the universe crashed me safely into the bar for a reason.": "It wasn't a safe landing, I had to heal your massive concussion.": "Aye, but I'm still alive! And my stomach's just fine! Another round, barkeep! And one for the lady here too!" : "It's hard to believe how well things turned out. The matrix is saved, Aneki is all but destroyed, no one is trying to kill Jake anymore, and best of all, everyone's still alive." : "Oh wait, except that guy! Haha! That was fantastic." : "So here I am with this grand plan to deck into Aneki and help Jake out, and I see a drat building explode. That is one man you want to stand behind, considering everyone who stood in front of him is dead now. He might be rough around the edges, but he gets poo poo done." : "(huff) The... The dwarf can... run really fast... (huff huff) I couldn't... keep up with him...": "Sorry lass, let me make it up to ya with a drink!": "...I uh, I don't drink, but... well... this has been an interesting night. Maybe just this once.": "That's the spirit. This has been a long night of firsts. Especially for me!": "Jake!": "Oh hey, we were on our way to see you when we uh, got distracted.": "This is incredible! The program worked, and you managed to get out okay! I heard that a helicopter had crashed Downtown, and knew it had to be you! You honour the memory of Raitsov, Jake. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.": "Heh, no problem Doc. I'm just happy I can go take a piss without four guys with guns barging in.": "I have something for you. Before you were implanted with the head computer and the datajack, you left these notebooks behind for safe keeping. They should help you get your memory back.": "...I see... It looks like I was a meticulous note taker...": "It's the least I could do to return them.": "...Keep 'em, doc.": "Pardon?": "That was a different Jake Armitage, he's not here anymore. I've decided to move forward. I've got a ton of money stolen from Aneki, I'm surrounded by the best men and women in Seattle, I've got no need for the past anymore.": "...Very well, Jake. I understand.": "You know something, Doc? Seattle doesn't suck as bad as I thought it did.": "Jake? Where are you going?": "I'll be back in a bit, there's two people left that I have to apologize to."   Thanks for making it. And thank you for reading!
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Seyser Koze posted:In case anybody who hasn't played the actual game is wondering about the whole suicide-mission-Norbert-helicopter-hero thing, the final shootout on the rooftop of the Aneki building is automated. Any and all shadowrunners you have with you will die, guaranteed - except for Kitsune, who always lives. Bit of a kick in the balls right at the end of the game, but it leaves plenty of room for a narrative to fill in the gaps. Yeah, once the final matrix segment is done, everything afterwards is scripted. An hell if I'm letting Norbert get cutscene killed in MY LP. There was also no real in game explaination for the computer suddenly exploding, so I added that bit of narrative so it didn't just come out of nowhere.By the way, before doing this LP I never actually managed to beat Drake, so doing this LP was the first time I ever actually beat the game
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Update ??: Four Years Later.   : "I'm great at dinner parties, too." : [He cocks his head to one side.] "Be straight with me. You really gonna work for the dead man?": "Sam was there when I needed him. I'm going to return the favour.": "Well that's certainly noble of you. Must've been a good man.": "He was a real sunovabitch. The best kind." : "I just need to know one more thing. Where was Sam killed?": [Dresden looks up at you intently for a moment before speaking.] "You know, I could do you one better. Why don't you poke around those body lockers in the back and see if you find anything... useful.": "Umm... okay then. I'll go... do that." : "If this is just some ploy to make me look at a corpse, I'm going to stuff him into one of these." : "If this is just some ploy to make me look at a ROTTEN corpse..." : "...The hell?"  : "Hey kiddo!"
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