Well, I should be really lucky for the next few days. This last Shadowrun blew all of my unluck at once -- I have never seen so many consecutive ones rolled.

Okay, here's the setup, I'm being mind-controlled (a situation I expected to occur going into it, so I'm not upset about that in the least). The rest of the squad has accomplished the objective (I'm leading a riot to provide cover, and some third-party mages are enforcing the riot with area effect mindcontrol). So I decide that it's time to break free of the mind control and join the team. I get to roll to break free and I put Edge into it. I'm rolling ten dice now, and will reroll any sixes. I get no successes (fives or sixes) and about seven ones. That means, not only did I fail, it was a critical failure. I hold a windshield wiper, torn from a squad car, high in the air, and with a William Wallace-like cry, I lead an enraged crowd in a charge at the nearest police barracade. Police with shotguns. Roll Reaction to see if I accidentally dodge any of the shot. That's six dice for me. No successes and a couple of ones, but not enough for a critical failure (I think). Ouch, took the whole shot right on. Roll to resist damage. I'm rolling thirteen dice for this. Another set of no successes and a batch of ones. I critically fail the damage resistance -- instant death. Wow. I mean, these things happen, but it's got massive odds against it. Oh well, not really a big deal (I burned a permanent Edge to survive, albeit with now both brain damage and a missing arm, and it was the last adventure anyway; that campaign is now over and fishmen rule the Earth. Nevermind that last bit.)

So with all of that burned, I ought to be on fire for a while. Maybe I should go gambling.

Impresario's trying to get me to play EVE. We're both well aware that he's going to succeed. I've been avoiding the game because I knew I would be addicted to it, even if it is an online game. But my addition is pushed back at least a week because I'm moving back to Omaha next week and won't really be around to play. No way I'm wasting half of my contiguous 14 day free trial on time when I won't be able to play at all.

3 Comments:

• At 2:08 PM, August 13, 2006,  Unknown said…

  Bnari almost died. Dante almost died. The two combatants, the stick meister the wheelman and the tank on two legs are barely hurt. There just seems to be something wrong with the fact that of everyone else in the group the two people that got shot the most in terms of both damage and quantity are also the only ones in the group who take damage on a regular basis from things they do outside of combat and are the ones with the leat amount of hit points.

   

• At 2:14 AM, August 14, 2006,  Avvy said…

  To Crow's credit, he did roll ridiculously well. He probably should have gotten a lot more shot up than he was. And Amos later told me that were this not the last mission, Corbin would have gotten serious karma for using his single action to try to save Dante's life.
  
  Really, it's like the movies. How often is it the little guys that get the crap, while the big guys just walk through the wall of bullets unscathed?

   

• At 1:02 PM, August 20, 2006,  DerImpresario said…

  Or, as will be the case shortly, the wall of lasers/high-velocity plasma bolts.

   

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