Shadowrun Dilemna

Alright, so here's the deal folk. I'm playing Shadowrun 5e, and I've got a player dilemna. It's not even the first session, but one of the players has rolled up with fucking Trout from Shadowrun storytime in spades.

How bad is he, you ask? Allow me to elaborate:

Name: ?
Nationality: Russian/British
Street Name: "Agent Kenji" (why would a fucking russian brit go with "Agent Kenji" for a street name? Why)
Role: Face/Infiltrator

Background: A former Lone Star Secret Agent who quit because he just wasn't getting enough excitement doing Ares wetwork, so he quit and became a Shadowrunner. Unfortunately, he still needed a dayjob, so he became a Lone Star Bounty Hunter (while still trying to be a Shadowrunner, because that's not a fucking conflict of interest or anything) and a ninja. He accomplishes this despite his immense height.

Oh yes, did I mention that he was 8'6? An 8'6 ELF. The GM explained that this was anatomically impossible, but Kenji wouldn't hear it. The GM explained that this would make him literally the most recognizable elf on the West Coast, but Kenji was adamant. I mean, it wasn't like any corps had complete record on his appearance?

Except for Ares, for which he had a full fucking Corporate SIN. And the GM specified we would be running against.

So what we have here is a character predestined to get us all killed the second we get in game. What we're trying to find is the most efficient, but least metagamey way to kill his ass off before he kills us all off or gets us arrested or double crosses us.

At the moment, he has a body of 1, a willpower of 1, and a logic of 2. But, he has a shit ton of guns, high agility, wired reflexes, and reaction enhancers.

My character is a technomancer and I have recruited our giant street samurai to my side in this endeavor. So, I ask you Veeky Forums, how do I end the weeaboo? For the good of all.

If you have a halfway professional hacker they'll run background checks on everyone they're running with as a matter of course. A part time Ares bounty hunter with a Corporate SIN and a record of work with Lone Star should be enough to make the other players refuse to work with them at the very least.

"Here, Kenji, have some of this while we plan the next mission."

Then give him a spiked beer with any large amount of opioid mixed in, and watch him go quietly in the night.

>Willpower 1

Oh, this is going fun places.

I wouldn't exactly call my hacker, "professional". He's a rookie Shadowrunner and I based him somewhat off 2D from the Shadowrun Storytime, ironically with Trout. Of course, that means that shooting him and leaving him for another corp to find is always a viable option.

Might I suggest rigging his vehicle with explosives? High explosive explosives, to be exact.

My guy doesn't really have skill with explosives or stealth, neither does our street sam. We have a guy that does do explosives, but he hasn't quite jumped on the murder train yet.

>body 1
>willpower 1

Yeah, it's not question that he's going to fucking die, it's a question of how many he takes with us.

>At the moment, he has a body of 1, a willpower of 1, and a logic of 2.

Do 5th edition 'reduce attribute' spells still target the stat you're nerfing?

>why would a fucking russian brit go with "Agent Kenji" for a street name? Why

I could see someone taking a runner name that implies a different nationality to throw a search off.

>he has a shit ton of guns, high agility, wired reflexes, and reaction enhancers.
>Role: Face/Infiltrator
> body of 1, a willpower of 1

He is doomed. Also:

>A former Lone Star Secret Agent who quit because he just wasn't getting enough excitement doing Ares wetwork

Lone Star and Ares are separate companies.

You should exploit his low mental stats with drugs that reduce the same.

iirc, you resist with body for physical spells and willpower for mental ones, so he is double fucked anyway.

He's obviously fucking russian. He's an 8'6 russian with a british accent. He's not fooling anyone.

Yeah, he's doomed

Try telling him that. He was convinced that Lone Star secret agents got loaned out to Ares all the time. And that he was an elite member.

Have you considered robbing Red Lobster?

In all seriousness this seems like a out of game issue. If you are trying to come up with reasons to have him not play, just tell him you wont play with him. Don't be coy.

Im not GM, and ours wants to roll with it. He thinks that a lot of planning needs to go into making a character with a corporate SIN, and Agent Kenji just doesn't have it. He's expecting us to kill him so that he can force Kenji to make a good character.

Introduce him to how hilariously effective tasers are in 5th.

Can't you just report him to Lone Star and collect his own bounty?

He doesn't have a bounty on him. He collects bounties.

I loved Shadowrun storytime because of that guy.

Keep him in the game and enjoy all the funny stories he beings.

His life will last as long as it takes to crack his SIN. After that, he's pretty much dead. Will probably storytime this game though if anyone is interested.

> wired reflexes, and reaction enhancers

Did 5e make these items more easily accessible? I remember them being banned as fuck in character creation.

Also the character background seems perfectly fine. iirc Bounty Hunter is one of the pregen characters in the book (at least in the older books).

The only problem I see is the height. The GM should just rule "no, he's normal sized" unless they got a background option to make them taller.

In SR4 it was never a problem, dunno about earlier editions, it's move-by-wire that always was forbidden, bugged and expensive as fuck.
Also, with Restricted Gear you can buy WR3+RE3 at chargen, but that's stupid because you end up with 0.1 essence.

Oh yes, how could I forget. He has WR1, RE3, and a shit ton of other completely unnecessary augments like an internal air tank and shit. He has less than 1 essence.

breh, just scout ahead in a scenario and then just fuck him over, tell him the coast is clear when it's full on fuckbush

>less than 1 Essence
>1 Willpower
>face

Even if he's got 8 Charisma, his Limit's only 3.

Have him get a earring and turn into a cyberzombie.

Wait, is Move by Wire the one that gives Initiative Passes? I remember it being almost impossible to get Initiative Passes from character creation through buying gear. Like most you could get was 1 but it would cost you hardcore.

Wrong. It's (CHA*2 + WIL + ESS), means it's at least 5, maybe even 6. Add proper clothes and you are fine.
In SR4 they both give Initiative Passes, but MBW also gives dodge and (probably) initiative bonus.
I believe it wasn't that hard to get more passes, I remember I had 2 extra on my first character.

>(CHA*2 + WIL + ESS)/3
quickfix

Wish I could post his fucking sheet up here. Reads like the back of a fucking spy novel written by an eight year old autistic fuck

Shadowrun is about consequences.

Sounds like that character is going to incur them rapidly. Plus, likely the player is going to do stupid shit anyway

dunno much about shdowrun, but posting in this thread to say that this gif is great.

I forgot it's CHA*2. What's his Charisma, OP?

As a long time Shadowrun GM, hoodoo his ass, then feed him to the Azzies. It's the only way to be sure.

>8'6" elf
>face/infiltrator

hahahahaha

Huh, I must have mis-read the character creation rules.

They hid a lot of stuff in that book.

Don't kill him. Take him to a stuffer shack with some pretence of being mission related, let him start some shit, and wait for the cops.

Leave an (inital) astral trail to his place.

Then duck out through a (highest magic +1) level mana static if possible, but either way, finally hide yourself in the highest force magical lodge you can get.

I recommend using long haul and twenty plus reagents to make a temporary one of force 20+.

Nothing says hard to find like an extended test that not only asks for 25 or more successes to start with, but needs an additional success for each roll in addition to that die lost. Oh, and takes hours per roll.

>A former Lone Star Secret Agent who quit because he just wasn't getting enough excitement doing Ares wetwork
Wait, isn't Knight Errant the one Ares owns, while LS is independent?

>agent kenji
>bounty hunter for the star while also a runner and a ninja (somehow)
>8'6 elf in shadowrun
So we have an elfaboo weeaboo that does not understand the setting.

>Full corp SIN
>with Ares
>who you're running against
Why did the party not just murder him?

>So what we have here is a character predestined to get us all killed the second we get in game.
Ah, haven't had a chance yet.

>elf minmaxed for killfast diefast
>cyber init that needs wireless to work together
Surprise is your friend. And, as the techno, there's no better way to surprise him than to hack his wires while the sam shoots him in the back.

As for rationalizations:
>Ares Corporate SIN
>Actively works as a LS bounty hunter
>with team for run against Ares
Smells like a blatant setup, kill him and make sure he didn't send them any info.

He's got a modified charisma of 8

Im a techno mate, I don't have that shit.

In our setting, Lone Star merged with Ares, so depending on how pissed he was at us our GM could throw regular cops or fucking Judge Dredd at us.

Yeah, pretty much, he picked a character idea and refused to deviate, no matter how fucking stupid it was.

Haven't had a session yet with him

Our Sam is set up as an actually competent former Knight Errant Swat Officer, so he packs a giant fucking hammer and a shield. The second a fight starts, I'm popping hotsim and having Bruiser the force 7 fault sprite run gremlins on all his shit until it explodes. He doesn't even have a commlink, so he has no firewall rating.

He's not smart enough to plan ahead like that. He's just an idiot.

>He doesn't even have a commlink, so he has no firewall rating.
If it doesn't have a firewall rating you use device ratingx2, which will be a total of 4 or 6 dice for his cyber (depending on if its standard or alphaware). Not any sort of obstacle to a F7 Fault sprite, but important to know.

Also
>no commlink
>SR
What the everloving fuck. That's like not having even a flip phone IRL.

>That's like not having even a flip phone IRL.

Gremlins?

so would a drone rack mod say medium be able to hold a single medium drone?

If you have any tips for making a techno, I'd love to hear it. Also, is it worth it to not get any cyberware in a game where cyberware scanners pop up frequently?

>He doesn't even have a commlink, so he has no firewall rating.

Just confirm your fixer is going to call you for a job.

Then just don't invite the guy. "Sorry, we tried calling you but we never got your number."

LITERALLY he has no way of showing up to runs because no-one in the group can contact him within any short timeframe, unless he tells them where he lives.

Get some bioware, it's cheaper on your essence and essence loss fucks resonance. Technos are relatively weak since they can't fight in the matrix without their brains melting which is bad. The only very effective way of running a techno is being a puppetmaster - summon sprites, ALL of the sprites, and hit everything with teamwork tests.

If there is a problem, throw more sprites at it. Have sprites run diagnostics on everything to boost every skill with a digital item. Diagnostics your gun and your street sam's gun for boosts to shooty.
Run gremlins on the guy's move by wire for huge laughs.

This.

The guy has no way of people getting a hold of him.

>207X
>not using dead drops and other means of communicating

So he collects bounties in his past time and also sells himself as a mercenary shadowrunner?

I don't really see the conflict of interest or the problem. Fake SINs exist, and a bounty hunter without a lot of scruples is a few steps removed from a shadowrunner anyhow. What's the specific difference between "Go find this person for money" and "Go find this person for more money and more illegality?"

When it's time to do deniable ops stuff, he just uses a fake sin and there you go, then. Inbetween shadowruns, he hunts bounties.

If he's a licensed bounty hunter it even gets him pretty good reason to a) have a lot of guns b) ask information about people c) be in weird places tracking people down d) have police, government and corporate contacts e) black market contacts.

What's the issue here, exactly? He has a corporate SIN? Okay. So fucking what. Fake SINs exist, and if he has a corporate SIN for Ares - which you'll be running against - I have no idea why you're complaining, that just screams "easy entrace into secure compound" to me. Dude has an all access pass to the mission site you're going to be operating in. Hurray!

Sure if he gets killed afterwards that's shitty, but he's the guy with the easily trackable SIN, you aren't. If nothing else it'll even throw people off your trail since you're not the one they can hunt down easily.

>Less than 1 Essence
>1 Willpower
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
oh wait you were serious
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
no really murder his weeabo ass before he drags you guys into Weeb hell with him

Holy Shit an eight foot elf????
Dude seriously Oklahoma City his ass before he gets you and your team killed

Late reply, but hey ho.

Quite simply, I had a contingency plan that involved placing a shaped charge under a manhole wired to a remote detonator. The idea was that I could disable a vehicle with it if things went side ways, as these things tend to do.

Turns out I missed a zero somewhere in my damage calculations because I used way, way too much. I mean this shit went full on Oklahoma City on a corporate security depot. Took out a hover transport, Lone Star backup, a few passing corporate yuppies. Thankfully, it all panned out in the end as we ended up pinning it on some local anti-corporate militant policlub. Shame none of them survived the raid.

Happy ending aside, that was the last straw in a long line of somewhat eccentric ideas.

Knitted detcord improvised wearable breaching charges. Claymore-in-a-cake. Napalm in the sprinkler system. Thermite in the corporate Zen sand garden. White phosphorous party poppers. Super gluing condoms half full of nitroglycerin to a trolls horns.

That last one didn't end well, but it made for an interesting session to be sure.

I suppose in a way they just want me to direct my creative energies into specialist fields less prone to collateral damage.

pic related

>He doesn't even have a commlink
Shadowrun deathwish. Have fun at the first security checkpoint that asks to check for his SIN.

I wonder if this guy is like the one a few generals back that thought that the Ghillie Suit was the ultimate in stealth armor.