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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invokethehojo" data-source="post: 5286347" data-attributes="member: 62525">I ran a one (long) night stand for rifts back in highschool.  I just got a new  book with a bunch of new weapons, so I did a die hard kinda thing with terrorrists taking over a huge futuristic shopping mall and the players had to defeat them while trapped inside.As the night was coming to an end and the giant fight was nearing it's climax the various characters (who had formed several small groups) were all working their way to the open air atrium where the five level mall was open to the ceiling.One character was on the fifth level, he was a puny vagabond and was really trying just to escape alive.  There was a car dealership on that level (it is the future) and he had tried to drive the car out of a window, but of course it was mega damage glass and he couldn't make it.  a cyborg soldier noticed  this and began firing rockets at the car.meanwhile on the ground level the enemy commander had some serious firepower and several guards and a few of the characters were making an assault on him at the center of the atrium.I made the enemies quickly and over did it and they were too hard, so I wanted to figure out a way to give them a chance without doing a total deus ex machina.the vagabond driving the car decided to do something crazy because he was sure he couldn't survive, so he threw the car into reverse and ran over the cyborg soldier, who was standing at the edge of the atrium balcony.  He thought he would try to jump from the car to safety even though the chances were almost  nill... and rolled a 20.  On the ground level on of the players decided to go for it and just ran out with his new guns blazing, just firing everything he could at the enemy commander.  He unloaded all his ammo and his turn ended with him in open ground in front of the commander... who was promptly smashed under the car falling from above.  the vagabond made a rediculous roll and lept of of the car and was able to grab a lonng cable from the ceiling with decorative stuff and swung over to a lower level.To this day I've tried to plan such cinematic things and never pulled it off.</blockquote>

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