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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storyteller01" data-source="post: 3353187" data-attributes="member: 20931">Not so much a kill as a KO...I was running a Shadowrun game for some new players in Hawaii (stationed in MCBH).After finally finding the BBEG at a corporate shindig, the party is getting frustrated. They finally have this guy, and he's getting away! The leader decides 'I have rope! I'll Australian repel after the elevator!'. Good idea, and I didn't see the need to quash a new player. He smashes a window and out he goes! Makes the rolls, catches up while running down the side of the building.The player decides to try and shoot through the elevator ceiling. Makes his rolls to get onto the elevator, but it's too thick for his Predator. He jumps off and keeps pace with the elevator.It's at this time that the mage body guard FLIPS OPEN THE REPAIR HATCH on top of the elevator. Player is totally floored that he didn't think to look for this. Worse, while repelling he has no way to dodge. One combat spell later, the character takes a nasty fall and the BBEG gets away.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Second example; a bit more recent (last Sunday!):Our players are in a open top walker vehicle trapsing through a swamp. After a while the group wades into a colony of living leaf swarms (a 3rd party critter). The creatures can become tentacles or swarm. Two are pinning the vehicle with tentacles while the rest attack the party. Everyone's taking damage, and it's wounding to boot! Our Unfettered/Psion (who isn't taking damage due to DR) decides 'It's area effect! I'll shoot the vines with 2 grenades!'. Could NOT be talked out of this action. Note that these are 7th level characters, and each grenade does 6d6 fire and piercing.When it's all said and done, all the swarms are destroyed, the vehicle lost 1/3 it's hp AFTER a hardness 10 for both blasts, and our two primary spell casters are down to single digits. Since the unfettered has evasion, he came out with no damage. The kicker: he's completely unapologetic for what happened. As far as he's concerned he had his fun.</blockquote>

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