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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ed_Laprade" data-source="post: 4055767" data-attributes="member: 40172">My story is also a 'I just set it up'. This was GURPS Space, with some homebrewed elements. Right at the start one of the players wanted a Tribarrel Laser. He had the cash, but it is a very illeagal weapon. So I told him I'd give him like a 1% chance to find one on the black market without it being a sting operation. He decided to go for it, and rolled a 1. That was sweet, especially as it took a few sessions for the rest of the players to find out what the shocked look on my face was about. (He kept it secret until they were off planet.)Anyway, an adventure or so later I decided to confront them with something they'd actually need it for. An ancient Martian Tripod sort of thing that they dug up and activated. But wait, they'd left the big gun back at the ship, several miles away! Fortunately, one of the other characters was a psionic and had just enough 'juice' to 'port back to the ship, grab the gun and 'port back to the group with it, falling unconscious as he arrived. The rest of the gang had spread out and kept the Tripod busy, despite being outgunned, until the psi could do his thing. (Which was not guaranteed to work.) All's well that ended well when the owner of the gun got his hands on it and peppered the Tripod to oblivion. There was much cheering as a really good team effort saved the day!</blockquote>