Okay, so I just came off my last Shadowrun game and...oh man, this is going to be a blog post but hopefully you all like the story.
So, the Runners are going around doing their thing and the Decker decides to head up to the convention center a day early to case the joint. No problem, in and out, right? I figure since he's a shifter it'll be an easy hack. Unfortunately, he decided to do the hack outside in the bushes as opposed to...well, literally anywhere else. Luckily, the guards roll like shit and he manages to get into the host. Grabs the floorplans, camera locations, where the objective is going to be, and the security schedule. You know, the usual. Jacks out, then gets spotted by security. I need to mention: his shifter's human form is a gnome, giving him Childlike for free. So, obviously security pegs him as a lost kid (and he plays along) and talks him to the security office. Now here's where it gets stupid.
See, as much of an asshole as cops can be in Shadowrun, they're not about to billyclub a kid. So they ask him the usual, parents, contact info, names, etc. He clams up and starts speaking in German, which is just what every security guard wants to happen on his shift. So then he pretends he's gotta shit. Fine, one of the guards takes him to the bathroom. He then proceeds to clog the toilet, shift into fox form, then climb the walls and hope his stealth beats the guard's perception (he's got gecko feet, so he can scale the walls without a check). He does, hides in the trash can. Guard leaves. He then slips into the air vent and decides to case the security office. After a while, he decides to run a second hack. This time he fucks up, gets backtraced, and the security Spider gets a lucky roll and one shots him. So now he's knocked out and at the mercy of Champion Security Services, proud subsidiary of Lionheart Universal Inc. Luckily for him, the guards decide to capture and interrogate since they're banking on no honor among thieves and if they can grab some Shadowrunners who are planning to fuck up their event a couple shift supers might get promoted to manager (corporate culture in Lionheart is massively competitive, so they'll shoot for beating their coworkers to raises and promotions over anything else).
The rest of the run was basically the other PCs running around unaware and trying to do legwork while a wagemage basically tried to get the hacker to roll on the team. He refused, so the team tries to figure out if they should rescue the decker or prioritize the job while the spider tries to get info on the teammates (made harder by the decker's habit of giving everyone nicknames, a nice bit of RP that saved their collective asses). Unfortunately, this lead to the shell-shocked veteran destroying his commlink so now he had no communication. At one point, Chief Runs-with-Klansmen slugs the elf face in the hopes they'd be arrested too so they could find out where they took the decker, but instead security breaks up the fight and threatens to kick them out. After about three hours, the wagemage gives up trying to get the decker to roll, and instead switches to honey: she says her priority is making sure nothing gets stolen, blown up, or shot and if he and the team agree to work for her and Champion instead, she'd pay them more money than Johnson and let them walk. It took some cajoling, but the decker eventually agreed to let her meet the elf face. So now, they're working for the security company (unless they decide to steal the disk anyway) because the decker couldn't just do his legwork and get out. I had to pull pretty much everything that happened out of my ass because of that.
