There are so many other highlights of
this weekend, it's hard to choose from among the 6 or 7 games that I
ran, but I remember one classic moment quite well. One of the players
had to leave the table briefly, telling the other players to use his
character to make a cybertech check to hack into the malfunctioning
mall robot they had just nearly destroyed. The mall robots were all
rampaging because of an unknown problem in their programming (which
the team had learned was by design), and the team was supposed to try
to shut them down. To do so, they had to severely damage a robot, but
not destroy it, enough so that they could get in close and hack into
its CPU. This was no easy task, and they failed a few times because
some of the players over-did things with the damage, destroying the
robot beyond repair. They had finally damaged a robot just enough for
them to hack it, but unknown to them, the robot had sent out a
distress signal to other robots in the mall. You should have seen the
surprised face of the player who had left the table—when he
returned, he saw what you see pictured below: a variety of twisted,
malfunctioning robots converging on the players as they huddled over
the damaged robot. It was up to him—could he make the necessary
cybertech check to hack the robot's system and disable the distress
signal? ...and...yes, he made it, the robots disengaged and the team
survived!
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