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How to roleplay MCT exec conflicted about his extraction? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by INeedMana@lemmy.world to c/shadowrun@sh.itjust.works
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My characters are organizing an extraction of local (country) MCT head of security. He is Japanese, raised by the corp from birth, but not completely beguiled as his son is an orc and he had to pull some levers to get him into school etc.
He's aware of extraction and agreed to it.

But the twist is that he decided to get extracted because he's taking the fall for a secret lab getting blown up in the middle of MCT office campus. So in a way he was made responsible for actions of some shadowrunners and now he's hiring (technically it's his mother organizing this but that's a detail) another ones. I think that can evoke some ambivalent emotions.
They are going to meet in secret soon to get some of his blood, pass the details of the plan, etc.
What are your thoughts on how to roleplay his attitude towards the characters and the whole thing?

P.S. He doesn't know that but, of course, it was our jolly bunch of psychos that have blown the lab up.

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's a few different directions I can think of that you could go:

  • The consummate professional. He doesn't particularly care about his reputation, but the idea of not being allowed to work in the field anymore is why he's ok with it. Calm, collected and well-spoken.

  • The craven. Scared of the punishment for the lab blowing up and knowing that he's going to take the fall, he wants to avoid the corporate retribution. Jittery, anxious and nervous.

  • The family man. Maybe he thinks that post-extraction, he'll be in a better position to help his son. Empathetic, polite and helpful.

There's obviously many more ways to think about a character in his position, but these are the ones that immediately sprung to mind for me.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

That's a great set of options.

[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good point. Although their life in SK should not be bad afterwards, he is loosing something in this process.

I think I'm going to go rather emotionally-distant route. The thing I am not sure about is which emotion is behind the facade

  • anger - loosing position; being treated unjustly
  • fear - how can he trust other runners?
  • relief - he is going to live with his family, afer all
  • mistrust and maybe feeling hypocritical? - he spent his life trying to make sure what he is trying to do be as hard as possible

Of course it probably should be all of them but then if I start switching from one emotion to the other he'll come out panicked

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I think anger/fear would be more interesting and easier to base things on as the root emotion than relief/mistrust. They are properly primal emotions, after all. It's much more difficult and less interesting to have relief leak through than anger or fear.