[Reclaimer]

***Spoilers Abound***

As a person who actually played through this module, I thought it was a pretty fun little adventure. We got messed around a bit, but we messed right back. This wasn't our first 4th Ed run, but it was probably the more memorable of the admittedly few we've done so far.

Anyways, as far as the vampiric power-play thing goes, my character prophesized the whole thing in one of his conspiracy theories shortly after we knew what was on the disc. JB wasn't a badguy for us, though; we figured that we'd shed enough blood and tears for the damn disc that we weren't going to hand it to the Johnson for a measley 24K flat rate.

Anyways, didn't really mind that angle. How is a dragon, or even Harlequin, any less iconic than a vampire? You can draw comparisons all you want. And I can call Harlequin an Elminster rip-off. That neither makes it true, nor does it cheapen the experience, really; there are always bigger fish, and, sometimes, they're "stereotypical", like, say, a vampire. They're not all socially retarded recluses.

When the Shangri-La team tried to sneak up on us (again) in the graveyard, the conversation went something like this:

Lemont (Homeless Shaman): We're being f***ed. *Hand goes to Ingram*
JB's Homegirl: *Bares fangs*
Lemont: Riiight. Let's fight them.

At the end of the fight, our two heavy-hitters were down, JB's crew was down to Risa and the elf, and only one of the spec-ops dudes was even alive. Lemont ended up pinning the blame on Risa, even though the Horizon team was probably tracing <i>us</i>. So, he raised the price, and convinced her to pony up through extensive cajoling (He's good at that). Now, he's a vampire, and 4th Edition doesn't even have conversion rules for that yet.

I dunno if any of you know where to find any house rules on the matter, but it'd be a big help to my GM. I'm trying not to be all Monty Haul about it, but I'm sure that no matter what, he'll make life a living Hell for Lemont. It's just a good thing that, with the money from the run, he actually bought a place to stay, rather than crashing at his girlfriend's parents' place.

As an addendum, we did actually have a dedicated decker/rigger, as well as a technomancer, so we sailed through the Matrix bits. Whether or not that made things more simple is sort of subjective; they ended up pissing off that bar full of deckers, and we had to escape a veritable swarm of drones. That's ok, though, because I ended up giving our Johnson both a broken disc (A copy in the original paper sleeve), and a one-fingered salute (2 Notoriety, yay!). He... totally didn't pay us.