i don't really want to name them, because you just never want to be married to one of these sorts of communities as a place to game and they took too long to be wise to my pronoun role selection. i'm proud of my scenario, though. it's a sandbox puzzle where a pack of Piranhas party gangers have occupied the common room of a cube hotel in the university district. the players need to convince them to leave without endangering the tenants.

i'm a little bit frustrated with the community mandated pay grade scaling, though. i wanted this to be a job that pays 500eb per player but the combat is scaled a little bit over the standard budget so the players decide "okay, this isn't worth getting into a scrap over if we get injured, let's interact with them as human beings with complex needs we can sort out" but that meant a hardened lieutenant as a centrepiece, and the most suitable hardened lieutenant is the kind with a base 14 in attacks. that's the boss for a 'standard' job paying 1000eb per player. so do I make all the piranhas hardened to maintain scale? and is that right given the OPFOR's terrain advantage (my decision skewed towards the 1000eb grade when I sketched out what the Piranhas' netrunner was capable of, but they didn't have to be a hardened netrunner to pose that threat)

a lot of futzing over combat to make the game not futz over combat. this is the central contradiction of RED scenario design