伦理,准则和别的笑话 ETHICS, CODES, & OTHER JOKES Tommy Twoton用朝着脑门的一记猛槌放倒了守卫,他巨魔的肌肉蔑视着塑料头盔。“最后一个倒了。”
Baker从碟板上拉出一根线,终于到了研发终端前,无线干扰再也影响不到他了。系统随着嗡鸣声启动,与此同时,他发现了一个跑向边门的身影:“有个人要跑!”
Ebony的掠食者V迅速而流畅地举起瞄准,但Tommy一把压低了枪口,让子弹射进了地砖,而非那位科学家的脊柱。“你个蠢巨魔!”她惊叫着,嘴角的弧度铭刻着尖锐的不满。
实验室制服的衣角消失,Tommy说道:“我们不杀没有武器的人。”
“我们不……他会带来更多的警卫!”
Tommy耸了耸肩,“来了再说。他们能反击,这很公平。但我们不能屠杀平民。”
她摇了摇头,把手枪塞了回去。“你真是疯了。”
“不,我很专业。”
“是,好,我会雇个专业人士在你坟墓前放花的,傻子。”
“盯着点门口。如果看到带枪的,随意开枪,但不要打别人。”
她愤怒地叫嚷了几句,然后偷偷接近门口,点开她的赛博感官,把前厅彻彻底底涵盖在眼前。
Baker摇了摇头。“永远不懂你,Tommy小子。为什么你这么担心几个无足轻重的小卒子被打死。”
Tommy耸了耸肩。“任何人都能杀人。需要的只是一颗子弹。专业人士要有行事准则。在枪战里把某人打穿是一码事,对吧?他们知道风险。那人只是在做这个活,就像我们一样。如果你有了滥杀的名声,对其他活,你就一点用都没了。尸体尽量少,工作才能滚滚来。”
Baker从AR显示上挪开视线,盯着他看了一会儿。“所以这是为了生意?”
Tommy摇头。“不只。如果你作为一个巨魔长大,你就会觉得身边的所有东西都像是卫生纸做的。所有你能碰到的东西,你都能弄坏。门、人、盘子、小猫……你得学着小心。只要能做到,我就尽量不弄坏东西。”
Baker傻笑着,“这也是我喜欢和你一起干活的原因。潜入深处的时候,保护我。”
说完,碟客全身瘫软下来,倒在巨魔宽大的手里。Twoton以世上最大的温柔,轻柔地把他放下。“会的。”
(译注:我怀疑这是从AO3上抄下来的;但是摇头和耸肩出现了5次啊喂!这文笔也太次了吧)剧透 - :
Tommy Twoton dropped the guard with a heavy blow to the head, his troll muscles mocking the plastic helmet. “Last one’s down.”
Baker ran a cord from his cyberdeck, finally in position at the research terminal so that the wireless jamming was useless. As the system whirred to life, he caught motion heading toward a side door. “We got a runner!”
Smooth as silk, Ebony’s Predator V lined up the shot, but a swat from Tommy pushed her aim down, putting a bullet into the floor tile instead of the scientist’s spine. “You dumb trog!” she cried, her mouth carving a severe arc of sour disapproval.
As the lab coat vanished, Tommy said, “We don’t kill people who aren’t armed.”
“We don’t … he’s going to bring more security!”
Tommy shrugged.“We’ll deal with them when they show. They fight back, they’re fair game. But we don’t kill civilians.”
She shook her head, tucking her pistol away. “You’re crazy.”
“No, I’m a professional.”
“Yeah, well, I’ll hire a professional to put flowers on your grave later, moron.”
“Just keep an eye on the door. You see people with guns, feel free to shoot, but don’t fire at anybody else.”
With a snarl, she stalked to the door, clicking her cybersenses on for a good sweep of the hall.
Baker shook his head. “Never got you, Tommy boy. Why so worried about some cog getting broke?”
Tommy shrugged. “Anybody can be a killer. All you need’s a bullet. Professionals have standards. It’s one thing to nail a guy in a gunfight, right? They know the risks. That guy was just doing his job, same as us. You get a rep for slaughter, you’re useless for anything else. Keep the body count low, you can keep jobs rolling in.”
Baker took a moment to look away from his AR feeds at that. “So it’s business?”
Tommy shook his head. “More than that. You grow up a troll, you’re surrounded by tissue paper everywhere you go. Everything you touch, you can break. Doors, people, plates, kittens … you learn to be careful. I don’t like to break things if I can help it.”
Baker smirked. “And that’s why I like working with you. Keep me safe while I go deep.”
With that, the decker went limp, collapsing into the troll’s big mitts. Twoton set him down as gently as anyone could. “Will do.”
准则与天职 A CODE AND A CALLING一个有荣誉感的贼可能就像一个诗意的战士一样自相矛盾,两件各自很好的东西组合起来并不意味着会合适。事实上,虽然许多人声称自己坚守准则,在关键时刻他们又会愿意以需要之命,把它放到一边不管不顾。那些真正坚守荣誉信条之路的人,那些明知会让生活更艰难,却仍然遵守准则的人,那些比起玷污荣誉更愿意去面对死亡的人,才是真的稀少。他们是为荣誉而活的人。他们比普通人更强些,被一些人视作傻瓜,被另一些人视作英雄,但所有人都承认,他们是另一个时代的遗迹。今天的格言是“我拿到我的了”,他们却都说“这不够”。对他们来说,准则比世界上所有值钱数据都要重要得多。有些人出于荣誉而遵循准则,有些则因为他们除此之外再不知他途,还有极稀少的一些人把坚持准则当作在跌入赛博错乱之前的最后努力,当作人性在广大的机械海洋中的最后残留。
下面你可以看到一些广为人知的准则,但这也只是例子,还有很多,很多。所有这些都能用于「荣誉准则」负面特质(p.79, SR5)。
译注:赛博错乱(cyberpsychosis),详见CF特质剧透 - :
An honorable thief seems to be as contradictory as a poetic warrior, two things that are fine apart but when brought together cannot thrive. In truth, while many claim to hold to a code, when the chips are down they’re willing to set it aside in the name of need. Those who truly follow a path of honor, who abide by a code even when it would make their life more difficult, or who are willing to face death before dishonor, are truly a rare breed. They are men and women of honor. They are a cut above the norm, seen by some as fools and by others as heroes, but by all as relics of a different age. When the words of the day are “I got mine,” they all say “It is not enough.” To them, the code is worth more than all the paydata in the world. Some follow the code out of honor, others because they know no other way, and some rare few cling to a code as the last gasp before falling into cyberpsychosis, the final vestige of humanity in a vast ocean of machine.
Below you will find some of the better-known codes, but this is only a sample. There are many, many more. All of these can be used in connection with the Code of Honor negative quality (p. 79, SR5).
边栏:恪守诺言 WORDS TO LIVE BY
“根本不是劣势的劣势不值得获得点数。”——Steve Long
Steve Long第一次为《捍卫者》角色扮演游戏写下的这些话直到今天仍然不假。拥有「荣誉准则」特质的人需要时刻考验它,让它变成一个真的负面特质。如果他们的准则不让他们伤害儿童,而他们的行动又可能会危害到儿童,那么GM需要提醒他们。他们不能通融破例,但他们应当确保角色在乎遵守自己的准则。
译注:Steve S. Long,是Hero Games的所有者和一位RPG作者。1982年开始玩Champion(一款超级英雄RPG)并成为其作者。Champion有角色点数(Champion Point)系统,想来可能与负面特质获得业力相类似。
反过来说,以下是一些需要避开的话:
“我不会伤害女人和小孩。这就是为什么我带了Joe一起。”
虽然准则是角色的个人信仰,他们不能就让队伍里的其他人去做那些hi破坏角色准则的行为。拒绝依照自己的意愿束缚精魂的精魂权益支持者绝不会在队伍成员试图把锁链往他们遇到的每个精魂身上套的时候就那么傻站着。一个遵循自己准则,在朋友表现粗暴的时候应当予以斥责的武士,永远不会在某人做了一件不名誉的事情的时候就转过头,然后说“这是我的准则,不是别人的。”
在觉得某人意图躲避惩罚,轻率敷衍对待准则的时候,GM应当介入并给予惩罚。遵循准则的人对自己的要求比普通规范要高。这并不意味着玩家应该坚持准则到游戏无法进行的地步,但相反,在让他们选择的负面特质把他们推到有趣的,有挑战性的两难困境之中的时候,每个人都应当享受伙伴间的相互作用。
你怎么又违背了?!YOU BROKE IT AGAIN?!
如果一名玩家不断地在荣誉准则构成问题的时候违背它,在这或那失去1点业力没什么大不了的,GM应当给出他们觉得合适的代价。第二次违反应该燃烧1点极限,直到他们作出补偿;第三次则在整个冒险中花掉他们所有的极限(或者将任务中获得的业力降到0)。
虽然三振出局不总是好的解决办法,发现玩家不认真对待自己的准则的GM有权让PC在用业力把负面特质买除之前不能把业力花在其他地方;毕竟,如果他们不遵守它,他们就不应该从中获得点数。