Three ways to die...

Looking for some variation on the typical 'split personality' and 'insanity' clauses to change the nature of your character, or the 'jump from the roof of NLM' method of self termination? Here are three great ways to die on Sindome, in case you should be thinking of terminating your oldbie character in favour of something new and exciting.

Hoisted by own petard.

So you have mastered the mix, or perhaps you now own the corporate boardroom, or maybe y0u just find yourself logging in and the only thing you can think to do is pickpocket random NPCs on the streets. What ever it is, perhaps it is time to get yourself dead or gone. If you've recognized your need to die, but want to go out in style, you can begin the process with careful plottery and arrange to get yourself hosed.

First thing you want to do is find your petard, that bailiwick you call yours. Once you've found it, you then need to identify the other key players in your area. If you are an oldbie, you probably already know. That or you are so old that the mix has moved beyond you, and you exist in your own boring bubble of uber stats and are whispered in ghost stories to scare newbies. Either way, you should be able to spot the chummers who are doing what you do. Once you've spotted them, select the one you want to get the best of you.

Once you have this person all picked out, you can just arange your death easy as pie. Pick a fight, and lose. Board room, back room mixer dealings, combat. Whatever. Just build out a plot with your character that ends in failure instead of success. Spend a few weeks or a few months building up to it, get everything really juicy, and then climax in your enivitable termination, let yourself get beat at your own game and herald your replacment.

Fast, Hard, Loud.
Everyone likes to take as many people out with them as they can, but usually that just seems to end up with the WJF stomping around and putting you on ice. Why not chose another path?

First find a reason. You really can't just go half cocked and nuts for no reason, and 'insanity' is so lame and passe these days in the mix. So find yourself a reason to get people mad at you. I suggest you dredge up those little mishaps from the past, and all those insults and injuries that you have overlooked. Maybe they add up to enough straws to break the camels back. What ever it is, once you have your reason, you go on to the next step.

Burn bridges. Burn them as fast and loud and nasty as you can. Start with someone you've got reason to grudge out on, and spiral from there. Take a good month to do this, until you've pissed off just about everyone.

Finally pick one person and push their buttons until they snap. Like really go at making their day in the mix a steaming pile of crap. Ruin their biz deals, talk smack, hack their grid page and turn it into adverts for weird kink sex. Just push. And push. And push. By this point you are probably in occasional fights, or running the risk of death. When you are ready, and the moment is ripe for your exit, stop updating and getting clones. Then pick a fight you know you can't win, because you plan to lose. Go out in a big nasty blaze of glory, having taken as many others with you in the process as you can. Become hated for all time in the mix!

Take the long walk.
There are ways out of the dome. Take some time and set your affiars in order. Pass on gear to chummers. Pass on paydata to those who can use it. Close up shop. Then send out invites to everyone for a going away party at your favourite club. Party it up like mad, then at the climax of the party announce you are taking the long walk. You are heading out into the ( badlands, orbital, asteroid belts ) and won't be coming back. Then leave, and never come back.