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Fear and Loading



T A L E



Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon


The year is 2066 and the world has changed. As humanity marches ever forward into the 21st century, the thin line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans continue to rely on the enhancements of cybernetics and robots are continually upgrade to become more and more life like. This web of connectivity grows vaster by the day as common day occurrences like the internet have become even more engrossing do to advances in neurological and virtual reality technologies, that have made the dreams of "cyberspace" closer to reality. Humanity seems to have arrived at a golden age of innovation and advancements as new tech is released everyday making the augmentation outdated within weeks, but social tensions continue to bubble beneath the shining exterior.

Following the burst of the American asset price bubble in the mid 2030s and the subsequent depression whose ripples felt as far from Topeka to Shanghai, humanity was left in something of a slump. Governments failed to reign in control as entire towns and cities fell into total anarchy. To combat such chaos many governments were forced to pass acts which allowed prosperous companies primarily large PMCs to reign the populace back into control - such as the Private Intervention Act of 2035 in the United States. When the chaos finally subsided these companies manged to retain much of their power and today they made no attempts to hide their "security forces". Most national governments have either collapsed or stayed as shadows of their former selves puppets used by the corporations to pass laws and judgement in their favor. As a result nearly thirty percent of people under the age of sixteen are unemployed and over a quarter of the world's population are considered homeless vagrants as urban sprawl has slowly consumed the land and destroyed peoples homes.

These corporations, these faceless entities moving in the shadows wage a quiet war against one another and it is not uncommon for everyday citizens to be caught in the crossfire of two different enforcer groups. Rebellions and protest are crushed as quickly as they are formed, the instigators vanishing into black bags slick with rain never to be seen again. But even these revolts few and far between don't cause many waves if any. The people have become complacent to what is now everyday life for them. You wake up in your corporation paid for apartment in your crappy tenement housing, you go to your corporation paid for job where you worked like a drone for most of the day and face the ever constant danger of being fired if you move two seconds too slow with that filing report, and then you come home to watch your television who constantly remained you whose in charge. And they don't question a thing because how could they?

But this world like any has a darker undercurrent. Those forgotten by the corporate society above. Deep in the ghettos and the back alleyways, a different world can be seen. Here is a land that no even the CEOs and officials don't dare to enter without armed escorts and vans with ten inch thick windows. Those homeless and without work scavenge for what little they could to survive. Most fell into one of the many street gangs that roamed the back alleys and stalked the roads on cyber cycles. Holding strong control on many more illicit dealings such as drugs, prostitution and, black market dealings. But even they are still subject to the wills of the powerful as many have become little more than puppets for the bigger corporations to deal with threats and monopolize on illegal trade. And it is not uncommon for some of the bigger corporations to have multiple gang leaders on their payroll.

This is where you come in. You aren't some corp with a three piece suit and a fancy open floor office space. You aren't the rough and tumbled mercs working with a 'Conflict Resolution Firm' taking on whatever dirty job as long as the pay is good. You are the slumrats, the unemployed, the junkies, and the vagabonds. Those that picked up the new brain augmentations because the memory recorders beat any drug high out there. You are the kid that went to film school only to end up as a garbage man. You are the rioters wanting jobs and a government that isn't just a puppet. The slums are you home and its people your family. You live by on what meager living you managing to squeeze out.

You and your friends have their world turned upside down when you managed to salvage a box of prototype neruo-chips from a car wreck on the outskirts of the slums. Chips that happened to be very valuable to very powerful people. Soon Corporations, PMCs and gangbangers alike are all trying to kill you for one reason or another.

Sound like fun yet?


D A T A B A S E



General world-building stuff for your reading pleasure. More will be added as we go on.













U P D A T E S


Important GM Updates will go here


I N D E X


Important Plot posts will be linked here for convince. Think of it as an easy way to jump around the story.


R U L E S


01: I'm not the biggest fan of rules because I like to assume everybody is sane human being so I'll keep this short. If you have to abide by any rules be it these two. Common decency and common sense is something that everybody should strive for. Treat your fellow humans like they are just that your fellow humans and with all the respect that implies. Disputes between players should not be long blown out affairs in the OCC, hell disputes should not happen at all if we are doing this right. If you want to argue have your characters dispute about something mundane like the importance of starch or something.
02: In regards to any roleplay involving the dark depravity of mankind there are mature themes within this story. This is not a very nice world and terrible things happen to good people for no good reason. In that regard I heavily suggest you treat these matters with the weight that they would actually entitle. Romance falls into the same thing, sure it can happen just don't be stupid about it
03: Quality matters people, show me that you care. And remember I'm asking for your best not the best of Shakespeare or the like. I've been doing this shit for about a decade now and I'm still learning things everyday. Just remember Quality over Quantity and always remember Fail Faster.

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Working on a character now lord Hex, it'll just take a while because these are pretty hefty sheets.
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A fleshed out Cyberpunk setting and a link to EC? Consider me double interested.

I'll work on a sheet as soon as I can, probably over the weekend, is there a strict date for characters?
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I love the idea and I'd love to hop in.
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And here's my character sheet. Took a cue from @Hexaflexagon and included a link to music in my character's picture- the music is korean, but suits the whole china-town, asian-infused hip-hop thing.

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Drumroll, please... !! Here she is!
(the korean in-between her name and her stats link to a song, as per the commonality of this thread!)

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And I have returned from spending time with the family.

@vietmyke@motherconjurer

Hey look at that! I'll take a gander and send some feedback when I have a moment.

@Roosan
No strict date. Take as much time as you need. Coach is a patient man.

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I'm still here, just struggling with character ideas. Will have a sheet up in the next day or two.
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OH CAN I
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The Reviews have arrived!

@vietmyke
Simple, sweet, too the point. I like it. Though honestly did you except anything different by this point? I actually also have a CS sheet for Simon (he was a character of mine in another one of my Cyberpunk RPs lol), so I can update that and PM it to you so you have a better of idea of the man.

@motherconjurer
First of all I like the aesthetic choices. Helps make it stand out without breaking the layout of the CS which would of been a very bad no no. I mean she's believable, myself coming from a very low income, high crime neighborhood; everybody knows at least one super self-destructive punk kid and the blocks friendly neighborhood drug dealer and you've smashed them together into one person. I do have one question. How did she end up acquiring the SR2064? (which I dig very AKIRA, very nice.) Did she steal it from somebody, did she buy it with drug money et cetra. Just wondering for reasons that you totally shouldn't be worried about. lol.
Besides answering that question your looking pretty good.

@OppositionJ
Cyberpunk Batman eh? I can work with this. The only problem really is the idea of raiding Corps and not getting caught. Corp HQs are basically giant self-function fortresses filled with top of the line security. Trained professionals sent by other corps in raids generally expect for every 10 individuals sent in eight of them not making it. And those are individuals with trained military and infiltration experience, she's got not a lot of that. Being able to complete the PsySys raid I understand, she already had intimate knowledge of the building and its structure. That makes sense.

So maybe if I could suggest a little tweaking of what happens after that? Maybe she tries to raid another Corp afterwards thinking it'll go as smoothly and gets shot or something almost dies and is forced to go underground. Maybe doing some standard vigilante work on the side beating thugs up, saving babies and the like so that her name could still get out. Living off the Neurotop taken in that one raid but between giving it out and her own use (which would probably be a lot given the extent of her own augmentations.) which is now steadily running out, forcing her to consider staging another raid or something. I don't know. It's a solid and I like it, just needs some tweaking.

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YOU CAN!

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@Hexaflexagon I would indeed like to know more about Dupuy. Also, I might go back and give Isaac a few cybernetic augs, depending on Simon's view on them. Based on Simon's views, Isaac's will either be 'I love tech, cybernetics = tech, therefore I love cybernetics' OR it'll be 'You can hack a cyberarm, but you can't hack all natural.'
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@Hexaflexagon That's a good question, thank you for asking it! I've updated the character sheet with this information, but she "illegally obtained it" (read: stole) from a dealership and modified it to be SARAH-compatible and EYE-SEE-U adaptable! โ™ฅ
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@Hexaflexagon
Haha. I completely understand where you are coming from. I tried to get the feel in that she wasn't the best at what she does, but I felt pretty rushed. I will definitely get to tweaking!
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Salut, hola, and howdy! This looks super promising, and I am a bit of a sucker for cyberpunk, so I'd love to join. I do know that you intend the cast to be the bums of this world, and I certainly don't want to dance outside your vision, so I figured I'd ask if any of my first ideas are cool with you!

My first idea was a former employee of a privatized security firm, eventually parting ways (probably for health-related reasons or the like), who then faced a system that is as cruel as it is dismissive.

Another idea would be the devout follower of a small-time gang leader, who disappeared, leaving the character in question behind with no real direction or sense of purpose. They could simply try and uphold daily operation in hopes of their admired boss returning, or perhaps put themselves in a poor position out of distress.

I also thought up a small-time cult/gang leader, who was percecuted after coming across as a little too ambitious, and then had to flee into the underworld as to escape the clutches of those who saw a potential threat in him/her.

My last idea is an A.I., or perhaps an usually heavily modified human, who served as a sort of experiment, then got discarded, but somehow escaped the intended destruction/murder, and found themselves forced to live the lowest possible life, as they'd not just be an outcast in the normal world, but would find themselves endangered.

Edit: Actual last idea: A journalist who teetered around the acceptable borders of "free press". After one too many reports that painted the mighty CEOs in an unfavorable light, they had to escape from an assassination and promptly found themselves forced to leave their old life behind, and start over in the underworld.

So yeah, if any of those works for you, I'd be happy to flesh it all out.
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sadly i have 2 weeks of hell going on before i can really commit to anything else, but if you're still alive then i'll be back
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