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You just woke up, and you can’t remember a thing.  Grant Howitt 2018 - patreon.com/gshowitt for more 
People are after you. You need answers, fast.   
  ACTIONS 
Your nametag/ID reads:  GM, describe the world, and react to the players. 
1: Thell   
2: Oyenusi  Players, when you act and the outcome is in doubt, roll 
3: Fong  2D6. Roll 3D6 if you have abilities or equipment that 
4: Delaine  give you an edge. Roll 3D6 and discard the highest dice 
5: Kawamura  if you are subject to conditions that make the task more 
6: El Amrani  di cult. 
   
You’re wearing:  0 dice 4+: You fail. GM dictates what happens. 
1: Data clerk robes  1 dice 4+: You succeed at a cost. GM dictates the cost.  
2: A grey maintenance jumpsuit  2 dice 4+: You succeed. You dictate what happens. 
3: Holo-pattern evening wear   3 dice 4+: You succeed with unexpected result. You 
4: Penitentiary overalls  dictate what happens. 
5: Order of Our Lady Incandescent robes    
6: Outlander skinsuit and cloak  GM and other players have veto, and can suggest things 
  that might happen if you ask them to. 
You have:   
1: A blast-pistol, illegally modified  RECORDINGS 
2: A jade idol with glittering circuitry etched into it  You’ve left videos, recorded before you lost your 
3: A phantom-pattern data-jack  memories, throughout the district. You can find these 
4: Metallic gang tattoos that channel electricity  when you’ve got time to search one out and watch one. 
5: A loyalty shunt (inactive)  When you track down a data-slug, open a 
6: Black market data-bomb  password-protected hard drive or find a hijacked 
  channel on a civilian net-hub, play out the video like a 
If you have the same nametag, item or clothes as  flashback. You have narrative authority to insert any 
another player, there’s history there. You don’t know  marked elements (see below) into the story during 
what it is yet, but note it down.  these flashbacks, uncovering your past. GM and other 
  players have veto. 
The room you woke up in is:   
1: Behind a New Macao cocktail bar  ELEMENTS 
2: In the virtual o ces of Morningstar Robotics  When you roll dice and two or more of them match, 
3: On a bullet-train from Tokyo to Los Angeles  mark o the corresponding element below. If you roll an 
4: In a geo-locked red light satellite above Berlin  element you’ve already marked, choose an unmarked 
5: A Seattle transport hub, drenched in AR animation  one and mark that instead. When you find a recording, 
6: Under a church of Our Lady Incandescent  contribute any marked elements and clear the marks on 
  them.  
GM, the people after them are:   
1: Organ/cybernetic harvesters  11: A person / History between two players 
2: The zaibatsu that illegally stole their memories  22: A location / A past event 
3: The police - this is part of your sentence  33: A useful item / A detail about a character’s item 
4: Livestreaming camera crews and contract killers  44: Someone’s secret 
5. Mindjacked civilians corrupted by your virus  55: Something you can do 
6: Up-gunned loan sharks looking for their money  66: Something another PC can do   

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