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01 FIRST SERGEANT DAVID PATTERSON

by Bryan “Cybershaman(X)” Logie

Ol’ Patton, Pats, or General Pats, is a kind, older fellow who installed
a dual tread unit to replace his legs. A military campaigner from back
in the days when a career in the military meant something. That is, until
the day he had his legs brutally shot out from underneath him. Always

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practically minded, he opted for treads instead of wheels. Even turned
down fancy robotic legs on account of their horrendous cost.
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business. Barely, that is. Regulars can purchase some special inventory

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that Pats [just might] have squirreled away. Contraband weapons, illegal
tech, the usual stuff. Just don’t expect him to install the hardware.
He’s a vet, not a doctor!
While ol’ Pats is generally a peaceable soul, if you do somehow manage
to piss him off, you will find that he is called Patton for more rea-
sons than just his tank tread method of locomotion. Pats has a variety
of hidden weaponry that includes a 90mm caliber tank gun, stowed away in
a casement on his well-muscled back. It turns you into a greasy-crimson,
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smoking hole in the wall in half a second flat. So, your best bet is to
follow the simple advice written on a rusted sign above the counter:
“Saying please is free. Being a smartass will cost you extra.”
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NYN
An ex corpkiller turned corp
extractor. Specializing in
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employee “transfers” and
by “resignations.” For a steep
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of their corporation, re-brands
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them, and escorts them to their

Once a janitorial cyborg with a cognitive-limiter
implant, NYN has ditched his duties as a cleaner
to renew the pursuit of his first true love, ART.
NYN still looks like a typical jan-borg, including
the inoperative nerve-stapling. He keeps the
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new place of employment.
Tends to hang out in the Yellow
Sigil, a cursed cellar bar in South
Central. He sells the latest corp
rumors and has access to hi-tech

looks to merge with the masses. From the Oak equipment.

Isles to the Evergreen Bay, NYN paints massive
murals. All dedicated to the struggles of the
poor and exploited. While anti-individualism
units overpaint most murals within a day,
workers’ agitation increases, and strikes follow.
Nyn is unable to talk (no speakers installed). He
lets his artworks speak for themselves.
QUEST
NYN wants to paint a mural on the highest
building in G0, visible across the center of CY.
He needs some bodyguards to fight back the
monsters while he paints.
Reinhardt has friends and enemies in
the corps. Whenever the characters
meet Reinhardt, an extermination
team or explosive drone isn’t far
away to rip Reinhardt and everyone
around him apart.
QUEST: Reinhardt lost his gun during
a recent extraction. He’ll pay top
credits to get it back from a UCS
evidence room. He can’t extract
it himself due to contractual
concerns with UCS. 03
Reinhardt
by Lord of Madness

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by Gardener Dennys

Twin sisters, conjoined at the hip. Fake jewelry accentuates their

dark skin and fine features. Shala’s curly black hair is cut
short whereas Shuna’s reaches her shoulders. Using their superior
hacking skills, they obtain information about those in society’s
upper, fattened ranks. When leaked to the right [or wrong] people,
such secrets prove fiscally and socially ruinous. While Shuna is
fundamentally kind, Shala is more cynical. Their line of business
has earned them some notable enemies and a bounty on their heads
{20,000¤}. Shala has taken certain steps to protect herself and her

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sister as discreetly as possible. She prefers that Shuna not realize
the full extent of the dangers facing them, or to what lengths she
goes to ensure their survival.

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QUEST (Kill Valter Sörenstam) Shala hires the characters to kill Sörenstam,
the CFO of a minor corp named “Ohmir INC.” It’s an assassination race.

HP 9 | Morale 7 | VestX -d4 | Dispersal beam gun d3 targets, d6 damage

SPECIAL (SHAKY DEFENSE) Easy to hit (-2 DR). Each turn, Shuna can
activate her golden brooch of distortion to improve their defenses (+2
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DR). The brooch has d4 charges and needs 24h to recharge.
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Yojimbo by Prince “PROFANEKNOWLEDGE” Maxi

A blade-for-hire. Specializing in protection duty, although the

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occasional assassination mission isn’t beneath them, especially when

money is tight. The rumors say, for as long as the city existed, Yojimbo

浪人
has protected those whose pockets can afford their prices. No one knows
Yojimbo’s true name, nor do they know their gender.
Yojimbo dresses like a ronin, donning worn and torn clothes with a
daisho that has survived the test of time. Beneath the clothing, they
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are mummy-like wrapped in yellowed bandages. Yojimbo’s eyes glow a stark

violet, their voice echoes with the wisdom of the ages.
Is Yojimbo’s identity connected to CY’s founder? Is Yojimbo an ancient
AI with subroutines stretching into the Abyss of Antique Code? Are they
searching for purpose via living and working amongst the people or have
they other, nefarious, plans?
A wealthy individual [Tanya Melberg] is obsessed with
QUEST: Yojimbo. She has built a small shrine in their honor,
attached posters to the ceiling above her bed. She wants
to know more, wants to know everything. A prize of 10,000¤
lures those who can get to the bottom of Yojimbo’s nature.

Yojimbo has their home in G0, but is rarely if ever seen

there. If one leaves a cup of good sake on their doorstep,
with a drop of their blood mixed in, Yojimbo makes an
appearance mere minutes after the deed is done.

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by Psyop.fyc

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The Ferryman by Jeremy Kear
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A well-dressed, gaunt punk with a
taste for mischief. Joe leads the
Burnchurch Astral League, a gang
of misfits who commit crimes in
the service of poetry, not greed.
His name is Gibbs, but they call him
the FERRYMAN. A through and through
corrupted employee of an Emergency
Response Team [ERT]. Gibbs not only
takes the usual fee for rescue and
resuscitation, he also robs the

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victim blind. Everything physical
“we hate cops, and we love music, and we can fly”
in their possession, obviously, but
[SIC]
also all passwords and personal info
via a brain to brain neuro-link.
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project he calls the “poetry slam.” QUEST [GUN DOWN DYNAMO DAPPER]
A big hit against a UCS warehouse
The Ferryman learned that Dynamo
where thousands of so-called
Dapper, an old “friend” of his,
“books” are prepared for burning.
recently won big in the cy-horse
Treasures in the public domain like
the Canterbury Tales and Ozymandias races. He wants the credits.
shan’t be lost to the flames of The characters must only kill
ignorance and greed. In particular, Dynamo Dapper so the Ferryman can
Joe needs proficient fighters who
can operate the MECHS he prepared
for the final fight.
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is 15% of the gains (basis for
negotiation).
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Korakas IX Korakas IX
by Wade Dargin
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An ancient surveillance drone that, after awakening, assumed

the form of a large metal raven. Four centuries ago, rebels
gutted its operators and Korakas was left to its own devices.
It has seen and learned a great deal as time passed by.
Although being more intelligent than the average PVNK, it
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doesn’t quite grasp humans and their motivations. Therefore,

it only watches, fearing misunderstanding.
Korakas covets treasures which it hoards in its nest on
top of a malfunctioning fusion distribution transformer,
located in an abandoned industrial park on CY’s outer
rim. The radiation keeps intruders away and its systems
operating, but accumulating isotopes render Korakas
moderately radioactive. As a result, many laborers and
gangsters consider its appearance a bad omen. When not at
home, Korakas hangs out downtown, attracted by the neon
lights and other shinies that shall become treasure.

Korakas’s antique neuro net considers the characters interesting.

It follows them for a while and finally offers them secrets in
exchange for a special treasure.

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Harold
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Harold Croissant is
by Omer Raviv

P4r2i\/al is a cyber-deck
developer who sells and buys a small-time crime
rare apps on the darknet. Mostly lord with a robotic

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eye and blowtorch.
selling his own, expressly weird
Highly eccentric,
creations. He Lives almost
extremely paranoid,
exclusively in the NET, searching

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for code snippets to create his
Enchants people
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with his esoteric
The app to end all apps.

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“Brooklynesqe”
In the meatspace, he wears a holo- accent. He has
jacket that projects a figure clad a Jimmy Buffet

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in carbon-fiber medieval armor, fixation, constantly
a 3D realistic render of his net drinking and drunk
avatar. However, P4r2i\/al only on margaritas.

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ever meets in the NET. After Hawaiian shirts are a
impressing him, best with your must, never wearing
anything else.
coding skills, one gets a private

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Harold’s comically
virtu-chat key to his
large mustache is
“dark fortress”. reminiscent of a
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hence his descriptive
surname.
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The “dark fortress” is under attack!

Trolls and goblins lay siege to
it, throwing bugs and feces at the
walls. P4r2i\/al contacts various
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NET mercenaries to take care of the

Vendor of illegal weaponry and
riffraff. The offered reward is a
flesh grafts. A KAYTEL doctor
new APP for your cyberdeck!
named Robert Johnson provides

[2]
The search for the ”H0ly Gr@il".
P4r2i\/al needs digital knights
who are willing to descend into
the darkest depths of ANTIQUE
CODE to bring back forgotten
algorithms. The rewards are
hard credits and more APPS.
Additionally, P4r2i\/al pays for
one Emergency Response Team for
each honorable knight.
most of his goods, a poor soul
Harold has blackmailed into
performing. Harold’s selling
style is “take it or leave
it” with very little room for
negotiation, and he does not
suffer fools gladly.
QUEST:
Robert Johnson contacts the
characters in hopes they off
Harald Croissant.

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by Senseislim

His contemporaries hailed Dr. Noble as a pioneer, visionary, and

thought leader. They were right, in a sense, but he was also a
murderous psychopath. Dr. Noble’s ultimate goal was to clear out the
meatspace, completely eradicate CY’s free-thinking populace.
He wanted to lure them all into his “Nobleverse,” a revolutionary VR
in which an algorithm determines your net worth based on your skills,
not centuries of compound interest.
With everybody finally connected, Dr. Noble wanted to “pull the

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plug” on all of them, leaving behind mindless, AI-animated meat. All
flesh-shells programmed to serve him. Unfortunately for Dr. Noble,
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and subsequently tanked the company. Now, the only things he has left
are crippling debts, too many indictments to count, and his deeply
selfish misanthropy.
HP 4 | Morale 4 | NO ARMOR | Pocket pistol d4 damage, two attacks

QUEST: Dr. Noble strapped a (fake) mini-nuke to his chest and now
attempts to force the characters into robbing a gang stash for him.
He has nothing to lose, and if the characters don’t help, he’ll blow
himself and them up in a glorious mushroom salute.
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Red Danno Static
by DanP
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Red Danno never deals in credits, Tsung by Pätrïck Möën

he always barters labor for tech.
With credits, they can track you.
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by their rules. Red Danno’s raison gang goon and a lifelong
d’être is to undercut and lower member of the Zen Bastards. Up
profits of his capitalist pig
and foremost, he’s a covert
“peers.”
dealer in illegally modified
combat rounds. He has a real
HOBBY: Sells plain old grilled cheese
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from out of a red food truck. It has
a large sickle and hammer painted on
its side. Don’t ask where the cheese
comes from.
VICE: Danno pulls teeth from those
who cross him and wears them as a
necklace. This “necklace” looks more
like a grisly scarf by now.
QUEST: Danno needs more cheese. He
asks the characters if they’d be
willing to descend into the sewers
and scrape some fat from the walls.
It’s dangerous work, too dangerous
for Rad Danno alone.
knack for the lethal stuff.
Additionally, Static dabbles
in weaponized drugs as well as
nano infestations. He spreads
addictions and infestations
in the form of explosives and
grenades. Simply detonating
his devices in public places
to test his concoctions. Known
to frequent bars and clubs in
the Sabbath Square area of
North Central.
The characters become the
target of one of Tsung’s
INFESTATION GRENADES.

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 14 Ermac Ransom
by Cree Wee

“The name is Ermac Ransom. You’d do well to remember.” A private investigator with a
substantial drug problem. If he wasn’t so talented and charismatic, he would be out
of work at the drop of his hat {or worse: beaten, overdosed, and/or stuffed in a rusty
trash compactor}.
Ermac is a tall, swarthy sort of fellow. Long, curly brown hair [with pink highlights]
and a bearded face. On closer inspection, one notices his menacing, magenta eyes.
A fashionable side effect of his drug of choice: PINK GLASS. Always wrapped in his
old duster, which makes him look like a rough sleeper. Street camouflage, as it were.

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Lives in Burnchurch Hex, but mainly works for the upper crust in the Hills. Because
that’s where the money is, baby! Also well known in the slums, especially among
fellow addicts and dealers.

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PINK GLASS: Made of isolated tachyon particles, refined into a powder, and snorted
up the nose. When ingested, it allows the user to slow down time. Even peer into the
immediate future if you go in too deep.

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Pink Glass
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For 1 hour, when you use a glitch, roll a die {odd=no
glitch used up}. After the hour has passed, you lose all
remaining glitches [set to 0].
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Ashley Soleil
by Jason Poynter
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An information broker and fixer

that invariably shows up in QUESTs
elaborate lolita-fashion outfits. ￫ ￫ ￫ BLACKMAIL
Ashley has a completely serene
and content demeanor, no matter Ashley looks for mercenaries
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who they’re talking to or what to visit an UCS employee

is being discussed. They appear
courteous and helpful, but are
more than capable of ordering your
death—in your presence—without
changing expression or tone.
Any jobs Ashley Soleil arranges
against UCS invariably pay double
the going rate. They use raven-
shaped ornithopter drones as
messengers, guides, and mobile
cameras. Seeing one of those
hanging around means that Ashley
has taken an interest in what
you’re doing.
[CAPTAIN HEL.ios] at home. Using
“liberated” data, the characters
must blackmail the UCS goon into
working for Ashley.
COMPLICATION [D3]:
[1] When the characters arrive,
an occult mask party is in full
swing.
[2] Captain HEL.ios is dead,
lying in a puddle of blood.
[3] The captain offers the
characters poisoned beer he keeps
just in case.

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had as a child? Unfortunately, you don’t. They are lost in digital rubble.

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persevering motivations. Visit one of our stores to browse the catalog or order

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FLIGER VAUGHN ... by nond[b]emon
UPDATING DATA: EX HACKER, DECK [NOT FOUND], INFECTED
Fliger pissed off the wrong people somewhere, at some point.
He moves along the hidden pathways of Cÿ, gathering marketable
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information and playing his guitar. He tries to sing for credits,
but the coughs interrupt, spoiling his renditions. Pixels and
gunk splatter from Fliger’s corrupted lungs.
A CONTAGIOUS PVNK:
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The characters find that Fliger sells important data they need
for a mission. He only sells in person, forcing a personal visit
on them. Characters talking to Fliger must test DR12 Toughness or
contract PIXEL LUNG
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YOUR LUNG SLOWLY DECAYS INTO A DIGITAL FACSIMILE.

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1 Colorful pixels fly from your mouth in a violent coughing fit.

You take d4 damage and you can’t talk for 10 minutes.

by Hobbie Koban Regan

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Phate

Phate was a useless, burned hacker. Unsecured by proxy, Phate

encountered something in the depths of the darknet. His mind did not
return that day. What came back was alien and prophetic. “Phate” now
runs a fortune cookie company [sugoi kukkī ッ]. The messages inside
are cryptic, penned by an otherworldly subconscious.
►►► {chance to gain 1 glitch after reading a fortune = 0.05}
►►►

⤷ (natural 20)
SECRETS

The cookies hide a greater secret. They tease the readers,

prompting them to buy more cookies to find the ANSWER.
Cookie addicts roam the streets, begging and stealing to
get their grubby hands on more of the treats.

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by Christian Eichhorn by John Casey

John Karmire, if it’s even his real Wasabi Burger is a street

name, played too many games. He
walks around CY in scale mail and
tells everybody who cares to listen
about his ordeal. Supposedly, he is a
former king and courtly knight, lost
in this strange world after a freak
vendor who sells fast-food
[burgers only], intel, and
guns from his brightly lit
and battered cart. Grease
from various bodily and
industrial sources covers his
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portal accident. He is looking for a branded clothes.
way back, a bewitched passage out
Wasabi Burger isn’t his real
of this hellhole.
name. He changed it for

The only artifact supporting John’s
story is a sword that catches
green fire when he whispers, “do
good.” That might as well be just
an elaborate, augmented trick,
however.
If you’re fighting against evil and
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injustice, John is honor-bound to
help you in your struggle. Just send
him a pm to #knightforhire16 and
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business reasons and refuses
to reveal whatever it was
before. Mayhap because it
ties him to other failed or
illegal ventures.
If you beat Wasabi’s fabled
SEVEN ALARM BURGER, he gives
you a big discount on small
firearms. Test DR15 Toughness
to not cry like a little
bitch while you’re munching
it down.

Cutter Carl 20
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by Kyle Brock

One of CY’s greatest freelance repo men. Cutter Carl specializes in

removing CYBERTECH and high-yield organs to recover his clients’ funds.
He operates from and in a mobile clinic, a vehicle he named Lilly after
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his beloved but utterly dead daughter.

//// THE SCHEME ////

Cutter Carl engineers traffic accidents to get his targets onto his
operating table. By some miracle, he is always close when their bodies
are mangled. If they can pay, he fixes the targets up and they are none
the wiser. If they can’t, they won’t ever wake up again.

///// THE QUEST /////

The characters receive a juicy proposition. Get a car and T-bone the
target’s limousine. 1000¤, easy money. What could go wrong? Everything.

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NAME: LANA LINK

NICK: SCVM_HUNTER
OCCUPATION: GAME MASTER
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FAV COLOR: CHROME

HP: 10
LANA WELCOMES YOU TO ARCADIA
A retro gaming den featuring anachronistic arcade cabinets and dungeon synth.
Various games offer a leaderboard and prizes.
Pay to play one of the following games and TEST the corresponding ability.
On a success, you receive double the ante and roll on the PRIZES A table.

SNAKE CHARMER METEOROIDS SEWER INVADERS

DR18 Presence [10¤] DR16 Toughness [20¤] DR16 Agility [50¤]

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MONKEY KING PVNK FIGHTER II ICBM COMMAND
DR16 Strength [10¤] DR20 Agility [10¤] DR18 Knowledge [20¤]

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Lana challenges you to a round of...

BRAIN 1 BUSTER
A potentially deadly game for a minimum of two players. The rules are simple:

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roll dice to get the highest cumulative score.
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(2) Buy yourself in. For example, into a 100¤ or 1,000¤ game.
(3) Roll 7d6 and test DR10 Toughness or take 1 damage for every 1 you roll.
(4) Count up the dice. 1s count as 10. Place and call bets [or fold].

(5) Repeat twice for a total of 3 rounds to gather cumulative points. The
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player with the lowest score always rolls first.

(6) You lose if you fold or die.
(7) The WINNER takes the pot and rolls on the PRIZES B table.
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PRIZES [A] PRIZES [B]

01. Off-brand pack of gum 01. Bio/ID scanner
02. Arcadia® patch or button 02. Duoshortswords (2d4 damage)
03. Stuffed PVNK toy 03. Pair of small SMGs
04. Spray can [806C or 803C] 04. 10x HEARTSEEKERSTM
05. Multitool 05. Lockpicks (electric)
06. Lockpicks (mechanical) 06. Drone suit [METEOROIDS THEMED]
07. Noisemaker [DUNGEON SYNTH] 07. Optic camo suit
08. Arcadia® style guard (-d2) 08. Sniper rifle
09. d4 ePulse grenades 09. Arcadia® cyberdeck+
10. Scum explosive 10. SMARTJACKTM
11. Shockstick [PVNK FIGHTER THEMED] 11. Rocket launcher [ICBM THEMED]
12. d4 INFERNOTM rounds 12. Arcadia® motorcycle

DISCLAIMER: ARCADIA takes no responsibility for death or injury caused by their prizes.
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PRIME SEEKERS
The Prime Seekers, or Hallowed Seekers of the Prime, hunt for the secret
formula to calculate all prime numbers. A wholly useless endeavor, since
prime numbers became obsolete during the Quant Purges. Nevertheless, the
Prime Seeker’s hackers hijack server farms to process computations and foot
soldiers steal military-grade hardware from corp warehouses.
L E A D E R : 677th Grand Mathematician H Q : A ruined university in Laketon
S P E C I A L : One target must test DR13 Knowledge or have their tech hacked.

[HACK]
The cultist can use one of the target’s Apps or deactivate an RCD

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(blinding the target for d4 turns unless the RCD is removed).

THE PAIN CVLT

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The Pain CVLT seeks answers through PAIN. The only emotion shared by all
living things (according to their teachings.) By inducing unbearable pain
in individuals and society as a whole, the cultists seek to overload the
simulation. In other words, the ultimate goal is to determine if life is real
or an emulation of a theorized “real” world.
L E A D E R : Painbringer Lucifer Rot e H Q : A [torture palace] in Lilypond.
S P E C I A L : The cultist induces excruciating pain with a mircowave emitter.

[PAIN]
One target must test DR13 Toughness or suffer a +3DR penalty on
all tests for 1 minute.
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DECELERATIONISTS
The Church of Deceleration stands for regression, a tech-free life, and
deindustrialization. They war with the corps and the HIVE MIND. To become
a cultist, you must be “clean.” No cybertech, no plugins, no nothing. Only
through absolute self-reliance, in harmony with nature, can one find true
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meaning and salvation. The only exception is the TEMPORARY (!) use of heavy
weaponry to reduce all progress to ashes.
L E A D E R : Mother Superior Fahm H Q : A decrepit church in Barnyard
S P E C I A L : The cultist throws a small EMP grenade that shuts down all tech
[EMP]

in a small area (until the start of its next turn). Creatures

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with cybertech in the affected area take 1 damage.

THE HIVE MIND

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Humankind must evolve to survive. Accelerated evolution through gene therapy
and cybernetic implants is a step in the right direction, but too small of
one. The Hive Mind’s holy NEUROLINK connects all cultists [drones]. They think
C one thought, one unifying credo: Grow. Evolve. Grow. Evolve. G R O W . E V O L V E .
Y Although the modified cultists quickly rot or starve, their thoughts live on
- in the great NEUROLINK.
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S P E C I A L : Once per day, a target must test DR10 Knowledge or be infected
[ADD]

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with H-VIR. Within 1 day, the target evolves and becomes part of
the HIVE. A 10k V/m EMP prevents the transformation.

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 HYDRA SPAC
The HYDRA Special Purpose Acquisition Company aims to buy out the corps [by
all means imaginable] and fulfill an ancient prophecy. “When the hydra’s heads
turn inward, the egg of the redeemer cracks.” Revered CEO Joule despises the world and
wants to end it, hoping the redeemer to be a demon of ultimate darkness. The
cultists steal, blackmail, beg on the streets. They sell their bodies, fluids,
and organs—everything and anything to earn hard ¤ to donate to the CVLT.
L E A D E R : The Revered CEO H Q : Glass tower in North Central
S P E C I A L : Once per day, one target must test DR13 Knowledge or have

[YOINK]
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NAME: LUCIFER ROT

TITLE: PAINBRINGER
FAVORITE PAIN: NECROTIC
GOD: ▒
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⋇ >>> Each CVLT features a special ability their cultists can perform independent of their base stats.
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NAME: ARIES
BLOOD TYPE: NULL NEGATIVE
OCCUPATION: RADIO HOST
FAV GUN: REV KING COBRA

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STÖR
FUNK
FM - 77 MHZ

BY PvNKS FOR
PVNkS
STÖRFUNK is the greatest radio station that
ever was. They send their signal raw. Oldschool
in waves, not through the NET. You can tune in
if you got the equipment installed, or snatch
yourself a small radio drone. The soothing voice
of ARIES will make it worth your while.
RADIO STÖRFUNK offe
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NEWS AND RUMORS A free feed about everything that matters.

INTERVIEWS ARIES invites the toughest PVNKS to discuss their

exploits. One day, maybe you will be the CHOSEN ONE.

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SONG REQUEST Fill your eardrums with your favorite song. [10¤]

SHOUT OUT Aries reads your message live on air. [50¤]

SOS You’re pretty much fvcked. As a last resort, you send out
a general call for help to all PVNKS listening in. Maybe
someone is bored and comes to bail you out.

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MORALE 4 MORALE 5 MORALE 9
NO ARMOR ARMOR -d2 ARMOR -d4
DAGGER d2 PISTOL d4 LMG d6a
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Worthless in Attacks two A battle-

combat, but you times if the hardened merc
can sell the first attack who can’t get
organs, maybe. hits a target. enough action.
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[250¤] [750¤] [1,000¤]

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BRUISER RADIO STÖRFUNK
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Iowa

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>>>>>>>> LOCATIONS
The Museum of Dominion. The one and only museum. Here,
corporate archivists preserve the history and relics of CY’s
richest families. On display, treasures like Jom al’Kahn’s gilded
baby teeth, the Tulles and deVerte prenuptial agreement, and a
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The Tower. On top the highest crest stands the TOWER.
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radar antennas plus transmitters, and sensors for everything
quantifiable. An ugly thing, abstract and distorted. Corp
scientists measure and fiddle, communicating with things
that should have remained unknown.

Court #77. The most exclusive meeting place for the rich and
super rich. Policies (formulated and promptly adopted in the
helium sauna). Contracts (signed and torn apart in the eyrie).
Rumors (exchanged and sewn in the 0g ballroom). Only
those with more than a billion credits to their name may
enter these sacred halls.

The Silos. Nuclear warheads slumber in the hills.

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Ultimate destruction at the fingertips of CEOs.
A red button next to every golden shitter.
Mutually assured destruction retains the balance.
The Chryptas. Graves filled with riches. Cybertech, entombed
with its possessor. Forgotten infections and powers. They stir.

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YOUR PLACE

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 >>>>>>>> ENCOUNTERS
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<1> A convocation of tuned cars races and drifts down the hills. Roll d3:
1. Accident! A car flies off the road and impales the driver with a steel beam.
2. Watch out, sir. Several cars come barreling toward the characters. They don’t slow down.
3. A laser turret emerges from one of the cars. It starts shooting racers and bystanders.
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<2> A head butler approaches the characters. They want to hire them for certain services (d6).
1. Pool cleaning. 2. K9 walking. 3. Guard duty. 4. BBQ operator at a garden party.
5. Literal boot licking. 6. A hit job on their master.

<3> A milcorp gunship arrives and hovers above the characters. Roll d3.
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1. UCS soldiers descend on paracords and attempt to apprehend the characters on grounds of being PVNKS.
2. It lands. Medics storm out to resuscitate a dying CEO. If the characters interfere, “they ded.”
3. Another gunship arrives and shoots the first one down. Mutants crawl from the wreckage.

<4> A conman named Sid, posing as CFO of Gravf, Mellberg, Tosk, attempts to dupe the characters.
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>> He promises to double the credits the characters invest [RIGHT NOW] within one week.

<5> A gigantic lithium blimp drags itself across the sky. On it, a ticker announces in neon words (d3):
1. “You are a figment of another’s imagination. Nothing is real. This message is read to you by a narrator.”
2. “Are you tired, bored, angry, or generally unsatisfied? Try Tulles&deVerte’s NuMeth today!”
3. “I am watching you. Right now, and while you sleep. Buy ALLIANSEN ADBLOCK+ to make me stop.”

<6> The characters pass by a deep construction site. They hear the following from below (d2):
1. “We’re going to be filthy rich cutters, just a few meters more, and we’re there.”
2. “I set the auto-detonator to ten minutes. We better get out of here. These mini-nukes are no joke.”

<7> A holographic butterfly lands on a random character’s shoulder. It is cursed. As long as the
butterfly stays, the character tests DR13 for Defense and loses d100¤ daily.

<8> A desperate realtor tries to sell the characters lodging in the hills for a very low price.
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CENTRAL
L O C A T I O N S
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NORTH
UCS ARMORY. In the UCS armory, corrupt officers hand out weapons to
licensed law enforcers, but also sell to unlicensed PVNKS [for 1.5
times the regular price.] Outfitter Gunny Arch oversees the armory.

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THE CASINO. Corper kids buy and sell corp stocks {TRADING CARDS} in the
Casino [“Hostile Takeover”]. It is a strategic past-time with intricate

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rules, but the holo cards represent actual company shares and are worth
thousands of ¤. Big Money Sage operates the Casino and invents ever new
editions to fleece the rich kids.

LA CROIX’S STEAKHOUSE. The most exclusive eatery in CY. The small

establishment is situated on top of a skyscraper, surrounded by
a meadow with grazing COWS[mk.3]. Real meat is on the menu.
Fat cats smoke cigars in the backrooms. La Croix VI enjoys life.
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THE GLASS TOWER. Headquarters of the HYDRA SPAC. A completely normal
hedge fund HQ above ground. Below ground, a subway transports
cultists across CY to further their tera-capitalist goals.
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NET WATCHTM. CY’s intelligence agency. They collect all data
transmitted across the NET to create a perfect simulation of
each citizen [consumer]. The figurative head of NET WATCHTM
are three rival AIs who veer for dominance [Q1, @, and ʬ].

SOUTH.........
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THE GREAT BUREAUCRACY. The Great Bureaucracy is responsible for

taxing {monetizing} emerging services. Automatic charges for
using pedestrian lights, a funeral fee for the cockroaches you
stomp (AKA PVNKS you off), or forcing costly emission rights
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on you [CH4, CO2, H2O, C9H9N].

THE ORIENTATION CENTRE. People from all stations (the rich, the
poor, the destitute) make pilgrimages to this SACRED PLACE
OF OTHER-DIRECT. A bio-AI-hybrid overlord assesses their
skills and wealth and bestows the pilgrims with purpose.

PLEASURE PALACE. A temple of recreation. The price of

admission is 1,000¤ to keep the rabble out. While you
experience virtual adventure of all sorts, serfs take
care of your body. Massages, rejuvenating treatments,
modifications—everything is possible if you got the ¤ .

THE CLONERY. The CEOs fear nothing more than death. In the
clonery, they keep several copies for organ transplantation
or full-body swaps. Head physician Seogorsk himself is well
over 300 years old.
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1. Drones sweep the streets for dirty PVNKS. One of the drones (d3):
[1]Attacks [2]Sends an encrypted message [3]Follows the characters

2. UCS dogs shake down passersby. They search for drugs and cred sticks. Roll d3:
[1]A few UCS head for the characters. [2]Somebody screams and runs.

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[3]A grenade explodes, killing a few officers and triggering pandemonium.

3. Somebody whistles to get the characters’ attention. It is a (d4):

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[1]Dealer looking to offload some wares. [2]Prostitute (skilled).
[3]Lowlife selling penny stocks. [4]CVLT recruiter handing out flyers.

4. A body smashes onto the ground, coming from high above. Roll d4.
[1]It is the CEO of a minor company. Soon, UCS will swarm the area.
[2]A clone to fake the death of somebody important. [3]Window cleaner.
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[4]A cyborg who dusts themselves off and warns the characters that more is coming.
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V. A drain cover blows open. Something emerges from the sewers (d3):
[1]Heirs of Kergoz strike force. [2]An army of mutants, eating the citizens.
[3]A cloud of mutagens, turning everybody into zombies. [4]Explosive gas.
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6. A shopfront explodes. This happens next(d3):

[1]Virid viper rogues jump from the rubble, carrying sacks with cred sticks.
[2]A riptide of meat flows out, fusing with people, cars, and the NET.
[3]A damaged mech emerges from the flames and screams. It guns down everybody.
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7. A limousine comes to a screeching halt next to the characters. Roll d4:

[1]Rich kids shower the characters in expensive booze, laughing and jeering.
[2]A servant who wants to hire the characters for a suicide mission.
[3]An assassin shoots from the window. [4]The car is empty. It explodes.

8. A roughed up person asks the characters for help. They are (d4):
[1]An advisor who lost 99% of their investors’ credits. They’re hunted.
[2]An impoverished financial analyst who was thrown out of his [tiny] condo.
[3]A con artist who needs 5,000¤ to access his account for a sizable reward.
[4]A mercenary PVNK who had an altercation with his employer. Time for revenge.

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