Antigone = Corporate. Director of Public Relations for the Paupau Collective (“PPC”) in Night City. PPC is a family autonomous corporation floating out on ships in the Pacific Ocean. Half-Greek half-Polynesian.

Han = Solo. The team solo and pilot, bioscultped to look like Harrison Ford, though he also has spiky short hair. Native Hawaiian, cousing to Antigone.

“Chewie” = (NPC) Medtech. Officially, Consuela Jarillo, a Costa Rican doctor currently dating Han. She is played by the REF. She’s also a pilot.

Hako = Fixer. Aohako is also Hawaiian, but not related to Han or Antigone. He grew up in Night City and has connections all over the city. He and Antigone met through their common mentor, Derek Trammel, a former Night City Police Department detective, now a private investigator.

Surány = Netrunner. A young and nerdy Czech fame-seeker. Raised in Night City, and went to high school with Chewie. Attained some fame for his “March of the Ents” program — he names all his programs after people, places, and events in the Tolkien Mythos, and has been trying to grow a Gandalf beard.

Stahl = (NPC) A pilot for hire, short but very capable Japanese Solo and former fighter pilot. Used to do odd jobs with Han.

Tatiana = (NPC) A former employee of Han, a dangerous Solo currently working for the Willow Sisterhood - a Poser Gang who bioscult themselves to look like famous women from media and pop culture who played the roles of bad-asses. Tatiana is currently sporting the look of Scarlet Johannsen from the Ghost in the Shell movie adaptation. Tried to kill Han once when he tried to come onto her.

TOC and Timestamps:

** Introduction: @00:28

** Play begins: @2:45

Han and Hako, who is covered in blood, are aboard the AV of the mercenary pilot Stahl.

** Chewie resuscitates Stahl(!): @3:30

** ‘Tig crafts a narrative to try and convince Tatiana and the Willow Sisterhood to pull a job for her: @5:50

** Surány tries to figure out what to do now that Antigone has left the bar with Tatiana: @8:50

** ‘Tig gets on the elevator with Tatiana: @10:00

** Surány tries to figure out what to do to help Antigone out of a tight spot: @14:30

** CRITICAL FUMBLE… Surány disengages the brakes on the elevator… : @15:45

** Hako, Han, and Chewie confer on what to do about “Shipwreck” Stahl: @26:45

** Hako interrogates Stahl: @33:42

** Hako closes the book: @43:22

** Hako debriefs with Antigone: @49:13

** Antigone and Surány close out with Tatiana: @1:00:30

** Epilogue - figuring out the budget: @1:03:28

** Closing Comments: @1:11:28

INTRODUCTION TEXT:

Welcome back to Night City Secrets, Choombas! The podcast of five gaming friends playing the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk 2020.

This is episode 2, which is actually part three of our third gaming session.

So, where we left off. Our team was in Club Atlantis, which is described in the “Night City Sourcebook,” page 154 like so:

“The entire top three floors of [the Piper Memorial Sports Arena] is the home of Club Atlantis, a favorite hangout for upwardly-mobile corpzoners and street ronin between assignments. This expensive establishment is decorated in a disorienting style reminiscent of M.C. Escher’s ‘House of Stairs’: a series of cantilevered stairs, angled mirrors, special effects lighting and robotic mannequins placed strategically on walls and ceilings create the optical illusion of bar patrons moving against the laws of physics and gravity. The bar itself serves a complete selection of liquors, beers, and cocktails. It also has a multilevel dance floor and a small performance stage.”

The team was looking out for Stahl, a mercenary pilot who they hired for their previous job, but who it turns out had betrayed them. They found him at the club chatting it up with Tatiana, a former employee of the Solo, Han.

Yes, team member Han is a Solo. More on that later.

Tatiana not only was fired by Han after he came onto her and she refused, but she once tried to kill him. She is a Solo as well, now a member of the Willow Sisterhood, a poser gang of women who bodysculpt themselves to look like famous celebrities from film and pop culture who are known for kicking ass and taking names. She currently sports the look of Scarlet Johansen from the “Ghost in the Shell” adaptation.

Antigone, the team Corporate, intercepted Tatiana and managed to separate her from Stahl with the promise of employment for the Sisterhood.

Han, in the meantime, snuck onto Stahl’s AV-4 ship with the help of a little remote-hacking by Surany, the Netrunner. When Stahl arrived, he was ambushed, and though Han intended to interrogate him, things didn’t quite go as planned and he ended up red misting the pilot — he happened to do this as Hako, the team’s Fixer, arrived only to be bathed in an arterial tidal spray of blood.

And now, the continuation…

CLOSING NOTES:

So there we end our Session 3 with Cyberpunk 2020.

Stahl has been offed of this mortal coil, and in this unweeded garden that grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature possess it absolutely.

In case you don’t get it by the context, Han is a Solo who is actually biosculpted to look like Harrison Ford. He won an AV-4 in a poker game, and of course calls it the Falcon. His girlfriend is a Costa Rican Med Tech who he calls “Chewie,” so… she is basically a Non-Player Character or an NPC who our REFEREE plays for us from time to time. Hopefully that explains why he jumps in to role play with us every now and again.

Until next time, stay chilly, Choombas.

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