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.

Arianna Papadopoulos-Paupau = (NPC) Corporate. Antigone’s older sister, the Executive VP of Marketing for the PPC. They have a good relationship.

Cherub = (NPC) Solo. A bodyguard for Ravnos, known by Surány.

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

Eric Genter = (NPC) Corporate. Senior Director for Petrochem in Night City. He absolutely hates Antigone for losing face to her a few years ago. Antigone simply ignores him, but he has it out for her badly. Apparently, he’s now running Petrochem’s Black Ops team.

Günther = (NPC) Fixer. A contact for Hako who gets us black market cyberware and some tech/medtech equipment.

Hako = Fixer. Aohako is also Hawaiian a SAMOAN, 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.

Han = Solo. Full name is “Hanakahi Lonoehu.” The team Solo and pilot, bioscultped to look like Harrison Ford, though he also has spiky short hair. Native Hawaiian, half-Polynesian, cousin to Antigone.

“Kat” Katrina = (NPC) A Solo merc-for-hire contracted by Eric Genter to kidnap Antigone and take her to a Petrochem warehouse.

Kronk = (NPC) Media. (“Adam Marshall”) A contact of Hako’s. Not as well known or as well regarded as Ravnos. Works for WorldSat News organization.

Marcella Lemieux = (NPC) A cop working on the Night City Police Department. She has known Hako for many years and actively is concerned for his safety, so she is willing to help him out.

Mikael Papadopoulos-Paupau = (NPC) Medtech. Antigone’s younger brother, the Director of Research and Development for the PPC. He admires his older sister.

Ravnos = (NPC) Media. A freelancer who mostly works for Net News 54. He broke the story of Petrochem and PPC tensions escalating in Night City.

Rico = (NPC) A second Solo merc-for-hire who is working with Kat to abduct ‘Tig.

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

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.

Tak = (NPC) Fixer. He has known Hako for many years, and Hako generally trusts him. He provided us with the intel about the Petrochem transport from Reno to Night City which we intercepted in Modesto.

Tatiana = (NPC) A former employee of Han, a dangerous Solo currently working for the Willow Sisterhood - a Poser Gang who biosculpt 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 Johansen from the Ghost in the Shell movie adaptation. Tried to kill Han once when he tried to come onto her.

Vaxin = (NPC) Fixer. Another black market contact for Hako.

TOC and Timestamps:

** Introduction @00:26

** Play begins: @1:14

Han is casing out the interview location prior to the rest of the team arriving. Meanwhile, Surány and Chewie are back at the house working on the encryption box.

** Surány takes a short break and gets a surprise: @3:42

** Hako and Antigone arrive to do the interview with Kronk: @10:18

** Interview ends and we wrap up at the studio: @34:45

** We leave the interview location and head back home: @38:45

** Hako and ‘Tig get back to the bolthole and discover Surány’s surprise: @41:30

** We arrive at the new digs: @53:30

** Play Session ends: @1:00:00

** Closing discussion: @1:00:50

** Closing comments: @1:03:40

INTRODUCTION TEXT:

Welcome back to Night City Secrets.

The podcast of five gaming friends playing the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk 2020.

All the way up to episode 12. Still in Season 1, as we’re still following up this Eric Genter rival Petrochem story arc.

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We spent our first night in our new home, and no one died yesterday. So, the bar is pretty low.

But the team isn’t exactly feeling warm and fuzzy and tight with each other. There’s still some latent mistrust out there, not to mention some loose ends each of us wants to tie off. Antigone is trying to hatch a plan, while Hako and Surany are trying to close off some business of their own.

Without further ado, let’s see how we try to come back out of our shell.

CLOSING NOTES:

So, not much action this time, but a lot more prep work. But Surány seems to have some decent evidence pointing us to the Petrochem warehouse as the source of our Netrunner nemesis. Han got some more intel on the site and set us up to gather even more. And Hako was able to procure some transportation, some mannequins, an inflatable sheep, and is in the process of getting us more boltholes to run away to.

I wonder how we got so paranoid…

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