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: @1:39

Han is at the Petrochem warehouse, trying to gather as much intel as he can before the security team returns.

** Han realizes the security team may have spotted him: @9:40

** Han overhears what sounds to be Genter expressing anger that he’s lost his one and only sample(!): @12:45

** Hako, surprisingly awake, tries to close the deal on the new merchandise with his fixer network: @15:18

** Surány works on understanding why the Petrochem data fortress seems so unique: @21:30

** Antigone asks Chewie for some input: @25:20

** Hako and Chewie head out to pick up the new vans: @30:35

** The team realizes their “fold” problems: @32:45

** Hako picks up the merchandise: @36:40

** Hako calls Günther - not sure he fully trusts Chewie: @39:45

** Antigone reaches out to her contacts to see if there’s any intel on Genter, as well as setting an appointment with Sergei Bratislov of SovOil: @43:10

** We get a promising lead on a restaurant that Genter likes to frequent: @50:00

** End of gaming session: @50:58

** Closing comments: @51:25

INTRODUCTION TEXT:

Welcome back to Night City Secrets.

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

Tonight we close out session 7. When we left, Eric Genter’s Petrochem Black Ops team had a near miss at our PPC warehouse, thanks to some quick Netrunning by Surány and because we had Han in place to watch them. Antigone’s brother got everyone out and torched the place.

Han is now at the Petrochem warehouse alone, doing what he can to collect more intel. Is Genter really there? How many guards does he really have? How penetrable is the location? All that good spy stuff.

Meantime, Hako is working his contacts trying to secure some practical and some unorthodox supplies that Antigone is asking for, with a few bonuses thrown in for himself.

And Antigone starts the wheels in motion to introduce a major new player -- SovOil, the Russian megacorp who were involved in the Second Corporate War with Petrochem. That war poisoned a large part of the South China Sea and helped serve as the impetus for the creation of our PPC enterprise, in fact, gathering a lot of the refugees from the Pacific Islands.

Let’s see if Han can lay low, or if he is gonna start something.

CLOSING NOTES:

I stopped the recording here, but our conversation went on for another 20 minutes. We got into a long discussion about: is the pacing good? The REF told us he feels like he’s struggling getting everyone equal and ample play time. We all said that we’re quite happy with the pacing - we just enjoy being together.

But we did decide that a lot of our game time the past few sessions has been taken up by activities that we think can be better handled out of game -- using our website forums and with private threads and out-of-game conversations that don’t need to happen here to gum up the action.

So, after this session, we’re going to be utilizing our forum threads more judiciously. Hopefully, that cuts down on some of the administrative stuff that slows down us getting to the more action-oriented sequences the REF has in mind.

If we get an audience, and if any of you want to look at our game threads, just let us know and I can invite you in as a read-only participant. Reach out to us at nightcitysecrets.com and I can get in touch.

We’re ending tonight with the team about to head into the city. Antigone is planning on revealing the details of her plan as well as meeting up with Sergei Bratislov of SovOil - if you want to divert attention from yourself, maybe call in the big dog enemy of my enemy and see if that moves the needle, right? And Hako is headed in to a private meeting with his cop friend Marcella at NCPD Vice.

Hope to see you again!

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