Show notes, Night City Secrets Episode 13

Game Session 7, Part 1 – We’re Fixin’ to Find Out

Cover Art for the podcast from “Cyberpunk madness,” by the artist Eddie Del Rio.  

Intro and closing music is from Amoebacrew, called simply "Cyberpunk royalty free music.”  It is available on Youtube:

Background ambient music is from RoyaltyFreeSounds, called “Soundscape Ambient, Cyberpunk Music. Royalty Free.”

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE

REF = The Referee

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:  @1:16

The team is in their new crib, and planning how to strike out without getting made.

** Surány starts laying out a web to find any chatter out on the Net regarding our PPC wheat strain: @1:20

** A ray of hope!  …??? @4:50

** Antigone calls her brother Mikael: @10:15

** …and we’ve been bugged: @13:55

** Surány diagnoses that it isn’t us… Mikael has been tapped: @18:50

** We switch over to Han, who is staking out the warehouse: @25:10

** Han sees a security detail scramble from the warehouse in an AV-9: @30:00

** The PPC warehouse begins their evacuation: @35:00

** We call back Han and ask if he can verify Eric’s presence: @42:00

** End of gaming session: @48:41

** Closing comments: @48:55

INTRODUCTION TEXT:

Welcome back to Night City Secrets.

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

Lucky episode 13.  We closed last time with a high level of confidence that the “Dark” Black Ops warehouse that Genter planned to take Antigone to is not really as dark as we had heard.

A pressing concern for us is the PPC sample that we stole back from Petrochem.  We don’t know how they got their hands on it, and we don’t know if we took their only specimen.  Maybe they have reverse-engineered it, or maybe they’ve replicated it on their own.  

Either way, that’s a major concern for our home corporation, so Surány gets to work on trying to find more info.

And maybe we haven’t learned how to be as discrete as we thought we were.

CLOSING NOTES:

Well that was a close call.  While trying to set up our trap to figure out whether Petrochem really had more samples available, we ended up bringing their security team down onto our PPC site.  

Thankfully we got the warning out in time and, though we had to burn the assets there, at least I didn’t cause anyone’s death.

Now we have their security team flying back, and Han is there alone.  Hopefully they don’t spot him, too.

But as we all know, Han is a loose canon, and who knows what he might try to do next.

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