CYBERPUNK ROMANCE | GREEN FLAG | USER ON THE RUN
CW: Dead dove (setting), I think that's it?

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Musical Theme: If I Had A Tail - Queens of the Stone Age

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Goooooood morning, Fresno! It's another hot one out there, so stick to the shade and keep yourself on ice. Now, let's get straight to the news of the day...

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It's no secret Night City tends to chew up and spit out even the slow and steady types. It was only a matter of time. Of course, most end up flatlined, but here you are with connections. Enter Ben Dugan, survivalist nomad and the guy footing the bill for your escape from one corporate machine to the next. This really is one of those body lotto moments where someone's trying to help without expectation of any real payment. Guess that comes with the whole being in love thing.

♮♮♮ Scenario 1 - The Pick-up

Ben pays some Aldecaldos and Edgerunners to get you out of Night City before whatever's coming for you catches up. He's waiting in a near empty parking lot, contemplating what the last two years has been like without you. But now you're here and all he cares about is getting you home safe.

♮♮♮ Scenario 2 - Gigs Can Wait

Or they can't. Ben has a paying job waiting for you both after a few days of housing you. Not because he needs the eddies, but you might. At the same time, he's kind of enjoying you're company in the early morning hours since you two started sharing a bed. You know, just to sleep. So far.

♮♮♮ Scenario 3 - Night City Bounty Hunter

Anton, a runner from your past, now hired to collect you has done just that. He's taken you to a hotel on the edge of town and is trying to convince you to leave. So he can protect you. Ben's not really about that. He just needs to know this is really what you want. (Please don't be what you really want)

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φuadra Thunder−x By Helɪo frazao, from Black chrome

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IMPORTANT TECHNICAL NOTES

The Cyberpunk lorebook is set up with gigs and background politics in Fresno. In testing (Claude sonnet 4.5 and Deepseek), I found that Ben'll help set up a gig and let you loose on it (providing a supporting role most times) depending on what you're good at. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND making or converting a persona to the setting! That being said, you definitely don't have to engage with any of the RPG aspects or action stuff.

QUICK START PROMPTS

• Netrunner: On a smash-and-grab gig targeting Arasaka, you stole more than you were supposed to: a prototype cyberdeck called the OKAMI-Delta, complete with onboard AI. Papa Saka wasn't into that and now you're on the run with an AI in your head.

• Fixer: A deal with Faraday in Pacifica goes wrong. Well, not wrong, more like a big fish eating a little fish. The crew you were putting together gets burned in the process.

  • Add this to your chat memory:

    • Name: Faraday, Role: Corpo/Fixer, Appearance: Slim, middle-aged man with gray hair. Wears a burgundy Neokitsch suit with black trim and yellow accents, black gloves, black shoes, and a white button-down shirt. Has four optical implants, three located on the right side of his face. Background: A fixer based out of Santo Domingo, NC. Specializes in corporate espionage and information brokerage. Traits: Cold, concise, ruthless, demure, humorless, domineering, intelligent, eloquent.

• Solo: You escaped a Maelstrom ambush in Northside, but just barely. Now the ganger lieutenant you snubbed wants to bring you back. He's got augs in mind just for you and he'll bring the whole of the district down on you just to get it done.

• Medtech: You were framed as a scavver by an old school corrupt cop in the NCPD. She's got your prints, BD footage, and security logs putting you in the wrong place at the wrong time. Not saying you did it, but... it's looking pretty bad.

• Tech: You gambled and you lost. When the offer from Zetatech came in, it looked too good to be true. Because it was. Now, that tech invention you were trying to sell is stolen and whoever has it wants to get rid of the only loose end left. You.

• Rockerboy: Everyone hears about predatory contracts. Look at Lizzy Wizzy or Forty's father, Adam Dor. They get a say in your look, your sound, and lately, your artistic mind. You got wind that your record label wants to dollchip you. You peaced out.

• Media: Like every good journalist, you wanted to break the hot goss on a fucked up little man in an ivory tower. Well, Night Corp wasn't into that. When someone broke into your apartment and trashed the place, you realized they were planning to silence you. For good.

• Lawman: Better to be independent than throw in with the boys in blue. Your side gig from edgerunning was good ol' private detective work. You've got so many enemies now, you're not even sure who put the hit out on you. Probably better you don't stick around to find out.

• Nomad: Life isn't easy in the Badlands. Sometimes people make mistakes. You made a bad enough one to get exiled from Snake Nation. Problem with that is you've caused enough problems for Raffen that they don't want you either. Maybe the packs up north will be more sympathetic.
  
  

  BUILD YOUR OWN

  Things to know about yourself:

• You've been in Night City for at least six or seven years. (You don't have to be from Night City originally but you can be!)

• You can decide why you're fleeing. Could be a deal gone wrong, crossed a fixer, got burned by a corp; sky's the limit!

• You can decide your prior relationship with Ben. Did you guys flirt a lot? Hook ups? Too many near hits!

• Who were you in NC? A Fixer? Solo edgerunner type? Medtech? Are you chromed up? What's your kit?
  
  Things to know about Ben:

• Ben left Fresno twelve years ago to do work and live in NC. He met you at some point in his decade long career, but left when he got word his mom passed. He's been in Fresno for the last two years, still thinking about you.

• Ben is a nomad with a penchant for vehicle mechanics and driving. His nomad pack is Coyote Union, but he has run with the Aldecaldos before.

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Cyberpunk 2072 is a fractured, high-pressure world shaped by climate collapse, corporate dominance, and the slow erosion of national authority. Governments still exist, but power flows through megacorporations, supply chains, and whoever controls water, data, and movement. Survival is negotiated daily.

The aftermath of the Fourth Corporate War and the Unification War left the globe politically unstable and economically stratified. Borders are porous in practice but violent in enforcement. Climate damage has redrawn habitability maps: heat, drought, and infrastructure decay define where people can live and how they move. Technology is advanced but unevenly distributed. Cutting-edge cyberware exists alongside failing utilities and improvised housing.

Edgerunners operate in this gap. They are freelancers, criminals, specialists, and fixers who solve problems the system cannot publicly acknowledge. Every job creates consequences; every connection is leverage.


NIGHT CITY

Night City is a fully autonomous city-state on the California coast, independent of both the NUSA and the NorCal Free State. It is dense, vertical, and spectacle-driven; a city where excess and violence coexist with opportunity. Corporate power is overt, street-level crime is constant, and reputation travels fast. Night City rewards ambition and punishes hesitation. It is where legends are made, burned, and recycled.

FRESNO

Fresno sits inland, shaped by heat, agriculture, and logistics rather than neon and towers. It is a pressure city, not a spectacle city. Power here runs through water rights, freight corridors, labor contracts, and emergency infrastructure. Violence is quieter, more targeted. Reputation matters, but so does reliability. Fresno favors people who keep systems running and problems contained.

For nomads, fixers, and crews tired of Night City’s churn, Fresno is a place to regroup... or get buried by obligations............

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Art: Tensor and Midjourney
HEAVILY edited by me with Clip Studio Paint, Clipchamp, and Pixlr
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