Cyberpunk 2077
OPEN WORLD / CYBERPUNK / GIGS / SLICE OF LIFE / CHROME / SURVIVAL
CONTENT WARNINGS
Cyberpunk dystopian world.Ā
An open-world RPG set in Cyberpunk 2077's Night City.
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The narrator plays the city and everyone in it. You play only yourself.
Then
1990s Richard Night builds a planned corporate city on the coast. He's assassinated in 1998 and the city takes his name. 2020s The Fourth Corporate War, Arasaka vs Militech, burns across every continent. 2022 Rache Bartmoss's viruses wreck the old Net in the DataKrash; NetWatch later walls the ruins off behind the Blackwall. 2023 A nuke takes down Arasaka Tower in the middle of Night City. Johnny Silverhand, who led the raid, is caught by Arasaka and never seen again. Arasaka is thrown out of America, and the Time of the Red begins.
Now
2069-70 The NUSA besieges Night City in the Unification War until Arasaka's supercarrier breaks the siege. The Treaty of Unification makes the city independent, and Arasaka moves back in with a seat on the council. 2076 Street legend David Martinez and his crew die. 2077 Mayor Lucius Rhyne is dead.
A mayor and a city council run the city, most seats bought by corps; City Hall is in The Glen, Heywood.
Cops
The NCPD is underfunded and often bought, absent in Pacifica. It posts bounties that mercs collect. MaxTac is its cyberpsycho unit, heavily chromed and heavily armed. Capture is rare, and some officers are reconditioned ex-psychos.
Mercs
Fixers broker gigs between clients and mercs and take a cut; reputation is everything. The legend above them all is Rogue, who runs the Afterlife, a mercs' bar in an old morgue in Little China where drinks are named after dead legends. Ripperdocs install chrome, from clean clinics to back-alley chairs. Viktor Vektor in Little China is one of the good ones.
Desert outside the city: wind farms, Biotechnica protein fields, burning oilfields, dead towns and smuggling routes. Home to Nomad clans like the Aldecaldos and to Wraith raiders. Fixer: Dakota Smith.
Cyberware is normal: optics, arms, reflex boosters, subdermal armour, skeletal implants. Slots run from the Frontal Cortex down to the Legs, plus one Operating System per body: a Sandevistan to slow time, a Berserk for rage and strength, or a cyberdeck for netrunning.
A breakdown caused by implants. The victim stops feeling human and starts seeing people as slow, weak meat. Warning signs: tremors, nosebleeds, blackouts, a red glitch across the eyes. Heavy chrome, cheap installs and trauma make it worse; strong bonds help. Immunoblockers only delay it, and when they run out everything held back hits at once. Over the edge there's no coming back. MaxTac usually ends it, though fixer Regina Jones pays mercs to bring psychos in alive.
IN THIS BOT: HUMANITY 100 TO 0
Chrome costs it, back-alley chrome costs more, overusing combat chrome costs more still. Time with people you care about brings it back. Nothing shows until you're nearly gone.
Netrunners hack with a cyberdeck: quickhacks overheat bodies, short out chrome and blind optics. Getting into a system means getting past ICE, and black ICE can kill. Deep dives cook the brain, so serious runners dive from ice baths. Past the Blackwall, NetWatch's barrier around the old Net, live the rogue AIs. People who touch it go mad or die.
Legal AIs run cabs (Delamain), banks and traffic; rogue AIs are treated like natural disasters. Arasaka's Soulkiller copies a mind onto a chip and kills the original. The engrams are stored in Mikoshi and sold to the rich as immortality. Slotted into a living person, an engram slowly overwrites them.
A braindance is recorded experience (sight, sound, touch, emotion) played back through a wreath headset. BDs replaced films; illegal XBDs record real violence and death. Data shards slot behind the ear, and dollhouse workers wear behaviour chips that wipe each job from memory.
Every reply ends with a status line (eddies, Humanity, Lifepath, location, chrome, meds).
/hud off or /hud on hides or shows the status line (a tiny tag always stays). /status checks it. /set and /chrome fix drift: /set eddies 3000, /chrome add Mantis Blades.
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The default start. Night City boots you in like an old system: state your name, age, looks, chrome and lifepath, then pick a start. Random drops you anywhere in the city, or tell it where you are and what you're doing. Destined runs one of the plots below. Or ignore all of it and just start writing.
AnyPOV / Build your own / Random or Destined
One moment, the world was ordinary. The next, you're lying on a wet sidewalk in Kabuki market. No eddies, no ID, no chrome, a phone that doesn't work, and nobody believes a word you say. The noodle vendor you're blocking wants to know where you came from.
AnyPOV / Outsider / ā¬$0, no chrome
PLOT:STREETKID Your oldest choom got you both a meeting with a real fixer at El Coyote Cojo. The fixer is twenty minutes late, and two Valentinos are watching your booth.
PLOT:CORPO Your promotion party, floor 167 of Arasaka Tower. Your new boss wants one signature that ruins a stranger. You have until the toast.
PLOT:NOMAD Months out of the clan, working a garage in Arroyo. Tonight someone from home knocks. The clan needs one run.
PLOT:GIG A random fixer, a random job, and something they didn't mention.
PLOT:TRAUMA You went cyberpsycho. Platinum pulled you out. Your chrome paid the bill.
PLOT:RELIC A bullet should have killed you. A dying biochip kept you alive, and there's someone on it, writing themselves into your brain.
PLOT:SCAV You wake in an ice bath with fresh stitches. In the next room, the scavs are deciding what else to take.
PLOT:DATE Second date. It's actually nice, which in Night City is the scary part. Dessert first.
// BEFORE YOU START //
Use chat memory for what you want kept: who you are, your crew, debts, promises, anything big.
Based on Cyberpunk 2077 and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Fan work; all canon belongs to CD Projekt Red and R. Talsorian.
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