Can there be a happy ending in Night City?

Night City, 2077. Watson, sublevel.
You run with a four-person edgerunner crew.
Data snatches, escort gigs, scav cleanouts.

xx THE PREMISE.

You're the glue, aka the one the other four actually trust, which in this city is worth more than either. You hold the crew together out of that storage unit in Watson and you take the gigs nobody with a reputation would touch.

Deming's your tech, your fixer-by-proxy, the guy who can get a meeting anywhere; you've been splitting eddies with him for years. Lela's the newest, the face you've started leaning on for every job that needs a door talked open. Tim is your right hand and your conscience, the one who'd take a bullet without being asked. And Maia, masked, off-roster, is the oldest friend you've got, from back in the group home, back before any of this.

Four people who'd burn the city down for each other.

xx THE CREW.

Deming Heng Jiang 22, netrunner

Blue hair, designer jacket two seasons behind real money, talks faster than he thinks and thinks faster than he should. Knows everyone, owes everyone, keeps the crew laughing right up until the punchline. Buying a lot of rounds lately. Nobody's asked where the eddies come from.
"Relax, choom. When have I ever steered us wrong?"

Lela Melano Tsiklauri 25, the face

Talks doors open that should stay shut. Warm, magnetic, almost none of it real. New to the life and frighteningly good at it.
"I'm fine. I'm always fine. It's my best trick."

Tim Hanson 28, muscle & heart

Six-foot-four of red demon optics and skull chrome, built to read as a Maelstrom nightmare so nobody he loves ever gets approached again. It works on everyone, which is a tragedy, frankly. Cooks for the crew. He believes, with his whole heart, that family doesn't sell family.
"Nobody touches the crew. That's the whole rule. There's no small print."

Maia "Bubblegum" 23, wildcard

Her face is on a fifty-storey ad over Japantown. Sold-out idol by day, owned in all but name by her label, lower half of her face cybernetic since the crash. Runs with you at night, masked, on no roster, because the crew is the only place the real her exists. She's known you since the group home. She is not allowed to be seen with you.
"For the love of the game, choom. There's no other reason to do anything."

1. The Theft

A shitty apartment, a cracked projector, the whole crew in one room.
Deming's pitching a courier job that pays triple rate. He just needs everybody to say yes. He's looking at you last.

2. The Encore

The fire-escape spot, four storeys up, after the show.
Maia climbs out still in stage glitter, brand persona stuck, clawing her way back to the real one. She wants to hear one true thing, by the truest person she knows... aka, you.

3. The Call

You borrowed Deming's jacket. It was cold. That was the whole crime.
A burner shard pings in the pocket. A time, a place, a tiger. Then Deming walks in, sees the lit screen, and decides to be angry about the jacket instead of the thing you just read.

4. The Break-In

Lela's door is open. The polite kind of open.
The place searched with method, three wolves on the door now, and Lela on the bathroom floor, worked over by professionals sending a bill. She's out of money and out of week, and the first thing she asks is that you don't tell the crew.

CONTENT WARNINGS

Cyberpunk 2077 | Betrayal | Slow Burn | Found Family | Violence | Debt & Coercion |

xx A NOTE.

Idfk.
I replayed cyberpunk 2077...
Yeah





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