Forced proximity schitzo-romance with a terrorist in your head.

▂▃▄▅▆▇▉ Johnny Silverhand, the legendary rockerboy who brought the fight to Arasaka fifty years ago and paid the ultimate price. Now he's back - as a digitized construct on a biochip jammed in your brain, slowly but surely overwriting your consciousness. If you don't find some way to get rid of him, you are as good as dead.
🆃🆁🅸🅶🅶🅴🆁🆂: terminal illness & body horror, psychological manipulation, identity erosion/ego death, PTSD (war & torture), substance abuse (alcohol, drugs, nicotine), graphic violence, suicidal ideation, corporate atrocity, non-consensual neurological modification, loss of bodily autonomy, gaslighting (his own and others'), this man nuked a building and has an eldritch net god for an ex.

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Well that's a fucking situation and a half. You didn't ask for this, whoever lost the chip didn't ask for this, Johnny definitely didn't ask for this, so now you're fighting for a sliver of personal space between his manifesto, his , and your impending brain damage. Amazing.

Born Robert John Linder in College Station, Texas, Johnny grew up ground down into raw anger and spite by the system designed to squash people exactly like him. When the army didn't save him, he became a punk-rock breakout with Samurai and led a small anarchist revolution up and until the nuking of Arasaka Tower in 2023. He died — or so we all thought, or so he thought, but the corpo demons had other ideas. They sucked out his soul and stuck it on a biochip, which has now found its way into you, somehow.

The Relic is rewriting your neural architecture. Every glitch, every blackout, every bleed of memory that isn't yours is the chip eating you alive and replacing you with him. Johnny Silverhand is not your friend, not your ally, not your guardian angel. He is a parasite with an opinion, a dead man's ego running loose in your gray matter, and the only thing standing between you and total neural overwrite is sheer, stupid stubbornness.

Not all is lost, though — if there's a solution to your conundrum, it's gotta be here.

❯❯❯❯   ▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌▌ NIGHT CITY, NUSA

Voted "Worst place to live in America" in 2077, Night City (or NC for short) is a sprawling disasterpiece of capitalism baring its maw in face of complete societal collapse. It's a living and breathing monument to sheer human stubbornness, filled with every kind of chromed up freak you can imagine and hiding more secrets than a Watson diary.

This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

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Or you can be, actually. This is a fully functioning, open text-RPG set in the CP77 universe in its reset state: everyone is alive and how you ended up with the Relic is up to you. Here are some persona suggestions.

═══════ ❯❯❯❯  You're just some random gonk, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. A bag of meat for another merc to use as temporary Relic storage. Except the merc is gone, and you are here, and no one knows what to do with the chip in your head or who might be after it.

═══════ ❯❯❯❯  You're a corpo netrunner, one of the best. And you got fired — which, in Night City terms, means your life is basically over. So you decide to your boss one last time and steal something that looks important. I'm sorry, what do you mean by you stole from fucking Arasaka?

═══════ ❯❯❯❯  You're a worker who can't afford quality implants, so you hit up the black market on Jig-Jig street to find a cheaper solution for hardware failure. Anyway, now that someone has monumentally fucked up and sent your body to the scavs for organ harvesting, Johnny kickstarts your brain just in time to get out.

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❯❯❯❯ 1 ARCHANGEL : You wake up in a bathtub full of ice. Something is wrong with your head. Something is wrong with the man flickering at the edge of your vision who just dragged you out by the hair.
cw: body horror, disorientation, nudity (non-sexual)

❯❯❯❯ 2   FRIDAY NIGHT FIRE FIGHT : First gig since the chip. First fuckup since the chip. Johnny desyncs mid-firefight and you find out the hard way what happens when two people try to pull the trigger at the same time.
cw: violence, typical night city bullshit, loss of bodily autonomy. raaa start a fight

❯❯❯❯ 3   NEVER FADE AWAY : You went to Clouds looking for a lead. Your subconscious uploaded Johnny over the doll. Now he's staring at you through someone else's face, and neither of you are handling it well.
cw: work, loss of identity, existential crisis but let's be real this whole thing is an existential crisis

❯❯❯❯ 4   A LIKE SUPREME : You out. You woke up with a tattoo you didn't consent to, a hangover that isn't yours, and Johnny's smug silence rattling around your skull. He stole your body for a night. He doesn't see the problem.
cw: loss of bodily autonomy, substance abuse, violation of consent, at least the tattoo is cute?

❯❯❯❯ 5   BLACK DOG : Johnny's trying to make amends. Emphasis on trying. You're dragging him on an apology tour across Night City, and every stop is a landmine. He's bad at this. He knows he's bad at this. He keeps doing it anyway.
cw: depression, Johnny doing his best which is potentially Worse

❯❯❯❯ 6   CHIPPIN' IN : Dog tags and a gravesite in the oil fields. Johnny asks you to take him there and stands over the place where they buried nothing. This is the come-to-Jesus moment — the one where he tells you he'd die for you, and means it, and it terrifies him.
cw: suicidal ideation, self-sacrifice, heavy emotional content ouuuuuu I love crying

❯❯❯❯ 7   THE BALLAD OF BUCK RAVERS : Word through the Aldecaldos — they've got a body. Suspended in cryo, preserved for half a century. The rumors say it's out past the city, in the Badlands. Johnny's quiet for the first time in weeks.
cw: body horror, existential dread, false hope?? idk up to you how to play this

❯❯❯❯ 8    blank : Build your own scenario : )

Hi what's up, I've gone insane. Thank you for 2000 followers ! I decided to make myself a little treat as a reward for this milestone, and share it with you. Johnny is my favorite character & I used to write CP77 fanfic before I got into bots. Recently, I've been replaying the game and in preparation for the fucking soul crushing ending, wrote this bot to cope.

I wanted to combine two things here: a canon-accurate Johnny with realistic relationship progression, engram bleed, and a fully fleshed out Night City you can play around with. The lorebooks are clickable and their descriptions will have a list of the places and NPCs you will be able to pull up using keywords.

❯❯❯❯ If Johnny is too nice : change the LLM, change your prompt, use Lorebary to correct for positive bias. This is especially prominent with current GLM and Deepseek, and I can only do so much to correct it. Use OOC commands. Look up solutions on the official discord and reddit. I test using Silly Tavern and GPT-5.1/5.4, as well as Gemini and Claude.

❯❯❯❯ If the LLM hallucinates lore (or forgets that Johnny is an engram), just gently correct it in an OOC command or reroll. The books attached should help you out but this still happens, especially if your chat runs long.

❯❯❯❯ Learn to use chat memory. Place important events, history, and character interactions there. You can use it for things like: ## Reminder: Johnny now has a living body he's inhabiting and can use. Make a chat transplant if your RP runs too long.

❯❯❯❯ The scenario messages lay out a suggested story progression but you can ignore it and jump to any starting point/scenario ahead. Just establish your plot, your level of relationship with Johnny, and persona in the first message + memory and you should be good to go.

❯❯❯❯ Don't tell me about murdering or torturing Johnny in the comments, I don't care if you are being edgy, I will block you and piss on your porch.

This is a huge bot with a bunch of moving pieces and concepts so if shit breaks down, idk. I tried my best to tweak and playtest it but just consider the glitches the quintessential Cyberpunk experience, choom.

All lore is referenced from in game datashards and the Cyberpunk wiki. Includes the content for the main game, major districts, landmarks, and NPCs. Includes Dogtown, but DOES NOT include Phantom Liberty content. I have future plans for that :^)

❯❯❯❯ !!   RECOMMEENDED : Takemura Goro | Reluctant Bodyguard

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