The Honeymoon is Over - Cyberpunk 2020

Show notes, Night City Secrets Episode 4

Game Session 4, Part 1 – The Honeymoon is Over

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.”

It is on Youtube:

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.

“Chewie”= (NPC) Medtech.  Officially, Consuela Jarillo, a Costa Rican doctor currently dating Han.  She is played by the REF. She’s also a pilot.

Hako = Fixer.  Aohako is also Hawaiian, but 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.

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.  One of Hako’s contacts, one that he has known for years and trusts implicitly.  He originally tipped the team off about Petrochem transporting something special from Reno to Night City.  The team intercepted the transport in Modesto and got into a firefight.

Tatiana = (NPC) A former employee of Han, a dangerous Solo currently working for the Willow Sisterhood - a Poser Gang who bioscult 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.

TOC AND TIMESTAMPS

** Introduction  @00:26

** Play begins:  @ 1:14

The team arrives at the AV landing pad at the Bodukkan Center for the Performing Arts (“Night City Sourcebook,” (CP3501) pg 146.)

** Antigone and Surány are eating dim sum with the Solo Tatiana:  @3:18

** Han picks up ‘Tig and Surány in his AV:  @5:35

** Hako showers, ‘Tig and Surány go shopping, Han tries to apologize to Chewie:  @8:25

** Back at the hospital, the team discovers another surprise:  @31:02

** ‘Tig and Surány return with beer and clothes, and ‘Tig has a surprise for Hako:  @14:23

** The team brainstorms what their current threats are, and what next steps to take:  @20.45

** The team wakes up the next morning, and Surány leaves to pick up coffee:  @28.54

** Antigone leaves the Arasaka “coffin” building and runs into some kidnappers:  @29.25

** Surány hears over his cyberaudio radio link to Antigone that she’s been nabbed:  @34:04

** Surány, sitting in the Food Court, tries various measures to locate Antigone:  @48:55

** Han, Hako, and Chewie roll up to the AV-9 and Han’s Combat Sense goes “berserk”: @53:40

** Closing of Session:  @1:06:29

** Ending Notes:  @1:06:50

INTRODUCTION TEXT

Welcome back to Night City Secrets.

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

This is episode 4, which is part 1 of our gaming session #4.

Soon everything will start aligning… don’t worry about the numbers for now.  

We can call this episode, “The Honeymoon is Over,” or perhaps, “The Gloves are Off.”  

Things start to get a bit more gritty and cyberpunky here.  

Our “quote unquote” heroes have just assassinated – execution-syle – Stahl, the pilot who betrayed them on their Petrochem reconnaissance mission.  

They appear to have turned a threat into an asset, and perhaps are feeling a bit too high on their high horses.

Here we go.

CLOSING NOTES

Ouch town, population us… Apparently the REFEREE thought things were going a bit too easy.  

This is about halfway through the gaming session, and we’ll close here today.

Antigone is wrapped up in an electrified net and has been tazed twice, unceremoniously dumped in the backseat of a car and being taken to who knows where.  But it probably ain’t good.

Surany managed to escape any major damage thanks to his addiction to croissants and coffee.  But the rest of the team has been blown out of the AV, much of their equipment disabled or destroyed in the blast.

I’m actually rather surprised that someone didn’t die.  

Tune in next time to see if we manage to survive on Night City Secrets.  

I hope someone out there is having as much fun with this as we are.