It's Cyberpunk day, and since Slant gets away with long posts about all of his sessions, I might try the same thing with my Cyberpunk game, starting with the session last week.
First, meet the Characters.
Seth Streak is who I play - a fixer. He's a short guy, extroverted, a people person. He talks fast and can get stuff. Dresses in Urban Flash or Edge Runner gear, with a massively cool armoured trenchcoat that stops bullets. He's got spiky hair, red and one side and blue on the other, and matching skin tints down his face. That's why they call him streak.
His partner is Headache, a netrunner. Headache is the opposite of streak in many ways. He's introverted, and has a scarred face. Streak gets all the girls, Headache gets none. For the record, Streak is 22, and headache is 17, if I recall correctly.
As the story begins, it's 2040, Brisbane. Headache and Streak have just gone itno business for themselves as Private Invertigaters, with a Hole in the Wall office down in the Valley.
The first customer ever turned out to be an Aquantaince of Streak - another Fixer, Slim Chance. Slim wants us to find a stolen datachip, containing corporate personell listings. Doesn't sound too hard, so we agree. He asks for a price, Streak tells him to name one, forgetting that as a corporate he should now have a standard price. Since Slim is a friend, they agree on the discount price of 280 bucks a day, with a two day advance.
Not wasting time, the two start investigating. Streak hits the streets, and heads down to the Handmaidens bar on Ann. Looking around, he finds a contact, Dianne, surrounded by groupies.
"What is it this time, Seth?"
"I hear there's a market on sometime soon?" (Streak heard this from another contact. He felt the best first step would be to try to track the chip to any black markets that are on soon.
"Market's Tomorrow." She gives him the address, and Streak returns home.
Meanwhile, Headache hit the net. He meets up with a Hacker with an Icon of a greek god.
"Hey Apollo!"
"It'z Zeus, you uncultured Pig!"
They chat for a while. Headache agrees to code him a cool program (That'll take a week to program) in exchange for info on the chip. He starts coding, I meet up and we share findings, and report to Slim.
Next night, Streak hits the markets. He finds a datachip retailer, but not the chip he wants. He does find info on a hacker named "Nail" who seems a good lead. He hangs out with a prowler in a bar on Ann. Streak makes a customary purchase of a cheap Virtual Girl chip, thinking he can sell it for more later.
Back at home, he interrupts Headache's coding, and gets him to test the chip.
"No man, it's completely borked!" lies Headache, stuffing the chip into a draw.
Anyone, Streak gives him the details on Nail, and gets Headache to get on the net and find out some stuff. He gets an address, and we try to arrange a meeting with another lead, by sending out a message. "Go to the bar, and meet a colourful man" When it gets sent, an strange program tries to intercept it, and Headache destroys it with his Killer.
The meeting is supposed to be at Kyla's bar on Ann. We head down there. Streak is approached by a woman carrying a very mean gun.
"Your informant won't be coming tonight."
"Nice piece. I have one too. What's going on, and who are you?"
"Name's Grey. Get off the case, Streak."
"And why should I do that?"
"Goodbye Seth. Alice says hello"
She leaves, and Streak orders a shot of Vodka before joining his partner at the table and taking it in a single gulp.
"Who was that?"
"Said her name was Grey. Our informant isn't coming tonight, and she said she wants us off the case. And she's working for Alice."
"Alice?"
"Had a girlfriend last year. Corporate by the name of Alice. Her family didn't like her going out with a kid from the combat zone, thought I wasn't good enough. Told me to break it off or they'd kill me. So I did. But now she hates me for ruining her life, and tries to kill me every chance she gets. Headache, this is bad."
