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Show notes, Night City Secrets Episode 3

Game Session 3, Part 1 \\u2013 Back to the Beginning

Cover Art for the podcast from \\u201cCyberpunk madness,\\u201d by the artist Eddie Del Rio.\\xa0\\xa0

Intro and closing music is from Amoebacrew, called simply "Cyberpunk royalty free music.\\u201d\\xa0 It is available on Youtube:

Background ambient music is from RoyaltyFreeSounds, called \\u201cSoundscape Ambient, Cyberpunk Music. Royalty Free.\\u201d

It is on Youtube:

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE

REF = The Referee

Antigone = Corporate.\\xa0 Director of Public Relations for the Paupau Collective (PPC in Night City.\\xa0 PPC is a family autonomous corporation floating out on ships in the Pacific Ocean.\\xa0 Half-Greek half-Polynesian.

\\u201cChewie\\u201d\\x9d= (NPC) Medtech.\\xa0 Officially, Consuela Jarillo, a Costa Rican doctor currently dating Han.\\xa0 She is played by the REF. She\\u2019s also a pilot.

Hako = Fixer.\\xa0 Aohako is also Hawaiian, but not related to Han or Antigone. He grew up in Night City and has connections all over the city.\\xa0 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 \\u201cHanakahi Lonoehu.\\u201d\\xa0 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.

Stahl = (NPC) A pilot for hire, short but very capable Japanese Solo and former fighter pilot.\\xa0 Used to do odd jobs with Han. Frequently hired by Petrochem.

Sur\\xe1ny = Netrunner.\\xa0 A young and nerdy Czech fame-seeker. Raised in Night City, and went to high school with Chewie. Attained some fame for his \\u201cMarch of the Ents\\u201d program: he names all his programs after people, places, and events in the Tolkien Mythos, and has been trying to grow a Gandalf beard.

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.\\xa0 Tried to kill Han once when he tried to come onto her.

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TOC and Timestamps:

** Introduction\\xa0 @00:26

** Play begins:\\xa0 @5:11

The team assembles\\u2026

** REF gives a quick synopsis of the last session: @9:09

** The team flies into Night City in their AV, trying to figure out how to find Stahl:\\xa0 @10:52

** The team flies into a secret rendezvous location to hand off the goods to PPC:\\xa0 @21:45

** The team heads to Club Atlantis:\\xa0 @23: 32

** They discover that Stahl is at the club with Tatiana:\\xa0 @28:45

** Han pontificates on Tatiana:\\xa0 @33.00

** Chewie tries to break it downL\\xa0 @34:20

** Sur\\xe1ny and Antigone enter Club Atlantis:\\xa0 @37:20

** Stahl and Tatiana discuss the night:\\xa0 @48:45

** The team tries to figure out what to do:\\xa0 @52:20

** Sur\\xe1ny tries to break into Stahl\\u2019s AV:\\xa0 @1:00:00

** Tatiana realizes Stahl can contact Han:\\xa0 @1:02:05

** Closing of Session:\\xa0 @1:05:00

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INTRODUCTION TEXT:

Welcome back to Night City Secrets.

The podcast of five gaming friends playing the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk 2020.\\xa0\\xa0

This is episode 3, which is actually part one of our third gaming session.

If you\\u2019ve listened thus far, you know that I started our first show in the middle of the game.\\xa0\\xa0

This episode takes us back to the beginning of Game Night #3.\\xa0 When I watched the reboot of the Battlestar Galactica TV series that aired in 2005, I was blown away by the season one, episode one show called \\u201c33.\\u201d\\xa0 The creators Glen Larson and Ronald Moore\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 threw us right into the harried ragtag escape of the human fleet.\\xa0 It was extremely disorienting, and yet I found it riveting. It really forced us to engage our imaginations to suss out what the heck was happening.\\xa0\\xa0

At the same time, I know there are people who hated it.\\xa0 I think part of that taste discrepancy is simply how we neurally process narratives, and when our expectations are not being met, we can shut out experiences that are too unexpected or too unnerving.\\xa0\\xa0

I\\u2019m currently listening to a podcast series called \\u201cDark Future Dice.\\u201d\\xa0 It is run by three artists who walk through playing their first table-top role-playing game.\\xa0 It is filed under the handle \\u201cRocket Adrift\\u201d on youtube. They start from the very beginning of character creation and walking you through the gameworld.\\xa0 This episode will be more akin to that style.\\xa0\\xa0

It was by listening to their show that I got the idea to start recording our game nights, so\\u2026 thanks to Dark Future Dice for putting out that content!

There is less action in this episode, but more time spent on set-up.\\xa0 I\\u2019m releasing this footage in case there are people who want some of the holes filled in if you felt unsatisfied not having enough background information in the first two shows.\\xa0 In the future, I\\u2019ll continue to release short content snippets that dive into the worldbuilding and the specific characters by doing interviews with the other players, and that will serve as brief filler content.

If you\\u2019re happy to continue on with the story and what happens to Antigone, Hako, Han, and Surany, the next show will be coming very soon.

But if you want a little clarity\\u2026

Antigone is a Corporate in a family-based business we call the Paupau Collective, or PPC.\\xa0 This is an autonomous, sovereign non-governmental entity floating out in the Pacific Ocean.\\xa0 It is somewhat akin to \\u201cThe Raft\\u201d from the cyperpunk novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.\\xa0\\xa0

PPC was founded by her grandfather, Matareka \\u201cFrankie\\u201d Paupau.\\xa0 He is a world-renowned botanist/biochemist who helped create the strain of grains used in the manufacture of CHOOH2, the biofuel that everything runs on in the world of Cyberpunk.\\xa0 He did that while working at Biotechnica Corporation, described in the Cyberpunk 2020 2nd edition book, page 212. His daughter married a Greek scientist, so Antigone and her brothers and sisters are all half-Greek, half-Polynesians with various roles in the PPC structure.

Frankie disagreed with Biotechnica\\u2019s decision to license out the formula to other agribusiness and petro- and hydrocarbon corporations, so he left the company, returned to his native Polynesian Islands, and took to the water with a congregation of fellow Islanders and refugees of the South American Drug Wars.

PPC lashed together a flotilla, or more likely a flotsam, of tankers, yachts, sailboats, cruise liners, aircraft carriers, container vessels, barges\\u2026. anything that could float - and declared themselves an independent \\u201ccountry\\u201d not subject to the laws or taxes of any nation-state.\\xa0 On those re-purposed boats they built aquaponic facilities to grow fresh fish, food, and bioengineered wheat. They turn this into a better and cheaper version of CHOOH2 that Frankie Paupau continued to improve. He also developed a new strain of cocaine that is resistant to the virus introduced by the US government that blighted the original plant.\\xa0 They call this \\u201cNew Coke,\\u201d and smuggle it into various cities around the Pacific Rim.

Antigone is the Director of Public Relations in Night City for the PPC, looking to expand operations by selling the improved CHOOH2 as well as fresh, clean vegetables and fish.\\xa0 And also, of course, smuggling in New Coke. So they have some natural enemies in Petrochem corporation (manual page 213), the world\\u2019s largest producer of CHOOH2.

The crew is her cousin Han, the team Solo, his girlfriend \\u201cChewie,\\u201d a medtech.\\xa0 Aohako, \\u201cHako\\u201d the Hawaiian Night City Native and Fixer, and finally Surany, a nerdy Czech Netrunner who is trying to grow a Gandalf Beard and names all his programs after things from J.R.R. Tokein\\u2019s Middle-Earth mythos.

And\\u2026. scene.