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Show notes, Night City Secrets episode 1: "In Medias Res"

\\xa0Welcome to Night City Secrets.

This will be a podcast about a handful of friends playing the tabletop role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020.\\xa0 Our inaugural episode takes us straight into the action.

(We are adults, and we do curse a little - not like sailors, and we don\'t use words we wouldn\'t use in front of our own kids, but there is some colorful commentary -- usually in character.)

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:

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

REF = The Referee

Antigone = Corporate.\\xa0 Director of Public Relations for the Paupau Collective (\\u201cPPC\\u201d) in Night City.\\xa0 PPC is a family autonomous corporation floating out on ships in the Pacific Ocean.\\xa0 Half-Greek half-Polynesian.

Han = Solo.\\xa0 The team solo and pilot, bioscultped to look like Harrison Ford, though he also has spiky short hair.\\xa0 Native Hawaiian, cousin to Antigone.\\xa0\\xa0

\\u201cChewie\\u201d = (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.\\xa0 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.

Sur\\xe1ny = Netrunner.\\xa0 A young and nerdy Czech fame-seeker.\\xa0 Raised in Night City, and went to high school with Chewie.\\xa0 Attained some fame for his \\u201cMarch of the Ents\\u201d program \\u2014 he names all his programs after people, places, and events in the Tolkien Mythos, and has been trying to grow a Gandalf beard.

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

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.\\xa0 Tatiana is currently sporting the look of Scarlet Johannsen from the Ghost in the Shell movie adaptation. Tried to kill Han once when he tried to come onto her.

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TOC and Timestamps:

** Introduction:\\xa0 @00:28

** Play begins:\\xa0 @1:51

The crew is in Club Atlantis (page 154 of \\u201cNight City Sourcebook,\\u201d CP3501).

** Antigone separates Tatiana from Stahl:\\xa0 @3:06

** Han tries to sneak into Stahl\\u2019s AV, Sur\\xe1ny hangs out at the bar:\\xa0 @8:05

** Hako leaves to give Han backup:\\xa0 @8:55

** \\u2018Tig is trying to bribe Tatiana and the Willow Sisterhood:\\xa0 @9:25

** Han arrives at the AV: @12:40

** Sur\\xe1ny deals with the triggered security system on the AV:\\xa0 @19:53

** Stahl arrives at the AV:\\xa0 @20:50

** Hako arrives at the AV:\\xa0 @30:15

** \\u2018Tig tries stalling Tatiana with a job offer:\\xa0 @38:26

** Closing Comments:\\xa0 @47:55

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INTRODUCTION TEXT:

Hello, and welcome to Night City Secrets.

This will be a podcast about a handful of friends playing the tabletop role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020.\\xa0

We have played a variety of games together from World of Warcraft to Guild Wars 2 to Settlers of Cataan\\u2026 many different games.\\xa0 We recently decided to try out the Roll20 platform - at Roll20.net - and go back to some of our roots.

There\\u2019s 5 of us, one serving as the Referee.\\xa0 This is a game that three of our group played together in their childhood, but it is a new experience for two of us.\\xa0 So I\\u2019m pretty much the newbie here.

As I was preparing to get into this game, I was doing a variety of research into how to play, and I came across the series on playing Cyberpunk 2020 called \\u201cDark Future Dice\\u201d - you can find them on youtube and other media sites - and I really enjoyed listening to it.

We have a lot of fun playing and joking around with each other, and I thought\\u2026. why not record it?\\xa0 Maybe someone out there will get a laugh out of it, too.

Rather than giving a lot of backstory, however, I\\u2019m going to start this \\u201cen media res.\\u201d\\xa0 \\u201cEn media res\\u201d is a term that literary geeks use to describe a narrative or a story that begins \\u201cin the middle of things.\\u201d\\xa0 It is a technique meant to put you right into the action and let you deduct things and piece them together as it happens.\\xa0\\xa0

So without further ado, this is game night three of our new venture into Cyberpunk 2020.

CLOSING NOTES:

Here I\\u2019ll end the first part of our podcast.

That ends the middle part of our third session.\\xa0 If that was too disorienting\\u2026 Han has hijacked the AV-4 of Stahl, a pilot he hired who betrayed us on our last mission.

The AV-4 is the McDonnell-Douglas AV-4 Tactical Urban Assault Vehicle, described on page 182 of the Cyberpunk 2020 2nd edition manual.\\xa0 It is the quote \\u201cnearest thing to a science fiction jet car\\u2026Short, bulbous, and equipeed with only rudimentary maneuver wings\\u201d unquote.\\xa0\\xa0

While taking down Stahl, he \\u201cred-misted\\u201d Hako, our Fixer, as he entered the vehicle.\\xa0 Hako had some unconciliatory feelings about the incident, to say the least.

In the meantime, Surany the Netrunner, remotely infiltrating the security systems to Stahl\\u2019s AV-4, and Antigone, the Corporate funding this operation, were attempting to isolate Tatiana.\\xa0 Tatiana is a former disgrunatled and\\u2026 violent\\u2026 employee of Han\\u2026 which is why they are trying to keep her separated from the encounter with Stahl and Han. She is a member of the Poser Gang \\u201cWillow Sisterhood,\\u201d a collection of mercenaries who hire themselves out for odd jobs.\\xa0 Their signature poser identity is to bodysculpt themselves as attractive women from feature films and pop culture known to be absolute bad-asses.

Next time, we\\u2019ll wind back the clock and take you to where our characters tried to piece together the clues that would lead them to trying to find their betrayer, Stahl.\\xa0

Until then, peace be with you, Choombatta!