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Show notes, Night City Secrets Episode 8

Game Session 5, Part 3 \\u2013 It\\u2019s Dark In This Hole I\\u2019ve Dug

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 (PPC in Night City.\\xa0 PPC is a family autonomous corporation floating out on ships in the Pacific Ocean.\\xa0 Half-Greek half-Polynesian.

Arianna Papadopoulos-Paupau = (NPC) Corporate.\\xa0 Antigone\\u2019s older sister, the Executive VP of Marketing for the PPC.\\xa0 They have a good relationship.

\\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.

Eric Genter = (NPC) Corporate.\\xa0 Senior Director for Petrochem in Night City.\\xa0 He absolutely hates Antigone for losing face to her a few years ago.\\xa0 Antigone simply ignores him, but he has it out for her badly. Apparently, he\\u2019s now running Petrochem\\u2019s Black Ops team.

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.

\\u201cKat\\u201d Katrina = (NPC) A Solo merc-for-hire contracted by Eric Genter to kidnap Antigone and take her to a Petrochem warehouse.

Marcella Lemieux = (NPC) A cop working on the Night City Police Department.\\xa0 She has known Hako for many years and actively is concerned for his safety, so she is willing to help him out.

Mikael Papadopoulos-Paupau = (NPC)\\xa0 Medtech. Antigone\\u2019s younger brother, the Director of Research and Development for the PPC.\\xa0 He admires his older sister.

Rico = (NPC) A second Solo merc-for-hire who is working with Kat to abduct \\u2018Tig.

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.

TOC and Timestamps:

** Introduction\\xa0 @00:26

** Play begins:\\xa0 @1:13

The team is deliberating on what the hell to do next.

** The team decides that Hako should call Tak, to see whether we think he is the one who burned us: @10:04

** Sur\\xe1ny tries to see if he can do anything with the Petrochem encryption box:\\xa0 @19.45

** Antigone tries to convince Sur\\xe1ny and Chewie that she needs to vanish: @21:34

** The team decides to stick together: @29:00

** They decide what to do next, based on what we know so far:\\xa0 @31:45

** Closing of Session:\\xa0 @37:00

** Post Session discussion:\\xa0 @37:30

** End of discussion: @49:36

** Closing Comments:\\xa0 @50.01

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 8, part three of three of our fifth gaming session.

Antigone is in a pretty dark place - pretty sure she\\u2019s brought a corporate war onto the streets of Night City.

The team tries to lift her up and produce a counter-plan.\\xa0\\xa0

This episode features a fair bit of discussion, trying to piece together the past and battle-plan the future, as well as some static between the REF and me.\\xa0 In the terms of the Joseph Campbell monomyth, this might be right around the \\u201cDeath & Rebirth\\u201d stage of the Hero\\u2019s Journey.

CLOSING NOTES:

So after this game session concluded, the REF actually reached out to me the next day, and he was like, \\u201cDude\\u2026. it seems like you took that a little personally.\\xa0 Are you ok?\\u201d

If you\\u2019ve listened to these episodes from the beginning, you\\u2019ll know that I\\u2019m the newbie role-player here.\\xa0 Although I always wanted to try it, it wasn\\u2019t until we started playing Cyberpunk 2020 together that I really got to experience it.\\xa0\\xa0

It was a very interesting experience \\u2014 I could tell that, upon reflection, I was feeling perhaps too invested in my character.\\xa0 But I tried to explain to the REF that what upset me was I felt that I failed to communicate effectively to the team that I was trying my best to avoid bringing attention on us.\\xa0 And clearly I felt a sense of personal failure that I didn\\u2019t lead effectively.\\xa0\\xa0

The way I resolved this was when I came to explain this by saying that I let Han loose \\u2014 and Adrian, who plays Han, is always a loose cannon in our gaming circle \\u2013 and when Han rolled that critical success in his out-of-game activities, he went hog wild and ended up being so successful that we drew the attention of Petrochem and their Black Ops response team.

So, basically, it was Han\\u2019s fault.\\xa0 It is usually Han\\u2019s fault. Fricking Adrian\\u2026.\\xa0\\xa0