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Show notes, Night City Secrets episode 2

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 (\\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, cousing 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 @2:45

Han and Hako, who is covered in blood, are aboard the AV of the mercenary pilot Stahl.

** Chewie resuscitates Stahl(!):\\xa0 @3:30

**\\xa0 \\u2018Tig crafts a narrative to try and convince Tatiana and the Willow Sisterhood to pull a job for her:\\xa0 @5:50

** Sur\\xe1ny tries to figure out what to do now that Antigone has left the bar with Tatiana:\\xa0 @8:50

** \\u2018Tig gets on the elevator with Tatiana:\\xa0 @10:00

** Sur\\xe1ny tries to figure out what to do to help Antigone out of a tight spot:\\xa0 @14:30

** CRITICAL FUMBLE\\u2026 Sur\\xe1ny disengages the brakes on the elevator\\u2026 :\\xa0 @15:45

** Hako, Han, and Chewie confer on what to do about \\u201cShipwreck\\u201d Stahl:\\xa0 @26:45

** Hako interrogates Stahl:\\xa0 @33:42

** Hako closes the book:\\xa0 @43:22

** Hako debriefs with Antigone:\\xa0 @49:13

** Antigone and Sur\\xe1ny close out with Tatiana:\\xa0 @1:00:30

** Epilogue - figuring out the budget: @1:03:28

** Closing Comments:\\xa0 @1:11:28

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INTRODUCTION TEXT:

Welcome back to Night City Secrets, Choombas!\\xa0 The podcast of five gaming friends playing the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk 2020.\\xa0\\xa0

This is episode 2, which is actually part three of our third gaming session.

So, where we left off.\\xa0 Our team was in Club Atlantis, which is described in the \\u201cNight City Sourcebook,\\u201d page 154 like so:

\\u201cThe entire top three floors of [the Piper Memorial Sports Arena] is the home of Club Atlantis, a favorite hangout for upwardly-mobile corpzoners and street ronin between assignments.\\xa0 This expensive establishment is decorated in a disorienting style reminiscent of M.C. Escher\\u2019s \\u2018House of Stairs\\u2019: a series of cantilevered stairs, angled mirrors, special effects lighting and robotic mannequins placed strategically on walls and ceilings create the optical illusion of bar patrons moving against the laws of physics and gravity.\\xa0 The bar itself serves a complete selection of liquors, beers, and cocktails. It also has a multilevel dance floor and a small performance stage.\\u201d

The team was looking out for Stahl, a mercenary pilot who they hired for their previous job, but who it turns out had betrayed them.\\xa0 They found him at the club chatting it up with Tatiana, a former employee of the Solo, Han.\\xa0\\xa0

Yes, team member Han is a Solo.\\xa0 More on that later.

Tatiana not only was fired by Han after he came onto her and she refused, but she once tried to kill him.\\xa0 She is a Solo as well, now a member of the Willow Sisterhood, a poser gang of women who bodysculpt themselves to look like famous celebrities from film and pop culture who are known for kicking ass and taking names.\\xa0 She currently sports the look of Scarlet Johansen from the \\u201cGhost in the Shell\\u201d adaptation.

Antigone, the team Corporate, intercepted Tatiana and managed to separate her from Stahl with the promise of employment for the Sisterhood.

Han, in the meantime, snuck onto Stahl\\u2019s AV-4 ship with the help of a little remote-hacking by Surany, the Netrunner.\\xa0 When Stahl arrived, he was ambushed, and though Han intended to interrogate him, things didn\\u2019t quite go as planned and he ended up red misting the pilot \\u2014 he happened to do this as Hako, the team\\u2019s Fixer, arrived only to be bathed in an arterial tidal spray of blood.

And now, the continuation\\u2026

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CLOSING NOTES:

So there we end our Session 3 with Cyberpunk 2020.\\xa0\\xa0

Stahl has been offed of this mortal coil, and in this unweeded garden that grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature possess it absolutely.

In case you don\\u2019t get it by the context, Han is a Solo who is actually biosculpted to look like Harrison Ford.\\xa0 He won an AV-4 in a poker game, and of course calls it the Falcon. His girlfriend is a Costa Rican Med Tech who he calls \\u201cChewie,\\u201d so\\u2026 she is basically a Non-Player Character or an NPC who our REFEREE plays for us from time to time.\\xa0 Hopefully that explains why he jumps in to role play with us every now and again.

Until next time, stay chilly, Choombas.\\xa0