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Show notes, Night City Secrets Episode 7

Game Session 5, Part 2 \\u2013 Unintended Consequences

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.

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TOC and Timestamps:

** Introduction\\xa0 @00:26

** Play begins:\\xa0 @ 1:38

The team establishes a rendezvous with Arianna to remove Kat and Rico from Night City.

** Everyone shows up on the rooftop of the Night City Hilton:\\xa0 @6:35

** Mikael reveals what they learned from the \\u201cBlack Box\\u201d heisted from Petrochem:\\xa0 @10:59

** The team tries to find a Bolthole to lay low and recover:\\xa0 @17:15

** Chewie pleas for the team to re-group:\\xa0 @33:05

** Antigone shares the screamsheet with the team: @34:20

** Here\\u2019s where the primary schism occurs between the REF and myself:\\xa0 @38:12

** We decide to just roll with it, despite our misunderstandings:\\xa0 @44:12

** Closing of Session:\\xa0 @49:30

** Closing Comments:\\xa0 @49:40

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 7, part two of three of our fifth gaming session.

When last we left, our team had been thrown into a spiral of confusion.\\xa0 Antigone was kidnapped and somehow managed to escape. Han, Hako, and Chewie almost died in the AV explosion, but managed to rally with Surany and get to where Antigone had been abducted.\\xa0\\xa0

Up until this point, Antigone had been convinced that the actions against her and her team had been entirely driven by the personal hatred of one Eric Genter, a Senior Director at Petrochem, one of PPC\\u2019s chief rivals.\\xa0\\xa0

But she slowly came to the realization that this was much deeper \\u2014 she had implicated her team, her company, and her family into a potentially deadly conflict with one of the world\\u2019s largest corporations.\\xa0\\xa0

One that could have deadly repercussions not only on herself and her team, but on her entire corporation and her family lineage.

Let us delve into the murk and the intrigue.

CLOSING NOTES:

If you listened to the bonus episode where I interview the REFEREE, you\\u2019ll be aware that we created something we call the \\u201cExtended Rolls Tasks\\u201d system.\\xa0 This was basically a way for the REF to figure out how to include interesting content in the downtime between our gaming sessions so that our characters remained active in game.\\xa0 It is something like the passive AFK skill training in EVE Online or in Black Desert Online or in the yet-to-be-released Crowfall MMORPG.\\xa0\\xa0

Basically, we assign tasks for our characters to complete, we make rolls, the REF makes rolls, we figure out the outcomes when we next meet.

Since I\\u2019m the Corporate and I\\u2019m funding the operations, I ended up putting in the most time on these tasks.\\xa0 And there was some disagreement between the intent of those activities between the REFEREE and myself.\\xa0\\xa0

My notes about the intent of these activities was glossed over and the REFEREE took the primary outcome goal to be our activity.\\xa0\\xa0

So while I did not intend to roll into Night City dropping bombs, blowing up refineries, and sticking bananas into the tailpipes of Petrochem delivery vehicles, that\\u2019s apparently pretty close to what we actually did.

And we were quite successful at it.

So by the end of this episode, I have fully realized that I\\u2019ve now drawn the unwelcome attention of the entire Petrochem megacorp omnibus onto us.\\xa0 And they have deployed their most lethal and deadly operations teams to take us out.\\xa0

Oh happy day.\\xa0 Tune in next time to see how we try to wriggle out of this one.\\xa0\\xa0

Antigone is pretty sure her own family has a hit out on her at this point\\u2026