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Show notes, Night City Secrets Episode 14

Game Session 7, Part 1 \\u2013 Vans & Mannequins & Sheep, Oh My!

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.

Cherub = (NPC)\\xa0 Solo.\\xa0 A bodyguard for Ravnos, known by Sur\\xe1ny.

\\u201cChewie\\u201d\\x9d= (NPC) Medtech.\\xa0 Officially, Consuela Jarillo, a Costa Rican doctor currently dating Han.\\xa0 She is played by the REF.\\xa0 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.\\xa0 Apparently, he\\u2019s now running Petrochem\\u2019s Black Ops team.

G\\xfcnther = (NPC) Fixer.\\xa0 A contact for Hako who gets us black market cyberware and some tech/medtech equipment.

Hako = Fixer.\\xa0 Aohako is also Hawaiian a SAMOAN, 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.

Kronk = (NPC) Media.\\xa0 (\\u201cAdam Marshall\\u201d)\\xa0 A contact of Hako\\u2019s.\\xa0 Not as well known or as well regarded as Ravnos.\\xa0 Works for WorldSat News organization.\\xa0

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.\\xa0 Antigone\\u2019s younger brother, the Director of Research and Development for the PPC.\\xa0 He admires his older sister.

Ravnos = (NPC) Media.\\xa0 A freelancer who mostly works for Net News 54.\\xa0 He broke the story of Petrochem and PPC tensions escalating in Night City.

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.\\xa0 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.

Tak = (NPC) Fixer.\\xa0 He has known Hako for many years, and Hako generally trusts him.\\xa0 He provided us with the intel about the Petrochem transport from Reno to Night City which we intercepted in Modesto.

Tatiana = (NPC) A former employee of Han, a dangerous Solo currently working for the Willow Sisterhood - a Poser Gang who biosculpt 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.

Vaxin = (NPC) Fixer.\\xa0 Another black market contact for Hako.\\xa0

TOC and Timestamps:

** Introduction\\xa0 @00:26

** Play begins:\\xa0 @1:39

Han is at the Petrochem warehouse, trying to gather as much intel as he can before the security team returns.

** Han realizes the security team may have spotted him: @9:40

** Han overhears what sounds to be Genter expressing anger that he\\u2019s lost his one and only sample(!):\\xa0 @12:45

** Hako, surprisingly awake, tries to close the deal on the new merchandise with his fixer network: @15:18

** Sur\\xe1ny works on understanding why the Petrochem data fortress seems so unique: @21:30

** Antigone asks Chewie for some input: @25:20

** Hako and Chewie head out to pick up the new vans: @30:35

** The team realizes their \\u201cfold\\u201d problems: @32:45

** Hako picks up the merchandise: @36:40

** Hako calls G\\xfcnther - not sure he fully trusts Chewie: @39:45

** Antigone reaches out to her contacts to see if there\\u2019s any intel on Genter, as well as setting an appointment with Sergei Bratislov of SovOil: @43:10

** We get a promising lead on a restaurant that Genter likes to frequent: @50:00

** End of gaming session: @50:58

** Closing comments:\\xa0 @51:25

INTRODUCTION TEXT:

Welcome back to Night City Secrets.

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

Tonight we close out session 7.\\xa0 When we left, Eric Genter\\u2019s Petrochem Black Ops team had a near miss at our PPC warehouse, thanks to some quick Netrunning by Sur\\xe1ny and because we had Han in place to watch them.\\xa0 Antigone\\u2019s brother got everyone out and torched the place.

Han is now at the Petrochem warehouse alone, doing what he can to collect more intel.\\xa0 Is Genter really there?\\xa0 How many guards does he really have?\\xa0 How penetrable is the location?\\xa0 All that good spy stuff.

Meantime, Hako is working his contacts trying to secure some practical and some unorthodox supplies that Antigone is asking for, with a few bonuses thrown in for himself.\\xa0\\xa0

And Antigone starts the wheels in motion to introduce a major new player -- SovOil, the Russian megacorp who were involved in the Second Corporate War with Petrochem.\\xa0 That war poisoned a large part of the South China Sea and helped serve as the impetus for the creation of our PPC enterprise, in fact, gathering a lot of the refugees from the Pacific Islands.

Let\\u2019s see if Han can lay low, or if he is gonna start something.

CLOSING NOTES:

I stopped the recording here, but our conversation went on for another 20 minutes.\\xa0 We got into a long discussion about: is the pacing good?\\xa0 The REF told us he feels like he\\u2019s struggling getting everyone equal and ample play time.\\xa0 We all said that we\\u2019re quite happy with the pacing - we just enjoy being together.\\xa0\\xa0

But we did decide that a lot of our game time the past few sessions has been taken up by activities that we think can be better handled out of game -- using our website forums and with private threads and out-of-game conversations that don\\u2019t need to happen here to gum up the action.\\xa0\\xa0

So, after this session, we\\u2019re going to be utilizing our forum threads more judiciously.\\xa0 Hopefully, that cuts down on some of the administrative stuff that slows down us getting to the more action-oriented sequences the REF has in mind.\\xa0\\xa0

If we get an audience, and if any of you want to look at our game threads, just let us know and I can invite you in as a read-only participant.\\xa0 Reach out to us at nightcitysecrets.com and I can get in touch.\\xa0\\xa0

We\\u2019re ending tonight with the team about to head into the city.\\xa0 Antigone is planning on revealing the details of her plan as well as meeting up with Sergei Bratislov of SovOil - if you want to divert attention from yourself, maybe call in the big dog enemy of my enemy and see if that moves the needle, right?\\xa0 And Hako is headed in to a private meeting with his cop friend Marcella at NCPD Vice.

Hope to see you again!