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Show notes, Night City Secrets Episode 13

Game Session 7, Part 1 \\u2013 We\\u2019re Fixin\\u2019 to Find Out

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

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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 @1:16

The team is in their new crib, and planning how to strike out without getting made.

** Sur\\xe1ny starts laying out a web to find any chatter out on the Net regarding our PPC wheat strain: @1:20

** A ray of hope!\\xa0 \\u2026??? @4:50

** Antigone calls her brother Mikael: @10:15

** \\u2026and we\\u2019ve been bugged: @13:55

** Sur\\xe1ny diagnoses that it isn\\u2019t us\\u2026 Mikael has been tapped: @18:50

** We switch over to Han, who is staking out the warehouse: @25:10

** Han sees a security detail scramble from the warehouse in an AV-9: @30:00

** The PPC warehouse begins their evacuation: @35:00

** We call back Han and ask if he can verify Eric\\u2019s presence: @42:00

** End of gaming session: @48:41

** Closing comments: @48:55

INTRODUCTION TEXT:

Welcome back to Night City Secrets.

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

Lucky episode 13.\\xa0 We closed last time with a high level of confidence that the \\u201cDark\\u201d Black Ops warehouse that Genter planned to take Antigone to is not really as dark as we had heard.

A pressing concern for us is the PPC sample that we stole back from Petrochem.\\xa0 We don\\u2019t know how they got their hands on it, and we don\\u2019t know if we took their only specimen.\\xa0 Maybe they have reverse-engineered it, or maybe they\\u2019ve replicated it on their own.\\xa0\\xa0

Either way, that\\u2019s a major concern for our home corporation, so Sur\\xe1ny gets to work on trying to find more info.

And maybe we haven\\u2019t learned how to be as discrete as we thought we were.

CLOSING NOTES:

Well that was a close call.\\xa0 While trying to set up our trap to figure out whether Petrochem really had more samples available, we ended up bringing their security team down onto our PPC site.\\xa0\\xa0

Thankfully we got the warning out in time and, though we had to burn the assets there, at least I didn\\u2019t cause anyone\\u2019s death.

Now we have their security team flying back, and Han is there alone.\\xa0 Hopefully they don\\u2019t spot him, too.

But as we all know, Han is a loose canon, and who knows what he might try to do next.

We hope you can come back, and we\\u2019d certainly love to hear from you.\\xa0 Night City Secrets@gmail.com!

Thanks for listening, choomba.