Erith
2017-02-19, 12:31 PM
I'm running a cyberpunk campaign based on the foundation. The year is 2154. In the year 2103 a massive containment breach forced the foundation to use a number of thaumiel class objects to repair the timeline. Three years were, quite simply, lost. Things definitely happened. Babies were born, people died, but there is zero record of it; digital, paper, or otherwise. The foundation as we know it did not survive this reality restructuring, nor did a number of groups of interest. All that is left of the foundation are front companies and Dr. Bright. Mergers, corporate restructuring, GOIs being able to act in the open, and legitimate breakthroughs not being classified as anomalous led to an explosion in technology.
Skipping the wall of text campaign exposition, the party is about to go to war with someone who may as well be the god of netrunners. She goes by the handle Triumph. She doesn't believe in the supernatural, but is blackmailing multiple corporations that have access to anomalous items, and are more than happy to give them to her if she asks. Even if she does believe that they are just experimental, next-gen super tech. Her biggest "client" is Prometheus labs, which has bought out the Factory.
The party gets to choose the time and the place. Triumph will be there, or her cyberware will overheat and cook her brain. She has, at most, 27 hours, not including travel time, to prepare. Nothing short of divine intervention can overcome the overheating problem. The net, as in the entire gorram net, has been down for the last 2 hours, due to the backbones internal protocols imploding. It's going to be down for at least 3 DAYS. On the plus side voIP still works, if you have a static address, so she can still contact her personal Goons. And they can still contact their goons, and so on. Downside, only so many people can be contacted by word of mouth. Upside, she still has a small legion at her disposal. Another downside, not everyone can commandeer corporate jets like she can, so it's more like a battalion, spread over a major metropolitan area. Granted they're heavily cybered, but even local communications are limited to bluetooth range, and she still doesn't know exactly where she's going. At most, she can count on one squad.
I have two questions. The first is, what might such an individual bring with her to battle? Keep in mind, she thinks the laws of physics still apply, and has never personally encountered anything anomalous. She will laugh at the idea that something can be bigger on the inside, or that conservation of energy can be violated. Being the god of runners, people tend to take heed when she laughs, or at least pretend to. Also, her arrogance led her to believe that it wouldn't ever come down to this. She has no stockpiled personal weapons, at least not anomalous ones. Obviously she has plenty of mundane guns, poisons, and such.
Second question, how do I break it to the party that the NPC runner that brought them Triumph used to be a backup dr. bright drone? There is one member of the (IRL) party who has played containment breach, and I have sworn him to secrecy. This party member didn't even know it was based on anything, he thought it was just a game. No one else has any idea what we are talking about.
Of note, the party has been to the Wanderers Library. After the trip there(best summarized as "WHAT?! I thought, how did, when did, CYBERpu.... Oooh, elf chick"), the only things that really shook their cool was meeting Mr. Darke on the way back(MCD being widely known for commissioning the space elevator) and learning that it took 10 Docents to force out the Janitor(who hired them to go there in the first place, in the name of the Critic).
Skipping the wall of text campaign exposition, the party is about to go to war with someone who may as well be the god of netrunners. She goes by the handle Triumph. She doesn't believe in the supernatural, but is blackmailing multiple corporations that have access to anomalous items, and are more than happy to give them to her if she asks. Even if she does believe that they are just experimental, next-gen super tech. Her biggest "client" is Prometheus labs, which has bought out the Factory.
The party gets to choose the time and the place. Triumph will be there, or her cyberware will overheat and cook her brain. She has, at most, 27 hours, not including travel time, to prepare. Nothing short of divine intervention can overcome the overheating problem. The net, as in the entire gorram net, has been down for the last 2 hours, due to the backbones internal protocols imploding. It's going to be down for at least 3 DAYS. On the plus side voIP still works, if you have a static address, so she can still contact her personal Goons. And they can still contact their goons, and so on. Downside, only so many people can be contacted by word of mouth. Upside, she still has a small legion at her disposal. Another downside, not everyone can commandeer corporate jets like she can, so it's more like a battalion, spread over a major metropolitan area. Granted they're heavily cybered, but even local communications are limited to bluetooth range, and she still doesn't know exactly where she's going. At most, she can count on one squad.
I have two questions. The first is, what might such an individual bring with her to battle? Keep in mind, she thinks the laws of physics still apply, and has never personally encountered anything anomalous. She will laugh at the idea that something can be bigger on the inside, or that conservation of energy can be violated. Being the god of runners, people tend to take heed when she laughs, or at least pretend to. Also, her arrogance led her to believe that it wouldn't ever come down to this. She has no stockpiled personal weapons, at least not anomalous ones. Obviously she has plenty of mundane guns, poisons, and such.
Second question, how do I break it to the party that the NPC runner that brought them Triumph used to be a backup dr. bright drone? There is one member of the (IRL) party who has played containment breach, and I have sworn him to secrecy. This party member didn't even know it was based on anything, he thought it was just a game. No one else has any idea what we are talking about.
Of note, the party has been to the Wanderers Library. After the trip there(best summarized as "WHAT?! I thought, how did, when did, CYBERpu.... Oooh, elf chick"), the only things that really shook their cool was meeting Mr. Darke on the way back(MCD being widely known for commissioning the space elevator) and learning that it took 10 Docents to force out the Janitor(who hired them to go there in the first place, in the name of the Critic).