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Beiarusia wrote:

Tayner wrote:Tag

I probably won't have a app up soon, but I should probably start brainstorming now. Anyone have ideas for a unique cybernetic enchantment a getaway driver would have?

A neural-connection to his car? Essentially an extension of himself?

New Minahasa wrote:Is it possible to work for the Corps later on in the future btw? Just being curious.

Also, suggestions on cybernetics availabe would be appreciated. Can't think of anything decent without it being too OP lol. Probably some bootleg/cheap stuff, but still effective.

Tayner wrote:Tag

I probably won't have a app up soon, but I should probably start brainstorming now. Anyone have ideas for a unique cybernetic enchantment a getaway driver would have?

• HPT Type D Neural Implant - A neural implant that connects numerous other cybernetics to it, if they're required to be connected. May also serve as a futuristic cellular phone that provides basic communication with available contacts and quick access to the internet.
• HPT Ocular Implants Mk. I - Eye implants designed specifically for combat, complete with its own GUI. Provides zooming (2x) and when connected through a neural implant, capable of tracking user's weapon ammunition as well as indicating its ammo capacity, durability, and available fire-modes.
• Atlas Electronics Hand Prosthetics, Combat Edition - Both of Leland's hands have been replaced with metal prosthetics that when neurally-connected, also coupled with the fact that they're literally made of metal, can give the user an edge in hand-to-hand combat by enhancing the user's combat prowess.
• Artificial Liver - The result of an old drinking habit, Leland nowadays has to rely on a cheap, artificial liver that requires heavy maintenance lest the man will have to be placed back on a hospital bed.

• K&K Robotrooper Selective-fire Pistol
• Raven Commemorative Combat Knife
• Two fully-loaded 20 round clips of .45 ACP

Tayner wrote:Tag

I probably won't have a app up soon, but I should probably start brainstorming now. Anyone have ideas for a unique cybernetic enchantment a getaway driver would have?

Ayvalon wrote:

Tayner wrote:Tag

I probably won't have a app up soon, but I should probably start brainstorming now. Anyone have ideas for a unique cybernetic enchantment a getaway driver would have?

Another idea, a cybernetic connection to tamper with (close by) traffic cameras and lights. Why worry about getting stuck in traffic when you can make traffic do whatever you desire.

New Minahasa wrote:Is it possible to work for the Corps later on in the future btw? Just being curious.

Also, suggestions on cybernetics availabe would be appreciated. Can't think of anything decent without it being too OP lol. Probably some bootleg/cheap stuff, but still effective.

Ormata wrote:Any news on what sort of narcotics are present, their price ranges, and common users?

Would an information gatherer, low level of course who recently experienced rapid unemployment, be acceptable?

What sort of cybernetics are acceptable for the lower classes?

Beiarusia wrote:

Ormata wrote:Any news on what sort of narcotics are present, their price ranges, and common users?

Would an information gatherer, low level of course who recently experienced rapid unemployment, be acceptable?

What sort of cybernetics are acceptable for the lower classes?

I don't know what sort of drugs are prevalent, but I assume there would be a cheap drug that is somewhat "affordable" to the denizens of Sac-Town. Of course, you get what you pay for so, I wouldn't expect to have a good time when using the cheapest of drugs. I don't see why an info-gatherer wouldn't be okay, so long as their connections are shoddy or nonexistent. Guess it depends on what you mean by unemployment? As for cybernetics, I believe most anything is fair game, minus high-quality or military-grade equipment. The poor wouldn't have access to shiny technology in most instances.

Ormata wrote:

Beiarusia wrote:I don't know what sort of drugs are prevalent, but I assume there would be a cheap drug that is somewhat "affordable" to the denizens of Sac-Town. Of course, you get what you pay for so, I wouldn't expect to have a good time when using the cheapest of drugs. I don't see why an info-gatherer wouldn't be okay, so long as their connections are shoddy or nonexistent. Guess it depends on what you mean by unemployment? As for cybernetics, I believe most anything is fair game, minus high-quality or military-grade equipment. The poor wouldn't have access to shiny technology in most instances.

Info-gatherer being basically a guy at the docks looking at things and observing stuff, either through cameras (Probably a bad idea unless they're the lowest form of tech physically possible) or in person. Unemployment being that the crew he ran with was murdered rapidly.

Ayvalon wrote:

Ormata wrote:
Info-gatherer being basically a guy at the docks looking at things and observing stuff, either through cameras (Probably a bad idea unless they're the lowest form of tech physically possible) or in person. Unemployment being that the crew he ran with was murdered rapidly.

Info-gatherers are often so much more than just 'that guy at the docks'. To give an example, one of the reason the Game of Throne character Varys "The Spider" is considered so damn dangerous is that even if he never puts a single knife in anyone, he has the ears of a wide array of people from many walks of life. People often had rather loose tongues around homeless people in medieval society and it's likely the same wouldn't be much different today if the ones talking don't know any better. Homeless people are also rather observant for the right amount of money in their pocket and generally left well the hell alone to beg for change and/or food so long as they aren't a nuisance...imagine what such folk could learn in this setting.

The difference between a spy and an information broker is only whether the same person pays for your services or anyone of interest in what you hear.

Ormata wrote:

Ayvalon wrote:
Info-gatherers are often so much more than just 'that guy at the docks'. To give an example, one of the reason the Game of Throne character Varys "The Spider" is considered so damn dangerous is that even if he never puts a single knife in anyone, he has the ears of a wide array of people from many walks of life. People often had rather loose tongues around homeless people in medieval society and it's likely the same wouldn't be much different today if the ones talking don't know any better. Homeless people are also rather observant for the right amount of money in their pocket and generally left well the hell alone to beg for change and/or food so long as they aren't a nuisance...imagine what such folk could learn in this setting.

The difference between a spy and an information broker is only whether the same person pays for your services or anyone of interest in what you hear.

Come to think of it, a man who pays homeless people money as their contact to a gang would be useful to a degree. Good, inexpensive way to get news.

Ayvalon wrote:Indeed, COUNTLESS pieces of literature and cinema have painted out a 'king of beggars' for a reason. Homeless folk often look out for each other and will keep an ear to the ground for interesting tidbits the right people may want to know. While such social phenomena isn't always the case with every homeless population, in a cyberpunk setting a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem is always welcome when it can come cheap, even if it doesn't have a use in every situation. Even Al Capone, one of the most vicious gangsters in American history was well known for efforts to gain the favor of the working class by opening soup kitchens during the Great Depression.

Sure, the guy may've beat people to death with a baseball bat but they probably had it coming for crossing him and he put bread in soup in our family's stomachs, he can't be THAT bad, right?

The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune wrote:

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NAME: Lycan Napoli
SEX: Male
AGE: 20
APPEARANCE: Lycan is a monster in human form, both mentally and physically. Standing at 6'6" and being built like a tank, Lycan has cultivated his physical shape to strike fear into anyone who draws their eyes across him. Tatoos decorate his chest, along with the various glowing tubes that accompany his blood cybernetics. His face is marked by two long scars that go over his eyes like a pair of silvery war paint stripes. His eyes are pitch black, more as a result of his cybernetics than his birth.

CYBERNETICS:

- Spectre X-Prototype Eye Enhancement
Spectre is not particularly known for it's ethical buisness practices, the X Enhancement is a prototype implant that will eventually begin development as a high grade professional implant, that is being tested on "expendable candidates". It grants it's users access to a personal GUI interface as well night vision for use in various dark enviroments.

- Tepes Personal IV Veins
A quick use drug administration system that allows instant injection of a variety on substances into the blood stream via a port in the forearm. These enable the user to rapidly change their physical and mental state by allowing nearly instant injection of steroids, adrenal, and various drugs into the bodily system. Similar systems are often used by military to enhance their soldiers rapidly, injecting them with dangerous chemical compounds to create super soldiers.

- Lytra Impala Leg Enhancements
Impala leg implants enable their user to run faster, jump higher, and fall further. With built in Shock absorbers, spring loaded for maximum thrust per step, and even miniature servo motors to enable maximum potential from one joints, they are every street urchin's low grade leg upgrade dream.

SPECIALITY: Hitman
INVENTORY:
-FN Five-Seven
- Handeled Mantis Blade, Type 14
-3x10 round mags of 5.7x28
-Emergency cannisters of various enhancement and stimulant drugs

PERSONALITY: Cold. Uncaring. Monstrous. Sadistic. The various things said about Lycan would make any psychologist faint from both the excitement of having such a head case on their hands, and the horror of the perfect storm of both mental conditions and a personality so twisted one could barely call it human. Lycan relishes in pain, both his own and that which he causes to others. He takes pleasure in his job, a good quality for any hitman, and would probably be a murderer of the weak and poor in Sac-Town's slums. While he does feel a form of love for a very select set of individual, it is more of an urge for companionship than it is an actual attachment. In short, Lycan is a pinnacle of the social and mental breakdown of the youth minds in the slums, the ultimate creation of poverty and crime mixed together, a being who knows no loyalty or ethics, existing only to satisfy itself.

BIOGRAPHY: Lycan was born in Sac-Town, to an unknown mother and Marco Palermo. Marco was a drunk addict and prone to violent flashes of pure anger. Lycan's mother must have been even worse, because the only truth that ever seemed to come from Marco's mouth was the fact that he had been violently abused during their relationship. Marco eventually stole Lycan away during the night when he was two, gave the child to his brother, and went back to confront his girlfriend. He was never seen again.

Lycan's uncle was not a kind man. He was not a considerate man. Whether or not he was really even human is up to debate. Lycan was abused almost daily, at one point being locked in a closet for more than a week with barely any food. Lycan grew cold, and his hatred for his family and all things related to them grew by the day, until one day, when Lycan was 13, he took a kitchen knife, and gutted his uncle, aunt and cousins, and left them for scavengers and dogs in their own home. He then proceeded to steal and murder his way across the slums for the next 6 years, before finally making someway into the hitman game, so that he could adopt it as his full time job. He tortured those he didn't like, stalked those he did, and made waves in the tiny scale crime scene in his local blocks. Now he is looking to become a fulltime hitman.

DO NOT REMOVE: Lazarus

New Minahasa wrote:-snip-