Hey Choombas! Looking to Start a Crew (CP 2077 small group 4-5, Interest Check)

[Odanrav]

Heya folks. So Andronica and myself are interested in starting a small Cyberpunk 2077 group game and were wondering if there were any others out there interested in doing something in Night City.

We haven't as of yet come up with a solid plot for anything, because we wanted to form a plot around whatever sort of characters the other group members might come up with. We could be a group of mercs trying to make our fortune, part of a gang, a group of rockerboys/girls, etc etc. I was of the mind to play a netrunner based off of the V I played in 2077 who would have loose ties to the Tyger Claws, but I can change that based on the nature of the story we come up with.

Anyway, all we need to know is if anyone has interest in this and what type of gonk you'd wanna be. This isn't a first come, first serve sort of deal and we'll accept who we feel is best for the group. If you are the sort to flake on groups early and often, don't worry about expressing interest because we want something long term and sustainable.

Requirements: You will be required to be active and engaged during the brainstorming process of the game, as we want to tailor the story as best we can to work with everyone's character. Minimum post requirement of once per week, 3+ paragraphs of story-progressing content.

Kinks: Light to non-con due to the darker elements of the universe and game. It's possible MC may be a hermaphrodite/intersexed/futa/whatever-you-wanna-call-it, so be wary that kink may be involved.

Please, no game spoilers in the below comments.

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[TheGrandAdmiral]

I am very interested in such a game!

One question though, will it be freeform or system?

[Odanrav]

I am very interested in such a game!

One question though, will it be freeform or system?

Freeform is our thinking right now. I'm open to learning Cyberpunk Red, can't speak for Andro.

[TheGrandAdmiral]

Oh, I prefer freeform, I have no experience with system.

[Fiadh]

I think freeform would be the best way to go.

[Odanrav]

Jin Maeda

Alias/Nicknames: "Kitsune"
Pronoun: She
Sex: Mixed (Genetically engineered so)
Age: 28
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 139 lbs
Theme: Secession - Devour

Skills: Netrunning, Quickhacking, Submachine Guns, Sniper Rifles, Martial Arts, Blades, Infiltration, Fashion.

Cyberware: Kiroshi Optics, Synthetic Weave Reinforced Lower Body Tendons and Joints (For greater agility, soundless steps, enhanced leaping), Mantis Blades, Frontal Lobe ICE System, Grounding Plating (Shock-Resistant), Fuyutsui Electronics Mk.3 OS, Tyger Claws Dermal Imprint (Smart Link).

Affiliations: The Maeda Family, Tyger Claws, Keegan "Brick" Brockers (Fixer)

Background: The name Maeda carries weight on the streets of Japantown and Kabuki. An illicit reaction of fear whenever a Tyger Claw goon drops the name to the local ripperdoc, street vendor, or gonk passerby. And Kenta Maeda, one of a triad of TC bosses, wouldn't have it any other way. "It is much more time consuming to make a man loyal to you, than to fear you," Kenta once told his daughter, Jin, after having to set an example on a disorderly foot soldier. "So you must pick wisely whose loyalty has value, and who you don't have time for."

The world of fear is the one Jin was raised in. Becoming a boss in Japantown was hard, but staying one was harder, so Kenta was more of an infrequent visitor to Jin in her formative years than a father as the job of staying on top preoccupied the majority of his time. The most attention Jin received from her father before she made him pay attention years later, was when she was still in the womb.

Historically, the Tyger Claws were a very traditionalist group, as far as Night City gangs go. Katana wielding maniacs who'd go charging in against semi-automatic rifle wielding NCPD or Steel Dragons. Kenta, a member since he was a listless teenager in the 2030s, always envisioned something more for the gang and pushed to enhance the organization's usage of cyberware and firearms, creating something of a schism of philosophical belief from within.

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Keegan Brockers

Alias/Nicknames: "Brick" or "Brick-Hands"
Pronoun: He
Sex: Male
Age: 36
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 212 lbs.
Theme: Zack Hemsey - The Runner

Skills: Boxing/Hand-to-Hand, Street-Level Networking, Firearms (Prefers Shotguns), Keegan has a knack for building ang maintaining solid relationships with a variety of mercs, gangs, and has even put jobs together for corps, adept at knowing how to ride the line and remain neutral.

Cyberware: Gorilla Arm (Right side only).

Affiliations: Afterlife, Jin Maeda, Other Fixers, Several Gangs.

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[Canuckian]

Me, me, I want in, pick meeeeeeee!

I'm taking baby steps into this whole "Discord" thing, so bear with me please. 

As for character ideas, for whatever reason I'm leaning towards taking a page from CP2077 itself and playing a Relic-chipped character.  Not necessarily Johnny Silverhand, but I'm thinking my Streetkid is SO not an Edgerunner and has to deal with this Devil-over-his-shoulder slowly egging him on.  C'mon, don't be such a pussy!  Just grab the gun and point- safety off first, dickhead.

[Juggtacular]

I'm in. I'll start making my app today.

[Karma]

I want in!

[Odanrav]

Hey all, thanks for sharing interest. We are primarily communicating on Discord, but we certainly see your interest and look forward to seeing what you come up with character wise.

[Karma]

If you have a link, I'll join, unless you need a sheet first.

[Juggtacular]

Same as Karma. I didn't see a link or anything for the discord channel so I figured it was all on here.

[SilkenVenom]

I'm expressing interest as well.

[Odanrav]

Odanrav#8155 or feel free to contact Andro and we'll invite you to the server.

[Fiadh]

Evangeline

Alias/Nicknames: Eva
Pronoun: She
Sex: Female
Age: Ambiguous. Appears to be in her late twenties.
Height: 5'5
Weight: 120 lbs
Theme: Black Math - Strange Love

Skills: Charm, weaponized. She can flip from an innocent plaything to the mistress of someone's dreams in seconds. It doesn't surprise her that even in this chrome age, appealing to the most basic appetites will get you far with information, and she's not shy about twisting that to her advantage. Contacts. Dirty little secrets. She'll know it all.

Cyberware: Besides the implant that allows her to jack into her Cloud clientèle's fantasies, Eva has no known modifications to her person.

Affiliations: Clouds, Maeda family

Background: Stay in the dark - for now.

Katya Vasser

Alias/Nicknames: Valkyrie / Kat
Pronoun: She
Sex: Female
Age: 32
Height: 5'8
Weight: 141 lbs
Theme: MXMS - Gravedigger // Kings & Creatures - Mohawk

Skills: Katya is well versed in almost all firearms, with a particular fondness for auto rifles and submachine guns. Hand to hand combat has been vastly improved through her modifications as well. If there's a job that requires brute strength and bloodshed she's on it. Despite the Maelstrom's reputation for being one synaptic misfire away from a cyberpsycho, she is more tactful than others might expect.

Cyberware: Syn-lungs and Biodyne Berserk augmentations for improved stamina and reduced recoil. Visual Cortex Support because she loves headshots.

Affiliations: Maelstrom gang, various mercenary groups

Background: Katya grew up in Watson. She had a decent life - pretty subjective in Night City - but she knew how to go unseen, which usually kept her out of serious trouble and with a roof over her head. Then she met him and everything was going to get better because he treated her right.

It turned out things were going to get much worse. He was obsessive. He got her wrapped around his finger into his gigs running drugs, stealing, and other offences that might be scrubbed away by a pretty face. When he pushed her to get on the street though, she pushed back, and he didn't like it. The fallout was volatile. It turned out he had friends from dark places. He kept her locked up for a few weeks switching between beatings and torture 'til he got it into his head that he would make her obedient. The resulting experiment was brutal considering his amateur knowledge of anatomy and cybernetics, so she didn't last long.

After a while he couldn't stand the sight or smell and ditched his failed handiwork out of his car late at night in the Northside Industrial District. She tumbled messily into the underpass below where the momentum caused further severe internal and external damage, compounding her already mangled right leg and arm. A ripperdoc who does work for the local Maelstrom gang was passing through and found her still somehow clinging to life. He took her in for 'repairs' as a little pet project.

Now Katya is almost more mods and machine than flesh and bone, sporting a sleek matte black right leg from the hip down along with a matching right forearm. In exchange for remaking her, she takes on gigs for the ripperdoc and Maelstrom gang to repay the life-debt, along with a myriad of mercenary work.

[TheGrandAdmiral]

I am still interested, will work on a CS later today, am thinking a female CORPO, former MiliTech.

[SilkenVenom]

Natasha Severnaya

Alias/Nicknames: Tasha, Nova
Pronoun: She
Sex: Mixed
Age: 38
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 180 lbs
Theme: Ian Snow - Tektronik

Skills: Quickhacking, Assault Rifles, Hand guns, Shotguns, Sniper Rifles, Infiltration, Assassination, Hand-to-hand Combat

Cyberware: Kiroshi Optics, Kerenzikov enhancement, Supra-dermal Weave, Fireproof Coating, Sub-dermal Armor, Smart Link, Pain Editor, Monowire

Affiliations: Militech, Formerly Arasaka, Formerly NCPD

Background: Natasha was born to immigrant parents from Russia in the city of Washington DC. Her father was part of the struggling, slowly dying government body that tried to maintain authority over the country while her mother was a lawyer for the Arasaka corporation. Her father was killed in a bombing by an anarchist group that were doing everything they could to bring down what little government remained. She moved to Night City with her mother when she reached her teenage years. She initially joined the NCPD after finishing her education in an attempt to keep the city safe, when she home hadn’t been. It turned out to be an uphill battle she had no hope of winning. She became disillusioned with the NCPD. She was blocked at every turn and found herself with little power.

A contact and friend of hers noticed her change in attitude and told her a better way. She left the NCPD and joined Arasaka where she was given upgraded enhancements and elite training. She was given a lot more freedom and authority to get things done, which she enjoyed a good deal. She served as second-in-command to Arasaka’s security force for several years until she was betrayed by her mentor. Under order from an executive, he killed her mother and framed her for it. She escaped and met up with a Militech contact from her NCPD days that offered to help.

Joining up with Militech, her cybertech was replaced with the latest models and she lured out her old mentor into Pacifica where she executed him. The death was blamed on a fight between the Voodoo Boys and the Valentino gang. With her vengeance sated, she quickly settled into her role as one Militech’s top enforcers in Night City and ranking member of product testing.

[Karma]

Aurelia Kshatriya

Alias/Nicknames: Aurie (friendly), Kash (familiar)
Pronoun: She
Sex: Chrome Mixer
Age: Early 30s
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 150lbs
Theme: Not My Funeral - Children of Bodom

Skills: Athletics, specialized in punching really hard, running at blazing speed, and enduring massive damage. Basic hacking to disrupt enemies so they can get punched.

Cyberware: Gorilla Arms, Reinforced Tendons, and a laundry list of other physical enhancements to make her faster and stronger. Her enhancements are mostly hidden by synthskin, but she is 90% chrome at this point.

Affiliations: Lizzie Borden and the Mox

Background: Aurelia came up on the streets of Watson, running with gangs as small as four from before she could even drive. She saw the world as it really was, down in the grime and the muck, thinking it would never be possible to shovel herself out of the shit. Money was hard to get and even harder to keep, and when she was finally old enough, she stumbled into the nearest strip club looking for a job, any job, something to stabilize her life and get her off the ever-present knife edge of street crime. It was mere coincidence that the club was Lizzie’s.

Lizzie Borden was a woman of vision and indomitable will, and saw in Aurelia something more than just another dancer. The hard years in the gutter had made Aurie, who was already tall for a woman, hard and strong. It wasn’t Lizzie’s goal to simply support ethical sex work, but to defend it, and even imperialize it. Resistance was a start, but revolution was the goal, and to make it happen, she would need women who could do things with their hands besides just gripping cocks.

The validation and purpose offered by Lizzie was absolutely intoxicating. She was paid well, but instead of turning her newfound income to selfish reasons, Aurelia visited the ripperdoc. Her romance with chrome started at her biceps and gradually consumed almost her entire body. At Lizzie’s request, she hid it all beneath synthskin convincing enough to make anyone doubt that Aurelia was even half that chromed up. An unthreatened deviant was a reckless deviant, and Lizzie wanted misbehaving clients identified and out of her establishment.

As Lizzie’s popularity and notoriety increased in Night City, a loose association of her friends and sycophants started to coalesce. Outsiders had taken to calling them “moxies” due to their tendency to get what they wanted and fight back against oppressors. Aurelia, as one of Lizzie’s foremost bouncers and agents, was getting a reputation as a minor local legend. When Lizzie wanted someone gone, Aurelia was who was sent. Pay cash or get Kashed out.

[TheGrandAdmiral]

Maya Sokolov

Alias/Nicknames: May (to her friends) or Falcon (to her enemies and in her MiliTech and forme MAX-TAC squad)
Pronoun: She/Her
Sex: Female
Age: 39
Height: 1.68 m
Weight: 60 kg
Theme: Ciara - Paint It, Black

Skills: Good with most weapons, but prefers pistols and assault rifles, not that good with hand to hand, adequate netrunning skills

Cyberware: RAM Upgrade, BioMonitor, Cataresist, Kereznikov, Subdermal Armor, Militech Paraline, Endoskeleton
Affiliations: MiliTech, former Max-Tac

Background: Coming from a family that escaped the USSR, being fed up of working for SovOil. Having smuggled and sold some confidential shards to Petrochem her parents managed to settle in Night City. Growing up on the streets of Kabuki, Maya was rather tomboyish, learned to fight and survive on the streets. Her closest friend and first crush, Lucy, was killed by a cyberpsycho on a rampage, thus sending Maya on the road to train for MAX-TAC.

She was finally accepted, so the hunt for psychos had begun. Maya was known for the usage of aggressive, but effective tactics for neutralizing the targets.
She quickly rose to squad leader, a fact that earned her a lot of enemies. During a mission of neutralizing a psycho, who was rampaging through the Kabuki market there was a set up, that lead to a lot of collateral damage.

Maya managed to prove the sabotage, but the public outrage was great enough, so she was used as a scapegoat. She worked as a merc for some time, until getting in touch with a MiliTech recruiter. Maya had doubts whether she would be accepted due to her past, but ultimately got the job. Her tasks were simple enough, she was to deal with problems.

The solutions usually involved a hail of bullets, something she excelled at.

[Juggtacular]

Bronson Klyne

Alias/Nicknames: Crimsonhand, Bron, Black Sheep
Pronoun: He
Sex: Male
Age: Mid-Late 20's
Height: 6'4
Weight: 260lbs
Theme: Indestructible - Disturbed

Skills: Growing up with an unlimited amount of Eddies and even more free time meant Bronson had ample time to learn how to do what he wanted. He's been trained by the best shooters, the best fighters, the best netrunners, the best of the best that money can buy. He is primarily focused on hand to hand combat and melee weapons as he enjoys the visceral feel of being up close and personal. But he is no slouch with firearms either and is a crack shot with a rifle or a handgun. If he's in a mood, he'll hack you five ways from Sunday before finishing you off.

Cyberware: Enhanced Optics, Gorilla Arms, Fortified Lower Body Enhancements[Super Jumps, Enhanced Speed, Quiet Steps], Kerenzikov[Heightened Reaction Times], Endoskeleton, Sub-Dermal Armor, Muscle Enhancements
Affiliation: Klyne Industries, Various Corps, Various Mercenary Groups, Multiple Fixers

Background: Bronson Klyne is the youngest of the three Klyne children, with his brother Capone and sister Griselda being the oldest and middle child respectively. The three of them are the heirs of Klyne Industries, started and run by Kaine Klyne, and today is one of the biggest and baddest corps in the world with their fingers in pies ranging from weapons manufacturing to cyberware and corporate espionage. The whole reason he was able to grow up with a platinum spoon in his mouth, according to his father was that the old man did a favor for Morgan Blackhand back in the day, like way waaaay back.

That favor came back around and the biggest Solo in Night City did his dad a solid, and that solid paved the way for Klyne Industries to not only be created, but allowed to thrive. And it's that single story that he was told growing up that made Blackhand one of his biggest heroes. A guy who could take on the world...and win! Even now, decades after his supposed "death" atop that Arasaka building, not even a scrap of clothing had been found.

Adam Smasher lived, if you could call it that, so why not Morgan? This fascination fueled Bronson growing up and whenever he wasn't busy learning how to run a company, he was learning how to fight, how to shoot, how to hack people and make their eyes explode from their skulls. He also made regular visits to Ripperdocs to get the best chrome money could offer. By the time he was eighteen, he had enough training and upgrades to be considered a top tier merc...or at least a Corpo Kid who could provide all his own security by his lonesome.

And while he'd had a few scraps, what with political assassination attempts, failed power grabs, etc..., he'd been in the shit here and there; he hadn't truly experienced it down in Night City. So, one day he talked to the old man and told him straight up. This was something he wanted, and he wanted it bad. Not only had he put the time in, but he'd put the thought in too. He was the youngest of the Kylne's, so unless the company was split three ways, he'd more than likely be getting the shortest straw between himself, his brother, and his sister.

So he could work as a Merc in the meantime while the old man continued to groom them to take over well into the future. By the time he shut off his optics for the last time, or decided to retire, Bronson could be one of the biggest Merc's in the city, and that reputation would only help Klyne Industries get more business and more marketing. What would sell better to the brainless masses than hearing that a Corpo kid was slumming it with them, getting his boots muddy, seeing Night City for the beast it really was?

They'd buy from them hand over foot just to spite the other corps like Arasaka and Millitech that not only acted like, but knew they were better than them. Turns out all those presentation and conversational classes weren't a waste of time. He convinced the old man, and after getting a rather generous fluffing of his personal bank account, he went down to the city and bought a place, bought a car, some weapons; everything he'd need to make it in Night City. And since then...the name "Crimsonhand" has started to stain the lips of everyone who's anyone in Night City. And not because he's got a big honking arm made of rusty chrome. It's because he works mainly with his hands and they tend to get splattered in blood when he's done with work for the day. Also, while he's not one to toot his own horn, when people started linking him and Klyne Industries together, stocks rose 5% in the first week. Coincidence? Who knows?

[Crash]

Game looks great.  I am more of a sandbox setting player myself.  I look forward to following and reading though!

[Canuckian]

<Michael Johnson>

Alias/Nicknames: Mouse
Pronoun: He/Him
Sex:M
Age:Early 20s, looks younger due to malnutrition
Height:5'8
Weight: 160lbs
Theme: I'm Going Slightly Mad - Queen

Skills: Intelligent, stealthy, quiet, and unnoticed.  He can easily slip in and out of almost any building without setting off alarms or alerting security.

Cyberware: Not much more than most citizens, and those tend to be older models or knock-offs of better products, with the exception of a top-of-the-line shard slot and neural connections.  Karashi optics, a chromed right hand, some basic skill shards. 

Affiliations: Basic contacts with the Valentinos and the Scavengers.  Arasaka Relic v0.9 Biochip with implanted engram.

Background: In a city of mercs, war vets, gangoons, and high-powered Corpo players, Mouse is an oddity.  A strangely gentle soul, Mouse is quiet and unassuming in appearance and demeanor.  He's polite, doesn't want to make waves or get other people upset, and has no taste or skill for violence; though he's also someone who can blend into the background and disappear in a crowd quickly.  Barely able to survive the mean streets of Night City, easy fodder for the more violent gangs, he was a nameless body that nobody would miss... which is exactly why Arasaka chose him for their advanced Relic v0.9 biochip project. Nabbed off the street, implanted and then released, Mouse has discovered that he's been paired with the engram of a former Edgerunner named Crusher Joe.  Loud, belligerent, impolite, and never one to hold his opinion to himself, Joe despises the weakling he's forced to interact with.  The very definition of the odd-couple, Mouse and Joe are at loggerheads every step of the way with Joe almost gleeful to be the devil on Mouse's shoulder; if he can't interact with the world at large, he'll browbeat Mouse into doing it for him!

Mouse is no dummy though, and very quickly realized who had done this to him.  The near-constant ads for Arasaka's RELIC chip and the occasional flash on his HUD of "Relic chip processing" made it an easy conclusion to make.  As such he's extremely paranoid of anything and anything Arasaka-related, wondering if they've come to pick up their little lab rat.  In order for the Relic to work Arasaka gave him bleeding-edge neural implants and Mouse is slowly learning that he's got the potential to be a top-tier Netrunner, which does not please the more action-oriented Joe in the slightest. 

[Tydorei]

Reginald Curtis

Alias/Nicknames: Reverend -professionally. RC, Regi -friends
Pronoun: He/Him She/Her
Sex: Male
Age: 29
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 130 lbs
Theme: Take Me to Church - Ellie Goulding

Skills: Mechanical, Medical and Chemical savy. This ripper doc, tehcie pretty boy can fix up whoever and whatever you need... for the right price.

Cyberware: WIP

Affiliations: Raven Microcybernetics, Malestrom, Moxes

Background: WIP Blacklisted ex-trauma team medic

[Odanrav]

Hey everyone, and thank you for your applications. Andronica and I have been discussing all of them and like what we've seen. For those out of the loop, we have been talking about the game and RP in a Discord server. You can contact me at Odanrav#8155 if you want to join. Otherwise, at some point in the next few days an OOC and eventually IC thread will be opened as we're still brainstorming and discussing how the plot will work.  Tydorie, we specifically haven't had the chance to talk to you and what your character's role might be so before officially saying you're in we'ld like the chance to do that.

For the time being we don't need any more applications. Thanks again everyone.

[Odanrav]

An OOC with a rough outline of our thoughts on the opening of the story. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts.

https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=328584.0