This is not my Beautiful Life? - Cyberpunk 2020

Show notes, Night City Secrets Episode 9

Game Session 6, Part 1 – This is not my beautiful life?

Cover Art for the podcast from “Cyberpunk madness,” by the artist Eddie Del Rio.  

Intro and closing music is from Amoebacrew, called simply "Cyberpunk royalty free music.”  It is available on Youtube:

Background ambient music is from RoyaltyFreeSounds, called “Soundscape Ambient, Cyberpunk Music. Royalty Free.”

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE

REF = The Referee

Antigone = Corporate.  Director of Public Relations for the Paupau Collective (PPC in Night City.  PPC is a family autonomous corporation floating out on ships in the Pacific Ocean.  Half-Greek half-Polynesian.

Arianna Papadopoulos-Paupau = (NPC) Corporate.  Antigone’s older sister, the Executive VP of Marketing for the PPC.  They have a good relationship.

Cherub = (NPC)  Solo.  A bodyguard for Ravnos, known by Surány.

“Chewie”= (NPC) Medtech.  Officially, Consuela Jarillo, a Costa Rican doctor currently dating Han.  She is played by the REF.  She’s also a pilot.

Eric Genter = (NPC) Corporate.  Senior Director for Petrochem in Night City.  He absolutely hates Antigone for losing face to her a few years ago.  Antigone simply ignores him, but he has it out for her badly.  Apparently, he’s now running Petrochem’s Black Ops team.

Hako = Fixer.  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.  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 “Hanakahi Lonoehu.”  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.

“Kat” Katrina = (NPC) A Solo merc-for-hire contracted by Eric Genter to kidnap Antigone and take her to a Petrochem warehouse.

Kronk = (NPC) Media.  A contact of Hako’s.  Not as well known or as well regarded as Ravnos.

Marcella Lemieux = (NPC) A cop working on the Night City Police Department.  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)  Medtech.  Antigone’s younger brother, the Director of Research and Development for the PPC.  He admires his older sister.

Ravnos = (NPC) Media.  A freelancer who mostly works for Net News 54.  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 ‘Tig.

Stahl = (NPC) A pilot for hire, short but very capable Japanese Solo and former fighter pilot.  Used to do odd jobs with Han.  Frequently hired by Petrochem.

Surány = Netrunner.  A young and nerdy Czech fame-seeker. Raised in Night City, and went to high school with Chewie. Attained some fame for his “March of the Ents” 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.  He has known Hako for many years, and Hako generally trusts him.  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 bioscult 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.  Tried to kill Han once when he tried to come onto he