Thank you, [@Hekazu], and for my first trick this is what I have from both myself and the inspirational source material at the moment. As before, please do let me know what you or anyone else would like added. This is mostly for the sake of our characters acting in character and us having a shared, universal idea of what is being said or going on. If there is anything anyone would like to add, please forward me the snippets in a format as this. [hider=Reference Material] [b][h3]Lingo, Streetslang, and Terminology[/h3][/b][list][*][b]Booster:[/b] A member of a gang that wears leather, uses cyberware, and is partial to random acts of violence. [*][b]Chippin' In:[/b] To buy and install cyberware for the first time, to cast your lot with a group, or to connect with a machine. [*][b]Choo (CHOOH[sup]2[/sup]):[/b] Alcohol used as fuel for most vehicles with a high burn temperature. [*][b]Choombatta (Choomba):[/b] A friend, family member, partner. Usually affiliated with the Neo-African American movement. [*][b]Chrome:[/b] Cyberware, usually highly visible and finished in chrome if not plainly metallic. [*][b][i]Chromer:[/i][/b] A rock fan of the "chrome rock" or chromatic rock metal subgenre. Stylized by heavy metal, overuse of electronics, simple rhythms, and excessively violent lyrics. [*][b]Combat Zone:[/b] The places the police or corporations will not usually go, controlled by gangs and violently contested. [*][b]Cyberpsycho:[/b] A state where a person has so much cybertech in them that they become mentally unstable robotic killing machines due to extreme dysphoria. [*][b]Cybered Up:[/b] To have as much cyberware implanted before one goes cyberpsycho, going right up to the "Edge". [*][b]Data Term:[/b] Terminals for private or public access, often a streetcorner machine with a screen, keyboard, and Net connection. [*][b]Disk:[/b] A laser disk, although it may also refer to floppy or hard disks. Used for records and or recording data. [*][b]Doc:[/b] Any reputable, official medical professional or doctor, usually one who implants white cyberware or mends injuries. [*][b]'Dorphs (Endorphins):[/b] Synthetic designer drugs that enhance natural healing, limits fatigue, and creates a second wind. [*][b]Exotics:[/b] Humans who have undergone extensive biosculpting and biomodification and have non-human qualities. [*][b]'Face:[/b] Interface to the Net, "jack in" to the machine. [*][b]Feral:[/b] Someone with non-human bioware, at times refers to someone suffering from equivalent of cyberpsychosis due to bioware. [*][b]Flatline:[/b] To kill, or in reference to a dead person or thing. [*][b]Freak:[/b] Any punk or lowlife with excessive amounts of cyberware to purposefully make them outlandish. [*][b]Go LEO:[/b] To go Low Earth Orbit and visit a space station. [*][b]Glow:[/b] Neon punk lighting, typically in place of regular lighting. [*][b]Handle:[/b] A working name or street name, used to obscure identity. [*][b]Hydro (Hydrogen):[/b] Hydrogen used as fuel for larger vehicles or industry. [*][b]Jungling:[/b] Searching the Combat Zones for scores, trying to get into trouble. [*][b]Input:[/b] A girlfriend, female friend with benefits, women in a potentially derogatory way. [*][b]Keyboard:[/b] Computer or terminal with an interface deck of some type. [*][b]Media:[/b] A face or person with major recognition, attention, and power, usually corporate. [*][b]Net (Internet):[/b] The internet at large or possibly a private network. [*][b]Netrun:[/b] Interface with the Net for illegal activities, usually hacking. [*][b]Nomad:[/b] An outsider to a major city, usually a wastelander, often with little cyberware but extremely violent even by freak standards. [*][b]Output:[/b] A boyfriend, male friend with benefits, man in a potentially derogatory way. [*][b]Poly (Polymer One Shot):[/b] Low caliber plastic and or polymer pistol, often disposable. [*][b]Poser:[/b] A member of a posergang, which is any group where all members have a specific look, style, or bodysculpt job. [*][b]Ripperdoc:[/b] An illicit doctor or medical technician who installs grey or black cyberware or dabbles in illegal modification while also providing injury management. [*][b]Rocker:[/b] A musician who uses cyberware to broadcast messages while playing, often highly political or social, usually violent. [*][b]Ronin:[/b] Free lance gunslinger, killer, mercenary, or assassin, who is considered untrustworthy or has a bad reputation, typically a solo. [*][b]Samurai:[/b] A corporate killer or hired gun, usually with a strong positive reputation and high loyalty, often a solo. [*][b]Sculpt Job:[/b] A body modification for sake of appearance. [*][b]Solo:[/b] A mercenary or gun for hire, often heavily modified by cyberware and schooled in street combat. [*][b]Slammit' On (Slamming It On):[/b] To get needlessly violent, to attack unprovoked. [*][b]Stuffit (Stuff It):[/b] Having sex, alternatively to say to forget about something. [*][b]Tech:[/b] Technology, usually referring to premium or quality cyberware. [*][b]The Street:[/b] Where you live, where you go at night, the underground and subcultures. [*][b]The Zoo:[/b] The place where all the freaks and punks gather, often contested territory and or neutral territory in the Combat Zone.[/list][b][h3]Corporations, Factions, and Organizations[/h3][/b][list][*][b]Brandish:[/b] A grey market purveyor of dubiously legal street weapons that are mostly non-lethal. Notorious for being easy to modify or conceal, they are the poor man's option, or for places where lethal weapons are forbidden such as many clubs or gang territories. [*][b]Cobalt:[/b] A firearm manufacturer that specializes in heavy caliber firearms meant to penetrate armor. Characterized by large, blockish, black polymer weapons that are magazine fed and usually carried by corporate security. Standard quality products with renowned resilience, but poor style. [*][b]Cylife:[/b] A corporation that produces externally worn cyberware, most often clothing. Places a large emphasis on style over substance and panders to the most gaudy or extreme freaks on the Street. Easily identified by neon glow and black. [*][b]GENX Biomedical:[/b] A subcorporation for GENitiX Biomedical International, specializes in costly biosculpting and bioware. High to medium tier products, otherwise considered entry-level for anyone dabbling in heavy non-cyberware modification. Offers limited, but notable genetic engineering and alterations. [*][b]Graff-Stein Research Laboratory:[/b] A private national research laboratory that offers bioware, often through contract only. Notable for fielding slight variants or test versions of its products in place of selling them, the exchange being field data. Legendarily tight-lipped about its methods, often more a joke than anything else and thought to keep most major advancements from this practice to only the corporate elite. [*][b]Re-Human:[/b] A quasi-organization and corporation hybrid that develops top grade bioware and does only very in-depth biosculpting through genetic modification. Considers itself the "enlightened" edge of biological editing in contrast to cyberware, but offers entry level to full conversions and is generally regarded as overpriced. [/list][b][h3]Environments, Locations, and Places[/h3][/b][list][*][b]Night City:[/b] One of the largest metropolises in North America, stretching across all of the West Coast, covered in sprawl and rife with crime. A corporate city of warring factions.[/list] [/hider]