[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/BfiQddD.png[/img][/center] [indent][indent][indent][indent][color=gray] "Things have changed, choom. Word on the streets are the corps are starting to fight again, with most the gangs weakened or just considered too much of a liability, Fixers in Night City have more gigs than ever before. The new owner of the Afterlife proved mercs are not to be underestimated any longer; welcome to the golden age of the merc! Whether it's deckheads, cyborgs, techies, solos, or the odd nomad chasing something besides dust storms and smuggling routes--if you've got the cojones and the skill, legend and eddies are yours for the taking. One gonk move and it can all be over in a flash of gunfire or steel. Think you're ready? Chip on in, choomba, and let's find out."[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent] [right][indent][indent][indent][color=e6ff14]- Trace Santiago, Night City Leak News[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent][/right] [right][img]https://i.imgur.com/hpK6uaO.png[/img][/right] [indent][indent][indent][indent][color=gray] Welcome to the 5th Corporate War, a roleplay set in the cyberpunk dystopian future of Cyberpunk. Each player will be playing a Night City based Merc, though you'll be closer to a Jackie Welles than a Morgan Blackhand. So if you came to feel as bad-ass unstoppable as a Level 50 V from Cyberpunk2077...this is not the game for you. Sorry, choom. The roleplay is a story driven affair, with plenty of space worked in for some semi-sandbox, create-your-own-storyline type of roleplaying between main Acts of the roleplay's plot. Despite the title of the game you will not be dropped into a red-hot shooting war between out of control corporations. Not to start with, anyway, and I guess we'll just have to see how player choice shapes the in-game universe. Do you need to know Cyberpunk the RPG, or Cyberpunk Red the RPG for this RP? Nah, that's why I've gone through the corebook of Cyberpunk Red for you. You should probably have played the videogame, Cyberpunk2077 from CD Projekt Red, but hey if you really want to and think you can fake it using YouTube videos and wiki information...who are we to say hell naw? [@Ezekiel] and I will be the GMs for this game. Big thanks to [@Hellion] for graphics and [@Lord Wraith] for Character Sheet formatting. [url=https://discord.gg/224zJCNu2n]Discord Invite Link[/url] [/color][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/vMiYDpf.png[/img][/center] [indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][color=gray] Tensions between corporate rivals was already high after the Reunification War, when Militech fueled NUSA tried to force all former US states and cities operating as Free States and Free Cities back into NUSA, only to have Arasaka show up off the North Californian coast and throw their support behind those states and cities not willing to reunify. The death of Saburo Arasaka and the inflammatory rhetoric and actions by Yorinobu Arasaka have only further inflammed the tensions of the two largest entities left on the planet. Stuck right in the middle of the conflict is the sprawling North Californian metropolis of Night City. While they were able to holdoff both reunification, unlike Southern California, or wide-scale destruction like other Northern California cities, it came at the cost of letting large corporations back into their city with influence that hadn't been seen since the 2020s, and that only ended in the near destruction and nuclear fallout of Night City. What could go wrong? Unlike the 2020s there are other forces at work in Night City now, entities that would see the balance of power in Night City changed for good while maintaining it's now largely unique status in North America as a truly Free City. In true Night City, and Cyberpunk, fashion those entities are happy to lay low in the shadows and use Mercs to do their dirty work. Lucky you. Hope your nerves are as ready as your cyberware and your steel, because the age of the Merc has been ushered in by V. The fate of Night City will be in your hands, if you can hold on... [/color][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent] [right][img]https://i.imgur.com/hpK6uaO.png[/img][/right]