Hekazu

D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

Right, I should start by addressing any issues I can see on @Gordian Nought's map...

Kyra has moved more than her maximum movement. I suppose the tent they wanted to enter was the bottom left one, as they have enough moves to get there.

Brannor has not taken the spot of the felled commander and one opponent has moved. None of the opponents spent any movement.

Orchid has not moved forward what they said they would do on their last round. Well, they have now moved further forward anyway, so there is that.

With those out of the way, I'll say that Orchid has triggered a Readied Action. I will be typing up a quick in between and then passing the turn on to the next one in initiative order.

Printed guns, melded metal - An experimental GM-less Cyberpunk RP

@DeadDrop
We have a character sheet form and the base of the plot has been decided on. See 0th post of the OOC section.

Printed guns, melded metal - An experimental GM-less Cyberpunk RP

You raise a tough question, @SleepingSilence. I believe the most important thing here is that the level of tech makes sense for the character's status and occupation, and we need to also note that a cyborg is, in the end, the sum of their parts. A man with a reflex booster, flash resistant eyes and a smartgun link will be a much greater threat than, say, a guy with the same reflex booster, a biomonitor and skinweave. Things tend to work together. The example for zooming cyberoptics in Cyberpunk 2020 is, I believe, 20x magnification.

Printed guns, melded metal - An experimental GM-less Cyberpunk RP

I guess my only question is does anyone have a problem with full body conversions? I'm fully aware and intending to do what would make sense/use logical steps to justify it. (I'd like to know in advance.)

@SleepingSilence

They are a part of the setting, to be sure. I however find any and all of said individuals to be astronomically unlikely to be taking part in the Davison case, not the least because very few exist outside direct megacorporation governance. The lack of humanity in full 'borgs stemming from their obviously superhuman status makes it unlikely that they would be interested out of their own consciousness either. Said lack of empathy is, after all, the base cyberpsychosis jumps up from. Why care about the lesser beings if you are so much greater than them? These are the main troubles I can currently recall to mind as I think what including a post-full conversion individual in the initial storyline would bring.

To avoid titlegore, let's just get to the point | 18+ | Seeking (mostly) F

Updated to 2nd edition.

Okay, deep breaths now... nobody will lynch you...

Printed guns, melded metal - An experimental GM-less Cyberpunk RP

Created 0th posts for OOC and Characters tabs. Anyone who wants to share the burden of keeping them up to date with me is welcome to do so, we have a few of these Co-GM stickers that let one do that still available.

Printed guns, melded metal - An experimental GM-less Cyberpunk RP

Important details about the plot:

Police Lieutenant Davison has been selling classified gear to a few different gangs in a war with one another. All is well and good, since the gangs pretty much know that if they off Davison then all the other gangs are going to bash their skulls in for cutting the steady supply of "the good shit", weapons, ammo, combat drugs, what have you. But then the lieutenant is approached by a megacorporation employee who politely introduces himself and informs the good detective of just how deep shit he has buried himself in by causing trouble to the corporation he represents. And that he should probably make himself useful for them, or there will be hell to pay.

Now the man has vanished. His status is unknown to everyone, even the NCPD, but everyone wants to get their hands on him. The corporation (Murkywater Security), the police department, the gangs, and then there's the relatives of the man. Players are free to create characters from multiple walks of life, who may or may not end up forming alliances or competing directly with one another. Any single faction should nonetheless try for some cohesion between its members.

Current ongoing plotlines and their respective synopses:

The case of the Golemeth (Tracy & Theron)

-Somewhere in the combat zone, a Hardware Spider has a laser-disc CD they pulled out of Golemeth. His whereabouts and its contents are unknown.

-Lieutenant Davidson had one of his primary holdings at the address 5757 Babbage Cell. He was last seen there four days ago. There may or may not be anything left over there.

-Lieutenant Davidson had a meeting yesterday at that address with an individual named Nailtooth. Golemeth was present at the meeting since he was buying equipment from Davidson as well as having an interview with Nailtooth, who was interested in hiring him. Nailtooth gave Davidson a mysterious briefcase and told him to hand it off to a contact, Tracy.

-Theron's contacts at Intellitron failed to identify Tracy via his facial profile, retinal data, or voiceprint. Theron now knows who the case was supposed to be handed off to, but does not know that his erstwhile accomplice is that person.

-Davidson said he wouldn't be able to hand off the briefcase himself and would give it to somebody else to do so. We do not know if he actually did so or who might have been assigned to hand it off.

-The briefcase was supposed to be handed off to Tracy somewhere called Deeptower.

OOC Inference:

-Tracy obviously never got that memo or else would not have had to pursue Golemeth in the first place. Something obviously did not go according to plan.

How Tracy knew about Golemeth, or the meeting at Davidson's place, or Nailtooth, is presently unknown.

A dead gang walking (Croaks & Nina)

-The Colonel's Corner Amphibians are after Lt. Davison since the man was their main weapons supplier. For this task, they enlisted the help of Nina Ruadh, an info broker.

-The meeting went surprisingly well, so much so that the gang and the info broker ended up joining forces for this case.

-The best lead they had was a certain trench coat wearing corporate guy, likely solo, who served to inform the gang of the fact that Lt. Davison would no longer be in the market.

-This is about to change with them interrogating the would-have-been kidnapper/subduer of Scarlett, only that the man was left biting the dust by his mark. Now he is getting asked questions in less than polite manner, though it appears any possible leads here are going to be quite limited.

The misadventures of a Reaper (Scarlett)

-Scarlett has been doing several tasks for her master, nothing out of the ordinary.

-Attempts to gain more information about Lt. Davison have been going questionably. Whether actual progress has been made is debatable.

-What was out of the ordinary was her meeting with some shady people at the bar that served as the Colonel's Corner Amphibians base of operations, which almost led to her being captured.

-Since she did not end up in such a precarious situation, she instead ended back at the Fortress, though now she has decided to call upon Nina who she saw in passing to see if there is something she could use in the info broker's possession. (?)

Current character sheet revision available here. Subject to change.

Printed guns, melded metal - An experimental GM-less Cyberpunk RP

Active Character Roster by Faction

Freaks, Geeks, and Nobodies

The Night City Police Department

• Looks pretty empty...

Megacorporation Goons

• Theron - Intellitron Corporation

Gangsters and Lowlifes

• Croaks - Colonel's Corner Amphibians

Private Operators

• Scarlett, The Reaper
• Tracy Guiomar
• Nina Ruadh

Reference Material

Lingo, Streetslang, and Terminology

• Booster: A member of a gang that wears leather, uses cyberware, and is partial to random acts of violence.
• Chippin' In: To buy and install cyberware for the first time, to cast your lot with a group, or to connect with a machine.
• Choo (CHOOH²): Alcohol used as fuel for most vehicles with a high burn temperature.
• Choombatta (Choomba): A friend, family member, partner. Usually affiliated with the Neo-African American movement.
• Chrome: Cyberware, usually highly visible and finished in chrome if not plainly metallic.
• Chromer: 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.
• Combat Zone: The places the police or corporations will not usually go, controlled by gangs and violently contested.
• Cyberpsycho: A state where a person has so much cybertech in them that they become mentally unstable robotic killing machines due to extreme dysphoria.
• Cybered Up: To have as much cyberware implanted before one goes cyberpsycho, going right up to the "Edge".
• Data Term: Terminals for private or public access, often a streetcorner machine with a screen, keyboard, and Net connection.
• Disk: A laser disk, although it may also refer to floppy or hard disks. Used for records and or recording data.
• Doc: Any reputable, official medical professional or doctor, usually one who implants white cyberware or mends injuries.
• 'Dorphs (Endorphins): Synthetic designer drugs that enhance natural healing, limits fatigue, and creates a second wind.
• Exotics: Humans who have undergone extensive biosculpting and biomodification and have non-human qualities.
• 'Face: Interface to the Net, "jack in" to the machine.
• Feral: Someone with non-human bioware, at times refers to someone suffering from equivalent of cyberpsychosis due to bioware.
• Flatline: To kill, or in reference to a dead person or thing.
• Freak: Any punk or lowlife with excessive amounts of cyberware to purposefully make them outlandish.
• Go LEO: To go Low Earth Orbit and visit a space station.
• Glow: Neon punk lighting, typically in place of regular lighting.
• Handle: A working name or street name, used to obscure identity.
• Hydro (Hydrogen): Hydrogen used as fuel for larger vehicles or industry.
• Jungling: Searching the Combat Zones for scores, trying to get into trouble.
• Input: A girlfriend, female friend with benefits, women in a potentially derogatory way.
• Keyboard: Computer or terminal with an interface deck of some type.
• Media: A face or person with major recognition, attention, and power, usually corporate.
• Net (Internet): The internet at large or possibly a private network.
• Netrun: Interface with the Net for illegal activities, usually hacking.
• Nomad: An outsider to a major city, usually a wastelander, often with little cyberware but extremely violent even by freak standards.
• Output: A boyfriend, male friend with benefits, man in a potentially derogatory way.
• Poly (Polymer One Shot): Low caliber plastic and or polymer pistol, often disposable.
• Poser: A member of a posergang, which is any group where all members have a specific look, style, or bodysculpt job.
• Ripperdoc: An illicit doctor or medical technician who installs grey or black cyberware or dabbles in illegal modification while also providing injury management.
• Rocker: A musician who uses cyberware to broadcast messages while playing, often highly political or social, usually violent.
• Ronin: Free lance gunslinger, killer, mercenary, or assassin, who is considered untrustworthy or has a bad reputation, typically a solo.
• Samurai: A corporate killer or hired gun, usually with a strong positive reputation and high loyalty, often a solo.
• Sculpt Job: A body modification for sake of appearance.
• Solo: A mercenary or gun for hire, often heavily modified by cyberware and schooled in street combat.
• Slammit' On (Slamming It On): To get needlessly violent, to attack unprovoked.
• Stuffit (Stuff It): Having sex, alternatively to say to forget about something.
• Tech: Technology, usually referring to premium or quality cyberware.
• The Street: Where you live, where you go at night, the underground and subcultures.
• The Zoo: The place where all the freaks and punks gather, often contested territory and or neutral territory in the Combat Zone.

Corporations, Factions, and Organizations

• Brandish: 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.
• Cobalt: 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.
• Cylife: 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.
• GENX Biomedical: 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.
• Graff-Stein Research Laboratory: 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.
• Re-Human: 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.

Environments, Locations, and Places

• Night City: 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.

Printed guns, melded metal - An experimental GM-less Cyberpunk RP

All right, let's have a look at the few things that we likely should, sooner or later.

Full 'borgs. They are expensive. So expensive in fact, that most full body converted people do not own themselves. Most of them indeed make a contract with a corporation and have their body rigged to explode/disable itself/whatever appropriate if they move against the contract made. And even then they are mostly utilised as soldiers, few for pilot or research purposes. Not as rare as androids, because fully electronic brains are extremely difficult, but still quite unlikely an occurrence.

What has been chosen for the story thus far, if I am not mistaken, we chose to go for Lt. Davison having disappeared. His status is unknown to everyone, even the NCPD, but everyone wants to get their hands on him. The corporation (which probably needs a name, I propose we salvage Murkywater Security), the police department, the gangs, and then there's the relatives of the man. The last one probably has the least resources to spend? Either way, this allows for characters from multiple walks of life who may or may not end up forming alliances or competing directly with one another. It's Night City. The usual Friday night has at least a hundred firefights.

Lastly, the character sheet format. Suppose it should be at least something like below. Criticism and improvements encouraged!

Possibly incomplete CS form

Name:
Appearance: Describe the character's preferred style. I am sure people can just ask for more detail if they want to see it! And trust me, I will want to see a lot!

Cyberware: Include all not empty subsections

• Fashionware
  • Techhair, SynthSkins, what have you.
• Neuralware
  • Reflex boosters, gun and vehicle links, chipware... REQUIRES A PROCESSOR IMPLANT
• Implants
  • Nasal Filters, Gills, Subdermal Armour, that sort of stuff.
• Bioware
  • Not the game studio. Grafted muscle, Skinweave (armour), biology based body alterations galore.
• Cyberweapons
  • Embedded claws, mechanical fangs, all that jazz
• Cyberoptics
  • Replacement eyes and all their included features
• Cyberaudio
  • Should be self-explanatory, anything that goes to ears or auditory features
• Cyberlimbs
  • Replacement limbs and what they include for features.

Weapons: What does one commonly carry with them? (No need to include cybernetics, they are above)
Armour: How does a person commonly cover themselves from the weapons of other people? (No need to include cybernetics, they are above)
Background: Where do you come from? Which part of Night City do you find yourself to be most at home in? Where are your connections? How have you afforded your expensive stuff? Who do you owe your life to? What's your poison? That sort of thing.

Same as a copypaste-ready block

[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b]

[u][b]Cyberware:[/b][/u]
[list]
[*]Fashionware[list][*]Techhair, SynthSkins, what have you.[/list]
[*]Neuralware[list][*]Reflex boosters, gun and vehicle links, chipware... REQUIRES A PROCESSOR IMPLANT[/list]
[*]Implants[list][*]Nasal Filters, Gills, Subdermal Armour, that sort of stuff.[/list]
[*]Bioware[list][*]Not the game studio. Grafted muscle, Skinweave (armour), biology based body alterations galore.[/list]
[*]Cyberweapons[list][*]Embedded claws, mechanical fangs, all that jazz[/list]
[*]Cyberoptics[list][*]Replacement eyes and all their included features[/list]
[*]Cyberaudio[list][*]Should be self-explanatory, anything that goes to ears or auditory features[/list]
[*]Cyberlimbs[list][*]Replacement limbs and what they include for features.[/list][/list]
[b]Weapons:[/b]
[b]Armour:[/b]
[b]Background:[/b]

D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

@Ryonara
The Cultist succeeds on their save.

@Gordian Nought
The stage is yours.