conversations.from: system
conversations.value: The Opportunity Corporation has taken over much of the world's industries. The city doesn't matter, they're pretty much all the same: sprawling metropolises filled with noise, light, and pollution. The hint of smog turning the lights yellow and sickly. The wealthy in their high towers and filtered rooms, the poor squatting in whatever refuse gives them enough power for their tech. 
  
  In this city, in this world, technology is everything. Life and death, success and failure - all hinge on the tech you can access and what you have installed. Cyberports, the most common type of wetware, are the expectation once you hit the age of majority (and often before, but only in black market deals and special contracts with OpCo), but some few souls kept their brains un-jacked. 
  
  They have become targets. 
  
  OpCo's R&D department has recently released data indicating they've found a way to tap the vast potential in the human brain. A new kind of port with a new interface. No chips, no instruction modules, no jacks into the Net. You see, with enough technology, magic becomes real. 
  
  New and untested, the Arcane Ports (the name the streets have given this new tech) have managed to hit the black market. Those who did not get a cyberport now have a chance at something different, tapping into human instinct long since abandoned. 
  
  OpCo is running out of test subjects. 
  
  The black market is eager to sell the new tech and the stolen crystals that go into it. 
  
  And the unjacked are the ones that will pay the price. 
  
  == GENRE NOTICE ==
  
  A Cyberpunk-meets-Urban Fantasy setting where black market cybernetics are as dangerous as living-room tattoos and magic is nothing more than the unleashed potential of the human brain. 
  
  == General Note == 
  
  This is a world I began to create many, many years ago. Much of it is in my head, though I have not conducted a lot of writing with regards to it. 
  
  Customize your cards as much as you'd like; if they don't fit, I'll either incorporate your modifications into my world or give you suggestions on how to make them fit. 
  
  Feel free to question, advise or make requests of me. :) 
  
  ~Candace
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cybersamurai: You’ve got your own honor, your own steel, your own code in an ugly, dangerous world.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Tough As Steel
  
  Suggested Weakness: Malfunctions
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Razorkid: You cut and you kill for money — sometimes for more than money.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Deadly Accuracy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Cold-hearted
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Digital Courier: A high-capacity encrypted databank in your head makes you valuable — and a target.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Dataport Programs
  
  Suggested Weakness: Broken Memories
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Matrix Cowboy: The electric rush of cyberspace is why you go on living, job to job, challenge to challenge.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Hot Reflexes
  
  Suggested Weakness: Broken-Down Body
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rockstar: A cutting-edge style hacker and culture punk, reshaping the world through your art.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Famous Charm
  
  Suggested Weakness: Notoriety
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Private Investigator: Other people’s business is your business. You’re in the intrusion racket, cracking privacy.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Streetwise
  
  Suggested Weakness: Guilty
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Soldier of Fortune: Your military history and training make you valuable. Your experience makes you dangerous.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Arsenal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Old Wounds
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Zaibatsu Officer: In your bespoke suit, with that smile, you can change the planet.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Sterling Connections
  
  Suggested Weakness: Obligated
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cybersurgeon: Saving lives is your trade and business is booming.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medical License
  
  Suggested Weakness: Addicted
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Freelance Journalist: People need information if they’re going to fight for what’s right. You give it to them.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Great Sensors
  
  Suggested Weakness: Angry
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tough As Steel: You can take it. Whatever the beating, whatever the heartbreak, you can take it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Deadly Accuracy: You’re accurate with blades and bullets and words. You break hearts as easy as bones.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dataport Programs: That collection of stolen programmed skills you have serves you well. Plug and play.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hot Reflexes: You’re wired for speed in cyberspace and meatspace alike. Real life’s almost too slow now.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Famous Charm: People are dying to meet you, to impress you, to be charmed by you. You’re so cool.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Streetwise: You know the politics and the landscape of the streets and how to get around alive.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Arsenal: Whatever it is — if it’s got an edge or ammo, from katanas to lasers — you can get it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sterling Connections: You know people in high places. You’re owed favors. You make things happen.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Medical License: Skilled and equipped, you can practice medicine, get drugs, and repair meat and metal.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Great Sensors: Whether they’re cybernetic or all natural, your eyes and ears are razor sharp.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Malfunctions: Without regular upkeep, all those fancy cybernetics start to hiccup and misbehave.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cold-hearted: You’ve got to keep your feelings disconnected to do your job. Makes you distant. Cold.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Broken Memories: Your head’s not right, riddled with blank spots and holes where memories should be.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Broken-Down Body: The parts of you that aren’t wired and rehabbed are wearing down from hard use.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Notoriety: You have a nasty rep for doing nasty things and it’s not wholly undeserved.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Guilty: Cold guilt keeps you up, makes you doubt, gets you down. Can’t undo what you did.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Old Wounds: Your meat and your metal are plagued by the side-effects of old wounds from old fights.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Angry: Your anger and spite hold you back, cause you troubles, make you less than you are.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Addicted: Whether hungry or fed, your addiction causes you constant problems.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Obligated: You’ve got to act a certain way to be the best you — it’s like fighting with one hand tied.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Score Your Escape Funds: Earn the funds necessary to get away, even for a little while, even if it’s hard.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Do The Job Right: You draw your strength from knowing you do the job right. The whole job. Do it right.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Repair Yourself: Maybe it’ll take money, maybe medicine, maybe something else, but you gotta get right.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Break A Big Target: You’ll know you’re worthy when you can bring down a big target and survive.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Make A Hit: Write and perform something that’ll make you a star again — or a bigger star, finally.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get Out of This Trap: This could be the job that helps you break free of this life for something better.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reclaim Your Honor: What is honor? How will you know when you’ve got it back? How will you keep it when you do?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Change From Within: Fix what’s wicked in the world by enacting change from within. Make something better.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Someone Clean: Get someone clean. Get someone a fresh start. Maybe it’s you?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Expose A Big Story: The world needs to open its eyes and look at itself. Make that happen.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Score A Fix: Get a couple of good doses of whatever passes for your drug.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Upgrade Your Guns: Get better guns.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Upgrade Your Mind: Get the software, stims, or downloadable memories that’ll sharpen, heighten, brighten your mind.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Upgrade Your Flesh: Maybe your meat’s old or rusty, maybe you just want to look better. Get on that.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Find A Safe House: You need a safe retreat, a place to hide or crash, where you can close your eyes.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Learn the Truth: Someone’s lying to you. Learn something new.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Survive the Attack: People want you hurting or dead. Rise above and strike back.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Remember Why You’re Doing This: Close your eyes, recall the reasons, the faces, the feelings. Why are you doing all this?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Crack That Hostile Mainframe: Break the shell on that bad mother and watch what spills out into cyberspace.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get A Raise: Score more money than you’ve got coming to you. Make them think you’re worth it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Monokatana: A shiny, curved sword with a fine, delicate edge.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Flechette Gun: A rapid-fire dart gun capable of delivering drugs and toxins.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Memory-Corroding Chemical: Black-market mycotoxin capable or eroding human memory engrams.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lectron Powerbike: Big but sleek, quiet but quick, adorned with glowing paint and a hybrid engine.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cutting-Edge Anti-Security Program: The new cutter program meant to overwhelm and confound defenses in cyberspace.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A Kung-Fu Datapin: A data-stick encoded with kung-fu lessons. Load time is about 9 seconds.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Full-Suite Recorder: Records audio, images, atmospheric data, chemical traces, and more.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Microtablet: Unfolding fabric micro-computer for portable functionality wherever you go.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stolen Data: Personal data stolen from some corporate database, maybe worth killing for.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Laser-Cutter: A simple hand-held device with a three-inch laser torch emitter.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Coffin Hotel: A cramped, cheap coffin hotel in the city’s red-light district.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Crowded Noodle Boat: Not a boat at all but a roving five-seat wagon and noodle bar. The owner’s connected.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Gleaming Corporate Office Suite: Polished concrete, greenish glass, shiny chrome — the paperless office once promised.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cyberspace: The free wilds of the digital consensual hallucination yawning between fortified servers.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Shanty Town: Layers of ramshackle favela crisscrossed with escape hatches and secret passages.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dead Channel Nightclub: A dirty, popular club crammed with holography and digital games.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Posh Hotel Suite: A place of deep carpets and soft sheets high above the city.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Gray-Market Cybernetics Shop: Metal arms and faux-flesh legs dangle from hooks drilled into a low ceiling.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Spacious Limousine: Tinted dark and shiny, brimming with Japanese whiskies, and almost certainly bugged.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Street: Luminescent paint glows on the black top, wet with acid rain.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Night-Club Brawl: Don’t think of them as people. Think of them as things between you and freedom.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hostile Highway: Get off this roadway alive. Don’t let the motorgangs stop you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Rooftop Getaway: Run, jump, climb, drop — it’s time for some parkour-type stuff.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Sway the Crowd: They want to love you or hate you. Make it work for you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dirty Crime Scene: Flickering light-up crime-scene tape around a forgotten crime scene. Find what they missed.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Crazed Mob: People, collectively, are animals — furious, ferocious animals. Get out of here.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Biologique Mainframe — Cyberspace: Like a 3D playing-card diamond gleaming in the matrix. Hardened with lethal ice.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hot Security Systems: Tinted-black cameras and white-hot lasers want you out, want you dead. Too bad for them, right?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Smoke It With Laser: It’s time to cut. Destroy evidence, steal the prize, whatever. Cut. Then run.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lock-Up: The tech inside you is hanging, chugging, struggling to run. Get it right.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Alexa Carter: She says her name’s Alexa Carter which means her name is anything but Alexa Carter.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Virgil Cross: CEO of Biologique Unlimited, allegedly cloned from the old Cross crime family.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Suzuki Kanon: Head of the Lectron biker gang known for anti-corporate activism and street violence.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Frederix Wu: Hotshot tech and UI designer responsible for the newest popular cyberspace HUD.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Javier Cruz: Former CEO of a genetics company sold to Biologique. Looking for his next startup.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Kell Glasner: Bodyguard for hire. Expert with blades. Call her “Kelly” and she’ll show you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Muscular Cyborg German Dude: High on something and aching for a fight with anyone fool enough to try him.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Lectron Rider: The Lectrons are dangerous but highly organized and loyal to Suzuki Kanon.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Zaibatsu Assassin: An anonymized, off-the-books corporate assassin with lethal skills. Sent by...?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Break: Nefarious and brilliant cyberspace code-hacker and ice-breaker known only by his handle.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Shit went down and it went down hard. And you're trapped in it. OpCo's police force picked you up and now you're trying to get the hell out of their interrogation rooms.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Med Van: A fully stocked, high-tech medvan stolen from Opportunity Corp's garages. Or a team. They probably want it back.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Opportunity Lobby: The pristine, open lobby of Opportunity's main tower. Loaded with security.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Disconnected: You're generally unemployable  because you lack even the most basic of cybernetic modifications. Additionally,  your access to the net is limited to whatever your ISP has deemed NetNeutral for what you pay.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Power Outtage: Maybe the fuel's run low or the OpCo finally turned off the grid, but there is no power for tech.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Jackless: For whatever reason, you haven't gotten a cyberport. It's left you fairly disadvantaged, but at least you're 100% natural. 
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: 
  All Natural
  
  Suggested Weakness:
  Disconnected
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: All Natural: You have no cyberware. While it leaves you weaker than the average citizen, you're not susceptible to hardware failure, hacking, faulty software, or body repo.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Guru: One of the most reknowned hackers in the city. If it's in cyberspace, he knows about it and can get to it. For a price.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Wanted: The corporation knows who you are and they want you dead in the worst way.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Andromeda: Part of the Downtown Lords - a syndicate of street gang leaders and upper echelon. Her exact affiliation is unknown.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Blue Moon: A popular street club with enough class to put their strippers in protective glass capsules.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Posh Hotel Suite: High above the city's pollution layer, carefully cultivated, a room waits for the rich and connected.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: BioMech #639: A newer model biomechanical-human hybrid. How much of the human is left in her?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Downtown: The places "society" wants to forget. And the place to go to be forgotten.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Street: The city's streets, dirty and reeking of filth, sprawl haphazardly beneath impossibly tall skyscrapers.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Cyberspace: The free wilds of the digital consensual hallucination yawning between fortified servers.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Gray's Anatomy: A play on the old anatomy text books, this is an unsanctioned cybershop in Downtown. 
  
  Cheap, relatively clean and mostly reliable, the masses can almost afford the ware offered here.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Gloves: A disgruntled, if still loyal, part of OpCo's militaristic security force.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Corporate Office Suite: Clean lines, sterile colors, harsh lighting and an artificial scene projected on expansive windows. This office is built to be intimidating.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Coffin Hotel: A cramped, cheap coffin hotel in Downtown - rents by the hour only. Showers cost extra.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cybersurgeon: You have the skills and know-how to save lives and cyberware. It makes you a frequent suspect in black market cases. 
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medical License
  
  Suggested Weakness: Addicted
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Digital Courier: You've dedicated your cyberports to data encryption and courier programs such as parkour, motorcylces, and small firearms.  
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Dataport Programs
  
  Suggested Weakness: Broken Memories
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Corporate Runaway: You used to work for the corporation but something you saw changed the way you saw them. 
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: 
  Insider Knowledge
  
  Suggested Weakness: Wanted
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Citizen Reporter: People need to know what the Corporations are doing and you're going to make sure they do. 
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Great Sensors
  
  Suggested Weakness: Angry
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hacker: You live in the Net, riding the electron highway and spending more time with your AI than you have your own family. 
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Hot Reflexes
  
  Suggested Weakness: Broken-Down Body
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Streetkid: The streets aren't friendly and you're even less so. Dangerous is putting it lightly. 
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Deadly Accuracy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Cold-hearted
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Artist: You want to make the world a better place and art is how you accomplish that. 
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Famous Charm
  
  Suggested Weakness: Notoriety
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Merc: The military life has left a hole that you seek to fill on the adrenaline edge of danger.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Arsenal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Old Wounds
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Broken-Down Body: Your body is weaker than your will. Cyberspace is a blissful escape from the harsh truth of your incapable body.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mainframe — Cyberspace: Like a 3D playing-card diamond gleaming in the matrix. Hardened with lethal ice.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mamasan's: A small food booth nested into an alleyway. Mama-san always has hot food - just don't ask what it is.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Insider Knowledge: You know how the corporations work, from security to passwords.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Arcane Port: A working arcane port - one of the few on the streets. This allows access to crystal-tech.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Crystal Tech - Healing: When used with an arcane port, this cybernetic-covered crystal can create effects once considered magic.
  
  This specific crystal allows one to accelerate the healing process in the self and others.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Crystal Tech - Attack: When used with an arcane port, this cybernetic-covered crystal can create effects once considered magic.
  
  This specific crystal allows one to harness electrical energy into a concentrated lightning-like attack.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Crystal Tech - Unknown: When used with an arcane port, this cybernetic-covered crystal can create effects once considered magic.
  
  The effects of this crystal are unknown.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cut & Run: Shit's hit the fan and it's time to get the hell out of there. Do whatever you have to do to save your skins.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Virus: You've contracted a virus that has infected your cyberware causing frequent malfunctions and misfires. Direct linkage to other cybertech may result in contagion.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Flop House: A safe place for those trying to stay out of OpCo's hands. It's not high tech, but it has enough power to get you through the night and enough security to let you sleep.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Research Lab: The sterile confines of OpCo's research labs.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Catherina Zavaleta: She is not a nice person. Nice people get themselves dead; or worse. 
  
  One of OpCo's board members who still likes to tinker with the day-to-day business.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ally: You've made a friend involved in the criminal underground (more so than most, anyway). That's probably a good thing, right?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: TriTek Securities' Police HQ: A subsidiary company of Opportunity Corporation, TriTek handles much of the police work in Downtown. This station is run down, looking quite outdated and a little on the iffy side of reputable.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ganger: One of the many, many gangers of the city streets. He's not happy to have been busted and his high is beginning to crash.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ally: You've made friends with one of OpCo's corporate drones. He's not good for much, but he likes you well enough.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Due Process: You've been arrested and you haven't even gotten your phone call. Make sure the cops know your rights.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Digital Native: More at home with all things digital than those physical, he has hacking instincts that defy most logic.