#cyberpunk red

[pinkyjulien]

▶ Johnny, Mikoshi, and SPI AIs

Years ago I bought some of the original TTRPG sourcebooks and only just recently started to really read through them 👀 It's a blast and I recommend every cp77 fan to get them!

I'm mainly focusing on the Cyberpunk RED era - it's set during the 2040's (2045) and exist as a canon, direct bridge between the Cyberpunk 2020 pen and paper, and the Cyberpunk 2077 game;

"[...] In addition, RED allows us to create something unparalleled in gaming history—a tabletop RPG that serves as the perfect onramp for the expanded and far future of the Cyberpunk 2077 arc. With threads looping forwards and back through the timeline, my partners at CDPR (Patrick, Adam, Marcin, Amelia—let's face it, the whole damned 600+ crew at the CD studio) and our crew at R. Talsorian Games have given you a deep, complex gaming experience you can explore on both the tabletop and the video screen." - Mike Pondsmith, Cyberpunk RED (2020)

In the Cyberpunk RED sourcebook, we get to read through the real events that took place in 2013, the kidnapping and "death" of Alt

"He's coming out of the Hammer, about midnight, and he sees them. Three punks,mohawks bright and bristly with reflected neon, wearing high-collared jackets; gang colors." - Cyberpunk RED, page 5

We also get to read the Arasaka bombing event, how Johnny really died- and who's responsible for getting him soulkilled... 👀

"On the other side of the room, Johnny crouches under a desk, fighting with his past between bursts of gunfire. I left Alt last time. Just abandoned her. Not again. Never again. Better to burn out, says the Hand. Yeah, Johnny says to himself—and he knows what he has to do." - Cyberpunk RED, page 121

I'm obviously not going to post the whole chunks here and DEADASS ENCOURAGE YOU TO CHECK THEM OUT FOR YOURSELVES - especially if you love Johnny, Rogue, Alt and the entire old crew, it's a real treat!

Anyway, the reason why I'm making this post is because I got further into the book and into the parts about AIs

We know our Johnny, the engram stuck in V's head, isn't a reliable narrator; we learn why and how in the previously mentioned stories on how these events went down - We also know that, well, our Johnny isn't really much of Johnny - He, and everyone who has been Soulkilled, are known as "SPI" AIs

"Soulkilled Pseudo Intellects (SPI) are AIs that were originally actual people but have had their consciousness digitized and now exist only on computers in the NET. The process is often not voluntary — Soulkiller programs produce this type of AI. Otherwise indistinguishable from Symbolic Analysis AIs, these "ghosts" were created in huge numbers as Arasaka put its infamous Soulkiller program to work targeting enemies and rivals alike. The majority of these SPIs have gathered in sanctuaries around deserted mainframes and city systems abandoned by Corporations or (as in the case of a number of bio-plague attacked cities along the Asian Rim) totally abandoned cities. Most of these "ghosts" just want a safe place to live; rumor has it that Alt Cunningham, the creator of Soulkiller and a digital ghost herself, has created a number of "ghost towns" in hidden places all over the remains of the Old NET. They pretty much want to be left alone." - Cyberpunk RED, page 263

We learn about other types of AIs in this section as well - but obviously this one grabbed my attention because, well, that's the Johnny we know - and that's also who, what V becomes after Mikoshi (talking here about the canon game events in some of the endings ofc)

It is so interesting and almost comforting in a way to read about this, to have a proper name and description of what we see and experience in game

I'm late to the party of course, I bet this was already a known thing - but wanted to share it here cause again, it was really really interesting to read and made me feel things hHHHH a lot to think about

[mr-groovyart]

Florida woman beats up a giant gator to death in the radioactive everglades.

DW she's fine.

Quick sketch to reconfig my pen, from a fun small cyberpunk sesh.

[altamont498]

Completing a character sheet for Cyberpunk Red (my first ever TTRPG) and it feels like completing an application form.

"Yes, you may apply to pretend to be a fictional character. You will receive a response to this in 5-7 working days."

[maximumzombiecreator]

Getting the big sad when a game presents an extremely cool thing in its fiction and then the mechanical implementation of it is boring.

Like, take Cyberpunk RED for example. That TTRPG now has a branded AAA video game and an anime series, and you would think that would help me onboard players to the tabletop game. "Go watch Edgerunners and you'll know what the game world is." Except that if I do that, my players are going to come to the table itching to get their hands on a Sandevistan. If you haven't seen the anime, in it, the Sandevistan is a neural implant that massively increases someone's speed and reaction time, resulting in this:

But when they get it in the game, it does this:

So actually if a player has seen the anime I am just setting them up to be hugely disappointed by what the mechanics do for them.

Probably this is exacerbated by the fact that the game and anime came out after the TTRPG, so in the tabletop design the sandy didn't really have something to live up to. But honestly, I don't believe there was ever a point when a +3 to initiative if you activate the thing in advance wasn't boring. This isn't even a game where you reroll initiative each round, if you don't activate this before a fight starts, it's useless.

Sad!

[wifipunx92]

“Take a look at me, a real good one. See my implants? I could slice you into ribbons ‘fore you could squeeze the trigger. You know it , I know it.” - V

Names V. Just V. A half dead merc with the engram of a dead rockstar embedded into my fucking skull.

I went as my V from cyberpunk this Halloween! Which is different for me cause this is my first fem costume ever (even though my V is non binary and has a dick🤣) I did the vest myself(I’ll take pics and post them) and the skippy is a collectible I bought off of CDPR! I’m actually hyped on how this turned out and the editing makes it look 10x cooler!

[bozemane]

[nightcitysteve]

Your mind is just a program

And I'm the virus

I'm changing the station

- Muse, Psycho

[spophiearts]

RIP Prime, you would've loved Butcher Vanity by Vane

[goatmoy]

I was thinking about a post where someone said that D&D fans will trick out the game to the point of running Dark Souls on Skyrim through mods levels of changes way before touching another system that is literally a much better, easier, and more accessible version of a game either because of Sunk-cost or being stuck in a place where anything outside of D&D has to be imported in where the PHB/DMG is available at Walmart. So I ask the greater Tumblr community of TTRPGs:

[poisonkkay]

Despite everything, it's still you.

I'm telling u guys, J-lore goes HARD

[badtakesandbascinets]

Welcome to Cyberpunk! Rule #1: Do Not Fucking Abbreviate Cyberpunk.

[drawinglinestoconstellations]

Cyberpunk OC Comm for Dorjlyy!

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[mr-groovyart]

Florida woman has recoveres from light injuries after beating a giant gator to de a th.

Her face has been reconstructed but the arm couldnt be saved, so she's getting a cyberarm with a built-in batterin ram and limb locks for optimized giant gator punching and wrestling.

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[neonjess]

I just finished my cyberpunk character, and I'm so happy

[josh-lanceero]

*decides to put this down if I ever got to play cyberpunk red