#imaginary cyberpunk

[imaginarycyberpunk2023]

OTP: Lite Sneeze // Macha Richter & Vinnie Gallo

[censer-with-double-damage]

i live from one of his appearances to the next

[migsmoo]

i love my imaginary friends <33

[scipunk]

A police vehicle halts a flying taxi.

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[cyberpunkaddict]

Jolea - the engineer 📸 by @imaginarycyberpunk2023

[imaginarycyberpunk2023]

This just made me laugh bc I legit thought, "Oh, Nibbles" because of this post I made earlier today.

Nibbles sprinkled all over your body.

Six Sexy Words

[chevvy-yates]

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[kdval]

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

› OC: Roland Hardin

The man™ by dearest @drunkchasind ❤️

[fantasyfantasygames]

Replicant Memories

Replicant Memories, Orusha Grangette, 2021

Cyberpunk games typically focus on violence, power, corporate greed, and cynicism. Cyberpunk literature, on the other hand, deals with themes of alienation, virtual vs. analogue reality, the effects of technology on society, and the meaning and worth (or lack thereof) of humanity as a concept. Replicant Memories isn't so much a cyberpunk game as a cyberpunk literature game.

Your character in Replicant Memories (RM, or a monospaced lowercase rm as the game always writes it) is defined by their actual memories. It's a Fate Core variant, using the memories as Aspects or as justification for Stunts and Skill ratings. Since characters in Fate Core have 10 Skills each and a few more Stunts, that's a fair number of memories to write, but so far this is relatively normal stuff.

However, this being cyberpunk, those memories might be implanted. During game play you will discover your "real" memories, which themselves might just be a cover over deeper truths. Any effectiveness of a previous high-ranked Skill was just luck; a Stunt was just a moment of adrenaline or a flash of insight. You can switch one memory out for another every time you take Stress (for memories connected to level 1-2 skills) or Consequences (1-4 and stunts). You need a brief (brief) flashback each time.

The usual Fate mechanics take up about half the book; the other half is setting. Specifically, it's organizations, each with a two-page spread, each with descriptions of how your characters can hook into them and what you might have done for them. Sometimes it's a tight-knit neighborhood described in loving detail; sometimes it's a franchised nation done in broad strokes. The goal is pick-and-choose, but they're arranged alphabetically rather than by type, so the game's not doing itself any favors there.

Were it not for the timing of the book's release I would accuse the art of being AI, but all the work was done just before that really became feasible. It's eerie. It's creepy and disconcerting. It has all the flash and grit you normally expect in near-future city scenes, but it's off, and not in the way that The Actual was off. I have trouble believing that it's intentional, and also trouble believing it's unintentional.

There's a single supplement, entitled "rm -rf", which provides a trio of scenarios for the GM to use. One is high-class, one is low-class, and one is "runner"-level, with the potential for any of them to switch between levels as your group discovers more about their "real" selves. They're all intended to be 1-3 session games, and the plot flies by fairly quickly. Given the game's lack of character advancement and the potential for everyone to switch their skills to the same thing at the same time, that's probably for the best.

Orusha Grangette (not real name) maintains Replicant Memories as a wiki. They keep changing providers, so I have no idea where it is now, and Google searches mostly get you older sites. At least you can toss them into the Wayback Machine.

[imaginarycyberpunk2023]

God, I am on a Depeche Mode kick lately, too! Thank you for sharing that remix, it's bomb! And that picture ist just *chef's kiss*

There's only one way to soothe my soul

on a bit of a DM (depeche mode) kick. Heard this remix (linked above in the lyrics) and just had to shoot something when I had that big inspired energy <3

[imaginarycyberpunk2023]

OTP: Lite Sneeze // Macha Richter and Vinnie Gallo

M: "You're like a big puppy."

V: "What? No! More like a big bad wolf."

M: "...big adorable puppy."

V: "..."

[vitani-carnis]

Thinking about how the only time V has ever felt truly human is when a literal AI copy of a dead man has been implanted in her brain.

Like imagine going all your life feeling like more of a creature or robot than person (and it's partially why V feels for AIs like Del and his children, and cried when Skippy gets reset), and the one time you feel the most like a person is when you are on the cusp of death, and because of the AI you love is killing you.

[juststayquiete]

cr: @imaginarycyberpunk2023 <33333333

[imaginarycyberpunk2023]

I wanted to do something like this the other day but yours came out way cooler, so a reblog it is :-)

[scipunk]

A flying taxi races through a futuristic city. The city is filled with other flying vehicles.

The police vehicles, equipped with advanced technology, chase relentlessly, deploying various tactics to intercept the fleeing taxi.

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[cyberpunkaddict]

Jolea 📸 by @imaginarycyberpunk2023