A gritty adventure set in the abandoned mega-tower complex named “7G”. Players are part of a young and growing immigrant wave, outrunning climate change and making a life on new shores, working together to keep people fed, paid, and the the occupants from killing each other. Pretty soon though their worries turn to bigger things when a stark discovery is made underneath the flooded maintenance tunnels..
This setting was played using the Cyberpunk Red system, with 4 – 6 players, played in person. Custom minis, terrain, music, sounds, lighting and more were used.
Let me tell you something Mr. Sullivan. Do you want to know why I’m sitting here in this chair with you all? Why I get the big bucks?
Players living with a small village of climate refugees, who took up shelter in an abandoned mega-apartment complex. The fixer, wants to make the place safe to allow their small community to live there permanently. So they hired the rest of the players to throw a night market on the ground floor, hiring a rocker boy to do a show while it's running and the solos for security. The idea is to get money flowing in and make it respectable.
The apartment block was built in a dodgy construction deal, so the poorly chosen construction site flooded and as a result an unknown number of the lower levels are under water. The squatters who set up shop built make-shift bridges, which quickly became a shanty town of small stores, tent-homes and make-shift community areas suspended over the water, leading in to the apartment complex floors above.
In the floors above live both innocent people and small street gangs, which resort to petty theft, drug dealing and even an illegal blood bank to make dosh. The players have had a few run ins with the gangs and are slowly choosing who they are with and against.
One of the players in the crew has ties to a mysterious, rich older brother who themselves have Arasaka ties who seem to have an interest in the old apartment block.
I’m here to guess what the music is gonna do a week, month, a year from now. That’s it, nothing more…. and I’m afraid… standing here tonight… that I don’t hear a thing.
(Spoilers below)
The brother paid a rival gang to ruffle some feathers, in a bid to make the apartment seem unfit for living and hopefully talk the council in to letting them declare it ‘unsafe’ (i.e repossess and claim it). Upon first meeting, one of the player solos straight up murdered the head of this gang, who have now come looking for revenge in the middle of this night market concert.
One of the friendly apartment block gangs betrays the players, gives the location and times of the party for them to crash at the worst moment. The players picked up on the betrayal when overhearing an argument between the gang members, and a poorly concealed tracking device led to a shoot out between the two now enemy gangs outside.
Upon completion of the concert, the NPC brother will beg their player-sibling to try and come on board with the plan to straight up buy out the apartment, to get them rich and kick out the climate refugees.
What none of them know is the reason the corporate ties are on board for the plan, is they are playing the brother, who they plan to use to get to the hidden tech in the basement.
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