CyberPunk 2020 - Unofficial - Magazine - EdgeRunner Vol2 Issue01
CyberPunk 2020 - Unofficial - Magazine - EdgeRunner Vol2 Issue01
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MetaEvolutions
by Michael Wolf
Weekend
by Dana Jorgensen
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by Lauri Gardner
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metaevolutions
by michael wolf
"Oh this is skip-dandy. First you little
pukes decide to run amok with the gifts
that MY pet nanites have bestowed upon
your heathen souls, now it seems you
don't think it's enough and have just
DECIDED to break programming and go
and mutate without MY consent!!! That's
it! You cyber-twerps deserve what you
get." -GhostLord
Source: Dr Margaret Tuere, CDC
[NSecA@F...
R&D_DBioP..TC1
General Lacolucci:
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Now.
once.
Cut-away- Arcane 7, 10xp
The Wizard may now have a Familiar active in
the Net while he/she is not connected to it (i.e.
away from an LDL or completely offline).
Simple, neh?
BOLTER
Shock Field- Bolt Throwing 3, 30xp
The Bolter may now surround himself with a
barrier of electricity. Anyone that makes contact with the Bolter will suffer damage automatically. It requires one action to activate,
but may remain on indefinitely, as long as his/
her batteries hold up. The Shock Field can be
set at various levels of intensity, same as a
bolt attack. For every round the Field is on, the
Bolter's batteries are depleted by the amount
a comparable Bolt would have used.
Flashing- Bolt Throwing 7, 25XP
Speed. Pure, unadulterated speed. The Bolter
has learned to increase the electrical impulses
from his batteries to his mind and body. His/
her MA is increased by 4, and his Ref by 2.
DBZ- Bolt Throwing 4, 40xp
The Bolter has learned to pull a particular stunt
with his bolt-lines. With much effort, he/she is
able to twist his bolt-lines around each other,
in flight, and combine their charge into one staggering attack. The attack's difficulty is raised
by one level, and every turn is considered one
level harder as well. If successful, the Bolter
may expend up to twice the normal charge
and do the corresponding amount of damage.
SCANNER
Mind Bender- Interpretation 8, 30xp
Ever seen the movie Scanners? That's what
you can do. By increasing the output of your
scanning fields, and rotating those frequencies
rapidly, the Scanner begins to slowly fry his/
her target's brain. Mind Bend requires the user
to make an Interpretation check
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Weekend
by Dana Jorgensen
Weekend is an edgerunner retirement community. By all appearances, the town of Weekend looks like a picturesque, sleepy town circa
1910 to 1950. The town is filled with sturdy
little buildings, stores, and homes. However,
while anyone is welcome as long as they keep
the peace, none seem to be able to find a
place to move in unless invited by one or more
of the residents.
And if you don't keep the peace in Weekend,
you'll rarely have the opportunity to realize how
foolish your actions were. The town is very
well defended, with an incredibly competent
police force (composed of well armed retired
cops and solos for the most part), an abundance of will-hidden surveillance equipment,
and the entirety of its citizenry usually armed
to the teeth. Screw up too much and you'll learn
exactly how many residents keep an armored
car in the garage or a military AV parked on a
landing pad in the back yard.
As an edgerunner haven, Weekend is also considered a safe haven by all edgerunner who
know of it. Come to Weekend for some R&R
and know you don't have to worry about your
life. Your assets outside the town, however,
are another matter entirely. They will always
remain fair game.
The first Weekend, founded during the
Arasaka-Militech corporate war, was in the
backwoods of Maine, where there would never
be much worry of trouble, due to the overall
lack of corporate and government interest in
the area. The founding fathers was a small
group of edgerunners trying to escape a fiasco. A small nomad pack was called in for
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construction. A corp and a pair of fixers arranged the supply of construction materials,
both legitimate and illegitimate. A small team
of netrunners helped boost the finances available to pay for the project, while a team of excops and solos provided security. By the time
construction was completed in 2023, the town
of Weekend, Maine had 280 residents, each
and every one of them an edgerunners. It took
almost another year to officially found the growing town and get government support.
Quickly, the worldwide edgerunner community
worked together, with more Weekends rapidly popping up to help support those
edgerunners who didn't like the area of the
first Weekend. Regardless, Weekends always
were founded in a decidedly rural area, well
away from the hustle and bustle of city life.
Some of these newer Weekends were actually finished before the original Weekend. Eventually, there was a Weekend in every state, all
quietly organized and networked together. If
you're a resident in one Weekend, you can
expect to receive preferential residential treatment in every Weekend, regardless whether
you live there or not.
When knowing edgerunners visit Weekend for
the first time, they are shocked by the town,
since it is what one might consider boring.
However, their assessment of the facilities always change for the better. After all, when
you have spent years of your life living on the
edge, straddling the line between caution and
paranoia, wondering where retribution will come
from enemies both real and imagined, you don't
really understand what a good night's sleep is
worth until you can again enjoy one. Once you
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Weekend Services
The Weekend Sheriff's Department
Law Enforcement
The law in Weekend is usually composed of
retired police officers and solos. Along with
providing a highly competent, experienced and
sizable law enforcement agency numbering at
least 24 officers, many officers also engage in
private investigations both in and out of town,
as both an extra source of income and a source
of hobby entertainment. The officers work in
shifts of 4 working 6 hours of patrol and 2 hours
of desk duty per day, 5 days per week. The
officers operate in pairs based out of a BMW2020 armored patrol vehicle. Each and every
officer patrols regularly; there is no desk duty
for those with a badge. Many also use their
own personal vehicles. All use their own personal weapons.
In return for law enforcement services, the
members of this entirely volunteer service are
paid a weekly stipend of 500EB, plus free access to reasonable amounts of fuel, food, and
ammunition. They also get an annual tax break
based on their level of volunteer service.
The typical Weekend Sheriff's Department
maintains an operations center that combines
a dispatch center, administrative and duty offices, detainment center, impound lot and veEdgerunner Magazine
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In the Cyberpunk world there is a distinct downward spiral. You have no culture, hovering in
the limbo. Even ethnic groups and nations are
no longer clearly drawn, communication has
made the world one small place, so too has
traveling quickly become inexpensive and possible making it physically small as well.
Governments and corporations fight over dominance over each other, the Media is its playing
field and the minds of its youth its target. Each
one tries to lure you to its own set of rules on
what is right. The Alternatives are also its own
power structure, it is a voice of moderation
and responsibility in a world without responsibility or moderation. They would be considered to be the punks, outcasts out of
Cyberpunk society. They are proactive in a
world which is reactive.
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submissions
What I'm asking for are previously unpublished
articles about Cyberpunk or roleplaying in general. They do not need to be long, a page or
three. Actually, overly long articles will be cut
into parts to be published in the following issue.
The articles themselves can be anything from
a design of gear to a treatise on the nature of
Cyberpunk.
The only thing I demand is that the English
language is clear. I have better things to do
with my time than checking grammar of articles. Although with a little bribing *grin*, I'll
look through it and do necessary correction
work. Don't forget to add a title and your name
on the top of the article!
As for format, simple text format please. That
way I can open your article without problems
and convert it into html.
New Edgerunner will be published once a
month.
Questions, submissions to:
[email protected]
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