Can we come up with d100 Very Specific Cyberpunk Locations or Street Scenes

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This thread started with a thought in the RGPpub's Magnum Opus thread. While Magnum Opus seems to have dropped off the burner, I like the idea.

We did this once before with the d100 Very Specific Cross Dimensional Locations. I know there is an interest in Cyberpunk here. We have a very popular thread to prove it - Real Life "Inspiration" for a Cyberpunk Game. So I want things you can generally drop into a generic cyberpunk game (if it is a specific setting flavor, note it down).

The entries do not have to be long. One to five sentences as your target (and I always overwrite so I ignore this suggestion). Ideally, they should have a bit of chrome (those fun little extra details) and some element you can hang a small plot arc or cool action scene on.
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01) "The Cart"

It has no business name. Some people call it "Vincent's". Vincent is the ramen chef inside the narrow cart. The Cart seats six people at the counter (where the "window" folds up). Inside is an electrically powered kitchen for prepping and making ramen and other delectable. (There is a solar panel on top to do energy.) The Cart is mobile, towed to the location every night by an ethanol powered tri-bike. While The Cart is normally found at the same spot (the first block buffer between the business district and the night time entertainment district), it can be found by certain bars (as they let out) and around sporting events (official and unofficial like Street Ball, Fights, or Boarding Sport). Vincent puts together some of the finest, most affordable, and mostly real, dishes/bowls in The City. (If you order here, you can get a to go bowl)

It is said that Vincent used to be a main chef for a famous chef or famous restaurant. He gave up his official job to follow his passion. He just smiles if you ask and ignores the question. Vincent used to be a high powered corp that dealt with special operations. For reasons, he left his position and took to the streets as a street chef. It has been years. Nobody has come looking for him. Yet who knows when...

Secondary Note: Many people with "dangerous past times" and "odd jobs" that frequent The Cart. Thus if you make trouble, there is either someone at the bar or squatting on the planters nearby that will end said trouble.
 
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2) A store dedicated to animatronic pet fish of varying degrees of realism. Some of them even have 'security' features such as mouth-mounted stun darts, just in case you want to set traps in your decorative koi pond. The store itself is managed by an animatronic clerk with a fishbowl for a head and a goldfish that does the talking inside it.
 
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03) "The Local"

A place where anyone and anyone can come in, drink themselves senseless for coin not credit, sleep on the linoleum floor, shoot pool, billiards, snooker. Throw darts. Arm wrestle and thumb war and play Atari on the hypernet. Put music on the jukebox and dance. Fuck in one of the back booths. Make bets, take bets, and run out on bad bets when the holosports are on. Sing, sling and show their bling. Deal soft drugs, take hard drugs and drive harder bargains. But disturb the peace? Get out of hand with one of the regulars? Then you're stripped for useable parts and what can't be stripped goes into all tomorrow's sausages.
 
4) E-NTR
This is a place that gives you electronic girlfriends (e-gf) for hire. While technically anyone can get here, it is oriented towards people who already have one or more of those at home, and are trying to make them jealous.
If you really want to tub it in, tell your e-gf to pay the bill...
Just don't be late with the bill. They don't work with credit companies, which means their interests aren't the benevolent 5% per month that the law limits credit companies to. And you don't want to know what might happen then...no, believeus, you don't!
 
05) Rembrandt's

Rembrandt's logo is a ninja turtles with a funky hat and switchblade. It is on the window, on the paperwork, and on the business cards that seem ubiquitous among a certain set. Rembrandt was a key player in the robo-gladiators scene. He was known for fighting in the tiny and small class, and having the finest paint jobs in the sport. Rembrandt's is the shop he always wished for when active in the scene. It is a store for wires, servos, engines, mini-sensors, power systems, control systems, bot brains, and the tools, plates, and resins for making bot shells. He also sells some basic bots and drone sets. (Oh and it is practically an art store for real artists, van artists (aka vehicle artists), and those who like to customize their robos.

Note: Robos are the common name for tiny machine companions. Usually just cute mascots a couple inches tall that act as an interface for the person's personal computer net. Really common with the mall brats. Robos that are more drones and actual robots are out there. Wranglers are the people who handle robos and drones for various "kinds of jobs". Wrangler is also the term for a handler of androids, gynoids, and other synths.

**Remember it is not illegal to robo-fight. It is illegal to bet on robo-fights (without special expensive city licenses).**

One or two legal purses for tournaments and some back room bets set Rembrandt up with the capital for his shop.

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6) Barbie's Dream Car Chop-Shop

You bring in a vehicle that still moves forward. She gives you a vehicle that still moves forward, though with a slightly better chance of staying that way for at least the next five miles.

If you don't want to trade-in, Barbie'll pay you in chits, coin or credits for anything not-so-hot that the feds are circling overhead in a reclaim pattern. If you need a specific part for a specific machine, Barbie'll let you loose in her junk stacks for an hour for every favour you'll owe her.

No one messes with Barbie. Barbie is a third-gen AI in a second-gen assassination drone body. Barbie pays the best coin for ceramic knife-launchers.
 
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5) Barbie's Dream Car Chop-Shop

You bring in a vehicle that still moves forward. She gives you a vehicle that still moves forward, though with a slightly better chance of staying that way for at least the next five miles.

If you don't want to trade-in, Barbie'll pay you in chits, coin or credits for anything not-so-hot that the feds are circling overhead in a reclaim pattern. If you need a specific part for a specific machine, Barbie'll let you loose in her junk stacks for an hour for every favour you'll owe her.

No one messes with Barbie. Barbie is a third-gen AI in a third-gen assassination drone body. Barbie pays the best coin for ceramic knife-launchers.
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Technically you posted 6...so now we have a 1d6 locations already:grin:!
 
AsenRG said:
Technically you posted 6...so now we have a 1d6 locations already:grin:!
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Watchutalkinaboutwillis? I made the edit in time. Ain't no mess, ain't no fuss. Ain't no need to kill no one.
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Watchutalkinaboutwillis? I made the edit in time. Ain't no mess, ain't no fuss. Ain't no need to kill no one.
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7) Vending Row is a street entirely lined with vintage vending machines. It is protected and maintained by local retired cybercops and an overzealous robot shaped like an 80s dancing-Pepsi-can toy. Some of the machines still dispense merchandize, including rare and valuable substances put in there by the cops as incentives.
 
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08) The Monastery

In the oldest part of the city, there's a nondescript door with no insignia, neon light or E-sign, just and old brass bell. Beyond there's the monastery a no tech oasis in the sprawl. Inside no tech post 1800 is allowed, not even electricity. The only exception is a set of very efficient e-shields to stop connection with the external world
Many have been completely shocked by disconnection from the Teralogos and the community, a few even claiming that was enough to reach enlightenment.
Is not exactly clear what happens inside the monastery. The monks and the novices, even those who got back to the world, never talk about it if not in the most vague terms.
 
09) The Pumps

With the rise in sea levels, the city's old shorelines had to be turned into massive concrete and earth seawalls, with a series of pumping stations placed periodically along the shore to keep the water out.

The oceanfront is deeply unpleasant. Whether it's the masses of rotting vegetation, poisoned fish carcasses, sewage, or toxic runoff from the city, there is a pervasive reek that never dissipates. The stink of the putrefied sea means the whole area is one of the least desirable locations to live in the whole city.

Nevertheless, it is a popular place for the seedier underbelly of the city. Most buildings are abandoned or minimally maintained. Drug dens, illegal gambling, and every manner of perversion can be found where real estate and life have no value. Security presence is basically nil, too, making it a popular area for smugglers and runners to hide out or stash their haul.

The only well-maintained locations in the area are the pumping stations, since they protect the entire city. That said, limited failures and sabotage of the pumps mean the buildings closest to the seawall are known to flood, and the toxicity of the influx means residents face a real risk of death and illness daily.
 
10) The Dog Park

The Dog Park as it is called, is a rumor, but it's a substantial one. People talk about semis that show up in alleys and strange backroom-esque locations but the truth is that the Dog Park is an old Mall built in the prior century, and completely retrofitted to allow a "nature" experience for those in the big city. It is patrolled quite actively by a large number of uplifted canines (Serials 8975242-C through 9858971-R Intellect Enhancement) that are outfitted with fairly advanced ARM suits. The suits provide the canines with a fully functional set of cyberarms which they use to enforce the peace. The park itself has neogenic hybrid grass and trees designed to make the most out of artificial light, and a number of standard park features, including an oxygen-producing pond (filled with Algae, no swimming.)

The park itself is mostly used for meetings because the dogs (or whomever they work for) enforce that everyone visiting the park must accept either a time-lock on enhancements and weapons ( Ultrablack Encryption levels) or come completely unarmed. It is reported that those who dare to broach the peace, are never heard from again, but that's an urban legend. Though most respect the rules of the park because the dogs are HEAVILY armed with stuff off the back end of some super R&D firm.


For whatever reason the Dog Park thrives, and even has a number of fairly normal activities allowed by various people who know of it (including family get-togethers and picnics). The
 
11) A mountain of discontinued manhole covers, almost the entire city's worth, surrounded by chain link fences, bizarre shrines and squatter camps. Government says they'll recycle them some day. Some day.
 
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12) Street Preacher
Atop a makeshift pulpit of empty plastic crates and similar detritus, a man in a shabby suit and tie is fervently preaching the good word of his faith, mostly to disinterested passer-by's, a couple of hecklers and even fewer who are legit interested (or high enough to have it make sense). At some point, the preacher will turn to the PC's and make them the focus of his rant for whatever convoluted and bizarre reason the GM can think of. If the PC's stay and listen, he will be eventually by chased off by a street cop or local gang enforcer. Choose any religion (or make one up) for the format of the preacher's ravings. Alternatively, roll 1D10

1-3: Fundamentalist Christian
4-6: Bizarre never before seen Christian sect
5-7: Neo Pagan
8-10: Inquisitor (any PC with visible cybernetics will REALLY get an earful).
 
13) Butcher Joe's

Hidden in a dark alley lit with red lights at the run down part of town is a body mod shop for the less discreet clientele. No guarantees, but no questions asked. If you want it done and you need it done now, Butcher Joe will get you fixed right up. Cash up front. Crypto accepted. No CBDC or credit cards.
 
14) Le Doux Mannequin

It is in the Alpha District. You walk by (if you have enough credit to get into the district), and see fashionably dressed mannequins (or maybe staff) in the windows. The shop is open by appointment only (there is a sign by the door).

The Store is an outlet for a French Technology House Les Trois Etoiles. Their technology is not the finest (they license things from a Japanese company). Their application, their programming, and their "flair" (le flair de la vie) make their synthetics the most sensitive, the most human of companion units. They are more than capable physically, mentally, and emotionally. They are capable enough for security/defense conditions - into the superhuman range.

If you set up an appointment (and have the money), they will set up their showroom to show things off. Often a unit is ordered after seeing what is available. (Buying a premade unit is vastly cheaper.) The Rich have companion units as totally trust worthy and loyal confidants, assistants, and staff. They are becoming all the rage.

3/.21
 
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15) A carousel, but each horse has an extremely chatty AI installed and just enough animatronics to perform a few expressive poses (and turn its head to look at its rider). It's not immediately apparent, but each horse is sort of channeling the personality of a different goofy stand up comedian from our own era.
 
16) The Vintage Vinyl Store - It looks plucked out of the eighties, with rows of used albums organized by artist in alphabetic order. The music coming out the equally ancient sound system is eclectic, from death metal to bossa nova, depending on the mood of the owner, a spry lady with a mane of silver hair.

Audiophile corpos and gang leaders alike visit the shop to peruse her new findings and trade tips and albums.
 
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17) The Data Glory Hole - Stick your neuro link cable into that hole in the wall if you dare. You may end up with some top-notch cracking software, the latest security breach dump, 15 minutes of fully immersive porno, the nastiest virus you've ever seen, or all of the above. Don't forget to pay forward to the next idiot that jacks in.
 
18) Yogang standoff

Two groups of teenagers (1d10 members on both sides, no cybernetics, but a few cheap guns and melee weapons) are blocking the way, brandishing their weapons and generally tossing threats back and forth, each daring the other to make a move. Choose or roll 1d10 to find out the nature of the dispute and those involved.

1-2: Megaviolents (crazed wanna be boosters) vs local Streetfighters (martial artists) from a nearby dojo.
3-4: Squats (hobos) vs local Guardian (volunteer neighborhood watch) troops. Guardians claim the locals are complaining, Squats deny any wrongdoing.
5-6: Two groups of Rads (junior political activists) of opposite political leaning with the debate reaching a new level of heated
7-8: Boardpunks (skaters) vs GoGangers (bikers). Someone's ride got vandalized.
9-10: Goths (duh) vs Tribals (urban primitives). No real issue, these two groups just naturally beef on each other.
 
19) Go Camp Stalls

Go Camps are urban nomads who live life around their cars and their carts. They keep mobile so the local legal can not throw them out of boundaries due to "squatting" or "illegal length of parking" or urban camping.

So tonight the Go Gamp is here in a culdesac in an older industrial area (or other out of the way place which is mostly quiet for the evening). There are kids playing, grills going, a little dancing, and a couple of stalls selling various parts, media bits, and handicrafts. It is part local get together and part flea market.

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20) Shoot!

The star of the "old school action flick" movement Rock Malone does his own stunts, and today that led to him being shot in the head. The director isn't too worried about him -- he's on his way to the best hospital in the city, and most of the scenes have been shot anyway, so the movie can be salvaged even if he doesn't make it. He just needs somebody with the same body type of the actor to drive a muscle car on fire through a hail of bullets and jump out of it just before it hits a gas truck.
 
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21) The street musician.

The scruffy-looking guy with the messy hair and steel drum may look slightly drug-addled and sound like melody and consistent tempo are only passing acquaintances, but don't let that fool you. This guy is evading electronic jamming and hacking to pass messages the old-fashioned analogue way. Embedded in the weird arrhythmical drum-whacking are Huffman-encoded ciphers that are being surreptitiously recorded from an open window two streets down.
 
22) The Mosiman elevated monorail is an obsolete shuttle service that still winds through the skyscraper canyons of two corporate zones that have seen better days. Only a handful of passengers ever seems to occupy it at any time, but it is diligently maintained thanks to a bizarre grant that a zillionaire bequeathed to it. Her motivations are a mystery. Those who knew her said she seemed terrified at the prospect of the monorail ever being shut down, even after her death. Rumors of a ghost float around the whole affair, but maybe a more scientific explanation lurks within the ancient circuits of the self-conducting vehicles.
 
23) The Whoreacle

An old, glitchy holostripper stands at a table in the backroom of a rundown café. She mindlessly sways and dances to an old tune, and looks like a flickering facsimile of a popular "e-thot" from the late 2010s/early 2020s, immortalized as an AI hologram. The obsolete holoprojector is kept as a novelty and rarely used, but those in the know can activate its dormant AI by transferring a crypto token and using an old catchphrase, allowing the holostripper to serve as an information broker and predictive analyst. The holostripper will reveal the requested information with eerie, but cryptic accuracy, as she continues to dance seductively at the petitioner. Continued requests or clarifications will require additional crypto tokens.
 
24) iSore

"Duct tape is silver, but silence is golden" would be iSore's slogan... if it wanted to make itself known. iSore should be noticeably unnoticeable in this violently sensory-overloaded world, but people don't take the time to go in and find out what it's about. Not unless they've hit their limit of booming bass, flashing lights, constant advertisement and social interaction. This is where the noise goes to die.

iSore is completely contactless. You enter a dark, silent building, take a cold brass key from an unoccupied front desk and open the door to room labelled upon it. Inside is a comfortable chair with walls blacker than black and suppresses all sounds except those you make. It's bliss. You can stay as long as you like. Those who leave always come back. And they never leave again.

"At this very moment though, you hear the noise blaring from headphones before you see a Dumpit & Scarper crew taking out some of iSore's waste."
 
25) Torso Town is a 'compound' of interlinked apartments deep within a mega-residential structure. Here resides a surprisingly large community of people who have opted to surgically remove some or all of their limbs as part of their Body Integrity Identity Disorder. They live more comfortably than you might imagine, mostly because many of them had family money to channel into the compound and its robot servants. Their neighbors are legally required to be polite when talking to and about them in public, but after a few disappointing decades of activism 'Torso folk' have learned that deep down even the nicest outsider will never sincerely accept their decision. Even worse, the community is riven with bitter feuds over who is a 'purer, more committed' manifestation of the BIID ideal based on the number of remaining limbs.
 
26) The Protest

There are no protests in today's orderly society. People are smarter and know that they accomplish nothing. Technically, everyone has freedom of speech and assembly. Technically, corporations are allowed to use police to defend their right to "corporate reputation". (This includes City Corp by the way, so complaining about the local government can be stopped.) So you could technically protest until someone feels their corporate rights are being infringed.

That is why this group of forty or so stands out. They are loud but still peaceful. They are still moving along the sidewalk (avoiding loitering laws or obstruction of commerce/ traffic by marching in the street). Normally the police should be here stopping them for disturbing the peace, if nothing else. Perhaps the group is actually supporting a corporate agenda. There are drones watching the event. Some might even be "media drones".

Do you stop and listen and be tagged as "one of them" in case they are rounded up as commerce disruptive or seditious to the public stability?

Are they being used as an advert to sway people?

You can have them support any number of things to fit your chronicle: protest against an "unlawful arrest" or against an arrest that should be made, but isn't because of corporate interference. They could be protesting for AI/ synthetic rights. That is my primary ideas, as fewer corps would argue against that. Maybe they want food stores in their neighborhoods open. Maybe they want the corporation to not build that experimental power plant, after the one in Flagstaff took out a chunk of the Arizona Zone. Fill in your needs.

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27) Nuno Silva Electronics

Nuno's shop is just another electronics shop in Chiba. Mr. Silva, an aging Tripeiro, sells electronic components and can repair almost any small electronic device in the market as well as some simple cybernetics.

His blind son João Carlos works there, with some help from Cruz, João's on/off loving interest.

Prices are fine and quality is usually good, but the shop is nothing special. Many fixers are surprised how they can survive in such competitive area.

But Nuno has a side hustle. Some years back he was able to acquire an unregistered A.I.

Sybil, as the A.I. likes to be called, is a reactive A.I. unable to incorporate new knowledge to her memory, but extremely skilled summarising huge volumes of data in real time. Nuno makes good money with it, keeping her unplugged from the net and selling its services to any info bro that enters his shop wanting to identify safely whatever data they found.
 
28) The Gender Reveal Throwdown

A man and a woman are standing at a corner, just outside a New Coffee shop, arguing about the gender of the AI superstar Newei. The man is arguing that the AI is male, and the woman arguing that it is female. While the argument isn't violent it gets louder, when a sudden flash concert of Newei appears on several local screens, and in augmented reality overlays. Newei's performance entrance almost everyone in the vicinity, and the AI's virtual persona is of course indistinct with a voice that seems both male and female, but just why is nearly everyone stopped to listen to them sing?
 
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29) Troupe of Parkour
This is a good number of fairly young seemingly very athletic people moving through a somewhat uncrowded (it is an off time, early morning, post lunch, between work and evening events). They are climbing, skampering, kong-ing, and running through the space. They are either chasing the one in the lead or just following. These are probably the same people who do messenger service through the city for non-secure packages.

29b) Troupe of Bikers
This is a good number of fairly young seemingly very athletic people moving through a somewhat crowded city areas on bikes. Some are carrying messenger bags, used by the messenger services for non-secure packets. They are riding on side walks, occasionally dodging cars, dancing off planters and down stairs, and other bike tricks. It seems they are following the fox - the leader.

Just a reminder that these people exist and are part of the city. Thus a scenario might be built about catching a messenger, stopping a messenger, or you may end up being surprised by someone you are chasing scampering up a wall.

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Silverlion said:
28) The Gender Reveal Throwdown

A man and a woman are standing at a corner, just outside a New Coffee shop, arguing about the gender of the AI superstar Newei. The man is arguing that the AI is male, and the woman arguing that it is female. While the argument isn't violent it gets louder, when a sudden flash concert of Newei appears on several local screens, and in augmented reality overlays. Newei's performance entrance almost everyone in the vicinity, and the AI's virtual persona is of course indistinct with a voice that seems both male and female, but just why is nearly everyone stopped to listen to them sing?
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May I suggest the song going with a change in text, stating clearly:
"Am I male? Am I female? Bullshit - I just am!"


30. "A samurai duel" between two guys with serious cyber in their bodies, using samurai swords. They've signed up the waivers so it's actually legit. If only they hadn't chosen to lead it in the mall's parking during rush hour!
For the record, they're fighting to resolve a disagreement over musical styles:shade:!
 
29) The Lion and Cucumber

Any of the people in the L&C would torture-kill you before wrapping you in plastic-vac before dropping what's left of you in one of the five rivers that still flow across the North American continent. But they aren't being paid to do that, and they don't do freebies unless under extreme circumstances. How long can you last while waiting for your contact?
 
AsenRG said:
JAMUMU JAMUMU that should be #31...yes, I know, you had the right number from the start:grin:!

Also, M MoonHunter you should be #29 by my count:thumbsup:!
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What are you, The Numberer? Do I need to batcall Batman to batkick your batass? Is it any surprise that no one at the pub can count to 100 in the right order? NOSIRREE!!!!!!???!!!!!!
 
JAMUMU said:
What are you, The Numberer? Do I need to batcall Batman to batkick your batass?
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So...which batcall number is that:grin:?

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Is it any surprise that no one at the pub can count to 100 in the right order? NOSIRREE!!!!!!???!!!!!!
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Depends on how much hard liquor was consumed, I guess...:tongue:
 
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