You’re a brain-burning computer hacker & master of the Post-NET cyberverse. Maybe your parents bought you an old Kirama LPD-12 cyberdeck with Zetatech 526 optical goggles when you were too young for interface plugs, and your life was changed. Maybe you used REFRAME-G1s meta-programming to crack into the school district’s system and change your grades. As a teenager, you might have shifted enough funds out of unprotected Trans United Bank accounts to finance your first neural interface plugs.
You could have run high and fast with the other gods of the NET: Bartmoss, Magnificent Curtis, and the rest. Then the 4th Corp War blew the Old NET apart. The R.A.B.I.D.S made NET travel a suicide run; the Nodes were fragmented or corrupted. But there are still places to run. You just had to go there and jack in the hard way. You traded in sitting on the couch for a Bodyweight combat bodysuit and Virtuality 5 interface goggles to mesh NET with Meatspace.
The systems you cracked are smaller, but even deadlier. Now, you’re really part of a team, with Solos to cover your back, Medtechs to restart your heart if the ICE gets you, and Techs to help you hot-wire your cyberdeck for more speed and software deployment. As an electronic wraith, you slip into mainframes: stealing, trading, and selling their deepest secrets.
Of course, the deadliest parts cyberspace is still out there in the remnants of the old NET. Others might think it’s all safe behind the Blackwall, but you know that it’s only a matter of time before the AI and ghosts of Soulkiller that live there break free.
[quote|Spider Murphy]Do spiders spin webs? It’s time to catch flies.[/quote]1d6 | Type |
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1 | Freelancer who will hack for hire |
2 | Corporate “clone runner” who will hack for The Man |
3 | Hacktivist interested in cracking systems and exposing bad guys |
4 | Just like to crack systems for the fun of it |
5 | Part of a regular team of freelancers |
6 | Hack for a Media, politico, or Lawman who hires you as needed |
1d6 | Partner |
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1 | Family member |
2 | Old friend |
3 | Possible romantic partner |
4 | Secret parter who might be a rogue AI. Might. |
5 | Secret partner with mob/gang connections |
6 | Secret partner with Corporate connections |
1d6 | Workspace |
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1 | There are screens everywhere |
2 | It looks better in Virtuality, you swear |
3 | It’s a filthy bed covered in wires |
4 | Corporate, modular, and utilitarian |
5 | Minimalist, clean, and organized |
6 | It’s taken over your entire living space |
1d6 | Clients |
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1 | Local fixers who sends you clients |
2 | Local gangers who also protect your work area while you sweep for NET threats |
3 | Corporate Execs who use you for “black project” work |
4 | Local Solos or other combat types who use you to keep their personal systems secure |
5 | Local Nomads and Fixers who use you to keep their personal systems secure |
6 | You work for yourself and whatever you can find on the NET |
1d6 | Source |
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1 | Dig around in old abandoned city zones |
2 | Steal them from other Netrunners you brain-burn |
3 | Have a local Fixer supply programs in exchange for hack work |
4 | Corporate Execs supply programs in exchange for work |
5 | You have backdoors into a few Corporate warehouses |
6 | You hit the Night Markets and score programs whenever you can |
1d6 | Enemy |
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1 | You think it might be a rogue AI or a NET ghost. Either way, it’s bad news. |
2 | Rival Netrunners who just don’t like you |
3 | Corporates who want you to work for them exclusively |
4 | Lawman who considers you an illegal “black hat” and wants to arrest you |
5 | Old client who thinks you screwed them over |
6 | Fixer or another client who wants you exclusively |
Ask these questions to different players about their characters to build existing relationships.
A Netrunner uses a cyberdeck to access networks to interface with the architecture directly with their brain. They can use their action in meatspace to perform a number of NET actions determined by their role ability rank.
Virtuality goggles, or cybereyes with Virtuality installed, allows a Netrunner to view the interface around them along with their normal vision, projected directly onto their optics. This is much more convenient and subtle, but they still need to maintain a connection as per usual.
Rank | 1-3 | 4-6 | 7-9 | 10 |
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Actions | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Each NET action can be one of several described in the Netrunning section in the Gamerunner chapter of Cyberpunk Blue.