NICE

ooh

Mike, were you in that game when we stumbled into Cannibal Sector One? That was you, right? I don't like giving Pulleys props, but MAN that was funny when the punch line happened.

Cuz I think that was you, me, and Paul-as-Oog.
Okay. So the GM saddled the player who usually borderline metagames and runs over the rest of the party with the Stormer. You handed the blabbermouth the character who literally has trouble talking.

"Character name. No more than four letters, no more than 2 syllables."
While signing his name: "O... O... Ggggg does-the-thing!"
Why was he so funny?

We were on a capture-and-recovery mission for an experimental designer-grown custom pet that had escaped from a biotech company. Adorable fluffy baby-kangaroo-like critter, big eyes, biiiiig ears, and very expressive vocal cords.

Well, of course the little bastard escaped because it turned out it was a stealth and surveillance model. The vocal cords could hit frequencies to get through mechanical locks, see into wider ranges of spectrums, ridiculously good hearing, camoflauge, I wanted this little guy in real life, okay.

We manage to track it down, bribe it and get it calmed down and not running away from us, and we try to train back to our contact point. And then we realize that all of the trains are running only one direction. Hunh.

All right, we have to ride this to wherever it's going, wait it out, and then hop transport back out. ....why is everyone on this train operators? And they're all really fkin excited about where they're going. Uh oh.

All the trains spill out and spotlights come on, cameras everywhere, and announcers let us know we've just entered Cannibal Sector One. So we have to SURVIVE A GAME SHOW, preferably with high kill counts and style points to increase our reps, keep our fluffy meal ticket alive, and get back out.

Now's when I point out that I was playing the Frother.

So you can't just "stick the cute fluffy animal with Agnes, she'll protect it with her life no matter what character she's playing!" OH GOD NO SHE'S PLAYING A BERSERKER, GET IT AWAY FROM HER.

We had a blast, but that punch line was GOLDEN.

I think that was me yes. we were in the place where the flag was and I'm playing a hacker. so I was using the cranes to kill zombies.

and yes, make the metagamer play a dumb as shit character is pretty hilarious

also seeing the artwork paints a better picture of the setting

OH yeah. The SLA Industries art is phenomenal all-around

Beautiful, rich setting with lots of ideas... shit game system, 's why we slapped the coat of paint onto CP2020

I do kind of question who this is made for. like why would you want to play in this setting? My only answer is it's post-apocalyptic hyper-industrial and there's combat everywhere

I mean I know why I want to play cyberpunk. I want to be badass with robotic parts. I want to play vampire because... well, there are lots of reasons I won't go into. I'm just questioning what the appeal of this setting is

I mean, same appeal as CP2020 in a way, lots of transhumanism themeing, dark future, bleak outlook with corporations and fighting the power, but put it on a galactic scale instead of a city or planet one.

that makes sense

If you have the right group, you can get the balance of a dark setting that makes the bright spots feel so much brighter.

And that's always what I was looking for with CP2020 and SLA, buuuuut, we had the most cynical people ever to play with, so, those promised bright spots never panned out, or I got made fun of for being naive for looking for them.

yeah that's shitty