10 Hooks and Rumours for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.’s Europe
This list has ten hooks and rumours that can be heard about Spain. Whether or not they are true is up to the GameMaster. They can be used as background colour or as potential adventure hooks.
Africans and especially Arabs in Madrid always run the risk of harassment, especially from radical nationalists. It’s rumoured that some of these nationalists have taken to kidnapping such; not for random, just simply to kill them and share the killings with similarly-minded people.
Barcelona, the original one, was partially sunk which led to inhabitants leaving the city. It’s rumoured that the partial sinking led to many things of value being abandoned, such as artworks dating back centuries or more, and that some of these are still hidden in protected vaults.
ESA is not the only player in Tenerife, but it’s the main one, and it’s rumoured that the organisation has been trying to get the mass driver site and city completely brought into its bailiwick, something that the other organisations, and especially the Spanish government, are not keen on.
Most monuments in Madrid are free from graffiti, thanks to strong nationalistic sentiments leading to any caught attempting to disfigure them being thrown into the mostly dry and polluted Manzanares River. Recently, there have been a few bodies found in the river, and though most assume this is people being punished for graffiti, others think that is being used as a cover to kill people for other reasons.
New Barcelona grew from the refugees from the old city, and is a centre of strong Catalanist pride. It’s rumoured that Catalan sentiment is high enough in the city that some believe it should be leveraged to make Catalan independent from the rest of Spain.
Orbital Air is supposedly attacking the mass driver being built on Tenerife, presumably not wanting competition to literally get off the ground. Though most of these attacks are from the net, it’s rumoured that the company has managed to get its hands on some serious explosive ordnance that they plan to use to destroy the site.
Saragossa is a growing industrial centre in Spain, and it’s rumoured that this growth is being accompanied by corporate interest and the ensuing corporate violence that can follow the smell of money. It’s said that a number of companies are battling out to see who becomes top in the city.
Seville may be one of the major Spanish cities, but it’s also poorer than the others. The brigands’ control of the Sierra Morena often results in the city’s airport being shut down and it being isolated for days, and it’s rumoured that the city government is finally trying to do something about this, though this something may not be wiping out the brigands but rather coopting them into the government.
The new city of Tenerife was built especially for the mass driver and various law enforcement agencies have a strong presence there. It’s rumoured that the hidden law enforcement presence is significantly greater than the visible one, given the potential future importance of the place.
Ultranationalist football fans in Spain have been causing problems in some of the country’s cities, and even in those of other countries, when a local team is playing against a foreign one in another country. The hooligans are using the games as an excuse to promote their nationalistic agendas, usually through violence against the opposing fans.
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Crawling along the ground in a fashion similar to a slug, albeit a large one, is a plant.
Flowers that, when the wind catches them, make a sound that is very similar to that of a person, crying in pain.
Fruit growing on plants have what look like faces growing on them.
insects are avoiding this species of plant completely, making a wide berth around it.
Plant that has the ability to mimic anything that is said or any sound in its vicinity.
Plan that is clearly a chimera, formed from multiple different species of plant.
Plant that is covered in a hard shell, like that of a snail only tougher, and it keeps most of its body inside the shell.
Plant that is in two parts, one on the ground and the other, which has a methane-filled balloon, floating above it on a vine tether which the plant can raise or lower as required.
Plants that don’t look to be entirely present in reality, and which prove impossible to touch.
Trees that look like nothing so much as people who have been planted in the ground; human-sized with a split trunk, two main branches and what looks like a head with a screaming face.
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Angusks are giant multi-legged creatures that have somehow evolved the ability to direct the Island of Undoing’s leach of energy to a specific leg, which withers and falls off to be replaced by another. Some believe that there’s no way to angusks could have evolved this mechanism on their own.
Cephaleen spiders have, if killed, something that is notoriously hard, or found dead, metres of sticky webbing inside them that can be harvested. It’s rumoured that some are trying to come up with a way of breeding and keeping the spiders in captivity, so that the webbing can be more easily harvested.
Delormi is protected by a large fence to stop the island’s creatures from attacking. It’s rumoured that the fence is slowly deteriorating, due to the villagers lacking the resources needed to maintain it at full strength, and that there are worries the wall might either have to be made smaller or risk having it give way under an attack.
Most plants on the Island of Undoing that the form of multicoloured moulds. There are rumours that being exposed for too long to any specific type of mould is unhealthy for the one doing so, and that in some cases they may be devoured by the mould’s spores and turned into fertiliser for the next generation.
The Carrils are a Carriles cult of worshippers outside Delormi who believe that the island is a god and they are seeking a way inside the village’s wall to destroy the Tower of Life. It’s rumoured that the leader, Tiass, is seeking out any newcomers to the island to see if they have anything that would breach the wall.
The Island of Undoing drains the health from living creatures on it, but there’s a rumour that this only applies to creatures that are on or near the surface. Some believe that if you were to dig down deep enough, you would be protected from the island’s effects.
The Tower of Life in Delormi on the Island of Undoing is a machine that thumps the ground at night, protecting those within the affected area from the island’s draining of life. Some want to examine the machine to see if its effects can be duplicated, but most are opposed to tampering with it out of fear that doing so could break it entirely.
Those bitten by cephaleen spiders whose bites turn into the symbols found on their stomachs can open the doors to beneath that also bear the same symbols. This has led to rumours that the spiders are some kind of mechanism for opening the doors that has malfunctioned over the aeons.
Tiass, the current leader of the Carils, found the majority of the group from the survivors of a shipwreck. Though up until now those survivors have been eager to follow Tiass’s god rather than their own, it’s rumoured that some of the former crew are becoming increasingly uncertain about this.
Zunak are abhumans who live on the Island of Undoing. It’s said that zunak cannot be found anywhere else, leading to rumours that the abhumans are created by the Island from some of those who die from the island draining all their health, who are then reborn, or reanimated, as creatures who are now immune to the effects.
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10 Hooks and Rumours for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.’s Europe
