10 Hooks and Rumours for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.’s Night City

This list has ten hooks and rumours that can be heard in or about the Corporate Center district of Night City. Whether or not they are true is up to the GameMaster. They can be used as background colour or as potential adventure hooks.

1. Ben Feinberg, C.P.A., is an accountant in the Balinger Building in the Corporate Center, and works as an accountant for many local celebrities. It’s rumoured that for a few of these celebrities, he has set up offshore corporations that are perhaps less than entirely legal for them to funnel money through that they don’t wish to bother the taxman about.
2. Kuramoto Galleries is an exclusive gallery in Corporate Center specialising in modern and classical art of all kinds, with frequent invitation-only auctions. It’s rumoured that sometimes what’s for sale in these auctions isn’t being sold by the genuine owner of the item being sold.
3. Night City Towing and Storage in Corporate Center tows away vehicles across Night City, giving owners 24 hours to claim them, after which the towing company sells them off. It’s rumoured that the company will also dispose of other vehicles, for a price, seemingly towing a car off then selling it as scrap, or even having it crushed. Such vehicles are those that connect to a crime in some way, and this allows criminals to destroy the evidence in a surreptitious manner.
4. Red Cab is the largest private transport company in Night City, though it is well behind Aerocab, and its headquarters are in Corporate Center. There are rumours that Red Cab has been the target of a number of attacks recently, ones that seem oddly coordinated. It’s rumoured that Aerocab might be behind them, not to eliminate the competition, as Red Cab isn’t real competition, but to buy them out cheaply and extend their domination of the sector.
5. Robbie, the proprietor of Robbie’s Monster Subs in the Corporate Center, is a 300lb ex-sumo wrestler form Hawaii and is capable of maintaining order singlehandedly should things got out of control when Rainbow Nights customers get a bit out of hand. It’s rumoured that Robbie, after he retired from wrestling, had some work done to make him even more formidable; not anything overt but some enhancement of his normal abilities and some subdermal armouring.
6. The Cavalier is an expensive clothing store in Corporate Center that those without money, and lots of it, shouldn’t even try to visit. Most of what they sell is high-end imported items, primarily clothing but also some luxury household items. It’s rumoured that if you really have money to spend, additional lines of clothing are available, more expensive and quite possibly illegal.
7. The Chatworth Tower in Corporate Center is home to luxury town-houses and apartments, though not quite at the top end of the market. The tower uses armed guards hired from a local security firm who are generally effective enough. It’s rumoured, though, that the Chatworth is looking to either increase the number of guards, or hire some who are of better quality; there have been suggestions of a number of “incidents” that the residents feel they should be protected from.
8. The Kuroshita Hotel in Corporate Center is known for its discretion, as well as its elegance, and it’s rumoured that the staff can be truly discrete if the client is wealthy or powerful enough. Not only will they be able to get anything that said client desires, they will also be able to ensure that any unfortunate “incidents” are covered up and never trouble anyone else, such as the NCPD.
9. The L’Etranger bar is a night spot in Corporate Center with a European theme to its decor and is favoured by corps who are working late and white-collar security personnel. The clientele who visit the bar have a fair amount of inside knowledge on their companies, and it’s rumoured that L’Etranger can be a place where corporate espionage is being carried out.
10. The Rainbow Nights Dance Club in Corporate Center is a popular spot that once a month gets a big headliner to appear, which results in a large increase in the number of criminals and rowdy individuals, as well as a commensurate increase in police and crime. Rumour has it that on such nights some people always end up dead, and not necessarily by accident; various elements take advantage of the crowds to carry out a hit.

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