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 Sub-Urban Sprawl 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. Arasaka Weapon Assembly Facility A-452 is in Heywood and, as well as the assembly part, also has a warehouse and firing range. It’s rumoured that there was an incident recently in the warehouse which destroyed a significant amount of the interior, as well as the stock, and that Arasaka believes it was an act of sabotage.
2. It’s rumoured that a threat has been made by ecoterrorists against the Petrochem Refinery Terminal in South Night City, and that the company has increased security as a result. Some, however, are saying that the ecoterrorists are merely a front for one of Petrochem’s competitors.
3. North Oak is run as an extension of the military base that it is effectively built to support, with the military providing both law and, often summary, enforcement. There are rumours that some of the military patrols get out of hand, but if this is the case, it’s always well covered up.
4. Playland by the Sea is in Pacifica and was renovated recently. It’s proven to be popular, especially with those coming from San Francisco, but there are rumours that the renovation wasn’t as good as it should have been, with corners being cut that have resulted in a number of, covered up, accidents.
5. Seven ships are homeported out of the NorCal Military Base in North Oak, though it’s rumoured that the size of the fleet detachment there might be increased, probably with the addition of more light warships, though it’s said there may be a couple of hunter-killer submarines on the horizon too.
6. The community of Rancho Coronado is mostly walled off by a concrete barrier topped by an electrified barbed wire fence. There are rumours that this barrier isn’t proving as effective as the residents might hope, and that there are plans to replace it with something better, and probably a lot deadlier.
7. The Night City Municipal Sewage Plant in South Night City is known for its regular sewage backfills. It’s rumoured that not every backfill is caused by the plant simply being insufficient to cope with demands, but because various things keep ending up in the tanks that should never have been dumped there in the first place.
8. The residents of the Pacifica Arcology are rarely seen as the enormous building is self-contained, and they can get most of what they need within it. Some of the other residents of Pacifica are growing unhappy about this, claiming that the arcology is siphoning money from the city from people who shop in the building, because such money never goes back out into the local area.
9. There’s a rumour that the Biotechnica Mono-donal Research Station in Heywood is performing research into some extremely dubious cloning projects, including one where they are cloning wealthy, important or powerful people. There’s no evidence of this, though, but some do believe that such a project would be popular in some circles.
10. Westbrook is a heavily-protected fortress, including surface to air missile sites that prevent any traffic that lacks the proper access code from getting too close. It’s rumoured that money in the right place can get those missile sites to fire on airborne craft that do have the right codes, as a way of eliminating troublesome individuals in “accidents.”

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