10 Hooks and Rumours for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.’s Europe

This list has ten hooks and rumours that can be heard about Germany. Whether or not they are true is up to the GameMaster. They can be used as background colour or as potential adventure hooks.

1. East-style, a new musical sound emerging in Chemnitz, is just starting to make a mark on the European music scene. This is reputedly already drawing the interest of the corps who make money from music, and who are trying to buy up as much as they can before the style really hits the mainstream. This has led to battles between those considered sellouts to the corps and those who resist their advances.
2. Hamburg is now an arcology and controlled free city, with certain standards of wages and social care. Though EBM believes this aids the city’s growth, and they are probably right in this belief, some corporations with a shorter view think that such should be scrapped.
3. Security in the Bavarian Freistaat is known to border on the extreme, even patrolling the borders with other parts of Germany. It’s rumoured that this security in particular sometimes gets a little trigger-happy, and that there have been a few instances where things got a little out of hand that have needed to be quietly buried. Often literally.
4. Siemens has a corporate city in a suburb of Munich, and it’s rumoured that competitors are continually trying to compromise this, or those who work there. It’s said that Siemens’ corporate security is very effective, though, and those who fall foul of it have a tendency to disappear.
5. The police have given up on attempting to control the ghettos of Chemnitz, and rioting and ethnic warfare happen regularly. It’s also home to a rising alternative scene, and it’s rumoured that more powerful elements of that scene have started to decide to take control of the ghettos back from those causing trouble.
6. The Köln-Dortmund Conurb is Germany’s premier industrial zone, and is also home to unrest, thanks to workers of Turkish descent and such as actions by the Kurdish PKK. It’s rumoured that some Germans in the region, hailing back to older German racist philosophies, heave teamed up with the PKK in order to attack those of Turkish descent.
7. The lower pay grades were exiled from Berlin when the government was moved to that city. It’s rumoured that since then there has been a growing trend upwards, with more and more money being needed to live in the city, at least for everyone who doesn’t serve the wealthy or the powerful.
8. There is a lot of high-tech industry in the Köln-Dortmund Conurb in Germany, and this provides regular income for edgerunners specialising in corporate espionage. It’s rumoured that beneath the surface is a silent war between some of the companies operating in the region, a war that leaves definite casualties, some brain-burned, some dead.
9. Those who cause trouble in Hamburg and are caught are first fines and then expelled if they continue in their ways. It’s rumoured, though, that some of the more extreme troublemakers are just quietly disappeared, without even a recorded arrest, let alone a trial, and the only time any part of them will be seen again is in an organ donation.
10. When the government of Germany moved to Berlin in 2000, the radical youth culture for which the city was known moved to the suburbs or other cities. It’s rumoured that some within that culture believe that it’s time to take the city back, and such a belief could end up clashing with Berlin’s high level of security.

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