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 West Hill 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. Pinewood Bazaar in West Hill is an underground shopping centre where the urban professional can buy anything they want from upscale boutiques. One of the shops is an automated supermarket, where customers can shop via a catalogue or place orders on the Net. It’s rumoured that for those with the right codes, more things than those listed can be bought, things that are otherwise illegal.
2. Pinewood Spa in West Hill recently installed some new Braindance Bodytoner booths, allowing patrons to be immersed in the latest Braindance whilst their bodies are exercised electronically. There are rumours that some of the booths have had to be sent back to the manufacturer, though, after several patrons were injured due to faulty manufacturing.
3. Serengeti Gallery in West Hill sells African wildlife holography, though there are rumours that sometimes the holograms have been tampered with. It’s impossible for them to actually do damage, but that doesn’t mean that a holographic lion can’t be made to scare someone into doing something unfortunate. Such as leave through a door that is actually a window.
4. The NCU Fine Arts Campus in West Hill has been having problems with troublemakers recently, though nothing serious so far as the NCU Campus Police are capable of dealing with problems troubling the facility quite firmly if needed. Security has been increased as a result, though, as prevention is considered to be better than cure, and the campus police are making it clear that troublemakers will not be tolerated.
5. The Night-Marriot Convention Center is adjacent to the hotel in West Hill. The centre can hold large events, or be partitioned to hold much smaller ones, and there are rumours about just what goes on in some of these smaller events, especially those that have been paid for by the rich and decadent.
6. The Night-Marriot Hotel in West Hill is said to provide a very personal service to its best customers, providing them with almost anything they desire and helping to remove unfortunate problems so that the customer isn’t troubled by any potential fallout. Rumour has it that a number of professionals visiting the hotel over the years have disappeared inside its walls.
7. The posergang called the Bozos sometimes cause trouble for artists displaying their work in the neighbourhood between the University and executive-class apartments. They do destructive practical jokes such as pouring paint or blood over a display. It’s rumoured that they’ve stared doing nastier jokes involving acid and flamethrowers.
8. The Petrochem Fine Arts Museum in West Hill is filled with valuables, and given this, and the need to protect the place and patrons from gang violence and vandalism, security is very tight. It’s also rumoured that it tends to be proactive as well; a gang that tries to damage or hurt the museum or anything connected to it will be targeted by security to send a message that doing such is not a good idea.
9. There are warehouses and art studios in West Hill, some still used for storage, some for small businesses and some as artist’s studios. No-one really knows everyone who is using the warehouses, and there are rumours that some are used to store illegal goods, or perhaps worse things.
10. West Hill Gardens in West Hill are expensive and secure apartments, with some of the best security on the city, yet there are rumours of a number of incidents in some of the apartments recently. Details aren’t known, and some say that this is because the stories are just that, stories, but others claim that the incidents are being covered up to stop the prices of the apartments from declining.

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