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 Northside 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. Dillon Murphy is a solo in Northside with a reputation for protecting women and children and a soft spot for pretty redheads with little cyberware and lots of freckles. It’s rumoured that Murphy has angered some gangs with his chivalric acts and some are rumoured to be looking to hire, or sculpt, a woman that looks like Murphy’s type so that they can get close to the solo and finish him off.
2. Dynalar Technologies in Northside designs and manufactures cyberlimbs in the facility, and it’s rumoured that they have some very experimental designs created in some labs that are definitely off the books, due to some of the methods used to gain subjects to try the new designs on.
3. Everything and More is relatively safe from gang violence for Northside, but recently that relatively has been becoming less and less relevant. If it’s dangerous enough, the store’s clientele will go elsewhere, and it’s said that the owners are planning on stepping up the quality of security more than a little, and getting proactive with dealing with violence.
4. N.C.P.D. has raided the Meratis Warehouse in Northside twice, following tips that black market weapons are sold from the place for the city’s gangs, but have found nothing. It’s rumoured that the gunrunners have someone inside the department who tips them off about upcoming raids, and some officers are said to be intending to make the next raid be a complete surprise, using only carefully vetted police.
5. O’Flaherty’s Tavern in Northside is suspected by the police to be a place where O’Flaherty provides sanctuary to fellow countryman in a spot of bother with the law and to those supplying the Northern Irish Pacification Zone with weapons. It’s rumoured that some members of the N.C.P.D. have been pushing to investigate the tavern, but that others, who would appear to share O’Flaherty’s origin, have suggested to them that such investigations would be bad for one’s career. And health.
6. Psycol in the Renwald Plaza in Northside is a therapy house for registered cyberpsychos that operates out of the fortified fourth floor. Despite the protections to the business, there are rumours that, every now and then, one of the cyberpsychos inside breaks loose and causes havoc.
7. The Pit in Northside is a rundown building that is now home to the Slaughterhouse, one of the most dangerous and powerful gangs in the city. To date, only one attempt has been made to turf them out, and that failed badly, but it’s rumoured that a number of businesses are talking about combining resources to set N.C.P.D. and Arasaka on the gang. Should the Slaughterhouse discover who might be considering this, they would probably try to personally incentivise them to discontinue.
8. The Range in Northside is one of California’s most famous indoor shooting galleries, where the user can also learn how to fire many different weapons. It’s rumoured that the gallery has other, less legal, options, where those with the money can shoot at targets that are alive and moving or can gain access to weaponry that would otherwise be difficult to obtain due to legal issues.
9. The Sandorf Hotel in Northside is a condemned hotel that a number of smaller gangs occupy and keep standing to ensure a roof over their heads. It is also the recipient of frequent drive-by firebombing, due to being in contested territory, and it’s rumoured that something larger, and more permanent, is being planned to take care of the hotel once and for all.
10. The Wildmark in Northside is a flophouse for those who are tired of living. Those who rent a place there are often killed for just the few measly euros in their pocket, and the police just regard this as scum killing scum. It’s rumoured that not every body killed there comes out; sometimes, the dead person is stripped for parts and any viable organs, body parts or cyberware ends up on the market.

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