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THE RETURN TO NIGHT CITY BEYOND THE EDGE 2 InsideInside thethe EdgerunnerEdgerunner AltcultAltcult MEE T TH E CAS T , CRE W AN D TH E LEG A L STU F F Cre w Co n t e n t s Wr i t e r s STI L L ON THE EDG E IN 20 3 X Ken MacKriell RIS E OF THE ‘R UN N E R S : THE KNO W N HIS T O R Y...... 4 THE SEC R E T HIS T O R Y OF THE EDG E R U N N E R S ...... 8 WHO RUN S THE EDG E R U N N E R S ? ...... 1 3 Cover & Illustrations LEA D E R S ...... 1 4 Jay Libby DYL A N MUR P H Y ...... 1 4 Otto Blix SET H MEN D E Z ...... 1 6 Mike Pondsmith MON I C A CHE U N G ...... 1 8 VID A -M AR I A WES T ...... 1 9 Layout & Design “P RI N C E ” LEO BAK H T I A R ...... 2 1 VIN C E N T “S IL K ” FOU C A U L T...... 2 2 Mike Pondsmith THE PLAY E R S ...... 2 4 Ty p o g r a p h y FATH E R KEV I N SUL L I VA N ...... 2 4 Ted Tal s o r i a n OLE G MIK H A I L O V ...... 2 5 VER I T Y NGU Y E N ...... 2 6 Ed i t i n g ABI G A I L “B AB Y KNI V E S ” YOR K ...... 2 7 Fran Stewart HEA R T OF THE CYB E R CIT Y Lisa Pondsmith FAM I L Y DIS A G R E E M E N T S ...... 3 0 Dedicated to Baby Sister Dar-Dar. Little did GOI N G OLD SCH O O L ...... 3 0 you know I was taking notes while we were THE REV O L U T I O N IS TEL E V I S E D ...... 3 0 hitting the bars. BLU R R E D VIS I O N ...... 3 1 THE PART Y NEV E R STO P S ...... 3 1 WES T OF THE EDG E ...... 3 2 ALL I E S ...... 3 2 ROL L I N G STATE ...... 3 3 Published by the R.Talsorian Grou p , FAL L E N ANG E L S ...... 3 4 Redmond, WA, USA. RIP T I D E ...... 3 5 IS B N : 1- 8 9 1 9 3 3 - 2 2 - 1 THE STR E E T ...... 3 6 Pr oduct: RT04160 ENE M I E S ...... 3 7 NEO COR P S ...... 3 7 Copyright © 1990, 1991, 1993, 2007 by R.Talsorian Games, Inc. All Rights Re s e r ved. ® is R.Talsorian's Trademark name for its adventure game of FED E R A L US GOV E R N M E N T ...... 3 8 the dark future. The terms , Chromebook and Night City are trade- DES N A I ...... 4 0 marks of R.Talsorian Games, Inc. All Rights Reserved under Universal Copyright THE LOS T GUA R D ...... 4 1 Convention. All incidents, situations, and persons portrayed within are fictional, and any similarity, without satiric intent, of characters living or dead is strictly FOR GIR I & HON O R coincidental. Corpore Metal is a term drawn from the Paranoia line of roleplay- GIR I INS I D E THE GRO U P ...... 4 4 ing games and supplements and is used with the permission of the rights owners. Who are really cool guys. Thanks! GIR I OUT S I D E THE GRO U P ...... 4 6 EDG E R TEM P L AT E S ...... 4 7 - 5 0 Samplewww.talsorian.com/cyberpunk file

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Rise of the Runners In 2022 the beating urban heart of the The Known History Cyberpunk movement, Night City, vanished in a nuclear fireball, a blast that deprived the he whole world knows the cyberpunks of their greatest champions and story: From the palaces to the Arasaka of its intended monopoly on the infor- projects, from the arcologies to mation age. The blast was devastating, reduc- T ing the city core to glowing slag, shattering the barrios. It’s whispered around the water table, obliterating towering city campfires, shouted out by rockers, blocks packed with terrified people and mixed by DJs, cut up by medias, spilling lethal radioactive fallout into the sky to worn like a badge by rebels across he contaminate what little clean food and water globe: The Fall and Rise of The remained, but still more terrible than the Edgerunners.Sample bomb or its toxic aftermath wasfile the EMP.

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netics ontothenewmastersofstreetuntil Sampleholocaust bygraftingmoreandcyber- the and techiesinhiddenworkshopssurvived grab theirshareofthecarnage.Ripperdocs they followedthetrailbacktoNightCity horror, and oncetheyhadtheirfunwiththem convoys ofrefugeesattemptingtofleethe rorize. PacksofRaffenShivdescendedonthe outhugenewterritoriestoter- raping, carving through theruins,looting,murderingand crippled city. Forthenextyeartheyrampaged turned theirattentionfromeachothertothe they NCPD andcorporatesecurityservices, No longerhemmedinbytheparalyzed hardened. was durable,armored,and(ofcourse)EMP surpluskitthat What theywantedwasmilitary cybereyes carrieddesignerholographics. realskin, theydidn’t giveafrackiftheir if theircyberlimbwaschromedorsheathedin them anedgeoverC-SWAT. Theydidn’t care junked cybernetichardwarethatcouldgive years scavenging,stealingandtradingforany technofetishists downtown,theyhadspent the CombatZone.Unlikecomplacent Like atideofrats,thegangsswarmedout fileAnd nature,astheysay, abhorsavacuum. they hadfallenoffthetopoffoodchain. technology, discoveredinaterribleinstantthat cyberpunks, theurbanpredators,mastersof soles asfeedbackcookedtheirlobes.The Hearts stopped.Netrunnersdiedattheircon- ing limbs.Essentialmedicalprosthesesfailed. instantly deniedsight,hearing,andfunction- tor wentoff-line,butthousandsmorewere grammed techhairfelldeadortheirbiomoni- izen. Forsomeitmeantthatcarefullypro- adultcit- ic implantsimbeddedinnearlyevery in Nightcity, includingthecountlesscybernet- unshieldedelectronicdevice shut downevery pulse itgeneratedinstantlyburnedoutand When thenukeblew, theelectromagnetic part ofNightCity, becametheheartof Northside, oncearundownandforgotten But thenukechangedallthat. Times inO’Flaherty’s Tavern. congregated nightlytoreminisceonOld to slideintoobscuritywiththeotherrelicsthat tions. In2022,Dylanwasamanquitehappy accumulated Eurofromalifetimeofassassina- for amanwhowasstillhappilylivingoffthe letting. Eventhepaidjobsweresmallchange little quietatonementforalifetimeofblood- confidante FatherKevinoftheHolyAngels:a ly, giventohimbyhisdrinkingbuddyand property toapoorfamily. Charitycasesmain- beatings onrapists,maybereturningstolen run bywould-begangsters,issuingrevenge of Northside,dealingwithextortionrackets few localcontractsinhishomeneighborhood surgeries wiredforcombat.Hestilltookona ‘punkers comingoutoftheunderground reflexes werenomatchfortheyoung as itbecameclearthathisun-augmented retire fromthemercenary gameyearsbefore guide him.Hehadbeensmartenoughto maintained rifleandthegoodLordaboveto nology; hebelievedinasteadyhand,well He hadnotimeforcyberneticsorfancytech- company man,butasolofromtheoldschool. ,Dylan wasalreadyredundant.Hewasn’t a By thetime4thCorporateWar started DylanMurphy.endary One ofthosedefenderswasthenowleg- the citydescendedintohell. their shrinkingdistrictscouldonlywatchas toholdbackthefloodofanarchytrying from flesh, whilethefewdesperatedefendersstill taking tributefromtheconqueredinhuman gangs turnedtocannibalizingthepopulation, food stockswerefinallyexpended,many completely bereftofhumanity. As hidden they becamemetalandpolymermonsters, S C T Y I B L E L R O P N U N T H K E 5 E D G E 5 EDGEBOOK1a.qxd 12/19/07 12:06 PM Page 6

booby-trapped cyberware and lethally spiked drugs. Led by Dylan and inspired by Kevin, regular people achieved incredible things and P O

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6 possessed. Slowly, block by block, month by ON month, Northside expanded, freeing neigh- borhood after neighborhood to join the fight until all Northwest Night City was liberated. Always with their back to the wall and down to the last clip, making crazy plays and taking wild risks, Dylan’s makeshift army became known as the Edgerunners. The name stuck.

In the spring of the year following the nuke the Edgerunners finally liberated the home offices and R&D lab of Dynalar Technologies, a cutting-edge cybernetics research company that leased out their technology to other • father kevin mass-manufacturing corporations. In the weeks following the rediscovery of Dynalar, the Edgerunners pushed out a splin- resistance against the rule of the gangs. Father ter faction of the Red Chrome Legion to take Kevin rallied the community to its own back the Night City Technical Exchange, an defense, breaking open long-hidden caches of off-the-shelf cybernetics surgery franchise old but serviceable arms from his hidden IRA turned into a production line for producing past that he had stashed in sympathetic amped-up fascist goons. Using Dynalar’s high homes across his district. He called on his con- tech labs and NCTE’s accumulated resources gregation, old exiled Fenian patriots and Dylan started equipping young American firebrands, to rise up and the youngest and fittest of The defenders of defend their neighbors. They had the guns, his troops with the means Night City had the the guts, and the will, but what they needed to do battle with the enemy guns, the guts, and was leadership. Kevin turned to Dylan and on equal terms, but they begged him in the name of God to help. He were few, and every one the will, but what agreed without hesitation. It was to be the old that fell was irreplaceable. they needed was men and kids—solos and soldiers of a previous era and youngsters too junior to take While they had achieved leadership. What implants—who would become the saviors of much with cunning and they got was the city. tenacity, Dylan knew that Dylan Murphy. the only way to beat the The fight was brutal. Many lives were lost to gangs was to outfight them. To do that they the rampaging cybernetic monsters before needed new cybertech, gear that wasn’t the under-equipped defenders of Northside going to fry in an EMP wave, that didn’t finally learned how to use the city against their require complex surgery to implant, that any- adversaries,Sample employing sudden ambushes, one could wear. They needed file the means to

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