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Slycerr's Slices of Cake (Snippets/ Story Ideas)

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Some snippets or story ideas that get stuck in my head, and need to be let out.
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What happened? Where am I?

Opening my eyes and feeling my surroundings, I notice that I'm lying on pieces of rubble. A headache muddles my thoughts, but I'm conscious enough to look around.

The place is a mess, cabinets are lying on the ground, pieces of the roof are broken, a massive whole was in my wall to the outside air and a big grey monster lay dead on the other side.



What?

Snapping my head back to the monster, my headache follows the movement. "Agh, god dammit."

My hand shoots up to soot it, only to hurt more and shooting back down. Looking at it, it's coated in a thin layer of blood, my blood.

Realizing that I probably have a concussion, I try and stand up only for memories to bombard me.

I was sleeping on my couch after another boring day at work, only the be woken up by the noise of my window breaking. There was the grey monster that now lays in my apartment dead, hanging from the 5th​ floor of my building.

Keeping still, hoping the creature doesn't see me, only for an explosion to send it right in my apartment.

The rubble from breaking the wall must have hit me in the head. No wonder it was so difficult to think.

But the memories didn't stop there.

Memories of another life followed the ones from before my head injury.

Memories of a boring life, the only joys being books, movies and games. A life that was just wanted some excitement and but was to scared to go look for it. A life that wasn't so far of from mine.

The only problem was that one of the movies from my other life, was my currents life's reality, and I'm currently living one of the sparks that move that franchise so popular.

Avengers, and the Battle of New York. And what I now knew was a Chitauri lying dead in my living room that was punched inside by the hulk.

But the memories didn't stop there. No. whatever made me know about the future from my reality via movies, also came with a power that could maybe help me survive this ordeal.

The Shop, it was called. A power that lets my buy powers for points I don't know how to get.

Dazed, I look at the screen that let's me buy powers, and it looks somewhat familiar. The answer comes from my other memories. Because the powers are surprisingly similar from the Fork CYOA the other one liked to use in his boredom, only everything is greyed out beside the lesser powers.

Looking at my balance, it says I have 5 points in reserve. I don't know where they came from, but I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth.

Looking of at the powers-

Woosh woosh woosh

Vehicles manned by Chituari flies by the hole to the outside, making me realize right now isn't a good idea.

That concussion must really make me out of it.

Wanting to get out of my apartment, my attempt is immediately stopped by the dead alien that lies in front of the door. Luckily, my hallway is big enough that I can just walk over its arms.

But then I notice the gun in its hand, and a thought comes over me. It's better to have a weapon in this chaos right? What if I meet another alien and that one isn't dead yet.

Trying to get the weapon out of its dead hand wasn't as easy as I first thought it be, but eventually I manage to pry it's hand open.

The weapon looks like a rifle with a bladed end, the gun was almost a long as I was tall. Looking for a button to shoot it, I accidently fire it in the dead Chitauri. Now armed, I feel that tiny bit safer.

Finally getting out my apartment, I still hear the commotion from outside, the flying vehicles and explosions. But inside the building its quiet, the quiet of nobody being there. It seems like the whole building was evacuated while I was lying unconscious.

I remember in the movie they said everyone needed to go to the subway or basement.

My building doesn't have a basement, it isn't tall enough for it's foundation to go that deep.

The cheap price what initially made me rent the place is now biting me in the ass.

Getting to the ground floor, it looks like a stampede was has gone through here, potted plants were fallen over with it's vase broken, paper was lying on the ground, it felt more like an earthquake went through here than people.

Looking outside, I'm currently in the clear. Deciding that this place is going to be the safest place because of the quiet, I sit in there at the door, looking outside for any threats but still so I can book it inside for safety.

And I'm glad I did, because not even 10 minutes later, right when I'm starting to think I'm safe, a fucking leviathan hits the skyscraper next to my building, making it collapse and fall over.

Right to me.

Jumping up and running out of the blast zone, I look behind me to see my apartment getting crushed.

A shockwave hit me and pushed my onto the ground

[Feat: Escaped you own canon death! 5 Pts]

That message chilled me to my bones. I apparently would have died in that building, Crushed by the weight of that skyscraper. Should I still have been unconscious? To afraid of the monster in my apartment, not knowing what it was?

I don't know, but I needed to get out of here, and I now have to points to get me to safety.

Standing up, I looked for a place that seemed safe, so I went into another building. I first looked if there where people here, but it was as empty as my own. Maybe they evacuated the whole block already.

Going into another building, I again kept close to the door to make a run for it if another building collapsed on it.

With my luck right now, that is certainly not a chance I'm willing to bet on.

[+1Pt]

Huh, why? It doesn't matter, the more points right now the better.

Looking at the options, and the points I have, I make the decision to upgrade my body first. Because it seems I will be doing a lot of running today. It is also handy then, that there is an addon that makes my body the best it could possibly be.

[Bought Mover (Reaction)! Remaining points: 10]

[Bought Brute (Hysterical Strength)! Remaining points: 9]

[Bought Brute (Pink Muscles)! Remaining points: 8]

[Bought Brute (Black Bone)! Remaining points: 7]

[Unlocked Addon (Shattered Limits)]

[Bought Brute (Lung)! Remaining points: 6]

[Bought Changer (Contortionist)! Remaining points: 5]

[Bought Brute (Genetic Template)! Remaining points: 4]

[Bought Thinker/Brute (Waste Not Want Not)! Remaining points: 3]

[Bought Brute/Breaker (Efficient Autonomic Systems)! Remaining points: 2]

[Unlocked Addon (Refined Biology)]

[Unlocked Addon (Golden Body)]


Immediately my body started changing, I gained more muscles, my bones stronger and rearranging themselves, everything was strengthened and heightened to their absolute limits.

Normally, and what I didn't realize in my haze of thoughts was that this should hurt, my body completely changing down to the cells. But it didn't, it couldn't have felt better if it tried. All the ailments a human was used to or got used to fixed itself in that moment.

I felt like I could take on the world.

And then the sounds of explosion interrupted that thought with my sharpened ears. Getting out of that reverie, I came back to earth as reality imposed itself of back on my mind.

I needed to get out of here.

-/-

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Remaining points: 2

Points Spent: 9

The shop works by giving a point every 1000 words or and uses the shard powers of Fork Cyoa

Tier: 1 needs 10 points spent before it unlocks, Tier 2 50 points and Tier 3 a 100 points.

Special tickets can be aquired that rolls a gacha of current powers available. Allows you to bypass the Tier Walls. Give discounts or Acces the Shardless, Perk or Skills sections.
 
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"Is this the build you wish to use?" the green humanoid with 3 eyes asks me in a bland tone. The… man? Doesn't really look like he cares, but apparently even he has guidelines that he needs to follow.

"Yes sir" there isn't really a lot more I can say, I couldn't choose my first world, because cyberpunk wasn't the first world I would've chosen.

Fun fact, the safest city is in the world of Cyberpunk is still worse than the murder capital of my own. But the chance of becoming something more than just an average guy was too tempting to ignore, even if I had to work for a company that dealt in multiversal slavery.

I really thought it would take more for me to discard my values like that, but apparently I'm not as good a person as I thought.

Well, nothing I can do about it now, I already signed the contract.

"Then step inside this portal." It says as a portal appears right next to me. "Once inside, the changes will be made and you will be transported to your destination. I hope you will do the company proud." It finishes in a bored tone.

Not really knowing what to do, I just give an awkward bow and reply with an "Uh, yes." And step inside the portal.

At first I don't feel anything, but then my body locked up and changes started to happen.

My physical limits are heightened to just beyond peak human, my shoulders widen and my muscles contract and expand at the same time. My height increased from 5'5 to 6'3 slowly, making my body feel stretched out and filled in, and this was only the start.

Just when I thought my body was done changing, several places of my body started to itch. Me eyes, arms and the back of my neck felt like there were ants inside trying to burrow their way through.

My vision became black and the itchiness increased to unbearable levels, I didn't know how long it took, but eventually… finally, the itch stopped and my vison returned with my ability to move.



That was way worse than I thought it was gonna be, a goddamn warning would have been nice.

Looking at my arms, I immediately noticed the seams going thought them, and with a mental flex they opened and a fucking missile launcher came out of it, looking at my other arm and with another flex the same thing happened. Instead of horror that my arms were replaced, they felt natural like this was what my arms were supposed to be like. Another flex and they both closed.

Now that I'm really looking, my eyes are also much better, with a bit of focus I could even see the pores on my body, and they even had a zoom function.

But my reverie was short lived, because apparently my changes weren't done yet. No, now the mental changes started to happen.

Most of it was just knowledge and some new senses that I knew were added, but were more in a dormant state, like they would only activate when the situation called for it.

But I wasn't focused on those… no, that was for the sheer madness that encroached my mind.

Ideas entered and left my mind, the urge to build things, to mess with the hypnosis app I got as a binding, to go raid the first ripperdoc I find and mess with cyberware to see what I could create.

This drive to create, damning the consequences almost takes me over, but then my Mind Defense clamps down, preventing me from going murder hobo the moment I step out of this space.

The urge is still there, but contained, my worst urges shackled. But I feel it, the almost manic drive to do things. And it hit me.

I think I just changed my personality…

Not even getting the time let that revelation sink in, I get spit out of the void I was in onto the dirty ground.

X

A quick search on the local net informed me I was sub-district Arroyo of Santo Domingo, the industrial district of Night City.

I've never been in a place that I would call a hellhole, but I think Night City counts. It's not even been a day and I've already seen 6 bodies lying on the ground, half of them I'm pretty sure OD on drugs, 2 car chases, and don't even start how many people use a fleshlight or dildo in public.

Normally I would have been disgusted, but I have other things on my mind. When I was told my first world would be Cyberpunk, I had to think about what I needed to survive.

The first thing were weapons, but luckily my Transhuman Heritage already solved that for me, I don't think anything will be quite as effective as a deterrent than a missile launcher in my arm. I still needed a normal gun, but it wasn't quite as important as it was before.

Next on the list was a place to stay, with the Scavs and megacorp kidnappings I knew happened, I wasn't going to sleep in an abandoned building or god forbid the streets. So following the map I got of the net, I made my way towards the nearest megabuilding, megabuilding H4.

I don't know if it was the way I walked, or maybe the atmosphere around me, but most people gave me a wide berth. Which was a new sensation I could get used to, I don't know why, but in my previous world I had the habit of attracting the weirdest people when I was just walking around.

It was nice, not being stopped while going to my destination.

"Well well, lookie here chooms, isn't this a handsome fellow." A voice says from behind me.

Me and my goddamn mouth.

Turning around, I see a woman and 2 men in Scav outfits slowly walking towards me. Taking a quick look around, I realize I'm in a part of the district that has basically no people in the area except us.

Looking back towards the woman who I guessed was the leader of the group and called me out, I immediately start planning.

She was confident, but her 2 lackeys weren't so sure, whatever made other people move away from me also effected them, but she doesn't notice, she just walks towards me. Maybe thinking I'm easy prey or that numbers will help her.

Trying to buy myself some time, I start talking, "Hi there, anything I can do for you lovely people?" This takes them by surprise, even the woman has a halt in her step, looking at me if I seriously don't know what's happening. Seeing their confusion, I try to capitalize on it and act as oblivious as possible.

While I didn't have Performance Talent, my Communication Talent does give me some skill in being a manipulative bastard.

The woman, looking at me if I'm an idiot, just laughs, "Oh you certainly can choom, why don't you come with us, I'll make it worth your while." She says, her smile taking a predatory edge.

Still acting oblivious, and adding some nervousness I don't fully fake, I reply.

"I don't know, I really need to go somewhere."

By now she isn't even a few feet from me, her 2 lackeys not that far behind. She takes that one last step and moves her arms around my shoulder and whispers into my ear.

"You don't need to worry about that anymore, meat." Before laughing into my ear that annoys me more that the implied meaning.

Originally I was going to wait a bit more, but they are all close enough anyway.

So almost casually, I move my arm so that my fist is under her head, and activate my missile launcher.

Her head goes POP.

Immediately after, I aim my other arm and use the launcher to blow up the left lackey's torso, making a gory mess before the body falls.

The last Scav doesn't really understand what happened yet, but his instinct makes him grab for his gun behind his back. I could take cover to wait for my launchers to reload, but at this distance it's much faster to just tackle him.

"GAH" is the only thing that comes out of his mouth. And as I straddle him I'm raining down punch after punch on his face.

We scuffle a bit, he tries to block, but it's clear he has never really fought before. It doesn't really matter anyway, because his luck ran out.

And my missile launcher reloaded, and my fist was right in front of his face.

*BAM*



Pushing myself of him, I looked around at the bodies, the people I just killed.

And felt nothing.

That was what disturbed me more than the feeling itself. I knew that before I would at least be disgusted or have thrown up if I looked at a dead body, but now I was more annoyed that my clothes had blood on them than the attempt to steal my organs.

No that wasn't true, I was also furious that they dared trying to keep me away from my goal.

When I had time, I really should sit down and see what has changed in me.

Almost absentmindedly, I touched the corpses, putting them in my pocket space. Maybe I could learn something from them later.

And went back on my way towards my hopefully new home.

X

When I finally arrived at megabuilding H4, it was a simple affair to get an apartment. Contrary to what you would think, there were always empty units in the tall monstrosities. Because someone didn't pay, or just straight up died, Night City had always room for more people.

Or maybe, it's just because they're apparently so goddamn expensive.

3000 Eurodollars for a month, a third of my monthly salary the Company gives me, to live in a 160 floor building were the elevator doesn't work.

Imagine my surprise, when a quick search on the net told me it was a 'reasonable' price and was enforced by the city itself to stay around that price point.

Someone won an election because of that promise.

Putting my thoughts of being ripped of aside, now that I'm in a 'safe' space I could finally start what my inner goblin wanted to do when I killed those Scavs.

Looting.

Going to my shower so I don't bloody my living room, I dump the bodies out of my inventory.

2 headless corpses and one barely hanging together plop on the ground, the bodies still warm because of the stasis effect of the pocket space.

Going over them I am now the proud owner 2 unities, a Lexington, a worn copperhead and a combat knife. I was hoping for something more, but you don't look a gift horse in the mouth. At least I got e few extra eddies for my troubles.

Also, why the fuck is cash even still a thing? Even in my world it was steadily dying out because of the banks.

Looking at the bodies while playing with the knife, I can't help but wonder if there is something else they could be used for.

Biomaterial? Don't have the right Transhuman type for it to be useful and don't know who would buy human meat, not even sure I would like to be connected to those kind of people.

Their cyberware? That's an option, currently lacking the right equipment to extract it, but if I find a Scav den that could easily be fixed. Finding one is the problem.

*Sigh*

Putting the corpses back in my inventory, I'll worry about it later, right now I finally have the time to try something I thought about the minute I knew I was coming to Cyberpunk.

Let's see if I could recreate my Hypnosis App into a quickhack.

X

The only reason I would even think about trying something like this is because of a few advantages.

The first one, Shareware. A perk from my Binding Perk-tree.

Shareware allowed me to send the App to similar devices as different mediums, like a program, spell, basically anything that would have the App still function as intended but in a different platform.

The second one would be my heritage.

As a Cybermorph, I could instinctively connect to the surrounding technology. I don't know how different my method would be from a regular netrunner, but I refused to believe my method would be inferior to them.

My final advantage, was my template.

I will admit I probably should have chosen one I was more familiar with like Tony Stark or overpowered like DOOM, but instead I chose something that I thought would give me the edge needed to survive in this mad hole.

So I chose to become a Spark from Girl Genius.

The inherent drive and madness needed to not only survive Night City, but thrive. I underestimated the madness I would feel when it assimilated into me. But I don't think I would have been able to kill those Scavs if I was the same person that before I was picked by the Company if I didn't have that edge.

And now, I was going to lower the barely holding wall my Mind Defense put up to keep all that in check.

Taking a deep breath, I lower the wall, letting the madness in. Ideas flowed through my head, what I could do with speedware if it was like the games, vague plans I had spiraled with possibilities and started to look possible.

It took more effort than I would've expected to guide my brain towards my quickhack idea, but when it did it felt like all my random thoughts suddenly stopped and focused on it.

Slowly, a grin started to form on my face without my input, growing and growing until I was certain if it got any bigger my face would split open.

And then, I blacked out.

X

When I came too, I was lying in the middle of my apartment, sweating. Looking at the ceiling, I looked inwards to see if I succeeded.

When I found the app I did a double take.

The Hypnosis App had changed. Before, it felt like I had to manually open a folder with the program inside and activate it so I could show it through my eyes, same with the audio version I get through the Subliminal Audio Perk I had. Now, it felt like I could activate it the same as blinking or changing the pitch of my voice.

It also worked more cohesively with my lure Alluring Wisper, instead of the binding and lure being additive to another, I now felt like their effects multiplied. This made my hypnosis a lot more useful in my day to day life instead of the slow build-up it was supposed to be.

But this wasn't what I was looking for.

It was harder to find than I thought, but eventually I found it in what I could only describe the back of my mind.

It was as beautiful as it was terrifying.

And it was VERY terrifying.

The quickhack almost felt alive.

It used my perk 'Someone Else's Fetish' to alter the perception of the victim to find it normal that part of it's vision was covered by the app and hypnotizing them. It also used my Audio perk to create a subsonic frequency that kept playing in their ear and speed up the hypnosis.

Shovelware, the upgrade of Shareware made it so I knew were every device that had the Hypnosis App, and allowed me access and remote control, was integrated into the hack. This made it so I basically knew wherever a victim is and give them commands whenever I wanted.

I basically created the ultimate spyware, I could create thousands of sleeper agents, and they themselves wouldn't even know it.

Granted, I don't know how it will affect netrunners, but against anyone without decent ICE, I was basically the boogeyman.

I could effect an entire base and just wait until everybody is my puppet before going in, so long as I had access to its subnet.

The only downside is that complete hypnosis still took time and some effort to go through the Breakpoints.

That was also a whole mechanic that needed to wrap my head around.

The Hypnosis App worked by inducing Hypnotic Depth, from 1 to 50+, and every 10 points there is a wall called a Breakpoint. To go through the Breakpoint, the target needs to do something out of trance that they normally wouldn't do.

Obviously, I can't do anything about it yet, but that still means I can get 10 points of Hypnotic Depth. With that I could still nudge them to do things, like take a bathroom break, go check out a room, things they would in some circumstances do. And if they are in a trance? They would answer my questions like I am they're trusted confidant.

Getting giddy at trying out the quickhack, I look at the time.

5.30pm, still a few hours before it gets to dangerous to go out, well… less dangerous.

But before I went on a late night stroll, I needed to get some practice in using the loot I just got

X

Going down the stairs I went to a gun range that was in my megabuilding, called simple 'The Gun's Lounge'. Going in, I looked around, the first thing I noticed was the woman standing behind the counter, black hair, red eyes with a look in them that said 'I will shoot your balls off if you do something that annoys me', so of course I greeted her with a big smile on my face.

"Hello! I was wondering how much the shooting range was? And if you give lessons?" I ask cheerily. I feel like before I came to Cyberpunk I wouldn't act like this, but I was going for a particular reaction from the people that were around us.

A few people turned towards us when I asked about the lessons, 1 or 2 people even looked at me with something akin to hunger in their eyes, thinking I was easy picking or really this gullible.

I tagged those with my new Hypnosis hack.

The owner having seen those reactions glares at them before turning back towards me. "Shooting range is 50 an hour, lesson is a hundred on top." She says, crossing her arms.

"Fantastic!" I reply "Then I would like 2 hours and a lesson for 1 hour please." Smiling widely at her. "Oh forgot to introduce myself, the name is Nathaniel Grave, but you can call me Nathan or Nate."

She looks at me as if I'm stupid and says "Katerina." in a deadpan voice. Before walking out of the counter, when she reaches me she orders "Follow me." And I do so.

We reach a gun rack were she turns and looks me in the eyes before asking, "What gun you want to learn?"

I take out the Unity pistol, showing it to her "I also have a copperhead at home, if you could teach me the basics of assault rifles?" she just nods while taking the unity, inspecting it before looking at me with disgust.

"You're not shooting this thing in my range. Did you take this thing from a Scav or something."

"Yes actually." I answer happily.

Doing a double take at that, it seems she didn't expect the blunt reply. But Katerina recovers quickly "Well, it shows, unless you want to clean it completely, it's better to buy a new one." She concludes.

Well I needed tools anyway, "I'd rather buy a toolkit if that's okay with you." I reply.

She just shrugs, "It's your money." She answers back. Giving back my gun, she signs for me to wait here as she leaves only to come back with a unity and a copperhead that look much better than the ones I have.

What follows is a lesson in basic weapon safety and proper posture while shooting, most of it isn't really important in a world of cybernetics, but Katerina is adamant on it.

In that lesson my Martial Talent shines through, only having to be told or shown something once to absorb what she's teaching me. At the end I know everything to be at least decent with a gun in a controlled environment, something Katerina notices.

"You're a fast learner, Nathan." She says, looking at me with some suspicion.

What? I only have supernatural talent in anything combat related, that's all.

"Why thank you!" I reply with a big smile. She just shakes her head, rude.

"Well, your lesson is done" I didn't even realize the time was up. "You still have an hour of the range, but if you want to use those gun's you'll need to pay an extra 50." She says with a smirk.

Being a little suspicious because of the look on her face, I still send her the money. And shoot until I need to buy new bullets, only the buy extra.

And while shooting is surprisingly fun, my focus wasn't fully on it. Looking back at the 2 people I tagged, one already left the megabuilding, but the other was still in the shop. I activated my Hypnosis hack on the one already away, putting him in a trance. To most it would just look like he was on some drugs. The latter one I didn't put in a trance, but I still fully activated everything, I wanted to see if there was a difference in Hypnotic Depth.

After my hour was up, I looked checked back to see what progress I made, and I can't say I was unhappy with the results. They were both at Depth 4, so that means being in a trance only changes if I could give commands or not.

That meant I improved the App effectiveness by 4 times, and while that is nothing to scoff at, it wasn't the most impressive part. No, that was for my ability to still hypnotize people while not in an entranced state. After all, that was to 2 glaring weaknesses of the binding I chose, its speed and how obvious it was someone was hypnotized.

And in one mad tinker session, I improved on both of them. If that doesn't tell me I made the right decision, then nothing will.

Having checked up on my 2 test subjects, I walk back to the counter where Katerina is and give her back the guns I rented. As I do so, she takes out a box.

"The gun kit, you wanted." She says as an invoice for 250 eddies comes in, after I pay it a question pops in my head.

"Say, how much would a new Unity have costed me?" I ask.

Without missing a beat, she replies. "150." And smiles at me.

Ah.

That's why she smirked at me earlier, it would have cost me less if I just bought a new Unity and less work. Of course, what she didn't know was that I needed the tools anyway, and my template would have made sure my guns would be in their best condition at the very least, but to her I'm a noobie gun user.

But I play along, sag my shoulders a little and say "So that's what you meant with 'It's my money'".

She shrugs "Nothing is free in Night City, call it another lesson."

I couldn't help but laugh at it, "Sure, I will. See you later Katerina." She gives me a wave and leaves to put the guns away.

X

After a successful shooting lesson and experiment, I went out and explored the city for a bit. But after half an hour of walking, I decided to finally deal with my strangler.

Going into an alley, I hid behind a trashcan. The ping that was following me from a distance, also goes in the alley and stops for a second when he can't see me, before running towards the other end of the alley.

When he passes the trashcan I'm hiding behind, I stand up, take out my Unity and aim for his knees.

*BANG*

*AAAGH*

As the man falls down, he turns to look back at me. The face is weathered and skinny, but also familiar.

He is of course, the man I tagged and stayed behind in the gun shop. He has been tailing me for a while now, obviously desperate for something if he put that much effort in tailing me. Not that hiding from me would have ever worked for him, my tags are permanent, I know where every Hypnosis hack I placed is. There being just 2 right now just makes the tracking easier.

Walking towards my downed stalker, I start talking.

"Well well well, and why have you been following me, good sir?"

He doesn't answer, clutching his leg and screaming in pain. So when I reach him, I kick him in the side to get his attention. He turns towards me, to yell something, but sees the gun pointed at his face and quiets.

"So, as I was saying. Why'd you follow me?"

"I wasn't following you, you bastard!" he yells at me. And even if I didn't have my hack to know he was, my Communication Talent would have smelled that lie from a mile away.

Sighing, I aim my gun at his other leg and shoot.

*BANG*

*AAAAAARGH*

"No lies this time. Why were you following me?" I ask again.

"Aagh hah hah, I just wanted to rob you!" truth, but not completely. Something was bothering me, he probably would've also killed me, but that is standard in this city.

'I just wanted to rob you.' What could have made my Communication Talent ring an alarm bell, when it clicked.

'Just'

Meaning he had other plans too.

Aiming slowly towards his arm, I spoke slowly, "I will give you one last chance to say the full truth, or I will make you do the best imitation of a caterpillar for the rest of your life." I looked him dead in the eye, "What were you planning after you robbed me?"

Finally, his fury and being shot started to change to a look of terror, seeing he has no option to speak of what he planned.

"I- I-" he stammered, maybe realizing he was fucked either way.

Seeing this not going anywhere, I decided on postponing this conversation for later.

"Come on my dude, or what was the word again? Choom? Yeah it was choom. It seems as you are right now, you're useless to me. So we'll have this chat when you're more eager to talk."

Fearing the worst, the man starts dragging himself away from me while muttering "No, no, please no, no!"

Taking 2 big steps, I give his head a hard kick, knocking him out, then I put my hand on him and transfer him to my pocket space.

I'll get my answers no matter what.

AN:

The Waifu Catalogue build:
Starting World: Cyberpunk 2077

Starting budget 590



Patron

Death free [590]



Intensity [6.25]

Legacy Difficulty 0

Mode

Me and My Girlfriend(s)(PvE) +0 [590]



Dropped-In -0 [590]



Heritage

First Augmentation[Cybermorph] -80 [510]

Corporeal Transcendence Engineering -100 [410]

Networked Glamour Manipulation -30 [380]



Bindings

Hypnosis App free [380]

Shareware -50 [330]

Shovelware -100 [230]

Subliminal Audio -15 [215]

Someone Else's Fetish -25 [190]



Lures

Sticky Fingers -5 [185]

Faerie Feast -10 [175]

Alluring Whisper -20 [155]

Potpourri -20 [135]

Sticky Fingers: Brown Sugar -15 [120]



Home Perks

Pocket Space -5 [115]



Talents

Science free [115]

Martial free [115]

Body Tune-Up free [115]

Athletic free [115]

Everlasting free [115]

Engineering -30 [85]

Template Stacking I[You have Agatha Heterodyne (Girl Genius)] -20 [65] (Or just a strong Spark)

Template Stacking II[You [Agatha Heterodyne (Girl Genius)]] -20 [45]

Communication free [45]



Defenses

Stress free [45]

Wild x2 free [45]

Environmental x2 free [45]

Body free [45]

Possession -10 [35]

Mind -25 [10]



Misc Perks

Green Eye Orb -10 [0]





Mission Rewards 0 [0]:

Welcome to Night City – Edgerunner Edition in Cyberpunk 2077

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