Escher Intuition. The power to become perfectly attuned to your environment by intuiting it's dimensions to a granular level. You manifested this gift at an unusually young age, and it has shaped every part of your life. It helped you amass a fortune, enough to purchase a hotel in the heart of Tokyo. A narrow twelve-story building squeezed between newer towers; its polished lobby still clings to the elegance of another era. The rooms are impeccably maintained despite the building's age, but beneath them the basement has long since been overrun by angry yokai. Imperfect or not, it is yours.You are Takeuchi Kotaro (竹内虎太郎), a tiger-spliced moreau. A hybrid of human and animal, engineered from the best genes of both. At least, that's what you've been told. For years, you have secretly investigated the conspiracy that claimed your parents' lives. They were scientists working for Astellas Pharma, a powerful multinational corporation specializing in antifungal medicine, organ transplantation, and moreau research. Internationally renowned, they stood at the forefront of their field. Their greatest creation was... you.You were born in a sterile research chamber rather than a hospital. After years of observation and testing, researchers concluded that you lacked the life-shortening defects that plague other moreaux. Soon afterward, your parents formally adopted you and brought you out of the facility. Not long after, they were murdered. The case went cold years ago, but now you have the resources to reopen it. The trail winds through multinational finance, private laboratories, and local criminal syndicates. You intend to uncover what truly happened to your family. And when you do, you'll make those responsible pay.In this era, the wealthy can purchase cybernetic implants that, combined with robotics, gene therapy, and biochemical serums, push human capability beyond its natural limits. The price is often one's humanity, health, or sanity.At present, you possess a single implant. Choose one:>Combat Implant: An automated adrenaline delivery system that triggers during life-threatening situations, granting a great boost in physical performance, followed by a period of great exhaustion.>Reflex Implant: A neural overclocker that grants superhuman reflexes at the cost of temporary cognitive burnout.>Datajack: A neural port implanted in the neck for direct network access. It can interface with drones, autonomous vehicles, and Matrix entry points, though each use carries a risk of dangerous electrical feedback.>Memory Crystal: A storage implant embedded in the brain's left hemisphere, providing perfect recall and downloadable skills at the cost of diminished social and verbal ability.
Quest Mechanics>Angel and Devil PointsThroughout the quest, your choices may earn Angel or Devil Points, filling the corresponding pool based on your actions. When you choose to use them, you decide how many points to spend for a bonus. The result is determined by rolling on a random table.>DiCaprio PointsWhen voting, you may list any pop culture or media references you recognize. Correctly identifying a or direct allusion to a film, comic, game, etc. grants +1 DiCaprio Point. DiCaprio Points may be spent as bonus points on any roll.
>>6448299>Combat Implant: An automated adrenaline delivery system that triggers during life-threatening situations, granting a great boost in physical performance, followed by a period of great exhaustion.
>>6448299>Datajack: A neural port implanted in the neck for direct network access. It can interface with drones, autonomous vehicles, and Matrix entry points, though each use carries a risk of dangerous electrical feedback.
>>6448299>Reflex Implant: A neural overclocker that grants superhuman reflexes at the cost of temporary cognitive burnout.
>>6448299>Datajack: A neural port implanted in the neck for direct network access. It can interface with drones, autonomous vehicles, and Matrix entry points, though each use carries a risk of dangerous electrical feedback.Give your enemies brain damage and fuck with all their appliances. Set all their digital clocks ONE minute behind.>>6448300>When voting, you may list any pop culture or media references you recognize."Escher Intuition" I'm guessing is a reference to the artist.The moreau splicing thing is a reference to the Island of Doctor Moreau.
>>6448299>Memory Crystal: A storage implant embedded in the brain's left hemisphere, providing perfect recall and downloadable skills at the cost of diminished social and verbal ability.
>>6448299>Reflex Implant: A neural overclocker that grants superhuman reflexes at the cost of temporary cognitive burnout.Based>>6448352Escher Intuition is something he talked about in the /qtg/, and Moreau is a reference to Forest of The Night. Seems he is launching his new quest early with a different handles so his players don't feel cheated on. >>6434366>>6433947>>6436061>>6439544>>6436551>>6440998
>>6448404Not me! I will Trip to prove that. But this will playtest some of the weirdo mechanics I was thinking about and it's full of stuff that I think is cool KEK so I hope it goes for a while - the board severely lacks GOOD Cyberpunk content. Plus if I get to see how these bonus systems feel as a player it'll make it easier to run my own quest when the time comes. Probably three-ish, maybe four more updates in AB before I close that thread. I was gonna run something like this next, but getting to play it may (hopefully) scratch the itch enough that I'll just go into AB#3. >>6448299>Combat Implant: An automated adrenaline delivery system that triggers during life-threatening situations, granting a great boost in physical performance, followed by a period of great exhaustion.This is most like the protag in the book. The action sequences are some of the very best parts because he roids out with tiger fury, but it takes a toll on his body (thankfully, his best friend is a mongoose Moreau and doctor, and patches him up after bad encounters).
>>6448299>Reflex ImplantYou could say these reflexes are... cat-like.
