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Convention: There is an illegal street drug for every occasion' date=' every one of which is terrifyingly addictive.[/quote']

 

Comedic extreme: Is it John Lennon's birthday? LSD* time! Is it christmas? There's a drug just for celebrating the late JC! Be sure to put some hallucinogens into those trick-or-treat bags!

 

* I know that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds had absolutely nothing to do with LSD, but most folks still think it is.

 

Convention: Cyberware is imperfect.

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Convention: Cyberware is imperfect.

Comedic Extreme: The reliability and side effects of cyberware are utterly unpredictable, largely due to the cheapness with which it is manufactured. And the less you pay for a piece of cyberware, the more bizarre its failures. You might well percieve everything in your field of vision as being a unform shade of purple, have a built-in hard-mired micro-iPod playing your own personal soundtrack for life that always chooses the wrong song for the occasion, and can have hypertasters put into your tounge and nose that alter the flavor of food in random ways. Cybernatically enhanced musculature and weaponry has a habit of failing at the worst possible time. Everything is under warranty, but the agreements are so arcane and incomprehensible that the RMA on your Wolverine-brand claws (which won't even cut bread) takes five years and the services of an entire team of lawyers.

 

Convention: Virtual pop idols, actresses, porn stars, etc. who are indistinguishable from the real thing.

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Convention: Virtual pop idols' date=' actresses, porn stars, etc. who are indistinguishable from the real thing.[/quote']Comedic Extreme: In fact, there are no longer any real pop idols. The software companies have already modeled every possible appearance, and when a rising talent emerges, the software companies sue them for patent infringement.

 

Convention: Mercenaries strategize important raids, with backup plans.

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Convention: Mercenaries strategize important raids' date=' with backup plans.[/quote']

Comedic Extreme: Mercenaries strategize everything, with backup plans. Domino's clerks hate them because it takes them three and a half hours to decide what they want on their pizza, taking every concievable contengency into account, incluidng the quality of this year's winter wheat crop and the availability or non-availaibility of Pan Crust.

 

Convention: Anyone would sell their family to the slaughterhouse if they could get a good price.

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Convention: Anyone would sell their family to the slaughterhouse if they could get a good price.

 

Comedic Extreme: ... And in fact they do! Tastee Ghoul is coming to a neighborhood near you! Now with convenient pick-up and drop-off service. Try the Long Island Long Pork Special! Now with Improved Seasoning!

 

Convention: It's always night, and raining, and no one really remembers what the sky looks like.

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Convention: It's always night' date=' and raining, and no one really remembers what the sky looks like.[/quote']

 

Comedic Extreme: The only folks who don't get flood insurance are the corporates in their massive skyscrapers who are in no danger of drowning in the floods caused by constant rain. Anyone who finally gets a good look at the asky will most likely react as though they have encountered Cthulhu himself (go crazy.)

 

Convention: Netrunning is like astral projection

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Comedic Extreme: So much so that hackers often have other New Age experiences on the Net as well. When they come back to their meat body they have realigned their Chakras, obtained a new Spirit Guide, have computed the personal Horoscope of everyone in the group and know what their lucky numbers are.

 

Convention: Everyone is armed. Usually with guns.

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Convention: Everyone is armed. Usually with guns.

 

Comedic Extreme: ... Occasionally with fruit.... (Cue Monty Python sketch....) Everyone including the nosey little old lady who you did chores for way back in 202X has so many guns, knives, katanas, kitchen appliances, etc hanging off of them they look like a walking weapons catalog. Most places don't even bother with a check your weapon policy as it takes far too long to disarm anybody. I mean, you have to close sometime right? Weapon checks by the police can take as long as time served.

 

Convention: Ecological collapse....

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Comedic Extreme: There is a well known fact that there is a inverse ratio of weight to effectiveness. Some of the most effective ninjas are actually 10 year old girls. Never underestimate the Girl Scouts.

I like this idea, The Girl Scouts are actual scouts, a mercenary band that doesviolence for hire. They are trained with a variety of weapons and hand-to-hand styles. They don't have merit badges, their badges represent what campaigns they have served in.

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Convention: Ecological collapse....

 

Comedic Extreme: resulting in almost constant rain, and a sky so dark and overcast, it's effectively always night time.

 

Convention

It's always night, and usually raining.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

Convention

Lucius Alexander is always accompanied by a palindromedary.

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Convention

It's always night, and usually raining.

Comedic Extreme

The entire planet is perpetually overcast. The greenhouse effect raises temperatures and melts Antarctica. The new steppeland is populated by megacorporation headquarters. At Christmastime, the entire giftgiving world's finances flow toward Antarctica. This sets up a planetwide harmonic of resources with Xmas gifts flowing from the North Pole and money flowing to the South Pole - a sort of capitalistic gulfstream (which is plane to see).

 

Since the common man loses money in this exchange, historians refer to it as the "polar fleecing." Consumer confidence wanes, resulting in a stock market crash known as the "polar bear." To placate the populace, corporations issue a new credit card. People quickly dig themselves deep into debt. This credit card is named the Polar Express (don't heave loam without it).

 

 

Convention

Everyone wears leather or latex.

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Everyone wears leather or latex.

 

Comedic Extreme: Cloth? What's that? Everything worn is made from leather, latex, rubber, or some similar substance -- even underwear. And for those who are really tough, the leather is made of human flesh.

 

Convention: Traditional names are passe; funky-sounding nicknames are in.

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Convention: Life is hard and often violent.

 

Comedic Extreme: Infant death matches are the latest hit, with training taking place in the womb via subliminal sonics and gene-gineering. Maternal postnatal exsanguination is on the rise.

 

It should be noted to the OP "$10,000 bills (Clintons)" that Samuel P. Chase already graces the $10,000 bill.

 

Convention: Street level ruffians are regularly able to overcome vast spending and years of training in security

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It should be noted to the OP "$10' date='000 bills (Clintons)" that Samuel P. Chase already graces the $10,000 bill. [/quote']

Good point – the only modern US bill to feature a non-President, if I’m not mistaken. Though technically that should be graced. The US stopped printing $10K and other large denomination bills ($500K+) after WWII, and I believe they were all pulled from circulation in the 1960s or therebouts.

 

Convention: Street level ruffians are regularly able to overcome vast spending and years of training in security

Comedic Extreme: Life on the street is so tough that anyone without the equivilant of a 9th-dan black belt won’t make it past puberty. Conversely, corporate life is so soft that security force training has become so far removed from reality as to become a detriment in an actual fight: all punches are delivered at half-speed and half-strength, holds and throws only work against willing targets, etc. (Actually, I’ve been in a couple so-called martial arts classes like that…) In game terms, security training actually gives characters negative CSLs.

 

Convention: All nominal heroes are either villains-in-disguise, or hapless comic relief; only the Anti-Hero can hope to accomplish anything good.

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Good point – the only modern US bill to feature a non-President' date=' if I’m not mistaken. Though technically that should be grace[u']d[/u]. The US stopped printing $10K and other large denomination bills ($500K+) after WWII, and I believe they were all pulled from circulation in the 1960s or therebouts.

 

Sidebar: Correct on 'graced, obligatory wiki source, but let's not forget Al Hamilton, still in circulation and not a president.

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Convention: All nominal heroes are either villains-in-disguise' date=' or hapless comic relief; only the Anti-Hero can hope to accomplish anything good.[/quote']

 

Comedic Extreme: Downtown bars often feature noteable scorecards with Hapless Bystanders Capped/ Kittens Rescued From Trees. Police forces are on the lookout for individuals running soup kitchens etc as well as any altristic streak on the basis of that they must be the individuals responsible for blowing up RivalCorp last week.

 

Convention: Black ICE.

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Comedic Extreme: Cities' date=' counties, states, provinces, countries, and even the United Nations can be bought and sold on the stock exchanges. While corporations own most of the national stocks, even common citizens can own a few shares. Naturally, dividends are paid quarterly; all government income is through tarriffs and user fees, with taxes a thing of the past.[/quote']

 

That is a very cool idea for a cyberpunk stye game! Just imagine the PCs have to stop a corporation from preforming a hostile takeover on their city, or someone is trying to decimate the stock value of their city but inciting the largest riot in the city's history in cyberspace and in real space! That gets you some rep, BobGreenwade!

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Convention: Black ICE.

 

Comedic Extreme: Black is soo last genre. Pink is the new black. Hackers coming up against Pink Intrusion Countermeasures find that if they fail, they get verbal tags for anything beginning with "p" (as apposed to the old "b" for black - hence the game "yes, no, black, white") - from now on, every time they wish to say a word beginning with "p", they say "pink" instead. Used by cybercops to self-indite hackers in interviews (they play the game, looking for the correct keywords/tags)

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Thread Ressurection Chip!

 

Convention: There is only one person in the world who knows what's really going on, and he's a pain in the rear.

 

Comedic Extreme: And he's franchising. For the low, low payment of ¥4999 per month you can own your own dealership for enlightment.

 

 

Convention: Financial dominos can be topple giant megacorporations, create fortunes and waste economies with the tiniest electronic nudge or bad press report.

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Convention: Financial dominos can be topple giant megacorporations, create fortunes and waste economies with the tiniest electronic nudge or bad press report.

Comedic Extreme: As a result, the typical term of office of a megacorp CEO is approximately 38.4 minutes. he will usually recieve one check that includes his salary, his sgning n=bonus, and his severeance pay. And the rumor mill is so extensive that even such blatantly spurious assertions as "Dryer's now uses flesh-eating bacteria in their vanilla ice cream" will be believed by enough people that it poses a serious problem.

 

Convention: Nobody can tell what is real and what is an illusion anymore.

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