Cyberpunk 2026: A Trip Around The Bay pt 2

Continuing Adventures of the Gang in San Francisco, 2145!

Cyberpunk 2026: Standies

PC Standies for the 2026 Southowilson campaign.

 

Absent Player Character Protection Clause

In consideration of the Player's regrettable but occasionally unavoidable absence, the Game Master hereby extends Limited Narrative Indemnification Coverage (LNIC) to the absent Player Character ("the Covered Character") for the duration of the session.

While this policy remains in force, the Covered Character shall not be killed, permanently maimed, dismembered, enslaved, imprisoned, infected with irreversible plot diseases, transformed into a cyborg, uploaded into hostile software, possessed by extradimensional entities, married without informed consent, promoted to management, or otherwise subjected to any lasting alteration requiring paperwork upon the Player's return.

The Covered Character may, however, sustain reasonable and customary temporary injuries consistent with maintaining narrative credibility. Such injuries may include, but are not limited to: bruises, cuts, burns, mild radiation exposure, temporary unconsciousness, sprains, embarrassment, singed eyebrows, lost dignity, and other non-permanent inconveniences deemed necessary to preserve the illusion that they participated in dangerous events alongside the rest of the party. Recovery is assumed to occur by the beginning of the next session unless otherwise agreed by the Player.

This policy does not guarantee the safety of the Covered Character's equipment, vehicle, hat, reputation, ammunition supply, favorite snack, or any NPCs emotionally attached to them. Acts of dice and acts of Game Master are specifically excluded from property coverage.

Acceptance of this policy constitutes acknowledgement that the Covered Character was present, contributed heroically, and undoubtedly did something extremely impressive just off camera.

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See also: Petersen v. The Dungeon Master, 14 RPG 237 (1989), holding that "the involuntary death of a player character during the player's documented absence constitutes a narrative taking without due process, and is therefore arbitrary, capricious, and kind of a dick move." Subsequent decisions, including Miller v. Thursday Night Group, 3 SWADE App. 12 (2021) and In re Steve's Paladin, 88 F. Supp. (Tabletop) 404 (1997), have consistently upheld the doctrine of Off-Screen Narrative Immunity, while recognizing the Game Master's continuing authority to inflict cosmetic injuries, comedic indignities, and paperwork.

Cyberpunk 2026: A Trip Around The Bay (Updated with SF Bay Info and Map)

The job begins with a very puzzling message. Azrael receives a direct inquiry from a woman she does not know: 

Dr. Simone Yao, a young physics professor with Eddings University. 

Ashen Reach: Wayfarer Class Freighter

WAYFARER-CLASS UTILITY TRADER
Armed Frontier Transport — SWADE / Expanse-Style Traveller Hybrid

The Wayfarer-class Utility Trader is a rugged long-range civilian transport built for the harsh realities of frontier space. Though originally designed as a modular cargo hauler, most ships of the class have been heavily modified over decades of hard service into hybrid freighters, salvage platforms, escort ships, and semi-legal frontier traders. Wayfarers are common along unstable trade routes where reliability matters more than elegance, and crews expect to spend months operating far from major ports or naval protection. Among Belters and frontier spacers, the class has earned a reputation as a stubborn survivor: a ship that can absorb punishment, limp home on improvised repairs, and continue flying long after more sophisticated vessels would be dead in space. Many carry upgraded weapons, reinforced hull plating, expanded workshops, and patched-together systems accumulated across generations of ownership. No two Wayfarers are exactly alike for long.

Ashen Reach: Religions

 Religions. 

Ashen Reach: The Gravesend System (by C. Hill)

Common Spacer Saying

“Aster Vale owns the system.
Gravesend builds it.
Caliban fuels it.
Eirene feeds the Belt.
And the Belt steals whatever’s left.”

Ashen Reach: Setting Rules Dump

 This is a repository of information posted in the chat, for your reference. 

Ashen Reach: Languages of the Gravesend System

Humanity spread across the Gravesend System centuries ago, and distance, isolation, class division, and planetary culture gradually transformed a single ancestral language into dozens of regional dialects and specialized tongues. Some evolved in corporate arcologies and universities, others in prison mines, salvage docks, drifting pilgrim fleets, or the vacuum-worn stations of the Belt. While GalTrade remains the common language of commerce and travel, the system’s many local languages reflect the environments and societies that shaped them, carrying with them distinct identities, histories, and ways of viewing the stars.

Ashen Reach: Dramatis Personae

Player characters for the Ashen Reach campaign, updated as needed. 

Cyberpunk 2026: Klamath Conclusion

Helios 24 – NorCal’s Finest News

ZONE KLAMATH — Authorities are investigating a violent incident late last night after an explosion and sustained gunfire were reported at an illegal clinic in Zone Klamath. Metro SIOD units responded after evidence at the scene suggested links to Delta Inevitable, a transnational extremist group associated with illegal human augmentation. Several individuals believed to be affiliated with the Erebos Pulse gang were found dead or critically injured outside the facility, suffering gunshot wounds, stab injuries, and what investigators described as possible “animal-type trauma.”

Inside the clinic, additional bodies were recovered, many showing signs of advanced cybernetic modification and prior criminal histories. However, public attention has centered on the death of Malik Rourke, an Eddings University graduate student, who was found executed by what investigators believe to be a directed-energy weapon. His status as a university researcher has sparked public outcry and renewed scrutiny over activity in Zone Klamath, an area long associated with unregulated clinics and illicit biotech work. Officials believe the attack was targeted, possibly aimed at seizing high-value assets or data. No suspects have been identified, and the investigation remains ongoing.

Cyberpunk 2026: The Klamath Job

“Got a Glory Lane job, small clinic in Zone Klamath, off-books, the kind that stays invisible by design. It looks like it caters mainly to vampires. They’re running something a little ahead of the curve, and we want a piece of it: live subject with a strain-management implant, plus whatever data made it work. Layout’s standard on the surface, but our source says there’s more tucked behind cold storage, some kind of back section they don’t advertise. Security should be light, a couple of in-house types, nothing you haven’t handled. I don’t care about noise or bodies, but you’ve got a reputation for keeping things contained, so I’m assuming this doesn’t turn into a spectacle. Get in, secure the asset and the data, and get out. Good money for a clean pull.”

Cyberpunk 2026: The Hatch Bounty

A new contract hits the board: a corporate finance executive embezzled from the wrong accounts, got flagged, and ran. The issuing firm lacks the reach for a covert recovery, so they’ve posted a straight bounty: locate, apprehend, and return the target alive. A job like this, crossing into the Nevada Free Zone to recover a fugitive under armed protection, pays in the $18,000–$30,000 range, contingent on delivering the target alive and intact, consistent with upper-mid-tier bounty contracts. Clean execution with minimal collateral may earn a modest bonus. Split across a four-person crew and factoring expenses, it’s solid but not transformative money; enough to justify the risk, with the real value coming from reputation and future access to higher-tier work.

Cyberpunk 2026: Recap of the New Benicia Machine Shop War

Decapitation hit with unfinished business

Southowilson 2026: What Is A "Yo-Sha"?

Yo-sha are independent operators who take risks the average citizen won’t, and that makes them dangerous, useful, and very often short-lived. 

Cyberpunk 2026 Campaign: Dramatis Personae

The PC's are a gang of Fringers loosely affiliated with one another, connected through Azrael, a local information broker who also puts together teams for heists and gray operations in and around Southowilson. 

Cyberpunk 2026: Heist #1 - Kestrel Rio Vista Campus General Information

The PC’s are hired by unknown parties (probably a Devaraja operative) to steal a set of seeds from Kestrel Agsys for some new food crop, some high-yield, disease-resistant grain strain. They are stored in a guarded facility in the Rio Vista Corridor 5D(a). The job pays $5,000 up front and $5000 on delivery for one night’s work and requires the goods to be dropped off at an arranged location. The patron offers little assistance besides “the lab is on the 5th floor of Building 8", remains anonymous, and provides a burner number to call when the job is done. That, and a chiller backpack (with a 6-hour duration), a 4kg demolition charge, and a timer/remote. 

Second SIOD Case: Nano

Synopsis: Dr. Elias Gray, a rogue American researcher, was attacked by a three-man hit team from the AFR somewhere along the Ikebara Megaroad. In the exchange of fire, the researcher was wounded, and a large amount of an unknown nanotoxin was released, killing the hit team, the researcher's own bodyguards, and several uninvolved civilians. This incident occurred at 16:30 on the first day of the investigation. Forensics and traffic analysis led the detectives to the Baltimora Bar and Grill. They were able to establish that Dr. Gray was in Southowilson looking for Nick Ransom, a local fixer affiliated with SDI and possibly Tex the Tech, a semi-legendary figure. It was also determined that the nanotoxin was a combination of a nonlethal paralytic agent and a "nerveburn"-type nano agent. 

Cyberpunk SIOD: The Aftermath of the Case

Results of the Glory Lane Corporate Murder Case

Cybercops SIOD: Oct 10 2025 Miscellany

The following are the new and interesting NPC's and features that the PC's encountered while investigating the Altima Heavy cargo shipment aboard the MV Cargomax Darwin.