Downtime gigs for #CY_borg

I’ve made these instead of prepping the next missions. The gigs are heavily inspired (and sometimes stolen from) Augmented Reality Plus. This free supplement has way more details though. And buy the original Augmented Reality book, it’s an invaluable ressource for any cyberpunk game.

CY_BORG downtime procedure

I use the old timey rule that says that campaign and real world time flow at the same speed. The ref can also roll two or more d6s for the time spent between missions. Your character must pay a survival expenses upkeep of 10¤ per day of downtime - junk food, someone to watch the van they sleep in, drugs to numb the cold and silence the voices. You recover 1 HP a day in these ‘normal’ conditions. To recover the regular d6 per night, you need a safe place to stay, which is 1d4 x 100¤ per night.

• To pay for your daily expenses and negate the upkeep, take a gig from one of the zillion EZ-w¤rk sites and apps. You can either play it safe(ish) and roll 2d10 or be willing to do illegal/harmful/profitable shit by rolling 1d20.
• If you don’t want to do the job, You can get ONE other offer, rolling 1d12. If you don’t like that one either, you’re on your own and your options are:
  • Sell your shit for 25% of its listed or purchase price.
  • Beg for a roof. It is not unconceivable that people you worked for in exchange of little or no pay let you stay with them for a while - if they have the space. Make sure they don’t become friends though. A roof over your head isn’t worth the trouble friends will always drag you into.
  • Go sleepless and hungry. Your HP is halved and your rolls are done at +2 DR for the session. (This also happens if your pay is docked or your gig contract voided.) Note that if a gig results in no pay, you must use one of the options above. Also note that the referee may make your life interesting by having your gig end a day or two into the mission.

Gigs table (2d10 or 1d20)

1. Lab Contractor - roll 1d4
   1. Organ Donation Partner: Lose 1 Strength or Toughness (double the loss for every organ you’re already missing) - compensation 1d6 x 100¤ and some boosting of your socialnets profile.
   2. Organ Rental Associate: They only need it for a few days. As above, but only for this session. Medical fees deducted from pay - you’re left with 2d6 x 10¤.
   3. Organ Surrogate: Get a fresh cloned organ, hooked to a major artery - 3d6 x 10¤ after medical expenses. 10% chance of infection resulting in no pay and blacklisting.
   4. CyberImplant QA Team: Alpha test for some non-combat cyberware. Roll PRE or major psychological event: no pay and lose 1 PRE for the session.
2. Gangwar Muscle: Very legal, and ammo is reimbursed upon presentation of receipts and killcam pics - make 2d6 x 100¤. On a double, lose that amount of HP at beginning of session.
3. Physical Penetration Tester: Break in a small business or housing unit to test security measures - lose 1d6 HP (result x 100 ¤ in insurance shutup money).
4. Riot Rentacop: Stand by to help overworked SecOps. Most of the shift spent in cramped armoured vehicle. Riot gear and zapbaton provided - lose 1d4 HP, make 1d6 x 100¤.
5. Drone Repo: Recover lost delivery drones. Roll Knowledge to recover some payload, resulting in 1d4 x 100 ¤ bonus pay.
6. Gig Groomer: Find a number of rubes to sign up for a gig-app. $ELL-IT Personality Software provided (effect lingers for 1d4 days).
7. Hygiene Dispenser: spray public areas with disinfectant mist in trendy branded paper coverall. Provide handwashing liquid on demand while delivering a catchy slogan. 10% chance of being publicly flagged as contagious.
8. Holo-Ads WalkNode: carry a bulky adplayer backpack around. You have 1d3-1 days left when session starts. Get fined 100 ¤ if you stay in one place more than 7 cumulative hours a day.
9. Ambulatory CCTV: allow a backdoor into your RCD, sign an NDA. 1d20 hours left when session starts.
10. AI Supervision Operator: Boring, underpaid, WFH friendly. Roll d8:
    1. Social Media Scraper: delete banned and disturbing content.
    2. Box Office Streamer: watch several shows simultaneously. Post about them on socialnets.
    3. Flash Influencer: go to places, post hashtags, get into online arguments.
    4. Hashtag Spam Coordinator: manage uncooperative botnet AIs.
    5. Facial Recognition Debugger: comb through images for low grade persons of interest.
    6. Map Update Verification Operator: walk around highways while checking maps.
    7. Algorithm Data Processor: crunch numbers. So many numbers.
    8. Live SocialFeeds Sub-Editor: make infliuencer idiots look less dumb.
11. Substrate Fairy: Pick up recyclable trash with mechanical grippers, throw it in the mobile 3D-printer that follows you everywhere.
12. Brand Street Ambassador: spam people about client brand, products, and/or ideology. Data chip with sales scripts provided (you can even keep it).
13. Backend Efficiency Operator: act as a fake AI pretending to be a person. Do-anything concierge, shopping assistant, schedule meetings, etc. 1-hour contract for 1d100 continuous hours. NDA not especially enforced.
14. AR Efficiency Techie. Not really legal in many SecOps jurisdictions. Roll d6 - 10% chance of being flagged by local SecOps and the agency vanishing (no pay).
    1. DDOS Zombie Horde Relay Carrier - all Net-related rolls around you are at +2 DR.
    2. Cookies Inoculation Prober - stay in busy areas for the next d12 hours.
    3. Adbomb Planting Specialist - 20% chance of being flagged by SecOps.
    4. #WAKEUPSHEEPLE. Help hack RCDs for a political or conspiracy group.
    5. Weather Data Collection - stay outside for the next d12 hours.
    6. Wild Net Events Gathering - 5% chance of discovering a new sentient AI who takes a keen interest in you.
15. Legacy Dataterm Genius: remove gum and graffiti, bodily fluids and biohazards from public net access terminals. Do basic repair (replace screen/keyboard or reboot). Roll Tougness or lose 1 in a random stat for the session because of disease.
16. VR/AR Habit Controller: Spy on people’s buying habits and advertisement exposure with heavily encrypted back door key. 10% chance of ad-virus infection (+2 DC on Net-related rolls until cleansed).
17. Meds Angel: Bring and administer treatment to patients. Expensive consequences in case of any mishap. 20% chance of incident or difficult customer (roll Presence or no pay).
18. GuineaChip: Test a neural chip loaded with a very niche skill. Log all mood fluctuations online. Roll Presence or lose 1 in a random attribute for the session.
19. Meastpace Troll: A target political entity or person must be verbally attacked at regular intervals. Unavoidable violence costs you 1d3 HP.
20. Crisis Extra: Pretend to be injured, traumatised, or killed on politically motivated livefeed fake news - during the session, 25% chance of being recognised by someone hostile. 3d6 x 100¤ bonus at end of session if no leak had occured.

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