Daoist Mystery

Juchu Kaisen - 40

Juchu Kaisen - 39

Juchu Kaisen - 38

Interlude: Jujutsu Society Debut Part 2 (Final part)

Interlude: Jujutsu Society Debut Part 1

System Override - 89 Punishment Party Part 3

Juchu Kaisen - 37

Juchu Kaisen - Chapter 36

Juchu Kaisen - 35

Juchu Kaisen - 34

Juchu Kaisen - 33

Juchu Kaisen - 32

Juchu Kaisen Chapters 30-31

Juchu Kaisen Chapters 27-29

Chapter 27

Hibana Teira was simultaneou

System Override 88 - Punishment Party Part 2

System Override 87 - Punishment Party 1

System Override 86 – TV Appearance

System Override 85 - Corporate Autopsy

System Override 84 - Tearful Farewell

System Override 83 - Uproar

D’s peasant army was… truly a beautiful sight to see.

Rogue wondered if the kid had even gotten to meet these hopeless dreamers, yet. It was probably for the best that he hadn’t, yet. Although there were quite a few among the hundreds of people in the scrapyard in Watson that were true edgerunners, they were outnumbered several times over by streetkids and rockerboys wearing sugar s...

System Override 82 - No Russian Part 2

Back to Night City, at last.

“Fuck me, I’ve been huffing maxdocs all fucking day trying to get rid of this hepta-hangover!” Pilar groused from the back of the Chevillon Emperor. Rebecca groaned.

“Quit moaning, you lanky bitch. At least you got tech visors to take the edge off the fucking sun.”

“You should both quit whining,” Dorio growled. “No...

System Override 81 - No Russian Part 1

Meredith Stout took a drag of her cigarette as she watched the rotund form of one Dexter DeShawn and his hired muscle get into their car. She surfed the data that she’d bought from him minutes ago, reading through the transcript of D’s speech.

More importantly, the footage of his movements from that fixer-meet that he’d been in.

That Sandy speed was impressive. His baseline sp...

System Override 80 - Someone Else's Dream

I drove us far out from the city on a rented Yaiba, upon Lucy’s request. She hugged tightly around my waist, even though the speed we were going at wasn’t nearly enough to warrant all that caution.

All the while, I tried not to think. About the QianT deal tomorrow, the Tsviets on the prowl, ready to slaughter the fixers and everyone that came in their way, and my schemes with Rogue th...

System Override 79 - Sacrificial Lamb

System Override 78 - Lucy Undercover

I handed Lucy a see-through piece of garment that resembled a sock, with a thick plastic band around the rim. She took a moment to look away from her deck to look at my gift, then at me. “What’s this?” Lucy raised an eyebrow. “A condom for bigfoot?”

“It’s a mask.”

She guffawed. “What do I look like, a bank robber from a cheesy comedy?”

“It’s tech,” I ...

System Override 76 - Tremors

Arthur slapped his desk and sighed. His eyes, previously glowing with the gold light of a holo-call, return to their icy blue hue as he sighed. “Just got word from the top that Michiko’s taking a sabbatical. To Japan.”

Vincent, arms folded, and back leaning against the wall of Arthur’s office, sighed. He knew the meaning of that news. Michiko Arasaka was a Night Citizen t...

System Override 77 - Run the Net

I was deep inside a stinky alleyway in Watson. Not a soul had eyes on me at the moment. I was as private as it was possible to be in Night City. I had my personal link hooked up to my external cyberdeck, running a program to detect if I was being traced, as I finally made the video call to the closest thing I had to allies in this scene.

Rogue, Reyes, and… a surprise entrant to this dem...

System Override 75 - Organization

“So,” V said. “What’s the deal with your family’s corp anyway? How come you’ve had to live in a Megabuilding in Arroyo of all places all this time?”

“…My mom was on the outs with the rest of her family,” I said. “They gave us enough to put me through corp school. But not enough to live anywhere nicer.”

“Brutal,” V said. “I guess things changed after she...

System Override 74 - The Tsviets

NB: There's a new segment in chapter 73. CTRL + F 'Vincent Valeri' to find it. It leads up to this part!

V had called to ask me where I was ten minutes after I sent him the information on Judy. I was on my way down from the building I was in. Qiang had already left minutes prior, leaving me to finish our shared bottle of real apple juice, a beverage that I was stro...

System Override 73 - Ambitious Climbers

Us Cracks were a girl group of three Japanese Night Citizens that each had their own color theme: red, blue and purple. Their names were ‘Red Menace’, ‘Blue Moon’, and ‘Purple Force’.

Also, they looked like bug-people.

Apparently, Kiroshi had sponsored them, and their preferred cyberoptics from the bafflingly varied catalogue that the company offered were all quite a bit...