A storytime of my next BBEG- What if MF Doom lived in Night City?
That's what I found asking myself, the other night, while replaying MadVillainy for the 11th time in a row, just right after my PirateBorg GM asked me to run a game of Cyberpunk Red.
Obviously I said "yeah, of course", there was my chance to get some new players hardwired in Cyberpunk, but how?
So I checked my backlog and there it was: an old gig I used to run Cyberpunk 2020 years ago. Nothing fancy: a compound at the docks, some gangsters, a covert smuggling operation and a streetboxe tournament in the main area.
But I needed something huge...new, something that could make their tits perk up so much they won't help themselves BUT asking me more of that.
I needed a Villain, a charismatic villain, one that you want to defeat, but that also has got a strong backstory, some allies, a guy you have both a reason to hate and a reason to love.
PREEM SHIT CHOOM.
But who? Like, it can't be Smasher; dude's too occupied being a weeaboo and he's more of a lapdog than a mastermind...Blackhand? Nah, they are too much kibble-sized for him to even notice.
But a Rockerboy, a...RAPPER, which calls himself "The One True Villain"...holy shit.
He was under my nose (like literally, I was high as a plane and had my phone buried under my face) this whole time.
So then, I figured it out: what if MF Doom was involved in that smuggling operation?
But he can't just appear out of thin air, I need someone to act on his behalf, somebody he sent to do his deeds, that could easily be tied to an already existing gang in Cyberpunk, one of those gangs that makes you understand very fast which kind of game you're playing...
I NEEDED BOZOS.
But I want them to be hella menacing, sociopath, and slightly crazy to deal with...also though, they needed to be believable as criminals, not just high on Black Lace.
Oh...oh wait, that's Pinterest sending a notification to m-
SHIT, DALLAS! THAT'S DALLAS FROM PAYD-
THE PAYDAY GANG IS TAKING ORDERS FROM MF DOOM! I GOT IT SORTED!
There you have it: famous robbers and smugglers with clown masks help MR ALL CAPS take over the city, sidewalk by sidewalk, street by street.
The plan is simple: the party will have to stop him, but in order to do so they need to follow the trail of personas, acts, props, vinyls and shit the Villain is throwing at them because you can't defeat him, if you don't see the man behind the mask.
The more they're going to find out about DOOM, the more they'll get close to Dumile. All meanwhile the City stays awake as always, never sleeping, breathing on their necks and eddies.
THAT'S ALL CHOOMS, GUESS I'LL UPDATE Y'ALL IN THE FUTURE!