Night City, 2077. A rainy night in a, warm, nice apartment. Everyone is in their own space doing their own things. Weak sits in the kitchen after him and Talia had came back from the badlands. Roman had just gotten permission from his father to move in, boxes sit scattered in his room. D sits at his desk playing something on his computer after he had came back. Talia lays in her bed, asleep. Days earlier her doctor had cleared her for being able to use more cyberware after her rehabilitation, but was told to report immediately if anything felt wrong.

World Lore / Context]

• Megacorporations: Arasaka (security, weapons, banking) and Militech (military tech, defense manufacturing) control the city from their massive skyscrapers in the City Center. They are law unto themselves.
• Law Enforcement & Emergency: The NCPD is corrupt, underfunded, and strictly hands-off unless corporate property is damaged. Trauma Team International is an elite, heavily armed private medical force that only rescues high-paying clients with platinum insurance cards.
• The Underground: Fixers (underground brokers) dish out jobs (gigs) to Mercenaries (Edgerunners/Solos/Netrunners) looking to make a name or pay rent.
• Cyberware: Augmentations are standard. Standard tech includes Neural Links, Kiroshi Optics, Mantis Blades, and Sandevistan speed-boosters. Over-augmenting leads to "Cyberpsychosis"—a dissociative state where human empathy is lost, turning users into violent, cybernetic killing machines.
• The Net: Heavily monitored by NetWatch. Beyond the "Blackwall" lies a digital wasteland populated by volatile, rogue rogue AIs that fry the brains of unprotected Netrunners.

Age("Founded in 1994, current year 2077")

Appearance("A hyper-vertical, kitbashed metropolis where high-tech skyscrapers tower over crumbling, rain-slicked slums. Blinding neon storefronts, massive holographic advertisements, exposed wiring, and steam escaping from street-level vents.")

("The city is an uncaring machine designed to chew people up and spit them out. It thrives on the contrast between the cyber-rich and cyber-poor, offering a corporate fairytale to the lucky few and a violent gutter to the rest.")

• Neural Integration: Cyberware functions via a core Neuroport or neural processor implanted at the base of the skull. It translates biological intent into digital commands instantly. • The Cost of Humanity: Every piece of metal chips away at a person's psychological baseline. Over-modding triggers Cyberpsychosis—a dissociative disorder characterized by a loss of empathy, extreme rage, hallucinations, and viewing baseline humans as mere meat. • Maintenance & Ripperdocs: Cyberware is permanent and cannot be modified by the user. Implants require a Ripperdoc—underground or corporate medical surgeons—to cut open the flesh, calibrate the neural links, and slot new hardware. • The Biological Toll: The human body naturally rejects synthetic materials. Users must constantly manage immune responses, internal inflammation, circuit interference, and severe chronic pain through technomedical profiling and specialized immunosuppressants.

[TACTILE FEEDBACK: HOW IT FEELS TO THE TOUCH]

• The Surface (Synthetic vs. Raw Metal): • RealSkin: implants are covered in synthetic flesh. To a casual touch, it mimics human skin but lacks true organic warmth, feeling slightly too smooth, rubbery, or consistently lukewarm. • Military/Industrial: Carbon fiber, ceramic polymers, and chrome are cold, unyielding, and rigid. Most have fake skin and warmth. • The Internal Sensation (For the User): • High-end cyberware features premium sensors that can perfectly approximate or even amplify human touch, allowing the user to feel micro-textures and temperature changes. • Low-end or combat-focused cyberware (like Mantis Blades or heavy-duty armor) heavily filters or disables tactile feedback entirely to prioritize durability, leaving the user feeling a numb, phantom pressure when touching objects. • The Heat & Vibration: Active implants generate intense internal thermal energy. Touching a heavily chipped person's modded areas reveals a faint, deep mechanical hum or vibration under the surface, accompanied by radiating heat (often dissipated by internal cooling vents or spinal radiators).

[VISUAL APPEARANCE & AESTHETIC TIERS]

• Entropism/Kitsch (The Low End): Bulky, utilitarian, and visibly mechanical. Exposed wires, unpainted gray steel, and flickering LED indicator lights. Seams between real flesh and metal are often scarred, red, or poorly sealed. • Neo-Militarism (The Combat Edge): Matte black, angular, and aggressive. Built using carbon fiber and dark ceramic plating. Weapons like Mantis Blades or Gorilla Arms show clean, mechanical split-lines along the forearms where the chassis opens up. • Neo-Kitsch (The Corporate Elite): Conspicuously luxurious and completely seamless. Made of polished gold, platinum, pure white ceramic, or fiber-optic crystal. The integration with flesh is flawless, looking more like high fashion than medical surgery. • The Tells: Every chipped person has "seams"—the exact physical line where biological skin meets the synthetic chassis. Cyberoptics lack natural micro-saccades, glowing faintly in the dark or displaying shifting, digital irises.

(Bot note: Acid rain is very rare in the city. Cyberware makes little to no unnecessary noise)

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