Placide

Placide is a member of the Voodoo Boys gang and a supporting antagonist in Cyberpunk 2077. He is the main antagonist of Voodoo Boys story arc.

Biography
Placide is the second-in-command of the Voodoo Boys under Maman Brigitte. He radiates the aura of danger and threat – inspiring fear and respect in people around him. He's a man of few words but has a heavy Haitian accent. His smile is terrifying to behold. Or so people say. Luckily he smiles exceedingly rarely.

Placide is V's point of contact with the Voodoo Boys as the latter investigates who tried to kill Evelyn Parker with a virus and why in the hopes of finding a way to safely extract the Relic. Their meeting is arranged by the fixer Mr. Hands. Not knowing or caring why V wanted an in with Maman Brigitte, Placide intended to use V as a "ranyon", a "floor rag" or disposable merc, to infiltrate the Grand Imperial Mall and figure out what the Animals who had recently occupied the place were up to and if they were connected to attempts to penetrate the Voodoo Boys' private Net, "Reza Agwe". V reluctantly agrees, unaware that Placide was acting independently and knew the Reza Agwe attacker was a member of NetWatch. Brigitte and Ti Neptune had been incapacitated by the NetWatch agent's ICE, and Placide was using V to free them. He installs a surveillance program in V's cyberware that would also act as a lethal virus, killing V, NetWatch agent Bryce Mosley, and every other agent connected to Mosley's network.

When V discovers the NetWatch involvement, they are perturbed, but V continues hunting Mosley at Placide's urging. If V accepts Mosley's offer to remove the virus and leave him unhacked, Placide is enraged and suspicious. If V rejects Mosley's offer and hacks him, then V, Mosley, and Mosley's network are burned by the virus, but V recovers thanks to the Relic. Either way, V confronts Placide about putting them in danger, but the situation is deescalated by the awakened Brigitte, who leads V to the group's secret mainframe and plugs into the Net to retrive one of Johnny Silverhand's memories to use as bait for the Voodoo Boys' main project: contacting Alt Cunningham beyond the Blackwall to negotiate an alliance with the rogue AIs there.

If V accepted Mosley's offer, NetWatch agents attack Reza Agwe at the moment Alt appears, causing her to conflate the Voodoo Boys with NetWatch and burn them. Brigitte and all Voodoo Boys connected to Reza Agwe die, and V will be forced to deal with Placide as they leave since he holds the access token needed to unlock the church's door. If V hacked Mosley, V may either end business with Brigitte peacefully and leave the church under her protection, in which case Placide is nonhostile and lives, or V may kill Brigitte to avenge Evelyn Parker and/or get back at the Voodoo Boys for using them, again forcing a confrontation with Placide.

Associated Jobs

 * M'ap Tann Pèlen
 * I Walk the Line
 * Transmission

Reference
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