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=Miscellaneous=

A

 * Pondsmith on Cyberpsychosis
 * Pondsmith on Johnny's Hand
 * Pondsmith on Michi when meeting Smasher
 * Pondsmith on Sandevistan & Kerenzikov
 * Pondsmith on Full Borg
 * Pondsmith on Rache's background
 * Ripperjack mentioned in Chromebook 2 p. 13.

B

 * S&M
 * "Screamsheet = a 1 page mission outline. Very brief. Length is often 1 session but might be longer depending on your group. You'll need to fill in details like stat blocks, maps, and such. They come with an in-world handout - a single page of a "screamsheet" for players to read."
 * "Missions = many pages with more detail, stat blocks, maps, and so forth. The sort of thing we published in Tales of the Red."
 * Nomads
 * Family: 10-100
 * Clan: 300-1.200
 * Tribe: 10.000-30.000
 * Nation: 100.000-1.000.000
 * Pack: Just a sizable number of nomads with no clear boundaries other than being part of the same group? Synonym of clan?
 * Bioplague attacks targeted to strategic ports during the 4th Corp War perpetuated by both Militech and Arasaka. Most notably affected: Hong Kong, Shanghai, Busan, and Long Beach. Singapore managed to avoid becoming a casualty.

Questions

 * In Black Dog Arasaka had been looking for the bomb, knowing the crate was in Samantha's possession. When she moved it, Michiko Arasaka intercepted the group carrying it. Instead of recovering it, she helped them deliver it to Los Alamos.
 * Did she realize the crate was empty? Did she simply wanted to get rid of it? Was she manipulating them?
 * Someone recovered the bomb at some point.

Unpublished CP stories

 * Michiko's Big Date
 * Michiko's Big Breakup
 * The Punk and the Parking Space
 * Samantha's story in the Hot Zone

The Devil

 * Saburo takes Arasaka back and Yorinobu's plan fails.
 * Body counts: most of the Arasaka council; Smasher (dependent); Yorinobu; Johnny.
 * Mikoshi is kept intact and Alt doesn't merge with countless of engrams.
 * Arasaka and Militech in a more or less friendly situation.
 * The Relic is removed from V and Johnny's engram is destroyed.
 * V's love interest: ...
 * V has six months left.
 * V can either go back to Earth, or get soulkilled and stored in Mikoshi.

Path of least resistance

 * V and Johnny decide to take the easy way out.
 * Body counts: V; Johnny.
 * Yorinobu is still leading Arasaka, but without the attack on the tower his plans might not come to fruition.

Arasaka Tower is attacked

 * Yorinobu's plan succeeds.
 * Mikoshi is destroyed and its engrams are merged with Alt.
 * Arasaka and Militech on the verge of a new Corporate War.
 * V is soulkilled and their engram is separated from Johnny's.

The Sun

 * Afterlife path
 * Johnny (in V's body) attacks Arasaka Tower with the help of Rogue and Squama.
 * Body counts: Rogue; Squama (dependent); Smasher (dependent).
 * Johnny goes with Alt beyond the Blackwall and V keeps their body.
 * V becomes an NC legend and the new owner of the Afterlife.
 * V's love interest: If Judy or Panam, they leave NC and end things with V. If River or Kerry, they stay with V.
 * Mr. Blue Eyes hires V for a heist in the Crystal Palace in exchange for something.
 * V has six months left. Could Mr. Blue Eyes' favor save them?


 * Reaper path (secret ending)
 * V attacks Arasaka Tower alone.
 * Body counts: Smasher (dependent).
 * Johnny goes with Alt beyond the Blackwall and V keeps their body.
 * V becomes an NC legend while Rogue is still Queen of Fixers.
 * V's love interest: If with Judy or Panam, they leave NC and end things with V. If with River or Kerry, they stay with V.
 * Mr. Blue Eyes hires V for a heist in the Crystal Palace in exchange for something.
 * V has six months left. Could Mr. Blue Eyes' favor save them?

The Star

 * V becomes an Aldecaldo.
 * V attacks Arasaka Tower with the help of the Aldecaldos: Panam, Saul, Mitch, Carol, Bob, Teddy, Cassidy and others.
 * Body counts: Bob; Teddy; Saul; Smasher (dependent); Hanako.
 * Johnny goes with Alt beyond the Blackwall and V keeps their body.
 * V (supposedly) becomes an NC legend, but decides to leave Night City for good.
 * V's love interest: If with Judy or Panam, they leave NC with V. If with River or Kerry, the relationship ends.
 * The Aldecaldos have stolen enough Arasaka tech to start anew.
 * V has six months left. Could the Aldecaldos' contacts save them?

Temperance

 * V goes with Alt beyond the Blackwall and Johnny keeps the body.
 * Johnny befriends Steve Sanchez and gifts him a guitar.
 * Johnny ghosts everyone V has ever talked to.
 * V's love interest: If with Judy, Panam, River or Kerry, Johnny ends the relationship.
 * Johnny leaves Night City for good.
 * Johnny has a long life ahead in V's body.

Confirmed

 * -6 months, Prologue = October/November
 * Shipment Q5-92 01/13/77
 * Report #17350 - Between the days of 01/15/2077 and 01/20/2077 more than a dozen individuals from the ages of 5 and 13 were killed in Arroyo district.
 * 2077's Valentine's - The Highwayman
 * Report #17355 - From the night of 02/21/2077 until the morning of 02/22/2077 three Valentinos gang members suspected of murdering the journalist Rudolph Franz (see case from 12/03/2076) escaped from cell D-14.
 * Saburo arrives to NC on 'May the 1st of 2077, Saturday'
 * Few months after AT assault - Epilogue = Different accounts, most accurate V themselves says it to Judy during Path of Glory
 * August 20, 2077 - AHQB 54th anniversary, nearing

Other notes

 * The deadline to complete the project is 240 days from the date of the signed contract. Deadline for submission of tenders shall be on 07/18/2078 at 11 PM PST.= November 20, 2077
 * Johnny's bus ticket asset states June 23rd
 * Leased until 07/21/2177 (V & Rogue's niche, 100 years?) Epilogues set 2 months after AT assault = June/July/August ··· Act 2 & 3 last around 1/2 months or maybe more? DLCs?
 * Something's not adding up here, should be 488,955. Big chunk of impulses missing. Need to talk to Vortex about this. Profits for Jan.-June 2077
 * Snake Arena Showcase - August 10th 2077

Headcanon timeline

 * Prologue = October/November 2076
 * +6 months
 * Prologue + Act 1 = Mid/late April to early May 2077
 * Act 1 = The Heist - First weeks of May
 * Act 2 & 3 = Mid/late May (Wilson mentions V's been out for a couple of weeks at least) to June/July (Vik says V's got a "few weeks tops", maybe more; the iguana egg interestingly takes two exact in-game months to hatch; during the last quest Alt says V has about 6 months left)
 * Epilogue = Mid/late July/August, aprox. (around one or two months after the last quest as per some NPC dialogues; 5 to 4 months left; in the Devil, Takemura states V might not even see the winter; niches in New Dawn Fades are leased until July 21 2177, ether the niches were bought beforehand (most likely) or right at the time (plausible as Johnny paid for something))

Theories

 * Greetings from nowhere - Here's Johnny! + Rogue son's father | She wasn't that surprised knowing about Johnny, or was she? Could be Santiago alternatively though she was never interested in him :& Another character?
 * Mike confirmed the father is Santiago but it hasn't been added into the canon yet.
 * During "The Fall of the Towers," Spider hit the dying Silverhand with Soulkiller via a chip Alt had given her long ago. This chip was later found by Arasaka and stored in Mikoshi.
 * Pondsmith on Reddit: "There's a very important clue in Never Fade Away that explains part of Johnny's reaction, and an even larger clue in the story Black Dog in Cyberpunk RED. Hint: Never borrow one of Johnny's Malorians."
 * The Malorian "creates almost cyberpsycho levels of feedback, damping down the user's normal emotional reaction to combat situations, and giving them a robot-like control." When he shot Toshiro he wasn't completely himself due to the gun. If he hadn't had the Malorian, Alt would still be alive? Was Johnny's eventual fate to become a cyberpsycho? Was he already a cyberpsycho? (confirmed) Or at least when wielding the gun? Did any of this temper with his memories?
 * Someone or something helped the Aldecaldos to get the Basilisk by giving them access to the Militech coms.
 * Nonsense theory: Arasaka had an engram of Johnny and Morgan. Somehow the two engrams got merged, and Johnny's "strong" personality made him the dominant engram. Flashforward, the engram gets stuck in V's head. V raises as one of the best mercs of NC due to Morgan's combat prowess. Johnny's memories are more or less accurate, but merged with Morgan's; that's what wee see in the flashbacks.

THE Theories

 * Bartmoss - The Rache found in the refrigerator is a random netrunner who found Rache's stash. Died when trying to access it and got the body trapped in the freezer. The coolbox was eventually tossed along with his body.
 * JGray mentions in the Discord that no one confirmed the body was Rache's. Plus, Johnny is unreliable, as always. :sus:
 * 5th Corpo War - Yorinobu, as CEO of Arasaka, is trying to pick up a fight with Militech in order to destroy Arasaka once and for all. With the help of others, they are using the gangs of NC to attack Arasaka facilities while dressed up as Militech soldiers. Although Militech knows about this, there's nothing they can do but delay the inevitable. If not Yorinobu, someone or something is leading both corps to war. AIs? (Gig: On a Tight Leash; Down on the Street; Totalimmortal)
 * Silverhand - After the 2023 incident, Arasaka lost all knowledge of Soulkiller. What they found in the tower ruins was Johnny's body which had the chip Spider had inserted into his head. This was one of the original Soulkiller programs Alt had made long ago. When Arasaka found the body, they brought it to the tower's ruined bunker and extracted the chip. That's why Samantha found the body in there. And since the chip was damaged by the radiation, it took years for Arasaka to recover and rebuild the information to create their own Soulkiller.
 * PL - First part of the expansion will be about teaming up with Reed, Alex and Songbird to rescue Myers. Second part will be to end Kurt's empire. Last part will be about an internal conflict between the FIA and NUSA. V will side with either Reed or Songbird. Reed is the one betraying the NUSA (maybe because Kurt has convinced him somehow). Reed is not as good as he seems, but he fights for what is right, and Songbird is not as bad as she seems, but fights for the current status quo. Myers is definitely bad.

Black Dog
The song is an allegory of CP2077's story.
 * Blind man lost in the streets -> V's uncertain future
 * Pattern to see ->
 * Keep returning and leaving -> Referencing the need to leave but going back to NC
 * Bad feeling to feel ->
 * Black Dog at my side -> Johnny's engram
 * Down a road, no end -> V's last journey
 * City sleeps, a knot that won't unwind -> Struggle to decide the course/Johnny's messing with V's head
 * Chorus -> Arasaka now is the prey, as they are the last chance for V
 * Concrete canyons, neon eyes - Going around NC (Zen Master says the same)
 * Black Dog beside me -> Johnny is still here and won't go away any time soon
 * Stalk the backstreets, never-ending chase -> Looking at the most remote places to end the journey
 * Bloody moon, protending doom -> Hanako is dangerous (might be a reference to the Devil)
 * End but just begun -> Not much time has passed, but it needs to end soon
 * Charge with the rising sun -> Raiding Arasaka Tower (might be a reference to the Sun, or the morning in the Star)
 * Bridge -> Johnny guides V

Peralez

 * Dream On + The Rescue + Full Disclosure + Path of Glory = Night Corp & Mr. Blue Eyes are controlled by rogue AIs from beyond the Blackwall.
 * Peralezes and the Nights are somehow connected. Richard = Jeff; Miriam = Liz?
 * Rhyne was an obstacle for the AIs' plans due to his popularity. They used Weldon Holt to end him, making it easier for Peralez to win the election. Alternatively, Holt was a red herring, and they simply manipulated others to kill Rhyne. It's likely they manipulated other people, like 6th Street, to support Jeff. They have been grooming the Peralezes since they were young, helping both Liz and Jeff into the Asukaga University. While controlling Elizabeth, they made use of V to convince Jeff was in danger so he would reinforce SSI security, making it easier to convert him. SSI was the last step of converting them to the AIs' needs. Unfortunately, Jeff saw one of the "agents" and the couple contacted V to investigate. The "agents" hoped they could fool V and ease Jeff's worries. V found out the truth, and Elizabeth tried to stop V from telling Jeff about it. Was she scared for real or conditioned? Doesn't matter in the end, as Jeff will always become a puppet. Truth = unstable puppet; Lie = docile puppet.

Hunter Spec

 * Ancient Greece = Orion VS. Gaia. [REDACTED] VS. Alt (Alt is codenamed Gaia in CG). Orion was killed by a scorpion sent by Gaia. They were later revived by Ophicious using an anditore.
 * 79-80.
 * Prelude of a 5th AI/C W.
 * Final clash between A & M.
 * High tensions between US & them.
 * Enemy of my enemy. H vs AI.
 * New prot. Someone else's fate unknown, though (sadly but realistically) most likely will never fade away.
 * 1. No struggles. No bodies. No opportunities.
 * 2. Burned too close to the sun. Fought until the end, but fate was already written.
 * 3. Tried, but there was no solution. Peaceful farewell with friends under a starry sky.
 * 4. A pact with the Devil that no one knew, and no one will remember. / A pact with the Devil left unsigned that slowly consumed two souls.
 * 5. The chance of a new life as long as one doesn't look back.
 * Expanded NC districts, more barrenlands locations, certain island, and more detailed bay.
 * Continuation of certain AI-not-AI story.
 * Returning chars? Popular ones most likely. K & R still there. P & J too?

Songs

 * The Devil - Never Fade Away (Cover)
 * The Sun - Never Fade Away (SAMURAI)
 * The Star - Outsider No More (Panam's theme?)
 * Temperance - New Dawn Fades (Johnny's theme?)

Other Music
Notes: To merge with soundtrack + overhaul of radio pages.

In/Consistencies

 * SAMURAI: 2020 - 2023?
 * Headcanon: Samurai split in 2008, but did simply a reunion tour in 2020, releasing the Chippin' In album as their greatest hits. Afterwards they returned to their solo carrers, with Johnny and Kerry still touring together sometimes. Pros: Lore sometimes points they never formally reunited. Cons: 2020 reunion, plus Black Dog (2023 "release") mentioned as a Samurai song not just Johnny's (although Black Dog story only mentions Johnny), unlike Never Fade Away album cover. = Likely to just be a big inconsistency. | Starting to see a lack of a major evidence that Samurai was still active in 2023.
 * Kerry in Holdin' On talks as if the memories were true, plus as if Samurai never achieved big success as "unreliable" sources mention (memory loss?). He also talks as if Johnny didn't knew Nancey had changed her name despite doing so in 2008, 15 years prior Johnny's death. Plus the Samurai album dates in the mansion are not accurate to the band's lifespan nor order of release. = Likely to just be a big inconsistency.
 * Answer: Talsorian, future RED releases, or more 2077 fixes :/
 * Two dams?
 * It's never mentioned there are two different dams (kinda mentioned in Claire's phone text for the Badlands race by stating "new dam"). One is older than other. One old one holds no water and looks abandoned.
 * Answer: Coronado Dam was built in the 20th century and was eventually dried up and used as a landfill.
 * Headcanon: Petrochem was the first one built, unfortunately the waste of the nearby landfill filtered into the water, contaminating it. After realizing, they built another dam to cleanse the reservoir while emptying the most toxic water. It worked and the water become less toxic than it was, but the landfill grew so much it eventually fell into the emptied basin.

Cats

 * Nibbles appears during the Pickup? (to check)
 * One near the underwater crashed car in lower Kabuki.
 * One appears during the Streetkid quest; outside of the Coyote Cojo, on one of the bar's air-conditioning vents.
 * One appears during Down on the Street; on a car near the collapsed tunnel.
 * One appears during Gimme Danger.
 * One appears during Never Fade Away after leaving the Hammer.
 * One appears during Path of Glory in the Afterlife's bar counter.

Tarot

 * The Fool - Represents V.
 * The Magician - Represents the first time meeting Evelyn, the mastermind behind the Heist. Could also represent Judy.
 * The High Priestess - Represents the first time meeting Hanako.
 * The Empress - Represents Rogue.
 * The Emperor - Represents Saburo.
 * The Hierophant - Represents Takemura?
 * The Lovers - Represents Johnny and Rogue.
 * The Chariot - Represents the beginning of V's journey to save themselves.
 * Strength - Represents Panam and/or River.
 * The Hermit - Represents Alt.
 * Wheel of Fortune - ? (something about Panam and the Aldecaldos.)
 * Justice - ? (something about Judy and Evelyn.)
 * The Hanged Man - Represents Johnny.
 * Death - Represents V's time is coming to an end.
 * Temperance - Represents Johnny's ending.
 * The Devil - Represents Arasaka's ending.
 * The Tower - Represents Arasaka Tower, the point of no return.
 * The Star - Represents the Aldecaldos' ending.
 * The Moon - ? (something about Hanako and Arasaka. Her ulterior motives?)
 * The Sun - Represents the Afterlife's ending.
 * Judgement - Represents taking down Adam Smasher.
 * The World - Represents the choice of which ending to choose.