Dylan Murphy

Dylan Murphy is a leader of the council of edgerunners that appears in Cyberpunk V3.0.

History
Dylan was born in Galway, Ireland, in the winter of 1992, to a bleak future of crushing poverty and abuse at the hands of an alcoholic father. Eventually Dylan’s mother could endure no more and fled to Dublin, taking the children with her and bravely attempting to hold the family together despite absolute penury and an increasingly dysfunctional relationship with her resentful elder sons. Young Dylan idolized his brothers, so when they fell in with nationalist gangs he followed their example and further contributed to the growing schism in the family.

Estranged from his mother by age 14, Dylan earned his Euro as a mule for arms dealers, carrying plastic explosive across the city on his bicycle. At fifteen he got a rep at O'Flannigan's Gym as an amateur fighter to watch. At sixteen those same quick fists and bad attitude got him work keeping two-bit dope peddlers off the streets of his neighborhood. At seventeen, his brothers introduced him to an uncompromising young Republican radical called Ardal Mullaney, who offered him the chance to take the fight to the enemy. Inspired by his brothers’ example and Ardal’s rhetoric, Dylan joined the Sons of Finn (Sinn Fein)

While the Sinn Fein negotiated with Westminster, the Sons trained for and took part in an elaborate bombing campaign on the British mainland. Outraged that the political process had been destabilized by their actions, the IRA cut off the Sons and passed on their identities to the British government. In synchronized raids across Dublin, SAS hit squads annihilated the whole cell. Only Ardal and Dylan escaped the massacre, fleeing to the Gaeltacht where they bought passports on the black market and took flight for the US. Ardal settled in Boston and took on the name Kevin Sullivan, while Dylan bought a gun and vanished into Night City.

After half a decade of low-profile solo work he was head-hunted by a Militech talent scout who picked up his contract to provide muscle for a team working out of Gdansk on select high-profile defections. As Eastern Europe began getting crowded with army surplus cyber-enhanced goons, Militech started putting pressure on Dylan to go under the knife to keep up with the game. He refused, saying that cybertech was no substitute for skill and experience, but each tussle was getting tougher. In the end he knew he was through. He bought out his own contract and went freelance, taking with him a solid reputation and a shaky love affair with a Polish hitwoman called Eva Ceszlic. They settled in Shanghai to look after the interests of subtle men who appreciated discretion, but the age of the cyber-soldier had arrived and Dylan was looking like a dinosaur.

So he cashed in his check and headed back to America, leaving Eva and looking up an old solo contact, Jesualdo Martinez, who owned a private security firm in Marin County. Dylan found himself a glamorous wife, a house in Sausalito, and settled in to spend his accumulated blood money. After a year, the wife filed for divorce once she found out heíd been cheating, but in return Jesualdo found Dylan some footage of her own little indiscretions. Dylan promptly shot all three of her lovers dead in one afternoon then headed south to Night City. Sure, the cops froze his U.S. accounts, but his money in the Caymans was plenty liquid. A new face, a new identity, and soon Dylan was back where he liked to be: anonymous. Two years later and Eva was back from Asia, saying she was through. Jesualdo sold his firm, moved to Night City and put his money in real estate. All was sweet, until the 4th C War.

Dylan settled in Northside permanently after the struggle for Night City was done. He had gone from a selfish killer on the edge of burnout to a community leader and an inspiration to thousands in two short years, but his duties weren’t over. The natal Edgerunner movement still looked to him for guidance and still expected him to have all the answers, even when he was as clueless as they. So he learned the answers. He figured out who to trust and who to drop, what people need and how to provide for them, how to put others before himself and how to negotiate for what he wanted. Four years after the start of the war he was married in the ruins of the Holy Angels to a new wife, and the following year had a son, Liam.

In the high speed world of the Street, Dylan is now an old man counting his days. The Night City nuke left him with a body full of carcinogens that heís been fighting ever since, and the older he gets the more the cancers eat him up. He’s still a formidable man, sharp, tough and compassionate, but his intimidating frame is withering due to his illness and he knows that he’s fast running out of sand.

Skills
Combat Sense 9, Renown 9, Leadership 8, Authority (Council) 10, Rifle 8, Boxing 6, Handgun 7

Outfit
Battered Armor trenchcoat (SP 18, armors torso, legs), twin pearl-handled Peacemakers in a fast-draw rig, ivory rosary, secret holo of Eva.