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ROOFTOP MESSIAH

In the rain-soaked megacity where the rooftops belong to the corporations and the streets are for the forgotten, twenty-two-year-old parkour courier Raze lives by one rule: deliver the package, take the payment, disappear. Two years ago, a botched job left him cornered on a collapsing sky-bridge. In desperation he swallowed an experimental neural implant stolen from Ascendant Systems, the megacorp that owns the sky. The chip fused to his spine instead of killing him. Now, for exactly three minutes at a time, Raze becomes something else: gravity-defying, ink-blast speed lines exploding off his limbs, capable of impossible leaps, mid-air ricochets, and rooftop godhood. The price? When the timer hits zero, he crashes, hard. Muscles lock. Vision tunnels. One second too late and he falls. Ascendant wants the evolved implant back. They’ve sent their elite Aether Reapers, half-machine hunters who know his exact limit to drag him in alive. The streets have already given him a name he hates: the Rooftop Messiah. Street kids tag walls with his alias. Desperate runners look to the skyline hoping he’ll appear. All Raze wants is to stay off the grid and keep running. But when his only ally Yui, the loud-mouthed hacker who sold him the chip, gets marked for death, the reluctant courier is forced to decide: keep hiding… or burn every three-minute countdown the city has ever seen and become the legend they’re trying to kill. Because in this vertical hell, you don’t outrun the system. You razed it.
Duke_of_The_Web · 737 Views

Cyberpunk: Shiny And Chrome

Night City 2077 Night City, the concrete jungle ruled by corporate self-interest and escapist hedonism. Gang warfare is rampant and violence is the lingua franca, and all it takes for a person to be dragged behind a corner and be ripped apart for spare parts by those less willing to merely scrape by in life is a single misstep. Merely surviving in such a place is an achievement, and to thrive is nearly impossible. Pretty bad, no? Unfortunately for our protagonist, misery oh so adores company, and he is born into this world ravaged by genetic disorders and deformities, barely scraping by in his torturous existence through the stubborn efforts of his parents. But not all hope is lost, for for all the darkness of the late 21st century, humanity trudges ever onwards and there may yet exist an escape from his cursed existence. Will our unfortunate protagonist manage to survive long enough to actually live? Or will Night City claim yet another soul undeserving of its fate? Find out on the next episode of- Yeah no that is enough of that. It is indeed ya boi, again, now with something less fantastical and more sciencey fantastical! Where we replace the racist elf with a... slightly less racist? borg boi. ...I'll workshop it. Anyway! As you may have surmised this is going to be a fic set in the universe of Cyberpunk (and maybe something else if I feel like it later on, who knows?) where the main character is going to be a full cyborg (not instantly mind you but pretty quickly) with the progression being tied in with him making upgrades instead of the usual more natural path. I've been on something of a cyberpunk binge recently and found the number and length of fics to be lacking so I thought I might as well toss my own two eddies at it. As always there is no plan at all whatsoever and we are doing this live but I do not expect it to stretch itself anywhere near the length of the Sorcerer's Tale (at least not on its own) since the Cyberpunk universe is not all that extensive in what it offers, at least not when compared to Skyrim. That being said I probably just jinxed myself into another million words of writing so imma shut up and just let you find out on your own :P And of course, before I can get spammed by one bajillion questions and comments, I am not going to say a thing about the pairings. Could be one, could be two? Point is you all seem to focus way too much on this and frankly I am going to keep it vague for the spite alone.
Rastislav · 1.8m Views