Well the con is over. It was a good time.
Met Max Mike, played in his game, and luckily didn't die. Though don't know what's going to happen with my character after this failed attempt to do the bar hop with Danger Girl...
Apparently Lisa convinced him to take a break and head out to the east coast to this convention. Lucky me! There were are few other R Talsorian cronies there: Jay Libby, James Carpio, Dave 'Knighthawk' Simpson..
So there was little news I could get from Mike except he's been hard at work with Mekton and assisting the boyz at Projekt Red. He did hint at a newer version of CP pnp, using some of the things learned about mechanics while creating CP2077 that might make into this edition. Seems like it will be a collaboration between R Talsorian and Projekt Red. Mike has worked out the timeline from 2020 to 2077. He mentioned a bit about the years after the 4th corporate war being a bit Mad Maxian.
So what can I tell you about the scenario? Well we all rolled up Fast and Dirty Expendables. We had a show down with some metaled up goons in the Afterlife, Adam Smasher was a sideline spectator ( thank the cyber gods!). When our soon to be sponsor for a night of fun came in. The goons knew who it was and I was luck to be playing a fixer with a critical roll on my streetwise to figure out that Michiko Arasaka was standing in the door with Arasaka's best security man, Mr. Kim. I think dying from the 3 goons would have been better. So Michiko was having a night out, the first one, from the compound and want to do "the bar hop". She told us that her handle was Danger Girl. Never would have thought I would have seen Max Mike doing an impression of a 17 year old Japanese girl. Back to my character.... I knew my character's life expectancy might be 24 hours or less with this offer, especially with some of the players not knowledgeable about the world. Yes, there was a player who NEVER played Cyberpunk. He was a SR player. Blah! anyways, off we went on a night of AV dog fights, Fugu poisoning, and a narrow escape from Ginger, The Professor, Mrs. Howl, and alligators in the park.
It was good time by all. Even Frank Mentzer (if you don't know who he is, look him up!) came over to our table to say how lucky we were to game with Mike and how jealous he was. Mike told him he'd run a game with him if Frank runs Temple of Elemental Evil for Mike.
Also I was able to catch part of an interview with him by Myth Wits. Heard a bit about R Talsorian's past as well as Mike's. I don't know when they will post that interview online, but you can troll their youtube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/mythwits
Mike said he might return next year. If so, you all need to keep a look out on Total Confusion's website to find out.
http://www.totalcon.com/ In any event I had a great time at the con, even outside of the game with Mike. I am planning to run some games next year as well. Yes CP 2020 games. I just hope there won't be as much snow (the area was slammed with 78" over the past 3 weeks with an additional 2-4" while I was there).
