[Contest] H0L!D4Y postcards from Night City

[Vattier]

Night City might have been voted the worst place to live in America, but what’s it like during the holidays? Would the corporate city center yield, or would it remain its corpo self? Would Watson assault you with even flashier visual cacophonia? Perhaps citizens would just go crazy with decorations no matter the district?

While we're at it — in the midst of this technological craze, do you think people still stick to old traditions and send each other holiday postcards? And can you imagine the kind of postcards such cheerful cyberpunks would send this time of year?

It’s time to find out…

Show us what a holiday postcard from Night City looks like, and leave it in a comment below for a chance to win some sweet Cyberpunk threads.

The 1st place winner will receive:

• Samurai hoodie
• Samurai socks
• Cyberpunk beanie
• Cyberpunk goodie bag

The 2nd place winner will receive:

• Samurai socks
• Cyberpunk beanie
• Cyberpunk goodie bag

The 3rd place winner will receive:

• Cyberpunk beanie
• Cyberpunk goodie bag

The contest starts at 19 December 2019 and entries can be submitted until 11:59 PM on January 6th 2020. Full rules are available here.

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[REV_RAPTOR]

 

[ValarieMoore]

It will probably look like the hospital I was in yesterday...no Christmas decorations at all.

 

[SYNfulHailey]

I had fun with this! I feel like Johnny would send the BEST holiday postcards!

Front:

Back:

 

[TheParavade]

Fun contest! Had to compress the resolution quite a bit to make the file size smaller in order to be able to upload it, but I'm quite pleased with the result.

 

[Silentoblivionz]

 

[RussianViking]

Sorry would have been better if the file size was bigger and if I didn't do it on my phone.

 

[Gleban2066]

Я хотя бы попытался... Главное участие, а не попытка?

 

[toniulo]

 

[Axsisel2]

Here is what it says once decyphered:

Spoiler

Wake up Samurai. Our comms have been intercepted and bugged but plain old post is so outdatted that they didn't even consider about it. Meet me in Venice, Ca. You know the place.

Also the text in the postcard is a little lame pun. Hold-up day kind of sounds like Holyday. And being as it is a city with so much crime hearing "Hold up!" either from the police or criminals is a pretty common thing, so much that it kinda has become a Night City staple.

 

[UnreadyPlayer2]

Is it the same contest from tumblr? For some reason my post wasn't showing up in the tags there so I will post it here then.

In 2077 it's much easier to find a cyberware shop/retailer than a friend, isn't it?

 

[INFLU_]

Ho Ho Ho

 

[Leon_bezza]

Everyone loves Christmas even Night City so much so they have a giant Santa hologram watching over all the citizens.

 

[XeSpace52]

 

[HerrHirn]

I have to uplad a YouTube link, because I don't think that post cards in 2077 will be made out of paper!

 

[Arian2077]

 

[HurricaneColada]

Of course people gonna stick to old traditions and send fancy holiday postcard <3 Best wishes from Mike Pondsmith

 

[Frazaar]

Here we are! Took me some time especially to scale it down because it was too large in file size... frazaaraustralia@gmail.com

 

[chocolover_]

 

[ReeseNE]

I wanted to do a bit of a play off the story I had for the post card delivery post and also draw from inspiration from the ARG

It's Night City and you've been making a name for yourself and drawing a lot of attention and interest. With how deep you are now, you can't be sure who is monitoring your communications. Nothing quite beats good old fashioned postcards and with the holidays in full swing it's the perfect cover to reach out to your netrunner Raven.

Looks innocent enough as a trip to Pacifica until we dig a little deeper into the message itself.

"Man Sometimes Getting Into New Places Is Crazy! Killers Everywhere! Yes I'm Safe samurai."
MSG IN PIC KEY IS SAMURAI

Looking at the picture we can see encoded text faintly on the billboard (normally this will be encoded within the pixels themselves)

sospsfs fjkwp wsqmc ykto asmf qcry uk jkq ikobdvr ko ikobrq wr jrru qk smq ispq hrrq qkjdbcq sq qcr gkmsqdkj hsfr ptor jk kjr ikggkwp jrqwsqmc msjjkq pqkl wcsq wr pqsoqru sgq wdgg hrrq tp ar lorlsoru

Applying the key:
arasaka knows watch your back they do not forgive or forget we need to act fast
meet tonight at the location make sure no one follows
netwatch cannot stop what we started
alt will meet us be prepared