They show up later in the story.
"Zain," Rafael's voice took on an almost pleading tone, "just reconsider. At least for something simple. Nothing fancy. It's a simple procedure. In and out. Hell, I'll even pay for the chip! I know a good ripperdoc in Watson, discreet, and reliable. He'll set you up with a basic Zetatech or IEC data chip, nothing fancy. No fuss, no muss."
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Had it changed. I have it in the AN for this chapter. I need to edit the previous one.
I have been wanting to get back to it to. Though, I'll probably do a rewrite. I do have the entire skeleton plot somewhere on my laptop for this. Though, I'll get to it probably after a couple more arcs for my Cyberpunk story.
around this time, a little over 11 actually. I'm working on last chapter of book 1. and then I'll put in a time line for everything along with the interludes.
Marwyn chuckled, "I am not daft, boy!" He rose from his seat, his silhouette growing taller, more imposing in the moonlight. "Ten years ago, a star fell on the Reach, near Highgarden. Everyone in Westeros knows the tale – the Fat Flower made sure of it."
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You're right about most animals being extinct. And there isn't much given on how Rebecca came across the aforementioned puppy. But given that it's being given such clear weight, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a runaway dog from a corpo home. (If I really have to theorize, and create a background from the dog; I'd go with a dog that's been neglected due to surmounting stress of the owner) Canonically, she cane across a dog, and had to stop and cuddle it; and in doing so, she garnered the attention of a group of passing scavs.
It's literally canon. She actually did find a puppy once. Source: Cyberpunk Wiki.
Issues with most of these things, apart from lack of money, is that Zain's inherently afraid of *all* tech that's on display around him. Cyberware is just the tip of the iceberg. Bioware is essentially serums, modified augmented muscle tissues grown in labs. He doesn't know what that chemicals will do to him. He's seen the most poverty ridden, ill managed examples of Cyberware and Bioware around him. Like faulty Cyberware on some poor idiot under the bridge, or a guy's cheap bioware causing erratic muscle spasms and other nonsense. Another example of Bioware in the ads he's seen are Mr. Stud and Midnight Lady. ...and there's enough cautionary tales in the streets of people's dick melting off due to over stimulation, or them being rendered impotent, or having acidic sperm. Same case for midnight lady. If you listen to chatter with the civs and joytoys in the Mox, you come across an ex Mox with a fault breast bioware that secreted apple juice instead of milk.... and well, she had faulty bioware if you scan her using optics. Dunno what that did to her, but well you get the idea.
I ... don't understand what you mean by 'Boku no Pico'd'. If that's eluding to NTR situation, or other degenerate non sense melodrama..... nope. Not the fic for it. I ...will focus more on larger scale, socio-economical issues, perhaps some geopolitics, gang politics, corporate feudalism and ultra corpo capitalist fascim that's leading to the rich "escaping" en masse. You know. The fun stuff. Arc one is introduction to Night City proper, setting up allies, understanding how the people live, what mercs, Edgerunners, fixers and crews are. Why they exist and all that.
Something about the Raffens? I had no idea who the raffens were. Internet searches led back to the same shitty site, with some very clear hate speech against all the nomads that lived out in the badlands.
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Most of the jungles they talk about are in either in foreign land, like Johnny who'd been sent to Mexico. As for Mitch, Scorpion and the aldecaldo's they fought in the 4th Corporate War, which happened on American Soil You can consider that War as the final peg in the long list of wars that annihilated American landmass. The use of mass drivers, Nuclear Armaments, self replicating Robots and so much more basically killed what was left after the last three wars that happened.
Whatever green stretches of land that covered the American landmass is just straight up gone. Replaced by unliveable deserts worse than the ones around California, with winds, nuclear waste, and poisonous gases in the air that it seemed like Arrakis from Dune, or Tatooine from Star Wars was recreated in the ground of America.
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I adore this review! Thank you so much for reading and reviewing!
The Gonk and The Forge (Cyberpunk Edgerunners/2077)
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