Writing bespoke code for the purposes of targeting specific networks, or ‘slow hacking’ for short, was a distinctly different challenge to creating quickhacks. For one, the programmer didn’t ...
2025-09-21 14:44:15 +0000 UTC View PostThere were a bunch of suits inside I didn’t know.
Two immediately drew attention. A man and a woman I didn’t know, arguing, from opposite sides of an obsidian table.
The woman had j...
2025-09-13 15:12:40 +0000 UTC View PostEdit tl;dr at the bottom
David: Come on out, man.
Jin: You fucking kidding me? I’m in the middle of a speech, here!
David: Trust. Once you come out here, you’...
2025-09-10 10:52:42 +0000 UTC View PostVarian was no stranger to death.
He’d seen it with his own eyes more times than he could count. He’d signed off on his own fair share of kill orders, too. That sort of thing was unavoidab...
2025-09-08 19:19:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Right this way,” Jin said as he headed towards a set of stairs that would take us up to a mezzanine floor overlooking the wider living room area where everyone else already were. Varian follow...
2025-09-07 17:32:07 +0000 UTC View PostEdit Tl;Dr: changed up the Varian section. No car-crash.
I got washed up in the bathroom of a diner on the way home, but decided to change out of my super-expensive corpo sui...
2025-09-03 22:38:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere was an actual limit to how much money you could spend on a good suit at a moment’s notice. The priciest threads in Jinguji—which I now had access to apparently, thanks to my continued and...
2025-09-02 21:29:11 +0000 UTC View PostAugustus Gonzalez sat up straight in his hospital bed as his favorite sicario, El Chupacabra, walked into the room with a rolled up screamsheet.
The deceptively smooth-faced, sui...
2025-09-01 21:48:28 +0000 UTC View PostEdit: New Rogue section at the end
Making this gig into a game had been a good call on Nanny’s end.
It helped keep me engaged. Helped stop me from hesitating or takin...
2025-08-31 18:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostI was already on the road out of Night City, headed south to the border, minutes after touching base with Maine and the others.
“What? Tijuana?!” Maine roared in shock.
While my back was against the floor of her living room, Lucy stood on my upraised feet, trying to balance on them while I’d subtly shift her footing. She was doing an admirable job keeping on. ...
2025-08-07 19:59:15 +0000 UTC View PostLucy gave me a call right after.
Lunacy: Where even are you? I heard some crazy shit went down in the city. MaxTac’s all over Arroyo.
D: Huh? Still?
No, that couldn’t be right...
2025-08-07 00:55:48 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: The tl;dr for what is new is at th
2025-08-07 00:39:57 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-seven and a half million Eurodollars was not a sum that could be taken lightly by the vast majority of the human popul...
2025-07-31 20:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostI drove away from North Oak at speeds that far exceeded the traffic limit. I was unused to riding around the highway with a full-on car at full speeds, but it was unavoidable in this case....
2025-07-29 13:41:13 +0000 UTC View Post“So!” Jin said. “You ever hear about this vassal thing ‘Saka’s got going?”
What? What was he on about now? “Uh, yeah. Think Allister explained the concept to me some months ago....
2025-07-26 18:10:31 +0000 UTC View PostLucy exhaled a thin line of smoke and stubbed her cigarette out on the ashtray balanced on the edge of the cluttered coffee table ahead. Then, she lit another.
On-screen, the television’s l...
2025-07-26 16:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Critical Progress was getting too
2025-07-24 19:59:45 +0000 UTC View PostJudy Alvarez slammed her glass down on the counter with a groan. She didn’t know why she was feeling so down. She just was.
It was one of those days. She could point to no...
2025-07-24 19:58:44 +0000 UTC View Post“So! You do much racing?”
I narrowed my eyes and gave him a sideways glance as we stepped out of the velvet-lined lounge and into a quieter hallway, the carpet soft underfoot and patterne...
2025-07-07 15:38:56 +0000 UTC View PostEdit tl;dr at the bottom
On my lowest, darkest days being ground underneath the bootheel of Katsuo or the uncaring administration of Arasaka Academy, or experiencing the dark...
2025-05-14 23:13:54 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Decided to take a different angle--instead of the Biotechnica job, the story will focus on the race and corpo stuff for now.
I'm about 36% finished with the new chapter ...
2025-05-08 18:30:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 52 – Vendetta
[We must consider the existence of Dead Man’s Switches,] Nanny said, leaning her back against the mirror wall inside the elevator. [Killing them would be nice and ea...
2025-05-02 16:44:06 +0000 UTC View PostNanny knocked me unconscious after I finished taking in all the metals—and finished the thermos of vinegar.
When I came to once more, I was inside my car, the outside of it surrounde...
2025-05-02 16:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostLucy chased away her hangover with a straight shot of vodka down her gullet from the bottle she had brought with her to Aldo’s warehouse. Hauling ass all the way to Rancho at twelve noon on a god...
2025-05-02 16:41:28 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a day of binge drinking in which nothing productive occurred at all except that we managed to conjure even more housing options out of thin air—inspired to live closer to Rancho because the...
2025-04-11 21:53:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe virtu’s one saving grace, in Judy’s opinion, was its brevity.
All told, including the Sandevistan bullet time, the gig took two minutes and fifteen seconds. That was, two minutes and ...
2025-04-10 10:48:11 +0000 UTC View PostLucy groaned as she got off my bike while I turned it off, holding her hand up to shade her face from the sun. It was only eight in the morning, so the weather was practically chilly for N...
2025-03-27 16:44:26 +0000 UTC View PostEdit Tl;Dr at the bottom
It took about an hour and a half to get all the blood washed out of my clothes at some random laundromat in Watson—while wearing a different outfit...
2025-03-20 19:36:50 +0000 UTC View PostTl;dr edit note at the bottom
The moment I was clear of the Med Center, on my way to Kabuki to get to Japantown, I called Reyes.
D: Sorry, Capitan, I was kind of busy. ...
2025-03-06 14:28:03 +0000 UTC View Post