#cyberpunk riptide

[tsunanami17]

WTF THIS IS SO CUTE??? I LOVE THIS SO MUCH THANK YOU!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺 I love how you draw Jade…

Happy New Year @tsunanami17!!! 🎉Here's Jade and Judy for you for the @cp77nyexchange.

I hope you like your gift! I had a blast drawing these and it was actually a really fun challenge only having your artwork as a reference and figuring out how to translate it into my style! And Jade has a super unique color palette, so that was fun too.

And bonus pic of that I did as a practice sketch that I really ended up liking and decided to color :)

[mynonsenseistingling]

Herrera Riptide "Terrier"

[wanderingaldecaldo]

I am obsessed with the Herrerra Riptide. I found this one abandoned after a gig and thought it looked cool, and then I got in it and drove around. I didn't plan on stealing anymore cars for Mu until I realized I could eventually unlock the Riptide. I'm not kidding when I say this is what will get me to reinstall AMM because I need to make a gif of the doors opening.

[cryberpunkart]

Road trip

[antimony-medusa]

We've just had one battleship, yes, but what about second battleship?

Multifandom battleship is live and looking for prompts!

There are 280 people signed up to the multifandom event getting ready to make 2000 works in three weeks, and all of those gifts are going to need to be gifts for people. If you want to Enrich The Game (and you're 18-plus) you can stop by and offer prompts! I am specifically hoping for MCYT prompts, but there are So Many Fandoms in the event that are also looking for prompts! Come on down!

Prompts are made at the collection here by clicking on Prompt Form. Detailed instructions about how to prompt are here (ignore anything it says about signing up, that was for people signing up to play the game and we're already at max players).

Each prompt needs to have a Fandom, Relationship or Character, the mediums you're okay with, any Major Archive Warnings you're okay with, at least one Freeform tag for people to match on, and then the body of the prompt itself, which is where you put your Do Not Want and any details about the prompt itself you want. For freeform tags, you can pick from this list of almost 600 tags, or there's a ticky spreadsheet you can make a copy of to use on your own computer and have them export into a nice list you can just copy-paste onto Ao3! People only have to match to one freeform tag for their gift to be valid, so you can put as few as one or as many as every single freeform on there and let people go shopping. You can put 20 freeforms in the "additional tags" slot and an unlimited number in the "optional tags" spot, and there's no mechanical difference between them, people will still be picking from that whole list to try and gift to people! Note that you need to only put tags that are on the list or your prompt may be deleted, because mods don't want people trying to hit "friends to family" and then it turns out that that's not on the gameplay board.

Prompts can be as detailed (scarian cyberpunk arranged marriage wedding night) or as broad ranging (any of these 300 tags as long as it's team PE) as you like! You have to pick from the list of relationship tags in the tag set to be able to fill out a prompt, but if the relationships you are interested in aren't there, you can click on "nominate" in the top right-hand corner and nominate the tags you want and check back a few hours later! All tags have to be disambiguated (have the fandom in parentheses after the tag itself, like Ranboo/Tubbo (Dream SMP)), so if the tag gets unstuck from the fandom the mods can know where it goes to put it back. There are I think 12,000 tags in the tag set already so mods have a lot of fandoms in there they're not familiar with! You can also request character-focused work and not relationship in the format 1: Grian (Life Series), but the 1: before the name is very important, that's to keep the tag set from snarling cause it thinks we're putting a character tag in the relationship slot. (Which we are, but that's because you gotta break the tag set over your knee a little to make an event of this size work.) Note that if you request a solo character tag people can also include any other characters in canon, including romantic relationships, so be sure to DNW it if you don't want shipping or you have specific notps you don't want in your gift.

DNW? DNW stands for Do Not Want, and it's anything that would annoy, trigger, or squick you that you don't want in your gift. DNWs have to be polite (so no "no abuse because that's creepy to write about abuse), and they must be reasonable (so no "no blood/injury" if you also opted into MCD, and no trying to box someone into a very specific gift, so no "DNW anything that isn't a gladiator au where technoblade fights with a trident and phil has clipped wings and fights with a bow and they learn how to enchant things secretly and in the middle of a rainstorm technoblade uses riptide to escape the ring"), and they must be precise and easily understood (so no "no dark content"). If you're requesting any NSFW tags it's a good idea to have a NSFW DNW specifically, because there are a lot of kinks in the world and you never know what tags someone is trying to hit.

So— fandom, relationship/character, medium, any archive warnings, freeform tags for people to match on, and your DNW and any details about your prompt in the text box. If you don't have any DNW you can just put DNW - No Restrictions, but be aware that that opens you up to Anything, and I do mean Anything. You're ready to prompt for battleship! Go forth, enrich the game with your story and art ideas, your niche blorbos, your fandoms of the heart and the new hyperfixation you discovered last week. I'll see you in the gameplay!

[vintagerpg]

Rotten to the Core (1990) is the last 2300AD supplement. It is primarily a sourcebook detailing Libreville, the city in Gabon, Africa (in 2300, part of the French empire) where the space elevator, amusingly referred to as the “Beanstalk” is anchored. Naturally, this sort of aperture to the stars is going to encourage a lot of power, money and corruption, making it an excellent venue for cyberpunk. I will say, despite a lot of reasonably realistic things going on in this book, it is weirdly white for a city in Africa, even allowing for the colonial imperialism of the French empire and the probable riptide-like currents of gentrification that would beset a place like Libreville.

Anyway, if you take your expectations for a cyberpunk city, dial all the tech to “plausible” and make sure to check every box established by the sub-genre (including having Tim Bradstreet do some art for you), then you’ll pretty much have Libreville. It is kind of weird having something so early in cyberpunk’s lifespan also be so by the numbers, but there you have it. And that isn’t a bad thing! It is just…an obvious thing. Rotten to the Core is not subtle.

The included adventure may as well be a short story by Billiam Hibson. There’s corporate secrets, dark doings, stolen tech, betrayal, violence, all wrapped in that chrome package. There’s a guy named Steel Cowboy. It’s not high art, but it probably makes a good adventure, honestly — the best RPG adventures tend to be somewhat derivative, right? Where players sort of see the big beats coming. That’s this. And since the cyberpunk aspect in 2300AD is so generic, you can pull it out and run it for anything.

Nice Aulisio cover, it’s got atmosphere.

[quaddmgd]

Girls and their rides

So back when 2.1 dropped, I decided to get all the new vehicles and clothes that have been added in the game since Phantom Liberty. While grinding vehicle contracts and races, I was wondering what rides would fit my OCs the best. Now that I managed to get everything, here are the answers!

Crystal - ARCH Nazaré "Racer"

Crystal, my main girl and my OC of choice for beating both Cyberpunk 2077 and its DLC, ironically caused me the most trouble! Up until now, she canonically used a red Shion Mizutani Targa that I managed to find in the wild almost a year ago. The issue was that in case I wanted to use it, I'd have to find it again or spawn it on my PC. Since I mostly play Cyberpunk on my Xbox, that wasn't an ideal scenario.

For a brief moment I was considering giving her a brand new Herrera Riptide "Terrier" - a car I could actually spawn on demand. But seems too impractical for her. She loves cars but I don't see her driving a hypercar. She wants something cool, powerful, but not that high-maintenance.

Then I saw this cool new bike, fell in love with its looks and colors, and remembered that I wrote my dislike for bikes in this game in Crystal's lore! Instead of rewriting it I decided that Elegy, her gf who rides a Kusanagi, made her get used to them, start enjoying their looks, and taught her to ride them - which fits the 2.1 bike handling improvements perfectly!

EV - Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet (930)

Now, I was thinking about giving EV either one of new muscle cars or Mizutani Hozuki "Hoseki". You might actually see some pics of her with these cars in the future (with Hoseki being her first car for example), but eventually I settled on giving her a 911. It fits her looks and personality, and she's my canon V, so a Samurai-themed car is a good choice.

Originally she was supposed to be driving a 911 you get in Chippin' In, but my s/o managed to convince me to get a cabrio! I like its color scheme more than the original one!

Thalia - Villefort Deleon "Vindicator"

Sully was by far the easiest! While at first I had no idea what would really fit her, after I bought that Vindicator and examined it thoroughly, it was the only choice for her. It looks vintage, maybe a bit classy, but with a sport touch.

There's a lore reason for how she got it too! I didn't really have time or strength to explain how she survived her alleged death and ended up arriving in NC yet. Other than reuniting with Crystal, she needs her and Elegy to help her with a special task. The person that drove her near NC, left her that car as a gift and something to aid her in her journey. She might or might not have modified it for that custom look, but I didn't decide on that yet.

[toastedspades]

oh no they put out a new patch for cyberpunk guess i have to play through the entire game again. pity. (they added the ability to paint certain cars, including my stupid spaceship car that i love, the Herrera Riptide "Terrier")

idk anything about cars but i love my stupid little doorstop shes so fast

[bah-junkyard]

Source List

These are all sources I am familiar with already, but not all the sources I'm familiar with. I'm also not opposed to doing sources I'm unfamiliar with!! Sources in orange are sources I'm really familiar with. List under the cut.

Wings of Fire (Book Series)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Book Series)

Heroes of Olympus (Book Series)

Kane Chronicles (Book Series)

Magnus Chase (Books Series)

Scott Pilgrim Graphic Novels (Book Series)

Frankenstein / The Modern Prometheus (Book)

Arcane (Show)

Helluva Boss (Cartoon)

Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)

My Hero Academia (Anime)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Anime)

DanDaDan (Anime)

Steven Universe (Cartoon)

Adventure Time (Cartoon)

House MD (Show)

Delicious in Dungeon (Anime)

Wakfu (Cartoon)

Seven Deadly Sins (Anime)

Stranger Things (Show)

Castlevania (Anime)

BNA (Anime)

Cyberpunk Edgerunners (Anime)

Seinfeld (Show)

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Anime)

Cowboys (Film)

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Film)

Marvel (Film Franchise)

Whiplash (Film)

Hamilton (Musical)

Hadestown (Musical)

Wicked (Musical)

Epic (Musical)

Ride the Cyclone (Musical)

Heathers (Musical)

Be More Chill (Musical)

Tic... Tic... Boom (Musical)

Newsies (Musical)

Starry (Musical)

The Lightning Thief (Musical)

Twisted (Musical)

The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals (Musical)

Nerdy Prudes Must Die (Musical)

In The Heights (Musical)

Beetlejuice (Musical)

Persona 3 (Video Game)

Persona 5 (Video Game)

Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)

Hollow Knight (Video Game)

Overwatch (Video Game)

Inscryption (Video Game)

Elden Ring (Video Game)

Bloodborne (Video Game)

Five Nights at Freddy's (Video Game)

The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

The Magnus Protocol (Podcast)

Midnight Burger (Podcast)

Just Roll With It: Riptide, Wonderlust, Blood in the Bayou (Podcast)

Dream SMP (Webseries)

My Street (Webseries)

Room of Swords, Hand Jumper, Humor Me, Marionetta, The Lone Necromancer, We Are 101, Woven, I'm the Max Level Newbie, Of Swamp and Sea, Suitor Armor, Muted, Sable Curse, School Bus Graveyard, Live With Yourself, 66,666 Years: Advent of the Dark Mage, Lore Olympus, Smithy and Majesty, The Lazy Lord Masters the Sword, Love Me To Death, Scoob and Shag, Metro Hunter, Doom Breaker, I Get Stronger the More I Eat (Webtoons)

Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop RPG)

Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, Alpharad, JaidenAnimations, Drawfee, Jschlatt, Slimesicle, Ranboo, Tommyinnit, Tubbo, W*lbur S*ot (content creators)

Bo Burnham, Randy Feltface (comedians)

Again, there's definitely more stuff, but I can't think of it :P

[hardygalwrites]

I Decided To Relax

...for the Whumptober of 2022...

While I was certainly hoping to get some writing done this year, and I had expressed excitement at focusing on some OC centric Whumptober entries, I ultimately decided to just relax and just... do something a little different.

While I did do two little audio editing projects (which I am massively proud of), everything else was basically just some whumpy moments shown off in the form of audio, video, and/or gifs. And I am all right with that, it was pretty nice to just sit back and occasionally be like “hey guys, check this out”

all that being said i do implore whoever might be seeing this to at least check out either one of my audio edits because i really did work hard on them :’]

As always, a big thank you to the crew of @whumptober and @whumptober-archive​ for organising this event and managing it throughout this rather hectic month! I can only imagine the stress and time that goes into keeping up with Whumptober, and I truly admire you guys for sticking through it :D

—

Audio Edits (Creator’s Choice)

Chip’s Water Nightmare - Just Roll With It: Riptide

No.5: Every Whumpee’s Needs | Running Out of Air

No.24: Fight, Flight, or Freeze | “I don’t want to do this anymore.”

After several sleepless nights trying to avoid his cursed nightmares, Chip is finally forced to sleep, plunging him back into the horrifying depths of the Rakshasa’s curse.

"I was just using you...” - Just Roll With It: Riptide

No. 14: Die a Hero or Live Long Enough to Become a Villain | Desperate Measures

No. 15: Emotional Damage | Lies

Jey Ferin begs her father, Vice Admiral Jayson Ferin, not to hurt her friends, agreeing to return home and give up a pirate’s life. Unfortunately, Jay’s friends are less than willing to let her go, prompting Jay to take a few desperate and deadly measures in an effort to make Gillion and Chip abandon her.

Audio (and Gifs)

“Petulant mortal flesh.” - Devil May Cry 5

No.1: A Little Out of The Ordinary | Unconventional Restraints

No.2: Nowhere to Run​

Nero’s second battle against Urizen goes no better than his first, and Nero is once again defeated by the self-proclaimed demon king. Urizen binds Nero in his blood vines, ready to make good on his promise to give the young devil hunter despair and death.

Alpha’s Final Torture - Red vs. Blue

No. 17: Hanging by a Threat | Breaking Point

Alpha, an AI provided to Project Freelancer, is told that his failure as a mission coordinator has resulted in the death of two Freelancer agents. This cruel lie, the last of many psychological tortures, forces the already broken AI to fragment one last time.

"I’m really tired...” - Red vs. Blue

No. 31: A Light at The End of The Tunnel | “You can rest now.”

Agent Texas attempts to rescue Alpha, but her efforts prove to be just a little too late; the AI is too broken and too tired to want to do anything more than rest.

Videos

"You scared?” - Persona 4 The Animation

No.3: Hair’s Breadth From Death | Gun to Temple

No.29: What Doesn’t Kill Me… | Defiance

In the long awaited confrontation against Inaba’s true serial murderer, Yu Narukami’s Persona is swiftly overcome by the Persona of Tohru Adachi, leaving Yu at Adachi’s mercy.

"I... I can’t breathe...” - Cyberpunk 2077

No. 22: Pick Your Poison | Withdrawal

When an abrupt and almost violent dismissal from his job at Arasaka leaves V’s hormone regulators and other company provided cyberware non-functional, V struggles to adjust to the sudden withdrawal.

[daisyachain]

I almost wish we got more of the Forged vs Cold Constructed plotline, since even though the culmination happens in Remain in Light, three out of the four Cold Constructed main characters don’t get a spotlight until season 2. Even though we get a lot of coverage of generalized class divisions (those within the Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy like ruling vs intellectual vs manual vs beast/disposable), the Forged-CC is mostly told in implication. The story of the MTOs, a bunch of microaggressions from various characters, Chromedome’s limited class mobility, and the large overlap between the manual class and Cold Constructs are pretty much all we get. It’s enough to fill in the gaps and paint a detailed picture, but at the same time it gives me enough information that I’d just like to have seen more of it.

MTMTE dabbles in cyberpunk as part of its genre mix and one of the cornerstones of cyberpunk is the idea of the artificial person. You’d think it would be impossible to do the robot class story in a world full of robots, but Roberts fully squares the circle by creating the Cold Constructed class. They are allowed more privilege and power than the non-sentient classes (depending on build), and they’re still treated as cheap knock-offs (literally) compared to ‘real people’ in a way that explicitly influenced Megatron, Riptide, Getaway and implicitly had an impact on Chromedome and Brainstorm’s paths through life

[riptidepublishing]

Attention fans of cyberpunk and gay, interspecies dating! The Glamour Thieves by Don Allmon is currently available on Kindle Unlimited. The book is FREE for subscribers until it leaves KU at the end of February. Non-subscribers can snag it for $3.99.

Summary:

JT is an orc on the way up. He’s got his own boutique robotics shop, high-end clientele, and deep-pocketed investors. He’s even mentoring an orc teen who reminds him a bit too much of himself back in the day. Then Austin shows up, and the elf’s got the same hard body and silver tongue as he did two years ago when they used to be friends and might have been more. He’s also got a stolen car to bribe JT to saying yes to one last scheme: stealing the virtual intelligence called Blue Unicorn. Soon JT’s up to his tusks in trouble, and it ain’t just zombies and Chinese triads threatening to tear his new life apart. Austin wants a second chance with JT — this time as more than just a friend—and even the Blue Unicorn is trying to play matchmaker. 

Get it on Amazon

Browse Riptide for more LGBTQ books on KU

[whorizcn]

congrats on 200+ !!!!!! i think i'll go for these 🍂🌈🔥 !! xx

  aaa thank you so much!!!! 🥺💕💕

“🍂“ - writeblr rec!

   @apollchiles is literally one of the nicest people i’ve ever met?? she’s so incredibly talented and she has some of the best worldbuilding i’ve ever seen! her characters and worlds are so vivid and full of life it’s breathtaking!! her graphics are absolutely gorgeous, and she’s so creative that it blows me away. i literally cannot recommend her enough!! 

“🌈“ - wip rec!

  @emdrabbles​ has a FANTASTIC cyberpunk fantasy wip called kill me a nation! kill me a nation follows a group of revolutionaries that have to team up with an enemy general in order to destroy a weapon that could stop an impending war before it even happens! emma is literally one of the best writers i’ve ever seen, and her worlds && characters never fail to leave me in awe, i really recommend you check KMAN as well as her other wip, riptide!! which is a historical pirate fantasy novel! both are amazing and i HIGHLY recommend them both! 

“🔥“ - song rec!

isle of flightless birds && oh ms believer by twenty one pilots are both SOSOSOSO GOOD!! honestly, i reccommend the entire self titled album by them, it’s one of my all time faves!!

come celebrate 200 with me!

[tenander]

2, 5, 14, 17!!!

2. What’s your favorite ttrpg system?  Which other ones have you tried? 

ATM it’s definitely FFG’s Narrative Dice system. Not because of the dice (*gasp*) but because of everything else. It’s an intricately balanced system with a lot of really clever tricks that has a to me very satisfying amount of crunch without ever becoming obnoxious.

I’ve played, oof, a lot of systems. I don’t think I remember them all, but  the major ones aaaare Call of Cthulhu & Hexer von Salem, Storyteller System (primarily Vampire the Masquerade), D&D (from AD&D to 5th), Pathfinder, Kult, Fading Suns, Deadlands, Earthdawn, Das Schwarze Auge, Battlelords, BESM, Westend Star Wars, Legend of the 5 Rings, Cyberpunk 2020, Shadowrun, FFG Star Wars and of course my own game All Things Cast. There were a few years where my partner and I would check out all kinds of different systems but never get proper groups going, and there were other systems that we played maybe one or two games in that didn’t leave enough of an impression on me.

I also LARP’d an itty bit with different systems.

5. Tell me about your most recent OC! 

If we’re talking most recent character I’m playing in a game, that would be Voi Oruka in FFG Star Wars. Voi is a Nautolan and the only son of the leader of Glee Anselm’s leading criminal empire Riptide. Raised as a good and proper Young Boss, he accidentally A Forcepower and once he realises it is that, he takes it as a sign that he’s supposed to do more with his life than become a mafia boss. So he runs away to learn about the Force and about his purpose. Also, the life of a crime boss sucks and he doesn’t wanna. Voi is headstrong and likes stabbing and punching, and his view on life and ethics is just a tad screwy due to his upbringing but he’s a good egg at heart who just wants to do something meaningful with his gift.

If we’re talking most recent character who may one day be in a game (once I finished writing it), that’s Yukiro. Yukiro is first general of a clan that once existed to fight a terrifying demon horde, won, and then didn’t know what to do with themselves, so they instead devoted their lives to a rivalry with a once allied clan. But now the demon lord is coming back, and they gotta find more allies to fight him once more, so Yukiro goes out into the world to scout himself some badasses. Yukiro is a soft boy who’s really into theatre and music, and is kind and gentle to most people, but for the sake of his clan (and the world) he puts on the air of a typical strong, reserved samurai most of the time.

14. Tell me about a piece of impressive game mastering you’ve witnessed! 

Look, most game mastering is really impressive! As a GM myself, I know very well how much work goes into it, how difficult it is to keep up with your players, how many goddamn spoons it takes to be both prepared and flexible, to think of adventures and NPCs and places and voices and plot points and the PCs’ strengths and weaknesses and desires and the players’ strengths and weaknesses and desires, to learn the system and adjust the system and game the system and improvise rules you forgot and provide the mood and the atmosphere and the materials and *BREATHES* game mastering is impressive by virtue of being game mastering, and I appreciate the absolute fuck out of all the people willing to sit in that chair again and again and give their all so that their friends can just... enjoy themselves. (Asshole GMs excluded of course.)

17. What’s something you think you could improve about the way you play tabletop RPGs? 

I need to stop trying to control everything. I’m not sure if it’s a habit that comes from somewhere inside me, a sign of trust issues or if it’s a side-effect of many years of playing with very passive players which put me into a constant instigator position that I now can’t let go of, but it’s not making for a better game or table for me to always have to have the reigns. I also would like to not laugh at my own jokes quite so much. It’s obnoxious and I never plan to, but as soon as I sit down... Things to work on.

[officialjimmybuffett]

entire fun section for the ask meme

okay kids here we go

xxvi. last sentence you wroteMorgan reached up and gently ran his fingers along the rim of the hat. “Only the best for the Riptide.”

xxvii. first sentence for your current WIPIt was those damn seagulls again.

xxviii. weirdest story idea you’ve ever hadother than the wip where im trying (and failing) to combine a magic system with cyberpunk, i cant think of anything???

xxxx. share some backstory for one of your charactersethel!!! born and raised in a wealthy and influential family in shanghai, ethel is One Smart Girl. between the tutors she had and all of the conversations she overheard, ethel knows how to get around any subject, better than any of her siblings. for a while her parents took her as their pride and joy, but when ethel was forcefully outed, she had to flee shanghai if she wanted to keep her life.

[casie-mod]

"It's too bad she won't live, but then again who does?"

Inspired by Blade Runner, this is a playlist for getting lost in a moment. It is a mix of vocal and instrumental songs, the kind of  music I imagine as the love themes in cyberpunk and noir stories, with moods both excited and ephemeral, dreamy and downbeat. So get lost in a moment. They were all made to disappear anyway.

00:00:00 HMB - Impulse 00:05:40 End.user - Sublime (feat. Sol Thomas) 00:13:49 Perturbator - Hard-wired (feat. Isabella Goloversic) 00:19:11 Subheim - Streets 00:24:13 The Enigma TNG - A Breath for Imagination 00:28:19 Collide - Dreamsleep 00:33:38 End.user  - Black Light (feat. Sol Thomas) 00:39:38 Amon Tobin - Black Monday Theme 00:43:14 Trifonic - Transgenic 00:46:48 Ed Harrison - Out 00:54:40 Bluetech - Oleander (Phutureprimitive symbiotic remix) 01:02:02 Haujobb - New World March (Anklebiter remix) 01:07:13 Destroid - Bittersweet Fate 01:11:20 Claire Voyant -Eventide (Front 242 riptide remix) 01:15:48 Frontline Assembly - Vanished 01:22:04 Phutureprimitive - Disappear