Neon-sim streets, cyberware, and fixers

This guide covers neon-sim's street economy and heat, cybernetic implants, and fixer missions. For districts, surveillance, and hacking, see Neon-sim cyberpunk city.

In Discord, prefix these commands with !.

Money is scrip, the same colony-sim resource stack used elsewhere. Debts and bounties reuse dagger-sim law state, so a street bounty is the same record the law uses, just placed by a runner instead of a court.

Street economy

Buy contraband from a black-market vendor and fence stolen data with a broker:

!buy-contraband target_id="back-alley vendor"
!sell-data broker_id="data fence" data_id="payroll database"

Sensitive data sells for double. Selling and carrying contraband raises your heat (see below). Call in a favor a contact owes you, and settle a debt before it sinks you:

!call-favor target_id="Padre"
!pay-debt

Put a price on a target's head, or flip a police informant to your side (both cost scrip):

!post-bounty target_id="corpo rat" amount=500
!turn-informant target_id="street snitch"

Heat, wanted levels, and the law

Crimes and contraband build heat. Heat decays slowly on its own, but while it is high it escalates your wanted level in tiers, and each new tier triggers a law response and trips nearby alarms. Two ways to cool off: lay low in a safehouse you have claimed, or pay to clear an outstanding warrant:

!hide-from-law
!clear-warrant

Your current heat, wanted level, and debt show in your character context.

Cyberware

Implants slot into your augmentation capacity, and each one carries its own trade-off: power draw, maintenance, legality, and sometimes a side effect. Install an implant you are carrying at a clinic; licensed clinics fit only legal chrome, while unlicensed street surgeons will install illegal implants but the back-alley job adds heat:

!install-implant implant_id="reflex booster" clinic_id="ripperdoc"

Maintain, push, or shut down an installed implant:

!service-implant implant_id="reflex booster" clinic_id="ripperdoc"
!overclock-implant implant_id="reflex booster"
!disable-implant implant_id="reflex booster"
!remove-implant implant_id="reflex booster"

Neglected implants misfire into their side effect; servicing resets the clock. Overclocking adds power and performance but shortens the maintenance interval. Legalize an illegal implant so it stops drawing scrutiny:

!license-implant implant_id="wired claws"

Implants are also a target. Scan a person's chrome, then exploit a vulnerable implant with the same exploit tools you would use on a terminal — a successful breach shuts the implant down:

!scan-implant target_id="corpo guard"
!exploit-implant target_id="corpo guard"

Fixers and missions

Fixers offer runner contracts. Take a job, meet the handler, deliver the goods (usually exfiltrated data), then collect your payout:

!take-fixer-job target_id="data run"
!meet-handler target_id="the broker"
!deliver-data contract_id="data run" data_id="stolen schematics"
!collect-payout target_id="data run"

Not every job is clean — a double-cross pays nothing and spikes your heat when you go to collect. Burn a contact who set you up:

!burn-contact target_id="Padre"

Corporate intrigue

Frame a target by planting evidence, lean on them with leverage you hold, or burn them by leaking it publicly. Extract a defecting asset to pull them out:

!plant-evidence target_id="rival exec"
!blackmail-target target_id="rival exec" file_id="the photos"
!leak-file target_id="incriminating dossier"
!extract-asset target_id="defector"

Blackmail makes the target owe you a favor; leaking a file piles heat on whoever it incriminates.

Example loop

!take-fixer-job target_id="data run"
!buy-contraband target_id="back-alley vendor"
!hide-from-law
!deliver-data contract_id="data run" data_id="stolen schematics"
!collect-payout target_id="data run"
!install-implant implant_id="reflex booster" clinic_id="ripperdoc"