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As a Mortal 3 patient, it will take Ripperjack 200eb a month, this drops to a 5% chance;
1 3 days to recover enough to reach a not perfect, but better than nothing.
Critical Wound state. During this time, he
will be in a hospital bed, wired to life Now you've ditched the old meat in the
support, and out of it on drugs (when he freezer, it's time to get cybered up. A Medical
reaches Mortal 2, the doctors can take him Tech skill is required to install cyberwear. You
off the drugs and life support). At Critical, can't install cyberwear on yourself. Each type
Ripperjack is able to hobble around the of cyberwear has a Surgery Code (pg. 75).
ward for a couple hours at a stretch, while This code represents the minimum level of
the nurses look after him. In 4 more days, medical care required to install the cyberwear,
he's able to leave the hospital as long as he the length of surgical time required, the cost
gets his dressings changed once a day. In of the surgery, the damage taken in surgery
4 more days, he's nearly up to full function. and the Difficulty of the installation procedure.
It's taken him 21 days to get back on the The Surgery Code assumes that a successful
Street. Now he can start earning enough Medical Tech check has been made on the
money to pay off his medical bills. patient as part of the operation. Healing is
then based on the number of points lost due
Elective Surgery to the surgery.
Not all medical care is the result of acci-
dents or combat. This is the Metal Age, Negligible
and when you want to get cybered up, you Required: Mall clinic or other drop-in
gotta pay a price in blood. bodyshop.
Surgical Time: 1hr.
If you're going to get wired with a cyber- Surgical Damage: 1 point
limb, the first thing you'll have to decide is Surgical costs: Included with installation.
whether you want to keep the meat one. DIFF= Easy (10)
For 100eb a month, a Body Bank will store
your old one until you decide to reclaim it, Minor.
with only a 20% chance that someone will Required: Medical center or ripperdoc clinic.
sell it for spare parts in the meantime. For Surgical Time: 2hrs.
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Surgical Damage: 1 D6+ 1 parts of Europe. These crack ambulance
Surgical costs: 500eb units are specifically designed to get to the
DIFF=Simple (15) scene of a fatality within seven minutes (or
your money back).
MAjor.
Required: Full hospital with surgery center. Trauma Team's crews are made up of the
Surgical Time: 4 hrs. best paramedical techs and staff available.
Surgical Damage: 2D6+ 1 The teams are usually made up of a driver, a
Surgical costs: 1,500eb senior Medtechie, an assistant and two
DIFF= Trained (20) security officers. They normally travel in a
heavily armored AV-4 aircraft, supported by
CRitical. mobile tanker trucks and ground refuelling
Required: Full hospital with surgery center. stations. A Trauma Team AV-4 contains the
Surgical Time: 6 hrs. most sophisticated revivification and life
Surgical Damage: 3D6+ 1 support technology available, including a
Surgical costs: 2,500eb mobile cryotank to lower the body
DIFF= Difficult (25) temperature to approximately 24 degrees F,
(the optimum temperature to prevent
Example: Morgan Blackshadow decides to hemorrhaging, shock, and brain swelling).
get a cyberarm installed.
The surgery code is Critical Trauma Teams™ can be
(CR). Morgan takes 11 summonedbydialing 91 l
points in surgical damage A Trauma Team pilot on any phone, and are
(Wound State=Critical). is skilled enough to equipped to trace the
The surgery is Difficult set a six-ton AV-4 on origin of any phone call to
(25), requires a hospital, top of a parked car if its source. (You're billed
takes six hours and costs need be... Meanwhile, from the moment you call,
2,500 eb. It will take until delivery to the
Morgan 11 days to recover
the security team
Hospital.) You may also
fully, but he can be back secures the area using opt to carry a deadman
on the street in a week the AV's twin transmitter, which will
(operating at a Light autocannon, while the activate and automatically
Wound State). medtech gets the signal a Trauma Team the
body on board... moment your brainwave
Replacement pattern falls into a coma
Surgery state. The most common
Remember; arms and legs don't grow back. transmitter is in the form of a plastic credit
Even if you heal, a missing limb will still be card, which is activated by bending the card
missing. You can chose to replace it with in half, and has a range of 20 miles. Trauma
something out of a Body Bank or vat, or you cards can be transferred between members
can go for the metal. Replacing a limb with of a group as long as the card's owner is present
either requires a CR surgery code. A replace- to sign the charges off when the Team arrives.
ment meat arm will cost about 1,000 eb. A
replacement cyberarm starts at 2,000eb and There are usually a dozen or more Trauma
goes up from there depending on what you Teams on call at any time in a major city.
want to plug into it. Immediately after receiving an alert, the
nearest Trauma Team™ unit goes airborne,
Trauma their sophisticated tracking equipment
homing in on the last known location of the
Team Inc. patient. The pilot (who is skilled enough to
set his six-ton AV-4 on top of a parked car if
One of the most powerful Corporations of need be), drops in as close as possible. If the
the Cyber Age is the Trauma Team™; a firefight is still going on, the security team
bonded and licensed paramedical franchise secures the area (using the AV's twin
operating throughout the U.S., Canada and autocannon or their own portable weap-
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ons). The medtechs load the patient on The Government doesn't care who turns
board, shunting his life support to the on- the body in. All you need is the card and a
board heart-lung machines, plugging him legitimate death certificate stating that the
into onboard biomonitors, and chilling his deceased died of natural or accidental
't
I body down in the refrigerated tank for causes, available through any local coro-
stabilization. Rapid surgery is performed on ner. The result is that many firefights end
the spot for the most critical wounds, while with a frenzied looting of bodies for donor
"I've been in 1 the med specialist uses a combination of cards-followed by another firefight over
t' Trauma Team 't electroshock, drugs and manual resuscitation disputed claims and ending in another
I for five years , to get the patient on-line again. The pilot frenzy of looting.
now. I've put slams down the throttles and the AV-4 rockets
skywards on a pillar of exhaust, headed for Legally, donor centers must be located in
my bus down,
,: on more,
rooftops than I , I
the nearest emergency room. The entire
process may have taken all of four minutes
from start to finish.
legitimate offices of the County or City
Coroner's Office, or in a public hospital.
However, a thriving black market in fraudu-
care to , lent donors thrives in most of the combat
remember, and 1 As a privately owned concern, Trauma zones, usually out of "ripperdoc" clinics or
Teams™ are not under any obligation to Corporate centers (where high level execs
I've been in 1 transport a casualty to a hospital, although get first pick of the new parts).
more firefights I t they are responsible for reviving and stabiliz-
than I ever was ing critically wounded patients. Trauma Team The biggest problem with Body Bank re-
during the 1 fees are exceedingly steep ($100 per minute), placements is the availability of genetically
Wars. By now, 1 the best method of offsetting their exorbi- matching parts. When attempting to lo-
tant costs is to either carry Trauma Team cate a replacement limb or other part at a
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services as part of a Corporate group insur- body bank, roll 1D10. On a 1,2,or 3, the
the bodies as 1 ance policy, or to establish an account with part is unavailable that day. On a 4 or 5, the
people. I see 1 TT International, paying a premium of $500 part is in, but it may be the wrong color or
them as either I f in advance each month for continued service. have some other minor difference.
parts or 1 Spare Parts Vat Grown Tissue Banks
pickups." These are places where you can get the raw This reflects recent (201 7) improvements in
materials for putting people back together genetic technology. Using tailored DNA and
-Unknown again. They are a staple of the Cyberpunk cell-growth vats, legs, arms, organs and other
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landscape, and a good source of steady parts (including exotic designs like animal-
income for the enterprising street dweller. human crosses) can be grown to order.
Unlike bodybanking, vat-grown parts are
Body Banks available to match any genotype. However,
Just in case it didn't work out, you can still the process is relatively new and is more
make a dead comrade pull his weight. The expensive than simply using an arm off the
Lifeline Act of 1994 (an extension of the rack(2 times the price for a similar body bank
donor cards of the 1980s) allows a potential part in Excellent condition).
source of spare parts to carry a donor card in
his wallet. This card must be registered with
the federal government. Only donor carded Bodysculpting
bodies can be turned into a donor center, As long as you're having a few cybernetic
where a bounty is paid. The bounty is based grafts put on, why not go all the way and
on the parts involved and the body condition re-do the whole thing? The art of body-
at the time. sculpting includes skin tints, hair and eye
Average Bounty Sale Price
color changes, breast enlargement and
Part
Arm 500 1000 reduction, and general all-over bodywork.
Leg 600 1200 You can have bone and muscle removed to
Heart, Lung 700 1400 become shorter, or have grafts added to
Liver, Kidney 200 400 become taller. Excess fat can be suctioned
Eyes, Ears 800 1000
Other Organs 200-300 400-600
away, and collagen implants can smooth
Poor Condition: 1 /2 normal bounty wrinkles, add weight, and change con-
Excellent condition: 2x normal bounty tours. Bodyscupting is readily available in
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a number of body salons, including Body-
shoppe, Parts N' Programs, and Docs R
Us™. Body sculpting indudes appearance
changes, appearance enhancemen t, and
exotic fashion.

Change Appearance : Looking like a fa-

vorite movie star or celebrity is a popular "I want my legs 1 ··
fad in 2020; entire gangs, known as Posers, lengthene d and I t
often have themselves bodyshaped to re- my hips angled. :
semble famous people. Appearanc e You can pull 1
changes are also a staple for Solos, Rockers,
and any other sort of high mover who
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of an appearance change is based on how the tummy 1
convincing that change is. while you're at 1

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At 1,200 eb, you look sort of like you wanted
to; a casual observer could spot the differ-
to resize the 1 .··
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widen my 1
At 2,400 eb, you look very much like you
wanted; it would take a DIFFICULT Notice
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among only the very rich and very bored. I
check to spot the sculpt job. tad... Now, I ··
Prices are based on the individual enhance-
ments.
about the 1
With 3,600 eb, you would look exactly as you
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wanted to look; spotting the sculpt would
take a VERY DIFFICULT Notice check. Facial Sculpts combine vat-grown parts It
such as muzzles, whiskers, animal-like ears, -Conversa tion at 1
At the top end (5,000 eb), it would require a manes and cat eyes with the patient's the local 1
NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE check to spot the body- normal features. There are entire booster-
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sculpt from your original face. gangs based around various animal motifs
of this type. Cost: 5,000eb
It
Increase Attractiveness: Cyberpunk style
always goes to the extremes-y ou're either Tails are grown in vats, using gene bank
really ugly or very good-looking. One way to tissue. They can be furred, tinted, scaled or
increase your Attractiveness is to have your bare skin. The tail is grafted to the base of
body re-designed at the local 'sculpt clinic. the spine and linked to the nervous system
The process is expensive, granted, but many by nanotech nerve threaders. Tails are rela-
people think having the right "look" for that tively weak; they can pick up about a half
year is worth a few thousand euro. Cost is pound. Cost: 3,000 eb.
600eb per Attractiveness point gained. For
example, to raise my appearance four points Hooves, claws and paws can be grafted to
would cost 2,400eb. replace normal feet and hands. They are
not as dexterous as normal digits (-2 to
Want to decrease your Attractiveness? A REF), but are occasionally included as part
straight razor costs fifty-nine cents. of a Exotic bodysculpt. Cost: 8,000 eb.

Exotic Fashion Skin alteration uses transform DNA to

Bodysculpt jobs that emphasize the alien change the structure of the patient's skin.
or inhuman are known as Exotics. Vat- Using tailored DNA, the skin can be in-
grown tails, furred skins, hooves, animal- duced to grow patterned fur, light scales,
like faces and ears, cats eyes and other semi or exotic skin colors. The big drawback is a
human features are the highlights of this 1 in 1 0 chance that the graft will mutate
style. Exotic fashion is incredibly expen- and develop into skin cancer. You get to
sive, time consuming and usually a hobby pick the number. Cost: 1 0,000eb.