>>5955348>>5955354>>5955358>>5955368>>5955402>>5955493Place to crash?
>>5955382>>5955401>>5955403THE TRUTH
Offering a place to crash wins, writing. Should get the update out tonight still, might be close to midnight though.
>>5955403Depends a lot on what you mean by a criminal, anon. Pursuing crime as a career alternative isn't common, it is mostly just the (very large and often corp backed) gangs, some scavs, arguably Nomads but they're de facto semi-sovereign if not de jure, and then edgerunners filling in the gaps. <span class="mu-i">Dabbling</span> in crime is common though, ubiquitous even. It is important to remember that just a few years prior, Night City was/almost was an active war zone, it STILL has a military occupation going on by a rogue warlord in Dogtown, and even before that it had been slowly recovering for decades after getting nuked by Militech at the end of the fourth corporate war. Don't think of it like a modern first world city gone bad, it ISN'T. There is shit tons of wealth and glamour which draws people in, NC is a god tier business hub for legal and political reasons and has heaps of strategic importance so it gets propped up and big corps and nations bicker over control.
Take the cynicism and corruption of 1990's Moscow, the massive gangs of Honduras until a few years ago, and something like the bizarre laws/tax exemptions/structure of a free city in the Holy Roman Empire, dash a sort of cyber-feudalism and geopolitical intrigue between the NUSA and Japan (Militech v. Arasaka) on top, and you're left with the <span class="mu-s">absolute shithole</span> that is Night City in the 2070's. 2076 is an especially awful year. The political and administrative situation is downright bizarre and a total mess, making it a wonderfully awful place to live but a great one for stories about bad times and hard choices.
The world is spiraling the drain, but there are a LOT of eddies to be made.
>>5955487>>5955421These anons gets it. 2076 was a disaster for Night City, in 2077 the pieces are slowly getting picked back up.
>>5955643Oh god, it begins.
