The Rise and Fall of a Cyberpunk Netrunner

Neon Deeds

In the neon-drenched sprawl of New Osaka, 2097, where megacorp servers hum beneath a sky of holographic ads, Kael, a teenage netrunner, lived for the thrill of cracking digital locks.

His first target was SimGrid, a virtual city sim that let players build glittering metropolises. Holed up in his cluttered hab-block, Kael jacked into the game’s data streams, his neural ring humming as he probed its code.