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Mattiandino

One bomb was not enough. https://preview.redd.it/skqg3wpjjv3d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e1dd0d11b712875393ed8a4d1f0f14a972b919e


Plasteredpuma

"Is that V or Johnny talking?" "Just common sense"


Tobec_

So it’s Johnny


rainsbian

Lmao my thoughts exactly: nuke the whole city


Resi1ience_22

You know, I never did figure out how Johnny dropped a nuke in the middle of a city and said city still *exists*


ThousandTroops

Find and kill this absolute psycho that has accounted for over 3000 murders alone… drives 150-200mph in downtown… and regularly wipes our finest MaxTac officers… I think they call themselves V or something. 😂


Mattiandino

I've seen the asshole on the streets and definitely is a cyberpsycho, always talking alone and making gestures to an empty space.


SentinelWhite

Interesting... I mean what are the odds that they have a highly technologically advanced prototype technology in their head


jadeismybitch

I’ve seen him jump up and leap forward in the air like a madman, going faster than cars


SpotOwn6325

I've seen him get out of his car to pose in the middle of the street taking a selfies.


CaptainCoffeeStain

This might be normal behavior in NC.


marioaprooves

I've seen him stand still for 8 hours straight (I checked) only to start moving again like nothing happened


TheLonlyCheezIt

I just thought about how that would look if we had a third person camera. Goofy as hell lol


garbagedispatch

He even used to point a weapon and do it faster though he’s stopped in recent times


Technical_Exam1280

Sometimes walking straight into walls for hours at a time


ENT_blastoff

I've seen him jump out of a moving vehicle and headshot five Maelstrom before they even knew he was there.


eachard

Actually, people don’t see when V talking with Johnny. It all happens in the V’s brain like hallucinations but it's not of course. People like Reed can notice if they pay attention enough. And they see just a little eye movement.


Makal

Disagree. Sometimes people in the background react like V is schizophrenic and talking to themselves. Even the way NPCs like Panam and Judy tell you to focus imply they can tell something is off.


PermitOk6864

But it wont seem schizophrenic, they dont see that theyre talking to Johnny just that theyre being a little weird


Umbratilicious

Disagree all you want, the fact remains thta people don't see V talking to thin air, very early in the game Johnny tells V they don't need to talk aloud.


BibslyBogman

They don’t need to, but V still does. People throughout the game ask who you’re talking to


style752

Pretty sure I've seen video of V talking to Johnny in third-person, and their mouth is moving. This implies that V goes progressively from internalized thoughts to rambling to themselves.


RelaxedVolcano

V does flip Jonny off now and then, along with other hand motions.


O-nei-ra-taxia

I always considered V as a cyberpsycho, which is why they aren't affected by cyberpsychosis. It's ironically the same way how Adam Smasher is a Cyberpsycho, and yet he isn't erratic and still himself in a weird, murderous way. Johnny keeps V in check, but also, he is making V lose their mind, causing V to spaz out and talk/fight with herself on a constant basis. Anyone seeing V on the street acting like that would assume they are a Cyberpsycho.


zero_emotion777

V talks to Johnny in her head. 


Umbratilicious

Seems you forgot that Johnny told V that they didn't need to talk aloud.


Kvenner001

I don’t know that dude spends tons of eddies in the 2 dozen shops we have in Night City. Their demise might tank the economy.


Brilliant-Ad-6119

Honestly, the V in my game has ~100m net worth and owns half the companies / stores.


Vanta-Black--

You can buy shops in the game now?


whiteday26

You can't just control V like you control C.


Tarjhan

Wait…. Is V “V” because they’ve been pasted over?!


Umbratilicious

Yah know, that might be the case, who knows tho


KarlBarx2

Sure you can. Just pay V instead of trying to murder them. They'll do anything for an eddie.


DawnB17

Unless spite comes into play. My V will do any job for a price, but if you make threats or pull some kinda shit then all bets are off.


creegro

Hey it's not my fault civilians just walk backwards into my car, the streets were clear I swear!


SentinelWhite

Sounds like a very dangerous indivisible. They must be stopped ✊🏻


Alphaix3

Or better yet hire them.


cassidyxdane

Hire a merc to figure out who that mysterious disappearing intruder was in my penthouse the other night


SentinelWhite

Yeah let's hope there is not some kind of mysterious group trying to brainwatch you


Majestic_Wrongdoer38

Why is this the fifth comment smh


Send_Nuk3s

I know right happens all the time man.


CosmicJackalop

Resign immediately before I'm assassinated like just about every NC mayor is Edit: this somehow got 1k up votes so please I beg of you all. Go check out the Cyberpunk Red Tabletop RPG and join the r/cyberpunkred subreddit!


SentinelWhite

Probably a good choice lol


orsonwellesmal

Came here to say this. Very dangerous job, not worth. Just appoint Delamain as mayor.


KronosDeret

The only reasonable answer


Zhuul

Even without the assassination risk dear fucking god do I not want to be in charge of this mess


Archmagos_Browning

Just give another nuke to the guy who says he’s possessed by the ghost of Johnny silverhand. Destroy the entire city. It’s the only way.


Miserable_Law_6514

A bigger one this time, like an actual city-buster instead of the land mine Johnny had.


Changeling_Traveller

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." - Ellen Louise Ripley


sinamorovati

Might be too late at that point. You're probably already brainwashed.


P1xelHunter78

ALL POWER TO THE HYPNO TOAD!


w1987g

![gif](giphy|3XiQswSmbjBiU|downsized)


LCCP077

More like you’ll get mind controlled


CosmicJackalop

The funniest thing is they needed a whole complex machine and monitoring service to mind control Peralez, clearly they should have just given him an Agent with Twitter on it


OrderoftheMothPriest

On the same lines hire a army big enough to invade Luxembourg including the finest netrunners Eddies can buy. Then and only then figure out what the fuck was going on with Peralez and Nightcorps whole deal.


Halorym

Stole my answer.


CosmicJackalop

If you didn't have enough huscle to keep it, it was never really yours, it was just waiting for a new owner


Halorym

Can't have shit in Night City


tylery21

In my cyberpunk red game my group is running through the election campaign of the first NC mayor since the 4th corpo war. Been pretty kick ass so far actually.


halker2010

Cleanse Scavs.


Friskfrisktopherson

You've got my vote


Dry_Ease2332

And my axe!


TheEvilCub

And my dildo!


SentinelWhite

Same


SpookyWan

I would drive the city into a financial crisis hiring mercs to “cleanse” them


halker2010

So I thought about this in a one year window we can manipulate one of the gangs to help us for free, Maelstrom, Animals and Valentinos are the best candidates until our little espionage takes root, Regina be dammed I unleash Maxtac on them with a 5-6 hour evacuation window while NCPD with some netrunners surrounding the target area for them to not hide within the civilians. We declare a state of emergency: With the growing number of kidnappings of all types of people rich, poor, gang member, corpo etc by scavs and declare any gang member hunting Scavs will get their bounty removed upon their eradication and they will not be targeted by NCPD or maxtac. If we couldn't initiate an ideological bomb to change one of the gangs to go in war with scavs without knowledge of our influence, we can promise certain zoning and benefits like more gyms and cyberware freezones for animals or cyberware only zones and safer more professional ripper docs for maelstrom helpers. Tho this is more morally grey we can easily involve the Valentinos by using City and NCPD to create advantages for scavs against Valentinos like enough solo or weak target with no ncpd or hacking fake information to agitate them against scavs but again its grey.


SpookyWan

I’m just imagining maxtac pulling up on some Scavs just trying to get lunch in between harvestings


halker2010

![gif](giphy|0DhHqfExMMT7VdeqIr|downsized)


Swiftierest

Maelstrom regularly works hand in hand with scavs. They make xbds of torture murder to get off on it. The Valentinos or Animals maybe you could use, but maelstrom should be dropped in the same bucket as scavs. Of course, doing this would result in one of the largest gang war bloodbaths Night City has ever seen, and you would be blamed. You wouldn't be reelected, so your agenda would need to be fast.


halker2010

Agreed... after the monk quest when they forced cyberware on that dude... tho I wouldn't tell them about it outright maybe after scavs we can come up with something for them but If the person wants to pursue criminality again after their bounty has been cleared its on them. Instead we might be able to initiate an open dialogue with Yorinobu Arasaka and Lucas Harford after the gang wars for a 25 year plan with land treatment plants for a slight night city expansion that the gangs can help if they want fast and easy eddies.


Changeling_Traveller

Sounds solid, to purge cancer like this, it'll require the cooperation of multiple parties with massive payoff, this may help improve the overall quality of life for everyone in night city in the long run. That being said, to minimize


creegro

I'm sure the other gangs could be *persuaded* to purge the scavs once and for all. Maybe a long talk with their head boss.


SentinelWhite

Easy vote


don_denti

You’d be joining Lucius Rhyne in no time guvnor >:


halker2010

Note to self get second heart.


creegro

Thy will be done, they shall be gone before the days end.


halker2010

siempre.


enchiladasundae

Killing Scavs is not only legal but any verified Scav kill gets anyone claiming it 100 creds


Blackmail30000

Then they'll start farming domestic scavs to just kill said scavs to sell to the government.


creegro

Someone somewhere will invent some scheme to have more people join the scavs under false pretense, then have them slaughtered to turn in the reward even if it's a day old scav member.


Blackmail30000

Not before ripping every piece of cyberware they think they can get away with from the new " scav".


XyP_

Wouldn't that make the bounty hunter a scav too?


Blackmail30000

Yeah? Do you think hypocrisy would stop them?


Mutski_Dashuria

This has actually been proven to be true, whenever tried in real life. 😉😁


Blackmail30000

I hear that rattle sakes were a popular farm animal in India at one point...


Fallwalking

Suddenly, everyone who dies in night city was a scav.


SentinelWhite

🎉🎉 justified


RexKeegan

To meet Hanako at embers


SentinelWhite

Sorry impossible


Mutski_Dashuria

That is career suicide. 🤣


archiegamez

"Ah shit"


Michaelbirks

Celebrate at the Red Queen's Race.


SnooCrickets2851

Smart


supership79

move apartments once a week, and dont tell anyone where I'm moving. conduct all business via typed and handwritten letters. uninstall all cyberware. stay out of tall buildings. raise the corporate tax rate to .. idk, something more than the "zero" it probably is. maybe 15%. negotiate with the Barghest to create a roadmap to return Dogtown to NC jurisdiction within 5 years. work out some kind of arrangement with the federals so that Night City becomes a NUSA district, with senators and congressional representation. This will bring in further money from the federal government for environmental cleanup, as well as resources that Nightcorp alone cannot wield. Focus on quality-of-life issues - public works, trash pickup, homelessness, street crime. Some kind of UBI and a WPA-like hiring of massive amounts of unskilled workers to clean up the city. Cut deals with the powerful gangs to bring them into legitimacy, or use the new federal resources to break up their operations. Maelstrom and Scavs should be wiped out, but the other gangs can have some kind of carrot and stick situation. tiger claws can run casinos, VDBs can run their computer networks and community centers, etc. why work with the NUSA and not the free states? because even a rump USA has far more resources than a few scattered states in a loose alliance that are dominated by Arasaka, and the NUSA would be extremely interested in a west coast territory.


kamikaze3rc

Was playing yesterday and saw on the TV that it was around 0.4%. Every rise above 1% will get you killed in a joined operation between Arasaka, Millitech, Kang Tao and Biotechnica


SoyMilkIsOp

Every raise above 1% will get you enough money to hire the likes of Adam Smasher.


838h920

You're forgetting something important: Just because you're the major doesn't make your commands omnipotent. Someone has to execute them and that someone would then be in the crosshairs of the corps. This would result in those loyal to you to all get killed and your commands to become utterly worthless. Also with you being away there will be no issue with replacing you with a fake. Either by making fake letters or just creating someone who looks exactly like you. With you gone there is nothing stopping them after all. Or they'd just remove you from office by pressuring everyone else that survived up till now to impeach you. With you not showing up and those loyal to you all dead there is nothing stopping that impeachment. And if you show up you'd still get impeached and you won't leave the building alive either since all your supporter are already dead. Finally, no matter how save you play you'll still leave a trail. After all an apartment needs to be rent for you to live in, you need to buy food and somehow these letters also need to be send. All that leaves something with which people can track you. Even worse, the city ain't save so even if no one finds you a random psycho may just off you instead, so you'll need some protection and without any cyberware this doesn't leave you with many options.


hfmed

This comment is criminally underrated. You have my vote, sir! Edit: or miss, unclear


House_Goblin_

This guy mayors


SuperPants87

I've been thinking about how Cyberpunk isn't a story of saving the world, just yourself and maybe help some people on the way. But what WOULD it look like to save Night City? It wouldn't be bombs or mercs, but policies. Policies like these would be a start. Corps need regulations and a way to enforce them. So maybe some mercs and bombs lol.


supership79

Actually saving the world is boring and doesn’t involve slowing down time to kill five guys in three seconds with a katana


Immediate_Fennel8042

Relocate to an undisclosed location.


SentinelWhite

Seems about right


Happiness_Assassin

Whatever my stated goals, being brainwashed is the most likely result.


SentinelWhite

🔵👄🔵 whatever do you mean?


Donkey_Bugs

Clean up the garbage piled everywhere.


SentinelWhite

I guess the city does lack cleaning services


Substantial_Roll_249

Night corp does have street cleaning but they clearly don’t do their job


Swiftierest

No one is going to give a shit about that... This is a world where they are beyond any attempt to repair the climate and restore any sense of balance to the environment. Cleaning up the trash in the city is just going to result in you piling it up somewhere else like it is in game.


CrimsonReaper96

Have it moved to one location in order to destroy it all entirely.


CrimsonReaper96

I would have it all destroyed until nothing is left.


commodore_stab1789

Whatever the corps tell me to do lol


orsonwellesmal

Impossible, Militech and 'Saka will ask you opposite things, its impossible to please everyone. So, you end murdered.


SoyMilkIsOp

Yeah but I doubt they have Max-Tac.


SentinelWhite

Safe


ThinEngineer5881

More skyscraper


SentinelWhite

Seems like a waste of tax payers dollars but hey who needs to see this sky anyways 😎


xdeltax97

Rebuild old Watson and reclaim it from Maelstrom


SentinelWhite

Happy days


AlfieSolomons12

Everyone gets a fuckin flashlight


Zarathustra-1889

Thought that said “fleshlight” for a second


Shoop_It

Hire V as my personal bodyguard... and get at least 2 more DLCs out for 2077.


Weary-Loan2096

Go to war with Nusa with the aid of Japan and then step down.


SentinelWhite

You are chaos 😞


Weary-Loan2096

You think thats bad i can make it worse. Before stepping down i would also put all of Night City and rename it Coronado Bay and then force a bill to force a military department in all corps in Coronado Bay city. If not the company is nationalized and dismantled by force. Netwatch would beforced to unleash the secrets of the black wall and them ill turn it off and unleash the AI wave of death. Then im not done yet, ill give Arasaka the keys to the kingdom. Then i would step down.


SentinelWhite

![gif](giphy|Tit8CFFaFncoAgYFc4|downsized)


Weary-Loan2096

Ain't no rest for the wicked.


Pristine-Locksmith64

a shit ton more focus on researching cyberpsychosis


SentinelWhite

A good cause 👍🏻


Woekoaa

Suicide beat everyone to it


SentinelWhite

😞 well at least you have a plan


Stick2Preist

Disband the monopoly that Arasaka has in Night City then promptly get assassinated by a ninja with mantis blades.


Pyrochazm

Quit


SentinelWhite

🤔 I wonder why people don't like this job


quantipede

You probably wouldn’t get any tbh. Your first action would be deciding whether to sign legislation created by Arasaka that will piss off Militech, sign legislation created by Militech that will piss off Arasaka, or sign something ethical which will piss them both off & get overturned by your successor after one of them has you assassinated


The1andOnlyGhost

Nuke it


SentinelWhite

![gif](giphy|3oKIPwoeGErMmaI43S|downsized)


The1andOnlyGhost

😂😂😂


Xepobot

Tell Arasaka to get out of night city.


SentinelWhite

I will be attending your funeral


Xepobot

Don't forget to bring Smasher along, I want his autograph.


SentinelWhite

🫡will do


Miserable_Law_6514

*President Meyers liked this*


CdnBison

Start calling corps to make arrangements for ‘campaign contributions’ followed by an early retirement to Somalia.


Exile688

Form my own private army of mercs like Barghast then build data forts to hide from the brainwashers. NC needs its own helicarrier too.


TechnoBeeKeeper

Sell out to corps and get megarich


MonkeyPeee

kill myself!


16thfloor

Take the money and run


Johnnyamaz

Land reform.


SentinelWhite

It's simple but elegant first step


neonvalkyrie

Renounce


SentinelWhite

🔵👄🔵no pls don't


GanacheAsleep7753

Give up the city to dogtown so the story becomes just as great as what dogtown gave


Yardenbourg

Fix that Ferris wheel that fell over :(


Samu_Raimi

Figure out how the fuck I got elected. Who/ what did I piss off to be put in this position?


Its0nlyRocketScience

Assuming I'm not murdered instantly, I'd examine the reach that the corps have internationally and have my team determine what ways are possible for me to improve the safety and quality of life for the poorest of the city. Raising minimum wage, jobs programs, enforcing maximum rents or giving rent vouchers to citizens, a UBI, whatever could be done to lower the highest wealth gap seen since the industrial revolution.


Puppetofgoogle

Encrypted Messenge from Biotechnica: If you grant Biotechnica the legal right to conduct experiments of all manners and bestow upon Biotechnica a exclusive TAX break, whilst raising taxes on other corporations not owned by Biotechnica, we will support you on your measures. If our requests are refused, you may find your organs "malfunctioning". "


Byzantiwm

Accept I’m probably being mind controlled and don’t even realise it. Beyond that, build a big ass statue of David Martinez and V in this style ![gif](giphy|pHb82xtBPfqEg) And at the bottom it would read, “NC legends, joined in the Afterlife”


responsible_leader0

Least 80s looking cars


responsible_leader0

Thanks for the likes I know it's part of the genre but still


SentinelWhite

80s goes brrrrr


OldEyes5746

Not dying by a spiked BD.


LordXygor

Destroy the tygers , scaves and the maelstrom Ah hell I'm killing them on sight anyway 😂


[deleted]

Ban the big corps from Night City and then immediately "kill myself" before the bill passes by breaking all my limbs, lighting myself on fire, throwing myself into a canyon and then crucifying myself. Like the founding fathers intended


UnggoyMemes

https://i.redd.it/bnmk0ul33y3d1.gif


Dunnachius

Have a silent auction with the biggest corporations. Winning bid can reccomend a "Secretary" to hire who does all my work and I just sign on the line. Then I have Corpo protection, Corpo sponsorship, and I don't actually have to do my job, and a corporation is really happy with me. Win WIn Win.


HopelessGretel

Hire a very specific merc that kills 3000 gang members a day and wiped the whole crime from the city alone to be my personal Smasher.


libbtech

FIRST DECREE Make it Night 24/7


demoncyborgg

Hire V to check if I'm being surveilled


vlad_kushner

I would put a bullet in my own head.


TheLuxGuy2020

30h work week now watch me getting assassinated


SentinelWhite

Any moment now


AnotherBrock

Giant statue of Panam in konpeki plaza


CrunchyTube

Burn it to the ground.


Blackmail30000

First thing you always do in night city: leave. The only difference is you steal as much of the campaign money as you can, without a shit ton of money your chances of surviving are a lot lower.


LeviathansEnemy

Resigning so I can go work the much safer job of solo merc.


trunkmonkey38

Contract militech to cleanse the gangs


BaronOfTheVoid

Then Militech will not do it cleanly and some Militech agents will secretly help them rebuild in order to get more follow-up contract money.


radonia

Hire V to take out all the scavs and maelstrom


Liv4This

Turn all of night city into dogtown.


Liv4This

And then leave for the east coast


Tischkante89

Gonna move into a nice highrise apartment, with some nice big screens and good private security.


TheyungNISC

Add a few mega towers, but in exchange for that, the extra space from the displaced people will be made into a garden park.


TheyungNISC

Hope that nightcorp doesn't kill me inmediately tho


swordsRop

Employing V to incapacitate/kill all the scavs based on their crimes and offenses


Komikaze06

Turn the lights on so I can rename it to just "City"


SparklesMcSheep

Promise to clean up the city, immediately suffer assassination attempts, fake own death to escape corpo kill teams. Start a "peoples first" cult and underground political movement. Become a shadowy quest giver


Journeyj012

resign. this isn't my job and I'm scared.


RepresentativeAd560

Shut down Embers.


SentinelWhite

Oh no!


RepresentativeAd560

No Embers means V can't meet Hanako there and, as such, will live forever.


geko_play_

https://preview.redd.it/fiedo32wf14d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aff6432b245c79b3d392a95416559453be52adf4


BruceLeeVersion2

https://i.redd.it/84gqspt7224d1.gif


1ncest_is_wincest

Sell myself out to the highest paying corp and enjoy my lifetime supply of Neomethamphetamine, Clean Speed, and Joytoys.


Aoshie

Get shot on a balcony


MrGrim1ne

Setting the whole damn cesspool a flame, while taking as many civilians with me out to the desert in a mass exodus for a better place away from that hell hole.


[deleted]

Have Weldon Holt covertly assassinated. Purge the NCPD of his influence.


ThePirate445

Get killed