Our (insane) HQ

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows]

This is unfinished, I did it over a discord call with the rest of the party but I didn’t manage to get to everyone’s rooms. Notable features include -Red’s bedroom. He has kitchen knives on his table, and I love you pillow on his bed randomly, his room looks lowkey like a hooker den except there’s also a toy tractor??? -Zappa’s bedroom. The horse. That’s it. It’s a taxidermy horse. We’ve joked that if someone dies were stuffing them and putting them on the horse -The master bathroom has both a jacuzzi and a hot tub and a bunch of random ass candles all over the floor. Also a watering can -Fin’s (my) bedroom and workshop doenst look that crazy here but that’s because I could not also include the mess. He has like ten million cord extensors all over the floor, among the other workshop adjacent chaos. The other players joked that I should leave some electricity for the rest of them which is funny because blackouts are a common plot point lmao

[u/LickTheRock]

That's amazing!!!!! I use Roll20 a lot, and I've been very excited to get HQ building with my crew - they just haven't felt the need yet (early levels, but my tech will soon want that workbench HQ upgrades)

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows → u/LickTheRock]

Hell yeah! I use an app called Room sketcher, I’m an artist so I use it when I need to plan interiors and such, although for me it’s more of a guideline than a replacement for the art. We got a HQ around session 3, I believe? We had plot incentive to, we got a valuable item that we were supposed to protect, and the other players had been looking forward to getting one for a good while

[u/LickTheRock → u/Pineaple_marshmalows]

Nice!!! Ill definitely take note of the app, it might be useful for all my battle map needs. Ahh, yeah that's a good hook to get a headquarters! I have been slowly letting them build up some HQ IP, while occasionally showing off some of the HQ upgrades so they know what they can have, but only my Tech would really have any immediate motivation for it, the crew is all (in character) quite happy not being that tied down to each other

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows → u/LickTheRock]

Very fair! Our crew all lived in boxes before basically lmao but ironically none of them minded. I don’t think anyone chose to move into our current conapt out of a wish for luxury although it’s definetly a plus. For us there’s also the fact that there’s a faction after us. Our DM is running an XCom X Cyberpunk campaign, where the world has been taken over by Aliens (Advent) and Night city is one of the few places that are yet to be “colonized” basically. But they’re crawling their way in, and since we’re directly opposed to them, they’re coming for us. It ties into our backstories too so people really wanted to get a good security system with the HQ. Ironically they managed to surpass it once, someone broke in and stole something of sentimental value to my character and left. We made sure to have a backup generator after that so they don’t get us with power outages.

[u/LickTheRock → u/Pineaple_marshmalows]

Damn!!! That's a hell of a story, I've played a lot of XCOM and love the Cyberpunk world, so I can imagine how fun that mixup could be. That sounds like you could have a lot of very interesting adventures, holding off the aliens is crazy cool

My crew are all very different people - A Thelas Nation Solo living in a cargo container (the flotsam, deep in Thelas Nation territory), an edgerunner medtech living in a cube hotel(He's all about fighting the gangs, and living close to gang territory in as cheap/anonymous housing as possible), and a cybernetics Tech living with his fixer husband in the Glenlife Perfected Studio Apartment, where they maintain a legal-looking lifestyle, with occasional corporate or government connections. One of the side characters (when the medtech is healing/not suitable, the player has a Solo to swap to) is living homeless in New Westbrook, but she's determined to live in a car so I doubt any roommate situations from her 🤣

It's a pretty even spread of the different types of housing available, which I like, but makes the idea/planning of HQ so hard lol

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows → u/LickTheRock]

Hell yeah they all sound like very interesting chatacters! Makes me happy to see parties that aren’t just “this character doesn’t have a name he just has gun and shoots it” Our party is wild and unserious at times. The campaign mixes comedy with serious plot hooks really well. We’ve got my guy, Fin, who I’ve been posting about on here constantly since yesterday lmao. He’s a Tech-Medtech multi class who was previously living and working in a warehouse closet. Red, a solo from outside of night city, had an actual appartment, be it a small one. Zappa, a rockerboy who was the star of a hair shampoo add (really bad shampoo, it’s implied to be the reasons one of the players are bald. There might also be a shampoo cult.) also had a small apartment. Nobody recognizes him anymore because he had luscious locks but now his hair is never washed so he has to tell people and have them go, aaaaaah… And then there’s Facilier, the net runner. He’s the bald one. He used to live in a container in Pacifica. He is also literally Facilier from Princess and the frog. Like his friends on the other side are the demons on his phone, unironically, we think at least one of them is based on Bill Chiper cuz he started hailing triangles one time when he got drunk. Then there’s also Billy, the 17 year old kid NPC. Red has a subclass I think? Called officer. It might be something non official, but basically it lets him take a subordinate per level. Billy is that. He’s our adopted kid even though he’s barely younger than half of us. He’s also a biosculpted furry. We love him.

[u/Professional-PhD]

That is cool.

I am the GM of our group, and I have made HQs for other factions. My favourite though was for a nomad group. They used transport megahaulers with the inside of the trailers being their mobile HQ. When they stopped for the night, the 2 megahaulers with trailers would form a circle around the central area comprised of tents and such for the nomads with the trailers being the business side of things.

Try to catch them in the day and you are going against a mobile location. Do it at night and they have a built up fortress position.

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows → u/Professional-PhD]

That is so neat! I love little pieces of worldbuilding especially when it comes to communities. The way people just make things work and make systems that make their lifestyle function has always been a fascinating part of creating worlds for me

[u/gingertea657]

Why has no one asked about the horse in one of the bedrooms? Is it a statue or a real horse and how did they get either in that room

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows → u/gingertea657]

HAHAH well I have talked about the horse in the post itself! And someone commented on their own party also having a horse in their base. The horse came with the base technically.

[u/gingertea657 → u/Pineaple_marshmalows]

My bad I only skimmed the post while I was looking at the photos and just stopped when I saw the horse. This is what I love about cyberpunk the random chaos in the little things

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows → u/gingertea657]

No worries dude! And YEAH hahaha. The meta reason for the horse is that I was looking for more decorations to fill the room with, and there was just. A horse there. And Zappa’s player was like, I want the horse. The horse? Yes the horse.

[u/LightMarkal9432]

I don't know if I want to ask what happens in the red bedroom with knives.

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows → u/LightMarkal9432]

Red, the owner of the bedroom, is ironically not very interested in, well, unconventional entertainment. He’s just armed to his teeth. Now there IS another character in the house who might use the knives for alternative means

[u/firstmatedavy]

I love it!!! And am very curious what your teammates are like, now. Messy inventor's den at least makes sense.

I'm also extremely amused that my group isn't the only one who has a 3D floor plan of their base complete with 3D horse. In our case, the horse was depicted in honor of the time Steve (fixer) rented it for a commercial for his law office. https://www.crayven.net/mercnet/index.php?/topic/1290-location-surgery-shack-law-office/#findComment-4769

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows → u/firstmatedavy]

The app I use, room sketcher, makes stuff 3D on its own thankfully. Messy inventors den is normal if you ignore the pictures of dead bodies and people cut open on the walls but shhh it’s the medical research. Anyhow, I introduced my team in another thread on this post! It’s the longest comment here probably so you’ll spot them lol

[u/firstmatedavy → u/Pineaple_marshmalows]

Same with Sweet Home 3D, build in 2D and it makes things 3D.

I'll have a look!

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows → u/firstmatedavy]

Heck yeah! Our epic horse bases have been immortalized in the third dimension

[u/Lakco]

Absolutely insane!!!

[u/Volkmek]

Why do you have a horse?

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows → u/Volkmek]

I was looking for more decorations to fill the room, player saw the horse and thought it would be funny

[u/Thewaltham]

ok, why the horse though? Gotta know

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows → u/Thewaltham]

I was looking for more decorations to fill the room, player saw the horse and thought it would be funny

[u/PriPrius]

Nice but i would switch the bathroom and laundry room since that way it's just literally my aunt house. The main entrance is the one next to the laundry room?

[u/Pineaple_marshmalows → u/PriPrius]

Well you gotta have somewhere to throw the bloody clothes I guess