The Go Go Dancer Rig

PapaBear 123

The Rig

Total cost to install/play every card: 36 credits

Total value of cards to Aesop: 135 credts

Drugs: Yes

Length of time to compile your entire stack on said drug: 15 turns, or 60 clicks

Stuff so expensive you have to wait for it to go on sale: Yes, and double Yes.

The author is not responsible for existential ennui caused by this approach to hacking.

3 comments
27 Jan 2016 cursor

That's a lot of effort to go to to crowbar 'Hayley's a stripper' into your deck's story. I think the game, and the community, has thus far done pretty well not creepily sexualising the characters.

27 Jan 2016 onibaku06

I don't think it's creepy at all. It's just another strand of fan fiction, nothing to stress over. However, there is a difference between strippers and go-go dancers.

In regards to the deck itself, I think you could go without Dorm Computer and Bookmark. Try to get in Corroder over Inti. And why Zu over Refractor? Since you have Cloak and Ghost Runner in the deck, it seems like that could be super cheap.

27 Jan 2016 PapaBear

@cursor: You don't think sexual identity has always been in scifi in general and cyberpunk in particular? There is nothing graphic here. I didn't choose a lewd pic. To neglect sexuality as a theme because some parts of gaming culture oversexualize women is inherently senseless. Or, perhaps more to the point, if it was Nasir and not Hayley, would you even care? I doubt it.

@onibaku06 There is a difference. But both take off clothes and dance for money so I had it that Americans wouldn't care about a distinction.

As regards the deck, I tried to make something you could pay for with singles, using only single influence cards. This Hayley can't afford to spend more. I can only put 3 modded in, there is no permanent 0-1 cost killer, and some kind of multiaccess seemed the next most necessary thing. Dorm computer is pretty good against Sync, too. I considered refractor. Either is okay, probably. The inherent limitations of this jank concept made me worry over the added set up of stealth. It's not a good deck. But it could conceivably win a match.