Through Monday, March 24 we present the CY_BORG Darknet Bundle featuring English-language third-party supplements by Christian Eichhorn for the Free League Publishing nano-infested doomsday RPG, CY_BORG. Adapted by the Stockholm Kartell from Mörk Borg, CY_BORG is a standalone rules-light, rage-heavy cyberpunk SFRPG. In the year 20X3 the city of CY is constantly in flux – shifting, distorting, always reborn as something worse. Poisonous death smog, warring corporations, warring gangs, warring cults – pandemics, tsunamis, bacteria from outer space hijacking intercellular nanorobotics. Designer demise, consumer-customized death, endlessly on repeat. Everyone is interfaced, injected, infected, or infested with something. Everyone wants more creds. And the sky is full of ads.
In a December 2022 EN World review, Rob Wieland laid out the CY_BORG premise: “CY_BORG takes place in the city of CY, which is going through several apocalyptic events ranging from climate disaster to an asteroid strike. The rich and the powerful don’t care, with their glittering towers and hallucinatory implants providing plenty of protection and distraction. The rest of humanity lives in the shadows of the city, scraping by in the rubble and the corpse-riddled streets. The city has been carved up by powerful interests, all of whom deserve to be taken down with maximum prejudice. […] Mörk Borg is a survival game of characters trying to make sense of a world gone to hell by living as long as possible. CY_BORG characters seem destined to go out in a blaze of glory, and the best they can hope to do is pull down one of the hundreds of towers with them.”
Christian Eichhorn previously appeared in two Mörk Borg Bundle offers with supplements like Bergen Chrypt, Galgenbeck Sacrifice, Purgatory, and The Vaults of Torment, which indicate the tenor of his imagination. Christian’s CY_BORG work explores CY and its environs in Kartell’s Old School drive-by style, laying out an array of plot elements the gamemaster hacks together like a cowboy coder. Energetic and insanely varied, these sourcebooks honor and advance the samizdat in-your-face graphic approach Stockholm Kartell’s Johan Nohr took in the CY_BORG rulebook. (Rob Wieland said of the core rules, “The book looks like it’s been optimized for viewing on a cracked screen covered in blood or some sort of industrial fluid.”) Every page is a collage of scraps, pixel art, graffiti, maps; you engage closely just to determine its subject, let alone parse its content.
Content, you ask? You’re destroying super-mutant labs, kidnapping corporates to fulfill a crowdfunding campaign, dodging mechanical harvesters in the poisonous monoculture fields around CY, infiltrating the CVLT of the Hadron Lamb, and shopping for dubious goods on 404//SAN, the demented front page of the Darknet. The fan site Ex Libris deems his approach “five pounds of flavor stuffed into a one-pound bag.”
Note: These third-party supplements require the CY_BORG Core Rules, available right now for a bargain price in our companion Mörk Borg Core Bundle featuring Mörk Borg, the rules-light Old-School blackened artpunk doomsday FRPG.
Pay just US$17.95 to get all seven English-language titles in this offer’s CY_BORG Collection (retail value $92) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including six CY_BORG supplements – Beyond CY, The CVLT of the Hadron Lamb, Darknet Filth, Down Bad, gutter_PVNKS, and the pamphlet adventure Krok Hunters – along with the “triple-threat” supplement Mörk Borg – Tribute, with cool stuff for Mörk Borg, CY_BORG, and Death in Space.
This CY_BORG Darknet offer falls into the Abyss of Antique Code – tumors of malware, encapsulated in sinister hardened containers of programs not seen or compiled for decades! – on Monday, March 24.
