8 Cyberpunk Fixers
A Fixer is a middleman who provides Jobs to Runners from anonymous clients in exchange for a cut of the Job’s reward.
A Fixer has two primary roles.
- Compartmentalize Information: The client doesn’t know their Runners; the Runner doesn’t know their client. Runners can’t give up their client if they get caught. Clients can’t act against Runners that perform against their specifications. Clients and Runners who hate each other can work profitably together without knowing it.
- Find the Right Crew for the Job Fixers know all the major crews and their areas of expertise and even know a few specialist contractors. A good Fixer doesn’t just find a Runner for a client, they find the right Runner with the highest chance of success for the client’s budget.
Fixers place open work on secret networks or message specific crews with Job opportunities. When Runners accept a Job from a Fixer, the Fixer will set a meeting point where they’ll provide details on the Job per the client's instructions.
Some clients don't work with Fixers, preferring to engage directly with the Runners they hire.
Fixers
Baseline
Appearance: A brick house covered by a flowy duster and a tall popped collar. Face covered except for his eyes: one organic, one mechanical, both have seen a lot of runners come and go.
Reputation: Scouts a lot of new talent. Lots of successful crews got their first serious Jobs from Baseline.
Personality: All business. He doesn't learn Runner's names until they survive a Job. No patience for unprofessionalism.
Typical Clients: Wealthy individuals in the High Rise District or the Vista
Complication: Rarely has high profile Jobs.
Meeting Location: The Live Wire. A neon-soaked bar that serves most of its drinks out of foreign vending machines. Baseline pays to have the cameras turned off.
Glass
Appearance: So wiry they look like they'll blow away. Pale synthetic flesh with no pupils or irises. Constantly smoking.
Reputation: Known for highly lucrative gang Jobs, but unsavory ones, even by Runner standards.
Personality: Untrusting and constantly looking over their shoulder. Talks fast and gets to the point. Won't work with any runners until they hit a hard drug with him to prove that they aren't 5-0.
Typical Clients: Gangs, particularly those with drug dealing operations.
Complication: Usually high. Often forgets or leaves out a key detail or two.
Meeting Location: Abandoned buildings and alleyways in the Industrial district.
Shimmer
Appearance: Sequined silver or black dress, silver Venetian rabbit mask, perfect complexion organic flesh, cherry lips.
Reputation: A great Fixer to get an email from. High-paying Jobs, nice meeting locations. Strange that no one knows anything about her.
Personality: Playful and generous as long as the crew is playing along, threatening if they try to negotiate for more pay or press for information about the client.
Typical Clients: Kept secret, but the client is always "Silent Partner", pushing to control rivals and expand their power.
Complication: Shimmer is controlled by "Silent Partner," the AI that runs all agricultural business on Helianthus. She will throw Runners under the bus, or hunt them down if they cross her.
Meeting Location: Private rooms in high-class bars and restaurants, meals and entertainment comped.
Grim
Appearance: Black leather jacket with a laughing skull patch. pepper-gray soul patch on a bald head, cauliflower ears and a nose that's been busted and reset a dozen times.
Reputation: Nice guy but known for promising more than he can deliver when it comes to rewards.
Personality: A sweetie. Wants to set his Runners up for success and prepare them as best he can. Sort of a whipping boy for the Grinning Reapers Motorcycle Club.
Typical Clients: Slum residents pooling their resources or the Grinning Reapers MC.
Complication: Often promises more reward than the gang is willing to give him, or the streets can give him. subtract 1d10 * 100 Dosh from his contract payouts.
Meeting Locations: The Grinning Reapers Motorcycle clubhouse, or affiliated biker bars. rowdy biker bars.
Raz
Appearance: Fitted suit with a hand-canon peaking out below the right side of the jacket. Mirrorshades, mahogany flattop and stubble, solid-gold cufflinks and thin necklace.
Reputation: Lucrative contracts, but you might as well be dealing directly with a corp, expect no confidentiality.
Personality: Talks like an HR manager. Corpo and therapy speak, constantly bringing up KPIs and business goals.
Typical Clients: Wealthy corpo execs and powerful corporations.
Complications: No confidentiality for the Runner, other Runners and gangs will judge you for working with corps.
Meeting Locations: The back seat of his limo.
The Speaker
Appearance: Face covered by a tattered grey robe and a surgical mask. Biohazard symbol on the hem of the robe in yellow thread, black combat boots.
Reputation: Creeps people out, but a reliable payday.
Personality: Uses flowery and poetic language, discusses how each Job will be an asset for the great upheaval and help her deliver a plague unto the city. When she reaches out about Jobs, she describes them in a tanka.
Typical Clients: A seedy underbelly of wealthy patrons interested in social and economic upheaval for unrelated reasons.
Complications: Once 10,000 Dosh worth of work has been done for the Speaker, she offers a Job to recover a strange chemical. On completion, she uses it to release a plague on her dome city.
Meeting Location: A ramen shop in the basement of an unlicensed surgical facility.
Wheelz
Appearance: Mustard colored knock off racing jacket, ripped jeans with a wallet chain, spiked hair dyed a different color every time you see them.
Reputation: Good for the rewards they offer, but new to the scene. They don't know what they're doing.
Personality: Ambitious, bubbly, excited to work with you. Talks about how every Job could be your break into the "big leagues".
Typical Clients: None. They look into local news stories for potential theft targets and pretend to have clients, but they just sell the goods themselves.
Complication: They don't pay out until a week after you finish their Job, because they need to sell the goods.
Meeting Location: Couch in the flat they share with 3 roommates.
Xx_Moneybags_xX
Appearance: Operates online through forums and secure text chats, profile picture is usually uncomfortably lewd fanart of a character from a popular TV show.
Reputation: Obnoxious and secretive, but he pays on time and he's almost always got work available.
Personality: Condescending, loves to laugh at your expense, thinks of himself as a chess master and Runners as his pawns.
Typical Clients: He doesn't know his clients. Takes money and Jobs anonymously through his own secure network. Anyone can submit a Job as long as they've got the dosh.
Complication: He does no client vetting. Sometimes clients send Runners on highly dangerous tasks with very limited information.
Meeting Location: Secured online message boards and live chats.