I am running a Cyberpunk game where a corporate has their headquarters outside a city, but few onsite apartments, so the people who are *in power* all do what is known locally as The Commute, a two hour traffic jam.
The world is making it clear that there's off-road public transit available, and there's an economy of people doing bike food deliveries, prostitution, and busking along the track for the four hours a day people are spending in traffic.
All for the right to drive to work in their own car.
And - Cyberpunk hurts me
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in reply to Darcy Casselman • •@Darcy Casselman No no - these are VPs and stuff the CEOs are just flying
And yeah - there's a room in the basement where people do offsite meetings.
Meaning yes, these people are commuting 2 hours to be in the office to work remotely
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in reply to Darcy Casselman • •@Darcy Casselman Definitely! (Shadowrun - all cars are self driving, so all applies)
The PCs are meeting their contact in their car during his commute, because they can pose as delivery people, and it's a space he can trust!
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in reply to silverwizard • •To my players, "Yeah, looks like his headware was installed before he was grown enough to not have it hurt him. Kinda like a 10 year old who has botox scars from beauty pageants."
My players didn't know how toxic pageant parents are...
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