So I knew some adaptations were in order. I mean, I like making giant robots, but I wasn’t seriously expecting a bunch of preteens to get off on juggling calculus to create the optimal mecha suit.

Immediately, I realized I had a big problem. But heck, I haven’t run Mekton in a while…and I remember it was a heck of a lot of fun… So like, running Cyberpunk is right of of the question right now, isn’t it? I mean, their parents won’t even let them play Grand Theft Auto at this age.

To get some perspective on my thought process, let’s all time travel back to around 2005, when a somewhat younger Mike Pondsmith was looking at his 11 year old son, who, along with his friends Stone, Rachel and Brynn, have just demanded that Cody’s Dad run a roleplaying game for them. What was left of the photoshoot team fled in the AV, leaving their set, and their prized Thorton Colby, behind for the taking-and better for it to be in your capable hands than the Raffen Shiv.So how is it that, after all the noise and thunder about the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077, I, Mike Pondsmith, Der Cyberpunk Dude and Head of the RTG Madhouse, have just started up a Kickstarter for MEKTON? Said models, however, were savvy enough to bring their own iron for just such an occasion, and a firefight ensued between the two sides. Such activity attracted the Wraiths, who decided that they'd rather shoot bullets than pictures at the unfortunate models. Upon arrival, an Trauma Team Atlus can be seen flying away, leaving behind a scene of carnage: Multiple dead bodies, some wearing the uniforms of the Wraiths, and others, oddly enough, sporting very out-of-place high end clothing, something more likely to be seen on a Media also present is an admittedly nice-looking Thorton Colby CX410 Butte.Īfter a little searching, you find a shard on one of the apparent victims which tells the story: Evidently, the executive of some high-end clothing business got it in his head to do a photoshoot out here, as a way of demonstrating the versatility and comfort of their clothing line and appealing to a more 'rustic' sense of fashion, with the Butte being the centerpiece as a stand-in for an executive limo or sports car. The quest automatically initiates as you approach the Desert Film Set, located at Jeff's Dirt Track to the east-northeast of Rocky Ridge town in the region of the same name in the Badlands.

Dredged up cyberpunk