Threats

## Cryptids

Since most animals have been long extinct a favourite past time of many skilled rouge geneticist is to try and 'revive' a species. Since almost no references exist on what the animal looked like they guess. The results of these experiments never resemble the animal, are wildly mutated and barely function. These failed experiments are more often than not just thrown into the streets or gutters where they perish. However on rare occasion they survive, strife and their messed up biology grows. They adapt.

The issue is that most organic material that could be a food source are the denizens of the area. Result of that being that these so called 'Cryptids' begin to hunt humans. No two cryptids look alike, or act similar. Their danger could range from utterly non threatening to something even the Repo would struggle taking down.

## Vids

A popular drug in some cities are the Vid-Shrooms, mushrooms that make you vividly hallucinate entire scenarios and visions as if you were there. Unkown to most people the mushrooms are harvested from corpses. The spores are introduced to the brain of a freshly deceased human, once fully ripe they are harvested from the brainstem directly. Once ingested the user expierinces the memories of the body the vid-shroom was harvested from.

However there is a certain danger to it, the mushrooms are parasitic in nature. If left unattended the mushroom in it's endstage will take control of it's host and mimic a false sense of life back into, making the corpse rise again. When the vid-shroom is in full control it will steer the corpse to other humans in order to attack them, kill them and then plant it's spores into the victims brain to reproduce.

These corpses are called Vids, a lone Vid is no danger. Sadly they are sadly alone, and a whole group is a threat to even the most expierinced combatants.

## The Repo

A gang hired by several Corps to repossess biological material from run away ex-employees.

They are heavily modified biologically, using full body exoskeletons made out of bone and chitin. Additionally they modify their bodies to keep the repossessed organs fresh, for this they are able to store organs they extract in their own bodies until it is dropped off. Naturally they removed their sense of pain to make operation on themselves as quick as possible. It is not unusual for a Repoman to return from a days work with several livers, an additional pair of lungs and other material stored in his body. The more they collect the slower they become, but also harder to kill.

Many criminal gangs try to catch one in hopes of stealing the bio-material they carry for themselves, often to no avail as the Repomen are exceedingly dangerous.

## ACVs

Short for Anti Cancer Victims

Early on in a strive to find a cure for cell deterioration and cancer treatment/prevention a Megacorp made an experimental procedure. It worked early on, however it did not stop the forming of tumours and cancerous cells. It just made them nonthreatening and stopped them from destroying the body. Eventually the tumours grow more and more until the host is nothing but a giant writhing mass of flesh and bone with the sole purpose of consuming more to further it's growth.

The procedure is no longer used and the Megacorp tries to hide it was ever tested, but rumours exist known by few that in deep parts of the sewers A.C.V.'s still exist, feeding on refuse and anyone unlucky enough to cross their path. Even more hushed rumours is that they are still being produced, but not as a treatment but as a weapon in preparation for a corporate war.

## Breath Heads

Slang for dangerous junkies addicted to Rebreath.

A drug developed in the underbellies of slums. One of the most common biomod is the rebreather, a sort of filter for your lungs to make sure you can breathe without lungs. The implants themselves include a strong neurotoxin that if refined gets one absolutely fucked. Megahigh. It teleports you to the core. Side effects include psychosis, loss of appetite, light sensitivity, sleeplessness, seizures.

Breath-heads are people highly addicted to Rebreath, they are prone to violence and attacking anyone to get into their rebreather implants for their next score. The victims more often than not die from the rough operations performed in haste, or from the infections caused by the rudimentary surgery tools used by the junkies. Junkies that are too far gone often tend to just drink the chemicals pure from their victims.