{"id":43481,"date":"2024-11-16T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=43481"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:47:07","slug":"cyberpunk-never-fade-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/cyberpunk-never-fade-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberpunk: Never Fade Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we said in <a href=\"\/yo\/mccp77jsh.php\">today's review<\/a>, Johnny Silverhand first appeared in 1988's <i>Cyberpunk 2013<\/i> roleplaying game, in an adventure titled \"Never Fade Away.\"<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/yo\/art\/mccp77jsh2.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"360\" alt=\"the original Johnny Silverhand\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Since the story is 10 black-and-white pages of almost entirely text, we're not going to share the entire thing here. You can find it in <i><a href=\"https:\/\/the-eye.eu\/public\/Books\/rpg.rem.uz\/Cyberpunk\/Cyberpunk%202013\/Cyberpunk%202013%20-%20CP3001%20Welcome%20to%20Night%20City%20%28worldbook%29.pdf\" target=dnd>Welcome to Night City<\/a><\/i>, the game's sourcebook, but here at least is the first page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mccp77jsh8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mccp77jsh8-236x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, nine more pages of that would be boring. But the internet is full of dedicated nerds, so someone's narrated the entire thing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qcZ_JO-LWec\" target=yt>Give it a listen<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But if that's not enough for you, CD Projekt Red wanted to honor <i>Cyberpunk<\/i>'s history, so right there in <i>2077<\/i> is a flashback mission where you play through the events (or near enough) of \"Never Fade Away\":<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tGlUQmMKQPw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YvNwxBg5R-g\" target=yt>did the same thing<\/a> with \"Firestorm Shockwave,\" the mission where dead Johnny dead-died, but that took more liberties with the story, with the excuse being that being in close proximity to a detonating nuke was not great for the fidelity of memory storage. This one's a lot closer to the published version people have been playing for more than 30 years; it's just that Johnny is an unreliable narrator.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Hey! My chest is down here.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/hey-my-chest-is-down-here\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hey! My chest is down here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Dungeons &#038; Dragons: Sheila's stats\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/01\/dungeons-dragons-sheilas-stats\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Dungeons &#038; Dragons: Sheila's stats<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Live-action Dungeons and Dragons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/live-action-dungeons-and-dragons\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Live-action Dungeons and Dragons<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Lots of toys make a Super Bowl appearance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/lots-of-toys-make-a-super-bowl-appearance\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lots of toys make a Super Bowl appearance<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Dungeons &#038; Dragons: Strongheart evolution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/03\/dungeons-dragons-strongheart-evolution\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Dungeons &#038; Dragons: Strongheart evolution<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we said in today's review, Johnny Silverhand first appeared in 1988's Cyberpunk 2013 roleplaying game, in an adventure titled \"Never Fade Away.\" Since the story is 10 black-and-white pages of almost entirely text, we're not going to share the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/cyberpunk-never-fade-away\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-43481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos","tag-dd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43481"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45838,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43481\/revisions\/45838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}