u/rarstyak

I'm playing Bellatrix "Blue Star" Bayer, a Rockerboy/Solo in Cyberpunk Red, who publishes dramatic readings of myths with modern Night City morals and covers for historically inspired songs from musicals like Epic or Six. Our crew went to acquire a silent engine from a tiny gang that was controlling public docks and bullying civilians, shoving people into the bay.

Blue Star rallied the civilians and demanded the gang surrender the docks or die. I put Get In The Water on and spammed alternate lyrics for the rest of the session. The gig took two sessions, and when our GM stopped to figure out what an enemy would do: *cough* they could get in the water *cough*.

End Results:

- 3 enemies fled
- 8 enemies in the water or otherwise surrendered
- 9 enemies dead
- 30 civilians basically unharmed, fans of Blue Star and telling NCPD that we were heroes
- 4 free boats
- unquantifiable PR and street cred

How are my session notes? While the stressed-unstressed syllables are off, I think they're still singable?

Session 17 Notes	[Undertow, a nobody gang, keeps everyone off the public docks with armed presence]
	[They shove a man into the water, stealing his boat and jeer]
Get in the Water	[He climbs out wet, and complains they don't have the right]
EPIC the Musical	[Blue Star agrees, egging him on to do something about it]
2024	[He asks if he has a chance]
	[Alone? No, but in a crowd...]
[POSEIDON, spoken]	[BLUE STAR, spoken, broadcasting over open radio and Gyrocopter speakers]
There you are, coward...	Here we are, ghost off
	[Crowd gathers and heckles the Undertow]
	[Crowd calls for them to leave the docks, insults their 80s greaser threads]
[POSEIDON]	[BLUE STAR, flashing Sons of Taniwha gang colors]
I've been waiting for this moment	I've been watching for this moment
For the perfect time to strike	For the perfect time to strike
When your home's so close and you've reached your coast	Cuz our home's so close and you've reached our coast
That's when our paths collide	That's when our paths collide
I've got a reputation	I've got a reputation
I've got a name to uphold	I've got giri to uphold
So I can't go letting you walk	So I can't go letting you balk
Or else the world forgets I'm cold	Or else the world forgets I'm cold
Now get in the water	Now get in the water
Get in the water	Get in the water
Or I'll raise the tide so high, all of Ithaca will die	Or I'll raise the tide so high, all of Undertoe will die
Get in the water	Get in the water
[ODYSSEUS, spoken]	[UNDERTOW MOOKS, spoken]
Wait...	Wait...
[POSEIDON]	[BLUE STAR, leading the crowd to the docks, fist pump]
Get in the water	Get in the water
[ODYSSEUS, spoken]	[UNDERTOW MOOKS, spoken]
Stop this, please!	One more step!
[POSEIDON]	[BLUE STAR, crowding the entrance to the docks]
I'll make tidal waves so profound	I'll make tidal waves so profound
Both your wife and your son will drown	Both your crew and your fleet will drown
[ODYSSEUS, spoken]	[UNDERTOW MOOKS, spoken]
No!	No!
[POSEIDON & ENSEMBLE]	[BLUE STAR & 30 CIVILIANS, social facedown]
Get in the water	Get in the water
Get in the water	Get in the water
Don't mistake my threats for bluff	Don't mistake my threats for bluff
You have lived more than enough	You have stalled more than enough
Get in the water	Get in the water
Get in the water	Get in the water
I'll take your son and gouge his eyes	You'll take the dip and say goodbye
That is, unless you choose to die	That is, unless you choose to die
Get in the water	Get in the water
[ODYSSEUS]	[UNDERTOW, nervous, 3 less]
Aren't you tired, Poseidon?	Bluffing fodder, slammit on
It's been ten years, how long will this go?	Get off our turf, that crowd ain't fearful
We're both hurting from losses	We'll pull iron and zero
So why not leave this here and just go home?	So why not leave this here and just go home?
[POSEIDON, spoken]	[BLUE STAR, spoken]
...I can't.	... so no.
[ODYSSEUS]	[UNDERTOW, another 3 less]
Maybe you could learn to forgive	One more step- [video pauses, and still frame cutout of Blue Star rapidly does the Cha Cha Slide from the 4th "One hop this time" until "FREEZE Everybody clap your hands"]
	[Video resumes with sounds of panic, 6 bullets bounce off of and around Blue Star in place of clapping and Cha Cha Slide cuts off]
[POSEIDON, spoken]	[BLUE STAR, spoken, scrambled crew channel]
No.	Go.
[POSEIDON]	[BLUE STAR, taking several steps as pistols are fired point blank]
RUTHLESSNESS IS...	RUTHLESSNESS IS...
...MERCY UPON....	...MERCY UPON....
...OURSELVES!!!	...OURSELVES!!!
[POSEIDON, spoken]	[BLUE STAR, spoken, draws sword and chops a guy up]
DIE!!!	DIE!!!
[Instrumental Break]	[Stab, Gunshot, Kick]
[POLITES]	[LACEY, pop out sword]
You can relax, my friend	Sorry sweetie, it's time
I can tell you're getting nervous	That's my cue to break up with you
[EURYLOCHUS]	[ELYS, fuzzy gun]
Look at all we've lost and all we've learned	Ooh, you all should've gone and hopped in now
[ANTICLEA]	[CRYSTAL, kicks a man so hard he dies]
I'll stay in your heart	Oh gross it's a man
[CREW]	[CIVILIANS]
Oh, woah, Odysseus	Oh, woah, go Undertow
Waiting, waiting, waiting, ah	It's the, Sons of, Taniwha