New Tokyo Screamsheets

Back in 2001, I was running a Cyberpunk campaign using a homebrew ruleset based on Top Secret/S.I. At the time (when I had more time), I was chronicling the campaign on a now-defunct website. I was also producing semi-regular newsletters for the campaign I called New Tokyo Screamsheets.

These Screamsheets contained things like discussions of technology, legality of weapons, and story seeds; along with your standard smattering of weather reports (and the birth of Air Advisory Guy), classified ads, obituaries, network programming schedules, police blotters, Body Lotto numbers, advertisements, etc. Some of the articles were fictional snippets borrowed from other fictional sources. To make it personal to the players, I would usually do a "front page" article on one of their latest exploits and possibly have NPCs communicate with them through the want ads—and they would communicate back!

Recently, I was able to find the source files and PDFs for the New Tokyo Screamsheets and decided to post them. Here they are with a couple of hints as to what you'll find inside:

• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 1 - Weapon and armor permits, a street drug named Cupid.
• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 2 - Cyberware permits, Trauma Team coverage plans and costs.
• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 3 - Arena Racing final, a slaying outside a Gas-n-Sip™.
• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 4 - Crimes and their punishments, vigilantes stopping college student harrassment
• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 5 - Cloning technological discourse, hacking punishments
• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 6 - Arasaka Tower attacked from multiple vectors
• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 7 - News reporter assaulted, a haunting poem by Vera Blue
• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 8 - NeuroProcessor training, Vera Blue missing, many police calls
• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 9 - A full Police Blotter
• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 10 - Fire on the Horizon, Virtual Reality technological discourse
• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 11 - Cyberpsycho on a rampage, "Blank Plague" Threat
• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 12 - Warehouse Explosion, power outage at Chateau Hotel
• New Tokyo Screamsheet No. 13 - Video journalist threatened, "Blank Plague" relief?, Nostromo hacker bar trashed

Special thanks to Deric Bernier of Datafortress 2020 for hanging on to the old New Tokyo Screamsheets in his Cyberpunk Archive—stumbling upon them recently made me want to post my originals.