freedom and blood

Prompts from the main quest of Cyberpunk 2077 by CD Projekt Red:

❝ Do I look like a priest that runs a charity to you? ❞

❝ I’m a man of my word, you know that. ❞

❝ You know this town. It has strong roots - ever watered by the same blood. ❞

❝ I don’t know you, which means you’re worth shit around here and capable of even less. ❞

❝ I’m pleased to see you have not forgotten your roots. ❞

❝ So many of the little shits left around here… their spines go soft when they look down a barrel. ❞

❝ Listen, only one of two ways to do this friendly or fucked up. Either way, the ending’s the same. ❞

❝ I suggest you toss them in the sea. Cuffed legs broken so this trash doesn’t float. ❞

❝ I’m always never not nice! ❞

❝ Would you rather live in peace as Mr. Nobody, die dipe, old and smellin’ slightly of urine? Or go down for all times in a blaze of glory, smellin’ near like posies, ‘thout seein’ your thirtieth? ❞

❝ Call me ol’ fashioned, but I like to look anyone I do biz within the eye. ❞

❝ Sneeze in this city and a blossom drops from a cherry tree in Tokyo. ❞

❝ Sit your ass down 'fore I plant a bullet in your skull. ❞

❝ No offense, but I’m gonna burn any and all bridges - need a clean break. ❞

❝ I see no reason why you should be using expletives. ❞

❝ The greatest crimes issue from a desire for excess and not from necessity. ❞

❝ You’d be surprised what people’re willin’ to give up to feel secure. ❞

❝ Why do I need to care about some bougie prick and his street-kid fantasies? ❞

❝ I’m ____. Would you like to join my gang? ❞

❝ Got bored of bein’ rich, an’ then got bored of playin’ tough. ❞

❝ I thought I told you not to meddle in my affairs. ❞

❝ Did you think I wouldn’t know it was taken from me? ❞

❝ Actually, I don’t think of you at all. Ever. ❞

❝ You think the world revolves around you. Arrogant. ❞

❝ Why did you came? To humiliate me? To personally see to it that I know my place? ❞

❝ The nail that protrudes from the wall gets hammered… ❞

❝ You’ve only ever cared about yourself… and your sick schemes. ❞

❝ There is much for which I could forgive you, but for treason - no. ❞

❝ I’m just glad your mother didn’t live to see this. The heart should break but once. ❞

❝ You shall never have to forgive me for anything again. ❞

❝ Anyone with so much as a pinky toe dipped in this mess is as good as dead! ❞

❝ Seems I’ve chosen the quiet life, after all. No blaze o’ glory for me. ❞

❝ What crawled up your ass? ❞

❝ I have found that people lie, most often deceiving themselves. ❞

❝ The dead are so very, very loud. And yet, lying is not in their nature. ❞

❝ Don’t you dare faint again. Keep your eyes open. ❞

❝ Sleep’s a small hint of death, the inevitable. ❞

❝ It’ll be terrifying. It’ll be painful. But it doesn’t have to be. ❞

❝ As long as you’re alive, there’s hope. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. ❞

❝ Life is so beautifully powerful, so much more powerful than death. ❞

❝ I’ll kill anyone who gets in my way. You included. ❞

❝ Need a smoke. Where’d you stash yours? ❞

❝ I can feel it… our minds… touching… I’m like mold on fruit… creepin’ into you… nothing I can do about it. You hear me?! I’d puke if I fuckin’ could! ❞

❝ I am the one who saved your life. ❞

❝ If you intend to live, you must reenter the ring. The bell has already tolled. ❞

❝ I needed you to live. That hasn’t changed. ❞

❝ ____, wait. I need you. ❞

❝ I seek revenge. Much more feasible here. ❞

❝ Honor among thieves - ever heard of it? ❞

❝ Rats’ll squeal when hangin’ by their tails. ❞

❝ You know you got some nerve. First you’re out to kill me, now you wanna be my pal?! ❞

❝ Trust me. Don’t trust me. I don’t give a fuck. It’s the least of our worries anyway. ❞

❝ You’re the ghost of Christmas past, asshole. Any Friends you had’re either dead or so old their memory’s gone. ❞

❝ I died a legend. Nobody forgets that. ❞

❝ There is no “us.” ❞

❝ Funerals are for the living, not the dead. ❞

❝ I’m bulletproof. Nothing bad’ll ever happen to me. ❞

❝ Make your best friends among the fighters that’ll knock you out cold. ❞

❝ Days like this even the meanest motherfuckers pay their respects. ❞

❝ I’m here to say goodbye to a good man. ❞

❝ You will bring death to your door. ❞

❝ My one concern is to keep you safe in this city forgotten by the Gods. ❞

❝ Unlike you, I have not failed to keep my oath to fulfil my duty. ❞

❝ You’re an engram in a fading mind. Nothing should surprise you anymore. ❞

❝ Little something called intuition. Ever heard of it? ❞

❝ Fuck the menu, let’s ditch this waitress and take our special order to the chef, point-blank. ❞

❝ I’m here to fulfill your deepest, most hidden desire. ❞

❝ When true desires go unfulfilled, they turn into needs. ❞

❝ Death’s’ absurdity, the futile struggle before these terrify you. ❞

❝ What you really fear is becoming someone else that you don’t recognise in the least. ❞

❝ The people I’ve lost live on in my thoughts. And that’s where I’ll be - a memory. ❞

❝ You don’t see death as a destruction, the end, but as change. ❞

❝ I’m afraid of becoming someone else, forgetting who I am. ❞

❝ You’re already becoming someone else, every second of every day. ❞

❝ You’ve never backed down from anything in your life, even when you maybe should’ve. You go through this city knowing a stray bullet could end you while hailing a cab. But that’s never stopped you from taking action, and it won’t stop you now.  ❞

❝ You’ve made an impact. ❞

❝ Not a single thing in this world isn’t in the process of becoming something else. Likewise you. ❞

❝ Never look back. If you gotta kill, kill. If you gotta burn it all to the ground, then let it burn. ❞

❝ Everything has its end. ❞

❝ What gave me away? It’s the hair, isn’t it. ❞

❝ Couldn’t meet somewhere else? Not big on funerals. ❞

❝ No details, no names. No one knows a thing. ❞

❝ Got a feeling we’re not gonna become best friends. No chemistry. ❞

❝ Is that at all relevant? Or just a cheap scare tactic? ❞

❝ We have our own versions of all. We do not use anything from the city. ❞

❝ Technology advances, it cannot be stopped. And now catastrophe, come again. This is sure. And soon. The corporations, they do not see de danger. But we - we will be ready. ❞

❝ To piss Arasaka off enough so they’ll give you a case of deep-muscle lead poisoning? ❞

❝ It’s not YOUR band. You’re no solo act. Gonna crash and pull all of us down, too. ❞

❝ I’m the only one with a vision. So unless you got a better one, like I said - Go Fuck. Your. Self. ❞

❝ Said you weren’t coming tonight. Not If I can help it. ❞

❝ Always gotta shit all over it, don’t you? Any moment that might actually feel good. ❞

❝ What, smoking after sex not Zen enough for you? We gotta rewrite “The Art of War,” too? ❞

❝ You can be such a bastard sometimes. ❞

❝ How is it subtlety goes so for over your head? Weird for an artist. ❞

❝ It’s all a lie. All of it. A ginormous fiction. You’re not a rockerboy. Face it. Oughta join the wired wackos on the corners, frothing at the mouth as they scream “Death to Arasaka!” ❞

❝ Think you’ve seen through me, do you? ❞

❝ We came here to fuck each other’s brains out, not analyze mine. ❞

❝ Not another goddamn word, OK? Just shut up. For once. ❞

❝ You don’t know fuck all about me. This is all we have, all we are. ❞

❝ God, I hate this fucking town. Hate these slimy fucking fixers. Hate this fucking bar. ❞

❝ Where would you rather be now? I could take you away, out to the lands where my clan roams. There aren’t too many jobs out there, but… we’d find some other useful ways to kill time. ❞

❝ Gotta say, that famed charm of yours - overhyped. Or maybe just dulling with age. ❞

❝ Were you going for Dickwipe of the Year? ❞

❝ You’re pushin’ bullshit. Heard more than my share of tales 'bout runners who ran off to Never-Never Netland. Just never thought you’d be the next to tell me one. ❞

❝ Do you see me as a demon who requires a pact signed in blood? ❞

❝ Your death was of your own making. ❞

❝ This should be obvious to you as you were responsible for her death. ❞

❝ You lack the cred, you lack the gusto - that’s your problem. ❞

❝ It’s the part where I say I despise petty merc-thiefs who think they’re hot shit rebels after settin foot in the Afterlife. Might think you took on Arasaka, but you’re just a bug they scraped off the sole of their boot and tossed in the trash. ❞

❝ Been tryin’ to learn how you’re wired this whole time. To know who I’m dealin’ with. Thought you were just unlucky to hirst. But I kept watchin’ and finally realized what your problem is. You’re dirt from Heywood who found the guts to walk a few extra blocks from home. But turned out the best you can do is chase scavs for ennies. ❞

❝ An arrogant asshole’s no small problem, but it ain’t my biggest. Dyin’ is. ❞

❝ Death by becoming someone else… You didn’t do anything to deserve that fate. ❞

❝ You afraid of death? ❞

❝ Worst thing you can do to a human - rip their identity out of 'em. That’s all I know. ❞

❝ Know what? Seems to me you need to have a nemesis, at all times. Ideally a crazy powerful one to feed your ego… and the’ve gotta be practically unbeatable - to justify a suicide run. ❞

❝ I’ll decide your fate, fuck all you can do. ❞

❝ I’ve declared war not 'cause capitalism’s a thorn in my side or outta nostalgia for an America gone by. This war’s a people’s war against a system that’s spiralled outta our control. It’s a war against the fuckin’ forces of entropy, understand?! ❞

❝ Do whatever it takes to stop 'em, defeat 'em, gut 'em. If I gotta kill, I’ll kill. ❞

❝ You still don’t see it. But you will one day. ❞

❝ Two-bit thief, ain’t I? Keep sayin’ so yourself. ❞

❝ Think his pretty eyes landed him that gig? ❞

❝ Far as I can see, you’re tryna get us killed. Really like to know why. ❞

❝ Well, sounds like a suicide run, but done dumber shit than this so… ❞

❝ To make the right decisions with imperfect knowledge… that is how you become the world’s most powerful man. ❞

❝ I sense that you judge me. And yet you have no right to. ❞

❝ There are no clean hands. But it is important how they become dirty. ❞

❝ They gave me what no one else could - values I could honor, live for. This was most important. You dirty your hands for money. I, in the name of principles. ❞

❝ Not everybody wants to change the world. ❞

❝ You oppose the corporations, their order, their world, in a mindless way, yet you offer no worthy alternative. ❞

❝ You show me filthy streets as if no other world exists, as if nothing else is possible. What of the millions who work for corporations and receive stability, safety? ❞

❝ People hate corps more than anything. Can’t blame 'em, elther. ❞

❝ Sometimes I wish to become a nomad. To leave this world, forget everything. ❞

❝ Nomads aren’t lone wolves with egos. Whether they’re blood or not - family comes first. ❞

❝ That day, we both have lost someone important. And we are not at peace with this, so we seek conflict, argue eagerly. ❞

❝ Don’t be smart, got no idea what I feel. ❞

❝ It is the duty of the living to atone for the dead. ❞

❝ You got fuck-all to lose! ❞

❝ You and your fuckin’ sick sense of honor… Today’s your lucky day, though. ❞

❝ Everyone has their role to play in this spectacle. ❞

❝ Think they make these motels especially for royal fuck-ups like us? ❞

❝ Decide to cross a corp, this is what happens. You think you just stepped in shit. Actually, you fell headfirst into a cesspit. ❞

❝ Doesn’t matter how good you are in Night City. On your own, you’re fucked. ❞

❝ My dead body’d make for a pretty lame-ass witness. ❞

❝ It is difficult to choose the right path when each step is a journey into the unknown. But never forget that you are not alone. ❞

❝ I saved your ass, got you outta harm’s way, and you’re still gonna doubt my intentions? ❞

❝ I think fear of death’s got you spewin’ misdirected anger. ❞

❝ Ordinary people always lose. ❞

❝ When the time comes, it’ll be my life for yours. ❞

❝ Hey, Satan kicked me outta hell, thought I’d swing by. ❞

❝ Decide whose truth matters to you more - yours or somebody else’s? ❞

❝ Only place you fall asleep thinkin’ you’re special, then wake up knowin’ you’re no one. ❞

❝ Night City is a city of shadows. Done everything I could to walk clear of 'em for years. ❞

❝ One chapter ends, another begins. ❞

❝ You knew abut didn’t do a thing about it? Why? Suddenly sprout a conscience just yesterday? ❞

❝ Everyone must take their place. ❞

❝ This is your last chance to take matters into your own hands. Understand? ❞

❝ Got a feeling you’re going to regret this decision. And the moment that dawns I won’t be there to help. ❞

❝ Some believe uncertainty is an evil that should be dispelled through divination. Others claim it’s change that is evil. But that isn’t true either. ❞

❝ Every minute of every day, we each be come someone new. ❞

❝ We shouldn’t fear change itself, but only who we might change into. ❞

❝ Betraying a friend - you can’t justify that. ❞

❝ Got no right to judge me. ❞

❝ This is why I have remained outside, uninvolved. So as no to have to make decisions such as these. ❞

❝ I believe has just begun. ❞

❝ Watch your tone or it will be you who will find it hard to walk. ❞

❝ Sometimes you have to look the truth right in the eye. ❞

❝ You have… a very honest look. ❞

❝ Symbols are more resilient than you think. ❞

❝ No matter what happens… you must trust me. ❞

❝ Either you let yourself be fooled like children, or you were guided by opportunism.  ❞

❝ Violent delights with violent ends. ❞

❝ He once told me anything of value is only a flag blowing in the wind. And wind is fear. ❞

❝ If planting bombs is not enough, what do you do? You become the bomb. ❞

❝ Fate is a fickle mistress, isn’t she? ❞

❝ You betrayed yourself. ❞

❝ We’re a tangled web, you and me. ❞

❝ What is perfect requires no change. ❞

❝ I did not come with empty hands. We must speak about your options. ❞

❝ Got no idea how sweet it is to be free. ❞

❝ To ash and dust. ❞

❝ As I see it, they braided this wip that’ll sting 'em. ❞

❝ Just like old times. ❞

❝ No idea how this is gonna end, but let me tell ya - it’ll be one loud morning. ❞

❝ We fought for beauty. Not knowin’ what was good or true, was only the beautiful that meant a damn thing to us. ❞

❝ Can’t turn back time ever - but, you can always start over. ❞

❝ Their generation - made of a different mettle. ❞

❝ Just promise me one thing, asshole. That you won’t forget me. ❞

❝ Self-confidence worthy of a legend. Or of someone risking it all. ❞

❝ I sense you know what it’s like to lose everything. To fight for one last breath. I see it in you. ❞

a collection of Samurai song lyrics as starters ! some paraphrasing for cohesivity. feel free to swap you for i ; or the other way around.

The Ballad of Buck Ravers 

‘ Lost another day to pointless drudgery. ‘

‘ A slow chipping away of my autonomy ‘

‘ They’re rodents in a race…unsung and underpaid ‘

‘ My colleagues seem to me like sheep in an array ‘

‘The nauseating purr of the corpos of the world ‘

’ They’re naked emperors. ‘

’ I can hear the rattling of a purse. ‘

’ I hunger for the hearse. ‘

’ Nothing could be worse. ‘

’ Nothing could be worse than a life lived in debt. ‘

’ I’d rather be dead than a link in a chain of tyranny. ‘

’ I need a way to set it straight. ‘

’ You need to go out on the edge. ‘

’ I need to rage and get revenge. ‘

’ I need to feel myself again. ‘

’ Suit up, punch in, punch out, it’s non-stop. ‘

’ Suit up, punch in, punch out. Get fucked! ‘

’ You clamber for clout, year after year. ‘

’ I’ve had enough. I’ve done enough. ‘

’ Here comes revenge. ‘

’ Here comes the end. ‘

’ There’s blood splatter on your face. ‘

’ A bullet pierced me. ‘

‘ Here comes liberty. ‘

’ I was once a decent man / woman. ‘

’ The promises I was made were made to keep me chained.

‘ I was concerned and kept on a wage

‘ The worst of my rage is yet to come. ‘

‘ One day, the curtain will fall.’

‘ Time comes for all. ‘

Black Dog

‘ You’re like a blind man lost in the streets. ‘

‘ There’s a pattern here. ‘

‘ I need to see. ‘

‘ You keep returning. ‘

‘ I keep trying to leave. ‘

‘ I’ve got a bad feeling…but I need to feel it. ‘

‘ A black dog runs at my side. ‘

‘ Down the road….there’s no end in sight. ‘

‘ The city sleeps but in my mind….there’s a knot I can’t unwind. ‘

‘ Tonight is the night we run. ‘

‘ The hunter becomes what he hunts. ‘

‘ The escape and the chase become one. ‘

‘ In concrete canyons there are a hundred squinting neon eyes. ‘

‘ A black dog sits besides me, like a shadow needing light. ‘

‘ I stalk the backstreets, never at ease. ‘

‘ We’re locked in a chase that’ll never cease. ‘

‘ Another cruel day is coming soon. ‘

‘ You need to end this. ‘

‘ But it’s just begun! ‘

‘ One final charge with the rising sun. ‘

‘ You’re like a black dog in my head…guiding me to the end. ‘

A Like Supreme

‘ We have a willingness to be bought. ‘

‘ It’s a hunger…a hunger to buy. ‘

‘ Your content is sold. ‘

‘ Your liquid dorsal is so profitable. ‘

‘ We pay for pastime. ‘

‘ We pay to unwind. ‘

‘ We pay to be born. ‘

‘ We pay to die. ‘

‘ So savage is the new machine. ‘

‘ They’re geared to hunt down your privacy. ‘

‘ They’re geared to hunt down your dignity. ‘

‘ Kill it all for a like supreme! ‘

‘ Here we are now. ‘

‘ Are you entertained? ‘

‘ We aim for stupid means. ‘

‘ We’re going insane. ‘

‘ Conflict is order. ‘

‘ There’s war in peace. ‘

‘ Adjust the language to what they believe. ‘

‘ Friction is power. ‘

‘ What is the distance from not knowing to knowing this? ‘

‘ Kill it all! ‘

‘ Hunt it down. Now. ‘

Chippin’ In (2020 & 2077 versions)

‘ I’ve got chrome in my bloodstream. ‘

‘ You’ve got a hardwired metal soul. ‘

‘ I’m out looking for action. ‘

‘ Guess I’m on a roll. ‘

‘ I’m craving serious action. ‘

‘ When I boost, it’s for real. ‘

‘ The capacitors inside my brain are roaring. ‘

‘ There’s metal burning beneath my skin. ‘

‘ You know just how I feel. ‘

‘ It can’t hurt cause I’m already dead. ‘

‘ Ain’t no time as real as realtime. ‘

‘ I’m chippin’ in. ‘

‘ I’ve got my head to the wall. ‘

‘ Can you hear my call? ‘

‘ I’m the man / woman of steel. ‘

‘ Is that how you feel? ‘

‘ My implants are hot. ‘

‘ It’s justice. I call it heavy violence. ‘

‘ I fuckin’ feel it. ‘

‘ Gonna boost and hit the streets. ‘

‘ Corpos plague us in violent droves. ‘

‘ They’re made of greed. ‘

‘ They’re packing heat! ‘

‘ I can’t be killed cause I’m already dead. ‘

‘ Don’t feed the ghost within. ‘

‘ I’m real! ‘

‘ You’re real! ‘

Never Fade Away

‘ We lost everything. ‘

‘ We had to pay the price. ‘

‘ I saw in you what life was missing. ‘

‘ You lit a flame that consumed my hate. ‘

‘ I’m not one for reminiscing. ‘

‘ I’d trade it all for your sweet embrace. ‘

‘ There’s a canvas with two faces. ‘

‘ It was a passion for the ages. ‘

‘ And in the end….guess we paid the cost. ‘

‘ A thing of beauty - I know. ‘

‘ It will never fade away. ‘

‘ I can see it in your eyes. ‘

‘ I know you see me. ‘

‘ You’re like a ghost. ‘

‘ How are you everywhere? ‘

‘ I am your demon. ‘

‘ I’m never leaving. ‘

‘ A metal soul of rage and fear. ‘

‘ That one thing changed it all. ‘

‘ That one sin that caused the fall. ‘

‘ What you did to me…’

‘ I know…’

‘ You said what you had to say. ‘

‘ A thing of beauty will never fade away. ‘

‘ I’ll do my duty. ‘

‘ Somehow I’ll find a way. ‘

‘ I’ll never fade away. ‘

sentence starters inspired by various lyrics from random hits from the 1980s !!   some lyrics have been slightly modified to be more usable .  change gendered language   &   add context to your needs .  happy roleplaying !!  ♡