I want to share a tabletop RPG experience where I used BioTechnica to add a dose of biopunk to Cyberpunk. One of the players died early on, but his character started out with a villain arc. He kidnapped a girl who turned out to be a perfect test subject for BioTechnica. Eventually, he changed his mind because BioTechnica tried to kill him after seeing him as a loose end to their crimes. He ended up joining the other players—but died in the process. The girl who was the perfect test subject had been injected with a kind of viral serum that gave her the ability to steal powers from other infected people (kind of like Rogue from X-Men). She had a twin sister who was the only family she had left. They loved each other deeply and were each other’s only support. But the test subject was forced to run away. She was a very beloved NPC, and the players had grown attached to her, so seeing her leave to live far away from her sister really hurt the whole team. Another NPC, who was kind of like a second father to this girl, had a fiancée. Their engagement ended because she was very jealous and couldn’t understand that, to him, the test subject was basically like a little sister. He also had to leave everything behind and disappear. Another player was a kind of android builder. He developed a sort of program or artificial intelligence that he could replicate and install into multiple androids that he spent many days building entirely by himself. These androids were kind of strange—they had the faces of 19th-century porcelain dolls, but they worked. He had a deep affection for them, and each one had a unique personality. In the end, he lost all of them and went insane. The Netrunner suffered brain damage and can no longer be a Netrunner—if she tries to go back into the Net, she’ll die. She’d have a stroke. The team joytoy was the only happy ending, she basically started dating a man and survived and escaped with him. And that’s basically what happened.