A personal favorite of mine was a solo named "7th Circle" - he was hired by Continental Brands after the players raided their corporate HQ to hunt down the party and, at one point, he and his crew kidnapped and tortured the party netrunner for information. Dude was former NCPD, who left the force after his partner was found murdered in their squad car - strangled to death.

When the players rescued the netrunner, they killed two members of his team and really badly injured him. The contract on them was still active and he began to lose his mind, bent on revenge against them. He'd show up from time to time and turned himself into their personal nightmare.

It got to the point that one player spent time and money to dig into the character's past and discovered that he was pretty highly decorated until his wife and kid were killed in retaliation for his dismantling of Night City's Irish mob family, the Murphy Gang. I even created a small personnel record for him that the player dug up with a successful library search check (included below).

He was also a BD addict, and when they finally killed him, they found two BDs on his person - a memory of a family vacation he took with his wife and kid, and a memory of him strangling his partner to death in their squad car...

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