Category: The Sprawl

I’m preparing for my first “real” session tomorrow evening, and I’m somewhat stumped for Corporation moves for some of the Corps my players have created.

Vishkar New Media is a huge media conglomerate that essentially wants to be 22nd Century Buzzfeed. They rely on automatically generated lowest-common-denominator content produced in overwhelming amounts just so one of those billion things goes viral and they can start pushing merchandise within hours. They have no qualms about abusing copyright law and shamelessly stealing other people’s content. Their market practices are extremely aggressive, earning them the ire of other corps.

Rikimaru Foods is a junk food conglomerate that constantly bribes public health authorities, scientists and journalists to claim their garbage synthburgers cure cancer rather than cause it. They have a significant media presence; their face is a fat, obnoxious female chef.

HDD Conglomerate is a merger of Disney, Durex and a bunch of smaller companies. Their business model is essentially “sell them drugs, then sell them cartoons to watch while on drugs, then a truckload of dragon dildos once they grow up a bit”. They control huge tracts of land in Central America, where they put up hundreds of theme parks.

All of these are very evocative, instinctively repulsive, and dirty chrome. So that much is good. You can see where they can start to come into conflict. But I kind of can’t think of any cool moves they could make that would be both unique to them and clearly visible to the players.

For Vishkar, I was thinking so far:

– Steal someone’s spotlight (one player has the Illustrious Directive, another is a Reporter)

– Buy someone out and shut them down (but this hardly feels unique)

– More?

Rikimaru:

– Lie through their teeth (while evocative and could interact nicely with the Reporter, I’m not sure how to frame it in practical terms, what could it really result in)

– More?

HDD:

– Corrupt and abuse the innocent (sounds largely like a long-term thing, though)

– More?

I’d be glad to hear your thoughts.