Rustling Electric Sheep

A game by Seamus Conneely

Solo Paid

A solo game of a cyberpunk dream hacker diving into the Net.

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There’s money to be made in all the dingy margins between the chrome palaces of the megacorporations, but you’re no average merc. Dream chips allow sleepers to record, manipulate, and share (or sell) their dreams - and anything that can be sold can be stolen. As a Rustler, you comb through the Net and dive down uplinks to raid dream banks and the dreamscapes of unsuspecting sleepers.

Whether it’s experiences or secrets, it’s time to get some paydata.

Guided by Firelights and created as part of PocketQuest 2025, Rustling Electric Sheep is a solo journaling game that uses a deck of cards (including Jokers) and two six-sided dice to tell the story of a cyberpunk dream hacker wandering through the Net. The game can be printed and folded into two trifold brochures! TUTORIAL.EXE will explain the basic rules in full, including how to create your character, how actions like Dataminng and ICEbreaking will work, how you might get Flagged by the Sandmen, and how much paydata you'll need to get.

THE NET is full to the brim with d66 tables to provide inspiration for the dreams and the dreamers you'll encounter, events happening in the Net, and complications for your Rustler to encounter. It also includes a space to put your character's details, and some alternative endings brought to us by the Jokers.

What kind of dreams will you shear from these electric sheep? Will you get the paydata you need to live another day, or be hounded by the Sandmen? Will you even make it out of the Net at all? Draw a card, roll some dice, and find out!

This work is based on Firelights, product of Fari RPGs (https://farirpgs.com/), developed and authored by René-Pier Deshaies-Gélinas, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).