Software of a Cyberpunk Landscape

CensorSoft specializes in intrusive software to 'anonymize' the user; their most popular program continues to be BlurMax, which automatically detects a multitude of camera systems, including most city security cameras, and superimposes an image of the user's choice, usually just a blurring effect, onto the face of the user to obscure their identity. Note that BlurMax does not, on its own, spoof the broadcast identity system of a user, though CensorSoft does provide such services.

Akaya, Oracle of the Conclave

Though not officially a member, Akaya's second-sight is invaluable to the Conclave, though each believes they are the only one to have discovered her power. She lives in one of the side-towers, alternating her time between scrying for the Conclave and researching towards her own goal: she believes there is something within the Conclave's tower which can help her find her lost love, sunk a thousand years ago along with the city of Merr in a great catastrophe.

The bird-creature, Pendleton, with the teeth-like edges on his beak and the voice like a screech, is one of her minions, though his own perspicacity means he plays many sides in the city for his own whims.

Fileterna

A valued member of the Orgak Union, File provides most of the intelligence for the team, where to go and when, what to do there, and so on. Though she is fiercely loyal to the entire group, she is particularly attached to Moyseu and frequently requests that she be assigned as her bodyguard when traveling.

Boudzouki's are humanoid creatures ranging from two to four feet in height, tending towards thin builds with small extremities. Their 'faces' contain no organisms for receiving input, instead acting as camouflage to confuse attackers, and in fact their 'eyes', a pair of socket-like cavities, can expel a burning fluid several times a day; excess fluid can leak from the 'eyes', creating the effect of blood-red tears the species is known for.

They can see, hear, smell, and taste as well as any other species using their 'hands', actually very sensitive sense organs, and consume and excrete through holes in the same hands, using the same fluid from their eyes to break down food and absorb it.

Hunters of the Waste

Quasi-sentient animal-machine hybrids developed just before Shit Went Down™. They irrevocably bond with the first genetic signature they encounter after being activated. Ignus, as an example, appears to be an ornate motorcycle with a multi-eyed wolf motif. It is one of the more dangerous Hunters and has a tendency to accidentally kill its bondees.

Wood Bees

Crafted by, I dunno, gnomes or something, the wood bees are tiny little bio-mechanical drone bees intricately carved from fine ebony and ivory woods and given life through dark magic. Dark bee magic. A willingly sacrificed bee soul is placed in the empty shell, giving it eternal life but shackling it into the services of the sorcerous bee who performed the ritual. These bees can attack repeatedly and their stings do not detach, instead using a pneumatic system to quickly inject a measured dose of whatever poison has been provided to them, usually something to induce sleep or cause necrosis.

Merrowly We Move Along.

The merrow have existed longer than any other race on Ohm. Their history is rich and detailed, their cultures varied, but all merrow are taught that their race exists to protect the world from the sea gods. A single merrow can destroy the offspring of a sea god with their voice, a group of sufficient size can force a sea god to withdraw. It would take all the merrow in all the seas, though, to kill a sea god.

Weird Folk of a Cyberpunk Landscape 2

The Shiv Monkeys are a gang of genetically-engineered patas monkeys who escaped from their lab close to ten years ago. They now control a third of the drug and prostitution trade in Old SoHo.