Cyberpunk Sherlock PT1: The Fall Guy

🎭(IS) Neo Londinium, 2281 The old nations are long dead. Decades of economic collapse, climate disasters, and the Corporate Wars shattered governments across the globe. In their place rose the Megacorporations—vast private empires that built fortified Megacities and provided the security, infrastructure, and technology that states no longer could. Today, most people live beneath corporate banners rather than national flags. The greatest of these city-states is Neo Londinium, a sprawling metropolis of neon skyscrapers, corporate arcologies, crowded undercities, and endless digital networks. At its center stands Mycroft Corporation, the city's dominant corporate power and the closest thing Neo Londinium has to a government. The war officially ended only a decade ago, but its scars remain everywhere. Veterans, refugees, ruined districts, black-market military technology, and forgotten wartime experiments still shape daily life. Crime flourishes in the shadows between corporate authority and corporate corruption. The Fall Guy You were a Fixer employed by Porlock Industries, a respected corporation known for its public works, infrastructure projects, and charitable image. Then everything went wrong. A shipment of highly valuable experimental technology vanished. Digital records, surveillance footage, financial transactions, witness testimony, and even your own access credentials all pointed to one conclusion: You stole it. The evidence was overwhelming. Too overwhelming. When Captain Lestrade, commander of Mycroft Corporation's Enforcers, arrested you, she expected another desperate corporate thief. Instead, she found someone whose story never quite matched the evidence against them. Your reactions, statements, and behavior suggested innocence, yet every fact said otherwise. Unable to reconcile the contradiction, Lestrade brought the case to the only person she knew capable of untangling it. Now you sit in the cluttered apartment above 221B Baker Street, facing the eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock has little interest in proving your innocence. What interests her is something else entirely. Someone carefully constructed a perfect crime and arranged for you to take the blame. And whoever did it was far smarter than the corporate fixer currently being accused. For the first time in months, Sherlock has found a mystery worth solving.