Leftover isms in the game's lore

As much as I love learning the game deep lore, there are some part of it that are quite… To put it bluntly sexist, and few possibly racist ones too, which just does not seem to be fitting the cyberpunk nature of things. It may get less 'ism-y when you dig much deeper, but outside perspectives do matter.

Personally, I would love a bit of lore nudging and make it more in line with the struggles of cyberpunk nature, where they function of any other, more cyberpunk fitting characteristics, rather than going after someone based on their sex/gender/race, especially where expectation as players is to make fun of other players who would pick victims like that.

I don't really know of any examples of this myself. Not saying that they don't exist, but I'm saying that there should probably be a dedicated way for players to report these to staff when they're found, and that I wouldn't be surprised if staff doesn't know about a lot of it either. Maybe a thread can be made for them, or some command like @typo for it.

And here I thought this was going to be about the Red Devils.

That's really a rumourish mishmash of a lot of different player plots over the last twenty years and at least two characters getting merged, but there is nothing wrong in my view with dark whispered rumours swirling from the fringes and you might find that players have made a lot of effort to adapt elements like these towards what players expect of the storytelling in the contemporary game.

I personally would strongly distinguish narrative concepts with gendered elements from concepts that are inherently sexist, it's really a matter of intent and approach.

- there is a cult of one sex that may be targeting the opposite sex entirely in ritualistic way

This Faction is GONE for this precise reason. Their is specifically one-player who has perpetuated the lore and legend around them which is fine, but they're 86'd because they are straight-up bad juju.

- there is a big personality, bigger than life some would say, that hunts down women, and the group they belong to also have very similar views in that regard and hierarchy.

This is just straight-up wrong. This faction targets people with high charisma scores as they value beauty and consumption of human flesh. The correspondence with the type of PCs which have high charisma not withstanding.

Thank you for the explanation, Reefer and Macabre! I love hearing that it was just IC old data and not actually pushed lore, this makes me really feel a lot better, thank you