High tech, low life - spotted in real life
Chrome & GrimeHow cyberpunk was your ordinary week?
List a few moments and answer six quick cues about each: three for chrome (the tech in it) and three for grime (the scrappy side). The page hangs a sign over each moment on a night street and calls it, for free: full neon, chrome gloss, back alley, or unlit.
1 Your moments free
Up to six. Only the name is required - every cue starts at No.
2 The night street free
3 Ask for the readings
One run explains every verdict from your own answers, imagines the change that would flip each moment into or out of full neon, and letters a short sign for each. The page's verdicts stay as they are.
The readings - none yet
-The page's check
4 Saved streets
How the page decides
The genre's old shorthand is "high tech, low life". Three cues measure the chrome - a screen or scanner in the middle of it, a system making the call, tech riding on your body - and three measure the grime - something broken or makeshift, working round the rules, and cheap, crowded or after dark. Each answer scores No 0, A little 1, Clearly 2, so a moment has 0 to 6 chrome and 0 to 6 grime.
The verdict, first match wins: chrome 3+ and grime 3+ - full neon; chrome 3+ - chrome gloss; grime 3+ - back alley; otherwise - unlit. The strongest cue is the highest-scoring one (ties go to the cue listed first). The brightest sign is the full-neon moment with the most points in all, ties to the moment higher on your list.
It is a playful genre game, not a judgement of anyone's life or a forecast of anything. The page only sees the names and answers you type; keep personal details out of them.