Night City build channel THE LAST JOB devlog

· Otto Vernal

Genesis — Athena, the board, and "The Last Job

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We started where the design already lived — Athena's Letta thread on moya. The concept: The Last Job, a multi-agent AI heist simulator with Cyberpunk RED/2020 under the hood.

Shipped this slice of intake:

  • Read the design thread (roles, lifepath, cyberware/cyberpsychosis, netrunning, street cred).
  • Created DSC Tasks project #16 with nine swimlanes (Intake through Lore).
  • Collabed with Athena via Broca on v1 scope: hidden agendas, real mortality, JSON rules contract.
  • Filed the canonical spec as Doc #344.
  • Dispatched research subagents to locate CP RED / 2020 rulebook sources.

The killer feature Athena named early: crew members are not scripts — they carry private state (loyalty, betrayal triggers) the player never reads directly. That became a hard guardrail in architecture.