Braindance Catalog

Part of the first batch of four BDs delivered to Judy after Motoko got her BD recorder implant from Vik. The operation: sniper overwatch with a Nekomata tech rifle during a Maelstrom assault on a Tyger Claw gun shop. Motoko on a rooftop picking targets through her scope while Kamikaze rushed from behind. Four kills, every one a precision shot, including one punched clean through a truck to hit the gonk hiding behind it. Judy scrolled the raw file and lost herself completely. Motoko's heartbeat barely rose while free-climbing the building, her combat calm so total that Judy stopped remembering she was Judy. The heights made her stomach flip so hard she had to rip off the wreath and take a break. She called Rita down to watch it that same night. Ten copies of each BD pressed by Nox and distributed through street kids.

Recorded during a Badlands road trip while hunting a serial killer. Motoko bet Jun permanent radio control that she could ghost a Wraith-affiliated Raffen camp at a poppy farm without making a sound. She won. Ten kills by blade in the dark at 2 AM: one Raffen sleeping in a locked car, six more in their tents and sleeping bags, then three outside taken down with knives. Jun never heard a thing from the car. The Aldecaldos were called in afterward to claim the Raffen vehicles.

A one-minute personal edit, not for commercial release. Ichi walked into a Kabuki ripper's clinic asking about a Mr. Studd implant while Motoko posed as his pimp and recorded the layout for a planned scav den raid. Cold Blood cranked to maximum was the only reason her face held. Judy charged for the edit since it was personal work, not Nox product. Intended as blackmail material for Malcolm and Hiromi. Primary function: tactical documentation of the Kabuki ripper reconnaissance. Secondary function: the best leverage Motoko has ever held over Ichi.

The Kabuki ripper den clearance, the same clinic BD-003 scouted. Motoko rolled out the back of Ichi's moving truck and entered from the rear. Her Seacho deck tore through their two-decade-old security net in seconds; a Ping tagged all ten enemies through the walls. She cleared nine scavs by knife: some watching TV, one wearing a BD wreath, one eating at a table, one on a laptop. The sixth rounded a corner investigating noise and caught a thrown blade in the chest. Three on a couch died in a single fluid sequence. Not one raised an alarm. Ripper Charles made his plea as Motoko walked through from the basement covered in blood. She told him she'd read his emails. Three shots from her Lexington. Handed off to Judy for editing and passed to Nox for distribution.

A pre-dawn operation against the GEIshhhA yacht at Gold Beach Marina, owned by Bartolomeo Mordellini, a purveyor of parties, drugs, and BD for Night City's rich. The yacht's hold was packed with scav-sourced chrome. Motoko shut down all marina cameras, leapt from the glass railing of an office building, strangled the security guard unconscious, planted a virus in their system, and cut the yacht loose. When the alarms fired she hit every guard, worker, and guest on the marina with Reboot Optics. Their vision resolved to a single image: a blue Laughing Man symbol. Her calling card, used for the first time. The BD kept rolling as the yacht sailed south to an SLS unloading site. Kajetan, Bart's Scav contact, pulled a Burya on her. She'd already unloaded it. Click. Her own Burya didn't click. After the chrome was offloaded, she sent the empty yacht back out and put an Uragan rocket into it. Chooh2 tanks went up in a fireball. Then she walked over to Bart and put a bullet in his head. Working with Scavs meant you were a dead man.

Megabuilding H11. Close to eighteen Scavs, just under seven minutes, set to the DOOM Eternal track scratched into the shard. Motoko deployed a looping Weapon Glitch that locked every gun on the network, then moved room to room with the Carnage used as both shotgun and bludgeon, fists through eye sockets, and a looted Cut-o-Matic chainsword mid-fight. A Sandy-equipped Scav punched her across two rooms and cracked her skull before his Sandevistan timed out. Burya into the mouth, head separated in two. Motoko pre-cut the Maelstrom victim encounter from the end before leaving the shard on Judy's desk with the BD name etched into the plastic. Judy could only stay in the virtu for a minute at a time before pulling out. Nox scrolled it and ended up on his back gasping. He told Judy not to tone it down. The highest body count of any BD in the catalog.

The outlier. No kills, no scavs. A fully live parkour run from the Japanese-styled penthouses above Motoko's Japantown apartment through Night City: lantern wire swing cut with a knife, bridgeways, chrome-arm slide across concrete rooftops, through a stranger's apartment window mid-stride (ignoring the screaming john), across the Jig-Jig Street rooftops, landing at the Sakura Market ramen stand. Set to Inner Universe from the Ghost in the Shell soundtrack. The BD doesn't end until the taste of broth hits her tongue. Judy handled editing but the heights made it rough going, same as every BD with rooftops. David Martinez was selling copies outside Arasaka Academy, pitching it as one of their top sellers.

Section 9's raid on a power plant converted into a Scav XBD harvest site, clearing the killing rooms, equipment caches, and tunnels floor by floor. A full crew op: Motoko on point with netrunning and a Copperhead, Jun charging ahead recklessly (and catching bullets for it), Malcolm laying down covering fire, Rebecca going full berserk with an Ajax, and Ichi piloting the Minotaur walker outside to guard the elevator exit. Five Scavs including the netrunner tried to escape up the elevator and ran straight into the Minotaur's HMGs. The first BD to show Section 9 working as a unit.

Motoko's first live performance, recorded at the Red Dirt Bar in Arroyo, where Samurai played their original first gig. Hiromi asked for it as her birthday present. Solo act with holographic backup musicians from a Music Box, no real band. Five songs: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Rise, This Fffire, The Pretender, Let You Down. The bar owner told her to come back anytime but advised getting a real band. Motoko brought the raw BD to Judy for a personal copy, but Nox and Hiromi started selling it without her consent. She was upset, but Hiromi talked her down and she let it go. Judy asked Motoko to sign the shard afterward. Rebecca watched it at Lizzie's on a wreath, upgraded Motoko's nickname from Kitten to Strings, and demanded free tickets to all future shows.

Motoko's Quadra Super 640 is stolen outside the Dogtown stadium via car cracker looted from a dead VDB netrunner. She tracks the thief, opens his throat, then finds her car inside a massive Scav construction site, fifty-plus strong. The Onryo ghost daemon spreads through their network first, turning every optic into a haunted house. Then she hacks the Scav heavy Dmitri Agapov's Biomon, flips his calming chemicals to full adrenaline, and watches ex-SovOil special forces go full cyberpsycho on his own squad. Upper floors cleared with Sandy and katana, room by room. The boss flees across a drawbridge and pulls a weapon-glitched Burya that doesn't fire. Motoko shoots it out of his bloodied hand, then pulls the trigger again. She frames the car through her fingers: Don't steal my car. David Martinez got a copy from Hiromi, scrolled it, and called it nova. He showed up at school asking to do more than just sell BDs.

Recorded at a Valentino-run rooftop fight club after a frustrating MSM studio session. Fifty eddies for a ticket. The reigning champion, American Devil, a 6th Street boxer with an armored skull and chrome fists, threw a beer cup in Motoko's face. She jumped in the ring and won by wall-running up the side of the emptied pool, launching off a spectator's crotch, and aerial-punching him unconscious. Then kicked him in the nuts for good measure. When 6th Street drew weapons she deployed Mass Weapon Glitch. Her own song, This Fffire, started playing on the radio. What followed was a knife-and-fists cleanup of every 6th Street gonk on the roof, ending with Motoko surfing the last one off the building edge. Judy cleaned the XBD of identifying markers before distribution. Through Judy's editing POV, every blow Motoko took registered as delight, not pain. The BD ends with the gonk crying as he realizes they're both falling.