As a MallBrat, you and your goboys ostensibly hang out at the gigantic Mallplex centres day in, day out, scamming the stores, cruising for dates, checking out the lastest fashions and advertisements. The Mallplexes are safe, with corporate secrurity guards covering your back, lots of crowds to hide in, and happy advertising telling you how great the world is. The tougher yogangs don't go to the Mallplexes; they're boring and the guards always beat them up. In short, you and your goboys like things the way they are. You don't want to make waves. You don't want excitement. You just want to blend in.

Yeah, right. Underneath your cheerful clothes and dopey arritudes lurk the future fixers and thirdmen of the universe. You aren't your average BeaverBrat, content to pull a prank and split. You and your fellow MallBrats are the flat-out masters of the black market, using the placid surface of the urbanplex to supply yogang demand. Sure the Fixers can get stuff to the Edgerunners. But who do you think sells it to them, eh, cho?

What You Look Like

As a MallBrat, you're second only to the single-identity Posergangs as far as cookie-cutter appearance. Whatever the style is, hundreds of you wear variations on it, all in bright, sassy colors. In fact, if there is one thing that can be said for MallBrat clothes, it's that they are always new.

Subculture

The Mallplex is the place to be when you're a MallBrat. Rumor and heresay are also an important part of MallBrat subculture, since the more you keep your finger on the pulse of your customers, the better you can supply them. The corner of MallBrat culture is favors. Money? You can get that anythime. But if a heavy corporate Solo owes you because you found him the chips for the new DeanArms 3000 genius gun, that's something special. MallBrat favors runn all through 2027 society, because everyone goes to the Mallplex at some time, and almost everyone needs something.

Your favorite flat-vid is Risky Business.

Belonging

On the surface, most of the MallBrats you know are just collections of friends, cliques who hang out together at the malls. There is very little to keep anyone from joining, as long as they know someone else who is a MallBrat.

Your Allies and Enemies

MallBrats tend to get along with almost all the yogang types. The GoldenKids and Glitters sometimes use you to get exclusive stuff that no amount of money can buy. You haven't got much use for the Goths, and you think of the BeaverBrats as customers, not friends.

Slang

220: very desirable day, prospect.

Go Chapter 11: to eliminate an enemy.

Investment: a hot prospect or deal.

Lagger: one who is unfashionable or out of date. Also a bad businessman.

Office: Usually the backroom or corner of the Mallplex where deals are made.

Shiv: fashionable, nice-looking.

Slacked: in trouble, ejected, beat up, arrested.

Yogang Skill: Boost (INT)

Since you spend most of your life in a Mall, you know exactly how store security systems really work. Boost is your ability to nab or secure clothing, jewelry, weapons, gear, etc., without being observed, either be operating microfactories without tripping the production counters (Difficult), or by slipping a few items off the inventory computers (Average). You can spot a plainclothes detective a kilometre off (Easy); you know exactly where the hidden merchandise detectors are (Average), and you can slip a bulky package in your clothes in less than a nanosec (Difficult).

If You're a MallBrat

1) Tell me your name, age and sex.

2) Describe what you look like.

3) Besides your V-Trodes, pick four different things from the list below that you are currently carrying:

Personal phone

V-Term (computer/digital assistant)

Autofactory Override key (works 75% of the time)

Light pistol

Mirrorshades

20 V-cards (like 3-D VCR tapes. Pick what's on them not).

Smart Decryptor (opens door locks)

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