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When a high-risk job in Night City goes violently wrong, Valerie "V" - an ex-Arasaka corpo turned cybered-up mercenary - expects to die in a blaze of chrome and gunfire. Instead, she wakes up in the woods outside Hawkins, Indiana... in March of 1986.
Stranded decades in the past with no neon, no netrunners, and no way home, V is forced to hide in plain sight by enrolling at Hawkins High under a fake name. Her glowing optics, Gorilla Arms, and combat instincts make her an instant anomaly in a town already haunted by monsters, secrets, and trauma. When a series of brutal supernatural murders begins, V realizes this world's enemy isn't something she can just shoot.
As Vecna's curse spreads, V joins forces with Eleven, Max, Dustin, Steve, Eddie, and the rest of the Hawkins crew. Her cyberware can tear through Demogorgons - but it can't shield her from psychic wounds rooted in guilt, loss, and betrayal. The more Vecna digs into her past, the more V must confront the truth she's been running from: no amount of chrome can protect a broken soul.
Set against the dark horror of Stranger Things Season 4 and the cynical edge of Cyberpunk 2077, Chrome and Curses is a brutal, emotional crossover about trauma as a weapon, humanity versus augmentation, and finding family in the most unlikely place - a small town in the 1980s that might just save a girl from the future.