Oups, il y a déjà eu un thread sur le sujet

Oh putain... 6 ans de prison ça veut dire que il va aller en taule non ? Je suis pas fan de la prison, mais si un pauvre y vas pour moins que ça alors un riche doit y aller aussi

In blade in the dark, you declare how much gear you plan to bring, so the GM knows whether it's normal guys with a backpack , or guys in tactical suit with bullet proof jacket and a rifle.

But in general, yes, the setting need to react to adventurer party. It's not ordinary

You know to make interesting rpg stories, you need bad people, and being bad means you underpay worker and take all the money from their work.

If dwarves get a 15beer a hour minimal wage, they won't have a reason to fight the Dragon they work for

Bass in music. If the bass play right, you don't hear it, but if they miss or play wrong there is immediately something missing

Having the traitor in the party, has a binary result, it'es either one of the best campaign you'll play, or a horror story, no middle ground

Technically, intimidating is a legit alternative to stealth. Hey if you tell anyone we're here, you are dead it's basically depending on te party playstyle

Actually OP handled it pretty well, at least in the end . PC face consequences for their actions (a trial with the risk of being hung) and end up having to act to solve the problem. It's somehow created more game opportunities.

This kind of idea is between genius and stupid.

It's a cheap an easy solution to a lot of problem, and it sounds like the kind of proposal an intern would do

Things get messy when the GM forgot about that minor NPC like I'm going to see Elia ? Who ? but Elia, the fixer we saved from the Corpo guard, she said we'll always be welcome

GM pro tip, let the player come with the plot, they'll be so impress by the complex plot you came out with and so proud to have found-it, while actually you just said yes to their ideas

Obligatory thought to cobol, which is stil the backbone of banking computers.

I would also think to the good old electromechanical relay which are still pretty common

More political, but whatever what imperator Musk thinks Privacy isn't obsolete