| From: | "Andre' Selmer" <031ANDRE@******.wits.ac.za> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: questions on cash |
| Date: | Wed, 22 May 1996 12:41:17 GMT + 2:00 |
@ before and than glossed over. How common is cash in the shadowrun world,
@ and if it is not common how do shadowrunners make large purchases. I know
@ you'll all say credsticks but I was under the impression that shadowrunners
@ were sinless and that this made it hard to have a bank account or any sort
@ of electronic identification. I may be wrong about this but any comments
@ would be appreciated.
I can't remeber the official rules completely, but here is how it
goes in our system. The character can buy their fake credsticks, this
includes things like bank accounts etc. Over time, with the use of
legal purcheses that rating might rise, but only in certain
instances, for instance you always buy for snacks at a local stuffer
shack.
Certified credsticks carry cash on them. They are the equivilent
of modern day money, however each stick has a unique number embedded
into the chip and each transactions from the stick adds a this id
tag, when you put money onto the credstick it is held 'pending', that
is that the money is avaiable on the stick but not accessable until
it is plugged into a bank terminal where the bank reads all the tag
numbers from the other transfers, verifies them and updates the
amount on the credstick. (This was to prevent the electronic/computer
genuses from cooking up chips that had 100,000=Y= on them). This also
can prevent the money from being stolen as it requires an id code of
somesort.
The third time of currency is money.
As to availablity. Almost all companies and individuals will take any
form of 'cash'. However certified cred is the most common, in the
middle class, money in the lower class, and plain cred in the upper
class. All for fairly obvious reasons.
Certfied credsticks each have a maximum that their security
rating is allowed to hold. It is mentioned somewhere in the book.
Most certified cred sticks are common and can be used by almost
anyone, these sticks can however be traced through their tag number,
even if the id of the owner isn't known.
NASTY IDEA:
One thing that our characters have done with certified credsticks
was this. The chip itself is housed in the tip of the stick. If the
characters are willing to spend the cash (or build it), it is
possible to hollow out the end of the stick and place a small
tracking device in. It does work, so next time you receive certified
cred from Mr Johnson beware, ask for corporate script its slighty
safer. ;)
Andre'
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