| From: | Mark Steedman <M.J.Steedman@***.RGU.AC.UK> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Oricalcum, Millions of free yen! |
| Date: | Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:47:11 GMT |
> Subject: Re: Oricalcum
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> >And the GM would have to be immensely stupid to let the mage do that
> >unsupervised, without problems or repercusions.... It's roughly
> >equivalent to owning your own mint.
> >
Assuming you do it carefully :)
>
> Well, it costs about 250,000 nuyen for the raw gear for the enchanting
> shop, then you have to rent/buy/or otherwise come up with a place to set
> it up, after that it's just up-keep, and of course that you can't do
> alchemy AND shadowrunning... having to constantly tend some mystic
> alchemy process for 28 straight days makes it a bit hard to be
> galavanting all across the globe. Of course now that you just blew a
> month, I hope you make your roll and manage to actaully GET some
> orichalcum...
It's TN 10 minus magic attribute, which means initiates can be
ridiculously good at it :) even without the correct skill. Units made
equalls success, beware i had a king GM fail to cover this one, in
goes the karma pool, 10 odd units/ month at 88,000 * 2 Yen a shot
even after i cut the talismonger in for a whopping 50% to sell it
quietly the character was rolling in money.
> But then now that you have it I doubt you can just waltz
> over to "Bob's Pawn Shop and Discount Occultery" and expect have him
> glady fork over the 88+K for a few units of very expensive and VERY rare
> alchemical materials. Because, hey, everybody and his goat just wander
> in off the streets and casually browse through the Orichalcum section to
> see if there is a special or maybe a coupon discount. Then of course now
> that you decide to give up running in order to become a one man
> orichalcum factory, and are steadily supplying people with a heretofor
> fairly expensive and hard to come by material, you wouldn't dream of
> expecting some unscrupulous person (in shadowrun?!? NEVER!) to decide
> that maybe your a fairly ripe target with a potential stock-pile of
> valuable stuff that could promise a good score...
>
Which is why you pay a good contact a LARGE percentage to pass it
about the shadow markets peicemeal, you might only get 50% as much
money but at least you won't have lonestar at the front door, the
Azzies and MCT comming through the walls, Raku on the roof and Yaks
ans Triads in your yard :)
> Oh, and don't forget that if you're lucky what you make just might pay
> for your life-style and the upkeep/security/what-not for the shop.
>
> ~Tim (artificing, like any side business, can be fun... and food for the
> GM)
>
That is putting things mildly, especially when you add the underworld
sourcebook and give it a good stir :)
However if you take precations orialcum manufacture is a gold mine,
but you need serious shadow connections to survive as an independent
manufacturer without getting traced.
Mark
