| From: | "Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Non-running sources of income (was Re: Talismongering) |
| Date: | Tue, 5 May 1998 08:36:20 -0700 |
> From: Brian Moore <mooreb@****.FAC.COM>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: Talismongering
> Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 8:06 AM
>
<snip>
> Of course in a real SR world, you ***WOULD*** get hit the day you finish
> by another runner team intent on stealing the Orichalcum. Anyone that
> buys copper, silver, mercury, and gold radicals is obviously going to
> make Orichalcum shortly after obtaining the materials. I'd pay a
> runner team 50knY to steal 200knY worth of Orichalcum. It's just smart
> business. Orichalcum is untracable, extremely valuable, and easily
> resold.
>
<snip>
This reminds me of something I was wondering.
How many people have their characters do work on the side? For a campaign
I'm going to be playing in pretty soon, I've been working on a
rigger/decker type o' guy, and I was thinking about long term possibilities
for him. The thought of getting a microtronics facility and/or a ground
vehicles b/r facility came to mind. And then I realized that in any
realistic campaign, a place like that stands a good chance of getting
robbed. Which means security of some sort. Which means the cost of upkeep
goes up.
So I thought of maybe actually making a business out of this. But the time
involved on some of the tasks is sometimes huge, which would interfer with
my character's career as a shadowrunner. The possibility of staffing the
place comes to mind, but that in itself has its own headaches.
I'd had similar thoughts regarding programming, particularly when I upgrade
my characters MPCP software or something. A rating 10 mpcp sourcecode with
sculpted iconography if worth well over a million nuyen, IIRC. Selling
this through the shadow market would be a good half a mill. But then comes
the possibility of other runners coming after my hide.
Has anyone else tried to market their skills in non-shadowrunning efforts
for a few extra nuyen?
