From:	Brian Moore <mooreb@****.FAC.COM>
Subject:	Re: Talismongering
Date:	Wed, 6 May 1998 13:42:52 -0400

Jessica Grota <grota@*********.COM> said:
> Brian Moore wrote:
> >
> > My PC mage tries to keep 2 other PCs around when making Orichalcum. He
> > keeps a small stock of the big 4 radicals that he usually makes himself,
> > so he doesn't have to buy any. He makes an average of 8 units of
> > Orichalcum per attempt (skill 6 & Centering, TN of 2 due to high MR).
> > That has a retail value of around 700,000 nY. You can be sure that
> > the only people who know what he's doing are the PC bodyguards (who
> > usually expect to get foci made from the Orichalcum).
>
>
> Sounds like a good deal. Feel like hiring a dual-natured, heavily wired
> samurai for that? Jett is looking for work and needs a weapon focus...

Weapon focus? Get in line. My character finally decided he needed one.
So did the other mage. And the PhysAdept wants 2! The last mage chose
a weapon focus during my last enchanting binge, but now he wants a Power
Focus (which is what the rest of us got previously). The Power Focus
will be like the others he's made, Force 3, but the weapon foci will all
be different, and probably Force 4 or 5. My character is trying to figure
out how many months he needs to spend making Orichalcum.

To pay for it, all the other PCs will pay me a ridiculously small amount
of nuyen, bodyguard the entire process (probably upwards of four months
in all!), probably make up the designs (using Magic Theory), and acquire
the raw materials and additional radicals I'll need.

Unfortunately, the enchanting happens in a remote Lodge we use as the HQ
for our Initiatory Group, members only. And my mage has decided that he
will only make foci for members of the Initiatory Group. But if you
happen to be an elf and a Hermetic Mage or PhysAdept, there's always a
chance. We don't advertise (Secrecy stricture on the group), but there
are people who know that my Mage is a good Enchanter.

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