From:	"Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Non-running sources of income (was Re: Talismongering)
Date:	Thu, 7 May 1998 10:28:40 -0700

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> From: Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: Non-running sources of income (was Re: Talismongering)
> Date: Thursday, May 07, 1998 9:18 AM
>
> In a message dated 5/7/98 9:58:09 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
> michael.cugley@******.NET writes:
>
> > On the subject of security for one's enchanting adept's thriving
Orichalcum
> > production facitlity, what do you think High Lifestyle's for, anyway?
> > Security is included in the price, as I recall...
> >
> >
> That is correct, High Lifestyle does have -some- security...but is it the
kind
> of security that is more readily capable of handling a group that is out
to
> steal something that only a magician is likely to want that badly???
>

I have two words to go along with that:

Gang background.

One of the few mages I ever ran I got the gang background, and my GM let me
populate it with the "wiz kid mage" contact... the ones with a magic
attribute of three. It was one of those, "You're hired to protect X, but
no matter what you do, X dies." Adventures. It was a published one, so
someone on here has probably been on the same adventure.

Anyway, the gang was really handy. Helping out with ritual sendings of a
special spell I called "rotting curse" (I had a whole Cthulhu mythos going
with this guy), keeping an eye on stuff for a few hundred nuyen. If you
had luxury lifestyle and let them stay with you when they weren't keeping
watch for you, you'd have a pretty handy magical security force.