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Posted by: FuelDrop Nov 26 2013, 02:02 AM
Last run ended up netting our group 500 doses of the drug Novacoke. Since we had to pay for them (We were assassinating the dealer and had hidden a bomb with the money) we'll lose nuyen if we simply try reselling. so apart from the obvious (Using them ourselves, inducing overdoses in others, doping people in their sleep so they go to the important meeting with charisma 1 willpower 1 and get fired so we can extract them for another corp, throwing an absolutely massive rave, keeping junkie contacts happy), what are some cunning ideas for us to make use of this stuff?
Posted by: Tanegar Nov 26 2013, 02:49 AM
Combine it with DMSO and load splash grenades with it.
Posted by: FuelDrop Nov 26 2013, 03:09 AM
the old 'instant party' trick? could work...
Posted by: DWC Nov 26 2013, 03:19 AM
Keep it on hand. Pass it out at parties to blend in. Bribe gangers, bouncers, and party girls with it. Use it to get close to a mid-level drug dealer or fence that you need to kidnap or kill. Plant it on people you want to get into trouble with the law. Large quantities of hard drugs are always worth having lying around.
Posted by: Critias Nov 26 2013, 03:34 AM
I know a guy.
Posted by: CanRay Nov 26 2013, 06:38 AM
Plant it in an SINner enemy's property/vehicle. Call in a tip to your police connection. Profit. 
Posted by: ShadowDragon8685 Nov 26 2013, 09:28 AM
Find a magician you don't like too much who follows the Succubus mentor spirit. Offer them a hit.
Wait until they crash. Offer them another hit. Facing a threshold 2 test with a dice pool of two, they'll pretty much have to accept.
Wait until they crash. Offer them another hit. Facing a threshold 2 test with a dice pool of two, they'll pretty much have to accept.
...
Are they good and addicted to Novacoke? You now have a pet magician and/or someone you can string out for cash for as long as you've got that gigantic briefcase full of Colombian super-powder.
Posted by: FuelDrop Nov 26 2013, 09:35 AM
Wait until they crash. Offer them another hit. Facing a threshold 2 test with a dice pool of two, they'll pretty much have to accept.
Wait until they crash. Offer them another hit. Facing a threshold 2 test with a dice pool of two, they'll pretty much have to accept.
...
Are they good and addicted to Novacoke? You now have a pet magician and/or someone you can string out for cash for as long as you've got that gigantic briefcase full of Colombian super-powder.
I'm a face. who needs the succubus mentor bit
Posted by: Stahlseele Nov 26 2013, 11:39 AM
Pinkie Pie:"A PARTY!" *fires Cannon with splashgrenade with DMSO and Novacoke into Club*
Posted by: mister__joshua Nov 26 2013, 01:38 PM
Start by rolling up the world's biggest bank note...
Posted by: Draco18s Nov 26 2013, 01:55 PM
Try a Zimbabwean 50 trillion note. You can pick one up on eBay for about $12 ;D
Posted by: Sengir Nov 26 2013, 02:09 PM
1.) Buy a "cutting drugs 101" knowsoft
2.) Sell the charge for twice the price
3.) Double-time it before the buyer realizes what purity he got
PS:
The victim could just claim that it happened in one of his drunk stupors
Posted by: Sendaz Nov 26 2013, 02:15 PM
Spike the entire lot into one of the sides of beef slated for Lofwyr's mid-afternoon snack. (He eats these like popcorn chicken chunks)
Not entirely certain what the end effect would be, but will be on a small mountain top nearby with telephoto lens on the camcorder to see.
Posted by: Tymeaus Jalynsfein Nov 26 2013, 03:01 PM
Me Too... Maybe it is the same Guy...
Posted by: CitM Nov 26 2013, 03:07 PM
If you are a runner, give it to some streetlevel connection in return for some favours, since the price is low but the sound of "5 pounds of novacoke" is pretty impressive.
If you are a streetlevel guy just consume it, offer it to your guests and you will get a bunch of new friends! Or a hole in the head
Posted by: ltwutze Nov 26 2013, 07:12 PM
Do the Rules have a statement of the amount of drug that count as a dose? If Novacoke is anything like nowadays coacaine and wikipedia is right, one dose measures from 35mg up to 100mg. Even when you double that (on a drug that is supposedly stronger) 500 doses just make 100 gram. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine, under Insuffiation.
Not that 500 doses isnt much for a normal, healthy person, but an addict could go through that in a rather short time. (No proof, only experience from working in a detox clinic)
That was my problem with an idea I had: If you want to use it as a bait for the mob or a drug cartel, it simply isn't enough
Posted by: TeOdio Nov 26 2013, 08:26 PM
Posted by: KarmaInferno Nov 26 2013, 10:18 PM
Load it into a crop duster. Have fun.
-k
Posted by: WhiskeyJohnny Nov 28 2013, 02:59 AM
I'm with Tanegar and FuelDrop on this one - never know when you're gonna need to pull a Panther Moderns, so being set for some instant party is a good card to have in your deck.
Posted by: binarywraith Nov 28 2013, 06:06 AM
My players' answer was 'watch the troll roll around in it like the biggest, ugliest kitten you've ever seen' last time they cracked a novacoke dealer's stash.
It took them six months to get their muscle to quit snorting every white powder he saw just in case.
Posted by: Elfenlied Nov 28 2013, 06:14 AM
Reenact the final shootout from Scarface?
Posted by: PiXeL01 Nov 28 2013, 07:47 AM
You guys are still in Japan, right? If SR-Japanese drug laws are still as strict as current laws I would load it onto an aerial drone, have it fly on autopilot into a congested pedestrian street/mall (especially if owned by a corp you want to discredit), have it spread over the pedestrians and call the media to film the aftermath.
Wait for the headlines to run amok
Posted by: Tanegar Nov 28 2013, 02:38 PM
Ten internets to you, sir, for a well-executed Neuromancer reference.
Posted by: White Buffalo Nov 28 2013, 02:45 PM
If you're in CAS/UCAS/CalFree pick a corp you don't like (say Kong Walmart or Ares Target) dose the shopers on Black Friday and have the hacker brick all the electronics that're on sale. Instant riot.
Posted by: Tymeaus Jalynsfein Nov 29 2013, 04:24 PM
It took them six months to get their muscle to quit snorting every white powder he saw just in case.
Our Troll STILL has this problem.
But then, Guerilla T. is a Pretty unique Troll.
Posted by: Snow_Fox Dec 23 2013, 03:10 AM
to quote Toby Keith:
"let's have a party!"
joking aside think of the influence/friends you could cultivate
Posted by: Umidori Dec 23 2013, 09:09 AM
But then, Guerilla T. is a Pretty unique Troll.
With a name like Guerilla (not to be confused with Gorilla!), I imagine they'd have to be.
Dare I ask what the T stands for?
~Umi
Posted by: Stahlseele Dec 23 2013, 10:02 AM
Guerilla T. Troll?
Posted by: Umidori Dec 23 2013, 10:11 AM
Having the last name of Troll would cause you a lot of problems.
~Umi
Posted by: Tymeaus Jalynsfein Dec 23 2013, 06:50 PM
~Umi
Guerilla T... T is for Troll (He is a Mercenary - with a Magic of 1 or 2 (adept))... Street name, of course, he does not go by any other name.
Posted by: Stahlseele Dec 23 2013, 07:03 PM
Does he have a mohawk and dark skin?
Posted by: CanRay Dec 23 2013, 07:06 PM
Invite a heavy trog rock band over to play for "candy". 
Posted by: X-Kalibur Dec 23 2013, 07:39 PM
Find the SR equivalent of Charlie Sheen. Now you have 0 doses of Novacoke and some Nuyen; maybe even a new friend.
Posted by: CanRay Dec 23 2013, 10:44 PM
Exchange it for baking soda to confuse the Audio/Video dope fiend at your tattoo parlor front/illegal 'trid porn studio. (Sorry, long story.).
Posted by: ShadowDragon8685 Dec 23 2013, 11:53 PM
You don't need to find the equivalent of Charlie Sheen; if he's been Léonized, you can find the actual Charlie Sheen. And then reenact scenes from Platoon in your living room with Novacoked-up Charlie Sheen.
Posted by: Tymeaus Jalynsfein Dec 24 2013, 02:14 PM
Better yet... re-enact the scene from Scarface.
Posted by: DamHawke Jan 22 2014, 04:13 PM
Cut it with nitro, add sugary stuff and sell it as an a healthy alternative energy drink
Posted by: Draco18s Jan 22 2014, 09:58 PM
Don't forget some Natural Supplements and lacing one in every 50 with a dash of K-10 (for that extra boost).
Posted by: Shinobi Killfist Jan 22 2014, 11:09 PM
This came up sort of in our game though it was bliss and they stole it as a side money making venture. One of the players who missed that session is an addict for bliss and they plan on selling it to him.
Posted by: Draco18s Jan 23 2014, 12:05 AM
Reminds me of a Firefly game. One of the players was a proctologist.
I...I shouldn't continue that story.
Posted by: Tymeaus Jalynsfein Jan 23 2014, 02:47 PM
I...I shouldn't continue that story.
No... You really shouldn't... *eek*
Posted by: Sendaz Jan 23 2014, 02:49 PM
I...I shouldn't continue that story.
I am guessing it all came to a bad end?
Posted by: Draco18s Jan 23 2014, 04:16 PM
Lets just say that one session one player was not around and the other player was able to practice his trained skills.
I, the cook, and the engineer made booze. Really really good booze. Like Tech x10 equivalent. And lots of it. Like 300 gallons.
The money we got from it was insignificant.* It was like being paid in stick-'n-shock but really really wanting deltaware.
Or as one player said, "Hooray! Money! Is it worth anything? Who knows!"
*This is due to the fact that anything that is within the "reasonable purchase price" of starting player characters isn't worth having (or is so cheap you can have 30 of them by accident, as they cost 5-50 credits) and anything worth having costs 25,000 credits minimum.** The only thing you'd actually want to buy that has a price you'd actually be able to afford*** is the fuel to make interstellar jumps. Which is all financed by the person you're transporting or the goods you're transporting for them. So the price is irrelevant.
**Only one item inbetween: a landing shuttle for 10,000 credits. We already had two.
***Not really. It has a cost of like 300 credits per one-way trip, with the profit on a one-way trip being like 50 to 100 credits. Our 300 gallons of booze netted us 10 credits a gallon. The 2000 credits we ended up with (after splitting the booze with the captain, drinking some, etc. etc.) was not enough to buy anything we wanted and we already has a slush fun for anything we might need.
Posted by: DWC Jan 23 2014, 05:40 PM
I, the cook, and the engineer made booze. Really really good booze. Like Tech x10 equivalent. And lots of it. Like 300 gallons.
The money we got from it was insignificant.* It was like being paid in stick-'n-shock but really really wanting deltaware.
Or as one player said, "Hooray! Money! Is it worth anything? Who knows!"
*This is due to the fact that anything that is within the "reasonable purchase price" of starting player characters isn't worth having (or is so cheap you can have 30 of them by accident, as they cost 5-50 credits) and anything worth having costs 25,000 credits minimum.** The only thing you'd actually want to buy that has a price you'd actually be able to afford*** is the fuel to make interstellar jumps. Which is all financed by the person you're transporting or the goods you're transporting for them. So the price is irrelevant.
**Only one item inbetween: a landing shuttle for 10,000 credits. We already had two.
***Not really. It has a cost of like 300 credits per one-way trip, with the profit on a one-way trip being like 50 to 100 credits. Our 300 gallons of booze netted us 10 credits a gallon. The 2000 credits we ended up with (after splitting the booze with the captain, drinking some, etc. etc.) was not enough to buy anything we wanted and we already has a slush fun for anything we might need.
That is an impressively terrible economic model for a game.
Posted by: Draco18s Jan 23 2014, 08:18 PM
Tell me about it.
The only way to make "common junk" valuable was by getting it as Tech x2 or Tech x10 (there were no in-between values). You multiplied the base cost by said multiplier and got minor benefits (don't recall what they were, exactly) along with non-mechanical bells and whistles (e.g. a book could have a small holographic projector instead of regular 2D images).
Also, if you had the "Trust Fund" quality, you could make dice rolls to buy things up to a certain cost for free (cost based on charisma and negotiation, IIRC, along with a dice roll). Cheesing it meant that at the top end you could just barely squeak in a "free spaceship"* if you tried often enough. Keeping mind that the roll was specifically "to see if you could get the cash" and were not required to purchase anything (successful or otherwise).
*That 25,000 credit item
Posted by: TeOdio Jan 24 2014, 10:47 AM
The T is his "real" first name's initial. He was known as Gorilla T playing ball in college before blowing out his knee. The Guerilla moniker described what he did better than anything else when he started running the shadows.. cause who'd hire a runner named CokeNwhores...?
Posted by: FuelDrop Jan 24 2014, 10:56 AM
You obviously have never met some of the employers my group has had. One of them would have been able to provide both the goods and the services in payment for the run...
Posted by: Draco18s Jan 24 2014, 12:43 PM
The number of "hookers and blow" jokes in my office alone would prove otherwise.
Posted by: Stahlseele Jan 24 2014, 12:46 PM
screw you guys!
i'll make my own shadowrun group!
with whores and blackjack!
Posted by: Tymeaus Jalynsfein Jan 24 2014, 02:49 PM
My Mistake...
CokeNwhores fits him better though.
Posted by: TeOdio Jan 24 2014, 06:12 PM
With the bad rep, I'm sure that's what everyone calls him behind his back, as long as they think he won't paranoia-rage murder them later...
Posted by: Tymeaus Jalynsfein Jan 24 2014, 07:44 PM
Heh... Yeah, about that...
Posted by: Ren Jan 26 2014, 06:49 AM
Isn't this the plot of the new season of Archer?
Posted by: X-Kalibur Jan 27 2014, 05:51 PM
Pretty much. Literally a ton of coke.
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