Yeah, but any team with a Naga isn't about to ever be able to go to Quebec.

"Why doesn't she want to go?"

"She says that Naga-Hide isn't a type of artificial leather in Quebec..."

Good point, but with "making" 800¥ an hour they could afford to pick and choose their missions. It's a big world out there chummer, lots of odd jobs. Plus, a crazy naga might like the idea of going. "Let 'em try! Half my cut on this run says they never saw a Naga phys-ad before..."

Maybe the job is getting revenge on some hunters.

Revenge is bad for business, unless someone else is paying for it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Exactly. Maybe the Nagaraja heard about what you are doing and has decided to fund your righteous efforts by placing a bounty on the bounty hunters. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

If the metahuman in question is an attractive female it might be worth the risk when you factor in how much you can charge for a hit direct from the tap . . .

Damnit, now I want to get a bunch of women like this and set up a Milk Bar!

For me and my droogs!

Yet another shadowrunner who found his retirement plan.

Always comes down to buying a bar, doesn't it?

Once again the movie Ronin lays it out for us....

Ambush people with a cup of coffee?

Never walk into a place without knowing a way out?

Hurt someone's feelings, once?

AND having a few friends that just wanted to open a bar, but didn't live so were spared the disillusion.

Making drug isn't complicated: just follow the chemistry rules (SR4A or Arsenal) or just get that implant that let you synthesize a chemical compound.
You might get in trouble with the authorities if your lab is discovered, but if it's just for you and your team you don't really need to worry: the police won't be searching for your lab.

But if you want to make it a business, it'll be much more complicated.

Odds are it will end up being a full-time job, since nagas in the UCAS are few and far between, which can be a serious problem. When the cops have about two suspects to choose from, investigations tends to be quick...

Also you know, when the criminal types decide they want more than you can(or are willing to) provide, things get messy.

In short, the drug trade is nasty nasty business, and something I think smart runners should stay the hell away from.

Dying spares them from disillusionment.


I'll give you a grasshopper for that.

Which is also an issues with Metavarients and other Non-Metahuman Sentients. It gets really easy when you can also narrow down the people they affiliate with...

Such as a Night One that lives with an Elf that size of an Ork.And Shadowrunning isn't a nasty business? They shoot people. In the face. For money.

"OK what do we have, BY ODIN'S BEARD! I heard it was a massive firefight, but this looks like the Second EuroWar! What's the body count?"

"Depends on what you consider a body. We have a few limbs minus the rest, and they were either vaporized with magic or got away and might have survived to a Street Doc. But we're well into the double digits, and might break into the triple if we consider the SINless that got hit by stray bullets."

"Let's not, this is going to be bad enough press as is."

"OK, we're well into the double-digits, with some evidence of a small-scale drug lab that was quickly dismantled. And a closet that is obviously designed for a hothouse, with a strong smell of Deepweed."

"Oh, good. We can hand this off to Vice then and not have any of the major issues fall on us. Go ahead and count those SINless dead. Serves the bastards right after what they did last week."

All the more reason to have good contacts that have high loyalty. Spread the wealth. Add a few links in the chain. Collect your 30%. Hell, take a month off and flood the market with about 400 doses and net yourself almost a 100¥ large. Better toys for the group.

"So, wait, you're telling me that you're Shadowrunning in order to launder your dirty money with equally dirty money, so people don't know you really finance yourselves by making drugs?" "Yep!" "... That makes zero sense." "It also explains why we have Assault Cannons and LMGs while most drug manufacturers are happy with pistols and SMGs." "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, that makes better sense."

It's just making use of all available resources to help. Just like using certain acids and nanos (or the Turn-To-Goo spell, ugh) to eat away metahuman flesh and leave the cyberware all nice and untouched for resale.

Or selling the chemical byproducts of an industrial process to produce something else as a product all on it's own. The Corps do it all the time. IRL, no less.

I used to have characters that cooked up doses of drugs for use in gas grenades.

No fun like hurling a cloud of K-10 into the middle of a group.

If you arent going to be in a city for very long, fake drugs are a good way to make money.

"Where the hell did they get ten kilos of baking soda?" "WHY the hell did they have ten kilos of baking soda?"

Day Job, it has it's perks. Ha

"Can we arrest them for Possession with intent to Distribute Baking Soda?" "I don't know, can we arrest them on the grounds that they're a danger by being too stupid for the general populous?" "Nah, prisons are already overcrowded."

Yes. Yes they can.