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[Sunday_Gamer]

Greetings,

I wanted to open the floor to a topic that has always been "wince worthy" with me, the purchase of karma.
Now according to the rules, karma can be purchased or sold for 5000 nuyen per point. Needless to say this is certainly meant in frame of reference to the canon pay scale which quite frankly, is slightly dumber than... hmmm actually that's a tough one, those are some silly pay scales.

5000 for a run? Screw you, I'm gonna become a car thief, easier and far far safer.

But that is neither here nor there, I give you, my problem.

Current rules of 1 pt for 5000 are ludicrous, I'd be buying Karma by the truck load.
Yes, I'm rich.
That's part of my problem.

I have NO use for money. I am a true "street" shaman. I live on the street. I have spells to clean me, clothes me, feel me and heal me, spirits to hide and guard me while I sleep ( just make sure you time it right and don't sleep through dawn or dusk, easy enough, tell the spirit to wake you when the sun begins to rise/set) I have no SIN and no need (I have fakes if I need one).

What I DO with my money is give it away, constantly, I spend my money on total strangers all the frakkin time ( It drives Nova INSANE!! )

My question is, if I'm giving money away hand over fist, aren't I, in a nutshell, buying karma? That's not why I do it, which in fact reinforces it since if you were doing it FOR the karma it wouldn't be quite as selfless.

Everyone else benefits both from the karma they earn and the money they spend to upgrade their bodies. Not that I would ever stick anything in my body I wasn't born with but I have bio-rejection to boot and my order strictly forbids it.

I spend my cash to help others and even then, I still have way too much and have been examining charity scenarios to get rid of it. Should I be awarded karma for all this monkey love?

Your thoughts are sought and welcome.

On a slightly different note, since I would NOT expect to get karma for this idea but let me bounce this one off your heads while I have the floor...

I had this really funny idea the other day. As some of you may or may not know, the percentage of awakened people statistically just doesn't reflect the reality of awakened life. This is because the large majority of beings with the potential never realize they have it and live their mundane life ignorant of their magical potential. The book even goes so far as to single out the barrens as places where people can easily escape detecting their awakened nature. I had already been thinking of opening an orphanage in Puyallup. Get/Buy a building in the barrens but just on the edge near Puyallup City or on the outskirts of it.
I spend pretty much all my free time, patrolling the barrens going from group of squatters to the next, feeding, clothing, cleaning and clothing the homeless, staying in touch with "the word on the street" and fighting a little evil along the way. (Oh I'm sorry? Did you think you could pick on squatters and no one was gonna stand up for them? SOOPRISE BIDGE!!)
As a full shaman, I have the skills to find these potential awakened, and the means and will to train them, teach them to use their powers ( I would get other teachers, I know my order would help )

So I kill 2 birds with one stone. I use my money to help others and I find and take in unawakened kids that have the potential to awaken and teach and train them, hopefully imparting some of the wisdom and kindness of monkey into what could have been far nastier lives growing up in the barrens, magicless.

I dare say the mere thought of it makes me giggle.

Kong