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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642  |
How can PCs cash in on the coming changes? It's probably cheating but there's all kinds of ways to make money. Invest in VR/augmented reallity tech. Stuff like that. Anybody got any other ideas?
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Mar 23 2005, 07:07 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
Invest all money they get into gold. With the breakdown of the Matrix and the corresponding stock crash (I imagine there will be one, the stockm exchanges being all matrix oriented and all), gold prices will soar. As will all other jewels and precious metals.
Get rid of all corp script and stocks. That'll be toilet paper after SF. do NOT invest into new Riggerware/deckerware, but save the money in gold to buy your character whatever will be needed to turn them into a virtual wizard/hacker. |
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Mar 23 2005, 07:36 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
Start a business that secures offline backups and start backing up every peice of data you can get your hand on. Sell "lost" data after the crash.
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Mar 23 2005, 07:36 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
actually, that brings something to mind. are they going to get rid of credsticks? i have no problem with the concept of electronic cash, but credsticks always seemed bulky to me. credcards would make a lot more sense--much more portable.
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Mar 23 2005, 07:47 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
Yup, that'd make sense. |
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Mar 23 2005, 07:48 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
I'll go you one better. CredChips. Given how much data can be stored in an xD memory card, it would be no problem.
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Mar 23 2005, 08:03 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Short stocks for just about everyone.
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Mar 23 2005, 08:47 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,133 Joined: 3-October 04 Member No.: 6,722 |
I'll up the ante - subdermal implant chips as a combination id and bank card. A suitably paranoid government with a suitably terrified populace following massive terrorist attacks might be able to push something like that through. Just imagine the problems for the SINless then. |
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Mar 23 2005, 09:15 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
A whole new plot twist. SINless really are sinless. Radical groups advocating dropping out from society and living a survivalist existence. A perfect rationale for running against the corps and government and anyone else with a SIN, by definition they are evil and condemned already. |
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Mar 23 2005, 09:10 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,133 Joined: 3-October 04 Member No.: 6,722 |
Ding, exactly what I was thinking of :) I can't claim the credit though - I'm sure there was an old RPG that did that.
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Mar 23 2005, 09:11 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
A perfect reason for fundamentalist christian terrorists to kill the SINners! Indeed, a lot of plot hooks come from that. Especially if one makes their leaders awakened, as discussed in the monotheism thread ...
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Mar 23 2005, 09:47 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Actually, that'd make an interesting SIN format—string of numbers, separated by - and +, all of which sum up to 666.
Only problem is that there's no realistic reason to do that without deliberately trying to bring Revelations to pass, and I don't think the religious nuts have quite that much swing in SR. ~J |
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Mar 23 2005, 09:44 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
Looky
The ones who will be looking for the number 666, will find it in any system. By the way, in the interests of full disclosure, I am a pretty fundementalist Christian but I really don't worry about 666 conspiracies and things for a whole lot of theological and biblical interpretation reasons. |
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Mar 23 2005, 10:07 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
Actually, the sex part in SOTA 63 says that christianity lost it's role as major source of morals in NA by 2063 (it's mainly focused on secual morals, but come on ... marriage is secularised after all! That's something you don't find even in Holland or Scandinavia!). If you desire to play a revelation-comes-to-pass campaign (as Pthgar might want to), though, it's a nice starting point. |
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Mar 23 2005, 10:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
Not really looking to play it as a campaign. More like a policlub or PC background.
How about a PC raised by this cult. The feds come down Waco-style and the PC gets shipped of from foster family to foster family. Now the PC is socially maladjusted and and sees society as evil and doomed to begin with. Makes for an oddly pricipled character, amoral towards mainstream society with a hardcore morallity towards the SINless. |
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Mar 23 2005, 10:18 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
Commonly known as 'terrorist'. And it'd make for a killer policlub, and conspiracy theory too. And for some wacko toxic christian mages. :) |
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Mar 23 2005, 10:29 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
I'd originally written "fundie", but replaced it with a more accurate term to avoid including those who don't go off the deep end while nevertheless keeping religion fundamental in their life. ~J |
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Mar 23 2005, 10:22 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
Robin Hood (Sniper/Shooter Adept) Will Scarlet (Rocker) Little John (Troll Sammy) Friar Tuck (Shaman/Mage) Maid Merriam (Face) I just can't figure out who the hacker would be. Maybe Will Scarlet. |
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Mar 23 2005, 10:24 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
I put the "fun" in Fundamentalist Whacko. Also the "mental." |
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Mar 23 2005, 10:58 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,133 Joined: 3-October 04 Member No.: 6,722 |
Then who put the... never mind, we won't discuss Scunthorpe and Marseilles... |
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Mar 23 2005, 11:38 PM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
I will simply point out that sometimes crazy cult happenings wind up having an impact, sometimes.
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Mar 23 2005, 11:39 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Yeah, but the number 666 hasn't had much in terms of positive connotations.
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Mar 23 2005, 11:45 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
Yah, but you wouldn't see it as a blatent 666 in conspiriacy. It would be worked into some code or, in the case of e-stuff, an ecryption code or something.
But really the point is it really wouldn't be there but the Cult would see it in any system they opposed. |
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Mar 24 2005, 08:05 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 654 |
Do you supose that by 206X people will have tired of making movies like "a thief in the night" and such?
There's a scene in "a thief in the night' where they focus in on all these Avalon Hill wargames on a table. (Its done as a motif for scene change, showing stuff thats "signs of the end times") We were dragooned into watching them at church once and I laughed my ass off because I had about half of the games they were showing. |
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Mar 24 2005, 09:45 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
that is because you, sir, are the deevul.
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