So, my character is a face/shaman socialite. He's part of a magical group that involves another socialite (and is made up entirely of PCs at this point, all cat shamen). Due to some interesting circumstances, I suddenly find that the character is able to set up an escort service to the elite... taking high end buisiness clients around to the best parties in town in return for pay. This buisiness serves a few purposes... it gets our party a number of high end contacts, makes a bit of sideline money, and potentially allows for some degree of money laundering. The real questions here are the following:
1) What skills will be necessary to run such a buisiness? My character (as well as nearly everyone in the party) has a Knowsoft Link and a DNI linked Optical Chip to store data, so he can theoretically get almost any knowledge skill needed. He's already got Ettiquette 6 and Negociation 6 + Cultured Tailored Pheremones, but what else will be needed?
2) What sort of challenges/runs might spring from this that would be fun to play through? I'm thinking protecting a client from a hit (possibly just a test from the company who's just hired him) might be appropriate.
3) Are there any rules for how much money an operation like this might make?
As a note, I have the following characters available to help out, in addition to the two cat shaman socialites: 1) my character's sister (also a PC) who's a cat shaman as well, but too introverted to want to deal with parties. She's the responsible one in the family. 2) A Leopard Shapeshifter Shaman. Not so good around people. 3) A face/rigger who specializes in stealth drones, generally anthroforms and miniblimps with sniper rifles and electronic warfare abilities. She's a gnome with no legs, and mostly does face work via the matrix or a laptop held by someone else (she's got a mini office in her van that is smaller than normal to make her look human). 4) A face/medic/B&E/streetsamurai skillchipper. She's mostly about big guns and has two obvious cyberarms, but she's also got Ettiquette 6 via chips with a rating 3 CED, so she's actually quite good socially.
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