QUOTE (Nifft @ Jul 10 2011, 08:23 PM)
Simmer down.
Either you communicate with new customers, or you don't have an industry. "Price list" is short-hand for that communication. Are you saying that your street docs never see new patients?
I am actually quite calm, how about you? Notrice I am not the one using the harsh language, you are.
Nope, I am saying that they do not publish Price Lists for the cops to peruse at their convenience. A Black Clinic is already an illegal operation. Do you think that they are reviewed and inspected by authorities on a continual basis to insure compliance with some standard of operation?
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Markdowns to what? You don't have "price lists", so what exactly are you marking down?
You have a Standard Industry Cost. The Street Cost is a Markdown from there. Isn't that obvious?
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Here's the thing you're missing: in order to hide an illegal enterprise, you usually need a legal enterprise to front for it. For example, a pawn shop as the front for a fence. There are lots of legal goods for sale, and lots of stolen goods, but you mix them together and paint on a patina of plausible deniability. This allows the enterprise to survive the scrutiny of the authorities, whatever form they take.
And yet, there are industries that have no front that are still illegal (Especially in Shadowrun). I do not try to rationalize a "Legal" option for the Organlegging operation. Black Clinics are ALREADY illegal, the fact that they might also offer Illegal Organs does not change that one iota.
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All the fucking time. It's called an autopsy, and it happens at a "biomedical scanning facility" -- a facility specialized in identifying DNA, which they like to use for evidence.
And yet, why would they do so on a living target? You miss my point. If person X goes in for surgery to receive an illegally organlegged organ, why would the cops stop him at a later point to Examine him for said illegal organs? It will not happen. Corruption sees to that.
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But you've missed the point I was trying to make, which is that for a 'runner, the dumbest thing he could possibly do is try to hawk body-parts which could place him at the scene of a crime (i.e. the murder scene, where he got the parts). You're selling evidence to unscrupulous people. If there's a reward for information leading to your capture and that reward is more than the slim margin they stand to make for participating in the organ-legging operation, you think they won't rat your sorry ass out?
The organ-legging industry is dumb. It makes no sense as written.
But you miss the point, there is No "Hawking" going on... You make an arrangement with an organization to provide a service, and you get your cred. Usually, this arrangement is long standing and continuous. You get some consideration, and they get the materials for a baseline industry. Seems pretty amenable to me. Much like the Shadows themselves, If you use everything at your disposal to prosecute crime, then the shadows evaporate. Same for Organlegging. There is an understanding that some things need to be "Ignored" for the culture to function as it is described. With the rampant corruption that is prevalent in Shadowrun, Organlegging can thrive relatively unhindered. Note that it is counter productive to turn on your suppliers. It may happen occasionally, but it will be rare, especially in Shadowrun.
I will agree that in our society today, organlegging is a non-starter for the most part. Not so in Shadowrun.
I think it makes perfect sense as it is written.