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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #90 on: November 14, 2005, 08:50:25 AM »
Well there's Asamundo (sp?) - the all ghoul country that's mentioned in a couple of books (which I don't recall).  And I remember Madagascar being an extremely awakened place...
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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #91 on: November 14, 2005, 11:07:46 AM »
I have what I scraped together for the Run I put my PC's through over there.

but it's not much.

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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #92 on: November 14, 2005, 06:42:20 PM »
Err... Gabe, Africa is described in the same source as the pirate thing mentioned. Granted, the interior is mostly unexplained. North Africa is where most of the Desert Wars happen and there is still a lot of anti-corp sabotage by Islamists in Egypt, Chad and places like that.
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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #93 on: November 15, 2005, 08:39:35 AM »
South and West africa are where all the really good stuff takes place.

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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #94 on: November 15, 2005, 02:53:38 PM »
Yes, the Gold and Ivory coasts. DeBeers practically runs a large portion of the place. That and Ares Arms Africa.

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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #95 on: November 16, 2005, 09:32:59 AM »
and anywhere where you have guns and dimonds... hmmm... that's a recipe for fun if i ever heard it!

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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #96 on: November 17, 2005, 08:38:28 PM »
Most work you do for DeBeers nets you free Dikoting or other high-tech mineral wonders.
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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #97 on: November 18, 2005, 08:46:35 AM »
Everyone wants to pay you with product.

That's normally one of the things I'll walk away from in a run. I don't want to have to bother trying to move half of some super new and great salty-stuffer, I don't want the hassle of finding a buyer for some new cyberware, and I certanly don't want to carry arround a box of mojo fetish magical whatever. If you take a run because it pays you in ammo... I bet you burn through more than you pick up. plus, the numbers are deceving.
$400,000 worth of product, quickly becomes $200,000 street value, minus the 50% to move it quick, before you have to pay for another week at your local storage rental place. making it $100,000. then, when you calculate in the bribes you had to place to let the storage rental place let you store explosives without asking too many questions, buying new contacts so you could dump the stuff, hiring a decker to cover the datatrail so you don't have to worry about it coming back to bite you later, and the actual cost of preforming the run; your $100,000 turns into $50,000 ... split five ways.
so, people see that $400K tag, and think: "Wow! I'm going to be rich!" when they get the $10K at the end of the day... it's less impressive.

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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #98 on: November 19, 2005, 12:59:19 PM »
True, you can always refuse though. A smart Johnson wouldn't consider paying someone in a warehouse fully of Moon Dogg-E Zap 'n' Serve Houshin Noodles, either... Though, I did know an Elf that loved that drek for some reason.
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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #99 on: November 19, 2005, 08:11:42 PM »
Well, they sometimes try to work it in... "you'll receve $40,000 worth of compensation for this job" for example.

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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #100 on: November 21, 2005, 08:04:02 PM »
Right, so long as they throw in the soy-sauce I'm happy.
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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #101 on: November 22, 2005, 09:19:37 AM »
you have to go shoplift your own soy-sauce packets from the 'angry panda' orental express. (they have some next to the complamentry forks you can grab if you are fast enough.)

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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #102 on: November 22, 2005, 06:27:41 PM »
Right, a whole other Shadowrun to complement my reward of noodles...
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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #103 on: November 23, 2005, 09:46:28 AM »
Yup. one good Run deserves another...

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Re:The Next New Century
« Reply #104 on: November 24, 2005, 09:04:26 AM »
Hrm. Sounds like a good idea to me, a new variation on the "get the prototype" is "get the secret recipe"
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