[Senko]

I was thinking recently about wage mages working for a company and got to thinking about magical equipment supplied to do their job. Magic in shadowrun is very personal so about the only central resources I could think of would be reagents that wouldn't take up much room and spells the company deems necessary.

So what do other people think could a company have an official storage for items it's wage mages might need or would there not be enough interchangeable items to make it worth keeping any kind of central a
Store and instead they just get new reagents as required from their harvesting department?

If there is a central store what would be kept in it (chalk, incense, small amount of reagents, other physical items for rituals)? And what kind of security would it have?

[ProfGast]

I recommend you check the 4E Street Magic book chapter titled "Magical Goods" or the Street Grimoire chapter "Turning Lead into Nuyen" to see what's kept in various types of Talismonger shops and stores.   For the tl;dr version though a database of spell recipes and formulae, workshops and portable lodges etc tailored to the Corporation's approved tradition.  Telesma, ingredients, stockpiles and access to elemental radicals, and access to Focii an the like is all well within what would be kept in a "magical stockpile."

As far as security goes, depends really on how full the stocks are, at the very least a bound spirit or two (watcher at the minimum), plus whatever physical security systems the Corporation can bring to bear.

[Marcus]

Most major magic operations in corps run in the same tradition, Atzlan being a good example, certainly they have magic supply rooms, and I'm sure they range in value like any other asset storage system, the valuable ones would very secure, probably high rating lodges, complete with significant tech security, serious warding, and I'm sure for really high end ones some kind of serious non-standard defense, contracted small dragon, great form spirit, maybe some kind super golem. Whatever suits that magic groups Idiom. 

Tech wise could easily by as High Zero/Zero Zones, though I doubt it.

[farothel]

As Marcus said, mages in one corporation tend to be mostly from the same tradition, so magic supply rooms are possible.  And some ingredients can be shared across traditions, even if they use them slightly differently.  That said, given the low amount of mages, I think you will only see this kind of supply rooms in very few facilities.  Large headquarters and magical laboratories will be the most common.  In smaller facilities the equipment a mage needs will probably be kept in the personal safe of that one mage who's present there.

So if your mage shadowrunner needs stuff, you're more likely to find what you need in large facilities, but security will be tighter than in smaller facilities.  As usual, do your homework correct and you can find what you need fairly easily.

[CitizenJoe]

That's more a thing that a corporate sponsored initiator group would have.  Corporations want a nice line item on the books and reagents don't really inventory well.  And if they do, it is rife with abuse.  I.e. it all looks like junk but the inventory manager has to trust that it has some "magic" value.  Better to just give the wage mage an expense account and approved vendor list.

[Senko]

That's the catch that got me though most magic items seem to need to be made/attuned by the made in question or are only useful for specific occasions so it seems unlikely even major corps would have large supply depots yet on the other hand talismongers do have stores of magical goods so it can be done and then we get into security. Reagents are high value items for mages as would be any precious gems/metals but other things like chalk you could leave on a normal stationary shelf with little likelihood of it being stolen.

[Sendaz]

Plus that is not considering there may be hazards involved in concentrating that much mana-inclined materials into a relatively small area.

There may well be reasons besides simple economy/availability of goods as to why most talismongers keep the amount of on-hand stock relatively small.

A low BGC could be the least of your worries.

There could be issues ranging from the storage place drawing more than its normal share of spirits and the attention of other astral entities  to random magical effects going off to even a astral shallow or alchera occurring.

Granted this is not mentioned in the books, but then most folk probably didn't plan on anyone stockpiling loads of mojoware either.

[Beta]

I would think that, more than a stockpile of magical goods, they'd have skilled alchemists/enchanters on staff.  Who probably always grumble that they are being rushed, never given the raw resources they need in order to produce all the goods that the other mages are requesting, etc.  The alchemists would have workshops/labs, and secure lock ups for the materials they use and make.

The other thing I think they'd have is dedicated summoning and ritual spaces.  Let's face it, if all your mages are going to spend a certain amount of their time doing ward and watcher rituals, they might as well both be comfortable and get that +1 limit from having a dedicated workspace  

[CitizenJoe]

Several megacorps have magic subsidiaries.  I know Mitsuhama and Aztechnology do.  If you're looking for a stockpile, it would be somewhere along the supply chain for those stores.