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GhostWriter

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« on: <10-18-12/2131:18> »
...what the street value for a crate of bananas, a crate of real chocolates, and a medi-kit full of condoms would be? My players happen to find these in the first run. (which will be posted up soon so all of you can judge this GM for his mistakes.)

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« Reply #1 on: <10-18-12/2142:05> »
Bananas would be the most expensive, higher if truly organic. Chocolates is still processed food, so it's value would still be in relation with today's value. Condoms would be .10¥ a dozen. ;)

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« Reply #2 on: <10-18-12/2149:19> »
Thanks Jack. Yeah they found organic bananas.

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« Reply #3 on: <10-18-12/2153:03> »
Thanks Jack. Yeah they found organic bananas.

Hmmm... bananas are approx $3 kg in australia, assume that 'real food' cost significantly more...

Say 30-50 nuyen a kg?

Luxury items, these bananas  :(
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« Reply #4 on: <10-18-12/2158:47> »
Depends on the size of the crates, but here's what I'd suggest for a per-unit price, after taking into account the hit for selling on the black market:

Street-value for modern Bananas varies widely by location but I'd call it around $1 per kg here in the US, converting to kg to use the traditional metric units of the Sixth World.  For Shadowrun, with the upheavals in the traditional growing areas for bananas and the general sky-rocketing prices of Real Food, I'd suggest giving them around 10¥ per kg, plus or minus the Face's intervention, of course.

Chocolates... well, depends on the quality. Assuming it's somewhere in the "deluxe to ultra-deluxe" range, since nobody else would bother with Genuine Chocolate, lets call it $35-$40 per kg for bulk "bricks," or the same amount per box for retail "assortment" type packaging. Much the same trouble affects chocolate as bananas, but they've managed to genetically engineer some pretty convincingly flavored substitutes so I'd suggest less of a mark-up... only around 50¥ per kg.

The condoms... well, I really doubt they'd get any more expensive in the future so, following the standard 1¥ = $1 rule, they'd retail legitimately for about $1 a condom for the ones with all the "special features" and far less for the generic, given-out-for-free-at-the-health-clinic variety. Call it 0.01¥ apiece, assuming they can even find a buyer.
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« Reply #5 on: <10-18-12/2215:35> »
You guys are frellin brilliant.

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« Reply #6 on: <10-18-12/2350:12> »
I'd probably mark up the bananas higher than the chocolate, especially since their "real". Chocolate is an extravagance, but it's a processed food, so even the best chocolate can be made with lesser quality ingredients and fillers.

Unless it's Hershey, that shit's da bomb.

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« Reply #7 on: <10-19-12/0129:33> »
There are prices for smuggled food in Cyberpirates. I'll check when I get around to it.

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« Reply #8 on: <10-19-12/0206:23> »
The chocolate has the highest variable. Much of the processing has not changed in 500 years. Aztecnology/ Aztlan have near lock on cocoa groves, because they like the climate of Central America. A Hershey bar would be of low value, high end chocolate from people like Jaque Torres could be near retirement levels.
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« Reply #9 on: <10-19-12/0315:49> »
Most cocoa is exported from the Gold & Ivory Coasts, Indonesia and Malaysia, and South America (Amazonia). Yakashima Africa is the largest producer of chocolate according to Cyberpirates!, and it's a valuable enough a target that Kane once stole two and a half tons of chocolate chips from a candy factory in Yendi. He then blasted an eighty-ton vat of molasses with AV rockets to cover his escape while the guards drowned like a bunch of turn-of-the-century Bostonians.

Anyway, Zombie Chocolate, anyone?


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« Reply #10 on: <10-19-12/1247:12> »
There are prices for smuggled food in Cyberpirates. I'll check when I get around to it.

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I did not know that.

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« Reply #11 on: <10-19-12/1259:17> »
You may not need to worry about the price of bannana's, it's fairly likely they could go bad before they're able to find the right person to sell them too, or since they're perishable they could have to deal with taking frar less than they're actually worth, "thats my offer, good luck finding someone with a better one before they go bad".

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« Reply #12 on: <10-19-12/1409:25> »
I thought Real chocolate was as rare as real honey in SR?
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« Reply #13 on: <10-19-12/1415:22> »
Reminds me of a run I did where the objective was to steal a live non-genetweaked cow.

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« Reply #14 on: <10-19-12/1836:26> »
I thought Real chocolate was as rare as real honey in SR?

Well, Kane delivered them to a women's prison in Accra, Ghana. So I think that was a charity/good karma run (He mentions that he now has 850 very good friends). That's the only way I could believe for even a second that Kane would pull a job for only 20,000¥ (4¥/lb.) worth of chocolate (using today's prices, and assuming they're conventional and not fancy $14/lb. chips). The AV rockets he used to blow up the vat and escape probably cost more than that. If real chocolate is rare, which it may or may not be, then he really blew a missed opportunity.


Anyway, it depends. As for bananas, they're already the most genetically-modified fruit on Earth. I assume by 2075 that they'll be even more genetweaked and, of course, be irradiated before shipment (The irradiated apples in 28 Days Later is my favorite part of that movie).
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