Drugs

Each kit could hold a certain number of chemicals. You'd use the kit to mix up a batch of the drug of your choice, and a chemical skill check could be made, which would determin how much of the chemicals were used up, and perhaps the purity of the drug produced, too.

You'd have to buy chemical refills when your kit ran out.

I think this'd add a whole new layer to the game economy. Fixers providing chemists, who make drugs, who provide to pushers who put the drugs on the streets.

Maybe we should've mentioned drugs before, when people were worrying about not being strong or fast enough to mug someone or whatever..well, score some v-202. Jack up on that and use the chemical advantage to achieve your goal.

Maybe you'll become reliant on it, and need to mug more people in order to feed your habbit. *gasp* oh no!

Desperate street crime, because you're struggling to get something you want, -need- to function day to do.

Sounds pretty Cyberpunk to me.

Go live it people.

My idea is pretty basic, but that's the point to posting it. Let other people do all the hard work and proper planning

:)

It would help crime in Red also, more ways for aspiring crims to make money, and adding more point to a gang than just mugging  and harassing people, making more room for growth.  

You'd have the guy(s) working the lab, the guys dealing, and the guys muscling other dealers out of their 'turf'. Not to mention the guys brokering for chemicals or just outright stealing them. Then the people you'd courier the chemicals to the drug labs.
Maybe make it so you need specific components for different drugs, so a lab producing Ex-D7 would be cheaper than one that also makes V-202, but on the other hand, if you make more drugs, you get a bigger share of the market.

But no, Dom, I don't know much about meth labs..there are only a couple things I know a -lot- about. I just also happen to have a lot of useless information picked up here and there that I just neglect to forget. One of those people you don't want to watch Jeopardy! with. =P

Bob is in his New Rose cube cooking up some v-202, when a violent explosion rips the room apart and sends shards of glass and a flaming body out the window and onto the pavement in front of the drome.  

Maybe there shouldn't be consequences so drastic, but there should be, for an unskilled drug maker, rather than just a shitty batch of drugs that fucks people over.

Maybe the chemicals, if improperly mixed, could make some kind of gas that, depending on the potentcy, makes you pass out for a while, temporarily paralyzed, or die altogether.

That also opens up a whole new way of getting at your enemies, making this gas on purpose, and you could go as far as to slide a small tube underneath someone's door, paralyzing the people inside temporarily, knocking them unconscious, or even killing them, while the door gets kicked in, the code gets cracked, or whatever.

Of course, you could never add anything that could not be countered. There could be things like oxygen tanks and gas masks, if you're worried about getting killed in your cube.

That could add in a new thing to health, just add some messages to it when you get a bad batch of v-202, rather than 'He is in excellent condition' or 'He is suffering from a painful laceration and is laboring in intense pain' you could have 'His face is sunken, and he's got bags beneath his eyes.'   You could tie this in with charisma, too.  Maybe after having a bad batch of drugs, people puke at random intervals, depending on the severity of the poisoning, and you could even create an object called 'puddle of puke' that can't be picked up, but has to be cleaned with a verb.  It could be like a corpse, and get worse and worse, until somebody cleans it.  If you really wanted to go overboard, you could record what the people eat in a variable, and describe the puke according to that, 'The puddle of vomit seems to be comprised mostly of what appears to be bits of french fry, but also has some yellow and red that must have been pizza.'  The puke could get nastier, until it's a puddle of rotting, half digested food.  Maybe people will think twice before getting drunk or getting a fix.

I have much more to say, but I'm done raving now...

"The first time you take E you are like.. WTF MATE!? THIS ROX0RS!  The second time you take it.. your like.. 'eh.. okay.. The third time you decided to crush up five pills and snort them up your nose and you -almost- get to where you were that first time.."

You made me snort my tea in laughter. This is related to me having just spoken with an old *cough* rave *glances around wearily* buddy of mine about the Jaded Cyclical Effect Loop(tm) of music scenes and how that relates to the high drug saturation of some of these scenes� And how that�s related to the ups and downs of wave forms...  And how that�s related to the gravitational pull of the stars on our h2o meat sacks� and how.. ok. So we stopped there and decided to get on with our lives.
*umms*
no, contrary to what seems to be popular opinion as of late. I�m not drunk.

*!rambly thoughts warning!*
Nemisis is the smarts. Tolerance. Build it up, tear it down. Fuck horribly with the minds and bodies of the addicts but in a way that makes them want more. Ideally, ICly those who poses addictions would... RP those addictions. I've seen 3 chars RP their addictions with a fair amount of realisme and flair. And remember

being Addicted is illegal.  Not the drugs themselves...

And make them want more of the environment where that they do their drug of choice. Every pusher already knows that there�s a sort of symbiotic knack to it. Tis all. As always my dears, I have nothing mind blowing to say about the matter under discussion but instead rant about something totally unrelated.

goodpie.

(Edited by Bias at 11:06 pm on Nov. 13, 2004)