Housing, Tools, and Survival Gear
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Basic Set
What Cost of Living Gets You: A Modern Example
Your lifestyle will depend greatly on the campaign tech level. At TL3, Status 7 means you will live like a medieval king: a couple of castles or palaces, lands, and plenty of servants. At TL12, Status 7 is unimaginable...you probably have your own private planetoid!
Here's a modern (TL8) example of how housing and transportation would reflect Status:
- Status 8: An estate the size of a small country, multiple palatial mansions, an entire private airline, a yacht the size of an ocean liner, and an army of guards.
- Status 7: A palatial mansion, multiple rural estates or retreats, a private jumbo jet, a large acht, a fleet of vehicles, and an entire agency of security guards.
- Status 6: A huge mansion on an estate, a couple of more modest residences, a private jet, a yacht, a fleet of vehicles, and hundreds of functionaries (including a platoon of bodyguards).
- Status 5: A large mansion on an estate, one or two smaller townhouses, an executive jet, a yacht, a small fleet of cars, and dozens of functionaries (often including a team of bodyguards).
- Status 4: A mid-sized mansion, several other properties, a yacht or private light aircraft, a limousine, a few luxury cars, and many servants (often including at least one bodyguard).
- Status 3: A small mansion, a few other properties, a small yacht, a number of luxury cars or other vehicles, and a handful of servants.
- Status 2: A large house with grounds, one or two other properties, a couple of expensive cars, a few other vehicles, and a housekeeper.
- Status 1: A comfortable house or condominium, a nice new car or a couple of older ones, and perhaps a boat or other recreational vehicle.
- Status 0: A house (heavily mortgaged) or large apartment, and a car.
- Status -1: A small or shared apartment, or a decaying or derelict house in a bad neighborhood, and possibly a used (or stolen!) car.
- Status -2: A room in a flophouse or shelter...or a patch of sidewalk.
High-Tech
TODO
Bio-Tech
Biogadgets
Fleshbed (TL10)
This is a biogenetic mass of flesh, tailored for spinal support and comfort. It's alive, warm, and you'll never want to leave. $7,500, 60 lbs. LC4.
Garbage Disposal (TL10)
This lives under the kitchen sink, digesting all organic scraps and excreting partially treated waste into the sewer. It might be biogenetic, or based on a small omnivore. $1,000, 8 lbs. LC4.
Smart Rug or Bathmat (TL10)
This slowly tugs itself across the floor, slurping up dirt, puddles, soap, hair, etc. ST 4, DX 2, IQ 1, HT 12; Move 1. $500, 4 lbs. LC4.
Ultra-Tech
Ultra-tech domestic technologies may just be background details, but they can also be pressed into service by adventurers. The heroes, or their foes, may reprogram a cleaning robot as a spy or saboteur, or use domestic nanocleanser to clean up telltale forensic evidence.
Domestic Equipment and Appliances
(UNFINISHED)
Responsive Beds (TL9)
This bed can adjust to the shape of the sleeper, responding to voice commands to become softer, firmer, or bouncier as desired. Adds +1 to Erotic Art skill if used inventively, and adds +TL/2 to any Will rolls made to get to sleep.
- Single: $500, 100 lbs.
- Double: $700, 140 lbs.
Sleep Set (TL10-11)
A programmable ultrasonic or neural induction headset that gives the user the equivalent of the Deep Sleeper perk, and also provides Protected Hearing.
Autokitchen (TL10-12)
This automated kitchen is fitted with a complete set of robotic manipulator arms. It can cook on command using its own skill, or it can duplicate the moves of a live chef. One chef could control a dozen or more autokitchens scattered around the world.
- TL10: Cooking-10. $20,000, 400 lbs.
- TL11: Cooking-11. $10,000, 200 lbs.
- TL12: Cooking-12. $5,000, 100 lbs.
All use external power. LC4.
Housing and Construction
TODO
Foodstuffs
TODO