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
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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
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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.
Domestic Nanocleanser (TL10)
This "smart soap" is a solution of microscopic cleaning robots that work to remove stains, grime, dirt, dandruff, and loose skin flakes from surfaces. Domestic nanocleanser can serve as a shampoo, soap, or detergent. A teaspoon of nanocleanser powder poured into water will clean anything immersed in it in 10 to 60 seconds. It also comes in premixed liquid-detergent form, useful if water is unavailable.
Washing in nanocleanser can be unsettling to those unused to its tingling sensation, but it can also be pleasant. The robots themselves are biodegradable and non-toxic, smart enough not to scrub hard enough to scratch, and programmed to break down harmlessly if exposed to ultraviolet light or the interior of a living body.
Domestic nanocleanser can disrupt forensic evidence such as bloodstains, skin flakes and other organic residue. While it doesn't work as well as the Mask spray, treating an area with it imposes a -3 penalty on any Forensics rolls made to locate or analyze such evidence. TL10+ Forensics will be able to identify the brand of nanocleanser used, which may itself be a useful clue!
A bottle of nanocleanser lasts for about a week of routine domestic cleaning or one major cleaning job, such as thoroughly wiping down an apartment to remove evidence. Nanocleanser adds a quality bonus of +5 (TL10) or +6 (TL11-12) to Housekeeping skill rolls to clean up things. A bottle is 1/2 pound and costs $10. A bar (for washing hands, etc.) is 0.1 lb. and costs $1.
Domestic Nanomist (TL11): A spray that covers a 3-yard radius. $10, 0.5 lbs. LC4.
Cleaning Swarm (TL10)
This common swarm is programmed to move around a predetermined area, removing dust and grit, and polishing smooth surfaces with tiny brushes. Its sensors determine when material might be damaged by its actions; a cleaning swarm can safely polish lenses, and even harmlessly clean people! Each square yard of swarm can thoroughly clean one square yard area per minute. Some large craft and buildings have permanent colonies of cleaning swarms to polish windows, ports, and sensors. The swarm gives a +2 (quality) bonus to Housekeeping skill. Aerostat cleaning swarms may be popular installations in doorways, bathrooms, and showers. $1,000/square yard. LC4.
Domestic Android (TL10)
General-purpose androids are often purchased as humanoid butlers or maids.
Sonic Shower Head (TL10)
This is found in many homes and starship cabins, and on water-poor worlds. An ultrasonic spray unit clipped to a wall simultaneously cleans and massages the user. It uses building or ship's power. $400, 10 lbs., LC4.
Housing and Construction
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Foodstuffs
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