((I'm a proponent of the 'who needs money when everything is about to die' idea, myself. Bit of a spendthrift in the face of the apocalypse, you understand.
I wonder how a game like this would pan out with average characters, though. Simple, everyday people granted incredible power for but a moment and a wish from powerful, malign entities... but lacking any means to do the ridiculous stuff a billionaire can safely get away with.))
There's only one way to find out.
((I say that due to the timescale we work with in these games, and the utter uselessness of money at the end of it, combined with the gargantuan amount of starting cash and low rate of income, the stocks never really felt, well, relevant. Theres really no use for them other than trying to transmute as much stocks $$$ to cash $$$ as you can before the apocalypse causes the market to collapse))
You have a good point there. Only real reason I added stocks in first place is because any richer type usually tends to have some. I'm gonna stick with them for this round, but probably drop them on third vision.
Q2 2016
Good! Get a parcel of land in the Boothia Peninsula and commence building of a right proper bunker as per the design.
Shell out 500 mil for the right people to achieve this feat of construction.
[4] You buy good 9 km
2 from
here for cheap price of 1.5 million USD. Need more? It is about as cheap as it gets.
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Auto 6] You get the people. Expensive people. Wait a moment... Don't you already have bunch of people for construction? You want more? Because that's how you burn money.
Either way, they begin planning.
Stock value and profits of Beller Group drops heavily in newest economic shitstorm. Whole happening eats 5 billion off of your net worth.
Name: Gilbert Carmichael
Sex: Male
Age: 63
Role: CEO
- Quarterly income: 12 mil $
- Cash: 10.497 bil $
- Stocks: 6.39 bil $
- Other assets: 4.76 bil $
- Total wealth: 21.647 bil $
OtherMany highly educated engineers and skilled workers.
These proud men and woman cost you 19.25 million per quarter. They have static roll bonus +2.
A 70m$ ranch somewhere in Arizona.
Perfect design for self-sufficient underground facilities.
9 km2 land in Boothia Peninsula Produces tobacco and spirits.
Vile and very competent legal department.
bigaction: Get the team to continue the work with the same budget again, prep a 1m reward for each team member if they crack the code
Bigaction: Purchase an abandoned mine and surroundings, as far south as the Atacama goes, minimum 100km from major cities.
Smallaction: Cross-reference SDD disk medical data with existing records. If there's anything in there I cant find any real-world research about, fund ($20m) a team of scientists to do a study on the topic.
Smallaction: If I don't happen to have one, purchase a private jet. Nothing super-fancy, just a way to get from point A to point B very, very rapidly, without any fuss.
[3
+1] Unique code, they say, but ultimately not extremely hard. The code is basically coordinates to
here, to Station
Princess Elizabeth on Antarctica. Those divine dicks really want you to work for these designs.
[6] Some misunderstanding gets you the mine, the land, and nearby small villages as well, with their inhabitants kicked out. Ain't so cheap anymore, but you got money to burn.
[1] Referencing relevant data in SSD disk and comparing it about data in Internet gets you in trouble. Perhaps you shouldn't have asked round in internet forums and copypasted some files, because you are now accused for stealing copyrighted research data. See you in court. Oh, and Dronetics doesn't want a thief as their CEO so you are kicked out of your position. Should you by some miracle be proved innocent they take you back, but for now you are on your own. The original disk is confiscated, but you manage to hide some copies.
We can say you have a jet, materialized from your other assets.
Name: Faheema Naish
Sex: Female
Role: Ex CEO
- Quarterly income: 0 $
- Cash: 8.917 bil $
- Stocks: 9.261 bil $
- Other assets: 7.22 bil $
- Total wealth: 25.398 bil $
OtherSDD disk, wished from evil gods. Contains comprehensive research data about treating parasite infections.
Mysterious prismatic glass cube. Wished by Gilbert Carmichael.
The Da Vinci Code. Numerous bookmarks.
Contains encrypted coordinates to Princess Elisabeth on Antarctica.
Mine, land, and two villages in Atacama Desert.
Soon in court for stealing research data and sharing it in internet.
Private jet. ((oh, sorry.))
Spend 500 million hiring a team of assassins, hackers, and criminal infiltrators to kill the higher ups of Green Peace, hack and sabotage their database, and disrupt their operations.
[6
+0] Hired. They are extremely effective at completely destrying Green Peace operations, but a bit sloppy. They leave traces. Enough to start police investigations, and eventually they will get your ass for it, unless you do something about it. This whole massacre gets huge media coverage accross the world.
The economic turmoil eats half of your stock value away.
Name: Forrester Finch
Sex: Male
Age: 55
Role: Head of a secret organization
- Quarterly income: 5.3 mil $
- Cash: 4.5 bil $
- Stocks: 5.3 bil $
- Other assets: 2.997 bil $
- Total wealth: 12.797 bil $
Other3b$. Hidden underground laboratory in Antarctica.
3m$. Highly-paid team of accountants and financial advisers.
Secret international organization specializing in stealthy environmental sabotage and destruction.
Antarctica laboratory has developed lethal virus targeted on aquatic life. It kills its hosts after a month long symptomless growth period.
Has utterly destroyed Green Peace.
Set some scientists to research into the fuel and test the designs. Work on improving and designing a new passenger airline r that will be semi based around this new fuel.
Start putting a portion of what is earned from the stock into researching the fuel
[6
+0] The R&D department splits in two as one group tries to follow instructions on the paper and another tries to improve upon it, effectively halving research speed.
[5] Passenger airline using rocket fuel? Greatest changes comes in form of engines and fuel storage. This fuel is meant to push rockets up to Earth orbit, so it has quite much of kick, which means structure of the plane must be strengthened to withstand higher acceleration and superstructure must handle extremely low airpressure, because this is basically gonna be a low altitude spaceship. Really fast one. Much still depends on results of scientists work on the fuel, but certain basics are guaranteed.
Icarus Skies loses much of its stock value thanks for EU fucking things up.
Name: Van Relsing
Sex: Male
Age: 32
Role: CEO of Icarus skies
- Quarterly income: 13 mil $
- Cash: 2.266 bil $
- Stocks: 9.538 bil $
- Other assets: 13.5 bil $
- Total wealth: 26,013 bil $
OtherPile of papers. "Study on developing more efficient rocket fuels." Seems revolutionary but too theoretical.
A company producing jets and jet accessories.
Try to find a research team to help investigate the data on farming.
Also, read through it myself, and see if I can decipher any of it.
[4] You get a nice team together and give them the SSD.
[3] It is all quite technical and sciency. Mechanical parts and biological parts. Not particularly easy to understand, even with all helpful side notes and links.
USA precidential election is apparently hold in November 2016, which gives you next two quarters to work with your campaign. Get the power, and you will have resources of entire nation in your hands.
You too lose 5 billion of your net worth to the mess happening in other side of Atlantic Ocean.
Name: Sherri Jones
Sex: Female
Age: 50
Role: Politician
- Quarterly income: 10 mil $
- Cash: 11.262 bil $
- Stocks: 3.723 bil $
- Other assets: 5.25 bil $
- Total wealth: 20.235 bil $
OtherUnmarked SSD drive. Contains jet blueprints by Icarus Skies.
Unmarked SSD drive. Contains blueprints of advanced hydroponic farming devices and techniques.
A team working on this. Newest scandal in European Union cash management plummets entire global market into new depths. Just as we were hoping it get better, but nope! "Fuck your life" says life!
Other:Green Peace has been erased! All leading figures of this nature loving and progression hating group are killed in coordinated assassination. No doubt this is work of deranged mind who hates everything that is green! Interpol is currently investigating this horrible event and they claim they have already some critical evidence gathered.
Q3 2016
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