Re: [HoE] Re: Spook Juice vs. G-ray "efficiency"

[Sam & Max <samnmax1@earthlink.net>]

Steve Crow wrote:

> > >Sure, but who buys the stuff?  There's scavenging rules for finding it
> >(in
> > >the Companion book, under Witches, oddly enough), and it's not _that_
> >hard
> > >to come by.
> >
> >Um. . .
> >Anyone care to inform him as to why scavenging for materials may not prove
> >feasible in a post-holocaust world?
>
> Sorry, you lost me.  Somebody somewhere does it, and if it were that
> dangerous, wouldn't the price be higher?

The people that sell it aren't wading into the Ghoststorm to scrape some up.
They are Mining it and its much cheaper that way.  The fact is the stuff
doesn't do much by itself, as opposed to a rifle, a car, or other things. That
is why it is relatively inexpensive. (Don't let my Junker hear me say that..
They find the amounts they use anything but -inexpensive- ) The cost is what
people have generally accepted. It can be higher in areas lower in others of
course.

>
>
> If scavenging for materials isn't feasible in a post-holocaust world, we
> might as well discontinue the whole discussion, since than _Junkers
> wouldn't_ be feasible (unless they buy everything, and where do you get the
> money/goods to buy stuff...?  By scrounging!  Or taking on dangerous
> assignments.).

Scrounging for components as opposed to Ghost rock is a very different.
Components are everywhere! Million of vehicles bought it on J-Day and building
are there and..well you get the idea. Ghost Rock is rare, components aren't
all that rare. They take time and such to gather, making sure you get the
right ones and that sorta thing.

>
>
> That's not to say that it should be a safe, peaceful pasttime by any means.
> But I thought scavenging for materials was at the core of a post-holocaust
> world and one's survival therein.  To suggest it's not feasible sounds
> kinda...odd.
>
> Or are there a lot of functional g-rock mines out there that just sell the
> stuff to anyone who comes by...?

I don't think there are all that any. But I would say they are the Primary
source for ghost rock.  Scrounging by the rules under witches is cheaper, but
only if you are in a settlement. And then again they may find the Junker
picking up there scrap Ghost rock upsetting. :)  And the normal rules for
scrounging, as opposed to the specialized rules in the No Mans Land, state the
Marshall sets the TN. I as a Marshall would make it most likely higher than 13
in a settlement to "happen upon" a spare piece of the settles fuel source.

>

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