Alpha State

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3.6 - Marketplace

Words and stuff.

3.61 - Everyday Items

Whether you're buying groceries or clothes, renting a hotel room or an apartment, getting a gift for your bottom, or just restocking your meds, there are some things that fall into a very generalized category of "stuff people buy every day."

Food and Drink

All meat needs to eat, or so the lady says. If you're human—even a bio-manufactured one—you need food. There's plenty to choose from on SB65. Not all of it is very good, but most of it will keep you alive. Some of it is even really great, if you can afford it.

General Food or Drink Scratch // $Index
Protein Bar (1 meal) $c120 // 1$ Don't ask what the protein is. Tastes awful, slimy but with a weird grainy crunch to it; it's got most of the nutrients and vitamins you need. It'll keep you alive.
Cheap Groceries (1 person, 1 month) $c11k // 5$ (D); $c8.5 // 4$ (S) Mostly tasty, pretty grainy, and generall made with affordable materials on rundown printers.
Mid-Tier Groceries (1 person, 1 month) $c39k // 5$ (D); $c30k // 5$ (S) Tasty and nutritious, if a bit grainy. Printed with decent materials on moderately used printers.
Expensive Groceries (1 person, 1 month) $c138k // 6$ Delicious, contains all the necessary nutrients. Printed with high quality materials on high-end machines.
Exclusive Groceries (1 person, 1 month) $c4.5m // 7$ Real vegetables grown in actual soil, real meat from replicant animals, and anything else.
Cheap Hooch (bottle) $c1.2k // 4$ Brewed from stuff, kept in whatever container is available, and printed on the cheapest printers from the cheapest materials. Good for killing brain cells, so it's fairly popular.
Drinking Booze (bottle) $c5.3k // 4$ Fairly brewed, made from average stuff printed from average materials. It'll do the job, clear the mind a little, but having a night out won't cost your whole rent
Good Liquor (bottle) $c15k // 5$ Brewed with intention, aged in quality containers, made from quality goods printed from quality materials. Quality drink, with a quality price, in more ways than one.
High-Label Alcohol (bottle) $c1.6m // 7$ Brewed by experts in the most sanitary conditions, made from real goods grown from actual soil. It'll cost you more than an arm, but you'll be glad you did.

Food & Drink by Service Scratch // $Index
Fast Food (1 meal) $c5k // 4$ (D); $c2.7k // 4$ (S) Not very nutritious, but it's cheap and it'll fill your stomach. Usually made with cheap materials on cheap printers; typically pretty grainy, with little flavor but massive amounts of salt or sugar (or both).
Low-End Restaurant (1 meal) $c8.6k // 4$ (D); $c6.3k // 4$ (S) Fairly nutritious, usually has all the right vitamins and whatnot. Mostly tasty, pretty grainy, but usually made with affordable materials on so-so printers.
Mid-Tier Restaurant (1 meal) $c100k // 6$ (D); $c77k // 5$ (S) Nutritious and delicious, perhaps a little bit of grainy texture but it's not too bad. Made with fairly decent materials on printers that have seen some use but still do the job.
High-End Restaurant (1 meal) $c159k // 6$ Delicious food with all the proper nutrients. Printed with the highest quality materials on the most up-to-date printers, lovingly prepared and presented by android or human help.
Exclusive Restaurant (1 meal) $c3.6m // 7$ Sumptuously hand-prepared food made from real grown flora and fauna, cooked by highly skilled android or human help. Nutritious, delicious, and beautiful, presented in artistically decorative ways.
Cheap Hooch (glass) $c110 // 3$ Glass of the cheap stuff. Good for killing brain cells, so it's fairly popular.
Drinking Booze (glass) $c640 // 3$ Glass of drink, it'll do the job but having a night out won't cost your whole rent.
Good Liquor (glass) $c3,500 // 5$ Glass of the good stuff. Worth it.

3.62 - Skillware

There's a lot of good and bad things about having neuralware embedded in the brains of every single person, and one of the most prominent goodbad things is the development of skillware. Software can do a lot of things, and software designed to carry the fundamental and physical knowledge of specific tasks or actions is one of the most spectacular. Don't know how to drive? Skillware can drive for you. Can't stand up to that bully? Let skillware stand up to them for you. Got hired to teach a language that you don't speak? Just install the right skillware and you're getting paid for top-notch work you could never do on your own.

Skillware is, essentially, an app that controls your wetware like any other app controls hardware or cyberware. You don't actually gain any of the information, knowledge, or techniques included in the skillware, but while it's installed you can perform all of it. It's been described as watching your body on autopilot, like a dream, but with conscious awareness. Some people even claim they can learn new skills from watching skillware make their body do things, but there's been no major studies on the idea.

Installing Skillware

Once you've purchased or rented a skillware app, you only gain its benefits once it's installed. It doesn't do anything just sitting in your ICS storage, it must be installed and active. Like any app, an installed skillware app uses NRAM.

While installed, a skillware app uses NRAM based on how complex it is. That complexity emerges from the complexity of the task it's meant to emulate, as well as how much of your body it needs to control in order to function. Generally, apps that control more of your body require more NRAM than those that control less of your body, and apps that contain more advanced knowledge reuire more NRAM than those that contain less advanced knowledge. So, by way of example, a skillware app for spinal surgery uses up a ton of NRAM because it's dealing with highly complex subjects and needs very fine motor function control. If you don't have enough NRAM to run the app, you can't install it.

Using Skillware

While Skillware is installed, it replaces the die code of one Training or Knowledge, even if it's lower. This means that for the duration of the app's installation, whenever you make any STK Check that uses that particular Training or Knowledge, roll the app's die code instead of your own. Skillware completely overrides any neural functions related to that specific activity.

Uninstalling Skillware

You can uninstall a skillware app like any other software, but there's a potential cost. Once the uninstall is complete, make a Flat Check of the skillware app's die code, and then another Flat Check of your own die code for the relevant Training or Knowledge. The results of both checks determine whether uninstalling the app has any negative side effects.

Both Succeed: No side effects.
App Fails, You Succeed: You suffer a neural shock and become lightly injured/damaged.
App Succeeds, You Fail: Your die code is reduced by one rank (minimum d4). If your die code is already d4, then you suffer a neural shock and become lightly injured/damaged.
Both Fail: Your die code is reduced by one rank (minimum d4), and you suffer a neural shock and become lightly injured/damaged. If your die code is already d4, then you suffer a worse neural shock and also become badly injured/damaged.

List of Skillware

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Skillware Scratch // $Index
Knowledge Skillware (bespoke) $c9,000 // 2$ Applies a d12 rating to any one (1) Knowledge that's not otherwise listed. Storage: 256EB; Install: 16EB
Knowledge Skillware (elite) $c6,500 // 2$ Applies a d10 rating to any one (1) Knowledge that's not otherwise listed. Storage: 128EB; Install: 8EB
Knowledge Skillware (general) $c5,300 // 2$ Applies a d8 rating to any one (1) Knowledge that's not otherwise listed. Storage: 64EB; Install: 4EB
Training Skillware (bespoke) $c13,900 // 2$ Applies a d12 rating to any one (1) Training that's not otherwise listed. Storage: 512EB; Install: 32EB
Training Skillware (elite) $c10,200 // 2$ Applies a d10 rating to any one (1) Training that's not otherwise listed. Storage: 256EB; Install: 16EB
Training Skillware (general) $c7,800 // 2$ Applies a d8 rating to any one (1) Training that's not otherwise listed. Storage: 128EB; Install: 8EB

3.63 - Tech Gear

Cyberware, computers, vehicles, weapons, they all need repairs and they can all be upgraded. Can't do that with just your bare hands!

Tech Gear Scratch // $Index
Cybercomponents (superficial) $c7k // 4$ Bioreactive plates, integrative armored nanites, synthflesh, and other parts used for repairing minor damage.
Cybercomponents (internal) $c30k // 5$ Wiring, hydraulic fluid, synthblood, and a few bits from a superifcial cybercomponents kit, used for repairing moderate damage.
Cybercomponents (structural) $c118k // 6$ Nanite auto-scaffolding, bioreactive gel, universal component connectors, and a few bits from internal and superficial cybercomponent kits, used for repairing heavy damage.
Cybercomponents (critical) $c326k // 6$ Replacement power supplies, storage components, modular hardware, and a few bits from structural, internal, and superifical cybercomponent kits, used for repairing severe damage.

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