[UA] Dumb Plutomancy question/stored charges

d * red_kittens at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 6 07:53:05 PST 2004


Not since I began to play a Plutomancer have I thought
so much about the Zen-ness of finance.

My question is about stored charges. That is, things
that will yield charges but aren't in the mystical
bank (so won't be lost by taboo.)

Like the usual kind of UA scum, I'm worried that
everything's going to go pear shaped and so i'm
preparing a 'Bug out Bag' - containing everything you
need to get out of town in a hurry; fake passports/
ID, a gun, a cabbage roll of used cash, a ticket to
Switzerland/Mexico, a fast car not registered to me
etc.

What i need is some way of restocking my magical bank.
Given that most of my charges will have been expended
fighting or fleeing from whoever/whatever i'm running
from now.

Now, an annihilomancer could keep a stack of family
photo albums, the school football trophy, a hammer and
a cannister of lighter fluid in a lock up garage
somewhere. He drops in and breaks some stuff, then
bugs out of town with a couple of charges to deal with
the unforseen.

Similarly a Dipso could just stash a load of bottles
to help fuel his escape.

While bug out stored charges are useful for all
schools, my particular problem is Plutomancy. The roll
of cash in the sports bag with the gun, the plane
tickets and the english-swiss dictionary is mine
already, so any charges from it have already been
gotten and spent. Same if i'd given my neighbour $5000
for safekeeping to be returned to me, he'd just be
holding MY money (money i owned) for me - so no
charges.

Would a winning lottery ticket be a successful
storage? Then on my way to mexico i could just stop
in, redeem it and pick up the charge? Or would the
charge have arrived as soon as i realised that the
ticket was worth $1000?

We'd considered casino chips - obviously, bought chips
would be your money in another form, but won chips?
would you get the charge as soon as you won them, or
only when you cashed them in? What about I O Us? I
realise that they depend on the good standing of the
loanee - your best mate compared with some junkie
stranger.

So what about credit cards? You can get cash straight
from them, but you are also placed in debt. Does that
count for a charge? Or a taboo violation? Even if you
have no intention of paying the money back? Which is a
bit of an insult to money, but you are giving it a
better home (your pocket) so anything's justifiable...

Just interested in your thoughts.

d*

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