Capitalism, Hey!: AlcheME!

[idolpro]

[ Everything fades to black...and you awaken in a run-down one-room shack, with the distinct feeling that the people around you are your family, if you didn't already have such a bond with them.

You're wearing raggedy versions of your uniform, and a newspaper informs you that you are currently in %COUNTRYNAME%, in the year %CONTEMPORARY%. The newspaper is otherwise actually fairly unhelpful, aside from something detailing a recent high-profile murder having been solved: despite confusion on the part of the authorities conducting the initial investigation, it turns out the victim had been tragically murdered via gun in the knife.

What do you do? ]

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SET YOUR BUDGET.

[idolpro]

RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

Housing - 1000
Food - 900
Medicine - 200
Clothing - 300

LUXURIES: NO RECOMMENDATIONS

Alcohol (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Other Unspecified Drugs (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
FANCY Clothes (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Books (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
One Eighth Of An Automobile (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Nice Furniture (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -

CURRENT JOB - COAL MINER/FORTUNE TELLER. YEARLY INCOME - 1400 MONIES.

NEW CRIME ABILITY ACQUIRED: VOODOO - allows you to gain 500 monies in exchange for CURSING a unit.

Will you pay taxes this year?

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[wantstheddd]

What... what does cursing do...

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[liarliarliar]

NO IDEA sounds like a bad idea. Not a fan! Probably bad!

So for budget uh.

Five hundred housing, five hundred food, two hundred medicine, two hundred clothes?

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[wantstheddd]

No hundred housing. Let's buy a car and skip town, our job sucks and we're under arrest anyway.

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[liarliarliar]

...........okay here's what we do then. Zero housing. We skip town.

I make money on the side hustle, you try a cooking job again. And I.

Okay hear me out.

I find a rich guy. Ask him who he dislikes. Curse them as an example. Tell him only the first one is free. See if he pays for more.

Re: SET YOUR BUDGET.

[wantstheddd]

Zero housing, we fake our deaths and skip town, start over with a new life in the country! I'm excited again. I'm into this.

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[liarliarliar]

Fake ou--you know what. Sure.

Let's go then before the cops get us.

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[wantstheddd]

Nice, nice.

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[liarliarliar]

Crime time~ crime time~

Let's go!

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[irregular]

Probably nothing positive, I mean it's a curse, right? if it's something nice it's a blessing.

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[wantstheddd]

I guess.

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[irregular]

I mean, I guess we could try it and find out? Though we probably couldn't find out if it worked until the game was over...

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[wantstheddd]

Too dubious. Let's just look out for our own business, I guess.

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[irregular]

Sounds like the best plan to me. I'm not wild about cursing someone else for play money anyway.