07-02-2013, 07:27 PM | #31 |
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Yeah, or use a treasure trove to buy a small worked-out goldmine. Use your talent to fill the lower levels not with solid gold, but with high-grade ore. Hire some workers with little experience of gold deposits to mine it back out again and process it normally. Or similarly, buy the mullock-heap of some nineteenth-century or earlier mine, use your ability to salt the tailings with high-grade ore, and run them through modern processing. "Who would have thought the old methods were so inefficient?" Buy a small river, use your talent to fill the bed with gem gravels. Hire people to dredge the gravels out and pan out the sapphires or diamonds or whatever. Sneak back during the holidays to refill the riverbed as necessary.
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07-02-2013, 07:38 PM | #32 | ||||||
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*repeats "known" ad infinitium* Lots of things aren't known. Edward's ability to make larger amounts is something he's kept to himself (as its' a recent development). He is known to be able to make no more than fifty lbs worth of his sample and even then doing so exhausted him for weeks afterwards. He has improved dramatically since (and is torn about his continued faking of the weaker ability). About half the people with powers are under the age of twelve; two-thirds of the remainder are teens and the remaining range from early adulthood to the seriously elderly. About one in every hundred thousand people have powers of some kind. Powers started showing up in 2014. The campaign's "Now" is July 5th of 2016; supers are still rather new and most of them are kids. Its' hard to do things like draft a bunch of four year olds ... who get rather upset when you take them away from mommy and may have the raw power to do something about it. Quote:
Precisely the same as that of the sample used. Nothing detectable to either instruments or other supers. Which is moderately disturbing to the other supers given that he doesn't register as a super to other supers and his abilities don't register as powers to other supers when used. It makes the scientists cranky too; but they're getting used to that. Quote:
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07-02-2013, 07:53 PM | #33 | |
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Fifty pounds of gold is 730 ounces: about $900,000 worth. Everyone will already be used to the idea that he could do that two or three times in his long vacation without interrupting his studies, and such damage as doing it might do is already done. And there are probably drug companies and materials research outfits cued up with cash, willing to pay him $20,000 per pound or more to convert their tiny samples of new enzymes, antibiotics, vaccines, and other research materials into tens-of-pounds batches.
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07-02-2013, 08:04 PM | #34 |
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Re: Modern Economics & Create/Snatcher
Of course, he can just create 50 pounds of stuff; that's about a half million dollars worth of platinum. He doesn't even have to be particularly secret about it.
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07-02-2013, 08:05 PM | #35 |
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For example, as dust or flakes, or very fine powder like that produced when refining gold by the cyanide process.
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07-02-2013, 08:17 PM | #36 | ||
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07-02-2013, 08:35 PM | #37 | |
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It simplifies things considerably not to have to keep creation a secret.
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07-02-2013, 08:45 PM | #38 | |
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Besides, he happens to be Canadian. |
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07-02-2013, 10:33 PM | #39 |
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Reenergizing an old mine seems like a fine idea... Or oil.... Something where he could "find" new deposits of x.
My snatcher character makes industrial diamonds.
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