Resources

Ducatto

The Ducatto is the currency of the Commonwealth, having replaced the Pound during the conversion from the Empire. Since all of the citizen’s basic needs are met by the state, the Ducatto is exclusively used for luxury goods; for the player characters Silver is mostly used for bribing NPCs.

The AIs use Ducatto among themselves to purchase processing power, and are therefore generally always receptive to getting more, though any sum less than 1 Gold is unlikely to sway them.

For efficiency in binary coding, the Ducatto Standard is based on powers of two, with one Gold Ducatto being worth 8 Silver. Coins exist in Silver up to 64, for historical reasons; Silver coins worth 1 Gold or more are retired from general circulation.

Herbs and Pharmaceuticals

Herbs are represented by Herb cards. These can be used by a character with the Pharmacist skill to create pharmaceuticals.

Herb cards can be identified by any character who can recognise the pictured herb on the card. There will be information available to the characters that can be used to help recognise herbs.

Pharmaceutical cards each look slightly different; they have a similar but subtly different appearance and each one is labeled with its appearance (e.g. “bubbling yellow oil”). You do not automatically know what a pharmaceutical does, but you can label one you own by placing a slip of paper inside the sleeve with the card.

The various herbs are also popular among humans as medicines or recreational substances, and are sometimes used as a black market currency. AIs are rarely interested in herbs but might be interested in a pharmaceutical with effects relevant to their other interests.

Components

Components are represented by small tokens. These can be used by a Tesla Technologist character with the Create Device skill to create scientific wonders.

Components can also be used by the AIs to create grand projects. These will require large numbers of Components.

Income

At the start of each interactive, players get a basic Income and one Income Package of their choice, chosen at the time. If you took the Acquire downtime action or submitted no downtime you get an additional Package which can be the same or different. If you have the Extra Income skill, you also get another additional Package for each time you have taken the Extra Income skill, which can be the same or different.

Basic Income

• 1 Silver Ducatto
• 1 random Herb
• 1 random Component

Extra Money Package

• 1 Gold Ducatto (or 8 Silver Ducatto)

Extra Herbs Package

• 5 random herbs

Extra Components Package

• 2 Components of your choice

End of Term

Resources can’t be kept by characters between terms - it is assumed they have encountered a situation where they needed to use them. It is recommended that your character spends the resources they get! At the start of each term, each character will receive extra resources to get them started again. (Characters created after the start of the system will also receive extra resources to get them started.)