Tattered clothes or cloth are sellable either to girls on the second floor of the school (after meeting them, they appear at the market as well) or to the girl at the beach. Can't remember who exactly buys books tho, but I'm almost certain you can sell them too.
I knew, who/where, the cloth and tattered clothes could be sold .
That raises questions about who is actually enforcing property law and how contracts work in this setting. I think Sammie is just paying for access to the building and whatever maintenance or utilities are provided. I wonder what would happen if there was a dispute between a landlord and a tenant, or how disputes are handled generally in this setting. In an extreme example, what would happen for if your landlord died or people just stopped paying him. Would the guards actually step in? Do they have any sort of courts to handle disputes, and since they probably don't, do the guards have discretion to decide who is in the right in a dispute? Could we end up in a situation where we have the guards on our side so the landlord can't throw us out even though we don't pay rent? Could we gaslight the guards and say we totally did pay our rent but he is trying to extort us for double? The landlord isn't really economically productive if he isn't doing repairs or providing any value to the tenants, so the guards don't really have any incentive to help him except inertia from a legal system that doesn't seem to exist anymore.
dude this is a porn game you are seriously overthinking it.
I personally find the overthinking things to be intensely erotic.
The brain is the largest sexual organ, or the mind is the most powerful erogenous zone, or something.
Personally, given how much people prostitute themselves for cash, the setting seems pretty much in favor of allowing a landlord to kick a renter out with no questions asked, even to the level of Bailey from Degrees of Lewdity where rent is what he says it is. There wouldn't be a lot of 'town guard' either, given the fairly lawless state of the city it's pretty clear the only guards in the city are either guarding specific locations or keeping whatever is outside the city outside the city (Rumor at Haven mentioned savages with spears), so they wouldn't be inclined to step in on a personal dispute. Rack up enough debt and the landlord hires thugs to go after Sammy to rape her and steal all her money, so given that this is the person the government trusts with an important project i would say that kind of behavior is the norm rather than an exception: Nowhere in the game does anyone mention going to the police or similar authorities for anything.
To me this also seems like the sort of setting where if you poison your landlord nobody will investigate it either. Lawlessness fortunately cuts both ways.
I think that's a likely outcome, but this isn't the modern day, so the thugs aren't going to have any backup except what they can hire. Not saying Sammy is a fighter, but she could make friends who could scare them off.
not the government, The Institute. We have no real inkling that the government even knows about Sammy. Also you seem to be overestimating the state capacity of the government. They don't even seem to have the ability to collect taxes.
Except for in the park where they harass you sometimes and at the gate where if you try to prostitute Sammy she thinks it wouldn't be a good idea.
Yup, which would explain why the landlord has muscle on the payroll.
Ehh... Debatable. The soccer boys may step in against school bullies, paid thugs that Sammy cannot fight off even at 100 Fitness may be a size too big. That's the kind of thing requiring weapons, and those aren't in the game.
Yeah, the Institute runs the town as securely as White runs Haven, so they pretty much are the government. I'd be surprised if they answered to the government rather than the other way around, so when i say 'government' i meant the Institute rather than whatever puppet is in place.
Yeah, according to rumors overheard in Haven the guards at the gate tend to want freebies from the gamines, and the park is a fairly secluded part of town given that even virgin Sammy feels confident enough to change clothes or sleep in some bushes there. Aside from the nondescript alley and under the pier at the beach it's the only place she will go to sleep at outside and also the only outside location she will change clothes in. So both aren't really good places to work in, though for different reasons.
The landlord doesn't seem to have much muscle on payroll at any given time, he doesn't have guards in his office for instance. I suspect he might hire goons on an as needed basis, but they aren't on retainer or anything. In terms of making friends who could help her against her landlord, I was thinking more along the lines of the dominatrix gate guard might be able to get some off duty gate guards to help, or the group of scavengers that Jaylee is a part of, since they go out into the wider world they probably are fairly tasty in a scrap. Ultimately the resolution would probably just be that the goons decide that harassing you isn't worth the potential trouble and go back to the landlord let him know that what he asked for wasn't worth the money he was paying them. After that he'd get a reputation among the sorts who do that sort of work that he isn't an employer who can be trusted to give the full details on a job.
Whoever hold more value to the city would win in a dispute.
The checkpoint does work and is why security moved from the police station to the building they are currently in (which is an sold storage locker building)
Part of a story I have planned. But there are 2 major factions of Security. The checkpoint faction and the train station faction (the two people you met during the storyline are actually at odds with each other). Checkpoint faction are remnants of the old police force combined with fire dept as well as civilian recruits. The train station faction are mostly made up of people from the local military base. Both have different ideas on how to run things.
I don't think that makes economic sense, security wouldn't have any interest in buying up shitty craft firearms for their own use. If security buys them as part of some sort of program to keep them off the streets, that'd quickly devolve into people mass manufacturing pipe guns and selling them to security for a profit like at so called "gun buybacks" in the US (they're not actually buybacks because the people buying them never owned them, so I have no idea why they're called that). I'm an American, so my perspective on this is a bit different than yours probably is, but simple firearms are so easy to manufacture that I can't see any way they wouldn't proliferate after a breakdown in law and order. Single-shot weapons with unrifled barrels would be the bulk of guns on the market, with maybe some Luty smgs being prestige items, gangs outside the city would probably have workshops to manufacture things like AKs. Them not being used in crime inside the city could be excused as being because ammunition would be in short supply and of generally poor quality, plus gunfire would make security show up armed for bear, and quickly too. Guns only became the weapon of choice for street crime in the US after switchblades got banned. I assumed security wasn't going around kicking beehives, but if they step in on gang disputes when the bodies start piling up, they might do so accidentally, hence why I asked if their armored vehicle was in working order, since it represents the sort of force multiplier that would let security be a major player even without large numbers.
Sorry, I realize now that I phrased that a bit confusingly if you aren't the kind of weirdo who knows the names of armored vehicles off the top of their head. I was asking if the Boxer armored vehicle out front of the checkpoint is in working order. Those things aren't cheap or easy to keep maintained. Even if they do keep it running (and there are degrees of that, they might need a few hours to make it able to drive), I would think that with the state of things that the more finnicky stuff is unlikely to still working. The smoke projectors and fire supression systems for instance are probably long past the point where they needed to be replaced, and replacements probably aren't available anymore. That sort of thing could be used as a further excuse as to why security doesn't show up to handle things, they are better equipped than everyone else, but they have dwindling supplies of "the good stuff" and don't want to waste it.
Anyone with the equipment and skill to machine some kind of firearm would again be better suited working with the government and getting a job. Even if you did have a gun, makeshift or industrial, what would you do with it? Rob a few whores, drug dealers or shops then end up attracting the attention of the whole security force who will then kill you.
Almost certainly non functional and probably just serves as a giant brick. And is something I will get rid of if I update the art for that area.
This is a functional firearm:
It'd make sense for them to have even a non functional armored vehicle as a "gate guardian" since those things are heavy enough to stop someone trying to do a ram raid even in a big truck. They use old tanks and stuff like that outside of military bases in real life all the time. In most places it's just symbolic, but they do have a purpose, essentially as a giant brick amusingly enough. So if you want an excuse for it so you don't need to remake the art, that's a decent one.
Do you think it would still be as easy to make ammo in a postapocalyptic world with probably extensive supply issues? You would probably even have to make your own gunpowder the charcoal could be relatively easy to get but the sulfur and especially the potassium nitrate could be a different story.
Gunpowder, especially black powder, is actually really easy, it's the primers that are the hard part. People in the middle ages actually got some of the sulfur from urine, if I remember correctly urine of monks and holy men was believed to make the best gunpowder. You're right that saltpetre is a little more complicated
Yes, they aren't much trouble at all. A shotgun made of a pipe, an cap, and a nail doesn't need to be kept in one piece, until you need it you can keep it as separate parts around your home, slambangs aren't called "four winds" shotguns for nothing, they can be scattered to the four winds at a moment's notice. Given the lack of risk to owners, we should examine the risks to manufacturers and dealers, but for that we'd need to know more about the state of the world outside the city and we'd need more details on the situation in terms of exactly how the guards operate and what the resource situation is like. I think Sam_Tail doesn't want to have to account for guns whenever he writes a story, and that makes a lot of sense given what I think his intentions are for the story and setting, but I think he also wants the setting to be as realistic/plausible as possible. I'm trying to explain why guns would be available, but I'm also trying to help him give excuses as to why they'd basically never used, even as a threat. I think that he could also use the possibility of armed opposition as a narrative excuse for why certain "obvious" solutions aren't taken. I am not knocking the game, I really enjoy it and think it's really well made and well thought out, I just hope that my knowledge and perspective might help Sam_Tail make a better game and not rely on misunderstandings or lack of knowledge (for instance GPS would probably still work in the setting, I think a better excuse would be that the US military panicked during some crisis and made it so civilians can't access the GPS network anymore, since that is something they probably have the ability to do.)
The modern UK policing apparatus relies heavily on the horrifying surveillance state the UK is these days. The current "government" as it is doesn't have the ability to do that sort of thing, so while they might make some draconian examples, that is unlikely to meaningfully impact firearms production. They don't even have computerized records anymore, much less a surveilance camera on every street corner. Keeping track of who is acquiring more fertilizer than they need for their farm or whatever is basically impossible in the setting of the game. Also every single investigation would need to be conducted in force, since if it isn't the people doing the investigation will just be killed and the gun runners would relocate and come up with new cover before reinforcements arrive.
Done well I think that could be really thrilling and fascinating and possibly extremely erotic, I know there are a lot of people who make KK art with chicks with guns in skimpy outfits, Sammy the "zako" could be hot as hell. Imagine Sammy infiltrating the bodyguards of "the twins" and all the bodyguards are bikini clad babes with Kalashnikovs (for my erotic preferences they'd carry AK-74s or krinks, I just think they're sexier than other AK variants) . I hope the twins are hot babes too. It'd be pretty dissapointing for me at least if the twins aren't hot identical twin girls. At least I think it'd be dissapointing, Sam_Tail has surprised me in the past by making me find things hot I didn't really think were that hot.
Frankly, primers are also not necessary if you're going that far back technologically. The slow match was a cord treated to burn slowly using potassium nitrate (saltpeter) and a linen, hemp, or cotton cord. This is the "match" in a matchlock musket, though if there's a ready supply of something like pyrite or flint there are other options, like the wheellock (a spring loaded, spinning steel disk against pyrite) and various iterations of flintlocks (a piece of flint striking a steel surface). Going another way, something like an electric spark should be able to ignite the black powder, is a sparkplug or similar device could be made to work.
oops, I hadn't refreshed the page before editing my post, fortunately I didn't change anything that you were replying to. You're right, but I'm just trying to keep the number of changes being discussed to a minimum for the simplicity of communicating the issue of controlling firearms in the context of the setting of the game to people who don't understand just how amazingly simple the devices are.
