Treasure

The treasure consists of a substance that may or may not be obviously valuable. Of all the treasure types substance is the heaviest and can be difficult to cart around. An entirely random wate of 1-1000 (kilodie) kgs is assigned to the substance. Extremely valuable substances may be a mine, factory, stored in a building.

Crystal is a generic term imprecisely including gems, and other shiny baubles. Players quickly associate shiny baubles with treasure. An entirely random wate of 1-1000 (kilodie) grams is assigned to the crystal. Crystals are free range and are not included in jewelry.

Ornaments are trinkets designed to adorn the body of the wearer. Valuable ornaments will almost certainly have a history, and perhaps even a name. An ornament is valuable because of the way that it has been assembled. Ransacking it for its primary elements may render it worthless.

Ornaments are created in a confusing multi-step process. Each ornament has a composition and a location. The composition determines what treasures the ornament is composed of. The location determines where the ornament lives. If the ornament’s proper location is a finger it could be a ring. If the ornament’s location is a table it could be a centerpiece.

Generating an ornament may require many die rolls. In the end the system creates an outline of a piece of ornamental jewelry. Minute descriptive details are left to the artistic imagination of the ref. Valuable jewelry will certainly have a history and story attached.

Treasure info is composed of info and gossip that does not affect the story. Info usually has some value to an external party like a family, corporation, or newspaper. The treasure could be a love letter, corporate plan, or civic Intelligence. One way to keep information treasure out of the expedition’s story is to encrypt it. The wate (kg) of the information is usually negligible.

A relic is a piece of Junque applied arbitrary value for obtuse cultural reasons. The object can be a luxury piece of random junk: an antique; a souvenir (owned by some important someone); or commodity shipment consisting of many units of random junk. Jump to Junque to generate a relic for the treasure value.

Cash treasure is currency, coin, money etc. The cash can determined by the currency used in the milieu, or randomly generated. The treasure could be a pile of cash, a credit chit, a some monetary recording tool. The below table includes typical types of cash. For a walk on the random side the treasure value could be stored on an Info Type.

Mixed treasures will have their values mixed amongst the basic treasure types found here. For example a relic or an ornament could be a form of cash. Cash or crystal could be information. Just shakes things up a bit.