Yeah, but it's a Mercedes. That's what credit unions are for. We get together 10K or so selling to 4-5 jewelers and then go to the credit union to get a loan agreement for a car loan to cover the cost in excess of our 10K, up to a dollar amount. We can diplomacy the HELL out of whatever poor bank agent we talk to for the loan agreement, so we can likely get extremely favorable terms.
That should help us take quite a bit of cost off the price.
As long as Rider doesn't feel pain, anyway. I am not quite if Cyberdevils feel pain if their physical shell gets damaged. @DragonParadox
That might be tricky with us not being 18 yet. I think that a lot of contracts like that can't be legally binding with a kid so they won't even consider it. It would be the sort of thing that makes people spend willpower to refuse.
Clearly the potential buyers need to be informed about it being found/used in the Museum massacre.
We do have an adult we can rely on to stand nearby, looking important, while his charming daughter does all the talkey bits.
Ok, so it would involve us talking our Dad into actually signing the loan. Still not impossible and in fact actually increases the teenage hijinks we are getting involved in, and that's entirely the point in this whole plotline.
If we were just asking Marcone for a favor, we wouldnt need to rob the Pathfinders.
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Frankly, the most dangerous charms to wizards are Mind Hand Manipulation and Sinner Boiling Stare.
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How long would it take to actually craft artifical gem with our charms?
If we were just asking Marcone for a favor, we wouldnt need to rob the Pathfinders.
Lydia is 15; a minor with presumably a lawyer who is obeying her father's instructions.
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Lab grown jewel-quality diamonds apparently go anywhere from ~1600 to ~5k per carat.
And as a struggling Catholic girl, Molly is going to be averse to misrepresentation to sell stuff.
Especially since it isnt necessary, and there are a bunch of gemstones where artificiality doesnt impact their value.
A carat weighs 0.2 grams. Roughly 2200 carats in a pound.
There's a bunch of other jewels to consider.
Turquoise(hydrated aluminium copper phosphate, up to 1k a carat jewel-quality). Pearls(Calcium carbonate. Cultured saltwater pearls apparently go for somewhere in the 60-100 dollar range per gram at the low end). Tanzanite(calcium aluminium hydroxyl sorosilicate, 700 dollar/carat for top shelf stones)
Specifically, tanzanite has never been made in a laboratory, and is only mined in Tanzania. Synthesize some and noone is going to ask if its synthetic, just how you got it. And at around $750 per carat for multi-carat AAA+ gemstones, you could synthesize a kilogram, sell at a 70% discount and still make more than a million dollars in gemstones before taxes.
Tanzanite - Wikipedia
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Or just make pearls, where the market is dominated by cultured pearls, most pearls are expected to be cultured, and the emphasis is on the quality of the pearls, not how they were made. An 18mm diameter round black pearl is an 18mm round black pearl, no matter how it was made.
Frankly, Molly is probably best served making a selection and seeing what sells.
The issue is likely to be how much money any buyer has at hand; there's good odds theypd only be able to come up with part of thr price at a days notice.
Frankly, the most dangerous charms to wizards are Mind Hand Manipulation and Sinner Boiling Stare.
Sinner Boiling Stare can straight up kill them if they are in line of sight, unless they dont count as mortals.
And MHM can just disarm them. Break their staff or blasting rod at range, trip them when they are running, push them into the water, off the roof or into moving traffic. Or just pick up something heavy and bludgeon them with it.
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A hundred thousand plus brand new, and it cant be more than a year old, and in mint condition.
Its not going for less than 50 grand.
Can we make stones indistinguishable from natural? Normally the tell for synthetic stones is that the bubbles inside them are too round. Natural stones take so long to form that the tiny gas bubbles in them deform into oblongs. Synthetic stones are formed quickly enough that the tiny bubbles are still spheres. If we can just straight up make stones that look like they formed over 10K years then cool. Otherwise we would get found out if someone actually looked at the gems under a microscope.
5 to 10 times faster than normally available mundanely at the best mundane labs / conditions. How fast that is, is a good question. I hope to increase the value with good gem cuts and with perfect post-synthesis treatment. Maybe we should also set them into some jewelry?
Or have our minions do market research.
There's a difference between concealing "how were this artificial gems made" and "these gems are artificial", I think. Plus, if the gems are sold as artificial, it's easier to sell them - we don't need to fake provenance and explain how we got them. "We made them using our undisclosed method" is an entirely valid and sufficient explanation.
If we roll enough sux, then we absolutely could.
Fair enough.
Could we use Sinner Boiling Stare - angry staring deals damage charm - to merely inflict pain or great discomfort instead of actually killing the targets? Or it is all or nothing?
Wouldn't that be Subterfuge then? When making them look "natural"
Which is exactly the problem, I feel.
Can we even do that? TTC allows us to do things faster than normally possible. But tanzanite isn't possible to synthesize normally, science can't do it. I'm not sure we could do it using TTC then.
Crafting is crafting. Crafting to exacting standard is also crafting. Maybe if we didn't know the typical flaws, we'd need a subterfuge or academics rolls to figure out what exactly we need to craft.
Fair enough.
I would just make a kilogram of tanzanite and everyone will assume we either smuggled it out of Tanzania or found a small site we're hiding from everyone.
Or even better, pearls are expected to be cultivated, and are just exotically shaped calcium carbonate.
I grew the pearls in shellfish using my undisclosed secret method is something that holds up to even federal scrutiny.
So you are saying we first need to go to a junkyard to get a pile of broken freezers and AC units and build ourself a walk in freezer?
