Making a Living

It’s not easy. Survival is a good starting goal, but you don’t want to just live. You want to thrive and buy ammunition. The game is rigged against almost everybody, and the only way to win is to get rich, quickly. Everything has a price, and when you are just starting out you are going to have to snatch every last eurobuck you can get your hands on just to pay up when the rent is due to stay off the street.

Working for a Eurobuck (Ways to Make Money)

An Edgerunner in the Time of the Red makes most of their scratch one of three ways: • Doing jobs • Hustling • Buying and selling

▶ Doing Jobs ◀
You, like most, work for a living. Except, unlike most other people, your job can get you killed in messy ways. Often, the pay you can expect to receive for a job, after you fence everything and divide up the spoils, is roughly equal to the amount of mortal danger you signed up for. This is of course, assuming you don’t take bad jobs that are way too dangerous for what they pay.
Okay, let’s stop pretending. You make this mistake all the time.
Treat this as a guideline for the best-case scenario.

▶ The Hustle ◀
Whenever you have a full seven days free (this will often happen because the rest of your friends are healing from gunshot wounds), you can work to earn a little eb. The amount you are paid is dependent on your Role, your Role Ability Rank, and the outcome of rolling 1d6.
You’ll notice that your pay seems pretty low. Don’t worry.
As an Edgerunner, this isn’t your primary stream of income.
The real way to get paid is to get a crew together to do a Job.