Lifestyle

Base Lifestyles

Luxury

This lifestyle offers the best of everything: spacious, ritzy digs, lots of hi-tech toys, the best food, and you-name-it. The character has a household staff or a maid service or gadgets to do the mundane chores. He has a powerful car, maybe even a hot sports model or a chauffeured limo. Whether it's a big house, a snazzy condo, or the penthouse in a top hotel, this is the life for the high-stakes winners in the business: top executives, government big shots, high-level yakuza, and the shadowrunners who pull off the big scores.

Cost: 100,000¥ a month and up-up-up!

High

A High lifestyle offers a roomy house or condo, good food, and the tech that makes life easy. So what if the character does not have the same perks as the big boys, but neither does he have as many people gunning for him. His home is in a secure zone or protected by some good solid bribes to the local police contractor and gang boss. There is housekeeping service or enough tech to take care of most chores. A luxury commuter car is at his beck and call. This is the life of the well-to-do on either side of the law: mid-level managers, senior yakuza, and the like.

Cost: 10,000¥ a month

Middle

The Middle lifestyle is not the best of everything, btu is far from the worst. It offers a nice house or condo with lots of comforts. So characters eat some nutrisoy as wall as natural food, but at least the autocook has a full suite of flavor faucets. Characters also have a commuter car or first-class tube pass. The is the lifestyle of the ordinary successful ware-earners or criminals.

Cost: 5,000¥ a month

Low

With this lifestyle, the character has an apartment, and nobody is likely to bother him much if he keeps the door bolted. Meals are regular. The nutrisoy may not taste great, but at least it's hot. And power and water are available during their area's assigned rationing periods. When those of the Low lifestyle travel, they ride the tube. Factory workers, petty crooks, and other folks stuck in a rut, just starting out, or kind of down on their luck tend to show up here.

Cost: 1,000¥ a month

Characters at this Level
Mac
Nine
Kambei

Squatter

Life stinks and most of the time, so does the character. He eats low-grade nutrisoy and yeast, adding the flavors with an eyedropper. His home is made-over building, converted into barracks, divided into closet-sized rooms, or maybe he just rents out a coffin-sized sleep tank by the night. The only thing worse than Squatter lifestyle is living out on the streets.

Cost: 100¥ a month

Characters at this Level
Saturn

Streets

The character lives on the streets! Or in the sewers, steam tunnels, condemned building, or whatever flop he or she finds for the night. Food is where he finds it, bathing is a thing of the past, and the only security is what he creates for himself. The bottom of the ladder, inhabited by down-and-outers of all stripes.

Cost: Free

Characters at this Level
Maniac