Odd Treasure Troves

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Originally Posted by WallShadow

Not so much a personal cache, but ISTR a business in West Pittsburgh (which is actually North-West of Pittsburgh and south of New Castle, that dealt in literally tons of end-market machined metal metal items. From steel rods, plates, and tubes to nuts, bolts, rivets, and stuff people weren't using in mainstream. The place closed afew years ago, but it would have been open when the balloon went up.

This raises an interesting side note - in most 1st & 2nd World nations, the largest percentage of sales that the business sector makes is not business to end-user (i.e. the individual buying the end product) but it is business to business (often seen expressed as B2B in trade lingo).

That is to say, the majority of sales are from one business supplying items to another business who makes the end product. This means that there's probably a whole lot of companies doing the same type of business transactions as the company WallShadow mentioned above. What that means in terms of gaming is, I think, that a lot of those items that would make rebuilding society a lot easier, will be found as parts in different company warehouses.

That makes for an adventure in itself but one with at least a high chance of success because I don't imagine looters thinking far enough into the future to cart off box loads of nuts & bolts, steel rod, sheet metal and so on. I think they will be focusing on what's immediately useful - food, water, fuel, tools, weapons, ammo etc. etc. They'll make off with a washing machine but they're not so likely to make off with the parts to make a washing machine.