Murry’s Surplus

Extremely Large Store/Kim Murry, Owner/No Bias 

It’s late Sunday night, you have run in a half hour, and you notice that you’re not only out of gun oil, but also toilet paper, Dr. Pepper and cat food.  Where do you go?

Essentially an oversized convenience store, Murry’s specializes in the bulk acquisition of just about every conceivable legal good available on the open market.  He has a specialized team of employees that scan the world’s distribution databases, searching for the best deals on both common and obscure items.  The result is a store packed with tens of thousands of items that you need every day, along with tens of thousands more that have virtually no conceivable use.  Certain aisles in the store contain products several years old that seemed like a good buying idea at the time, but turned out to have virtually no commercial value.  Barrels of gun oil, boxes of pink and yellow striped paper towels, emblems from 1982 Cadillacs, home penis enlargement kits and 200 count packs of candles that release striped smoke are not uncommon discoveries.

Pricewise, Murry’s is about on par with everybody else, primarily because his bulk purchase savings are offset by the obtainment of items that never create a profit.  Perhaps the only think that keeps him in business are the multitudes of people who sift through the store’s cavernous expanse in search of something “neato” and then decide to purchase a 50 pack of Charmin on the way out.

Strip Tees

Medium Store/Garvon Plat, Owner/No Bias

Normal, everyday T-Shirts are generally not designed to undergo the stress of shadowrun related activity.  They stain, they rip, they fall apart... and that’s just during the meet with the Johnson.  Strip Tees, a medium sized establishment with an atmosphere kept dark to avoid scaring off the runners, maintains an extensive collection of T-Shirts specially manufactured to withstand the rigors of a run.  The shirts are either special ordered or constructed in one of Strip Tees’ two factories (one is located in South Africa, the other in Germany).  In addition, Strip Tees maintains a lab at both facilities dedicated to designing more durable shirts that still maintain the look and feel of an everyday T-Shirt.  Custom image/logo design and transfer is available at the individual stores.

Expect to pay two to three times more for a T-Shirt at Strip Tees than you would elsewhere (up to ten times more if you get one of their new “SelfSeal” shirts which are constructed of a fabric that automatically seals holes when a special patch is placed over the breach).  All sizes and shapes are available, and Strip Tees contains a “Platitude Database” containing categorized phrases ranging from all time favorites (“Shit Happens”) to more obscure truisms (“The water is wet.  Drink it.  But not in Mexico – Drunt Farneck III”).

Crate Of Critters

Medium Store/Fuzzy Johnson, Owner/No Bias

Stocked with a variety of non-paranormal animals, Crate Of Critters is clean and the animals within are extremely well cared for.  Owned by a flaky animal lover of the highest magnitude, patrons are required to purchase a month’s worth of supplies for any animal they purchase, as well as a high-tech cage if the critter requires one.  This is intended to discourage purchases by individuals who intend to use the critters for negative purchases.   (Feed animals, however, are not subject to this requirement, although Fuzzy will usually insist on some kind of proof that the purchaser does possess a critter that requires living food).

For those wishing to acquire a paranormal animal of some kind, Fuzzy has a number of contacts that he may or may not introduce the interested party to.  Usually an inquiring individual has to write an essay of sorts, explaining the purpose of the intended purchase, as well as actually showing Fuzzy (or one of his employees) the actual location where the animal will be kept.