Jewelry store (no ontology)

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A jewelry store is a business in MazeWorld specialized in buying, selling and customizing Valuables. It is notable for being the only shop in the Mazes that can identify gems (Archaeologists and scientists are also capable of identifying them, but are not bound to a shop). It is also notable for offering an unique, value-enhancing jewel customization service, and for being guaranteed to be found at the entrance of every Mine.

Rules of a jewelry store

• Sells 12 random valuables, at their maximum value.
• May buy back all types of valuables for half of their value.
• May ID gems for 50 P$ per item.
• Accepts credit.
• Delivery service: The shop may transfer all purchases to the Contestant's bank vault instead of being given in person, for a fee (200 P$ in a town shop, 800 P$ in an UA shop)
• Jewel customization service: Available for free (see below for details)

When threatened, a jeweler will use his/her personal weapon on the contestant and will not hesitate to use deadly force if attacked.
Threatening or attacking a jeweler can give the contestant a code orange, and killing one can increase it to a code red.

If a jeweler dies, they will drop the following:

• Smith ＆ Wesson Model 327
• Load-bearing gear: Gunfighter belt
• 2x full 8-round .357/.38 speedloaders
• Clothing and armor: T-Shirt, Baseball cap, Mountain pants, Regular shoes + Light K armor vest and Ceramic plate
• All the valuables in the shop, as well as the shop's till, are permanently locked in the crate they came from.

Products sold

• Valuables
• Identification service for gems
• Jewel customization (see below)

Custom jewels

Outside of being the only shop in the Mazes which specializes in valuables, the jewelry store offers an unique service: jewel customization.

Customizing jewels is a good way to transform heavy gems and ingots into light-weight valuables, with the added benefit of guaranteed value, as no custom jewel can be made out of materials that haven't been appraised.

Process

In order to create a custom jewel, at least one appraised or fixed-value ingot is required. It can be of any material (except lead) and of any weight, so long as it is appraised; this value is used to determine the value of the custom jewels crafted.

After picking an ingot, the customer must choose what kind of base they want to cut out of the ingot, and how many. A base is a jewel made out of metal, which can later be adorned with gems if desired. Bases can be rings, bracelets and collars.

The weight of the chosen ingot is important, as it determines the maximum amount of bases that can be cut out of the ingot.

• 250g ingot: 2 rings, or 1 bracelet
• 500g ingot: 4 rings, 2 bracelets, or 1 collar
• 1000g ingot: 8 rings, 2 bracelets, or 2 collars

The resulting bases cut out of this ingot are then appraised according to the following formulae:

• Ring value = (Ingot value / 4) * 1.25
• Bracelet value = (Ingot value / 2) * 1.25
• Collar value = Ingot value * 1.25

As one can clearly see, cutting bases out of ingots already increase their value. But if one desires to further increase the value of their custom valuable, it is possible to mount gems on them.

Each type of base has varying real estate to mount gems on:

• Ring: 1 gem
• Bracelet: 2 gems
• Collar: 4 gems

Like with ingots, only appraised gems may be used before being mounted on a custom valuable. They will then further increase its value according to the following formulae:

• Final value = Combined value of base and all individual gems * (1 + 0.1 * Amount of gems mounted on base)

The higher the individual value of all materials used, the higher the potential value of the custom valuable.

It must be noted that no matter how many gems are mounted on a custom valuable, their weight remains constant, and is significantly lower than the original bases and gems used, combined:

• Ring: 0.1 unit
• Bracelet: 0.2 unit
• Collar: 0.4 unit

Example

• A 500g silver bar is chosen as the base, and is appraised at 568 P$.
• Out of this silver bar, let's imagine we want to make rings. Since it is a 500g ingot, this allows for cutting 4 rings.
• According to the formula, each ring is worth (568 / 4) * 1.25. The result of this calculation is 177.5, which is rounded to 178 P$. This means that out of a 568 P$ ingot, 4 rings worth 712 P$ combined (178 P$ per ring) can be made.
• Let's imagine that we want to adorn each of those rings with a gem, and that the gem chosen for each ring is an amethyst.
• Let's also pretend that, as unlikely as it may be (but for the sake of this example, is much simpler), all amethysts are each appraised at the exact same value of 64 P$.
• According to the formula, with an amethyst worth 64 P$ mounted on each:
  • (Base value + Gem value) * 1 + (0.1 * Amount of gems mounted on base)
  • This translates to: (178 + 64) * 1 + (0.1 * 1) = 242 * 1.1 = 266.2, rounded to 266 P$.
• The combined value of four silver rings (individual value 178 P$) mounted each with amethysts (individual value 64 P$) is 1064 P$ (which is a little under 1.1x the individual value)

Example event lines

• [Valuable] Custom - Silver ring - Gems mounted: None - Value XXX P$ - Weight: 0.1
• [Valuable] Custom - Silver ring - Gems mounted: gem1 - Value XXX P$ - Weight: 0.1
• [Valuable] Custom - Gold bracelet - Gems mounted: gem1, gem2 - Value XXX P$ - Weight: 0.2
• [Valuable] Custom - Gold collar - Gems mounted: gem1, gem2, gem3, gem4 - Value XXX P$ - Weight: 0.3

See also

• Other shops and services
• Valuables