Daimonji Ryugon Works a GTA Food Shop Under a New Five-Item Cap and Tries Hostage Duty

VOMS — Daimonji Ryugon of VOMS spent Wednesday’s stream behind the counter of a food-and-drink shop in Gachigura 2, a Grand Theft Auto (GTA) roleplay server project, where he is deputy manager. It was the third stream in his “Sell Food, Earn Money” series, and it began under a new rule: from that day, food and drink could be bought only five at a time.

Ryugon told customers the limit was meant to bring them back more often, and that anyone who stepped outside and returned could buy another five. Stress-relief items such as cigarettes could still be bought 15 at a time. After a problem the day before, he asked staff to tell buyers not to stack fresh food on top of items with low durability, because the whole stack takes on the lower value. With lag causing some purchases to miss customers’ inventories, he checked with buyers that their orders had arrived.

“There’s nobody who works better than me.” — Daimonji Ryugon, on being the shop’s deputy manager

Between customers he went out as a hostage on a vault job with another player. Ryugon said it was his first time as a hostage on the server, since he had spent his time there selling food. The pair worked through the vault’s puzzle and drilled the door, and no police arrived; they guessed officers were tied up with a larger-scale crime that opened that day.

At one point the shop asked its staff what bonus they would want. Ryugon floated 1 billion in in-game money, and 100 million arrived. He took it in stride, and the conversation held that one person collecting 1 or 2 billion would upset the server’s balance. His aim is to buy the most expensive car in town, 1.6 billion, “for no reason”, and late in the stream he said 600 million remained.

The shop also trades voice recordings made by players. While the shop’s manager was away until after midnight, Ryugon, saying he was on the selling side of the voice trade, bought a recording on the shop’s behalf and later billed a buyer 100 million for one.

At the close he said the server would be off on the 12th and would resume on the 13th at 8 o’clock.