Kanade Izuru Reaches Master Appraiser in Probably Stolen, Then Tries Drug Crafting

HOLOLIVE — Kanade Izuru of Hololive’s HOLOSTARS 1st Gen was promoted to master appraiser in Probably Stolen on Monday, and in the same stream made his first serious attempts at producing Dream Dust, the game’s in-world narcotic. The session, which ran nearly eight hours, continued from the previous day’s stream. In the cyberpunk game he runs a back-alley secondhand shop, buying and selling goods of doubtful origin, and he opened on day 43 of the playthrough.

The promotion came about an hour and 48 minutes in, after a rank of senior appraiser earlier in the stream. Appraising the plasma cartridges that customers bring in, which means counting up wear, cracks, reinforcement and the maker’s mark, quickly became his best earner. “Appraising is the most profitable job,” he said after one cartridge brought in a large payout. Chat agreed, calling him a pro by now.

“Investing in equipment is fun, you know.” — Kanade Izuru, while spending his takings on upgrades

A side story ran through the afternoon. Serpico, a trainee guard who had asked Izuru for food, sent a letter from a rubbish dump after being shot while fleeing, and Izuru left supplies for him. Serpico returned to ask whom he could safely give the evidence of corruption he had gathered. Izuru chose the option of handing it to a trustworthy officer, and Serpico came back in uniform, transferred to a new anti-corruption team and offering Izuru a choice of reward.

The longest stretch went to Dream Dust. Izuru read the instructions aloud as he blended Dream Mushrooms, added alcohol, heated the mixture, filtered it and used an acidic solution to break down protein. His first batch came out as junk, and he said he had been hopeless at chemistry in high school. After a careful second attempt and a wait of a day in the game, he produced a batch he described as close to pharmaceutical grade, at 86 percent purity, which he said would sell at a price roughly 40 percent higher. He repeatedly told viewers that drugs are off limits in real life. Later he began growing Nutrifruit and Dream Mushrooms in water-based planters, and a single seed gave a large harvest.

He also bought a water vending machine, then found that it earned little each day against its cost, and he spent heavily on shop modules. Near the end a police inspector turned up and reported contraband, which Izuru guessed was a mushroom seed he had planted. He said he nearly started the game on his own overnight and instead played Slay the Spire 2 to hold himself back. Closing the stream, he said the next session would be about growing mushrooms and making more Dream Dust, and that he would probably play in the daytime again.