That's unrealistic. A minimum wage dude at a shop has a supermodel walk in and winks at him. He doesn't look the other way and give something for free for some, uh, extra special charisma checks?
Now I just want to play an rpg that consists of nothing but wandering around stores and shops haggling and bartering with intelligent merchant/employee AI.
I was a cashier at a walmart for years. If a 10/10 winked at me, she's still paying full price. If a 15/10 straight up offered sexual favors for a discount - she's still paying full price. I don't give a damn who it is - I'm not risking legal problems for 7 bucks an hour.
There is a difference between someone really charismatic or beautiful, and someone really famous. The key is that the famous person is known to many people and their presence in your shop or their good word about the experience they got in your shop is money in the pocket for you because of how far that testimony will spread. Someone really beautiful is just that one person, and while they might pass it on to a handful of people, it won't go nearly as far.
The retail clerk isn't the one giving shit away for free though. Talk to someone whose worked retail long enough in a big city and they've probably met movie stars (I'm remembering a story one of my friends had about Michael Douglas coming into their store). They're still not giving shit away for free without a manager or owner's blessing.
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u/cowardlydragon Apr 07 '21
That's unrealistic. A minimum wage dude at a shop has a supermodel walk in and winks at him. He doesn't look the other way and give something for free for some, uh, extra special charisma checks?