Buy the two bedroom house
You respond to the ad and shortly thereafter are contacted by the real estate agent who listed the property. He's a little surprised that you're willing to make an offer for asking price sight-unseen, but is happy to accept and offers to act as your agent for the deal. You don't really understand what that means, so you agree.
After a trip to the bank and a followup visit to your local UPS store to fax over some paperwork, your offer has been submitted. After commission and closing costs, the total is a bit higher than the asking price. (-$17,500). Having made a payment of the full amount into an
escrow account, the agent assures you that he is confident the seller will accept your offer. But it will take a few days to finalize everything.
pickaxes and anything else needed for digging.
Since you are in California, and the house you've just submitted an offer for is in Ohio, you wisely decide to purchase digging tools later rather than transport them on a plane.
Try to design some kind of mining robot to create underground base under the house in Dayton. If this fails, try to find some geek/nerd who owes me a favor from college to work for me and design/build robots.
Exhilarated at the prospect of digging an underground lair, you immediately rush out to your garage to begin building mining robots. After about two minutes of staring at the workbench you remember that you know absolutely nothing about robotics. Fortunately, it happens you have a geeky acquaintance who's an EE/CS major. So you give him a call.
You: "Hey, Gilbert. You busy? I need for you something."
Gilbert: "Oh, hey Bob. No, nothing much going on here. I'm just reconfiguring my linux box to accept incoming telnet sessions from an app I wrote for my android phone."
You: "...right. Umm, anyway, you remember you mentioned a few weeks ago you were doing that robotics club thing? I need a robot built."
Gilbert: "
Really? You want to come to the meeting? I spent all night Tuesday finishing version 14 of Trini-bot , and I'll be showcasing her tonight!"
You: "Tuesday? You were working on robots on New Year's Eve?"
Gilbert: "...well, yeah. It's not like I had anything else to do since school was out. Anyway, you wanna come?"
You: "Yes. I'll be there"
You spend the next few hours posing in front of your mirror wearing your awesome Supervillain outfit. You consider wearing it to the robotics club meeting, but decide instead to save your reveal to the world for a more notable occasion.
The meeting turns out to be roughly a dozen people, each bearing small robots, most of which are about 6-12 inches square, with tank treads. You're not really sure what robot that size with no arms or anything is supposed to do.
They are happy to give you a demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0RWePkBH7U#t=0m42sGilbert: "Alright! Ha! Trini-bot did it in under two minutes! Awesome! Yeeaaahhhh! Who's the man? Who's the man! Woohoo!"
You: "..."
Some other geek:: "Wow, Gilbert. That's amazing! My Robo-scooter never managed better than 2:45. Trini-bot's awesome!"
You: "..."
Gilbert: "Yeah, Trini's been good to me. She's totally worth the 72 hours I've put into her so far. Maybe I can get her down to a minute 30 by the end of the semester."
You: "Are you people
serious?"
They both look at you.
You: "That's all your robots do? They navigate a 5 foot maze in two minutes?"
Some other geek:: "Actually, it's 4 foot by 6 foot."
Gilbert: "And it's really very complicated to build these. The chassis is just a very minor part of it. You have build logic circuit that accepts sensor input and uses that to-"
You: "But I need you to build
mining robots!"
(They look at you blankly.)
Gilbert: "I don't think that's realistic."
Some other geek:: "Yeah, even million dollar robots like
ASIMO, produced by massive corporations can't do that kind of thing. We're college students. What do you expect us to be able to do?"
Gilbert: "...although now that I think about it, mining robots aren't totally out of the question. There's NASA's Lunabotics competition, for example.
(They pull up a youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biib8ksJXKQ#t=1m07sYou: "...that's a NASA mining robot?"
Gilbert: "Well, that particular robot was made by the UA team, but it's for the NASA competition, yes. We're probably still a few years from any kind of production model."
Doesn't look like "mining robots" is a viable option.
Current statusWhat do you do?(General reminder:)
(Note: On the Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness this game is intended to lean slightly towards serious. Yes, there may be some silliness. But not You Are Russian levels of silliness. This game will take place in modern day "real world" USA. So no superpowers, no giant mechs, no aliens etc. This will largely be a game of resource management based loosely on reality. If you want minions, you'll need to hire or convince them to join you. If you want explosives you'll need to make or buy them. If you want military hardware, tanks, planes, bombs, etc. you'll need to find a way to get those things. Don't expect to hide in the basement for a week and develop a super-strength serum or build Dr. Doom's armor out of scrap metal.)
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