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[Chiefwaffles]

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You are a scientist.
An independent one.

It's modern day and you reside in the garage of a rather low-rate series of apartments and condos. Recently life has been fairly dull, and the situation of the world displeases you, to say the least. So you plan on using SCIENCE to make it better.
In your own image, of course. How else?

Spoiler: You (click to show/hide)

Cash: $100
Housing: Trashy Garage.
Holdings: Nothing.

Spoiler: Obligatory GM Note/Further Game Explanation (click to show/hide)

A simple "You are" game. Do stuff, get results. Restrictions are fairly low, so while you may not be able to build a rocket out of a toaster, you will be able to (eventually?) get into soft sci-fi territory. The "suggested" goal is to make the world better, and you can choose to see that however you want. But the goal is, as I said, suggested, and as long as enough people agree with you, you can do whatever you want.

I have two other games running, and even though they both take relatively small amounts of effort/time, this one could be seen as lowest priority as it can be easily dropped/restarted. What can I say? I like running low-effort games at the same time as higher-effort ones.

[RAM]

Do we need to eat?
 If yes, design the perfect pasta.
 If no, Purchase scrap metal and forge a crude arc welder.

[Gwolfski]

I'll play later. It looks fun.

[Chiefwaffles]

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You do need to eat, and you are in fact hungry for some pasta. So you go to the store and buy various amounts of bargain pasta. (-$10)
You proceed to lay out the various boxes of pasta on your table in the garage and go to work. Eventually, some period of time passes and you sit back to analyze and taste the results.

Oh, okay. No. Yeah. This did not work. It's all wrong. You've somehow made very unappetizing blobs of melded-together pasta. You force yourself to gulp down enough to remain non-hungry, else your purchases would be in vain.
Item created: Unappetizing Pasta Goop

You turn to the next item on your agenda to try and distract yourself from the hell that is your tastebuds. An arc welder. That's more in your area of expertise. Though the problem is, arc welders tend to be a lot more complicated than just bare metal. Oh well, you decide to try anyways. You manage to get enough scrap metal for the project with $5 of scrap metal. You get to work.

Just as you almost think you're getting somewhere, it literally blows up in your face. Congratulations, you just made inert harmless scrap metal explode. That's an accomplishment right there.

Spoiler: You (click to show/hide)

Cash: $85
Housing: Trashy Garage.
Holdings:

• Unappetizing Pasta Goop

[Chiefwaffles]

Superimportant game design question:
Multiplayer or SG?

Multiplayer could be fairly cool (and a relative breath of fresh air for me), but SG is more tried-and-true.
If I were to make this a multi-person SG, last update will be considered a Turn 0 for RAM, and if it remains a regular SG, the update will stay as Update 1 for the game.

[Demonic Spoon]

SG

[Yourmaster]

Seems like it could be pretty cool either way it goes. Vote chosen.

[RoseHeart]

Do we have any income? Reoccuring expenses?

Assuming this is modern USA there are some things we can do.

1. Apply for food stamps and get a free smart phone(basically a small pc, this will be VERY useful). Takes 1 to 2 weeks to get our food stamp card and phone, but we should qualify. 6 mo ea.

2. Get on obama care, if we were accepted for EBT(food stamps). We are a scientist and the ability to see a doctor is pretty paramount.

3. THROW OUT THE GOOP. Food bank! Bad food will bring us down and make us less sciency. Sorry if I'm being toooo realistic, but all of this is grounded and relavant.

edit: you get like $200 mo from stamps that you can spend on any non hot, food items. Once we make about 700 a month income our benefits will start to go down, and be gone once for making about 1500 reported income. Foodbanks give about a shoppingkart full of food once a week, many only ask for id, some dont even need that. obama care means we can get free exams and even surgeries while we are super broke, and it will still be cheap once we make money.

This gets us going then we can determine what we want our cover job to be. Maybe something in electronics that throws out a lot of defective parts we can use. Or go into tutoring and teaching, nobody expects the teacher.

[KiwiOui]

Collect the shards of metal, and weld it into a modern art sculpture of a light bulb.
For CASH!, so science can be funded.
(I'm assuming theres a cheap welder somewhere.)

[crazyabe]

I Vote Multiplayer.

[Funk]

Collect the shards of metal, and weld it into a modern art sculpture of a light bulb.
For CASH!, so science can be funded.
(I'm assuming theres a cheap welder somewhere.)

+1 call it "the idea" like that's a whitty name.

Superimportant game design question:
Multiplayer or SG?

Multipalyer need's to have more ground rules over what can be done, and basic chance would be unfair as simple things would fail at the same rates are lazer weilding death mechs.

[ATHATH]

Sell our bomb-from-scrap-metal formula to the government for millions of dollars.

[Chiefwaffles]

SG it is. May make a MP version of this at some point, though. If I ever do make a MP version, it'd likely be about the same but with light skills affecting the chances. Due to the starting resources and way I make updates (As in, you can't just say "research cold fusion" and expect it to happen), it should/would probably be fair enough. But that's not really relevant right now.
You briefly consider selling your amazing new Quik-Bomb™ Technique, but it's really just harmless, so you bench the idea for now. Instead, you gather up the pieces of debris from the explosion and put it all in a pile on your table. After a quick (not really) trip across the town, you find a cheap welder for -$30.
After a couple hours of work, you finally finish THE IDEA.

It's, uh, it's a light bulb. It represents the plight of the working class or something. Or maybe the hopeless starvation of intellectuals in modern day? Whatever. You can ad-lib a meaning to the buyer. You carry the fairly large sculpture all the way down to the local pawn shop, where you get a stunning $48 for it.

Done with the fun and exciting stuff, you look into various government aid programs and your incomes and expenses.
Your garage is actually provided to you free of cost. You may technically be squatting in it, but you know the owners don't care enough to do anything. No income too, though. Employers just don't appreciate your ideas.

You manage to apply for food stamps and basic medical care. They both somehow apply immediately with no real conditions other than quantity and quality, but you decide it's best to not think too hard about how easy that just was. You can't find a way to get a free cellphone, but you don't let that discourage you.

You also carefully throw away the pasta goop, making sure to plug your nose with extreme prejudice when doing so.

Spoiler: You (click to show/hide)

Cash: $100
Housing: Trashy Garage.
Holdings:

• Cheap Welder

[vishdafish]

Buy some deadly, poisonous scorpions for experimentation. (I was thinking we should blast them with radiation or something?)

[Kassire]

Buy some deadly, poisonous scorpions for experimentation. (I was thinking we should blast them with radiation or something?)

How about cyborg-scorpions?