You organize a meeting with the second-in-command, bringing the QuadChopper with you. Upon seeing it, he smiles, stifling a laugh. He tells you that he doesn't need any venom for it, but he'll let you know once it's done and pay you then. You agree, handing over the
QuadChopper. Before he leaves, you ask him about false credentials. He seems to think for a bit, then tells you he'll send something to you later today. You both depart the area.
Back at the garage, you encourage the scorpions to, well, breed. After a fair bit of coercing, you think you got them to do it. Now it's a matter of waiting a month. Now, about nitroglycerin.
The act of making nitroglycerin is easy. Simple, really. But the problem is safety and actually making large amounts of it. You could probably safely make small amounts - in the milliliters - of it, but any more without actual equipment
dedicated to manufacturing it, and you may accidently blow yourself up.
Regardless. You spend
$40 on the necessary (legal!) chemicals, then very carefully mix them together in your lab, getting
1 ml of Nitroglycerin.
Now you spend your spare time
siphoning borrowing gas from cars, filling up your fire extinguisher with it. 100% safe. No safety hazards here, no sir. Gas in a fire extinguisher? Absolutely
no problem with that.
Once all this is done, you take a trip to the library to see if the second-in-command has made the news.
Yup. Yuuup.
You're very proud of the QuadChopper from what you can see in the news footage.
Before you head home, you check your email account you created at the library. You find a message from the second-in-command, detailing a location. You head there and find a small package. In it you find...
A fake military ID card, a fake University ID card, and a fake government ID card.
Wow. They all have your name (whatever it is) on it as well as your picture. The military and government ones probably aren't particularly high access or whatever it is they use to denote security and authorization levels. All three explicitly depict you as a scientist.
You also find a note.
"Consider this your payment. We shouldn't meet again, and you shouldn't contact any of our members."Huh.
You harvested 2 ml of Venom today, sold
3 ml of Venom for
$60, and turn the other
3 ml of Venom into
3 ml of Powdered Venom.
Cash: $132
Housing: Trashy Garage
Holdings:
Structures- Makeshift Data Terminal
- Basic Chemistry Equipment (Flasks, Tubing, Beakers, Safety Equipment, Bunsen Burner, Measuring Equipment, Droppers etc.)
- Peltier Heat Pump (Cooling Device)
- Makeshift Terrarium [2 Deadly Scorpions]
- Roach Trap [Feeding 2/3 scorpions]
Tools & Equipment- Cheap Welder
- Handheld Drill
- Shovel
- Glass Cutter
- Stinger-resistant Gloves
- Protective Work Gear - Boots, Gloves, Painter's Equipment, Goggles, Respirator
- Basic Chemicals (Used for experiments; doesn't require replenishment)
Creatures -
See "Creatures" spoiler.Miscellaneous Creations- Microwave Area Jammer
- Battery-less Buggy
- 4 ml Powdered Venom
- 1 ml Lasting Venom (Expires in: 11 days)
Items and Materials- 1 ml Nitroglycerin
- 2x Scrap Electronics
- 1x Gas-filled Fire Extinguisher
WeaponsAmmunition- 1x 10mm Magazine - 17/17
- 1x 10mm Magazine - 11/17
Miscellaneous Items- Fake University Scientist ID
- Fake Military Scientist ID
- Fake Government Scientist ID
Makeshift TerrarriumScorpions- [F] Nineteen (Fed by Roach Trap) ("Pregnant": 31 days)[Maze Navigation]
- [M] Eighty-four (Fed by Roach Trap) [Maze Navigation]
Speed: Very SlowHardwareCore - Go Phone
Display - 14-inch CRT Display
ExtrasSoftware- Data Entry
- Programming/Script Creator
Gang Kids (Via Parents)Gang Boss- Modern Art Dealer
- QuadChopper: A Quadcopter with dual knives and a wi-fi camera that can reliabily kill or maim a person. Requires other device to control+see camera feed; Needs wi-fi connection
- Microwave Area Jammer: A jammer that jams wireless functions in the affected area (Effect can be aimed via a satellite dish). Lasts 2 hours on a charge. Only jams 5m in front of dish.
- Buggy: A buggy. Tiny single-person open-ended low-to-the-ground vehicle. Runs two and a half hours on a single charge of its battery. Top speed is 15 mph.
- Medical Chemicals: Theoretical combination of chemicals that could increase healing in affected area by 300%. Name needs work.
- SPCAAD Ammonia Grenade: A makeshift ammonia grenade that disperses ammonia on impact via the glass container shattering. Effective blast site measures 28 meters in diameter.
- Powdered Venom: Scorpion venom in powder form that lasts forever without expiration. Poses no threat to organisms and can't naturally turn into liquiid form.
- Lasting Venom: Scorpion venom that lasts for 2 weeks while remaining just as potent. Requires 1 ml of Venom and $10 to make 1 ml of Lasting Venom.
- Handheld Microwave Jammer: A handheld (makeshift) gun that disrupts communications in the area it's pointed at. Can also cook food like a microwave if close enough and you really wanted to cook food. Needs to be plugged in.
- Venom Bullet: A bullet that will 'inject' scorpion venom into the victim. Venom expires after 2 days in the bullet.
- Butane Cannon: A projectile cannon that operates off of butane to propel the projectile roughly 40 meters away.
- Makeshift Data Terminal: A rudimentary terminal that accepts and stores data.
- Perfect Pasta: Unappetizing pasta goop.
I added the time until babies to the creature spoiler. It's labeled "Pregnant" because I'm pretty sure there's a way better term for that kind of stuff in scorpions but frankly, I'm a bit tired of researching scorpions.
Also as always, data is probably not actually scientifically accurate - specifically nitroglycerin amount created and in the future, the explosive yield of nitroglycerin.
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