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Author Topic: You are an Independent Scientist! (Nov 12, 2016)  (Read 37098 times)

FallacyofUrist

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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #255 on: December 29, 2016, 03:24:58 pm »

Do some research into museums. Art museums, to be more specific. We have a heist to do.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #256 on: December 29, 2016, 03:30:16 pm »

Also add a camera to the robot if possible
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #257 on: December 29, 2016, 05:46:14 pm »

October 29th, 2016

Time for another robot! You spend a brief bit of time making a list of potential improvements in your head. This new robot would be flying, would have a grabber arm, and would have some basic storage space - a basket or something. Oh, and a camera.
You end up paying $80 for the controller screen and more hard-to-acquire components at the store. 6x Scrap Metal and 5x Electronics are taken from their respective piles in the garage to make the new robot, as well.

A cool montage scene later, you finish and take a step back to admire you work. The new Aerial Remote-Controlled Drone (you really want to come up with a better name for this later) is a well, it's an aerial drone.
It fulfills its flying role amazingly - it can maneuver in the air effortlessly and quickly. The grabber arm is perfectly good at what it does, and is able, in conjunction with the stable flying abilities of the drone, to grab small items and put them in the drone's open-air storage space or can perform limited environmental manipulation, such as pulling large switches. The storage space is okay and is about a 1 1/2" wide and long. It has walling going up a couple inches to keep goods inside, as well. It too works off of a MK4 Fuel Cell and with one can last about a week like its wheeled predecessor. The camera works as expected and is able to output a legible video signal to the controller, which also has a range of 10 miles.


You head over to the library computers, once again cursing your lack of an internet browser, to do some various things. Thing number one is finding suitable art museums for later "projects" of yours. There are two art museums in the city that you can reach. The "Center of Art" is a smaller but still popular establishment that holds more unique but less famous art from around the world, though most of its art is contributed locally. The "Cole World Art Museum" is a much more prestigious museum renowned across the world for many famous works of art from across history, but it has much more security and attention than the Center of Art.

Now to find out who's been buying your venom. You realize you need your own data terminal for this, so you stomp your way back to the garage where you begin working on a virus. After a couple hours of programming, you decide testing is in order. Even later, you finish and take in stock of the results. The virus is not very effective at spreading, unfortunately. While it'll fulfill your purposes just fine, it almost definitely won't be able to spread any further than that without you purposely sending it to other people. But this is fine, since you didn't set out on making a super infectious virus. On the other hand, it is very subtle. Unless the target is a computer genius (and even then), they certainly won't notice it as it gathers and sends back information.
All that's left now is to send the Probe Virus. The name being, as always, pending.


You just now realize that you actually don't have a MK4 Fuel Cell to use. How you tested and used the robots without one, you have no idea, but you're going to need a MK4 cell now.


The day quickly starts turning into night as you arrive at the university to solicit help for your more legal projects and buyers or advice for your MK4 Fuel Cell. Though you end up being unable to enact out the latter as no one appears to be taking you seriously without an actual fuel cell. As for soliciting help, you do confirm that yes, you can in fact do that, but you're going to actually need to know what you'll use their help on before you get their help.
As you walk back to the garage, you pass by the Trademart and sigh. While it may not be possible just yet, you'll show that stupid customer. Him and your manager too!

You harvested another 1 ml of venom and sold it for $20.

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You should really look to the wilderness for your stealth ideas, it has been doing it much longer than you have after all. Take squids for example, that ink trick works pretty well, and in water too! So you just sneak into the dam upsteam, dump several megatons of distressed squid into it, then break the dam. Boom, you suddenly have enough water-proof stealth for a whole city!

FallacyofUrist

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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #258 on: December 29, 2016, 05:57:00 pm »

Begin investigating the "belief effect", which allowed you to test out your robots without fuel cells because you believed you had fuel cells. Perhaps start with self-hypnosis?

We're going to need more money. The heist is a longer-term thing. As such: legitimate science art. Go scavenging and begin work on a... scorpion "sculpture", perhaps? Make sure it can sting.

Why the heck are we looking into who is buying our venom? What's the point of that? But the Probe Virus is helpful anyways. Let's send it to the Center of Art for a test run.

Also: whenever we harvest and sell venom, automatically convert it into Lasting Venom before selling it, netting us increased profit.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #259 on: December 29, 2016, 06:20:21 pm »

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Though you end up being unable to enact out the latter as no one appears to be taking you seriously without an actual fuel cell.
Well then show them the MK3. Surely even that will be impressive enough to convince some impressionable folks into investing some much needed cash into the project? Weld some wheels to it or something and roll it on over there.

Also write a simple internet browser for your terminal. Shouldn't be too hard, right?
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #260 on: December 29, 2016, 06:27:56 pm »

*cough*IE*cough*
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #261 on: December 29, 2016, 06:59:39 pm »

Also: whenever we harvest and sell venom, automatically convert it into Lasting Venom before selling it, netting us increased profit.
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Though you end up being unable to enact out the latter as no one appears to be taking you seriously without an actual fuel cell.
Well then show them the MK3. Surely even that will be impressive enough to convince some impressionable folks into investing some much needed cash into the project? Weld some wheels to it or something and roll it on over there.

Also write a simple internet browser for your terminal. Shouldn't be too hard, right?
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 Steal things from Trademart with your new drone. Perhaps create another to cause havoc and drive them out of business?

Look into building an AI for your drones so that they can both work simultaneously with one distracting and the other stealing, we'll show those trademart bastards who's boss.

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« Last Edit: December 29, 2016, 07:26:40 pm by ☼Another☼ »
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #262 on: December 29, 2016, 07:23:48 pm »

Look into building an AI for your drones so that they can both work simultaneously with one distracting and the other stealing, we'll show those trademart bastards who's boss.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #263 on: December 29, 2016, 08:02:54 pm »

I think that it's likely that our scorpion customer is tied to the unfinished "gang plot".

Anyway, look into finding another part time job. Does trademart have any competitors? See if they'd hire us. We need money.
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Within that world, she was God. But here, outside of it, her name was Yoake o-Shiri. That was unimportant. She was a Godslayer. That too was unimportant. But what was important, was that she had a motherfucking boat.
And by God, was she going to use it.

"But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars. Bye, Burnsie. Bye, Mission Control. Bye, Sol. See you at heat death" -Blindsight

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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #264 on: December 30, 2016, 08:18:50 pm »

October 30th, 2016

You luckily find a new part-time job at the Shopcenter grocery store. Doesn't pay as much, but it's still extra money for your inventing. They did already start paying you today, at least! In other income-related matters, you also decide to start turning your venom into lasting venom before sale to make some additional money. That's an extra $10 per ml of venom sold for little effort of yours. Good idea, you!

Now to get to the real matters at hand. You spend a tiny bit of time first programming an internet browser for your data terminal. While it's definitely not great and would immediately fail in a competitive environment, it works for just about everything you need it for. You now have a Internet Browser for your data terminal! If only you had some confetti...

But you have to focus. With the browser done, you write out an inconspicuous email to the Center of Art, asking an innocent question. It also has the Probe Virus attached to it, but they shouldn't notice that. It won't immediately work - it has to be opened, then establish itself in the system, then begin collecting data. Only when that's all finished will it start sending its results to you. You estimate a good date to expect the results back to be tomorrow.
You considered also sending the probe virus to the person who's been buying your venom online, but some part of you decided against it. Oh well. You can always change your mind later.


You decide to make a scorpion sculpture out of some scrap metal and scrap electronics you quickly salvaged beforehand. In the end it's fairly standard. A sculpture that can "sting" people. Well, maybe the last part isn't standard, but hopefully it'll make it sell.
And it does sell. For $60. Not bad, but youreally don't want to be making any more art.


Next thing up is to show the MK3 to the university. You add some wheels to it in addition to a handle at the cost of $20 and 1x Scrap Metal. A couple of miles later, you arrive at the university where you begin peddling it to your so-called colleagues. You convince a fair number of them of how cool your MK4 could be. Only one shows real non-passing interest in it, though.
They step out and tell you they could put in a good word for you and your creation with the head of some department in the university, getting you a meeting. The man's name is Evan Williams, apparently, and he gives you his contact information in case you want to pursue this further. You make a mental note to add this to your very tiny list of contacts back at your data terminal, make your farewell, and wheel the MK3 back to the garage.


By the time you arrive back "home", night is almost approaching. You spend some time first looking into the possibility of a simple AI to coordinate your drones. In the end, you decide that with some time spent programming it using the University's computers and resources, it could definitely be done. Though it would require a camera on the participating drones.

You head over to Trademart holding your new aerial drone only to find that it's closed at this time. But looking at the way the aisles are laid out shows to you that properly stealing with the aerial drone requires a distraction or the aerial drone will just get batted out of the air. You consider the possibility of wrecking havoc with multiple drones, and that's definitely something that has a chance of working if you choose to pursue it.


You're expecting information from the Probe Virus you sent to the Center of Art tomorrow.
You got $36 today working at your part-time job.
You harvested 2 ml of venom, turned it into lasting venom, and sold it for $60.

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« Last Edit: January 02, 2017, 07:52:11 pm by Chiefwaffles »
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You should really look to the wilderness for your stealth ideas, it has been doing it much longer than you have after all. Take squids for example, that ink trick works pretty well, and in water too! So you just sneak into the dam upsteam, dump several megatons of distressed squid into it, then break the dam. Boom, you suddenly have enough water-proof stealth for a whole city!

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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #265 on: December 30, 2016, 08:59:26 pm »

Manufacture more nitroglycerin?
Also, mix our current supply with diatomaceous earth to make more stable dynamite?
Use our new internet browser to purchase Iron oxide and aluminum powder for thermite (why you might ask? because: thermite)
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Within that world, she was God. But here, outside of it, her name was Yoake o-Shiri. That was unimportant. She was a Godslayer. That too was unimportant. But what was important, was that she had a motherfucking boat.
And by God, was she going to use it.

"But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars. Bye, Burnsie. Bye, Mission Control. Bye, Sol. See you at heat death" -Blindsight

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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #266 on: December 30, 2016, 11:22:27 pm »

Manufacture more nitroglycerin?
Also, mix our current supply with diatomaceous earth to make more stable dynamite?
Use our new internet browser to purchase Iron oxide and aluminum powder for thermite (why you might ask? because: thermite)

Produce more weapons, such as these. Begin work on your robot army.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #267 on: December 31, 2016, 11:47:37 am »

Finally get around to makeing that Energ-E device you've been trying to sell.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #268 on: December 31, 2016, 12:00:33 pm »

Finally get around to makeing that Energ-E device you've been trying to sell.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #269 on: December 31, 2016, 01:03:41 pm »

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