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Author Topic: You are an Independent Scientist! (Nov 12, 2016)  (Read 37100 times)

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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #271 on: December 31, 2016, 07:04:21 pm »

I'm surprised this is still alive.  Glad it is though.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #272 on: January 01, 2017, 12:06:54 am »

October 31st, 2016

The first thing you do today is checking your email for data from the Probe virus. As expected, the email is already there waiting for you. Here's what information it found that you found to be relevant:
The Center of Art is apparently organizing a new exhibit of some relatively nice art - roughly $10,000 in whole. They've organized for a truck to transport this art from some other location - likely a warehouse or a distant museum. You don't really care about that part. But this truck is scheduled to arrive early in the morning on November 2nd. It'll be carrying the entire exhibit's worth of art in it. The rest of the information the Probe Virus sent you is some standard employee and logistical workplace stuff - nothing special.

Now you turn you attention to a different moneymaking scheme of yours - a MK4 fuel cell. It's pretty easy doing it since you already have the specifications and blueprint down. So $170 later, you find yourself with a shiny brand new "Energ-E" MK4 Fuel Cell. Because of the fact that you can easily swap these MK4s, you've decided to keep track of the cell's fuel by way of percentage. So you should watch that in the future.


Finished with the new fuel cell, you conclude that you want to begin work with more fun things. Specifically, things that explode, but you really feel that's obvious by the word "fun". First off is more nitroglycerin, but you end up deciding to postpone the nitroglycerin for later since you couldn't decide on a concrete amount. But you don't let this put you down. You turn on your internet browser and search for a viable source of Iron Oxide and Aluminum Powder for more explosive fun. You end up purchasing 5 ml Iron Oxide and 5 ml Aluminum Powder for $40, and successfully manage creating 10 ml Thermite from this.
Finalizing your explosive work for the day, you spend $10 on enough diatomaceous earth for the creation of 1 ml Dynamite from your existing 1 ml Nitroglycerin. Don't question why you're measuring your dynamite in milliliters.

And finally, your robot army. You spend some time alone at the university computer labs working on your basic AI project. You feel like you didn't get very far today, but you definitely made some progress! Soon, you'll have a robot army. Soon.

Before you fall asleep, you realize it was halloween. Huh. You could have done a whole theme for today, but you guess not. Next holiday, maybe.


A truck delivering $10,000 worth of art is scheduled to arrive at the Center of Art on Nov. 2nd.
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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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #273 on: January 01, 2017, 12:28:07 am »

Make a cannister similar to the ammonia grenade to launch the dynamite. Test.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #274 on: January 01, 2017, 02:47:40 am »

Make a cannister similar to the ammonia grenade to launch the dynamite. Test.
-1 that a rather bad idea since it's a handheld butane launcher, so  instead lets work on rigging up a compressed air cannon on a Rover-Drone instead.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #275 on: January 01, 2017, 04:34:52 am »

A truck delivering $10,000 worth of art is scheduled to arrive at the Center of Art on Nov. 2nd.
Well, this is too good to be true. We shouldn't steal the whole thing, just a few small, valuable pieces which can easily be sold on the black market. If we steal even $1000 worth it would be a great success.

Now then. How to do so.

1)Stopping the truck. We need to stop the truck, ideally on some small, isolated road. None of our inventions really work for this, so we need to come up with something new, and fast. The low-tech option would be portable tire-traps; that shouldn't require much more than a few pieces of scrap metal. A more elegant solution would be better, though. Ideas?

2)Cutting communications. We need some time to operate, without annoyances like police breathing down our necks. Fortunately, we have an (almost) perfect device for this; our Microwave Area Jammer. We just need to modify the MAJ to be portable, preferably running off of an MK4.

3)Disabling the driver. Only one last thing stands between us and the loot. Preferably some sort of sleeping gas should be used. We don't want to have murder on our record as well as theft (also I guess killing people is wrong, or something). Perhaps we can dilute/modify the scorpion venom so that it only knocks someone out?

4)Stealing the stuff. Gotta steal the stuff. Our thermite will come in handy here, as we can use it to melt the lock on the back of the truck, assuming there is one. Then we load up our drones & pockets with as much as they can carry, I guess. Wait, no, we don't have any batteries for the drones, nor money to make them. Hmm. Maybe we could rent a car? Boring, but effective.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #276 on: January 01, 2017, 11:36:26 am »

A truck delivering $10,000 worth of art is scheduled to arrive at the Center of Art on Nov. 2nd.
Well, this is too good to be true. We shouldn't steal the whole thing, just a few small, valuable pieces which can easily be sold on the black market. If we steal even $1000 worth it would be a great success.

Now then. How to do so.

1)Stopping the truck. We need to stop the truck, ideally on some small, isolated road. None of our inventions really work for this, so we need to come up with something new, and fast. The low-tech option would be portable tire-traps; that shouldn't require much more than a few pieces of scrap metal. A more elegant solution would be better, though. Ideas?

2)Cutting communications. We need some time to operate, without annoyances like police breathing down our necks. Fortunately, we have an (almost) perfect device for this; our Microwave Area Jammer. We just need to modify the MAJ to be portable, preferably running off of an MK4.

3)Disabling the driver. Only one last thing stands between us and the loot. Preferably some sort of sleeping gas should be used. We don't want to have murder on our record as well as theft (also I guess killing people is wrong, or something). Perhaps we can dilute/modify the scorpion venom so that it only knocks someone out?

4)Stealing the stuff. Gotta steal the stuff. Our thermite will come in handy here, as we can use it to melt the lock on the back of the truck, assuming there is one. Then we load up our drones & pockets with as much as they can carry, I guess. Wait, no, we don't have any batteries for the drones, nor money to make them. Hmm. Maybe we could rent a car? Boring, but effective.

1) Caltrops sounds good. Easy to make too


2) That sounds like the best idea


3) Would a smaller ammonia grenade work for taking out the driver? Or maybe something like this?

4) Add a cargo area onto the buggy. Make it big enough to hold 2-3 paintings and a few small sculptures
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #277 on: January 01, 2017, 01:32:39 pm »

Couldn't we just shoot the guy, instead of making weapons for it? Killing him will only matter if we get caught, and getting caught would suck, anyway.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #278 on: January 01, 2017, 02:37:42 pm »

If we kill him they will look for us, if we steal a meager bit of a exhibit without killing anyone the cops probably won't put that much effort into it, in fact let's build a actual taser rifle using the MK4 as a power source, especially since we could patent and sell that design as well.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #279 on: January 01, 2017, 03:07:29 pm »

Find a way to stop the truck, run up to help the guy, with the poison ring, and prick him.  Since we don't plan to kill, we could swap out the venom with something far less deadly, but something that would instead knock out the victim.  What's the weather like in our part of the country?  Would wearing heavy/bulky clothing draw attention?
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #280 on: January 01, 2017, 03:10:05 pm »

Use a drone to drop the things that will disable the truck. If you are precise enough, you could permanently disable the truck with some of the thermite.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #281 on: January 01, 2017, 03:32:52 pm »

Create a Pneumatic Scorpion Gun.
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #282 on: January 01, 2017, 03:46:43 pm »

Fallacy's Plan:

1. Fabricate up some caltrops using scrap metal. Be sure to collect scrap metal before making the caltrops.

2. Rig the flying drone to be able to drop said caltrops.

3. Amplify the Microwave Jammer to block communications more effectively. Maybe a bigger dish and more battery power?

4. Games! Prepare a sort of puzzle that, when completed, dispenses an injector of antivenom. Make sure it's complicated.

5. Prepare some kind of pneumatic crossbow that can be used to inject people with things from a distance.

6. Dilute some venom to a form where it will take a while to kill... about some time longer than the amount of time it takes to solve the puzzle.

7. Make an improved buggy using scavenged material. We'll need it to hold the stolen art.

8. Make some more batteries. Enough for what we have planned.

9. Most importantly, make sure we have a mask and gloves. Preferably a raccoon mask because raccoons are just like us. Cunning thieves that enjoy shinies.

This will probably be a multi-day turn.

((The basic idea is: stop the truck with caltrops, jam communications. Shoot driver and whoever else is in truck with diluted scorpion venom, give them the puzzle with the antivenom, explain what it is, laugh while they have to solve the puzzle instead of stopping us. Steal art, get away.))
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Re: You are an Independent Scientist!
« Reply #283 on: January 01, 2017, 04:17:51 pm »

Fallacy's Plan:
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8. Make some more batteries. Enough for what we have planned.
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I like your thinking, but there is a problem here: we cannot afford this step. Making batteries costs $170, we have $74. We can't make a single battery, let alone multiple.
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« Reply #284 on: January 01, 2017, 04:29:28 pm »

I like your thinking, but there is a problem here: we cannot afford this step. Making batteries costs $170, we have $74. We can't make a single battery, let alone multiple.

Well, that's tricky. We don't have much time to get more money to make more batteries, but the batteries are rather important. Therefore...

Perhaps make another virus that will combo with the Probe Virus to change the delivery date, to give us more time to prepare? Make sure the changing seems legitimate(give it some kind of excuse).
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