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[Ardent Debater]

Let's attempt to contact the Drug Cartel, we'll explain our science skills to their leader, and offer to make them high-quality narcotics to sell, in exchange for 25% of the profits made. We'll also show their leader our more, destructive, inventions and offer to increase the efficiency of their weapons in exchange for more money. This is much safer than selling narcotics ourselves, it will get us a new contact, and soon we'll have the money to purchase the parts to assemble a SuperComputer and a Laboratory worthy of our staggering Intellect.

Failing that, let's try to find out how to make fake ID's, if that ignorant cretin can make them, so can we!

[Maegil]

Let's attempt to contact the Drug Cartel, we'll explain our science skills to their leader, and offer to make them high-quality narcotics to sell, in exchange for 25% of the profits made. We'll also show their leader our more, destructive, inventions and offer to increase the efficiency of their weapons in exchange for more money. This is much safer than selling narcotics ourselves, it will get us a new contact, and soon we'll have the money to purchase the parts to assemble a SuperComputer and a Laboratory worthy of our staggering Intellect.

Failing that, let's try to find out how to make fake ID's, if that ignorant cretin can make them, so can we!

-1
We'd like to live, thank you very much.

Keep working on the Medical Chemicals.

[RAM]

Honestly, I think that we were getting too close. It was nice to have the contacts, but really, they were just criminals. I mean, sure, known factors and reminiscing and all that, go back for a reunion after we have built a mind-control device, but I think that we need some time apart to let our relationship mature...

[stabbymcstabstab]

Let's attempt to contact the Drug Cartel, we'll explain our science skills to their leader, and offer to make them high-quality narcotics to sell, in exchange for 25% of the profits made. We'll also show their leader our more, destructive, inventions and offer to increase the efficiency of their weapons in exchange for more money. This is much safer than selling narcotics ourselves, it will get us a new contact, and soon we'll have the money to purchase the parts to assemble a SuperComputer and a Laboratory worthy of our staggering Intellect.

Failing that, let's try to find out how to make fake ID's, if that ignorant cretin can make them, so can we!

-1
We'd like to live, thank you very much.

Keep working on the Medical Chemicals.

El hell no -1,  you don't so that with cartels especially if you're one person living in a garage.

[FallacyofUrist]

Rule One of the Mad Scientist List: I will not risk my person by appearing in person to a potentially deadly meeting. Rather, I will send a body double of some kind, preferably a robot, if available. If a body double is not available, I will work via telepresence robot or representative.

Just dropping this here if anybody wants to improve the cartel action a bit.
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Several years? Well then. There's only one thing left to do. SPEED IT UP.

Increasing the venom's potency isn't a good idea. But maybe making our immune system record it better...

Could we try to find out some way to stimulate our immune system's production of memory cells?

[KiwiOui]

Develop the P.A.C-Bot. (Personal Automated Containment), for the transport of items over rough terrain, using pathfinding code programmed on your computer.
Edit: Well, this won't get far without batteries, thanks, Gwolfski.
Work on some battery systems, improving upon charge length and lowering charge time.

[Gwolfski]

We need a new battery for our buggy.

[RAM]

Provide finger-paint to the scorpions. We have already succumbed to the arts, let us share the pain to our cohorts...

[FallacyofUrist]

Take an art class. Learn to paint. See if we can convey hypnotic effects via painting.

[Chiefwaffles]

This morning you had the craziest idea.
To take... art class. Euugh. You shutter at the mere concept. Art isn't science! It doesn't deserve to be in your mind! You refuse to even pretend to respect the arts one more time!

After finishing that internal rant, you actually get up and start to consider more ideas. How about a new computer OS?
Well, that's actually really, really hard. You can't just program in a day your own OS that can do everything. You need to have specific ideas in mind to implement into the OS. As much as you would like to make an actual full-fledged operating system, that's kind of out of your scope right now.

Onto world domination improvement. The idea of messing with the cartels is quickly discarded, so you just resign to getting some more work done with the medical chemicals. By the late afternoon, you finish up your work for the day. You're steadily making progress, but this is actually really tedious work. You're worried there could be more projects requiring work like this in the future. Perhaps you should look into some way of getting more effective man hours. Whether it's through others helping you or some science-related thing, anything would help.

But before you leave the university lab, you want to consider one more thing - the immune system. There's got to be a way to allow quicker and more effective operation regarding immunization to new objects. You spend some time theorizing, and think you have a possible solution. It comes back to the medical chemicals - some more work on a booster for the existing medical chemicals would allow them to also drastically boost one's immune system.
It'd require a decent amount of work and you'd have to finish the medical chemicals first, but it's a start.
Also, you really want to rename medical chemicals. It's such an awful phrase.

Back at the garage, you consider battery experimentation. The thought stemmed off of you noticing your poor cannibalized buggy lying in the corner, but it's a valid one regardless. Kind of. You're actually not sure what it is. You were originally thinking of buying a battery, but then that thought morphed into some vague idea at the tip of your tongue. Were you going to buy a battery and try to modify it? Make your own with bought parts? Salvaged parts?
It's there, in your mind, you just gotta find it.

Before you go to bed, you give your scorpions some finger paint in an effort to evenly distribute the burden of the arts. After a couple of hours you now have stinger-painting scorpions.
Congratulations. Their victims will look very decorative.

You harvested 2 ml and sold 2 ml of venom today for $60. The normal.

Spoiler: You (click to show/hide)

Cash: $252
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: 7 days)

Items and Materials

• 1 ml Nitroglycerin
• 2x Scrap Electronics
• 1x Gas-filled Fire Extinguisher
• 6x Regular Computer Parts

Weapons

• 1x Glock 20

Ammunition

• 1x 10mm Magazine - 17/17
• 1x 10mm Magazine - 11/17

Miscellaneous Items

• Fake University Scientist ID
• Fake Military Scientist ID
• Fake Government Scientist ID

Spoiler: Creatures (click to show/hide)

Makeshift Terrarrium
Scorpions

• [F] Nineteen (Fed by Roach Trap) ("Pregnant": 30 days)[Maze Navigation][Stingerpainting]
• [M] Eighty-four (Fed by Roach Trap) [Maze Navigation][Stingerpainting]

Makeshift Data Terminal

Spoiler: Makeshift Data Terminal (click to show/hide)

Speed: Very Slow
Hardware
Core - Regular/Basic
Display - 14-inch CRT Display
Extras

• 3x USB 3.1 Type-C ports
• Basic Internet Connection

Software

• Data Entry
• Programming/Script Creator

Spoiler: Contacts (click to show/hide)

• Gang Kids (Via Parents)
• Gang Boss
• Modern Art Dealer

Spoiler: Experiments & Inventions (click to show/hide)

• Antivenom: Antivenom neutralizing venom that can be made in a lab. Requires 1 ml of Venom and $40 for 2 ml of Antivenom.
• 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.

Spoiler: GM Note (click to show/hide)

So Firefox has completely broken despite multiple attempts to fix it. And firefox was my designated "long post writer" because it is the only browser I know of that actually completely supports the SMF text box. So now I get to work in a tiny non-resizeable text box with no bolding/italic hotkeys and no rich text view. Hmph.

And in response to RAM's clarification of the action suggested before last update: While that's not something out of the character's capabilities, it's not particularly doable right now because of what you said - there are no devices for this to work on. Once you make another device, and both the device and the computer can connect to each other (directly/indirectly) and there's a solution regarding storage, go nuts.

[RAM]

Try to find an abandoned building and harvest the plumbing and electricals. Remember to check that everything is turned off first...

[KiwiOui]

You know what has a better charge time than a battery, but still isn't gasoline powered? Hydrogen! Set up an electrolysis system at the chemistry table, and build a multipurpose hydrogen fuel cell.

[S34N1C]

((Don't worry chief, I think I cracked your code))

Investigate who exactly is buying our venom.

[stabbymcstabstab]

You know what has a better charge time than a battery, but still isn't gasoline powered? Hydrogen! Set up an electrolysis system at the chemistry table, and build a multipurpose hydrogen fuel cell.

+1 to this and investgating who's buying the venom.

[Maegil]

You know what has a better charge time than a battery, but still isn't gasoline powered? Hydrogen! Set up an electrolysis system at the chemistry table, and build a multipurpose hydrogen fuel cell.

+1 to this and investgating who's buying the venom.

+1 to all of the above.