You decide it's time to sell the damn textbooks. Frankly, you need cash and they're useless to you except as a quick cash source.
After removing your lab coat and leaving your safety goggles in your lab, you hunt down the location of the Pawn Shop with your textbooks, tucking your handgun into a pocket you cut into the inside of your jacket, making sure the safety is on. There is no round chambered, you note for safety.
The pawn shop is managed by a middle-aged man who doesn't ask too many questions. He offers you forty dollars for the chemistry textbook and fifteen for the programming book. They're laughable prices, about a fourth of the cost to buy them new, but they're about as good as you can get without putting effort - and time - into the search. You grudgingly accept.
The Pawn Shop's inventory has little of interest - a general assortment of electronics is always available here (televisions, car stereos, speakers, weak-but-overpriced computers hardly worth their circuitry, and a few tools), as well as various hand tools if you ever lose possession of your Tool Belt.
Additionally, there are items of gold and silver - jewelry and the like - should you ever need them (for instance, if you set up infrastructure to smelt down whatever contains those metals to make your own custom circuitry).
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Wearing:- Black Gloves of SCIENCE!
- Black Boots of SCIENCE!
- Tool Belt of SCIENCE!
- Black Jeans of CASUALNESS
- Red T-shirt of CASUALNESS
- Black Shoes of RUNNING (and COMFORT)
- Dark Gray Jacket of HIDDEN POCKETS
Cash: 55 USD
Inventory:- Gasoline (1 gallon) [x4] <Non-portable>
- Soldering Equipment [x1]
- Tools [x1]
- Water Bottle [x2]
- Amateur Chemistry Set [x1]
- Outdated Laptop [x1]
- Ruler [x1]
- Black Sharpie [x1]
- Switchblade [x1]
- H&K USP [x1, 15/15 9mm Parabellum]
- White Lab Coat of SCIENCE!
- Safety Goggles of SCIENCE!
- Remote [x1]
- Small Electric Motor [x1]
- Copper Wire [x32]
- Metal Propeller [x1]
- Remote Control Car Chassis [x1]
- Solder [x7]
- Plastic Wheel [x4]
- Tin Plate [x3]
- Spoon [x1]
- Metal Pipe [x7]
- Short Cloth Rope [x6]
- Nylon Rope [x2]
- Metal Bar [x4]
- Thumbtack [x2]
- Pushpin [x7]
- Rudimentary Control Unit [x1]
- Basic Circuitry [x3]
- Simple Circuitry [x2]
- Average Circuitry [x1]
- Cloth [x15]
- Leather [x4]
- Reactive [x6]
- Stable [x9]
- Acid [x4]
- Base [x10]
- Hallucinogen [x1]
- Depressant [x7]
- Stimulant [x6]
- Sedative [x3]
- Stimulant + Depressant + Reactive
- Primary Discipline: KILLBOTICS (level 3.4)
- Secondary Disciplines: BIOLOGY (level 2.1), PROGRAMMING (2.5)
- Tertiary Disciplines: PHYSICS (level 1.4), CHEMISTRY (level 1.2)
- Formulae: 5
- Stimulant + Reactive = Hallucinogen
- Sedative = [Depressant + Reactive]
- [Hallucinogen + Reactive] = ? (Test 1: Rat reacted with intense fear upon oral application)
- Clockstop [Mental Accelerator]: [Stimulant+Reactive+Stable+Reactive] produces 2
- [Stimulant + Depressant + Reactive] = ?
- Inventions: 9
Assorted Items and Parts:
= Lame Rat Trap: 1 Bucket, 1 Stick (or similar item), 1 Rope, 1 Food Sample
= Lame Rat Container: 1 Bucket, 1 Small Metal Plate, Weight
= Makeshift Mold Tank: 1 Bottle, 1 Cloth, 1 Moldy Food Sample or Mold Sample. Needs warm, damp, poorly ventilated location
= Rudimentary Control Unit: Simple Circuitry, 1 Basic Circuitry, 1 Copper Wire, 1 Solder
= Control Unit: 2 Basic Circuitry, 1 Copper Wire, 1 Solder
= Small Motor: 1 Simple Circuitry (or better), 2 Copper Wire, 1 Solder, 1 Small Casing
= Simple silent alarm: 1 Control Rudimentary Control Unit, 1 Copper Wire
KILLBOTICS:
= The Anklebiter: 1 Control Unit, 1 Chassis (Small), 4 Wheels (Small), 1 Electric Motor, 1 Digital Camera, 3 Copper Wire, up to 4 stabbing weapons. 1(x) Attack <Stabbing>, 1 Defense, 2 Movement
==Modification: Spiked Koopa Status: 6 Thumbtacks, 1 Solder, +1 Defense, cannot be grabbed by enemies in combat
= Aerial Spybot: 1 Control Unit, 1 Chassis (Small), 2 Metal Propeller, 1 Tin Plate, 1 Digital Camera, 2 Small Electric Motors, 1 Solder, 2 Copper Wire. 0 attack, 1 defense, 3 movement (flight)
= Defense Turret MkI [Level 2 Programming, Basic IFF]: 1 Turret Base, 1 Small Electric Motor, 1 Digital Camera, 1 Control Unit, 3 Solder, 3 Copper Wire, 1 Trigger-based Firearm with Ammo <20 attack [needs ammo], 1 Defense, 0 Movement
- No wounds
- No chemicals in system
- Somewhat hungry, somewhat thirsty
Negligible FameMild MegalomaniaCurrent Lab: Metal Workbench, Amateur Chemistry Set (Portable), Outdated Laptop (Portable), Makeshift Mold Tank, Lame Rat Container [1 Metal Bucket, 1 Spoon, 1 Tin Plate, contains 1 Intoxicated Rat <Hallucinogen+Reactive>]
KILLBOTS:
Spiked Anklebiter 1 [Level 2 programming, physics modeling program, IFF, weapon recognition]: 1 Control Unit, 1 Chassis (Small), 4 Wheels (Small), 1 Electric Motor, 1 Digital Camera, 3 Copper Wire, 2 knives, 2 forks; 6 Thumbtacks, 1 Solder. 1*4 Attack <Stabbing>, 2 Defense, 2 Movement, cannot be grabbed by enemies in combat
Locations:
Los Angeles, United States:
Slum Basement Lab,
Scrapyard,
Pawn Shop,
Dollar Store,
Thrift Store,
Goodwill,
Cheap Grocery Store,
UCLA,
USCOrganizations:
Gangs in the Location1:SlumBasementLab Area,
the University System
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Topic: Man of SCIENCE!! (Read 147140 times)