Well, that seemed to take ages. You wonder if you aren't suffering residual effects of the Clockstop, because it felt like it took three weeks just to walk home.
When you finally arrive, you look at your laptop and your parts. You blink at them, plans and blueprints coming together unbidden in the depths of your brilliant mind.
You are Inspired.You grin at the parts, shutting your computer off and opening it up. No- wait. It needs suitable firmware first. You close it and boot it back up, code an operating system from scratch, basing it off your experience with Linux, Windows, and your Killbots. It all seems so simple, so
right. You haven't felt this good since you built your first robot...
The one that damned professor took credit for...
A renewed fury filling your fingertips, you complete your code at a furious pace. You now have a complete operating system, capable of running about any program you need as well as coping with the optimization you're about to apply to it. That concluded, you shut the laptop down.
An indeterminate amount of careful grafting and optimizing later, your Complex Circuitry and two Average Circuitries have become the center of a powerhouse of hardware, housing an operating system which it was optimized for, and which was optimized for it.
It's beautiful.
Your Outdated Laptop has become an Inspired Upgraded Laptop (Grade 12).
(+0.1 Killbotics, +.4 Programming)
(-1 Complex Circuitry, -2 Average Circuitry, -4 Solder, -4 Copper Wire)
A computer's Grade is a value roughly estimating its capabilities, based off the total value of the Circuitry put into it. You aren't sure what a Grade 12 is capable of yet, exactly, but it's certainly a step up from your old Grade 1 Outdated Laptop.
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Wearing:- Black Gloves 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: 30.4 USD
Inventory:- Shopping Cart [x1] <Can carry non-portable items>
- 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- Outdated Laptop [x1]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!
- Black Boots of SCIENCE!
- Can of Soup [x6]
Parts:- Remote [x1]
- Small Electric Motor [x1]
- Copper Wire [x64]
- Metal Propeller [x1]
- Remote Control Car Chassis [x1]
- Solder [x3]
- 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 [x14]
- Simple Circuitry [x10]
- Average Circuitry [x2]
- High-Quality Circuitry [x1]
- Cloth [x15]
- Leather [x4]
- Medium Cables [x4]
- Wrecked Sheet Metal [x3]
Chemicals:- Reactive [x6]
- Stable [x9]
- Acid [x4]
- Base [x10]
- Hallucinogen [x1]
- Depressant [x7]
- Stimulant [x6]
- Sedative [x3]
- Stimulant + Depressant + Reactive
Knowledge:- Primary Discipline: KILLBOTICS (level 3.5)
- Secondary Disciplines: BIOLOGY (level 2.1), PROGRAMMING (2.9)
- 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
Health:- No wounds
- No chemicals in system
- Somewhat hungry, moderately thirsty
Negligible FameMild MegalomaniaCurrent Lab: Metal Workbench, Amateur Chemistry Set (Portable), Inspired Upgraded Laptop (Grade 12) (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> <Drugged - Hallucinogens>, 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