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[Jopax]

Then to the junkyard, and do we have any cash?
If so we should buy some food(as bait) and a multi-meter

[Pandarsenic]

It's settled, then! One unit of the Hallucinogen is plenty for all four weapons.

You head to the junkyard regardless of having literally no money and

JESUS CHRIST IT'S COLD

You grit your teeth and bear it, for SCIENCE. You take a measure of comfort in that the junkyard is nearby and the security guard is almost always asleep. If you take medium-sized or large-sized items, your many Lab Coat of SCIENCE! pockets won't suffice to carry it. You can hold a medium item in each arm or carry one large item with you at a time.

You guide the Spiked Koopa Anklebiter as you walk. It's rather enjoyable, but all too soon you've arrived. The rows of cars stretch as far as you can see - not far as the light from the street lamps fades, to be fair. There's a warehouse off to the side, but the guard there is more vigilant, if you recall correctly.

-=-

Wearing:
- White Lab Coat of SCIENCE!
- Safety Goggles of SCIENCE!
- Black Gloves of SCIENCE!
- Black Boots of SCIENCE!
- Tool Belt of SCIENCE!

Inventory:

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- Gasoline (1 gallon) [x4]
- Soldering Equipment [x1]
- Tools [x1]
- Water Bottle [x2]
- Books [CHEMISTRY x1, PROGRAMMING x1]
- Amateur Chemistry Set [x1]
- Outdated Laptop [x1]
- Ruler [x1]
- Black Sharpie [x1]
- Switchblade [x1]

Parts:

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- Remote [x1]
- Small Electric Motor [x1]
- Copper Wire [x4]
- Metal Propeller [x1]
- Remote Control Car Chassis [x1]
- Solder [x8]
- Plastic Wheel [x4]
- Tin Plate [x4]
- Spoon [x2]
- Metal Bucket [x1]
- Metal Pipe [x7]
- Short Cloth Rope [x6]
- Nylon Rope [x2]
- Metal Bar [x4]
- Thumbtack [x2]
- Pushpin [x7]
- Rudimentary Control Unit [x1]

Chemicals:

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- Reactive [x10]
- Stable [x10]
- Acid [x4]
- Base [x10]
- Hallucinogen [x2]
- Depressant [x8]
- Stimulant [x8]
- Sedative [x3]

Knowledge:
- Primary Discipline: KILLBOTICS (level 3)
- Secondary Disciplines: BIOLOGY (level 2)
- Tertiary Disciplines: PHYSICS (level 1), PROGRAMMING (level 1), CHEMISTRY (level 0)
- Formulae: 3

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- Stimulant + Reactive = Hallucinogen
- Depressant + Reactive = Sedative
- Hallucinogen + Reactive = ?

- Inventions: 5

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= 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
= 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)

Health:
- No wounds
- No drugs in system
- Well fed, well-hydrated

Negligible Fame
Mild Megalomania

Current Lab: Metal Workbench, Amateur Chemistry Set (Portable), Outdated Laptop (Portable)

[Cheddarius]

Look for cool stuff, specifically electric motors, digital cameras, copper wire, solder, weapons, chassis's, and circuit boards

[Jopax]

Try to talk to the guard of the warehouse, just chat, if he finds you suspicios just say you are taking a <time of day> walk for relaxation, then  when you sneakily find out what is in the warehouse decide wheter or not to spike him with the Koopa bot

[Cheddarius]

I don't mean any offense, but this is not a combat simulator. If you go around hurling bombs at people, tasering them, sic-ing robots on them, looting guarded warehouses, etc., you will be jailed, and the game will presumably end.

[Pandarsenic]

You begin scavenging - your PRIDE is unharmed because you are refusing to kneel to any man to obtain these items.

You-

Freaking Jackpot.

You move from car to car, searching inside the hoods, prying open dashboards with the tools from your tool belt, slicing upholstery just in case, and the like, to harvest:

Copper Wire [x31]
Simple Circuitry [x4]
Basic Circuitry [x5]
Average Circuitry [x1]
Cloth [x16]
Leather [x4]

You find no digital cameras (why did you expect to find that here?), no solder (you want tin-based soft solder, again, not something you'd find here), and a great deal of chassis, all of which are much too large to take. You look under the hoods to try to find motors, the cold forgotten in your excitement, but those are rather large as well. The tires and wheels, too, would be difficult to harvest, especially without making enough noise to draw the guards. You notice a great many cars in another area are devoid of tires and their insides have been devoured - those goods should be in the warehouse, but casually approaching said warehouse would not end well, seeing as how it's inside the fence. You would have to get him away, presumably, or sneak past him - but the size of the objects you would have to carry out would likely betray you if he was there to notice you.

Alas, the difficulties of SCIENCE.

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Wearing:
- White Lab Coat of SCIENCE!
- Safety Goggles of SCIENCE!
- Black Gloves of SCIENCE!
- Black Boots of SCIENCE!
- Tool Belt of SCIENCE!

Inventory:

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- Gasoline (1 gallon) [x4]
- Soldering Equipment [x1]
- Tools [x1]
- Water Bottle [x2]
- Books [CHEMISTRY x1, PROGRAMMING x1]
- Amateur Chemistry Set [x1]
- Outdated Laptop [x1]
- Ruler [x1]
- Black Sharpie [x1]
- Switchblade [x1]

Parts:

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- Remote [x1]
- Small Electric Motor [x1]
- Copper Wire [x35]
- Metal Propeller [x1]
- Remote Control Car Chassis [x1]
- Solder [x8]
- Plastic Wheel [x4]
- Tin Plate [x4]
- Spoon [x2]
- Metal Bucket [x1]
- Metal Pipe [x7]
- Short Cloth Rope [x6]
- Nylon Rope [x2]
- Metal Bar [x4]
- Thumbtack [x2]
- Pushpin [x7]
- Rudimentary Control Unit [x1]
- Basic Circuitry [x5]
- Simple Circuitry [x4]
- Average Circuitry [x1]
- Cloth [x16]
- Leather [x4]

Chemicals:

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- Reactive [x10]
- Stable [x10]
- Acid [x4]
- Base [x10]
- Hallucinogen [x2]
- Depressant [x8]
- Stimulant [x8]
- Sedative [x3]

Knowledge:
- Primary Discipline: KILLBOTICS (level 3)
- Secondary Disciplines: BIOLOGY (level 2)
- Tertiary Disciplines: PHYSICS (level 1), PROGRAMMING (level 1), CHEMISTRY (level 0)
- Formulae: 3

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- Stimulant + Reactive = Hallucinogen
- Depressant + Reactive = Sedative
- Hallucinogen + Reactive = ?

- Inventions: 5

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= 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
= 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)

Health:
- No wounds
- No drugs in system
- Well fed, well-hydrated

Negligible Fame
Mild Megalomania

Current Lab: Metal Workbench, Amateur Chemistry Set (Portable), Outdated Laptop (Portable)

[Cheddarius]

Go home
Build 2 Rudimentary Control Units
Is it possible to switch the Digital Camera on the Anklebiter to a different robot without penalty?

[Pandarsenic]

Yeah, switching it is fine. You don't need to build Rudimentary Control Units, by the way, you have the parts for normal ones, and a normal Control Unit supports better programming.

[Dyjeccu]

I dont feel the murdering vibe. A killbot is a killbot, sure.. but turning little Anklebiter out to murder a sleeping security guard?
For those that have yet to earn our ire-- I propose a knock-out gas dispenser:

Water bottle + leather + copper wire + basic circuit + solder, with the payload, reactive + sedative

[Pandarsenic]

Actually, it would be more like having the Anklebiter jab him with Hallucinogen stabby-things

And the WAREHOUSE guard is awake, the gate guard is asleep.

[Wimdit]

Hm. Feasibility of killing the junkyard guard while he's vulnerable in order to grab the gun and torch he presumably has?

[Pandarsenic]

He's asleep, you have a switchblade. Do the math.

But as someone (*Coughcheesecough*) said, everything you do will have consequences. So choose carefully.

[Wimdit]

Probable consequence would be heightened security at the junkyard, which has already been picked over. Although the engines and scrap metal might be useful.

So. Minimal risk, small gain, and a minor guaranteed loss. A pistol is hard to use in a killbot, so I guess it's not a good idea.

Head back. What we need is a robot buddy to do menial tasks. I guess humanoid robots are beyond us right now? Try designing a portable steam engine that would use a kettle or something and some of the metal stuff lying around.

[Jopax]

Hm, we could use something to cut those cars up.
Combine the water bottle with the pipe, drill holes in the pipe to allow air to mix, construct a smal pump using a motor and make an ignition system with the copper wires, we should have a blow torch of some sort using gasoline as fuel.Now we can secretly salvage the chassies in parts rather than big bulky car sizes

[Pandarsenic]

Reminders, answers, and useful info:

Places where you can Search for Refuse re-accumulate trash over time and stores restock over time. You can search the same place again in a few weeks or even a few days in some places and find more useful items. You can also look for things you weren't looking for before - for instance, you likely (haven't done the rolls) skipped a few empty soda cans that could make good Small Casings because you weren't looking for them.

A humanoid robot takes higher PROGRAMMING, mostly. Level 3 KILLBOTICS gets you up through constructing and using Basic Circuitboards and <No Modifier> Control Units, and simple humanoid robots start with those.

KILLBOTICS depends heavily on PROGRAMMING. Level 1 PROGRAMMING uses direct remote control and simple IF/THEN/ELSE commands like the Anklebiter's stabbing; it's entirely inadequate for a humanoid robot. Level 2 gets you laptop console control (if you have a powerful enough laptop and sufficiently strong signal equipment) and basic autonomy for rovers and other land-based killbots. Level 3 gets you the fundamentals of a humanoid robot, but for them to do something like rob a bank for you, that would take at least level 4 if you supervised it and level 5 if you wanted them to have a good chance of success on their own (of course, the PROGRAMMING skill would be accompanied with similar improvements in your KILLBOTICS).

Technically you could make a humanoid robot now if you found and assembled suitable parts. It just wouldn't do anything yet. When you do start making humanoid automatons, it'll be good for you  to have CPUs and such, because they'll need them.

Also, take note of anything I warn you about - I won't say you CANNOT do something stupid, but I'll caution you about it. If you ignore that it's your own fault. Though I'll give time for wiser or more survival-oriented contributors to chime in.

Jopax: Good attempt, but you're not getting a pump out of a Small Electric Motor. Valiant effort though.