World Difficulty: 8
You peer out of the window and see a large city stretching to the horizon with buildings both tall and short. This civilization seems to be in the middle of the Industrial Revolution, and in the distance is a clock tower, partly obscured by the blag smog from the factories. The streets are bustling with beople, but they all seem to be wearing shades of grey.
Group Inventory:
Evergod41
Peasant
Influence: 130Gathering: 0 (18/100)
Engineering: 0 (54/100)
- 3 steel bars
- Dented boiler !Base Influence 65!
Humaan
Gatherer
Influence: 67Gathering: 0 (58/100)
- 5 notebooks (50 sheets of paper each)
- 6 fountain pens
- 1 cash register
Sneevil
Trader
Gathering: 0 (5/100)
ExKirby
Trader
Influence: 68Modelcrafting: 0 (6/100)
Gathering: 0 (29/100)
- 10 steel bars
- 3 coils of steel rope (10m long, 2cm thick)
- 2 wooden stools
- 2 pots of wood glue (approx 1 litre each)
maxicaxi
Peasant
Influence: 109Gathering: 1 (16/100)
- 5 lumps of coal
- 1 wooden plank
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Armok
Crafter
Influence: 204Woodcrafting: 0 (92/100)
Time Manipulation: 0 (11/100)
- Animated disproportionate wooden humanoid (~0.5m tall) !base influence: 102!
- Rotten apple
Dangit. Well since I can't craft anything because the traders and peasants claimed all the resources, I guess I will Search for scrap metal, stone, or similar, even at my -30% penalty.
Attempt: 66-22=44
You bumble around the city looking for materials. You seem to be paying attention to all the wrong things though, and in the end your search proves fruitless.
hmmm industrial revolution eh?
Forge an Iron bar into a Steam Boiler
Attempt: 77
Quality: 33
Base Influence: 33+32=65
You hammer some steel from your stash flat, then shape it into a boiler. You are rather inexperienced however, and the end result is leaky and dented.
- 1 steel bar
+ Dented boiler
!Base Influence 65!You gain 54xp (Engineering)!
You gain 130 crafting influence!
Anyway, I take the apple and crystallize it into the gemlike magical Heart of Knowledge.
I'm going to assume maxicaxi is letting you do this. Note that from now on if you want to use anything from somebody else's inventory, ask them to give it to you. You can only access the group inventory and your own freely.Attempt: 9+2=11
You snatch an apple and begin your experiments upon it. In your attempt to make it into a Heart of Knowledge, you pour thousands of years of experience upon the apple, hoping it will absorb the knowledge, but it wrinkles and rots instead.
- 1 apple
+ 1 rotten apple
You gain 11xp (Time Manipulation)!
"Sorry!" I yell, before I jump out and try to get some materials.
Attempt: 76-8=68
Quality: 72
You walk out of the ship to gather some materials. Walking into a carpentry shop and a steel mill, you manage to steal some stuff while nobody was looking. You then come back, laden with goods.
+ 10 steel bars
+ 3 coils of steel rope (10m long, 2cm thick)
+ 2 wooden stools
+ 2 pots of wood glue (approx 1 litre each)
You gain 29xp (Gathering)!
Gather! GATHER ALL THAT I CAN SEE AND GET AWAY TAKING!
Attempt: 61+6=67
Quality: 65
You walk around the city, go into a nearby store. As it happens, this one sells stationery, and you take whatever you find.
+ 5 notebooks (50 sheets of paper each)
+ 6 fountain pens
+ 1 cash register
You gain 58xp (Gathering)!
Gather! STEEL!
Attempt: 28
You walk around the city on the lookout for anything likely, but you get distracted by the sights and you only barely manage to make it back.
You gain 76xp (Gathering)!