TheBiggerFish and Gwolfski are now on the waitlist. Anyone else who wants to join, feel free to enter the waitlist.
Banelord, you didn't include a first action in your post so you had no action this turn.
And mechanics clarification: The "Knowledge" section in the spoilers is for more individual topics you've learned. The idea is to make it simpler for me and the player to determine what they know. So it's more for "Laser Construction" after you succesfully make a laser rather than for "Advanced Physics" after you study it. Though learning things and topics through ways other than inventions is definitely possible.
The mechanic is subject to change.
In addition to this, jobs have been severely nerfed from Independent Scientist. Since this is more competition-based, you're more encouraged to make money via science. Job wages are very subject to change.
Let me know if I missed anything this post.
May 2nd, 2017After a curious day of doing nothing, today was when each scientist would
actually begin. No more false starts!
RobosonYou decide to go the tried-and-true route and heads over to the scrapyard to look for primarily electronics and any useful mechanical pieces. As you scrounge in the piles of junk, you sees some rather mysterious individual doing the same thing. You scoff at this man's
clearly inferior scrap-collecting capabilities and continue going about your day.
Eventually, you return at the garage with the wondrous fruits of your labor:
7u scrap electronics and
2u mechanical bits. The scrap electronics are self explanatory, while the mechanical bits encompass parts once belonging to simple mechanical assemblies, like gears and small mechanical joints.
Home: Garage; New Bounds
Cash: $100
Outfit: Regular Clothing
Knowledge
Inventory
Materials
- 7u Scrap Electronics
- 2u Mechanical Bits
Clothing
- Regular Clothing
You head over to the library with a mission. You scour the bookshelves and computer catalogs for any books about neuroscience, psychology, and other aspects of the human mind. Surprisingly, your local library has a plethora of books on neuroscience. Psychology is limited to less-scientific books including masterpieces such as "Psychology 101: How to make your crush reciprocate your feelings". You decide not to take that one, but you do find some semi-useful books. And finally in your search, you find a decent amount of books covering a wide variety of topics on the human mind.
Once you finish your sixth trip to the checkout desk with your arms containing another three stacks of books, the librarian only
now decides to tell you they have a strict checkout limit of 3 books.
...
After you finish picking up the books you knocked off the desk and apologize to the librarian, you pick out three books - a
Neuroscience Graduate Textbook, a Simple Psychology Book, and The Human Mind 101, a regular textbook - check them out, and depart. The librarian made sure to remind you they were due back on the 9th. You've had better experiences in libraries.
Home: Garage; New Bounds
Cash: $100
Outfit: Regular Clothing
Knowledge
Inventory
Clothing
- Regular Clothing
Miscellaneous Items
- Neuroscience Graduate Textbook [Return to library: May 9th]
- Simple Psychology Book [Return to library: May 9th]
- The Human Mind 101 Textbook [Return to library: May 9th]
You find a
low-quality netbook at a store of questionable reputation for
$31. You drop it off at the garage, make sure it boots up, wait ten minutes for it to finish booting up, turn it off, then leave again to find a job at some kind of fast food place.
...You don't find a job. You suspect it could be the "boasts" you included in your applications, but really, any self-respecting manager should know a catch when they see one. Their loss.
Home: Garage; New Bounds
Cash: $69
Outfit: Lab Coat + T-Shirt, Sweatpants, Rimmed Glasses
Knowledge
Inventory
Tools and Equipment
- Low-Quality Netbook
Clothing
- Lab Coat + T-Shirt
- Sweatpants
- Rimmed glasses
You make your way to the nearby conveniently-placed scrap yard. After passing by a strange person with clothing dirtied by the area focused on scrap-gathering, you begin your work. You end up finding
5u Scrap Metal and
2u Engine Parts. The engine parts seem easy to individually restore, but it'd be hard to build an engine from them considering the large variety of brands and types available.
You head back to your home with the loot, account for everything, make sure you didn't lose anything, then decide that your activities today are finished.
Home: Garage; New Bounds
Cash: $100
Outfit: Trench Coat, Black Bandana
Knowledge
Inventory
Materials
- 5u Scrap Metal
- 2u Engine Parts
Clothing
- Trench Coat
- Black Bandana
You go to one of the libraries in the town. Ignoring someone in a rage knocking huge stacks of books all over the librarian's desk, you find someone else to talk to and ask about a library pass. They tell you it's
$5 and lets you borrow books for 2 weeks at a time - a week longer than without a pass - and have 2 more books borrowed at a time. You accept and get your new shiny
Library Card. You walk past the previously-raging stranger who is now somberly picking up the scattered books one at a time and locate two books - an
informative book on mutation[/color] and a
Genetics Graduate Textbook. This library has a shocking amount of textbooks in it, you notice.
You check the books out and leave, observing the formerly-somber man trying to pick some books from the reassembled stacks on the desk.
You arrive at your garage, happy with your convenient exchange at the library. After the books are stored away, you leave to find a part-time job for some extra cash. You
do find one, but it's extraordinary awful - only $5 a day. Regardless, it's still a job.
Tomorrow, you will receive
$5 from your part-time job.
Home: Garage; New Bounds
Cash: $95
Outfit: Grey Lab Coat, Black Boots
Knowledge
Inventory
Clothing
- Grey Lab Coat
- Black Boots
- Black Gloves
Miscellaneous Items
- Library Card
- Informative Genetics Book [Return to library: May 16th]
- Genetics Graduate Textbook [Return to library: May 16th]
You buy several varieties of uncooked pasta from the store for
$5.
The result is
actually revolting. Immediately after creating it, a disgusting smell wafts throughout your garage. Wasting no time, you find a heavy-duty trash can a reasonable distance away from your garage to dispose of it. You see several people vomitting as you quickly walk away with your nose plugged, and later you hear that the nearby building was evacuated due to a "gas leak".
And before you try to do something, no, this is
not weaponizeable. One, you fear you may get terminal cancer regardless of precautions if you try it again, and two, there's just a gut feeling that doing so is not a good idea. At least you think you're less likely to poison people if you ever make them food.
Though this newfound knowledge of what
not to do in making pasta easily secures you work at a nearby pasta restaurant. It's
really not a great wage, though.
Tomorrow you'll get
$6 from your job at a pasta kitchen.
Home: Garage; New Bounds
Cash: $95
Outfit: Lab Coat + Oversized Indecipherable Glasses
Knowledge
Inventory
Clothing
- Lab Coat
- Oversized Indecipherable Glasses
Scrap Lord didn't do anything today.
Home: Garage; New Bounds
Cash: $100
Outfit: Regular Clothing
Knowledge
Inventory
Clothing
- Regular Clothing
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