Turn 2: A Random Encounter
Well well, a week isn't nearly long enough. Take a little break to prepare for a couple months long project.
[3]Thanks to pressure from the University you didn't get much rest, in-fact you lost sleep. -1 to next roll
“That- ah... well, thank you I suppose.”
Darrick had frankly been baffled since encountering his current companion - he “knows Bigfoot personally”? But the cabin certainly seemed Bigfoot-scale, or at least, larger than would be comfortable for a human.
He hadn’t thought bigfoots - well, sasquatches, apparently - were sapient enough for this sort of arrangement. Not that he’d known much at all about the situation, apparently.
Well, he had the location mapped down, now, at least, even if he’d have to return in three weeks to get anything from it.
“Well, ah, again, thank you for your time, sir. I’ll make certain to return here once Bigfoot’s available, but for now, I have other leads to be after.” Like that lake monster, over in Montana. Darrick’s notebook had “Flathead Lake” jotted down. He had time to pay a visit.
Darrick is going to Flathead Lake in Montana to try to locate and study their lake monster. Those probably don’t travel, right?
In the meantime, he'll also develop his hunting skills. It's cheaper than buying food, and should presumably also make it easier to find the more hidden critters.
[9]When Darrick gets to Flathead Lake he sees antlers coming up out of the water. A local fisherman gives him a boat ride out to the middle of the lake towards the antlers for $1. When he gets there he stays for hours and finally the antlers move up and up and up and he is greeted with the sight of a lochness monster type. Over the course of the next couple days he studies the monster and almost has it basically studied. Flathead Lake monster basic study(40/50){When complete you will know its basic anatomy}
[3]Darrick failed to even start hunting being so engrossed in the monster.
Xander would get that cheap and good deal lab and start buying the equipment needed to get started on his idea
[9]Over the next week Xander gets his lab furnished with all he will need for his idea for $400.
Lay down and cry, hoping to be abducted by aliens. If this doesn't happen within a couple of hours, spend the rest of the week trying to find my telescope.
[6]After a few hours you see possible alien ship(s), though none take you.
[7]It takes you most of the week, but you finally find your telescope miles from where you were. It's broken so you will need to get it fixed to use it.
(Change location to Northeast France.)
Get a job in the arms factories.
[9]France didn't have many arms factories, you get in on the ground floor of an artillery factory making $177/week.
Make friends with the gulag guards and find out what I would need to do to escape.
[7]While you make friends with a couple of the guards you have a long way to go to being able to escape.
Gulag Guard Friends(2){give 4 weekly progress to gulag escape}
Gulag Escape(14/50){when complete can attempt to escape with a 50/50 chance to succeed, further progress will make it easier}
Secretly collect minerals from the mine and build a mind control machine that uses brainwaves to alter the targets neural pathways.
I try to get funding.
(Points for explanation?)
[9]You end up collecting 1 unit each of uranium, silver, gold, and lead and start building a mind control machine.
[6]It doesn't go as well as you hoped, it's going to take awhile.
Mind Control Machine(basic)(5/50){will allow you to control 1/10 people when built}
[8]You get $200 from some seeded people, they give you 2 months to give them something to work with or they will come to collect(and not the nice way).
Name: [REDACTED]
Field of science:Interversal Manipulation. Basically the science of manipulation of the energies of the chaos between universes.
[REDACTED] wakes up from his nap in his underground and builds a machine that draws on energy from the Interversal Chaos and turns it into electricity.
[1]The universe smites [REDACTED] for trying to manipulate chaos energy.
Make a new character if you would like to, please stay away from chaos energy, for your own safety.
"Hmm yes it seems my experiments have already produced fruit! I shall call this new obviously a type of cat hairball officially specimen 001# unofficially though... a tribble! MUHAHAHAHAHA!"
Put the living hairball in a cage with some food and water then start collecting funds to build a machine to mutate cats.
[3]You try to get some funding, but get no takers. The 'tribble' seems to be doing fine.
Write a Thesis on Quantum Particles.
[6]You write a basic Thesis on Quantum Particles, you might be able to get it better with practice.
Lyn Marness continues to research psychology.
[3]You find stuff that seems to contradict itself and lose progress, not much but you scratch you head most of the week on it.
AN: TURNS ARE PERMANENTLY 1 WEEK LONG. ALSO SORRY FOR THE WEEK LONG DELAY, THOUGH TURNS WILL PROBABLY END UP BEING A WEEK APART.
idea: genetic manipulation (lets see what happen when we put a bunch of different animals together)
Funds: $310-2/month
Location: New York City, New York, US
Deadlines: The zoos expect results by January 1937.
Lab: Fully furnished for genetic manipulation(animals) gives +2 for rolls
cryptozoologist! Maybe the existence of bigfoot, Nessie, dragons, etc. hasn't been proven yet, but I'm certain I can find something!
Funds: $9
Location: Montana at Flathead Lake
Projects: Flathead Lake monster basic study(40/50){When complete you will know its basic anatomy}
My idea: Aliens are out there, and I want to believe that I can use them to take over the world.
Funds: $10
Location: Somewhere in the Great plains
Items: Broken telescope
a pale and skinny person who seems to ooze ineptitude, with a pet golden retriever assistant to handle safety and tasks which require dexterity or common sense. Interest in computer science.
Funds: $110
Location: Cambridge
Deadlines: The University of Cambridge expects results by September 1936.
Modifiers: -1 to next roll from lack of sleep.
Name: Dr. Unpleasant
Idea; Roboticist
Funds: $0
Location: Gulags in Moscow
Projects: Gulag Guard Friends(2){give 4 weekly progress to gulag escape}
Gulag Escape(14/50){when complete can attempt to escape with a 50/50 chance to succeed, further progress will make it easier}
Idea: High-energy chemistry
Funds: $182
Location: NE France(whereabouts to be determined)
Income: $177/week from working in an artillery factory
Idea: Metaphysics. Amon is obsessed with becoming a god and selling lesser, bottled forms of these scientific powers to further fund his research. (To anyone that knows worm, I do not wear a fedora. I promise.)
Funds: $200
Location: Kirk mine in Colorado
Deadlines: Kirk mine room until May 1936; seedy people expect results by June 1936 or they kill you
Projects: Mind Control Machine(basic)(5/50){will allow you to control 1/10 people when built}
Items: 1 unit each of uranium, silver, gold, and lead
Idea: The Genetic Manipulation and Alteration of Cats to make new Cats.
Funds: $10
Location: NE US(location not wanted, too many cats)
Items: 1 living hairball(make from 40 cats){a 'tribble'}
Idea: Multiversal Travel, the idea of going to another world and experiencing t intrigues me.
Funds: $0
Location: NE US(location TBD)
Items: 1 quantum particle, coin flipping sensor box; Basic Thesis on Quantum Particles(no boni)
Idea: Noospherics. The noosphere (a term originating in the 1920s) is the sum total of all current human thought. However, the term was originally used in a purely abstract manner, similarly to Plato's Realm of Forms. The breakthrough which makes noospherics into a science is the invention of machines that are in and of themselves able to affect the noosphere.
Funds: $10
Location: in Boston at a community library
Projects: learning basic psychology(39/50){gives +1 to psychology rolls}
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