“Why did Locke break such machinery? Such wasteful behavior”
Try to tinker with whatever I find in the workshop, see what I can make
(Anything particular in mind? Let me know what you'd like a craft to do in terms of
use / ability, and we'll see what you manage to scrape together. If you, say, want to craft a
DIGGING tool of some sort, we'll roll to find out if you find enough parts and can successfully build an
Augur-style drill, or just slap together a
scrap metal shovel. If you do identify something more advanced you started but failed to craft, I'll inform you if you just need to try again, or if you seem to be missing a tool or part. I'll then help you identify what you need to find/trade for/loot/steal/craft. Should you acquire specific parts and tools in your travels, you can request more specific and advanced creations. Keep in mind the best tech can't be crafted: only found, identified, and repaired: but you can always combine technology in fun ways. Say, slap an array of augur-like mining drills to the front of an armored truck, reinforce the suspension, upgrade the engine, and you could use it as a mobile mining rig.
Your imagination is the limit, but you will need to account for parts and labor. If you ask for something ridiculous in terms of what you have available, like say a railgun, I'll downgrade it accordingly and at least give you a more basic version: such as a scrap crossbow. I'll throw in a few random examples now.)
From somewhere on the workshop floor, a Technician calls out. "'Cause he's an illiterate asshole who doesn't know the difference betwen a nuclear reactor control arm and his own dick."
Laughter ensues for a few moments before the Technicians return to their work.
You spend about 20 minutes tinkering at your workstation. You've managed to peruse the workshop scrap heaps for your very own bin full of miscellaneous parts no one else wanted. Old heating coils, tension springs of various sizes, pipes & tubing, electrical wires, small motors, and other bits and bobs. Most of it is damaged in one way or another, but you can certainly cannibalize enough to produce some basic items.
Like any good engineering student, you first assemble a
toaster from scrap metal, electrical components, and heating elements. Now, to find some bread.
Thinking more long-term project, you find a
dented metal chassis that could eventually become a
drone of some sort.
A
single-shot pipegun would be easy enough to craft, provided you can source propellent and ammo; that is, if you want to a) shoot someone and b) get caught with an illegal zipgun.
(Probably best not to go that route unless you have a specific plan in mind.)
Some of those metal or plastic bits would make good backscratchers, or coat racks. In the end, you finish up by experimentally cobbling together a
scrap-metal shovel with which to more easily dig through piles of scrap without contracting this planet's version of Tetanus. It features a collapsible stock and can be stowed securely on your belt - thanks to parts from a broken Peacekeeper baton and a bent deployable antenna you found among the scrap piles.
Your CODEX chimes once. "SHUTTLE ETA: 10 minutes."
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Topic: Martyrs of the Vanguard (Neural Flagellation) (Read 2673 times)