1.10.2007
Two Faces Of The Factory
Theodore:
Music experience, okay. Well then, this is complicated procedure:
1) roll a d10 for the number of guys who show up with some sort of believeable qualification.
2) you gotta screen each one. Make an IQ check for each guy, then roll a d20 and add/subtract what you made the check by. For example, say you make your IQ check with a 13. That makes it by 2, so roll a d20 and add 2. That's his "quality". Now say you fail your IQ check with a 19. That misses it by 4, so roll a d20 and subtract 4.
3) tell me each guy's quality, and we'll go from there.
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KT:
Wow, that's a damn good robot. Yeah I don't really care how powerful it is, it's fine.
Now you too need to make some checks. Give me three IQ checks and we'll also go from there in terms of mounting crossbows and motility and crap like that. Also, what are you making it out of? Where are the materials coming from? The Greenhouse doesn't have a lot of scrap metal and springs and gears and shit lying around.
Hmm, applying for a job 'upstairs' is a bit tricky. Understand that- assuming you've got the materials- it takes you most of the month to make your robot, as you've never made it before, and you're making a base you can upgrade in the future. You put out some feelers, and hear some useful rumors.
First off, John Romeo is gone, he's left Twilos, apparently in a giant dirigible.
Second, it seems like working for one of the Lowcity Houses might be more workable, and it appears a couple of them would be interested in the stuff you do.
Third, going upstairs basically entails you leaving the group, as the guards don't really like prisoners to come and go like that. You hear that it has happened occasionally, that someone's been taken up, but they're never really seen again 'downstairs' in Twilos proper.
Of course, you could just work for them down below, essentially on commission. The Stonekeep Guards are really interested in golem-craft; it's a whole branch in the Machinist Druids working in the mines. You hear that the gate you initially came through is guarded by two badass Iron Golems, and there's a lot of golem workers in the deep mines. Working for the upstairs guys like this would then basically mean you join the Mining Guild.
Music experience, okay. Well then, this is complicated procedure:
1) roll a d10 for the number of guys who show up with some sort of believeable qualification.
2) you gotta screen each one. Make an IQ check for each guy, then roll a d20 and add/subtract what you made the check by. For example, say you make your IQ check with a 13. That makes it by 2, so roll a d20 and add 2. That's his "quality". Now say you fail your IQ check with a 19. That misses it by 4, so roll a d20 and subtract 4.
3) tell me each guy's quality, and we'll go from there.
...
KT:
Wow, that's a damn good robot. Yeah I don't really care how powerful it is, it's fine.
Now you too need to make some checks. Give me three IQ checks and we'll also go from there in terms of mounting crossbows and motility and crap like that. Also, what are you making it out of? Where are the materials coming from? The Greenhouse doesn't have a lot of scrap metal and springs and gears and shit lying around.
Hmm, applying for a job 'upstairs' is a bit tricky. Understand that- assuming you've got the materials- it takes you most of the month to make your robot, as you've never made it before, and you're making a base you can upgrade in the future. You put out some feelers, and hear some useful rumors.
First off, John Romeo is gone, he's left Twilos, apparently in a giant dirigible.
Second, it seems like working for one of the Lowcity Houses might be more workable, and it appears a couple of them would be interested in the stuff you do.
Third, going upstairs basically entails you leaving the group, as the guards don't really like prisoners to come and go like that. You hear that it has happened occasionally, that someone's been taken up, but they're never really seen again 'downstairs' in Twilos proper.
Of course, you could just work for them down below, essentially on commission. The Stonekeep Guards are really interested in golem-craft; it's a whole branch in the Machinist Druids working in the mines. You hear that the gate you initially came through is guarded by two badass Iron Golems, and there's a lot of golem workers in the deep mines. Working for the upstairs guys like this would then basically mean you join the Mining Guild.
