RATS

[soulping]

You are in what looks to be a large operating room (actually cleaned and sterilized!). In the center is a standard operating table, and on either side are two... humanoid beings. Alchemical automatons, made out of metal, flesh, wire, a paper substance - all kinds of substances put together. Their cold, dead black eyes gaze at you. Staring. Empty.

Along the edges of the room are large tubes - containers filled with an odd fluid. Most are empty, except for two - in two are body parts.

Comments

RULES

[soulping]

The two automatons are here to help you BUILD A BODY!

Goals:
1. Build a body: Head, Torso, Arms, Legs, and a Heart.
2. The quality of the parts are Excellent, Normal, and Poor. You want the best quality body for your creation!

Each automaton can do one task per round. Delegate!
Part quality can be increased!

Tasks for the automatons:
- Steal part from another team: there is a 20% chance of failure, and organ quality upon successful theft is 40% Poor, 30% Normal, 10% Excellent.
- Collect parts: there is a 10% chance of failure, and organ quality upon successful collection is 40% Poor, 30% Normal, 20% Excellent.
- Improve quality: automatons can spend a turn making a selected part better! There is a 5% chance of failure. If the part is Poor quality, there is a 5% chance of it going directly to Excellent quality.
- Trade: Send an automaton to another team to trade organs! Tell it the message you want it to relay and which part to bring with it. THE OTHER TEAM DOES NOT HAVE TO ACCEPT, and the automaton will return with the part it had.

ROUND 1

[soulping]

In the containers: Poor Arms, Excellent Head

DISCUSS

[soulping]

TURN IN

[soulping]

[3g]

You have got to be kidding me.

[ WHY CAN'T HE KEEP THE BODY. ]

[justichthys]

[ So, hey. Aoko is CURRENTLY P. DAMN BLIND, and wearing crisp white bandages over her eyes. ]

Hey, uhm ...

[3g]

[ Oh, you're the one who brought Warthog over. Good. ]

I'm gonna guess that you can't see shit.

[justichthys]

Yeah … sorry; I'll do my best to help you anyway!

[ ... ]

I think I recognize your voice … [ she tilts her head, fingers curling and uncurling by her sides. ] From Ratatoskr. Are you Epsilon-san?

[3g]

[ epsilon-san... ]

Yeah, that's me. I'm an AI, so I'm gonna need you to do the lifting, but I can probably direct you if you need it. [ That is supposedly his job, anyway. ] We get to build bodies.

[justichthys]

[ M. Makes. A face, oh, yeuch. ]

Great … [ After a beat, she shakes her head and pulls up a smile. ] I'll need the help, so thank you in advance.

[3g]

Don't worry about it. [ Ooookay hm. ] Alright, so we have a really awesome head and some crappy arms. And we have two robots here to help.

[justichthys]

Two robots, and two things that we can ask them to do every round, right? Mmn …

[ thoughtful ] We should definitely try improving the arms, right? And it seems like stealing [ makes another face - her eyes don't need be visible for her to be expressive ] is less reliable than just going out to search.

[3g]

Yeah. And I don't want people calling us assholes for stealing their body parts later on. [ THAT IS ONE OF THE ONLY REASONS, HE'S A MEAN AI. ] So, one of them can go search and the other can try and fix it up?

[ All of his stats are saying that's the best option right now, because luck is not on his side. ]

[justichthys]

Ehehe … I hate stealing anyway, so I've got to admit, I'm glad. [ It doesn't much matter that stealing here, in a harmless game, is different from stealing back home. It still doesn't sit right with her. ]

That sounds good! Let's try it.

[3g]

[ he's not above stealing in situations that he can control, but who knows. the robots might go cut someone's arm off. ]

Alright, if anyone goes for our head, I'm gonna find them and yell a lot.

[ GOING TO YELL AT THE ROBOTS NOW. ]

[justichthys]

I'd help!

[ THUMBS UP ]

Re: TURN IN

[3g]

[ automaton 1 is being told (very nicely) (not) to go look for more parts
automaton 2 is being told (still nicely) (maybe) to improve the quality of the arms ]

ROUND 2

[soulping]

Automatons do not respond to tone of voice - only the commands.

Automaton 1 has returned from their venture with Poor Legs!
Automaton 2 has successfully converted the poor arms into Good Arms! The flesh looks less... unpleasant.

DISCUSS

[soulping]

TURN IN

[soulping]

[soulping]

[ Sepsis' player is a dingus and forgot to describe that the Poor Legs look like they've been... in the ground for a while. ]

Re: DISCUSS

[justichthys]

How'd we do, Epsilon-san?

Also, please don't yell at those poor robots!

Re: DISCUSS

[3g]

Okay, uhh... we've got some nasty legs, but our arms are alright now. Not as awesome as the head, but George here doesn't seem to mind.

[ He's naming the body nbd ]

Re: DISCUSS

[justichthys]

… George?

[ WELL. THAT'S. Well. ]

I guess we should just try to do the same thing again ... Fix up the legs, and go hunting for more. Um. Things.

Re: DISCUSS

[3g]

[ he's cringing at the legs again. ]

You wanna be the one to yell at them this time? It's kinda fun.