SNAKES

[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: Excellent Torso, Poor Head

DISCUSS

[soulping]

[withmyownfists]

This is really amazing!

[ peering at the automatons ]

These guys will really do what we say?

Re: DISCUSS

[barrette]

[ well this is creepy ]

We need to get arms, legs and a heart... and improve the head's condition.

Re: DISCUSS

[experiencepoints]

Collecting parts is our best bet, right?

TURN IN

[soulping]

Re: TURN IN

[experiencepoints]

We're asking one automaton to search for a heart, and the other to improve the head.

ROUND 2

[soulping]

Automaton 1 returns from their venture with Poor Heart! This look like it was ... not alive recently. It's kind of mushy and smells horrible.
Automaton 2 was successful in improvement! You now have a Good Head! The flesh looks much healthier and less mushy.

Current parts:
Excellent Torso, Good Head, Poor Heart

DISCUSS

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSS

[experiencepoints]

[COVERING NOSE]

Same as last time... Improve the heart, send the other out for gathering...?

TURN IN

[soulping]

[withmyownfists]

We're asking one automaton to go out looking for arms, and for the other to improve the heart.

SPECIAL ROUND

[soulping]

An automaton bearing a ribbon of Epona's colours has come with a Good Heart in a jar. It seems to be waiting for trade instructions; this must be an open option.

Re: SPECIAL ROUND

[barrette]

[ ...oh ]

We don't need a heart...

Re: SPECIAL ROUND

[experiencepoints]

Yeah, and we don't have anything to spare even if we did.

Re: SPECIAL ROUND

[experiencepoints]

... It's Epona's, but we don't have anything to spare...

[soulping]

It now speaks, because Yato is a scrub:

"MESSAGE TO TAKSHAKA: Trade us something cool for this awesome Heart! No Hearts or Legs!!"

ROUND 3

[soulping]

Automaton 1 returns from their venture with... nothing.
Automaton 2 was successful in improvement! You now have a Good Heart! The flesh looks much healthier and less mushy.

Current parts:
Excellent Torso, Good Head, Good Heart

DISCUSS

[soulping]

TURN IN

[soulping]

ROUND 4

[soulping]

Automaton 1 returns from their venture with Poor Legs!
Automaton 2 returns from their venture with Poor Arms!

All these parts look rotten and stink - they have been in the ground for a while...

Current parts:
Excellent Torso, Good Head, Good Heart, Poor Arms, Poor Legs

DISCUSS

[soulping]

TURN IN

[soulping]

END

[soulping]

The automatons successfully upgrade the arms and legs!

Current parts:
Excellent Torso, Good Head, Good Heart, Good Arms, Good Legs

As Takshaka has successfully assembled a complete body, the best parts are selected. The two automatons pull out each of the five parts and place them on the central operating table, both gathering around it to slowly tug and stitch and sew... and the body gives a low groan of pain and suffering before everyone is ejected from the room.