ROOSTERS

[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

[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: Good Heart, Good Arms

DISCUSS

[soulping]

DISCUSS

[gennai]

It's more difficult to steal something...[ ]

TURN IN

[soulping]

Re: TURN IN

[gennai]

Steal from Epona.
The second one will collect!

ROUND 2

[soulping]

Automaton 1 successfully steals from Epona: Good Legs!
Automaton 2 returns from its venture... with nothing.

Current parts: Good Heart, Good Arms, Good Legs

DISCUSS

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSS

[gateofbabbylon]

Not a perfect round but our prediction that we wouldn't be stolen from was right on.

Re: DISCUSS

[gennai]

[ ...snorts ]

Re: DISCUSS

[secare]

Wait, what?

Did I get here late?

TURN IN

[soulping]

Re: TURN IN

[gennai]

Steal from Amalthea
Collect with the other one.

SPECIAL ROUND

[soulping]

An automaton bearing a ribbon of Barghest's colours has come with some Good Legs.

"In exchange for a Head or a Heart."

Re: SPECIAL ROUND

[gennai]

...We already have legs...

Re: SPECIAL ROUND

[gateofbabbylon]

So let's send it back.

ROUND 3

[soulping]

Automaton 1 failed to steal! It returns with nothing.
Automaton 2 returns from its venture with a Good Head! It looks like it was frozen recently...

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

DISCUSS

[soulping]

Re: DISCUSS

[gennai]

Tsk. Still one short...

TURN IN

[soulping]

ROUND 4

[soulping]

Automaton 1 successfully increased the leg quality! They're so Excellent they look fresh off a newly-dead!
Automaton 2 returns from its venture with an Excellent Torso! It's bloody, warm, and looks like it was literally taken from a living person!

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

DISCUSS

[soulping]

SPECIAL!

[soulping]

A trade automaton wearing a ribbon of Ometotchtli's colours has come witha Good Head.

"Please trade us for any sort of legs. It's all we need."

TURN-IN

[gennai]

Upgrade quality of Arms and Head!

END

[soulping]

The arm and leg quality has successfully been upgraded!

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

As Alectryon 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.