Description
Help a Scientist Grok.
Start: Side Jobs, Heinlein Stronghold
Introduction
You have a job: Between a Grok and a Hard Place, accepted at Heinlein Stronghold in the Sirius system.
Locate Professor Panthus Neutrino in the Playground (Ruins) on Heinlein Stronghold.
Next NPC: Panthus Neutrino, Ruins, Heinlein Stronghold
- "You needed some help, Professor?"
Me: You needed some help, Professor?
A very scraggly and strange looking Belter looks up at you through goggles that make his eyes look like saucers. A distant explosion is almost perfectly timed with his single blink in your direction.
Professor Phantus Neutrino: Hmm? Ah, you are to be my rented inspiration are you? Hmm, very well. Yes, I am stuck, I require to Grok. Do whatever you feel you should.
The professor indicates a makeshift lab he has set up in the open air of The Playground. Various items and tubes containing bubbling liquid sit on a table in a haphazard fashion.
- Move the entire experiment to a safer location.
- "I'm sorry…grok?"
- Tidy the professor's experiment.
- Re-balance the Professor's Experiment.
Grok?
Me: I'm sorry…grok?
Professor Phantus Neutrino: Hmm? Why yes, indeed! Grokking is the acquiring of understanding, not by learned effort or acquisition of knowledge alone, that is merely the feeding, the nourishment, of a given situation. Grokking happens only after the digestion of said nourishment! To grok is to allow the nourishment, the mental food, to break down, be carried to your organs, and turn into energy and mass, so to speak. And it only happens when it happens. Never before, rarely after.
Professor Phantus Neutrino: I therefore require you to do whatever you feel you should, in the hopes that I shall glean, shall grok, what I need to!
- Move the entire experiment to a safer location.
- Tidy the professor's experiment.
- Re-balance the Professor's Experiment.
Re-balance:
(Intelligence check)
You attempt to redistribute the quantities and materials of the experiment, but only seem to make it more explosive. The professor chuckles but remains un-grokked.
- Move the entire experiment to a safer location.
- Tidy the professor's experiment.
Move:
(Strength check)
After several dangerous forays, you locate a ruined building that would provide adequate cover for the experiment and drag everything there. The Professor nods and scratches his beard.
- Tidy the professor's experiment.
(Stamina check)
It takes several explosive tries, but you finally arrange the experiment in a more efficient manner. The Professor looks on thoughtfully.
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