Open Computer Lab
Location
Combat Encounters
| Opponent | Encounter Text | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Writhing Mass | As you pass by a row of computers, you hear a low hiss. Half expecting to be attacked by a snake, you swivel to take a look. A strange, undulated pattern plays out on the screen, accompanied by shrieky music, apparently intended to entertain the student sitting there. As you watch, cracks begin to spiderweb over the screen and a few stray sparks send the student scurrying back. The screen explodes outward, raining the area in charred glass and metal shards. Behind it, you see a starry void with tentacles reaching out towards you. Distantly, as though from another world, you can hear students shouting. Most of them are excited that a monitor just exploded, but you hear a few panicked screams about tentacles or stars. |
Only when Etheric, can give circuit fragments, microcapacitor, scorched glass shards, withered tendrils |
| Trash Golem | As you make your way across the lab, you find an ancient pile of discarded books and soda cans. Even in the midst of the lab it seems a bit… unnatural. As you focus on it, the edges of your vision begin to blur and you can hear distant music. It doesn't surprise you at all when the garbage stands up and lunges towards you, but you can hear a panicked scream and a distant voice asking "what's that crazy doing?" |
Only when Etheric, can give you circuit fragments, code on paper, dirty rags, OmniCola, polysteel, trash golem heart |
| Midgard Security, Drone Hound | A security guard with a hound drone enters the room and charges the moment he lays on you. Damn, someone must have called security. | Only when not Etheric, and if you've received the Scared Hipster noncombat or disassembled a computer. Replaces Lost Programmer choice encounter. |
| Midgard Security, Twisted Hound | The room seems to stretch on forever, endless monitors and the increasingly sparse heads of students. Sounds seem muffled, making it easy to pick up the click… click… click of claws on the tile behind you. You turn around to find a strange sight, even by the standards of Eclipse hallucinations. A Midgard security guard, looking very serious and professional as always, is leading around a warped abomination that faintly resembles a hound. Bone spurs have torn through it's skin and it's eyes are pools of darkness that seem to hide some greater intelligence, but the guard is acting like he has a normal guard dog or the drones they replaced them with. The guard interrupts your thought process by attacking you. Perhaps that's a hallucination as well or perhaps someone called security. |
Only when Etheric, and if you've received the Scared Hipster noncombat or disassembled a computer. Replaces Lost Programmer choice encounter. |
Noncombat Encounters
| Scared Hipster | Only if you've kill the poet on the quad |
Choice Encounters
- Try to hack the system - (Requires 1 unoccupied Processor) Leads to Metroplex U Lab hacking
- Search for code - Gain 1 of: file interface, math subroutine, networking code
- Look for games - Play an FPS for 3 XP in Perception or
a rhythm game for 3 Reflexes XP (or 2 Strength XPwith Biofeedback vest) or
a chess game for 3 Perception XP (1 if you don't have the Chess skill) or
a fishing game for 3 Will XP and a chance to get an Extreme Bass Player. - Search the desk - Find 2-3? of: caramel bar, Eclipse, knit cap, Legion Tract, lukewarm latte, Omnicola, OR 1? of: frayed cable, scorched glass shards (if Writhing Mass burst out of monitor earlier)
- Harvest it for parts - (Only with salvaging tools/electrical kit equipped) - Gain 4-5 of: frayed cable, circuit fragments, memory stick, microcapacitor, processor chip, thick cabling
- Leave it be - Nothing
Neglected Bookshelf (does not show up under etheric)
- Check the top shelf - Learn electronics recipe for memory stick, Processor Chip, or Safety Loop; then teaches you recipes from Electrical Engineering I, and then Electrical Engineering II. The next attempt teaches you to "extract memories from cooperative or disabled drones." with "the right tools". Subsequent attempts give 2 XP in Will.
- Examine the middle shelf - Learn (unknown) coding recipe for Optimizing Code, Security Updater, Software Firewall, Vulnerability Tester, or Vulnerability Database. After learning all of the available codes, you gain 20 energy of Ancient Code.
- Browse the bottom shelf - Gain code on paper
- Leave it be - Nothing
Outrageously Overpriced Coffee - Only if you haven't hacked the workstation to give free coffee
- Talk to him
- Buy some code - (Only after talking about coding)
- File interface - Gain File interface for 50 credits
- Networking code - Gain Networking code for 50 credits
- Security patches - Gain Security patches for 50 credits
- Math subroutine - Gain Math subroutine for 50 credits
- Nothing, thanks - Nothing
- Talk about coding - Unlocks the "Buy some code" option
- Talk about hacking - Lets you go to Professor Evans's office door in the Lab building.
- Talk about hardware - May purchase PDA chassis for 100 credits
- Leave - Nothing
- Buy some code - (Only after talking about coding)
- Buy a coffee - Gain Horrible Black Coffee (for 20 creds?) 1st time per day, afterwards passable coffee or Horrible Black Coffee (chances?)
- Buy a latte - Gain french vanilla latte (for 20 creds?)
- Leave in disgust - Nothing
Free Coffee - Only after hacking the workstation to give free coffee
- Talk to him
- Buy some code - (Only after talking about coding)
- File interface - Gain File interface for 50 credits
- Networking code - Gain Networking code for 50 credits
- Security patches - Gain Security patches for 50 credits
- Math subroutine - Gain Math subroutine for 50 credits
- Nothing, thanks - Nothing
- Talk about coding - Unlocks the "Buy some code" option
- Talk about hacking - Lets you go to Professor Evans's office door in the Lab building.
- Talk about hardware - Get PDA chassis for free
- Leave - Gain Nothing
- Buy some code - (Only after talking about coding)
- Take a coffee -Gain Horrible Black Coffee 1st time per day, afterwards passable coffee or Horrible Black Coffee (chances?)
- Grab a latte - Gain french vanilla latte
- Leave some for others - Nothing
Lost Programmer - Only if you haven't killed Dave the poet on the quad.
- Give him the Code - Unlocked by offering to help with his project. He will pay 50 creds each for (in this order), a file scan, security updater, optimizing code, and software firewall. He will also give you an Omnitech learntop after you give him the last one. He probably moves to the Happy Hour and out of the computer lab, too.
- Talk to him
- Talk computers
- Better get to work - Complains that he doesn't know where to start.
- I'll help - Asks for one of four different programs
- Walk away - Nothing
- Talk Eclipse - Mentions that he can't take Eclipse until he's got this project done. Also that Midgard security guards don't harass Eclipse users like they do other druggies.
- Talk art - Describes how the art museum was closed for repairs after his friend the 'ghoul artist' started a riot with his display.
- Talk poetry - "Naw, that's more my buddy Dave's thing. Head out to the Quad sometime. You can't miss him."
OR
if you've owned his buddy with satirical poetry gain ? XP and he laughs about it - Let him talk - Lets him drone on, makes him happier, 2 will XP
- Make excuses - Nothing?
- Talk computers
- Search his backpack - If buffed Reflexes≤5?, get 2 XP in Reflexes. If Reflexes≥11? get 1-3? of: ancient candybar, battered cred chip, Castor Capsule, Half Of A Sandwich, Omnicola, pep pill
- Leave him be - Nothing
No Loitering - Only after skipping the Open Workstation choice encounter.
- Plead your case - You get to stay and get 2 xp will?
- Leave peacefully - Leave?
- Jump him - Fight security guard probably?
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