Bolts, Steel, Code, and Joysticks: A Competitive Robotics Quest

Season One: Week Twenty One, Twenty Two, and the Third Tournament
Week 1
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: It worked! Well, once, but it'll work again, right?)(Reward: Social?)
[X] Logbook entries! (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)

Week 2
[X] Read How to Win Friends and Influence People (Difficulty: It worked! Well, once, but it'll work again, right?)(Reward: Social?)
[X] Logbook entries! (Difficulty: At least starting over makes this easier, I guess?) (Reward: Better logbook??)

It felt satisfying, Colene felt, to get better. Sure, reading that same old book over and over again was getting annoying, but it was working, and that was what mattered. Sure, her sister could still talk circles around her, and her sister kept getting things that she didn't, but talking to people was starting to make sense!

But what really made Colene happy was getting to do logbook and read at the same time. It was so frustrating, she mused, to only be able to really do one thing well before. Now, though, she could fit everything she wanted in!

Satisfied with her progress on the book, Colene turned her attention to the logbook.

What was she supposed to say, anyway? She didn't know what sorceries Ahmad was doing, and that was pretty much all Ahmad's work. If she didn't know what was going on, how was she supposed to write anything?

Well, what'd the book have to say? 'If you need something from them, make the other person feel important?' Colene could do it herself, but that felt icky in a way. On the other hand, Colene could recruit her sister in to help with the whole thing, which...huh.

It probably would work out pretty well, now that Colene thought about it.



"So you need my help, sis?"

"Yeah, I need your help. I need to get something in the logbook, but I need to get Ahmad to help me here."

"Aw, you want to spend time with Ahmad instead of me?"

"I'm not saying that I enjoy talking with him, it's just that I need to talk to him."

"Kidding, kidding! Seriously, you're so serious all the time Colene,"



"Hi, Mattie! How are you?"

"This is Colene here, and I did not need to know that."

"Oh. It's you."

"Look, I need your help with something."

"Yeah? Whaddya need?"

"Well, you're our driver, so I need your skill to help me write the logbook."

"Alright sure, I'll help."



"Okay, sis, run this by me again?"

"Ahmad's saying his turns are improving and he's getting better at picking up objects."

"Okay, how?"

"By...not missing?"

"Alright, say that then!"



A/N: The hell did you guys do to piss the RNG off so bad? Your 3d100 for disasters, lower numbers are worse, came in at 35! I'm not sure how this even works at this point! I'll probably rule this as logbook saving you as pseudo version control, but sheesh.

Something was really wrong. The moment you heard a grating sound and the robot not moving the way it was supposed to, you shut the robot off, remembering what happened last time.

"Ahmad, load up the debugging program!"

"Do we have time?"

"Do you want to compete or not?"

"Fine! Just don't blame me if we have to sit a match or three out!"

"Besides, what are you gonna do anyway?"

"Just shut up and let me look at this stuff!"

It's...not looking great. As far as you can tell, you'll be able to fix it by lunch, but you'll probably have to sit out half your matches. You could restore less of it, which'll take less time.

What do you save?
[] All of it (Cannot participate before Match Nineteen)
[] Most of it (Downgrade to Medium Complexity, cannot participate before Match Ten)
[] Whatever you can before matches start (Downgrade to a halfstep beneath Medium Complexity, participate in all matches)

A/N: I swear, disaster resistance is getting pretty insanely useful here.
 
[X] Whatever you can before matches start (Downgrade to a halfstep beneath Medium Complexity, participate in all matches)
 
[X] Whatever you can before matches start (Downgrade to a halfstep beneath Medium Complexity, participate in all matches)

DEATH OR GLORY!!
 
[X] All of it
-[X] But send our sister around to the other teams to apologize in advance. Heck, maybe they'll help out if they're not busy, who knows?
We need to test our working robot more than we need to get in the game.
 
[X] All of it
-[X] But send our sister around to the other teams to apologize in advance. Heck, maybe they'll help out if they're not busy, who knows?
We need to test our working robot more than we need to get in the game.

I've been on a few robotics teams before, based on experience this actually has a good chance of working.
 
[X] All of it
-[X] But send our sister around to the other teams to apologize in advance. Heck, maybe they'll help out if they're not busy, who knows?

We don't need to compete in this shit. Although how the fuck this happened again is beyond me. Next week we're making a proper back up of our everything we can.

We wasted funds though, so we might as well get something useful out of this fucking tournament
 
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[X] Whatever you can before matches start (Downgrade to a halfstep beneath Medium Complexity, participate in all matches)
[X] Whatever you can before matches start (Downgrade to a halfstep beneath Medium Complexity, participate in all matches)

DEATH OR GLORY!!
[X] Whatever you can before matches start (Downgrade to a halfstep beneath Medium Complexity, participate in all matches)
[X] Whatever you can before matches start (Downgrade to a halfstep beneath Medium Complexity, participate in all matches)
Hey, seriously, why are you all voting for this option, all of you?
 
Hey, seriously, why are you all voting for this option, all of you?

Because they're fire and forget voters that don't really know what they want out of the quest so they're defaulting to the reasonable course of action of "whatever will let us win"

In a lot of cases it'd be a good idea, but here the only reason to be at this tournament is to test our current capabilities.
 
Because Death or Glory?

Also I already changed my vote to yours.

It's literally the post right below your vote.
My apologies, I didn't notice.

Aaaaand we're tied. Wheeeee.
Adhoc vote count started by TheBiggerFish on Feb 2, 2018 at 3:23 PM, finished with 242 posts and 6 votes.

  • [X] Whatever you can before matches start (Downgrade to a halfstep beneath Medium Complexity, participate in all matches)
    [X] All of it
    -[X] But send our sister around to the other teams to apologize in advance. Heck, maybe they'll help out if they're not busy, who knows?
 
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