poly_tldr | I'll Blind You With Science

Salutations, Polyites!

30; I've created a MONSTER!
It's alive...it's alive. Good for you, Citizen, the Deities always encourage applying new ideas to form. That is, as long as those ideas aren't as brilliant as theirs or those ideas go very wrong. Preferably the latter. Today those affected carry out an impulse to create. It could be an invention (that blows up) or a solution (that makes your hair fall out) or a living being (who wants to eat you). It doesn't matter if you're not a science type to begin with, in fact, that only makes the outcome more exciting. [There will be a post for players to share creations or help each other with ideas!]

So! Here's that post! Toss out your ideas, find collaborators, form a research team, collect your references, work on that literature review, do your research, perform your experiments, file your patents, and don't forget to get permission from the review board if you intend to use human research subjects--oh, to hell with that! Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% persperation (or at least that's what the guy who invented deodorant thought).

Look out! We're about to do science!

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ATTN: MAD SCIENTISTS AND EVIL GENIUSES

Meet Proto.

So Proto here is what you might call a Professional Henchman™. Which basically means that he will hang out in your lab and cheerfully snark at everything you do and generally be That Quirky Sidekick to all of your evil shenanigans! Granted, he is also a pretty terrible henchman in that he will not necessarily actually support your cause, and may spend more time cheering for the heroes trying to defeat you than actually aiding you, and may disobey you at any given time to go pursue his own ends, and possibly make REALLY LOUSY PUNS at the most inopportune of times.

Buuuuuuuut occasionally he'll shoot things if needed! And, y'know, he's a walking, talking, robotic engine of destruction. His credentials include:

--Attempting to use a gravity ray to bring the moon crashing down onto Earth to take over the world
--Attempting to use a giant robotic spider to suck all the electricity out of an entire city's power grid to take over the world
--Attempting to use magic fragments of a radioactive meteor to drastically boost a robot's power levels to take over the world
--Attempting to use mind-control rock music to enslave unsuspecting humans to build a bigger transmitter to take over the world
--Attempting to use a theme park to lure in unsuspecting humans to turn them into a robot army to take over the world

...You may be sensing a trend here. TL;DR: NOTHING SURPRISES HIM ANYMORE.

SO. Who wants a wisecracking robot henchman to complement their mad scientist hilarity?

I'll Blind You With Science

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