Computer Lab

Location

This location can be accessed via the Open Computer Lab in Combine Labs (Metroplex U). It is unlocked by reading CS110 at least once (but you do not need to have Simple Coding).

Location
Location Details	Indoors, Aboveground, Not Hard to Enter
Resting (normal)	You find a nice spot to rest in MU and crash out.	Gain 20 HP +10% per FA
Resting (Hideout)	You drop by your gang's nearest hideout for some quick rest.	Gain 25 HP +10% per FA
Resting (REM Timer)	You find a dark corner and curl up for a few minutes. Your REM timer takes over and you feel pretty good when you wake up.	Gain 30 HP
Resting (REM Timer+Hideout)	You head to your gang's place and crash out in one of the chairs. It's not the most comfortable thing ever, but you feel pretty refreshed.	Gain 40 HP

Legend
	Combat Encounters		Etheric only
	Noncombat Encounters		Non-Etheric only
	Choice Encounters		Requires Fishing pole
	Gang Warfare Encounters		Can lead to a Hacking Encounter

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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.	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?"	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 if you've received the Scared Hipster noncombat or disassembled a computer, or killed a guard
	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 its skin and its 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 if you've received the Scared Hipster noncombat or disassembled a computer, or killed a guard

Noncombat Encounters

	Encounter	Result	Notes
	Scared Hipster	Nothing, other than unlocking above combat	Only if you've kill the poet on the quad

Choice Encounters

Open Workstation

1. Hack the Novos system - (Requires 1 unoccupied Processor) Leads to Metroplex U Lab Novos hacking
2. Search for code - Gain command script, search script, or filtering script
3. Look for games - Play a fishing game, rhythm game, FPS, or chess (determined randomly; many results)
4. Search the desk - Find 2-3 of: caramel bar, frayed cable, Legion Tract, lukewarm latte, Omnicola, scorched glass shards
5. 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
6. Leave it be - Nothing

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Neglected Bookshelf

1. Check the top shelf - Learn electronics recipe for memory stick, processor chip, safety loop, signal analysis circuit or capacitor array, picked at random. The next attempt teaches you to "extract memories from cooperative or disabled drones." with "the right tools". Subsequent attempts give 2-3 XP Will.
2. 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.
3. Browse the bottom shelf - Gain code on paper
4. Leave it be - Nothing

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Computer Lab Coffee Machine

1. Talk to him
   1. Buy some code - (Only after talking about coding)
      1. Networking functions - Gain networking functions for 50 credits
      2. Crash Script - Gain crash script for 50 credits
      3. Filtering Script - Gain filtering script for 50 credits
      4. Command Script - Gain command script for 50 credits
      5. Search Script - Gain search script for 50 credits
      6. Whatever you want - Gain 2 of the above at random for 50 credits
      7. Nothing, thanks - Nothing
   2. Talk about coding - Unlocks the "Buy some code" option
   3. Talk about hacking - Lets you go to Professor Evans's office door in the Lab building.
   4. Talk about hardware - Get PDA chassis for free
      1. Take it - Get PDA Chassis for 100 cred
      2. Leave it - Nothing
   5. Talk about the Slags - Unlocks Slags Communication quest
   6. Talk about antennas - With a helidrone antenna, gain 255 credits, unlocks "Ask about the antenna"
   7. Ask about the antenna - Gain quest recipe for Secured Transmission Functions (After handing over a helidrone antenna)
   8. Leave - Gain Nothing
2. Buy a coffee/Take a coffee - Gain Horrible Black Coffee 1st time per day, afterwards passable coffee or Horrible Black Coffee, lose 20 credits if the coffee isn't free
3. Buy a latte/Grab a latte - Gain french vanilla latte, lose 20 credits if the coffee isn't free
4. Leave in disgust/Leave some for others - Nothing

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Lost Programmer - Only if you haven't killed Dave the poet on the quad, haven't angered security in the lab today, and haven't given him all 4 code he wants.

1. Give him the Code (After offering to help with his project) - He will pay 50 creds each for a search script, filtering script, remote indexer, and remote command script. He will give an Omnitech learntop after you give him the last one and move to the The Happy Hour.
2. Talk to him
   1. Talk computers
      1. Better get to work - Information
      2. I'll help - Starts Coding Assistance quest
      3. Walk away - Nothing
   2. Talk Eclipse - He can't take Eclipse until he's got this project done.
   3. Talk art - Information
   4. Talk poetry - Information, or after talking to the poet on the quad with satirical poetry, gain 4 XP Will
   5. Let him talk - Gain 2 XP Will
   6. Make excuses - Nothing
3. Search his backpack - If Reflexes ≤ 5?, get 2 XP Reflexes. If Reflexes ≥ 11? get 1-3? of: ancient candybar, battered cred chip, castor capsule, half of a sandwich, Omnicola, pep pill
4. Leave him be - Nothing

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No Loitering - Only after Walking Away or Hacking the Open Workstation choice encounter.

1. Plead your case - Get 2 XP Will, or get kicked out if you helped protest.
2. Leave peacefully - Get kicked out.
3. Jump him - Fight Midgard Security