Once again, I'm going for an apocalypse challenge, and once again I'm going to blow up the easy start. Yes, that's -25 points for going the easiest possible route, but I feel like the advantages of going this route will ultimately outweigh the points lost. Considering how last time went ...
I rolled medical when choosing my (entirely human) founder's future career, so I decided I, too, will go with an occult prestige - that'll net me a few points, and plantsims are easy to take care of - so easy that it's actually really hard to effectively kill them, but that will be a problem for another generation.
For those keeping track, assuming that I keep to the rules for this, that means I start 25 points ahead. Woo!
Apparently as some kind of punishment from God, my first day starts in the middle of a hailstorm. Two days left until winter settles in on the world.
My founder is named Aurora Ghostblood.
She is a workaholic, a genius, inappropriate, charismatic, and ambitious. Those traits alone net her a 1000 scholarship, which is a very good start even though none of it goes to the career she'll be settling in to. Other than genius, but it hardly counts since it boosts every score on the test.
Two terms for Science and Medicine with the bonuses for going to Uni at all, and the scholarships she received, means I'm only down by $200.
Not bad, not bad.
So the way that I intend to have everything balance out is, since she'll be entirely unrestricted, I'm going to have her make absolutely ridiculous amounts of money while at college so she gets to keep an above-average sum. Also, a very nice bed. That'll let me build an apocalypse mansion, with all the necessary amenities and no need to worry about what I can buy and when.
The Science skill, predictably enough, boosts a medicine student's progress in their college career, so I'm going with the tried and true method of cloning high-value bugs for fun and profit.
I invest in a dragon egg and a book corral - being unrestricted is a glorious advantage for the college experience, and I intend to take full advantage. Who needs sleep, anyway?
Wednesday, 3:02 PM: Someone seems to have caught a case of the botanitis minorous - otherwise known as the infection stage of plantsimism. Finally.
She finishes her first week, albeit with a rather rocky finish - for some reason halfway through the final test she gets kicked out of the classroom, and isn't able to return in time to finish her test. I'm not too worried - she's still on the Dean's List - but it's still a nuisance.
That Saturday, she manages to master Science, which lets her develop her first Plasma Bug. Hooray, money!
She spends all of Sunday cloning the plasma bug, and sells off its 'offspring' for a cool $43973.
This whole 'money' thing just got a whole lot easier.
I rolled medical when choosing my (entirely human) founder's future career, so I decided I, too, will go with an occult prestige - that'll net me a few points, and plantsims are easy to take care of - so easy that it's actually really hard to effectively kill them, but that will be a problem for another generation.
For those keeping track, assuming that I keep to the rules for this, that means I start 25 points ahead. Woo!
Apparently as some kind of punishment from God, my first day starts in the middle of a hailstorm. Two days left until winter settles in on the world.
My founder is named Aurora Ghostblood.
She is a workaholic, a genius, inappropriate, charismatic, and ambitious. Those traits alone net her a 1000 scholarship, which is a very good start even though none of it goes to the career she'll be settling in to. Other than genius, but it hardly counts since it boosts every score on the test.
Two terms for Science and Medicine with the bonuses for going to Uni at all, and the scholarships she received, means I'm only down by $200.
Not bad, not bad.
So the way that I intend to have everything balance out is, since she'll be entirely unrestricted, I'm going to have her make absolutely ridiculous amounts of money while at college so she gets to keep an above-average sum. Also, a very nice bed. That'll let me build an apocalypse mansion, with all the necessary amenities and no need to worry about what I can buy and when.
The Science skill, predictably enough, boosts a medicine student's progress in their college career, so I'm going with the tried and true method of cloning high-value bugs for fun and profit.
I invest in a dragon egg and a book corral - being unrestricted is a glorious advantage for the college experience, and I intend to take full advantage. Who needs sleep, anyway?
Wednesday, 3:02 PM: Someone seems to have caught a case of the botanitis minorous - otherwise known as the infection stage of plantsimism. Finally.
She finishes her first week, albeit with a rather rocky finish - for some reason halfway through the final test she gets kicked out of the classroom, and isn't able to return in time to finish her test. I'm not too worried - she's still on the Dean's List - but it's still a nuisance.
That Saturday, she manages to master Science, which lets her develop her first Plasma Bug. Hooray, money!
She spends all of Sunday cloning the plasma bug, and sells off its 'offspring' for a cool $43973.
This whole 'money' thing just got a whole lot easier.
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