I’ll take those long nights, impossible odds. Keeping my eye to the keyhole. If it takes all that to be just what I am. Well, I’m gonna be a blue collar man.
Front Loaded Jump
If you have a job at a factory on your real life resume, you can “Front Load” this jump to get perks based on your actual life. You can only take an origin for a job you have actually worked, but you get all origins you have on your resume for free. Working IT at a factory counts as having the Tech background, while working in HR or any other purely paperwork role counts as the Supervisor option. If you choose to use this jump document in this way, you can’t take any drawbacks.
Breakdown
Choice Points: 1000
Origin
- Operator
- Driver
- Tech
- Supervisor
Perks
- Union Member (Free)
- Slacking Off (-100)
- CDL (Free)
- Tired, Distracted and Intoxicated (-100)
- The Legs of Logistic (-200)
- Precision Maneuvering (-300)
- Technically Schooled (Free)
- Management (Free)
Items
- Steel Toed Boots (Free)
- Key Chain (Free)
- Tool Box (Free)
- Business Phone (Free)
- Nice Car (-100)
Cosmic Warehouse Upgrades
- Storage Units (-200)
Spent Choice Points: 1000
Unspent Choice Points: 0
Origins
Operator
You are a common working man (or Woman) running machines in a factory.
Driver
You drive either forklifts or tractor trailers, possibly both.
Tech
You are one of the Maintenance or Production Technicians that keep the machines of industry working.
Supervisor
You are the boss, which means you get to sit down in a cheap chair while you work.
Perks
Union Member
You are a member of the local union. In this and future jumps, you are guaranteed to have someone to speak on your behalf whenever you get in trouble. Their success is not guaranteed, but you will at least have someone trying their best to advocate for you.
Slacking Off
You will always find some time where you can slack off while working without harming your performance. This doesn’t actually reduce the amount of time you need to be at work, just the amount of time you need to be doing work.
CDL
You have a commercial drivers license. This means you not only know how to drive any vehicle you come across, but also the proper procedures that go around operating it. This only works on civilian land craft on its own, but upgrades every driving and piloting perk you have to include the procedures that would expected to be followed by a professional.
Tired, Distracted and Intoxicated
These three things are the bane of drivers, but not you. Your driving skills are highly resistant to the effects of fatigue, distraction and intoxication, and if any of those things or all in combination have pushed beyond your tolerance you will always know. In future jumps this will extend to any skill you have for piloting a vehicle.
The Legs of Logistic
You have and instinctive grasp of how to get stuff from point-A to point-B in the most efficient way possible. The more points where you have to pick stuff up and drop stuff off the more benefits you see from this perk. You also never forget a delivery plan you come up with.
Precision Maneuvering
You are an artist at the wheel. This doesn’t make you faster or better at stunts, but rather makes you able to maneuver any vehicle you have learned how to use with exacting precision. With a little bit of planning, you could turn a multi-kilometer long space battleship on a dime, aided by some competent tug pilots, and you can make that a pinhead.
Technically Schooled
You’ve gone to a technical school and finished an apprenticeship in some form of skilled labor.
- Mechanic
Management
You understand the fundamentals of management, how to put who, where and when to swap people around. You have a good grasp at scheduling, human resources, and communicating all of your decisions. You aren’t a master of any one part of it, but you are at least competent at every aspect of management.
Items
Steel Toed Boots
These custom fit steel toed boots are extremely comfortable, no matter how long you stand in them. They also breath well, and will never get water in them, even if you go swimming. Finally they will never slip on any sort of surface. The only flaw is they are a little bit heavy.
Key Chain
Whenever you grab this Key chain you will immediately get whichever key you were searching for, also if you loose it you will find it in your pocket five minutes later.
Tool Box
This Tool Box can store any number of hand held tools, and will never get too heavy to carry.
Business Phone
This telephone can only be used for business purposes, but that works both ways. You will never get a call from telemarketers or someone wanting something outside of work on it. It also grantees that anyone that actually needs to call you for business reasons will know its number. It updates in future jumps to the setting equivalent of a cell phone if one exists, otherwise it will turn back into a Nokia. It can always be paged from your warehouse if it has the Local Net utility or you buy the Offices upgrade.
Nice Car
The opposite of a clunker, this car is classic car in good repair with a high efficiency drive train. It will never get stolen. In future jumps it will be replaced by a setting equivalent.
- Toyota Celica
Cosmic Warehouse Upgrades
Since warehouses and factories go together like butter and toast, you get the option to improve your cosmic warehouse with a variety of add-ons offered here. Each of these annexes can free up space in your cosmic warehouse by absorbing one or two structures into themselves while still giving you the full benefit.
Storage Units
This isn’t for your benefit, but rather your companions. A hallway connects your warehouse or one of its add-ons to a set of 1200 square foot storage units, one of each of your companions. Each of your companions gets a key that allows them to access their storage units that works just like your warehouse key. You can configure the connecting hallway to allow your companions access to either your warehouse or any one warehouse add-on you have. This also allows you companions full usage of any items that can function as warehouse add-ons that they have bought for themselves.