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Grant Mechanics

The winner of the grant competition will be settled on by player vote, taken at the time the grant projects are turned in on the 29th. Characters are free to decide on their own department projects, & there are some suggestions below.

If no projects are selected by the 13th, default projects will be assigned by the mods - but any department assigned a project will have a 5-vote handicap assigned. Please be as specific and imaginative as possible with your submissions - brainstorm in the comments, feel free to argue and question and come up with a dozen ideas before settling on just one.

Characters who sabotage projects, bribe faculty, or play at departmental politics may assign additional vote penalties to their opponents at the mods’ discretion, depending on how it plays out. Getting caught doing these things will impose a penalty on one’s own department.

The success or failure of the Investigation is dependent on which project wins; the Trumps have a favorite and may indicate it via hints in Liminal Space.

Suggested Projects

Technical Systems & Support: Restoring advanced computer systems, upgrading the generators, upgrading the radio tower, demonstrating the functionality of a new device or a freshly reverse-engineered one, creating more durable and survivable tech for the wastelands, scavenging something truly important or surprising.

Ecological Sciences: developing a new strain of crop with a useful trait; cleaning terrain more efficiently; modeling or understanding the wastelands better; advancing medical treatment for chemical or radioactive contamination; documenting a novel mutation in a plant or animal species; collecting & saving a new species from the Wasteland.

Cultures & Humanities: restoring a lost work of cultural significance, translating an obscure document with measurable & practical importance, achieving an innovation in technique or medium; demonstrating a nuanced anthropological approach - unfortunately Cultures & Humanity projects are likely to be a little more subjective, winning hearts & minds more than demonstrating utility.

Progress

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