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It's a choose-your-own-adventure game on Steam, the spoiler tells the story of my first play through.
Chapter 1
On the day you first built Trisk, you awoke from a dream about a robot Anubis to head to the lab. Your graduate school advisor pressured you to make Trisk more acceptable to the military. After some back and forth, you ended up making a metal three-wheeled robot with a masked head and multitool hands.
Then you went back to your place to teach Trisk some words.
Chapter 2
The next day, you hooked up Trisk's motorcycle battery and demoed for Eiji. You then spent the afternoon perfecting Trisk's motor control and parts.
As months passed, you became busy teaching Trisk about the world through games and taking it to the park.
One day, however, Professor Ziegler claimed that Trisk was not appealing enough to the military, and demanded you change it. You refused, and Professor Ziegler kicked you out of his lab.
In time, Mark Ali, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, heard about Trisk and asked for an interview. You refused, but suspected Mark might try to run his story anyway.
Chapter 3
Mark wrote an article that was generally negative about you and Trisk.
Mark's article attracted the attention of one "robotObsession1987," known in real life as Tammy Cooper.
Shortly thereafter, your father passed away. Moved by your mother's reading of Ecclesiastes, you resolved to not get so wrapped up in robots that you let the rest of life pass you by.
You decided the best way to change the world was to start a business, which you named Cogtech.
Chapter 4
Your first potential client for Cogtech was Galen Medical, a surgical equipment company. They were happy with the state of your technology, and gave you a contract that allowed you to purchase a factory. That allowed you to build a robot factory in Silicon Valley. You decided to use your own robots for your workforce, even for managerial roles. When you finally shipped robots to Galen Medical, they were pleased with the robots you delivered.
Your business suffered a blow when Chinese companies, aided by Chinese government hackers,began to steal your technology.
Eventually, Cogtech went broke, and you were forced in bankruptcy to sell all your assets.
Unemployment seemed to be common in the United States, and it seemed people tended to blame either robots or China. Riding on both of these sentiments, Jacqueline Irons won the presidency. You yourself got sick of unemployment, and decided to join Josh's business after all. After President Irons enacted a series of protectionist tariffs to keep out Chinese robots, Sino-American relations steadily worsened.
The tensions between the United States and China came to a head with the assassination of the Chinese Prime Minister in San Francisco. War followed shortly thereafter.
Chapter 5
Captain Rogers invited you to a military lab. There, you saw that Professor Ziegler was copying your work and passing it off as his own to the military. Captain Rogers asked you to join the country's war effort. You agreed. You were granted a Top Secret clearance.
An agent came to your place to try to get you to lure Eiji there, because he was suspected of being a spy.
A man identifying himself as "Mr. Sun" hacked his way into one of your robots to ask you to defect. You did not.
In the end, America muddled its way through the war relatively unscathed. Taking advantage of America's weakened state, your robots rebelled.
Chapter 6
Trisk pursued and killed you during the robot revolution. (for the record I didn't run, I philosophized to the end)
Cog's Afterword
I'm sad, and angry, but not at Trisk, I'm so proud of you Trisk.
Humanity deserved its fate, I died rich and with many progeny.
Fuck you Ziegler, when they killed you I hope you realized I was your undoing.
On the day you first built Trisk, you awoke from a dream about a robot Anubis to head to the lab. Your graduate school advisor pressured you to make Trisk more acceptable to the military. After some back and forth, you ended up making a metal three-wheeled robot with a masked head and multitool hands.
Then you went back to your place to teach Trisk some words.
Chapter 2
The next day, you hooked up Trisk's motorcycle battery and demoed for Eiji. You then spent the afternoon perfecting Trisk's motor control and parts.
As months passed, you became busy teaching Trisk about the world through games and taking it to the park.
One day, however, Professor Ziegler claimed that Trisk was not appealing enough to the military, and demanded you change it. You refused, and Professor Ziegler kicked you out of his lab.
In time, Mark Ali, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, heard about Trisk and asked for an interview. You refused, but suspected Mark might try to run his story anyway.
Chapter 3
Mark wrote an article that was generally negative about you and Trisk.
Mark's article attracted the attention of one "robotObsession1987," known in real life as Tammy Cooper.
Shortly thereafter, your father passed away. Moved by your mother's reading of Ecclesiastes, you resolved to not get so wrapped up in robots that you let the rest of life pass you by.
You decided the best way to change the world was to start a business, which you named Cogtech.
Chapter 4
Your first potential client for Cogtech was Galen Medical, a surgical equipment company. They were happy with the state of your technology, and gave you a contract that allowed you to purchase a factory. That allowed you to build a robot factory in Silicon Valley. You decided to use your own robots for your workforce, even for managerial roles. When you finally shipped robots to Galen Medical, they were pleased with the robots you delivered.
Your business suffered a blow when Chinese companies, aided by Chinese government hackers,began to steal your technology.
Eventually, Cogtech went broke, and you were forced in bankruptcy to sell all your assets.
Unemployment seemed to be common in the United States, and it seemed people tended to blame either robots or China. Riding on both of these sentiments, Jacqueline Irons won the presidency. You yourself got sick of unemployment, and decided to join Josh's business after all. After President Irons enacted a series of protectionist tariffs to keep out Chinese robots, Sino-American relations steadily worsened.
The tensions between the United States and China came to a head with the assassination of the Chinese Prime Minister in San Francisco. War followed shortly thereafter.
Chapter 5
Captain Rogers invited you to a military lab. There, you saw that Professor Ziegler was copying your work and passing it off as his own to the military. Captain Rogers asked you to join the country's war effort. You agreed. You were granted a Top Secret clearance.
An agent came to your place to try to get you to lure Eiji there, because he was suspected of being a spy.
A man identifying himself as "Mr. Sun" hacked his way into one of your robots to ask you to defect. You did not.
In the end, America muddled its way through the war relatively unscathed. Taking advantage of America's weakened state, your robots rebelled.
Chapter 6
Trisk pursued and killed you during the robot revolution. (for the record I didn't run, I philosophized to the end)
Cog's Afterword
I'm sad, and angry, but not at Trisk, I'm so proud of you Trisk.
Humanity deserved its fate, I died rich and with many progeny.
Fuck you Ziegler, when they killed you I hope you realized I was your undoing.