It just so happened that Noel, when he wasn't busy with other things, such as working on his physical fitness, continued to work on the creation of nanites and trait chips. It was necessary for the Eight to be able to continue to increase their knowledge. Any knowledge would be helpful in surviving their time in the bunker. But technology was also something that they seriously needed to be wary about. If they didn't watch themselves, they could potentially invent the means of their own demise. After all, Christian Lous Lange once stated: Technology is a useful servant; but a dangerous master.
Noel, despite his eagerness also had to balance out common sense in the creation of what trait chips he was going to utilize in each of the plumbots that he created. All it took was one plumbot developing an adverse sentience; that could spell the end of their existence.
Hildegard was an amiable plumbot; armed with the Steel Chef, Competent Cleaner and Musical Machine trait chips. She usually took care of the food needs in the bunker and that allowed Phil and Autumn to take the opportunity to build up their alchemy and logic skills (by making potions). They already had eight young again potions which they were stock-piling in order to make sure that they were able to utilize them when they took the Bottled Curse of the Lycan. Noel was working his way to getting the RoBotany trait chip so that Horace could take over the gardening from Phil at least temporarily.
Of course, Phil had to over do his first attempt at conjuring, and ended up passing out from exhaustion.
The potions that the Eight made were quite considerable and were slowly filling up the racks and it would probably be necessary to have a supply of each. Autumn also took some time to get in some cardio workout with the TV.
But life above on the surface was tough, the atmosphere was not doing anyone any favours health-wise, nor were the meteors which seemed to fall out of the sky with alarming regularity and periodically one of the sims would get hit by lightning.
Making sure that the plumbots were always charged was one of the things that Noel ensured that he notified Horace and Hildegard of doing. When they were down to a third-charge they went into the rechargers. And a certain percentage of the day was spent deling with creating more nanites that Noel could utilize to create more trait chips.
Considering that Haruo enjoyed music, he decided to take up the violin. Well, let's just say that he wasn't as good at the violin as he thought he was. Autumn certainly thought that his playing sounded like he was torturing a cat.
Phil decided to also increase his science skill. That would enable him to help out in creating more trait-chips and conduct experiments with nanites. And perhaps they would be able to reverse-engineer some circuit boards so that higher quality trait chips could be created.
Survival was ultimately in their hands and they would have to do whatever it took in order to survive till they could vacate their bunker.
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