[HOE] Junker Hindrance: Perfectionist

[Robert Holland <robert@macauley.com>]

Perfectionist	1/3/5

Most junkers are perfectly happy to duct tape a circuit board to a bicycle wheel
and some copper tubing and go. Not this brainer. He can't stand the thought of
the fruits of his imagination being substandard or unreliable. For a dude whose
artistic medium is discarded scrap, that's a pretty tall order.

Your junker refuses to accept any device that doesn't meet a certain minimum
Stability. If one of his devices either doesn't meet that requirement after
construction or drops permanently below it due to instability, he'll tear it
down to components and start again. While this guarantees that his devices will
be exceptionally stable, he tends to spend a *lot* more time than usual building
and rebuilding them...and those backlash draws add up pretty quick.

For one point, your picky hero requires a 18 Stability for his devices; for
three, he's gotta have at least a 20 or it's no good; and for five, your
bizarrely obsessive waster has got to have a 22 Stability for every device he
makes. Remember each rebuilding attempt requires a separate backlash draw. A
Perfectionist isn't necessarily stupid; he'll accept a substandard device (at
least temporarily) if it's important to his immediate survival, though he'll
tear it down and try again the next chance he gets. His standards for this vary
with the level of the Hindrance; a 1-point Perfectionist who just finished a 16
Stability plasmacaster will have no qualms about using it on the Black Hat
patrol that just screeched around the corner, while a 5-point Perfectionist will
be unhappy about using a 16 Stability bomb-disarming robot on a City-Buster
that's set to go off in 15 minutes.

What do you think?

--Robert Holland