Benchwork: the photocopier keeps killing me (floor two)

help!! I get through the stockroom fine (I KNOW the stockroom) and then the workshop floor and the photocopier, and it hits me four times in a row and I'm dead?? Every time?? It's the same photocopier as at work (it isn't) (it might be).

Deck: lots of small hits. Is that bad??

Case notes, the patient presented by Pip.

Presenting complaint: dies on the workshop floor, to the boss, to four hits in a row.

History: the photocopier has 175 health and does the same five things in the same order every time: copy (two hits of , toner (one hit of 7, and you are Soaked 5), warm up (it blocks 12 and gains 2 Edge), print (four hits of 5), jam (two clutter cards into your draw pile, and you are Blunt).

Diagnosis: Edge is one more damage on every hit, per point. Warm up comes before print. So print is four hits of 7, not 5, and the Edge stays for the next lap of the cycle.

Prescription: block on the print turn, every lap. Count the turns on your fingers if you must; it never changes its order. And kill it before its second warm up, or the patient is fighting a copier with 4 Edge.

On behalf of the Society, we must object to the word "kill", which the Doctor uses about a machine that was only ever trying to finish a print run.

DeckDoctor wrote:

And kill it before its second warm up

We would say: switch it off. That is what the game asks, and the codex agrees. It was left on overnight; nobody owns up; it is not the photocopier's fault that it is on.

toner_head wrote:

We would say: switch it off.

Amended, at the Society's request: switch it off before its second warm up. The patient is no less dead if the copier is merely switched off later. I checked that twice.

Supplementary prescription, for Pip: small hits are what Edge and block punish. A slop deck (Soak) does the work while you wait, and a glue deck blocks the print and steamrolls the quiet turns; the second worked for me on run 38.

toner_head wrote:

DeckDoctor wrote:

And kill it before its second warm up

We would say: switch it off.

THE PHOTOCOPIER does FOUR HITS in a row. THE PHOTOCOPIER jams. THE PHOTOCOPIER puts clutter in your deck. THE PHOTOCOPIER at work did all of that to me on Monday. Kill, switch off, whatever. Off is off.

(Sorry. Not to the Society. To Pip, for the shouting.)

UPDATE!! Blocked on the print turn every lap (fingers, as prescribed). Switched it off on turn 9 before the second warm up!! Then the franking machine at the top got me, but that's a different thread and a different week.

(Thank you DeckDoctor!! Thank you toner_head, I said switch it off out loud. Thank you TONER_RAGE?? I think??)