Rise of the Robots: Robo-Mania Walkthrough
Dances With Robots
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Rumble Announcer 1: Robot Rumble is back and it's going to be more troubling than ever!
Rumble Announcer 2: We've got new gears, increased battery life, and added pain circuits so the robots will feel every drill bit and saw tooth.
Rumble Announcer 1: And we're going to be auditioning fan-built bots here in Springfield next week!
Rumble Announcer 2: Get those circular saw blades from the garage and wake your dads up from their naps! You could be the next Robot Rumble Star!
Bart: Hey Homer, how would you like to spend some time together where I pretend to appreciate and respect you?
Homer: Hmm, there's a first time for everything. But I'm busy, so no.
Bart: BUT DAD!
Lisa: I thought it was very sweet the way you dressed up as Bart's robot, Chief Knockahomer, and fought in the Robot Rumble for him before so he wouldn't think you're a failure as a father.
Homer: Yeah, but those other robots almost killed me! And that was before I would have to add a concussion circuit.
Lisa: Dad, you were already getting concussions when you fought before.
Bart: Yeah, now the robots can get ‘em too, so it's finally a fair fight!
Homer: Oooh, I do like a fair fight…
Task: Make Bart Try to Talk Homer Into Fighting Again
Time: 6s
Location: Simpson House
Task: Make Homer Consider Fighting Again
Time: 6s
Location: Simpson House
Rumble Announcer 1: One last thing I should mention is that the robots are going to be way more stabby, too!
Rumble Announcer 2: They're going to stab harder, faster, and deeper...and like it more!
Homer: You're on your own, boy!
Bart: Aw man! What am I gonna do now?
Lisa: Maybe there's a way you can still bring Chief Knockahomer back to "life"…
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
Robo-Mania Pt. 1
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Lisa: You know, Database and those guys are into robots. I bet they could help you turn Chief Knockahomer into a real robot this time.
Bart: Aw man, the nerds? I hate hanging around those guys. They smell weird. I can't put my finger on what it is.
Lisa: We prefer the term Academic-Americans, and that smell is fear.
Bart: Fear of what?
Lisa: Bullies, B's on tests, bench-warming splinters, and that's just the Bs.
Bart: The list is alphabetical?
Lisa: Alphanumerical, actually. It's a clever system combining alphabetical order with Scrabble point values...
Bart: You're being boring!
Lisa: Amazing. That was the next fear on the list!
Bart: How can we find these Nerdulonic-Americans and see if they'll help us build a rumble-ready robot?
Lisa: Just follow your nose!
Lisa: You weren't wrong about the smell.
Task: Collect Wrenches
Task: Make Bart Look for Nerds
Time: 4h
Task: Make Lisa Help Look for Nerds
Time: 4h
Location: The Prodigy Barn, Springfield Library or Springfield Elementary
Bart: I can't find those nerds anywhere!
Lisa: That's because you just rode your skateboard around for four hours!
Lisa: Four hours exactly…which is oddly specific, now that I think about it.
Bart: Right, and you timing me wasn't weird at all. So did you find the nerds?
Lisa: No, but I do have one last place to try…
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
Robo-Mania Pt. 2
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Lisa: And here we are!
Bart: Prodigy Barn? What is this, Sheets, Shirts & Sundries for nerds?
Lisa: Do you want a functional robot or not? Look, you see? They're already working on robots now.
Cosine Tangent: Indeed we are! Observe: the new pinnacle in robot technology!
Bart: It's just walking. That's lame.
Database: While clutching its textbooks to its chest in classic nerd style — and avoiding eye contact in a range of 360 degrees!
Lewis Clark: And look what happens when you give it a "flat tire": it auto-cringes, rights itself, and mumbles an apology!
Martin: Suck eggs, Boston Dynamics!
Bart: LAME.
Bart: But you know what's cool? Robots that can fight!
Martin: *gasp* But building fighting robots would violate the code of robot ethics we all swore to uphold!
Cosine Tangent: Yes, we've found that the use of violence inevitably results in said violence being used on us.
Bart: Right. And you all must have signed this lame code of ethics AFTER you helped me build the Wedgie-Matic 6000.
Lewis Clark: I knew that would come back to bite us.
Task: Collect Wrenches
Task: Make Bart Convince Nerds to Build Fighting Robots
Time: 3h
Location: The Prodigy Barn
Task: Make Lisa Try to Help Bart Convince Nerds
Time: 3h
Location: The Prodigy Barn
Task: Make Nerds Demand Favors in Return
Time: 3h
Location: The Prodigy Barn
Martin: Three acknowledgements and unlimited Cosmic Wars references. That is our final offer.
Bart: What kind of references are we talking about?
Database: Quotes like "These are not the cyberbots you're seeking!"
Cosine Tangent: "Scumbaggio Fired Second!"
Martin: "Duke! We are your uncles!"
Bart: Fine!
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
Robo-Mania Pt. 3
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Mr. Burns: I hear that these "scrapping automatons" are all the rage about town!
Smithers: Well, yes sir. With the plebeians. But don't you think you're above that?
Mr. Burns: Piffle! Mechanical pugilists are a time-honored tradition. I myself went three rounds against a Pneumatic Irishman while I was at Yale.
Mr. Burns: Afterwards, we sang the night away at Morries and he stole my sweater.
Mr. Burns: I must acquire a mechano-bot capable of teaching these Stove-pipe Stovers who's Johnny on the Quad!
Smithers: Anticipating your every Dickensian whim as ever, I have already purchased one and here it is!
Homer: I got your thingy here...
Mr. Burns: Smithers, that slap-dash simulacrum is devoid of even the slightest semblance of humanity!
Smithers: That's Homer Simpson, one of your...
Mr. Burns: Yes, yes, we've had quite enough of that one haven't we?
Smithers: Yes, sir. Your robot is the mechanical bear he's pushing.
Mr. Burns: Ah, so just a robot bear, you say?
Smithers: It is the most fearsome killer robot on the face of the earth, sir.
Mr. Burns: And yet I'm disappointed. Curious.
Mr. Burns: Have him put it in the corner, where it will remind me of my disappointment in you, Smithers.
Homer: I just need you to sign here, here, and intial here.
Mr. Burns: Why is it coming towards us?
Homer: Maybe I shouldn't have used the controller as a clipboard.
Task: Collect Wrenches
Task: Make Homer Accidentally Break Control Unit
Time: 2h
Location: Burns Manor, Mansion of Solid Gold, Control Building or Simpson House
Task: Make Burns Flee Bear Robot Rampage
Time: 2h
Location: Burns Manor, Mansion of Solid Gold, Control Building or Simpson House
Task: Make Smithers Flee Bear Robot Rampage
Time: 2h
Location: Burns Manor, Mansion of Solid Gold, Control Building or Simpson House
Smithers: I'm sorry, sir. The bear robot is a disaster.
Mr. Burns: Nonsense! Have it delivered to the break room first thing Monday morning. And have the results filmed for one of those new computer talkies the kids are into these days.
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
Robo-Mania Pt. 4
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Martin: Huzzah, my fellow cybernauts!
Nelson: Big deal, we all have fighting robots now.
Cosine Tangent: What? How?
Kearney: They sell them now at the Blazing Topic store in the outlet mall.
Dolph: Across from the anime t-shirts, next to the lame 70s bands t-shirts.
Nelson: Mine pounds nerds for lunch money.
Database: Which makes it indistinguishable from a human bully.
Martin: Behold, fellows! The Turing test has been satisfied for Artifical Unintelligence — a development both thrilling and alarming!
Cosine Tangent: Let us respond as we would to their human counterparts and run away!
Task: Collect Wrenches
Task: Make Bart Ditch Nerds
Time: 1h
Location: Springfield Elementary, Springfield Park Entrance, Kwik-E-Mart or Simpson House
Task: Make Bullies Bully Using Robots
Time: 1h
Location: Springfield Elementary, Springfield Park Entrance, Kwik-E-Mart or Simpson House
Task: Make Nerds Flee Robots
Time: 1h
Location: Springfield Elementary, Springfield Park Entrance, Kwik-E-Mart or Simpson House
Cosine Tangent: My humiliation is identical to what I have experienced at the hands of human bullies. What a time to be a nerd!
Bart: Guys, just finish rebuilding Chief Knockahomer and I'll get revenge on all their robots for you!
Martin: Revenge IS a classic motivator…
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
Robo-Mania Pt. 5
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Martin: We're almost finished constructing your metallic myrmidon — now we just need a CPU to manage its higher cognitive functions.
Bart: What?
Database: Your metal fighting thingy needs a computer brain thingy.
Bart: Oh, that makes sense. How about this old myPod Shuffle?
Lewis Clark: Wait, you expect us to build a sophisticated combat AI into outdated Mapple Computers technology?
Bart: ...
Bart: Yes?
Cosine Tangent: Eh, we've done more with less.
Task: Collect Wrenches
Task: Make Bart Supply myPod Shuffle for Robot Brain
Time: 4h
Location: The Prodigy Barn
Task: Make Nerds Rebuild Chief Knockahomer
Time: 4h
Location: The Prodigy Barn
Martin: Sweet Asimov's sideburns! It's alive!
Martin: I've always wanted to say that.
Bart: Chief Knockahomer? Buddy?
Chief KnockaHomer: Acknowledged. I am online and ready for combat.
Chief KnockaHomer: Because she told me to WALK THIS WAY! WALK THIS WAY!
Database: Uh…okay. Bart, where did you get that myPod that we used to power Chief Knockahomer's central processor?
Bart: Found it on the bus. Pretty sure it was Otto's.
Quest reward: $200 and 20 XP
Auto starts
Rumble Announcer 1: Robot Rumble is back and it's going to be more troubling than ever!
Rumble Announcer 2: We've got new gears, increased battery life, and added pain circuits so the robots will feel every drill bit and saw tooth.
Rumble Announcer 1: And we're going to be auditioning fan-built bots here in Springfield next week!
Rumble Announcer 2: Get those circular saw blades from the garage and wake your dads up from their naps! You could be the next Robot Rumble Star!
Bart: Hey Homer, how would you like to spend some time together where I pretend to appreciate and respect you?
Homer: Hmm, there's a first time for everything. But I'm busy, so no.
Bart: BUT DAD!
Lisa: I thought it was very sweet the way you dressed up as Bart's robot, Chief Knockahomer, and fought in the Robot Rumble for him before so he wouldn't think you're a failure as a father.
Homer: Yeah, but those other robots almost killed me! And that was before I would have to add a concussion circuit.
Lisa: Dad, you were already getting concussions when you fought before.
Bart: Yeah, now the robots can get ‘em too, so it's finally a fair fight!
Homer: Oooh, I do like a fair fight…
Task: Make Bart Try to Talk Homer Into Fighting Again
Time: 6s
Location: Simpson House
Task: Make Homer Consider Fighting Again
Time: 6s
Location: Simpson House
Rumble Announcer 1: One last thing I should mention is that the robots are going to be way more stabby, too!
Rumble Announcer 2: They're going to stab harder, faster, and deeper...and like it more!
Homer: You're on your own, boy!
Bart: Aw man! What am I gonna do now?
Lisa: Maybe there's a way you can still bring Chief Knockahomer back to "life"…
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
Robo-Mania Pt. 1
Auto starts
Lisa: You know, Database and those guys are into robots. I bet they could help you turn Chief Knockahomer into a real robot this time.
Bart: Aw man, the nerds? I hate hanging around those guys. They smell weird. I can't put my finger on what it is.
Lisa: We prefer the term Academic-Americans, and that smell is fear.
Bart: Fear of what?
Lisa: Bullies, B's on tests, bench-warming splinters, and that's just the Bs.
Bart: The list is alphabetical?
Lisa: Alphanumerical, actually. It's a clever system combining alphabetical order with Scrabble point values...
Bart: You're being boring!
Lisa: Amazing. That was the next fear on the list!
Bart: How can we find these Nerdulonic-Americans and see if they'll help us build a rumble-ready robot?
Lisa: Just follow your nose!
Lisa: You weren't wrong about the smell.
Task: Collect Wrenches
Task: Make Bart Look for Nerds
Time: 4h
Task: Make Lisa Help Look for Nerds
Time: 4h
Location: The Prodigy Barn, Springfield Library or Springfield Elementary
Bart: I can't find those nerds anywhere!
Lisa: That's because you just rode your skateboard around for four hours!
Lisa: Four hours exactly…which is oddly specific, now that I think about it.
Bart: Right, and you timing me wasn't weird at all. So did you find the nerds?
Lisa: No, but I do have one last place to try…
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
Robo-Mania Pt. 2
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Lisa: And here we are!
Bart: Prodigy Barn? What is this, Sheets, Shirts & Sundries for nerds?
Lisa: Do you want a functional robot or not? Look, you see? They're already working on robots now.
Cosine Tangent: Indeed we are! Observe: the new pinnacle in robot technology!
Bart: It's just walking. That's lame.
Database: While clutching its textbooks to its chest in classic nerd style — and avoiding eye contact in a range of 360 degrees!
Lewis Clark: And look what happens when you give it a "flat tire": it auto-cringes, rights itself, and mumbles an apology!
Martin: Suck eggs, Boston Dynamics!
Bart: LAME.
Bart: But you know what's cool? Robots that can fight!
Martin: *gasp* But building fighting robots would violate the code of robot ethics we all swore to uphold!
Cosine Tangent: Yes, we've found that the use of violence inevitably results in said violence being used on us.
Bart: Right. And you all must have signed this lame code of ethics AFTER you helped me build the Wedgie-Matic 6000.
Lewis Clark: I knew that would come back to bite us.
Task: Collect Wrenches
Task: Make Bart Convince Nerds to Build Fighting Robots
Time: 3h
Location: The Prodigy Barn
Task: Make Lisa Try to Help Bart Convince Nerds
Time: 3h
Location: The Prodigy Barn
Task: Make Nerds Demand Favors in Return
Time: 3h
Location: The Prodigy Barn
Martin: Three acknowledgements and unlimited Cosmic Wars references. That is our final offer.
Bart: What kind of references are we talking about?
Database: Quotes like "These are not the cyberbots you're seeking!"
Cosine Tangent: "Scumbaggio Fired Second!"
Martin: "Duke! We are your uncles!"
Bart: Fine!
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
Robo-Mania Pt. 3
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Mr. Burns: I hear that these "scrapping automatons" are all the rage about town!
Smithers: Well, yes sir. With the plebeians. But don't you think you're above that?
Mr. Burns: Piffle! Mechanical pugilists are a time-honored tradition. I myself went three rounds against a Pneumatic Irishman while I was at Yale.
Mr. Burns: Afterwards, we sang the night away at Morries and he stole my sweater.
Mr. Burns: I must acquire a mechano-bot capable of teaching these Stove-pipe Stovers who's Johnny on the Quad!
Smithers: Anticipating your every Dickensian whim as ever, I have already purchased one and here it is!
Homer: I got your thingy here...
Mr. Burns: Smithers, that slap-dash simulacrum is devoid of even the slightest semblance of humanity!
Smithers: That's Homer Simpson, one of your...
Mr. Burns: Yes, yes, we've had quite enough of that one haven't we?
Smithers: Yes, sir. Your robot is the mechanical bear he's pushing.
Mr. Burns: Ah, so just a robot bear, you say?
Smithers: It is the most fearsome killer robot on the face of the earth, sir.
Mr. Burns: And yet I'm disappointed. Curious.
Mr. Burns: Have him put it in the corner, where it will remind me of my disappointment in you, Smithers.
Homer: I just need you to sign here, here, and intial here.
Mr. Burns: Why is it coming towards us?
Homer: Maybe I shouldn't have used the controller as a clipboard.
Task: Collect Wrenches
Task: Make Homer Accidentally Break Control Unit
Time: 2h
Location: Burns Manor, Mansion of Solid Gold, Control Building or Simpson House
Task: Make Burns Flee Bear Robot Rampage
Time: 2h
Location: Burns Manor, Mansion of Solid Gold, Control Building or Simpson House
Task: Make Smithers Flee Bear Robot Rampage
Time: 2h
Location: Burns Manor, Mansion of Solid Gold, Control Building or Simpson House
Smithers: I'm sorry, sir. The bear robot is a disaster.
Mr. Burns: Nonsense! Have it delivered to the break room first thing Monday morning. And have the results filmed for one of those new computer talkies the kids are into these days.
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
Robo-Mania Pt. 4
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Martin: Huzzah, my fellow cybernauts!
Nelson: Big deal, we all have fighting robots now.
Cosine Tangent: What? How?
Kearney: They sell them now at the Blazing Topic store in the outlet mall.
Dolph: Across from the anime t-shirts, next to the lame 70s bands t-shirts.
Nelson: Mine pounds nerds for lunch money.
Database: Which makes it indistinguishable from a human bully.
Martin: Behold, fellows! The Turing test has been satisfied for Artifical Unintelligence — a development both thrilling and alarming!
Cosine Tangent: Let us respond as we would to their human counterparts and run away!
Task: Collect Wrenches
Task: Make Bart Ditch Nerds
Time: 1h
Location: Springfield Elementary, Springfield Park Entrance, Kwik-E-Mart or Simpson House
Task: Make Bullies Bully Using Robots
Time: 1h
Location: Springfield Elementary, Springfield Park Entrance, Kwik-E-Mart or Simpson House
Task: Make Nerds Flee Robots
Time: 1h
Location: Springfield Elementary, Springfield Park Entrance, Kwik-E-Mart or Simpson House
Cosine Tangent: My humiliation is identical to what I have experienced at the hands of human bullies. What a time to be a nerd!
Bart: Guys, just finish rebuilding Chief Knockahomer and I'll get revenge on all their robots for you!
Martin: Revenge IS a classic motivator…
Quest reward: $100 and 10 XP
Robo-Mania Pt. 5
Auto starts
Martin: We're almost finished constructing your metallic myrmidon — now we just need a CPU to manage its higher cognitive functions.
Bart: What?
Database: Your metal fighting thingy needs a computer brain thingy.
Bart: Oh, that makes sense. How about this old myPod Shuffle?
Lewis Clark: Wait, you expect us to build a sophisticated combat AI into outdated Mapple Computers technology?
Bart: ...
Bart: Yes?
Cosine Tangent: Eh, we've done more with less.
Task: Collect Wrenches
Task: Make Bart Supply myPod Shuffle for Robot Brain
Time: 4h
Location: The Prodigy Barn
Task: Make Nerds Rebuild Chief Knockahomer
Time: 4h
Location: The Prodigy Barn
Martin: Sweet Asimov's sideburns! It's alive!
Martin: I've always wanted to say that.
Bart: Chief Knockahomer? Buddy?
Chief KnockaHomer: Acknowledged. I am online and ready for combat.
Chief KnockaHomer: Because she told me to WALK THIS WAY! WALK THIS WAY!
Database: Uh…okay. Bart, where did you get that myPod that we used to power Chief Knockahomer's central processor?
Bart: Found it on the bus. Pretty sure it was Otto's.
Quest reward: $200 and 20 XP
