Dead End Grind

Welcome to Frankenstein Industries!

From: Dr. Frankenstein, President (Also, Inventor, Genius, and Eternal Pursuer of Progress)
Subject: PRODUCTIVITY IS LIFE!

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Congratulations, on your new position as Floor Manager for Frankenstein Industries!

You have been selected for the most important role in our factory. As the floor manager, it's your job to keep the factory running.

Your workers—those marvelous, reanimated husks of human potential—will not build themselves! You must assign them to their tasks with precision and speed, ensuring the relentless flow of labor that keeps our operation in perpetual motion.

Your job:

• You are the mastermind! The Floor Manager! You’ll direct workers to stations, one after another, task after task. The more workers you build, the more they’ll get in each other’s way, causing chaos and delays. Don’t let that happen!
• The goal? Simple: build more workers to build more workers. It's a beautiful, horrifying cycle, a never-ending loop of progress. You keep them working, we keep creating—and the factory keeps churning out endless laborers! During any given shift, you must manufacture the number of workers listed on the display on the wall.

• But beware: the more workers you have, the more you have to manage. They can’t do their jobs until the previous tasks are done. And if there’s too many of them, they’ll be standing idle, waiting for the next task to free up. Idleness is the true enemy!

In order to build one of these workers, the manufacturing process involves a sequence of tasks as follows. A worker must:

1. Retrieve body parts from a cart of cadavers (which are donated to us by kindly gentlemen known as Burke and Hare).
2. Clean off those body parts in a washing basin, removing any remaining graveyard dirt and bugs.
3. Arrange the body parts to ensure that everything is in place.
4. Cut those body parts to match, using a fancy chopping machine.
5. Assemble the body using our state of the art Frank-O-Matic machine.
6. Reanimate the corpse using lots and lots of electricity! Delightful!

This isn’t just a factory, it’s a test of your willpower. Can you juggle the demands of an ever-growing workforce? Can you maintain order in a sea of chaos? You must keep the line moving. For as long as you build, the factory will thrive. The more workers you create, the more they’ll get done—but the more they’ll clog up the system if you're not careful.

Keep in mind that while our manufacturing process is second to none, it still has its flaws. As such, not every worker is created equal. Each worker has a set of qualities that affect their productivity. These are:

• HP - A basic measurement of their stamina. It counts how many tasks they're able to do before they need to take a coffee break. These are annoying, but unfortunately, union mandated.
• Speed - The rate at which workers are able to travel from one work station to the next.
• Work Ethic - How quickly the worker is able to finish a given task. Some tasks naturally take longer than others, but the higher the work ethic, the faster the worker will be able to accomplish it.
• Enthusiasm - Unfortunately, our workers can be a bit low on intelligence and reluctant to move onto their next task. Their enthusiasm reflects how long they'll take between their tasks.

Remember, you are not just a manager—you are the conductor of a massive, grinding machine. Your success depends on your ability to organize the chaos and keep those workers on track. Dr. Frankenstein demands it! The factory demands it!

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—Dr. Frankenstein, President and Chief Visionary of Boundless Expansion
"PROGRESS IS THE ONLY LAW! NO ONE ESCAPES THE GRIND!"