Storm Drain

The Storm Drain is a Treatment machine, used only in Cloud Computing by a Doctor to cure patients with Under The Weather. It is first made available in Ailing, which requires the Speedy Recovery DLC.

Appearance
The Storm Drain is situated on a brown rectangular base, with a beige top surface and a small ramp with yellow accents. In the centre is a similar dark blue-grey platform with a lighter top, bearing a yellow ring containing a pair of footprint markings. To the right is a built-in console in similar blue-greys, with a slider on the left mounted in a yellow frame, a central panel bearing red and green buttons, a green oscillator display, and a yellow lever on the right.

At the back is a large frame in the shape of an inverted "T", in the same brown-beige colours as the base, with a brown top and a metal track on the front. At the top of this track is mounted a horizontal circular section, with a dark blue-grey central ring, with a lighter coloured ring below it. On the front are three copper electrodes pointed outwards at equidistant intervals, and on top is a large lifebuoy in five coloured sections of white, purple, red, green and yellow.

The Storm Drain II adds a spinning section on top, with three metal cups extended at an angle to catch the wind.

The Storm Drain III further adds a yellow rubber duckie on a brown metal weather vane next to the console.

Function
Invited by the Doctor to step in, the patient will take their place as indicated by the yellow footprints, as the circular ring will rise to accommodate them. Pressing the red button and moving the slider down will cause the circular section to lower, and a collapsible inner tube to slam down around the patient.

Using the yellow lever, the doctor will have the machine extract the storm clouds from the patient, which will appear instead above the circular section, as the collapsible tube shudders. With one last crack of lighting, the storm clouds are replaced by white fluffly clouds, and a rainbow extends between them. The collapsible tube retracts back into the circular section, revealing the patient, confident and healthy, their treatment complete.

Maintenance
The Storm Drain loses 5-10% of its maintenance gauge with each use. Once the gauge falls below 50%, a Janitor will automatically be called to repair it. A janitor can be summoned manually by the player by selecting the machine and pressing.

Should the maintenance gauge fall below 15%, the machine will catch fire. A janitor will need to use an Extinguisher to put this out before the gauge reaches zero; if it is allowed to do so, the machine will explode, leaving wreckage which must be sold and replaced with a new machine before the room can resume functioning.

Upgrades
Upgrades are performed by a Janitor with the Mechanics Qualification. The machine will not be accessible while this work is being done, although it can be interrupted and resumed without losing progress.

Staff
The following Staff is required before Cloud Computing, and by extension the Storm Drain, will function correctly:

Additionally, the following staff is required to both maintain and upgrade the machine: Janitor (with Mechanics Qualification for upgrades)