Turbo-Plunger

The Turbo-Plunger is a Treatment machine, used only in Head Office by a Doctor to cure patients with Turtle Head. It is first made available for research in Smogley.

Appearance
The Turbo-Plunger is constructed of many blocky sections, all made of pale green blocks with bluish-grey rounded edges. The main section is an irregular hexagonal base, with a large depression in the centre containing a large protrusion, on top of which is mounted a large plunger, all in black with yellow concentric circles. Mounted above this by two tall, thin, dark grey angular brackets, with blue painted accents, is a set of gyroscopic rings. The full outer ring is in the same dark grey, mounted to spin on the horizontal axis. From the top of this is mounted, by a single axis, a half-ring in black, connected at each end to one more inner dark grey ring, which features four connectors with yellow accents, designed to hold the patient's hands and feet during the treatment.

The base features, at each end, a bluish-grey block onto which is mounted a brown bar facing inwards, of no apparent function. One of these blocks connects to the control panel, which consists of a central rectangular block, bracketed by a taller, angular section on each side. The controls consist of two throttles bordering a joystick.

At the other end is the patient's elevation section. The main body is formed by two tall sections, connected by a gangplank marked with a rectangle featuring an arrow design pointing to the gyroscopic rings, and hazard stripes on either side. Shorter blocks angling outwards around the base, and the aforementioned blue block connect this to the rest of the machine. At the outer aspect is a thin green pale green platform, with a similar arrowed grey rectangular design on top, which can be raised up to the gangplank level and rolled towards the rings, allowing the patient access.

The Turbo-Plunger II adds to this two parallelogram-shaped blocks to each side of the machine, in the usual colours. The two closest to the controls have a small fin-like protrusion on top, and the two at the elevator end have much taller fins.

The Turbo-Plunger III further adds reinforcement to the mounting brackets for the gyroscopic rings. New base sections at the bottom in the usual pale green have black and yellow strips, and from these extend smaller copies of the brackets themselves, jutting out much further before rejoining at the top.

Function
While the doctor operates the controls, the patient will stand on the access platform, and be launched into the air, to meet it again at the upper gangway of the machine. The moving platform will extend forward, allowing the patient access to the gyroscopic machinery. Once they have secured their arms and legs into the straps, the process will begin. The patient will be given a spin in the machine, which is capable of moving them in any orientation, which will end with them upside-down. The plunger itself will extend up to meet them, and suck their real head out of their body.

One more spin of the gyroscope will return it to its original position, and the dizzy patient will collapse back onto the moving platform. This will then return the patient to the starting position, despite moving through the body of the machine while the patient is on top. Once they regain their bearings, the patient can step off the machine and leave, their treatment complete.

Maintenance
The Turbo-Plunger 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 pressing the appropriate button.

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 the Head Office, and by extension the Turbo-Plunger, will function correctly:

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