Recurvery Unit

The Recurvery Unit is a Treatment machine, used only in the Recurvery Room by a Doctor to cure patients with Cubism. It is first made available for research in Grockle Bay.

Appearance
The central section of the Recurvery Unit is blue, round-edged, and based around a cuboid. A section is cut out of the upper left, there is an additional cuboid on the upper-right aspect from which protrudes a large silver tube with a blue base and a large opening with blue edge, and a trapezoidal protrusion on the right-hand front side, which bears a pair of grilles. On the left-hand front side are the controls, consisting of a light-blue panel with a red button and red sliding lever, and a smaller panel with a yellow sliding lever. On top of the central section is a large silver square funnel, which feeds directly into the machine.

Either side of the central unit can be seen two identical chambers, primarily consisting of pale green cylinders, with full-height columns on either side. in a slightly darker green, with dark green patterning around the edges. Each of these sits on a silver cross-shaped base. Behind the left-hand chamber is a unit consisting of a wide, dark green trapezoidal block, with a taller mid-tone green block above it, with a groove in the top. Into this groove is mounted a curved extensible arm with a grappling claw on the end, capable of moving from the left-hand chamber to the central funnel.

The Recurvery Unit II adds to this two short columns in front of each chamber, in the same colouring, and a small triangular section on the outer aspect of each one, in the same blue as the central section of the machine.

The Recurvery Unit III increases the height of all six of these additions, turning the blue sections into trapezoids, and adding small red lights atop the four green columns.

Function
The doctor will direct the patient to enter the chamber on the left-hand side, which is opened with the red button. While the main section of the machine rumbles into life, the doctor will then use the yellow lever (horizontal movement) and red lever (vertical movement) to control the claw. The top panel of the left-hand chamber will open automatically to allow the claw to retrieve the patient, who will then be moved over to the square funnel atop the central section, and shaken to pieces until all fall inside the machine, the rest of the process being automated.

As the top panel to the right-hand chamber opens, the red-and-yellow tube will expel from itself a deflated, roughly human-shaped balloon (which is always light pink, regardless of the patient's own race), with an open top, which will attach to the metal hoop, and into which eight squirts of a viscous brown material will be deposited from the silver-and-blue tube above. This will cause it to fall from the hoop into the open right-hand chamber, whose top panel will close behind it. When the door to this chamber opens, the patient will have their regular appearance restored, and can step out, their treatment complete.

Maintenance
The Recurvery Unit 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 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
A will be required to run the Recurvery Room, and by extension the Recurvery Unit.

In addition, a will be required to maintain the machine, with  in order to provide upgrades.