Tinker Taylor

**Tinker Taylor** is a crocodile NPC Toon. She lives and works in The Windjammer Workshop in the Donald's Dock playground.

Tinker Taylor is an important NPC, giving a three-part ToonTask rewarding the ability to use ToonTools. After the ToonTask line is complete, she also sells ToonTools to the player for use.

## Appearance

Tinker Taylor is a small teal Crocodile with aviation goggles on her head. She wears brown leather boots and gloves, with a green blouse and white shorts.

Her shop is a large workshop containing two unfinished boats, various tools lying around (be careful not to step on them!) and a large fire hose in the back. Players can interact with the fire hose to be pushed back 4 Squares, with no effect on their Laff.

Occasionally, players will also see Tinker Taylor speak in techno-babble to herself.

## ToonTask

### ToonTool Training 1

* Visit Tinker Taylor
	+ When the player visits Tinker Taylor, she explains how ToonTools work, and explains that they can be used more than once per battle, subject to a long 9 Turn cooldown. She then sends the player off to collect random items to assemble their first Tool.
* Visit Sam Sealion at Sam's Flotsam and Jetsam
	+ Recover 4 Metal Boxes from Cogs in Donald's Dock (High)
* Return to Sam Sealion
* Return to Tinker Taylor
	+ Recover 4 Miniscule Gears from Micromanagers (Anywhere, Guaranteed)
* Return to Tinker Taylor
	+ Deliver either of the following to Tinker Taylor:
		- 5 Squirt Guns
		- 5 Anvils
* Return to Tinker Taylor

### ToonTool Training 2

Pre-Requisite: Complete ToonTool Training 1 with **Tinker Taylor**.

* Visit Tinker Taylor
	+ Test the Glove In A Box ToonTool on a Cog Dummy
	+ Return to Tinker Taylor
	+ Test the Vacuum In A Box ToonTool on a Cog Dummy
	+ Return to Tinker Taylor
* Recover the following items:
	+ 4 Springs from Level 4+ Cogs (Anywhere, High)
	+ A Regulator from Bean Counters (Anywhere, High)
	+ A Gold Screw from Keyboard Cowboys (Anywhere, High)
	+ Return to Tinker Taylor
* Tinker Taylor will hand the player 2 ToonTools of each type. Tasks:
	+ Test the Glove In A Box ToonTools on Cogs (Anywhere)
	+ Test the Vacuum In A Box ToonTools on Cogs (Anywhere)
	+ Return to Tinker Taylor

## Quotes

### ToonTask

*Main article: Story ToonTasks/Donald's Dock*
### "Technobabble"

#### Regular Technobabble

* Cog Aperture stress test, 1-22. Load-bearing capacity tripled with sufficient curvature of the exo-spinal membrane.
* Deconstructed Silly Particles do not make for a good Gag accelerant. Shame. We'll have to start over.
* Did I forget to adjust for the Dinglefoot factor on my last test? Hmm.
* Hmm. I need to reverse the polarity of the multiphasic resistance manipulator.
* I can improve polymorphic capacity with reinforcements that make the material ablation, ablution and abrasion resistant.
* Interesting. The force and deformation vectors have a non-linear regression somehow... I could double on the elasticity tensor to improve oscillation centripetal force.
* Is the armature on the last box Cobblefoot-compensated?
* I've clamped the manifold parameters to… CY base and LG orbifold… Hilbert inclusive.
* Paw-lysilicate dum-dum capacitors! That's just what I need!
* That's not right. Let's run a diagnostic on the third-order microfilament collector to equalize entropy.
* The lensing effect is more pronounced under null conditions... I have to rerun some tests now.

#### Project FOUNDER Technobabble

* All this talk about creating a new timeline. They do realize that multiple timelines can coexist simultaneously in the same spatial confines? What then, do I have to work with another Tinker Taylor beside me? Preposterous.
* If Surlee did find a way to pause time at periodic intervals, there is a tiny chance the intervals may overlap creating an after-image... Pah, oh well.
* If time progresses in many infinitely small but noticeable pauses, and you lengthen the pauses, technically the pauses are negligible yet noticeable. Which means our current timeline is highly unstable...
* Perhaps it may be plausible for a multiverse to exist simultaneously by overlapping many similar realities. And since time is broken, it is perfectly conceivable to have at least two realities exist in the same ground state...

### Misc

* My next invention will let you sail a sailboat without needing any wind. What's that? It's already been invented?
* Oh, don't worry, making ToonTools and Gear are hobbies of mine. I'd do it for free!
* Tinker Taylor, solderer and shy, at your service!

## Trivia

* Her name and one of her miscellaneous quotes is a pun on the 1974 British spy novel *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* by John le Carré.
* Occasionally, she goes into technobabble.
	+ Once the player begins Project FOUNDER ToonTasks however, her technobabble becomes more specific to changing the flow of time.
* She is the first major Crocodile NPC to be unveiled in the game, helping players with a multitude of ToonTasks.