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====== The Improbability Drive ======
>//"Nothing's Impossible.  Just highly Improbable."//
>-A very wise doorknob

The Improbability Drive, also known as "[[gameplay:lore:horatio|Horatio Entwhistle]]" for some arcane and forgotten reason, was created by [[characters:npc:doktorimprobable|Joseph Hawton]] and <del>[[characters:npc:davidabraham|David Abraham]]</del> his companion, Robot the Robot, to kick ass, chew bubblegum, and prevent the heat-death of the universe by controlling probability. Due to an alarming lack of bubblegum,((not to mention sanity)) it now operates by increasing the chance that the most Improbable events happen, often through [[gameplay:concepts:death|death]], in [[characters:monster:start|one form]] or [[gameplay:concepts:dk|another]].((mostly to [[gameplay:concepts:newbie|newbies]], a species that seems to have a refined taste for death,//create// and has at least one helping everyday.))((On other occasions, the Drive likes to put on a dress and high heels because that makes it feel pretty, insists that you call it Eleanor, and then kicks your ass at tennis until you cry. This is also known as Rank Seven.))((Bastard Rank involves lumber jacking. It's not pretty.)) It doesn't really exist.((Alas, poor Horatio. I knew him well, Yorick.)) Well, at least not in this reality.((However, in another reality, it is the greatest waiter //create?// ever.)) It might have the power to control the flow of time, which is really useful. However, it completely refuses to cooperate with bakers of any sort to create time pies. Of course, it doesn't really need to, because you can make time pies simply by enjoying yourself.((That was a pun. No, I'm not going to explain it. Figure it out yourself.)) The Drive never appears in [[places:outpost:improbablecentral|Improbable Central]].

Not to be confused with the Infinite Improbability Drive. We have enough Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy related lawsuits already, thanks.
===== Appearance =====
>//"A six-foot tall metal cylinder, bristling with copper heatsink fins."//
>-Caveman Joe

Only three things are known about the Drive's appearance: the above quote, the fact that it used to have a tail, and the fact that we know three things about the Drive's appearance. (("Oh, but Mr. Tellworthy," I hear you cry, "Surely we also know that we know four things about the Drive's appearance!" Well, we don't. So shut up.))

Once upon a time, [[http://enquirer.improbableisland.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=13797|some rubes decided they'd like to know what Horatio looked like under its make-up]]. This was a bad idea and they all died.

Years later, some lunatic named Full Metal Lion claimed he had seen the face of the Drive and lived, burning a four-hundred foot [[http://enquirer.improbableisland.com/mediagallery/mediaobjects/orig/e/e_drivewithtailandclock.png|mural]] into the grass to solidify his claims. He disappeared that same day without a trace, but no one has yet provided photogrammic proof to the contrary of his design.((In actuality, it looks nothing like his drawing, but we haven't quite got our giant orbital laser wolf trained on Full Metal Lion yet, to destroy him for suggesting he has a monopoly on the appearance of the Drive. And forgetting the damn heat sinks! AND FOR BURNING MY LAWN TO DRAW HIS DAMN MURAL!))((But what powers such an enormous laser wolf? TRADITION!))

A note from The Committee for Notifying People of Things: The accusations against the esteemed Joseph Hawton's work are under close scrutiny by our legal department in light of this latest diagrammatic((yet, sadly, not photogrammic)) evidence supplied by our French agents: [[http://patrichotomy.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/dzn_le-petit-prince-nursery-school-by-carlos-barba-211.gif|the Improbability Drive.]]  Please note the heat sink fans absent in the alleged forgery.((I do not want an Improbably Drive. Improbability is a very dangerous creature, and the Drive is very cumbersome. Where I live, everything is very small. What I need is a sheep. Draw me a sheep.))