KING AUTOMATON_
>>Even bronze is aged by time, but not all the ages, for it shall destroy thy fame, since you did show to mortals the rule of self-sufficiency and the easiest path of life.
| [[INTERACT]] | Below are some ways you may glean information in-character about King Automaton as well as optional Dice Checks and footnotes to encourage more immersive play in how such knowledge can be inferred without direct interaction. No I don't expect you to have a whole character sheet, I just fidget with a d20 ooc. Play off vibes, improvise. Sorted from most to least likely interactions. |
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| [EXAMINE]: | Clearly inhuman, but not without inspiration. It carries the hallmarks of a machinist's battle-automaton but deviates from the standard template. It reeks of combusting ceruleum, and it thrums with industry. The air around it seems to distort and thin, and it is evidently remote controlled. That, or autonomous. |
| [HISTORY] [INT8]: | By listening to it, one can easily surmise a learned machine from a simple monotask mammet. It seems to take inspiration from great orators and popular public speakers to sublimate a personality from, creating a vaguely familiar voice that permeates from vox-casters strewn about the King's body. Its words rake the mind with a calculated, piercing cadence, intending to not only be heard but to be completely understood. |
| [END OF DAYS] [INT15] | Those who had experienced the would-be End of Days would have possibly heard of the autonomous forces of the Grand Company of Eorzea's 1st Armored Corps that had marched through Abalathia into Garlemald as linebreakers immune to the tempering effects of the command towers. Most notably, the King Automaton had been used by a detachment of Astrologians as an improvised kinetic bombard delivered into a Lunar Primal by exponentially raising the construct's Gravity and having the King dive into the primal below. This promptly terminated both simulacra. |
| [AETHERSENSE][WIS15]: | Though faint, there appears to be some sort of animus floating inside the construct. It's as if there were a nervous system made of smoke suspended in water. Like a spore mould seeping from a fermenting dreg, it is life in it's simplest, most archaic definition. |
| [MACHINIST] [DEX/INT10]: | Almost a direct fork from the Queen Automaton, the lack of permanent armor and choice of combustion engine sets a King apart from a Queen - and by no means does it appear to be Ishgardian in make. It is crude, modular, and excessively aggressive in design; tenets adopted by the gung-ho 'junkers' of Thanalan. In more erudite circles of artifice, such work could be seen as the equivalent of working with disposable parts to conceal their history of operation, all while maintaining the most critical components. |
| [CONSTRUCT]: | A familiar, reflexive call to duty carries on every word spoken by the King Automaton, machines of a simpler intelligence or lacking in self-actualization find themselves obeying the directives uploaded by it without question [Can be checked against with a simple DC12 save against your construct's dominant personality stat. If you don't know, I typically check INT or CHR!]. Automatic doors open, cameras turn away, mammets rally in parade behind the King when it proselytizes. More advanced intelligence interpret this machine supremacy as spoofed administrator commands and are often filtered out; a rather rudimentary code execution delivered aurally not unlike a "Command" spell, however strictly affecting artificial intelligence. Those of mortal perception may register the faint aethero-mechanical whispers infused in the King's diction. |
| [SYNDICATE] [CHA12] | After being decommissioned, the King Automaton has been seen passing hands behind opulent doors and guarding incredibly high value targets. Caravans, warehouses, heirs and debutants, even a particularly gaudy merchant lord have employed the services offered by the indomitable King Automaton - equal parts warrior and scholar to keep up with even the most demanding of masters. |
| Spec. Issued Components | Description | Serial No. | JNKR Catalog # |
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| Royal Drive | A crystalline heart, immense learning capacity. Potentially life-harboring. | 00001 | <Data Expunged> |
| Aethercell Gauntlets | Media for conduction of generated aether. Inspires a surge motive force. | 04256 | 0-553-08853-X |
| Auxiliary Software | Social aptitude programming and strategic algorithms. 50 songs pre-loaded. | 18782 | 978-0345391-Z |
| Betaflare Missile Array | Panoply of small aether projectors concealed beneath scapular armor. Fires indiscriminately. | 09999 | XXX-407242-Y |