[UA] Last Minute Details

[Evan Loehle]

Oddly, in the campaign I just half-ran, I had to deal with the same problem.
One of the characters, unbeknownst to him, was an automaton copy of an 
insane mechanomancer (the mechanomancer is currently dead or missing). 
Anyhow, this is how I set it up, because I didn't want him exploding: In the 
furnace room of the dorms there is a spinning handle (like a bike pedal) 
hooked up to the misc. machinery down there. The character blacks out, 
essentially sleepwalks down to the furnace room (which he can pretty much 
always open because it's a cheap college lock and as an automaton he has 
that bonus to mechanical rolls), puts his hand on the handle and lets it 
wind him up until he's "full". He then returns to his dorm room (or 
where-ever he slipped away from) and remembers nothing. Usually he does this 
late at night, during a "class" he doesn't really have (but isn't aware he 
doesn't have), or with some other excuse. The excuse making and choosing the 
time to go is entirely subconscious, a mechanism built-in by the 
mechanomancer who never wanted his "son" to realize he wasn't real. Now, if 
the mechanomancer in your scenario is still around/alive, he might have set 
it up, done some tweakings on his "child", so that a similar thing goes 
down. If not, then maybe the automaton is just set to "instinctually" seek 
out things that it can use to charge up.

BUT if you choose to use the "perpetual motion" automaton? And it's a girl? 
Can you just picture her getting a boyfriend, they become close... then 
boom? First she maybe gets a bit more 
hyper/upbeat/peppy/neurotically-tightly-wound, then right as her boyfriend 
(or girlfriend, I suppose) is about to/just has broken up with her, she 
blows up. Or right after a major relationship breakthrough and (wild, 
passionate, ENERGETIC) intimacy, some murmured words of peace, love, 
affection, BOOM, bits of girlfriend everywhere, heartbroken and very 
confused significant other lying bruised on the bed.

Either way.

-El
Who Rocks it in the Eye Socket


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