[UA] Last Minute Details

[Unknown VariableX]

This is excellent info, and it's even given me an idea for a 
semi-romantic-love-parallelogram-sub-plot between the Automaton, the 
resident Mechanomancer, HIS creation, and the Fool Avatar. There'll be a 
whole set of mishaps and arguements as they try to figure what makes the 
clockwork girl tick.

...you know, I read that last sentence five times before I realized it could 
be interpreted as a pun.

In any event, the power source has to be potent and regular enough to power 
not only everyday activity, but also the processing machinery that lets her 
'grow', the internal auto-repair system (that alone took a major charge for 
the guy to make), the skin and hair fabricators, and any superhuman feats of 
strength or speed or acrobatics needed to keep her from being killed or 
discovered. Tall order, perhaps?

Presently, I'm stuck in a three-way tie between perpetual motion, the 
methane-burner idea, or repetitive motion (she was already supposed to be a 
sort of yoga enthusiast, so this might fit in extemely well). Her creator 
was, like many old mechanomancers, vaguely insane, so he'd probably end up 
incorporating all sorts of weirdness that wasn't part of the original 
project, like a hamster wheel as a weapon or a miniaturized pipe organ. He 
was inspired to build her by the advent of the very first Megaman Nintendo 
game, back in the 80s, so you got to wonder if he thinks he's Dr. Light or 
Dr. Wily or what.

-Variable (who would fight for everlasting peace if it meant getting a cool 
gun-arm)

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From: "Rayburn, Russell E." <RERayburn at Columbus.gov>
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Subject: RE: [UA] Last Minute Details
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:42:02 -0500

While I don't have my books in front of me, I seem to recall that some
automations can be recharged via repetitive motion ( IIRC, PoMoMa gives the
example of flexing / extending a leg 100 times ).

Perhaps the automation is compelled to perform particularly repetitive
karate katas, tai-chi movements, yoga, etc. which serve the same function?

-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Loehle [mailto:wombatidae at hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:36 PM
To: ua at lists.unknown-armies.com
Subject: [UA] Last Minute Details


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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