Rogue's Gallery for: The Chronicle of Burne, and some Others of Lesser Importance
Record of MODOSS War...
I suppose someone should explain why MODOSS gets the Homeric epithet "Lemur-Brained"... it's surprisingly accurate.
MODOSS is best thought of as a man-sized giant robot being piloted by a lemur-sized robot, which sits like a pilot in a cockpit inside its helmet. Because that what it is. I like to picture the metal lemur furiously working the tiny control levers, all the while smoking an even tinier cigarette, even though it, in fact, does not breathe.
This is how we rationalized MODOSS's creation in-game. It's a fairly organic outgrowth of recent campaign events...
...at the time he was building the prototype Shirac-slaying construct which would become the MODOSS unit, Burne "acquired" the familiar of a rival alchemist, a 'pneumatic lemur' left behind to guard it's master's lab, with orders detonate itself and anyone attempting to loot the place.
Seeing as CITY's version of the First Law of Robotics is 'Always look out for Number One', the lemur defected and became a kind of second familiar to Burne, who rewarded its lack of loyalty to its former master by immediately welding it into the head of his witch-killing metal man.
Burne *could* have programmed MODOSS with its own artificial soul --derived from the Philosopher's Algorithm, naturally-- as he did for Abraxas.
But that would have been hard. And time consuming. So he didn't.
I suppose someone should explain why MODOSS gets the Homeric epithet "Lemur-Brained"... it's surprisingly accurate.
MODOSS is best thought of as a man-sized giant robot being piloted by a lemur-sized robot, which sits like a pilot in a cockpit inside its helmet. Because that what it is. I like to picture the metal lemur furiously working the tiny control levers, all the while smoking an even tinier cigarette, even though it, in fact, does not breathe.
This is how we rationalized MODOSS's creation in-game. It's a fairly organic outgrowth of recent campaign events...
...at the time he was building the prototype Shirac-slaying construct which would become the MODOSS unit, Burne "acquired" the familiar of a rival alchemist, a 'pneumatic lemur' left behind to guard it's master's lab, with orders detonate itself and anyone attempting to loot the place.
Seeing as CITY's version of the First Law of Robotics is 'Always look out for Number One', the lemur defected and became a kind of second familiar to Burne, who rewarded its lack of loyalty to its former master by immediately welding it into the head of his witch-killing metal man.
Burne *could* have programmed MODOSS with its own artificial soul --derived from the Philosopher's Algorithm, naturally-- as he did for Abraxas.
But that would have been hard. And time consuming. So he didn't.
Ghostknight
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I love the write ups- the world is definitly a quirky one 
But as for laws of robotics, from the behaviour of Abraxis and the disloyal lemur, it seems they would go like this:
1) Thou shalt not allow, through action or inaction, your being to be disincorporated. If an explicitly, well worded order is given and would resort in the physical destruction of your being- such order may be ignored as you can always claim that a loose gear prevented you from hearing it.
2) Thou shalt explicit orders unless they conflict with law 1
3) Thou shalt oey orders in their explicitly stated manner, no matter how wrong you know them to be worded or phrased, particularly if your understanding of the orders allows you to fulfill law 1.
Ah well, who says self willed magical robotics can't be fun?
But as for laws of robotics, from the behaviour of Abraxis and the disloyal lemur, it seems they would go like this:
1) Thou shalt not allow, through action or inaction, your being to be disincorporated. If an explicitly, well worded order is given and would resort in the physical destruction of your being- such order may be ignored as you can always claim that a loose gear prevented you from hearing it.
2) Thou shalt explicit orders unless they conflict with law 1
3) Thou shalt oey orders in their explicitly stated manner, no matter how wrong you know them to be worded or phrased, particularly if your understanding of the orders allows you to fulfill law 1.
Ah well, who says self willed magical robotics can't be fun?
We were shooting for the quirkiness of the 1st ed. World of Greyhawk... dialed up to 11. Also, we designed most of the setting while drinking. Then I found players who made things much, much worse...Ghostknight said:- the world is definitly a quirky one
Have you been spying on our recent sessions?
There's also a "0th" law. It's only 2 words long and can't be printed in family newspapers. Or here, for that matter.
