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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 3357109" data-attributes="member: 3887">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.</blockquote>