Legacy Ashes of Houston:Custodians

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THE CUSTODIANS

“We still walk. We still build. We still endure.”

Outsiders call them the **Rotwalkers**. But they remember who they truly are.

ATTRIBUTES

• Reach: -1
• Grasp: +2
• Sleight: 0

Doctrine: Better Living Through Technology — You can spend 1 Tech to get an extra choice when you Tool Up, or 5 Tech to mark off a Wonder Requirement.

Lifestyle (Settled): When you encounter a fragment of pre-Fall culture, you know its cultural significance.

RESOURCES

Mood	0
Tech	0
Data	0

Surpluses

• Engineering
• Progress

Needs

• Defences
• Leadership
• Morale

Invested

• NULL

ASSETS

• Ever-present Battered journals from the Before
• How do we fight? Weird Rifles (far, aberrant)
• How are we defended? Desiccated Flesh (Hardened, Tough)
• What useful expertise? Scholars (+1 Quality, Researching)

MOVES

ENCLAVE MOVES

• SUFFICIENTLY ADVANCED — Medical treatments able to cure any ailment *(via controlled ghoulification)*.
• DEEP KNOWLEDGE — Persons and Proceedings of Historical Significance. When your Character encounters a covered subject, state a fact and gain fleeting advantage acting on it; the GM also tells you how to gain 1 Tech from it.

ALLIANCE MOVE

When you spend time and effort showing another group how to use their technology better, gain 1-Treaty on them.

TRADITIONS

• Populace: Ghouls (and proven smoothskins) who preserve and utilize knowledge and technology from before the bombs fell.
• Style: Preserved pre-War dress (suits, uniforms, dresses, coveralls).
• Governance: Meritocratic academic bureaucracy.

LANDMARKS (Outdated)

• Before — A secret research centre full of untamed wonders
  • Vault Icarus — Presumed lost under the Brazos Bio-Preservation Arcology. Codenamed Icarus-19; an experimental vault for accelerated ecosystem trials, gene-editing, and environmental manipulation.
• The Fall
  • The Hermann Vault — Beneath the bomb-scorched shell of the Houston Museum of Natural Science lies a deeper, sealed vault of “strategic heritage assets.”
• A Threat
  • The Gilded Hand — Jeffries Robotics Development Site 9. A semi-buried RobCo subcontractor facility where Mr. Handy variants and civic drones now enforce a warped, automated “restoration.”
• Failed Enclave
  • Palo Verde Array — Former Custodian deep-space listening post near Austin. Residents went feral after receiving an unknown signal; dishes still track the sky.

HISTORY (Questions for other Families)

• Which one of you is civilization’s best chance to regrow? Give them 2-Treaty on you.
• Which of you has seen the true power of our technology? Take 2-Treaty on each other.
• Which one of you holds the brightest mind of the Homeland? Give them 1-Treaty on you.

INHERITANCE

Enclave Characters get +1 to Lore or Steel.

Quick Character Inheritance Moves:

• Radio Rig: You can sense when Tech is within a mile, and track it down to within 100 metres.
• Pain Box: A machine that causes intense pain in anyone within a few dozen metres (melee, non-lethal, area, aberrant).
• Survey Drone: So long as your trail is visible from the air, you can roll +Lore on Wasteland Survival.
• Hot Rod: You have an exceptionally fast vehicle – it has the swift tag, and you can change one of its tags with 15 minutes of tinkering.
• Educated: The first time you advise someone based on your knowledge of the Before, they gain fleeting advantage acting on your words.