Matyiu (Savage Sands)

Ancestry Android || Advances 4 || Rank Seasoned

Attributes

Agility || Smarts || Spirit || Strength || Vigor

Skills

Athletics || Common Knowledge || Driving || Fighting

Notice || Persuasion || Repair || Stealth || Weird Science

Derived Stats

Pace 6 || Parry 6 (1) || Toughness 7 (2)

Hindrances

Curious – Major – Matyiu wants to know about everything

Can’t Swim – Minor – −2 to swimming rolls; each inch in water costs 3” of Pace

Enemy – Major – The council want to capture and study Matyiu

Outsider – Major – −2 to Persuasion rolls with non-androids, and no legal rights

Pacifist – Major – Matyiu won’t fight at all

Vow – Major – Matyiu has pledged himself to Mareem’s cause

Edges

Arcane Background (Weird Science) – Arcane Skill is Weird Science (Smarts)

Powers – Boost trait, entangle || Power Points: 20

Gadgeteer – Spend 3 Power Points to create a device that replicates another power

Mr. Fix It – +2 to Repair rolls, half the time required with a raise

Power Points – Gain 5 additional Power Points

Weird Science

Matyiu has a gift for getting old technology up and working again: it’s likely that this relates to his original purpose as an android, but he genuinely can’t remember what that may have been. While he can improvise on the spot, his most reliable devices are:

Boost Trait

Power Points – 2

Range – Smarts (24 yards)

Duration – 5 rounds

Summary – Increases a skill or attribute

Trappings – Steroids (pills)

Entangle

Power Points – 2

Range – Smarts (24 yards)

Duration – Instant

Summary – Bind or Entangle foes

Trappings – Gun that launches expanding foam

Gear

Staff (Str+d4, Parry +1, Reach +1, two hands)

Hand-crafted by Matyiu himself from the discarded shell of a great chitinous and timorous beastie he'd scared away

Tough Leather (Armour +2)

Assembled out of scraps scavenged from where he could find them, Matyiu uses these patchwork clothes as much for disguise as for protection

Repair Kit

Filled with an assortment of tools used to get ancient tech working and back online

Excavation Kit

With brushes and chisels and all sorts of delicate tools used to unearth new discoveries

Money Pouch

It's filled with useless junk that catches the eye and looks appealing. Matyiu keeps it to offer to bandits as a way of avoiding fights

Special Abilities

Construct – +2 to recover from being Shaken, doesn’t breathe, ignores one level of Wound modifiers, immune to poison and disease. Cannot heal naturally, but can be healed with Repair

Advances

Smarts d10

Repair d10; Weird Science d10

Power Points

Smarts d12

Background

The dwarf archaeologist Mareem was shocked to discover an android in such good condition, buried under piles of junk. With a bit of work, she was able to get the being repaired and back on his feet. He had no memories of what he had done before she found him, so she named him Matyiu and adopted him as her son.

Matyiu loved learning about the glimpses of history that old technology could provide, and he soon developed a knack for putting things back together and getting old machines working again. The council that employed Mareem took notice of this, and made their move: they claimed Matyiu was not legally a person, and therefore was property of the council.

Not wanting to say goodbye to her son, but knowing that he couldn’t stay with her with the council breathing down her neck, Mareem tearfully bade Matyiu set off into the wastelands: ostensibly his mission is to recover old technology and repair it, and he’ll come home in time. But they both knew when they said their farewells that he’d never be allowed to return home while the council was out for his head.