Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:Which makes sense. I don't see an issue with a song giving him a Wildcard skill, as it really does change reality around him. That makes perfect sense. But, Wildcard skills are supposed to be the defining trait of a character, and really, Douglas Quincy Sangnoir is not going to be remembered as a computer or robotics technician. The song also may have given him Snatcher with permanent and some other things so he didn't "make" the body in the conventional sense, creating it out of the parts. After all, he is magically-powered. He could have used all the parts as material components and summoned a body. I'd actually lean more toward the Snatcher idea if it only took the duration of the song to complete the body.
At work, sneaking this in during the last minutes. Let me put it this way, towards the end of the Walk, Doug builds a cyborg body for an AI (not Eimi), kitbashing together technologies from his homeworld, boomers, Nuku-Nuku, Rin-Rin's work in sister Princess, and a couple other sources I'm forgetting right now. Then again, he's also using "Weird Science" by Oingo-Boingo to help weld it all together. But he's not just piling all the parts together and wishing hard.
But, the question is, could he have done it with robots he had never encountered in the Walk before? And, not using a song.
It wouldn't be hard for him to pick up familiarities for all of those robots during the Walk, meaning that he could easily do it with just one "Mechanics: Robotics" and "Electronics Repair: Computer" skill. But, if he could suddenly weld in a Hellion Swarmer Drone or an Archon Nanobuilder with no trouble, then he'd have Robotics-dammit! And some very powerful people asking some very uncomfortable questions.
Bring me Doug Sangnoir!
And a cookie.
Bob Schroeck Wrote:Oh and the comment about Fenspace was Rob Kelk, not me.D'oh! Fixed.