DM Brainiac's Iron Gods (Inactive)

Game Master Brainiac

Fireday's most striking feature are intense, metallic green eyes that glow with an eerie light when he activates his nanites or calls upon the Inheritor's power. The rest of his face appears to have the typical craggy features common to the Kellid people, but with a youthful softness, as if he's only just grown into manhood. He keeps his head and face clean-shaven, to make them easier to conceal.

He has a light, athletic figure, not muscle-bound, but capable of solid strength when necessary. His flesh has an ashen cast to it, broken up by his green circuitry marks, something he takes great pains to hide so their glow when they're activated does not give away his true nature.

Fireday has wrapped himself in bandages from near head to toe, hoping to hide his android features and appear more human to protect himself. Over these bandages, he wears sturdy traveler's garb with Iomedae's holy symbol embroidered onto it in several places, depicting his allegiances for all to see. His armor consists of a solid mail shirt that covers his torso and upper arms as well as his legs down to his knees. He wears a hood to obscure his bandaged face, hoping to make his eyes less noticeable as well. On the other hand, the android is almost a walking armory, with a monk's spade in his hands like a walking stick, a sword at his side, and a pair of pila in his pack, as well as a set of six darts tied to the breast of his mail shirt for easy access.

Fireday is a pious soldier of Iomedae, dedicated to her doctrine of promoting good through force of arms, a necessity to those who would try to make Numeria a better place. While fully prepared to defend himself from Technic League agents and paranoid Kellid villagers alike, Fireday attempts to keep his artificial nature as an android secret, hiding his circuitry marks with bandages and travelling from place to place to prevent people getting too curious about his identity.

While most androids have trouble processing their own emotions and those of others, Fireday has gone to great lengths to try and understand both and develop a sense of empathy, to help protect himself from those who would wish him harm or try to deceive him. Unlike the average android, who meets all challenges with a calm, even demeanor, Fireday can be inspired to righteous anger, especially where the Technic League is concerned, but he's smart enough to know where and when to unleash that fury.

In addition, Fireday still experiences the same sense of curiosity and wonder that endeared him to the crusaders who discovered him. Despite his caution towards and hatred of the Technic League, the technology of the Silver Mount fascinates him, as he believes understanding it will help him better understand himself.

Fireday seeks to bring Numeria's people the justice they've been denied by the Technic League. The League is his greatest enemy, especially the man named Osmyn Zaidow, who slew the crusaders that found him and gave him his name. He knows he cannot defeat the entire nation alone, and so as he travels he seeks allies willing to stand up to them in the hopes of rallying Numeria to overthrow the Technic League's evil once and for all. Part of him also feels that he must seek to understand himself through the technology of the Silver Mount, since he knows that it is where most androids like him come from, and through faith in Iomedae, seeing her ascendance from mortal to goddess as similar to his transition from machine to thinking and feeling person.

Fireday may appear to be a human man in his late 20s or early 30s, but his experiences as himself only began 7 years ago. He remembers awakening in a small divot in the ground, staring up at the night sky and hearing raucous voices up above. Seeming to already know how to get up and move, he crawled from the hole and saw a group around a campfire who jumped in surprise at seeing him. They attempted to speak to him in words he didn't understand, and he made sounds to try and respond that they didn't understand, until they were convinced he wasn't a threat. One of them, dressed in shining golden armor, gently invited him to sit at the fire and share their meal, and spoke to him gently, calling himself Corrus. As the night went on, he found himself starting to understand these people through listening as they talked, surprising them by finally saying something they could understand. Corrus gave a small cheer and clapped him on the back, asking him his name. As he did not have one, he hesitated, and Corrus suggested that evening was called Fireday, so why not name him after the day he'd been found if he didn't have a name already. Fireday smiled, and took the name as his own.

The next day, Fireday helped Corrus and his men pack up their camp and joined them as they traveled north. Corrus explained that he was a paladin, and his men were crusaders, and they were headed to Mendev, a place north of Numeria, where they were, to fight terrible monsters and protect good people. Fireday began asking the men question after question after question, and while some became annoyed, Corrus patiently answered everything Fireday asked. Unfortunately, a few days after meeting them, Fireday and Corrus' group was ambushed. A strange bald man with a glowing sword, flanked by strange metal men armed with even stranger weapons systematically slaughtered the crusaders. Corrus threw himself at the swordsman and yelled for Fireday to run, run to Castle Urion. As Fireday ran, he looked back and saw the man mercilessly overpower Corrus and kill him. After running for the better part of a day, Fireday arrived at Castle Urion and collapsed at its gate.

When Fireday came to, he was brought to Caroliss Minerran, the fortress' leader. Her countenance fell as Fireday told his story, describing Corrus' death and his instruction to run. Minerran explained that the man who attacked them was a member of a group called the Technic League, and when Fireday asked why they'd attacked them, Minerran suggested it was because Fireday was an android the League wanted to study or enslave. Fireday felt so many different things welling up inside him, and he began yelling about the League's evil and how Iomedae should stop them...at which point Minerran offered to teach him.

Castle Urion would be Fireday's home for the next seven years as he immersed himself in Iomedae's faith, until finally being ordained as a warpriest of Iomedae. In that time, the knights of the castle had discovered a strange piece of technology that would help them in Mendev's efforts against the demons...which of course drew the ire of the Technic League. Upon discovering a League spy in the castle, Fireday realized he could not stay much longer. His presence would only make the League more likely to want to investigate the castle. Wrapping his circuit-markings in bandages to appear less artificial, he left Castle Urion and began wandering Numeria to fight the League and prevent what happened to Corrus from happening to anyone else. This eventually led him to the village of Torch, just as the violet flame that was its livelihood went out. Fireday was convinced the Technic League must have done this, and prepared to investigate.

A resident of the town of Torch, Kelad worked as hired muscle for Khonnir Baine. His job, such as it was, was to go out into the wilderness and return with whatever technological scraps that he could find. His strength, endurance, survival skills, and the rudimentary training provided by Khonnir, allowed for Kelad to eke out a meager living based on the salvage he could find. As a half-orc orphan, there were few in town willing to hire one such as himself, and he was satisfied with his lot in life. Moreso, because Khonnir actually took the time to educate him and treated him with respect. When the mage vanished and the fire died, it meant more to Kelad than just losing his livelihood, it also meant that he lost a friend. He would gladly fight to save both his home and his Khonnir.

Race Half-Orc
* Sacred Tattoos (+1 luck bonus on all saves)
* Weapon Familiarity
* Darkvision
* Intimidating (+2 intimidate)

Traits
* Fate's Favored (+1 luck bonuses)
* Local Ties (You have ties to a prominent local in the town
of Torch—the missing wizard Khonnir Baine. Your association with Khonnir has given you insight into how technology works. You gain a +1 trait bonus on checks with Knowledge (engineering) , and it is a class skill for you. In addition, you are treated as if you possessed the Technologist feat for the purposes of resolving checks associated with that skill. If you gain the Technologist feat the bonus increases to +3 with the selected skill)

Class Savage Technologist
Str (18) Dex (13) Con (14) Int (12) Wis (12) Cha (8) HP (15) Fort (+6) Ref (+3/+5) Will (+3/+5) AC (16/11/15) AC with Rage (18/13/15)

Combat: Regular
To Hit: +4
Damage: 2d4+9 / 18-20 crit

Combat: Rage
To Hit: +6
Damage: 2d4+12 / 18-20 crit

Feats
Lvl 1: Power Attack

Equipment
* Scale Mail (+5 AC, -3 ACP)
* Falchion (2d4, 18-20 crit, x2)
* Fighter's Kit
* 14 gold

Skills
* Survival: 1 skill point (+5)
* Perception: 1 skill point (+5)
* Diplomacy: 1 skill point (+3)
* Intimidate: 1 skill point (+5)
* Sense Motive: 1 skill point (+5)

Background Skills
* Knowledge Engineering: 1 skill point (+6)
* Craft (Mechanical): 1 skill point (+5)
- Can still be used to craft less advanced forms of technology such as gears, hinges, and pulleys

Barbarian
* Fast Movement (+10ft if in medium armor or less)
* Rage: 6 rounds per day (Free action to start and end, 4+Con modifier rounds a day. Fatigued for 2x rounds afterwords. A savage technologist can enter rage as a barbarian, except he gains a +4 morale bonus to Strength and Dexterity instead of Strength and Constitution, and he does not take a penalty to Armor Class. He retains the +2 bonus on Will saving throws. When a barbarian ability would increase the savage technologist’s Strength while raging, it increases his Dexterity instead.)