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***bellow may be spoilers for pfs players.***
So, I was lucky enough to receive a clockwork spy as a reward in a recent adventure of mine but I have a few questions.
Does the spy follow the rules of followers in pfs preventing me from having both my familiar and the spy? The spy is not intelligent. I can't find the book, but a quick search in the resource guide and primer for 'followers' didn't help.
The spy has to be repaired and skill checks made to restore it to working condition. After that, it follows simple commands. The catch here is that it says it cannot be repaired if it uses its self destruct ability. Does this mean that if it were destroyed in combat (say evil villains discover I was spying on them with it) that I could repair it later at the listed costs and via the necessary skill checks? Repair it with spells? The odd thing is that it can self destruct after being destroyed and that this process can be stopped but does not stop it from dying. The answer may seem obvious since I can probably by another one (the chronicle sheet doesn't say I can't) but during an adventure, repairing it might matter instead of having to wait for another session to get a completely new one.
Is it safe to assume I am not the creator and therefor could not program it not to self destruct?
The 'Clockwork Spy' is a construct and constructs are destroyed as soon as they reach 0 HP. That has nothing to do with the ability 'Self Destruct'. Self Destruct starts as soon as the spy is destroyed = 0 HP.
..the construct continues to function at its full efficiency, and only falls apart once reduced to 0 hit points.
A construct that has been completely destroyed cannot be repaired, though at the GM's option some of the materials may be usable in the construction of a new construct.
Self Destruct destroys the collected informations in the gem. That is the idea behind. Dont let it drop to 0 HP. Then you can repair it. With 0 HP it is destroyed regardless of 'Self Destruct'. With Self Destruct the collected informations are gone too.