Robot Assistant

#summary:: The character has a robot assistant who provides assistance along their mission.

This robot can perform remote tasks and interact with the world on the characters behalf.

Corrupted State: The robot is infected by the Hive and performs all actions as if it was rolling a dice pool composed entirely of Drone dice suffering critical drone successes and failures as a drone would.

Remember. Corrupted assets perform actions for the hive, but the Hive does not have to lack strategy. A corrupted assistant could assist until the most critical of moments before revealing its corruption.

Levels

  1. The robot assistant is able to monitor and explore a predefined location.
  2. The robot assistant is able to interact more directly with the world, interacting with computers, doors, buttons etc.
  3. The robot assistant is able to provide more assistance to the character allowing it to assist in healing willpower or breaking free from Drone Traps. It can operate to protect its operator even without direct commands to do so, enabling it to potentially save incapacitated characters.

Your Robot Assistant can look like anything you like. Be creative!

Assistant Features

Your robot assistant may add one of the following features per level.

  • Flight. The robot assistant is able to hover above the ground and may cross un-obstructed chasms.
  • Shield Generator. Once per encounter the robot assistant may generate a shield around a character making them invulnerable to ranged weapons. Robot Assistants level 3 may activate this as a reaction.
  • Projectiles. The robot assistant is equipped with a Dart Gun capable of firing a single type of Dart. A character may swap the equipped dart type with an action.
  • Subject Autonomy Maximizer. When the Robot Assistant detects a character being programmed whom it may physically interact with it will attempt to interrupt that programming unless it was instructed not to.
  • Subsystem Surveillance. The Robot Assistant may assist when attempting to detect a characters Drone level or a hive corruption increasing the dice pool for roles of this type by 2.
  • Medical Assistant. The robot assistant has previously served in medical capacities and is able to render medical aid to characters as if it was the character acting. This can be used to provide an assistance advantage to a role as well (+2 to dice pool) for medical checks.
  • corrupted Hive Conversion. The robot assistant attempts to overpower the will of a character and makes a roll of 2 + the Robot Assistant level against their willpower. On a success it deals 1 Drone Damage to that character.