Talk:Champions of The Machine God

I need to do some more reading, obviously, but perusing the book, the castes, and the character creation tips, I'm leaning towards playing a Starmetal caste who is bent on deciphering the mathematical model behind Autochon's gradual breakdown. She believes that the error may be inherent to Autochon's technological nature, and that as a result, all of the other people trying to predict where breakdowns, wars, etc. will occur are being partially blinded by a flaw they don't recognize because they're working in a context that is, by its nature, flawed. I'm imagining going to her office and brushing aside vast masses of hanging wire and turning numerous cranks and rivets, moving through a hallway filled with blinking lights and whirring motors, then opening the door to the office proper to find a simple, wooden, cabin-style room with only chalkboards and candlelight - free of any of the Great Maker's technology that she believes clouds her predictions.

Publically, she's probably regarded as some sort of insightful advisor (again, this is all half-informed brainstorming, but I wanted to write it down somewhere). She would claim she cares nothing of humanity or beauty, but privately, she seeks to maintain both, despite considering those qualities inconsistent with Alchemical Exaltation, and Starmetal castes in particular.

The primary certainty is that the character will have a beamklave, but we'd long established this fact.

Dan 16:35, 15 March 2010 (EDT)