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Numenera Destiny
This shuddering, booming jumble of structures moves itself by deforming, rolling, and sometimes extruding metallic legs or wheels.
A rabid fabricator is the size of a house and always voracious for more input material, be it synth, metal, or flesh. Buzzing, smoking, emitting chemical odors, and leaking shafts of sun-bright light, a rabid fabricator is not subtle.
Rabid fabricators are thankfully rare, but they can be instigated during a crafting mishap by those who attempt to steal the fire of creativity from the prior worlds but get it wrong and burn themselves. These automaton-like creatures can improve themselves over time if they get hold of the right plans, allowing them to further enhance their already frightening ability to extrude manipulators, cables, and blades of all shapes and sizes.
A rabid fabricator can be treated as a rank 4 rampaging beast.
Motive: Hungers for iotum and other base materials
Environment: Anywhere
Health: 35
Damage Inflicted: Moderate wound (7 points)
Armor: 4
Movement: Short; immediate when burrowing
Modifications: Speed defense as level 4 due to size
Combat: A rabid fabricator can create specialized modules that emit rays of electricity and simultaneously target up to three creatures within long range.
At the same time, any creature within immediate range of a rabid fabricator risks being caught in an intake orifice. If caught, a victim sustains 7 points of damage. A character who dies from this damage is consumed, and their body becomes raw material for further fabrication.
Installations, artifacts, or similar numenera objects of level 7 or higher will distract a rabid fabricator from going after living creatures, unless it is attacked, in which case it defends itself.
As long as a rabid fabricator has taken in raw materials recently, it regains 3 points of health per round.
The entity is able to break down installations and other numenera objects of up to level 7 over the course of minutes to hours.
Interaction: Rabid fabricators might communicate through a control surface that is found somewhere on their bodies, but obviously, accessing the control surface is dangerous. Doing so could calm one for several days, especially if it's offered continual raw material input.
Use: A wright makes a mistake, and the fabricator installation begins to act up.
Loot: A destroyed rabid fabricator yields up to a few cyphers and four or five rolls on the Iotum Result Table.
GM Intrusion: The rabid fabricator releases an aggressive automaton (level 4) that attacks the character independently.