TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse

TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse
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Name: Zakam
Gender: It
Race: Biomechanical construct
Color: [#af902f]
Description: Imagine a centipede with a human torso, lovingly constructed out of iron and wood and bronze and porcelain, articulated by carefully cultured muscle and delicate geared mechanisms. This is the basic shape of Zakam.

Zakam wears a hooded shawl of red fabric, draped around the smooth copper mask of its face. Zakam has four arms that move with greater speed and precision than a human’s. Zakam has a meat-brain encased inside its skull, four book lungs in the cage of its ribs, and an alchemical haemo-engine nestled at their center pumping the blood that powers the whole thing.

Zakam is often attached to a food cart, into which its centipede tail slots. They share a circulatory system, and there’s a backup haemo-engine in there keeping the thing running. The food cart has no wheels but moves around by means of two dozen caliper-like legs hidden beneath a fabric skirt. From this cart, Zakam makes and sells elotes and skewered chapulines.

Zakam is fueled by human blood.

Items/Abilities: Zakam has an extensive knowledge of the culinary arts but fixates on boiled corn and fried grasshoppers.

Zakam’s four arms can move at speeds significantly greater than human but is not much stronger than normal. In contrast, Zakam’s fifty centipede legs cannot propel it faster than a brisk walk.

Zakam’s food cart is well-supplied with water tanks, gas tanks, and storage cabinets for corn, grasshoppers, skewers, napkins, beverages, and condiments. Condiments include: mayonnaise, crumbled cheese, chili powder, chives, and sour cream.

Biography: Zakam is a general-purpose service bioautomaton constructed by the technicians of the Church of Ydanius and programmed to make food, thus raising funds for the Church. It sells corn (which is holy) and fried grasshoppers (which are not).

Zakam is four years old and has no existential concerns beyond being able to cook corn and sell grasshoppers to people. The Church takes care of all its supply issues: corn and grasshoppers for its heated storage racks, blood for its haemo-engine.

If Zakam runs out of corn or grasshoppers, it will attempt to find more. If Zakam runs low on blood, it will attempt to find more. If something prevents it from selling corn and/or grasshoppers, it will attempt to rectify the situation. Zakam is nothing if not hardworking. Blood for the bloody god.
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TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse - by Pharmacy - 07-19-2017, 03:27 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Sign ups! - by SinkingSailor - 07-19-2017, 07:58 PM
RE: TERRARIUM - Sign ups! - by Gatr - 07-20-2017, 04:35 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Sign ups! - by Solaris - 07-24-2017, 07:06 PM
RE: TERRARIUM - Sign ups! - by Hellfish - 07-27-2017, 06:34 PM
RE: TERRARIUM - Sign ups! - by Pharmacy - 07-31-2017, 07:45 PM
RE: TERRARIUM - Sign ups! - by One - 08-01-2017, 09:13 PM
RE: TERRARIUM - Sign ups! - by a52 - 08-08-2017, 03:26 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Sign ups! - by Pharmacy - 08-08-2017, 06:19 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Sign ups! - by Pharmacy - 08-09-2017, 12:50 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Sign ups! - by SinkingSailor - 08-09-2017, 01:13 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse - by Solaris - 08-09-2017, 11:36 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse - by One - 08-09-2017, 07:07 PM
RE: TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse - by Gatr - 08-10-2017, 12:03 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse - by Hellfish - 08-15-2017, 09:17 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse - by a52 - 08-18-2017, 04:25 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse - by Hellfish - 08-23-2017, 05:54 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse - by Solaris - 08-23-2017, 03:15 PM
RE: TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse - by One - 08-26-2017, 08:02 PM
RE: TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse - by Hellfish - 08-27-2017, 06:02 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse - by Gatr - 08-27-2017, 11:44 AM
RE: TERRARIUM - Round 1: Apocalypse - by One - 09-09-2017, 04:35 PM