Nixie in the Machine (5e Race)
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Nixie in the Machine[edit]
Physical Description[edit]
While the mechs that all nixies live in varies depending on the creator, nixies themselves don't have that kind of freedom. Nixie is a small humanoid creature, about 3 inches tall, with a big head and large eyes. Nixies are very round shaped and appear to be fat or about to give birth when compared to other humanoid creatures. Pixi anatomy is a bit different from most creatures, and as such often appear to be fat to most humanoids.
Nixies ribs continue down all the way to the hip, for a good reason. The space where most creatures have their digestion system, lies a second large brain. This brain works in sync with the brain in the head. A thicker spine containing massive amounts of nerves allow the two halves to work as one. Nixie require more space for their brain compared to most humanoid in order to gain intellect comparable to larger humanoid creatures.
As large portion of the body contains the brain, nixie requires to eat more food than a normal creature of their size. The brain requires a lot of energy to run. When a nixie is hungry and bored, they often become sleepy to reduce energy consummation. With the combination of a small and slower digestion track, a stuffed nixie (which is not too hard to achieve), will go into a food comma like many humanoid creatures.
The digestion tract is pushed over the extended ribs and giving the nixie a fat appearance. Nixie's digestion track is smaller than most humanoid creatures. Their stomach is tiny and not made to store a large meal. The stomach struggles to break down big pieces of food. It is the job of the mouth to grind food into a paste for easier digestion. In the ancient days, the combination of small stomach and long time to chew their food cause most of nixie's awake time eating food. With modern tools, nixies often eat soft food or blended and crushed food. Modern nixies eat six meals a day with snacks in between.
The torso has very little room for fat. When a nixie consumes too much food, the majority of the fat is stored in the limbs: arms and legs. It does not take much for a nixie to gain too much weight to get up from a sitting or laying position. In the ancient times, over weight nixies learn to sleep standing up, or get trapped by their own weight.
Despite nixie's small frame, nixies are unexpectly strong for their own size. They are know to be able to lift up to three times their own weight and able to carry five times their own weight. Nixie's arms and legs are thick and strong to handle heavy loads, and giving them a slightly over weight appearance. In the ancient times, nixies would often stay in one location until all the food is gone or time to continue their journey. It is often that, at the start of the journey, they are over weight and carrying food and supplies.
Mech[edit]
Mechs are often designed or inspired after larger creatures. Majority of mechs are made to appear like humans as they take the majority of Starfleet. Nixies have the technology to make very realistic mechs of the original race, it is highly illegal to design, create, and pilot one. Each one (up to the owner) decides a flaw that will make it obvious that this mech is not an organic creature. The most popular choice is slightly abnormal skin color, with pale skin color being the most popular color difference after a famous android named Data. Every model has an engine in the chest and storage compartments in the stomach or head.
In order to maintain healthy form and constant exercise, mechs can be piloted in two difference ways: physical and console. Console is an array of controls imbedded into the table and chair. While in the chair, Nixie is sure that sudden shocks or unexpected movement will not lead to lost of control. The physical is standing up and use motion tracking to control the mech. Two pulley systems are available to simulate heavy weights. For a creature spend most or all of their life in a mech suit, it is important to keep in shape just in case of a mech failure.
History[edit]
explain the reason why mechs are popular before first contact.
Society[edit]
What makes them differently from other cultures?
Poorly Kept Secret[edit]
After a history of stay safe by making sure their enemies don't know where the pilot is located at, Nixies do not like being scanned. Nixies often ask permission to scan from bio creature controlling the artificial construct. It is considered as rude to scan the constructs connected or piloted by biological creatures without asking. All nixies are taught that all other races scan other to make sure that each other for checking on their health or as a form of security or greeting. Most nixies will ignore the rude behavior of scanning from other races.
Nixies wish for other races to believe that they are android with organic brain and digestion system. Whenever someone finds out the truth, Nixies request to keep the secret. With the popularity of scanning and the necessary to inform medical staff and commanding staff, this secret is somewhat well known and easy to find out. Many Nixies dislike being treated like a small creature. The façade of an organic android is much more preferable.
Nixie in the Machine Names[edit]
Names often not picked by just the parents but also the family and friends. The parents have the final say. Names can be anything from an noun to a small sentence.
Male: Richard, Tree Bark, Everlasting flame, the son that outshines the star
Female: Sam, Diamond, Flowing river, H2O: Just Add Daughter
Nixie in the Machine Traits[edit]
A small chubby chibi creature piloting a mech
Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.
Age. Nixies age quickly and live a somewhat long time. Matures at 5 and reach old age at 150
Alignment. they tend to be nether chaotic or lawful. They enjoy creating chaos from order and order from chaos
Size. tiny
Speed. Your base walking speed is 5 feet and your mech's walking speed is 30 ft.
Stronger than they appear. Your body is built to carry heavy loads over long distances. For the purpose of strength based skills (like grappling or wielding weapons) and carrying, you count as one size larger.
Fuel for the brain. About a third of your weight is brain matter. You eat twice as much as a normal creature for your size.
Mech Suit. While you are strong, you are clumsy and fragile. You have a mech suit to overcome your limitations. Your str, dex, con, and char scores of your character sheet derived from the mech suit. While you are out of your mech suit, your dex, con, and char is reduced by 1/4 while str is reduced by 1/2. As such, 3/4 of your normal hp goes to the mech suit while 1/4 goes to yourself.
Your mech suit is immune to poison and physic damage, but most physic damage target the mech suit will hurt you instead.
Your subclass determine what model your mech suit is.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common.
Subrace. Head, Chest, and Stomach
Head[edit]
Your cockpit is located on the head making it the cheapest model. In older models, pair of telescopes are used to view the outside world through the fake eyes. The newer models simples use camaras and monitors. The fancy models has a glass head to give 360 view of the world.
Head models use the stomach as storage.
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1 and your Charisma score increases by 1. .
Speedy. You have the lowest lag out of all the models and popular among the combat mech models. You gain +1 to initiative.
(optional Feature) Old Fashion. You can pilot this mech suit the old fashion way. Your mech suit can be piloted without electricity though your brute strength, pulleys, and clock work. Piloting without electricity makes your movement unrefined and jerky. You cannot preform fine motor skills, write, or type.
Chest[edit]
Your cockpit is located on the chest near the engine. Majority of the time, it is a camaras and monitors system but the fancy models have a glass circle to directly view the front and back.
Chest models use the stomach and head as storage.
Ability Score Increase. your Constitution score increases by 2.
Toasty. Your cockpit is next to the biggest heating in the mech, the engine. You have resistance to cold damage and advantage to cold environment as long the mech is running and you are in your cockpit
Easy Repairs. When your mech breaks down, you can squeeze out of the the cockpit to make hastily repairs. While all mech suits can be repaired without leaving the mech suit, yours the easiest and fastest to access the repairs.
Stomach[edit]
Your cockpit is located on the largest empty space on the mech, the stomach. There is enough space to create a tiny personal room. This feature makes it the most popular model for long term stay or for the normal citizen. The fancy model has glass walls of the entire stomach to reveal your personal room to the world.
You have storage in your head.
Ability Score Increase. your Strength? score increases by 2.
Extra Protection. With such a large space, it hard for you to accidently or purposely killed before your mech suits shuts down. Only targeted critical hits can have any chance to hit your fleshy body.
Roomy. You have ample amount of space for you to personalize your room. Choose one from below:
- Storage: You place your items in an easy to reach location in your room
- Living space: You have a portal stove, foldable table, foldable chair, and foldable bed. You can transform your room into a kitchen, dinning room, living room, or bed room.
- Life Support: Your room has a built in life support system that could keep you alive in space for a few days. Additionally, this model has the entire stomach removable in case of emergency (or if someone wants to kidnap you).
- Room for two: There is another Nixie living with you. You two take turns piloting the mech.
- (optional feature) Holo=room/VR: You room has been out decked with cutting age technology. You can pilot your mech suit in a holographic or virtual reality simulation with a very limited view. You have blind sense up to 10ft but blind beyond it. If using VR, you are unable to preform fine motor skills.
Random Height and Weight[edit]
| Base Height |
Height Modifier* |
Base Weight |
Weight Modifier** |
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| 0′ 2-4'' | + | lb. | × () lb. |
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*Height = base height + height modifier | |||
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