Protocite Speaker

Family: Protocite

Small construct, unaligned

Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 38 (11d6)
Speed 30 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)	18 (+4)

Damage Vulnerabilities lightning
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that are not adamantine
Damage Immunities necrotic, poison, psychic
Condition Immunities poisoned
Skills Acrobatics +3, History +4, Insight +2, Persuasion +6
Senses darkvision, low-light vision, passive Perception 12
Languages one language determined by its creator, parse, shortwave
Challenge 2 (450 XP)

SPECIAL TRAITS

• Congenial. Protocite speakers relish the opportunity to learn and respond well to positive interactions. Their attitude toward creatures that are not obviously hostile is always initially friendly.
• Mechanical Nature. The robot does not require air, food, drink, or sleep.
• Parse. By spending 10 minutes conversing with a willing creature a protocite speaker can approximate that creature’s spoken or signed language.
• Shortwave. A protocite can communicate wirelessly with other constructs within 100 feet. They may speak telepathically to any construct within range, regardless of if that construct knows a language. This does not allow those creatures to respond unless they have a similar ability.
• Sunlight Dependency. Protocites are solar-powered constructs, thought they can function at reduced capacity away from light. In areas of darkness protocites act as though affected by the spell slow.

ACTIONS

• Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage.
• Integrated Laser. Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 40/120 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (3d8 + 1) radiant damage.
• Sensory Overload (Recharges 5-6). The protocite speaker spins in place, emitting a cacophony of shrieking alarms and strobing lights. Each non-protocite creature within 30 feet is must succeed at a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or be blinded and deafened until the end of the protocite speaker’s next turn.

ABOUT

A radioactive wind is an undead creature made up of the foul air and fallout dust sloughed off by the innumerable creatures wiped out in atomic holocausts or exposed to lethal doses of cosmic radiation. A radioactive wind carries the foul stench of death upon it, drifting mindlessly across postapocalyptic wastelands, blighting all life it comes across and leaving only famine and death in its wake. A protocite speaker is roughly humanoid in shape but vary widely in specific appearance. Its limbs and head can be reconfigured to best meet the needs of the task it is assigned to, allowing it to recreate a wide variety of physical features and mannerisms.

The “life” of a protocite speaker begins with its extrusion from a manufactory, where the speaker carries out preprogrammed tasks. Most speakers exist in a state of quiet determination, moving to and fro in an approximation of a sapient creature’s daily life. Speakers also interact with one another, and sometimes with other protocites, as a way of testing and evaluating various social simulations.

Usually, after a speaker performs its assigned tasks, it powers down. A reclaimer then comes and grinds the speaker back into polyfluid. However, in every generation of speakers, several individuals are constructed with expanded data drives, insatiable curiosity, and no predetermined tasks to allow more autonomy than most. These “observer” speakers roam, watch, and guide other experiments.

Protocite speakers relish the opportunity to learn and respond well to positive interactions. Their attitude toward creatures that are not obviously hostile is always

The robot does not require air, food, By spending 10 minutes conversing with a willing creature a protocite speaker can approximate that creature’s spoken or signed language.

A protocite can communicate wirelessly with other constructs within 100 feet. They may speak telepathically to any construct within range, regardless of if that construct knows a language. This does not allow those creatures to respond unless they have