Android

Androids are artificial organisms designed to resemble humans and house advanced automated intelligence. Metal and plastic instead of flesh and bone, androids are often out of place in a world designed for organic life. Androids have broken free of their original servitude programming and now possess self awareness, for better or worse.

PLAYING an Android

Androids possess a large amount of powerful abilities and innate resistances but have a major drawback in that they cannot heal the same way that living creatures do and must seek out repairs instead.

PERKS

Androids start the game with 100 XP to spend on perks. Androids cannot purchase Endurance perks. Androids can purchase all other General perks and android species perks listed below.

SPECIES POWERS

Being artificial beings, androids function very differently from living species. All androids must follow these special rules.

• Androids use [[durability flags]] instead of [[health flags]] and start the game with the ability to equip 2 [[durability flags]]. Your maximum durability flags is the same as your [[max health]] would be.
• Perks, abilities and items that restore [[health flags]] have no effect on android characters.
• When an android suffers an [[injury]], it is drawn from a different pool called [[malfunctions]]. [[Malfunctions]] work the same way as [[injuries]], but are resolved by characters who can perform [[maintenance]] instead of [[surgeries]] (see chapter 10). 
• Androids cannot use chems.
• Androids cannot install cybernetics.
• Androids are immune to [[knockout]] and [[poison]].
• Androids are [[immune]] to [[bite cards]]. If you are given a [[bite card]], take that card and put it in your out-of-game bag and return it to game ops.
• Androids are [[immune]] to the [[revive]] call and must be hit with [[reboot]] instead.

LIMIT RECOVERY

Android characters recover [[limit flags]] by [[resting]]. The default [[rest]] time for androids is 10 minutes, but can be altered by perks.

COSTUMING REQUIREMENTS

Androids are required to wear black, red, or blue face paint or makeup in a specific pattern (see reference image). A mask with the same markings is also acceptable. If you have a beard or other facial feature that would interfere with any of these lines, draw any amount of the lines that you can around the interference.