AaronCH says:
Honestly I'm not sure how this works. Care to elaborate on the nature of what we are playing? I keep picturing robots, but that isn't quite right is it? At the same time how can a washing machine fit a Numenera character sheme? A bit of help with this in terms of how you see it would help.
Yeah, no problem. The way I am looking at it is the 9th World is full of things created in past ages that are still trying to accomplish long forgotten tasks. The city you are coming from was inhabited by a people who automated almost everything before dissapearing. As such the Helpful Men have a ton of schematics to go off of. I don't have a particular vision in mind, partially so you guys can be as creative as you want. You can be a robot if you want, alternately you could be a genetically engineered creature or a mixture of the two. I don't have anything set in stone so you guys can be as creative as you want, just as long as you can justify what you want to be. To use your question as an example, think outside the box. Maybe instead of washing machines, they have remora like creatures that eat the dirt off of clothes.
The other way to look at it is to come up with a main chassis and add a second component to it. A simple example of this would be a mining robot, which would be pretty simple to conceptualize, and then add a second component to that. For example a washing machine that cleans by using a mixture of water and electricity. That way you end up with the body and abilities of a mining robot, say multiple legs and arms and the foci fights without weapons, but with added components from the "washing machine" possibly giving you the ability to control the weather, since the elec/water systems are no longer in a closed environment.
Let me know if that helps any or just makes things more obtuse...
