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Edymnion 08-22-04, 03:19 PM	Overdrive, as he has come to call himself, was crafted in the years preceeding the end of the War as an experimental model. The concept was simple, a combat model that would combine the base combat abilities of the Warforged with the ability to temporarily increase they're own strength and resiliance, a process that was dubbed "overdriving" by the artificers overseeing the project. Certain inbuilt training had to be forfeitted to make room for the new ability, but what was gained was an incredibly impressive fighting unit. When going into overdrive, pieces of the unit's armor plating would extend and rearrange themselves to make room for the suddenly increase in bulk of the fiberous strands that comprised it's muscle (which had the unforseen side effect of lowering the unit's overall defense, but it was deemed and acceptable tradeoff for the increased damage dealing potential). Circular plates on the shoulders spin to life, as steam began venting from major joints and a network of glowing strands came to life, like veins of fire coursing through the unit's chasi. The artificers were sure to be well rewarded for their breakthrough. Unfortunately, the overdrive systems had a startling regular tendency to make the Warforged harder to control in battle, more strong willed and bullheaded. In truth, it was discovered that going into overdrive would force all thought of strategy and adaptablity out of the unit's mind, leaving it to simply destroy all that stood in it's way. This was almost enough to end the project, but enough was salvagable to continue it, but for the final nail in the proverbial coffin. The strain on the Warforged's body from extended overdrives was extreme, and unmaintainable. An overdrive unit would become a monster comparable to the previous Warforged Titans while active, but in under a minute the strain caused a partial shutdown of the unit, resulting in drastically reduced strength and staying power. In the end, it was decided that the temporary boost in battle prowess was canceled out entirely by the extended weakness afterwards, and the uncontrollable nature while overdriving made the units a liability in delicate situations. The project was terminated, the test models slated for deactivation and redesign. It was at about this time the War ended, and the units were never destroyed. In fact, they never learned of their near brush with death at all (for it was deemed unwise to inform an overdrive unit that it was to be quietly put to death for fear of it's rebelling). Now these units, including the one who still refers to himself as Overdrive, roam the countryside with their more normal Warforged breathern. Few know that these models blend in with the rest, even amongst the warforged themselves. The ones that do witness one going into overdrive rarely survive to tell the tale.
Typhus_The_Souleater 09-02-04, 09:20 PM	Good Ideas, You should work with your DM to get a Villian that was one of these models, or have the lord of blades seek Overdrive out to join the cause or be dismantled to find his secerets. I like, but then again i am playing a Warforged Paladin who made after the band on warforge ;)
Edymnion 09-02-04, 09:39 PM	Good Ideas, You should work with your DM to get a Villian that was one of these models, or have the lord of blades seek Overdrive out to join the cause or be dismantled to find his secerets. I like, but then again i am playing a Warforged Paladin who made after the band on warforge ;)Overdrive here is in a game where the DM is just running the Forge module out of the back of the book, then on to Shadows of the Last War. We already went up against Cutter, who was a Barbarian Warforged. Unfortunately for Cutter, it got one axe attack on Overdrive's chest, and then they sorta went... splat. Got me a Final Messanger out of the deal too! :D (FM has AC 26. Barbarian with 18 str, Raging, spending an Action Point to grab the thing, and a good roll, it was easy)