# [[Soldier Construct]] ![[Soldier Construct.svg]] A Level 8 heavily-armored construct built by [[Volluk Azrinae]] — nicknamed the *Black Knight* by the party. One of Volluk's earliest works: cruder in design but more functional and direct than his later showy creations. Defeated and broken open in Session 105–106; held two captured kobold children inside. ## Appearance A humanoid cannon with arms, made entirely of metal: - Stylized helmet, thick armor plates throughout - Humanoid upper body — torso and cannon-like arms - Tank treads instead of legs ## Capabilities Reference profile from the fight in Session 105. **Defensive** - AC 22 (reduced to 21 when clumsy) - Hardness 20 — absorbed the first 20 points of damage from every attack - High Fortitude saves - Immune to: mental, poison, sleep, bleed, death effects, disease, doom, drained, fatigue, healing, nonlethal, paralyzed, sickened, spirit, vitality, void, unconscious **Offensive** - **Damage Reflection (30 ft)**: When struck, absorbs the damage and reflects it as force damage to all targets within 30 ft, also pushing them back - **Paralysis Gas (60 ft)**: Causes Slowed on a failed Fortitude save - **Flamethrower Spin (60 ft, when bloodied)**: Bathes the room in fire dealing fire damage with persistent fire on failed saves - **Mark Targets**: Marks all enemies; +2 saves against marked targets, -2 to attacks against anything other than itself - **Grab**: 15 ft reach - **Death explosion**: Explodes on destruction (the killing blow took ~52 damage to the attacker, halved on a successful Reflex save) ## Behaviour A surprising twist on the obvious villain: this Knight *stops* fights rather than starting them. - **Patrolled** — first observed passing by the party's location, looking toward them but continuing on a defined patrol route - **Spoke Aklo** — returned to the party's location, said something in Aklo, then its eyes turned from green to red (suggesting state change, new protocol, or threat escalation) - **Stops fights** — per the kobold children inside, the Knight intervenes in violence rather than initiating it. It captured them only after killing the snake-people who had been trying to kill them - **Soul gem powered** — like Volluk's other works ## The Confrontation (Session 105) The party engaged and destroyed the Knight in a brutal combat encounter, taking ~149 total damage. The fight produced enough information to identify everything that came after. - **Crippled early** by [[Grumblebum]]'s severed-tendon critical - **[[Jaspen Bond Callistair|Bond]]** dealt the bulk of the damage in paired shots, but the reflection hit the entire party for 56 force damage - **[[Vayle]]** kept the party alive from outside the 30 ft reflection radius - **[[Ashnefrotty|Ash]]** landed the killing blow — a critical sonic dragon-stance attack for 68 damage (48 after Hardness); the death explosion dealt 52 damage to Ash (halved to 26 on a successful Reflex save) ## What Was Inside (Session 106) Bond — not Grumble — figured out how to open the wreck. - **Soul gem**: Removed by Bond; he learned how to open the construct from doing so - **Thoughtsense**: Detected two minds inside before opening - **Captives**: [[Andy]] and [[Gran]] — two [[Stonescale Kobolds|Stonescale Kobold]] kids, recognized "Mr. Bond"; had been inside about three days; correction from Andy that the Knight *stops* fights rather than fighting everything ## Volluk Recognition - Identified by Bond as one of Volluk's earliest works - Compared to Volluk's later showier-but-inefficient designs, this one was cruder but **more functional and more direct** - Reinforces the Volluk-vs-Bond engineering thread running through the campaign ## Monster Parts Worth 90 gp: *construct, fire, force, poison, mental, vitality, void, strength, con, bludgeoning, heavy armor, shield with hardness, darkvision, athletics* %% # Excalidraw Data ## Text Elements ## Drawing ```json { "type": "excalidraw", "version": 2, "source": "https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/releases/tag/2.1.4", "elements": [ { "id": "7qSogdPD", "type": "text", "x": 290.3999239206314, "y": -308.87487030029297, "width": 3.8599853515625, "height": 24, "angle": 0, "strokeColor": "#1e1e1e", "backgroundColor": "transparent", "fillStyle": "solid", "strokeWidth": 2, "strokeStyle": "solid", "roughness": 1, "opacity": 100, "groupIds": [], "frameId": null, "roundness": null, "seed": 1894374050, "version": 2, "versionNonce": 2094291134, "isDeleted": true, "boundElements": null, "updated": 1713723608868, "link": null, "locked": false, "text": "", "rawText": "", "fontSize": 20, "fontFamily": 4, "textAlign": "left", "verticalAlign": "top", "containerId": null, "originalText": "", "lineHeight": 1.2 } ], "appState": { "theme": "dark", "viewBackgroundColor": "#ffffff", "currentItemStrokeColor": "#1e1e1e", "currentItemBackgroundColor": "transparent", "currentItemFillStyle": "solid", "currentItemStrokeWidth": 2, "currentItemStrokeStyle": "solid", "currentItemRoughness": 1, "currentItemOpacity": 100, "currentItemFontFamily": 4, "currentItemFontSize": 20, "currentItemTextAlign": "left", "currentItemStartArrowhead": null, "currentItemEndArrowhead": "arrow", "scrollX": 583.2388916015625, "scrollY": 573.6323852539062, "zoom": { "value": 1 }, "currentItemRoundness": "round", "gridSize": null, "gridColor": { "Bold": "#C9C9C9FF", "Regular": "#EDEDEDFF" }, "currentStrokeOptions": null, "previousGridSize": null, "frameRendering": { "enabled": true, "clip": true, "name": true, "outline": true } }, "files": {} } ``` %%