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Virtue: Loyal Willpower: 6
Vice: Territorial Size: 1 (small organic parts only)
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 4, Wits 3, Speed: n/a
Resolve 3 Defense: n/a
Physical Attributes: Strength 6, Dexterity 3, Initiative: 6
Stamina 6
Social Attributes: Presence 1, Manipulation 2, Armor: 5/4
Composure 3 Notes: West Nautical 36 is so large that damage
Mental Skills: Academics 2, Computer 3, to any small part of it does not hurt the whole. Key
systems are small and hard to access. Destroying
Occult 2, Science (Geology) 5 the whole platform kills the entity it has become
Physical Skills: Drive 2, Stealth 1, Weaponry (but that requires explosives). West Nautical 36
(Mechanical Parts) 4 can make attacks with pieces of the platform as
Social Skills: Intimidation 4 though they were +1 lethal damage weapons,
and can make grappling attacks using electrical
Merits: Danger Sense, Fighting Style: Improvised cables. Arnold’s heart is the only piece of him left
Weaponry 2 intact. If it is destroyed, then West Nautical 36
Health: 3 (small organic parts only) reverts to its original, non-sapient state.

ANGELS

The servitors of the God-Machine are called “angels,” but to harvest the spiritual energy from sacrifices. The Architect
that by no means ascribes any benevolent or just motives to lived out its life as Hans Hoffmann, died of “natural causes,”
them. The angels serve the God-Machine — and that is all they and then returned to whatever existence awaited it. If the char-
do. They come to Earth with a specific mission, they perform acters in the Tale manage to find and disrupt the boiler room,
that mission, and they leave. Where do they go? Where do however, the Architect returns. Its mission, at that point,
they come from? Only the God-Machine knows for sure. is to stop the characters from disrupting the arrangement.
Angels have to work within Infrastructure. Most of the Description: The angel returns to Earth in the same
time, angels receive human identities and names to facilitate guise it wore before: A middle-aged German man with gray-
their missions. Sometimes, the angel’s mission permits it ing brown hair, a slight limp in his left leg, a Masonic ring,
to appear as a supernatural being (this is true of the Mirror
Vulture, p. 260, for example). In either case, though,
Infrastructure must be present for the angel to appear on
Earth. Fallen Angels?
The first angels in this section are all specifically designed
to be used with the Tales. The second set of angels are de- Is it possible, one might ask, for an angel to rebel?
signed to be used with your own Tales, and as such they writ- Can a servant of the God-Machine, instead of
ten to be more broadly accessible. If, for instance, you want fulfilling its mission and going home, being obliter-
to use the Lady in Red in your God-Machine chronicle, it ated, or whatever generally happens to angels,
should be there to make sure two people meet each other. It’s choose to remain on Earth?
there to make sure two very specific people, already named and If so, what happens? Does a new human identity
included in the chronicle (and probably players’ characters) appear for the angel? Does the Infrastructure into
meet. That may require you to change some of its methods, which the angel was created solidify, allowing the
Numina, or traits, and that’s just fine. angel to become truly part of the human world?
Does the angel retain its powers, or some measure
THE ARCHITECT of them? Can the angel be truly called an “angel”
anymore, or is another title (traditionally, “de-
mon”) more fitting?

The 300 Block — p. 197 And if not, why does every angel intuitively know
that part of its mission is “Do not betray your
Mission: The Architect was originally created to design the mission?”
300 block. More specifically, it had the task of creating the
boiler room that tied into the God-Machine and allowed it
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