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Today, there are more than a dozen Dalga used all across Dalga are good for injecting a healthy dose of body horror into
the world. They are almost immobile, but are defended by your God-Machine chronicle, and for creating physical threats for
specialized servitors that they create, and which they control characters to face. Angels, after all, can usually just discorporate
like puppets. and escape from a losing fight. A Dalga’s servants fight to the bitter
Description: Dalga always appears as ivory-colored eggs end and, if the characters pay attention, they’ll see smaller servants
the size of a grapefruit. They soon hatch into fist-sized spiders picking up the pieces to take back to their immense “mother.”
that grows rapidly. A full-grown Dalga can be the size of a bus,
but by this time it is too large and bloated to require or use Virtue: Loving
legs, so its limbs become shriveled and vestigial. Vice: Hungry
Methods: Dalga must be fed organic material and a wide
assortment of metal parts, including wire, springs, gears, Mental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 2, Resolve 4
pieces of sheet metal, screws, and bolts. Dalga must also be Physical Attributes: Strength 6, Dexterity 5*,
tended by at least five personal servitors. A Dalga creates the Stamina 6
first group of these servitors within two days of hatching. Social Attributes: Presence 1, Manipulation 2,
These first servants are usually clockwork humanoids between Composure 5
12 and 18 inches tall. Dalga grow rapidly, and build larger Mental Skills: Crafts (Servitors) 5, Medicine 3,
servitors every few weeks, eating the old ones for parts. By Occult 4
the time they are three months old, they create servants the Physical Skills: Brawl 5
size of adult humans. Dalga can only survive for a few days
without food, and by the time they are large enough to create Social Skills: Expression 3, Intimidation 4,
adult-sized creations, they are immobile. If all of its servants Persuasion 1
are killed, a Dalga starves to death. *The Dalga are largely immobile, but their
To create relatively simple-minded servitors, Dalga require Dexterity applies to fine manipulation.
the heads or brains of recently-dead animals to serve as a Merits: Iron Stamina 3
neural template for their clockwork creations. These heads Health: 24
must be no more than a day old. Servitors created in this way
follow clear and relatively simple orders without question. Willpower: 9
To create an intelligent servitor capable of following complex Integrity: 5 (A Dalga is alive and sapient, and
orders, Dalga must use a living human as a template. can suffer breaking points if forced to witness its
A Dalga can give all of its servitors special abilities, like servitors being destroyed.)
inhuman levels of strength or the ability to change their skin Size: 18 (full grown)
color to blend with surroundings. It can give each servitor up Speed: 1 (A Dalga can lurch along incredibly
to two special abilities. Most people Dalga use to create an slowly when full grown.)
intelligent servitor die horribly as Dalga scan their brain and
use them to create the clockwork servitor’s mind. If it finds a Defense: 0
brain particularly intriguing, it instead removes the person’s Initiative: 10
limbs and replaces them with clockwork fixtures, turning the Armor: 5
unfortunate person into a kind of hideous cyborg.
Dalga are creations of the God-Machine, but they are not
actually angels. They don’t return to the God-Machine when EMILIO RUBIO
their mission is complete, they simply starve to death (or they
don’t, and keep creating servants in some underground lair
somewhere, which would be an interesting basis for a Tale). Wellington School for Gifted Children — p. 205
As such, their traits reflect their material nature. Mission: Emilio’s mission is to discover what is prevent-
Dalga are hideous, appearing like large and horribly- ing the God-Machine from seeing or influencing the inside
bloated spiders with distorted human faces. They wrap the of the Wellington School. Since the strange effect blocking
brains or bodies that people give them in silk and then use the God-Machine weakens it as well, however, it is relying on
their complex, tool-like mouthparts to scan and dissect the the characters to bring it data.
brains. Afterwards, they devour the brains and sculpt their Description: Emilio has taken the form of a young
clockwork servitors from metal that they work with their Hispanic man in his mid-20s. Emilio has black hair, a pleas-
many strong legs, and silk that they can form into a strange, ant smile, perfectly white teeth and a vague scent of tobacco
pale material like fiberglass. Dalga need approximately two about it (though no one ever sees him smoke). It drives a
hours to create a single clockwork servitor. Dalga cannot silver van with the Edu Tech logo on the side, and speaks with
speak directly. Instead, they communicate through their servi- a slight Hispanic accent, though it does not actually speak
tors, who all speak simultaneously in a uniform and entirely Spanish, which the characters could use to expose it as an
emotionless monotone. They can also speak through nearby angel. If someone addresses it directly in Spanish, Emilio’s
people and do so if their servants are not present. eyes change into thick, gray smoke.
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