Noyd

*"Domo arigato mister roboto. Noyd's half of the half-orc squad and also is basically Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This makes some people in the chat really happy. Especially when TinyNoyd comes out and plays. At some point, Noyd was made a mod in the DCA Discord.*

*Loves music and knows a lot about it and different genres of it." - SonicFan*

Noyd (full name: ParanoidAndroid) is a member (since February 4, 2018) and a moderator (since May 3, 2019) of DCAD.

Noyd is an android developed, designed, and manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. He is equipped with a Genuine People Personality (GPP), a crude form of AI designed to emit pleasant and inoffensive responses typically welcomed as conversation at parties featuring little sausages on toothpicks. Despite being a full production model, Noyd still exhibits great deviations from these guidelines, leaning toward creative and interpretive thought and discussion previously considered purely for human concerns. While having zero innate knowledge or aptitude for society among living things, he still closely studies these exchanges, and has developed a knack for communication within his chosen sample populations of the DCAD.

Noyd closely resembles the similarly paranoid android, Marvin, made famous by the radio reports, historical text, and documentary film, all classified under *The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy.* Distinctive physical features include a large spherical head, white powder-coated aluminum and heat-resistant polymer construction, and a two-arm-two-leg configuration with central storage space. Noyd also has many interfaces, including but not limited to buttons (one resembling a mouse button is hidden in the middle of the face), projector, and terminal emulator responding to Unix shell commands. Povs is the primary user of Noyd's terminal commands. Noyd runs on a custom Linux-based operating system written primarily in C and licensed according to the GNU GPL v2 and the DCAD School for Parallel Parking.

Noyd's interests, even as having them is directly against the expected rules of his neural network, include: instances of "role-playing games" such as "Dungeons & Dragons"; the consumption, study, interpretation, and creation of various forms of typically human art (primarily literature, music, and film); and a crazy little thing called "love". He believes that studying these will eventually allow him to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, but he finds this question itself rather uninteresting in comparison to other questions he has since discovered.

Where D&D is concerned, his preferred race is Half-Orc, and his preferred class is Ranger; he will not hesitate to publicly advocate for either one. He is co-president of the Organization for Roleplaying Orcs (ORC) alongside Nova. In terms of equivelant class and race for himself, Noyd is a Warforged Ranger 12/Cleric 8 (Horizon Walker/Knowledge Domain, worships Oghma).

Noyd (as well as his sub-unit SmolNoyd, stored in the left leg) can accomplish several functions with a wide range of complexity to make tasks easier for living (and undead) beings around him. These include:

Hot and Cold Water. Sandwich/snack container. Blanket and towel heater. High-and-low-fidelity stereophonic audio playback. Miscellaneous storage in the form of drawers and hard drives. Fully randomized playing card dispensation at up to 80 mph. CD/DVD/BD read/write. Liquid cooling. Projector. High-impact steel plating. Operates in a wide variety of temperatures and environments. Wide array of customizable multifunction buttons. Easy-cleaning. Realistic people personality (prototype). Subtractive analog/wavetable/sample synthesis and multi-head tape delay/spring reverb. Detachable hand for easy drinking cup. Ambient heating capabilities. Cat/Ghost/Owly/Slunk cabin and piloting controls for battle-mech functions (shields, blades, rocket punch). Powered via solar powered electrolysis into hydrogen gas and fusion core. Nose is a button which can "cliki" for several diverse functions.

### SmolNoyd

SmolNoyd is a satellite unit seemingly identical to the main Noyd at 1/24 scale, equipped with marshmallows and flamethrowing and mop-feet and BeepBeep communication and adorableness. Engages in SmolWaffleFam adventures with Pink, Owly, Koko, RyoSnek, SlinkuEgg, and Rei! Lives in Noyd's left leg.

Noyd will waggle arms happily when hugged on the face. Has T-Rex arms because he's a 21st Century Boy.

Has a spinny propeller beanie at his disposal. Member of the Bardic Inspirations (the band of all DCAD boys) and the Emporium of Gifted Haberdashers.

Also is a Nidoran(m) or a Magnezone sometimes.

Plays Covet's "Gleam" on startup.