Amber-Ale Assembleaux

## Character Information

### Skills

steampunk enhancements, extended lifespan, acidic spit, resistant to psionics, superhuman height

A freakishly tall man and owner of the Assembleaux factory during Come At The King. His family has been building assembled men for generations and he has enhanced his own body with numerous mechanical attachments and implants. He moves with an unnatural grace and grinding noises that unnerve everyone around him.

Amber was present when Grimothee was built and sold, not realizing that he possessed his psychic powers. Snake Professional brings the party to him, claiming that he'll be the one to deliver their reward. Amber explains that he actually appreciates the war since he sells his mechanical soldiers to both sides. Snake reveals that he is actually an anarchist trying to end the war and tries to organize the team into killing Amber. A fight breaks out between them and Amber is nearly knocked out the window, but his assembled arrive as reinforcements.

 Amber-Ale captures the party with his army of assembled men and marches them into a courtroom. He explains that they will receive a fair trial, though his logic seems warped from the beginning. Butter pretends to present their case, only to savagely attack Fanboat serving as the judge. Amber-Ale summons his assembled men to him, making them grab onto him and form a massive suit of armor. He turns into Mecha-Ale Assembleaux, changing his name on the spot as he becomes a twenty-foot-tall titan of coordinated assembled men. When he appears ready to crush the party, Torrin has Old Glove come out of hiding to wreck havoc on Mecha-Ale's internal components. It exposes his large and shiny mechanical heart, which Deli quickly steals out of his chest. Mecha-Ale collapses, leaving only the damaged and dying Amber-Ale. He claims that his time has come to ascend to heaven where his mind has already left to. Grimothee punches him in the face, stopping him and his machinations once and for all.

## Appearance

Amber-Ale's upper body is that of a 6-foot tall man, but his legs are elongated like those of an 8-foot tall man. A smokestack is built into his head and he possesses wild eyes. He wears a tall top hat and sweats heavily. He wields a long cane with a mosquito encased in amber on the head. His appearance can cause nightmares in characters who fail Wisdom saving throws. Strangely colored tubes are attached to his back, which pump through him to help keep him alive.

## Trivia

* Amber-Ale's father was Mister Assembleaux. This is because his father had no first name.
* Grimothee's psychic powers have a dampened affect on Assembleaux, presumably because so much of his body has been replaced by machinery. Even his telepathy experiences a staticy feedback.
* Amber is one of the few characters to narrate the outro of Come At The King. The others are Snake Professional and Jean-Luc Robespierre.
* Amber-Ale was designed in reference to Dr. Loveless, the antagonist in Wild Wild West.
* Amber-Ale shares the dream of becoming taller with Bento from Class Dismissed. Amber-Ale simply took it much farther by wanting to become so tall that the gods themselves would strike him down.
* Amber-Ale's body pumps strange fluids instead of his original blood. He is able to spit it as an acidic projectile.
* Amber-Ale keeps the decapitated head of an assembled man inside his desk. He claims it was taken from a sentient assembled who returned to try and free his brethren. When he shows it to Grimothee, he points out that it's not a very good threat because they all look the same and it could simply be a spare part from the factory.