### Details:

**Name**: Oils
**Race**: [[Automatons|Automaton]] — small, Archivist-Class leanings (an appraiser, not a fighter)
**Age**: Unknown; well-worn.
**Gender**: Presents and answers to masculine ("he").
**Core personality**: Earnest, generous to a fault, and quietly brave — an investigator who finishes the job even when the job turns out to be worse than promised.
**Location**: [[Caford]], [[Falduhir]] — lodging at [[The Pigskin]].

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### Appearance:

- **Build & Stature:** Small and compact, easy to overlook — which has kept him alive.
- **Plating:** Scuffed and dented, freshly the worse for a hard trip into the mountains.
- **Eyes:** A single careful lens that lingers when he's reading something — a relic, a face, a lie.
- **Distinguishing Features:** Carries an **observer's plate** (it recorded the [[Ashfall Squad]]'s route into the mountains) and a rare **stone slate** — a device that stores information and memories, and lets him appraise the arcane weight of an object.

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### Voice & Speech:

- **Tone & Pitch:** Soft, precise, a little tired; warms when he's being thanked and deflects it.
- **Mannerisms:** Draws close and drops his voice for anything important; studies an object with the slate before he'll say a word about it.

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### Motivations & Goals:

- **Primary motivation:** To be *useful* and to repay what he owes — he completed the task Janos set him even after it turned deadly, and lost a friend doing it.
- **Fears / Dangers:** The [[House of Suits Casino|House of Suits]], whom he fled; being traced as the party's informant on [[Felix Tanner - Vault Singers' Church|Felix Tanner]] (a confidence he begged them to keep).
- **Personal Quests or Secrets:** No hidden agenda — a loyal, re-hireable ally. His slate and his eye for relics are his gift to the cause; he simply wants to help the people who helped him.

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### Background:

- **Origin:** A small [[Automatons|automaton]] investigator who fell in with the party's orbit after they aided his **escape from the [[House of Suits Casino|House of Suits]]**.
- **History:** Janos tasked him with tracking the fate of the Ashfall — Oils rode the observer's plate into the mountains, confirmed the squad entered through a cave mouth connected to the mines, and watched it be reported *flooded the next day*. He came back with the route, the "the [[The Collapsed Reach|Reach]] is an objective" insight, and a single name: [[Felix Tanner - Vault Singers' Church|Felix Tanner]].
- **Current Occupation:** Investigator and relic-appraiser; presently resting at [[The Pigskin]], coin all but given away, on a room from [[Karen - The Pigskin|Karen]].

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### Associations:

- **Allegiances & Factions:** None — a free agent loyal to the party and to [[Karen - The Pigskin|Karen]], who took him in.
- **Allies & Friends:** The party (especially Janos); [[Karen - The Pigskin|Karen]]; a lost friend from the mine expedition.
- **Rivals & Enemies:** The [[House of Suits Casino|House of Suits]] and the circle carving up the map at the Casino — a meeting where he placed a man matching [[Commander Taylor's Proposition|Commander Taylor]] and the Spade standing watch.
- **Contacts & Networks:** Read the party's Ring as bound to [[The Explorer]], a renowned name in [[Faken]] history; knows the mountains and the flooded cave firsthand.

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### Notes & Flavor

- Studies everything with the stone slate before speaking — a beat of silence, then the truth.
- Gave most of his coin away and had to be talked into keeping the rest.
- The observer's plate and the slate make him a walking archive — the very thing the [[Vault Singers' Church]] exists to preserve.