● is on the bench — saved as you go, nothing final until the restraining bolt. Idle builds scrap themselves after 3 days.
ZAHLA PHENNSo your droid needs a spark. Good — best part of my day. First things first: the bench log needs to know whose build this is. Flash your Discord credentials at the desk and I'll get you set up.
Building a droid requires a Discord sign-in (just your username — nothing else). Chatting with finished droids never does.
ZAHLA PHENNBack again? Your unfinished business is right where you left it. Pick a build to keep going, scrap one you've gone cold on, or start something new — my bench holds two at a time.
ZAHLA PHENNEvery unit that rolls off this bench gets a designation — that's the name on the build sheet, the one the vault knows it by. And if it goes by something friendlier around the homestead, tell me that too; a droid should answer to its own name.
ZAHLA PHENNNow the part I never get tired of — what IS this thing? Give me the chassis, and then paint me a picture: the dents, the mismatched panels, the scorch mark with a story behind it. The more you tell me, the more the droid feels like YOURS.
ZAHLA PHENNHow does it talk? Beeps and whistles with attitude? Clipped protocol-droid diction? A drawl it picked up from a freighter crew? Give me the quirks — the verbal tics are half the personality.
ZAHLA PHENNTime to set the dials. Every droid off my bench gets its temperament tuned by hand — slide each one to where your droid lives. Leave a dial centered and I just won't wire that circuit.
ZAHLA PHENNWho does it answer to — besides you? And give me the lines it can't stop saying. Every droid has a few. Five slots on the build sheet; use what you need.
ZAHLA PHENNLast of the deep work: where has this droid BEEN? Factory floor to your workshop — the wipes it dodged, the owners it outlived, the one job that changed it. This is the part guests feel even when the droid never says it outright.
ZAHLA PHENNBuild sheet's complete. Before anything off my bench talks to a guest, it goes under the scanner — workshop rule, no exceptions. Look it over, and when you're ready I'll run the final scan.
ZAHLA PHENNPowering it up on the bench. You get twenty minutes on the clock, and twenty test messages a day across all your builds — make them count. Talk to your droid. See if it sounds like the one in your head.
Test messages: 20/day
First message starts the 20-minute clock
Window’s closed. Back to the bench to tweak the build — that voids the scan, so it goes under the scanner again — or put that restraining bolt on and lock it down.
ZAHLA PHENNLast step, and I only say this once: the restraining bolt is permanent. No edits after — ever. Want changes someday? That's a fresh build from a copy of your sheet. Read the terms, check the box, and I'll bolt it down and rack it in the vault.
ZAHLA PHENNRestraining bolt activated. is racked in the vault — live, public, and ready to talk to anyone who walks in. Good build. Now get out of my workshop and go say hello to it.
- Sign in at the desk
- Designation & nickname
- Chassis & appearance
- Voice & speech quirks
- Personality traits (the dials)
- Allegiance & catchphrases
- Backstory
- Review & final scan
- Test run (your droid speaks!)
- Restraining bolt