Battle Chicken, Gnomish

Description: The gnomish battle chicken is an oversized mechanical chicken. It may look silly, but it is one tough customer. Operation: Starting an inert battle chicken, which involves cranking cranks, pushing buttons, turning little knobs, and speaking into flared tubes, takes 1 minute and a DC 40 Use T echnological Device check. The chicken obeys the voice commands of the creature that started it, attacking his enemies and doing anything else he asks. The chicken can understand only simple commands; see the tricks in the Handle Animal skill in Chapter 5: Skills for some possibilities. Whenever the controller issues a new command, he must make a DC 25 Use T echnological Device check or the chicken ignores him and continues performing its current action. The chicken can operate continuously for 8 hours before it must shut down to cool off, which takes 1 hour. Fuel: The battle chicken requires one vial of phlogiston every hour. Malfunction: The chicken attacks its master or her allies. Hardness 5; 110 hp; Size Small; W eight 25 lb.; MR 2; TS 24, Craft DC 64; Price 35,530 gp. Gnomish Battle Chicken: CR 8; Small construct; HD 20d10, hp 110; Init <1; Spd 20 ft.; AC 23, touch 11, flat-footed 23; Base Atk +15; Grp +11; Atk +21 melee (3d6+4, bite); Full Atk +21 melee (5d6+4, bite); Face/ Reach 2 1/2 ft./0 ft.; SQ Hardness 5, construct traits; AL N; SV Fort +6, Ref +5, Spt +1; Str 18, Agi 8, Sta -, Int 1, Wis 1, Cha 1. Skill: Listen +18. Combat Armor, Gnomish