Skin Bandit Origin

[Flesh]

Anyone know anything about this?

[Freeasabird🕊]

I figure since its a bunch of robots doing this i'd think they'd be some malfunctioning service droids.

[Drift]

Through the absolutely sparse information I've found within the game itself:
Skin Bandits are a faction of Skeletons that have captured and worship a human to use as their religious figure, they like to pretend to be human and seem to serve as the ideological antithesis to the Skeleton Bandits. They do not seem to be loyal to any particular faction and have no affiliation with anyone else besides themselves.

IMO they are just defective units much like Cat-Lon and pretty much everyone else in the Southeast of the Island. Messed with by some weird engineer somewhere down the line.

[Chaz]

Originally posted by Quiet:

Through the absolutely sparse information I've found within the game itself:
Skin Bandits are a faction of Skeletons that have captured and worship a human to use as their religious figure, they like to pretend to be human and seem to serve as the ideological antithesis to the Skeleton Bandits. They do not seem to be loyal to any particular faction and have no affiliation with anyone else besides themselves.

IMO they are just defective units much like Cat-Lon and pretty much everyone else in the Southeast of the Island. Messed with by some weird engineer somewhere down the line.

If were on the same page, your talking about the scorchlander in their camp who studied skeletons when he was young. I think he's there by choice

[Drift]

Originally posted by Dogzrkewl22:

Originally posted by Quiet:

Through the absolutely sparse information I've found within the game itself:
Skin Bandits are a faction of Skeletons that have captured and worship a human to use as their religious figure, they like to pretend to be human and seem to serve as the ideological antithesis to the Skeleton Bandits. They do not seem to be loyal to any particular faction and have no affiliation with anyone else besides themselves.

IMO they are just defective units much like Cat-Lon and pretty much everyone else in the Southeast of the Island. Messed with by some weird engineer somewhere down the line.

If were on the same page, your talking about the scorchlander in their camp who studied skeletons when he was young. I think he's there by choice

I never spoke to him, I heard a random NPC talking about him after I'd murdered everything in the creepy base. What the NPC said implied he had been kidnapped and sort of made like Jack in Pirates 2

[AdArmaAdArma]

In Sniper valley there is a location where three empty police barracks within.At my first visit I thought maybe the skeleton police is patrolling somewhere else. But now I would rather believe that they have become those evils dressing human skin.

[Armorguy1]

I just visited the place with my all Shek squad. 12 90+ in most combat skills equipped with breathing masks and black plate medium armor. They don't do anything to them because they weren't interested in Shek people. As long as you don't try to sleep in any of the skin bandit houses but stay in the scorchlander building you can basically use his bed for free. If you try to sleep in any of the other beds the skin bandits will try to peel you. SO be carefull there.

[sensha]

Crossing them with another question, the HN's hatred of mere robotic limbs even on organics, it's likely, infact almost a guarantee, that there were more humanoid skeletons in the past, and these bandits are, like much of the southeast, trying desperately to cling to a long lost time.

[Sackbot bbq]

My take on the "Savant was kidnapped" thing is that it's a ted bundy type situation. from what I've seen, the skin bandits seem to work for him.

[lizardmang]

Originally posted by AdArmaAdArma:

In Sniper valley there is a location where three empty police barracks within.At my first visit I thought maybe the skeleton police is patrolling somewhere else. But now I would rather believe that they have become those evils dressing human skin.

I've heard this was an oversight and that the data for old police robots spawning there is in the game files but not properly assigned. There's even a mod which fixes this.

Granted, whether it was actually an oversight to not assign the spawns or a decision made after it had been coded is anyone's guess.

Originally posted by sensha:

Crossing them with another question, the HN's hatred of mere robotic limbs even on organics, it's likely, infact almost a guarantee, that there were more humanoid skeletons in the past, and these bandits are, like much of the southeast, trying desperately to cling to a long lost time.

This, coupled with the term skeletons, does seem to imply that the robots were once more like androids, and any physical evidence of this could easily be lost to a millennium of wear and tear. But I also suspect this could just be a red herring. It's also worth noting that prosthetics are not the only tech they hate other than skeletons; they seem to be technophobic in general.

[Wanted111who]

I thought Savant reprogrammed them. The are exact opposite of skeleton bandits.