Welcome to Night Vale Inspired Troika Backgrounds

March 28, 2026

Originally Published April 5th 2021

11) A literate Tarantula

You are one of the lucky Tarantulas who has been provided the opportunities provided by

Teach a Spider to Read, Stop the Madness. You may not be able to speak but you are fully literate.

Possessions

A well-read book

Advanced Skills

4 Climb

12) Antique

Often bought and sold at antique shows and in antique stores. You are rather vicious, wildly intelligent, and very tired of being captive.

Possesions

A broken cage

Advanced Skill

4 Teeth Fighting

Special

No two antiques look exactly the same, you range in appearance from a hyena to bacterial mats.

13) Barista

A maker of great and wonderful coffees you and many of your barista siblings live in the caves underground when you are not making drinks for the people that surround you.

Possesions

2+1d3 Arms

Advanced Skills

3 Coffee Making

14) Blood Space Warrior

A soldier sent off some time somewhere into the great vast of space. The war hasn't started yet but it finished 1d3 decades ago.

Possesions

Fusil

Advanced Skills

4 Time Travel

You are responsible for the production of the bloodstones used in the daily rituals throughout your humble town. It is a hard job but someone needs to make sure they are up to snuff or else bad bad things will happen.

Possesions

A proper bloodstone

Advanced Skills

3 Bloodstone Lore

16) Coaching Ghost

You have been helping the local team from beyond the grave. It is a humble existence and the kids really make it worth it.

Possessions

Heavy piece of sports equipment (damage as club)

Advanced Skills

4 Sports

Special

You cannot perish unless attacked by a silver weapon.

21) Community College Student

You have decided to pursue an educated life, luckily the Night Vale Community College is the best and only college in town.

Possessions

Sharpened Pencils (damage as knife)

Advanced Skills

2 False Numbers

22) Compliment Whispering Tree

A beautiful pine tree that whispers compliments to people when they come near.

Possessions

A cart to be wheeled around on

Advanced Skills

4 Tree

Special

Once a week you can make someone test their luck (or skill for enemies) to avoid slowly becoming a whispering tree themselvevs.

23) Dark Owl Records Employee

You help provide some of the most underground possible music that one can find outside of caves. A if anyone has heard it before there is a chance you don't have it.

Possesions

1d6 recordings of songs no one has ever heard before

Skills

4 Music Recognition

Special

You gain a copy of 1 new unheard song every week.

24) Deer

Just your average dear

Possesions

Antlers (damage as modest beast)

Skills

2 Anarchist Theory

25) Disciple of Huntokar

Huntokar was the goddess that birthed the world, and the goddess who ended it all. To respect her is to respect the circular nature of things and to understand the nature of the world. Many deny her truths and you are branded as an outsider for knowing them.

Possesions

A booklet full of facts that have been labeled as conspiracies

Advanced Skills

4 Evaluate

26) Doomed Intern

You have been hired as an intern to work an underpaid jo, a rather dull and uneventful experience.

Possesions

A horrible yet inevitable untimely death or banishment

Skills

4 Aspiration

31) Erika

You are one of the many winged angels that wander about the city living a peaceful life occasionally asking for 5 dollars here and there. You share the name Erika with every other angle,

Possesions

The Secrets of the Hierarchy of Angles

Advanced Skills

3 Bowling

32) Faceless Old Person

You secretly live in someone's home and make their life a living hell

Possesions

A desire to enact violence

Advanced Skills

3 Chaos Sewing

33)Farmer of Imaginary Crops

You are paid by the government to make imaginary crops. A rather lucrative business deal for you.

Possessions

A salt of the earth persona

Advanced Skill

2 Farming

34)Girl Scout Splinter Organization Member

The Girl Scouts of Night Vale were blinded to the realities of the world. Luckily your splinter group is righteous in its cause.

Possesions

A sash entailing all of your accomplishments

Advanced Skills

3 Knife Fighting

35) Harbinger of the Distant Prince

While your god prince is far off you are close by enacting his will of cruelty.

Possesions

A large Disasterous Sword (damage as Greatsword)

Advanced Skill

3 Cruelty

36) Harbor and Waterfront Recreation Area Punk

The harbor and waterfront recreation area never existed, but if it did, which it totally doesn't it would be rubble at the current moment. And if that hypothetically was the case then there would be a good chance that some local punk would be hanging around there.

Possesions

A cool leather jacket that is much too warm for the desert heat

Advanced Skills

4 Rebellious Attitude

41) Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God Member

Oh how wonderful The Smiling God is it feels so nice so warm to be a member, One cannot help but smile. One cannot help but smile in the face of the great universal unraveling Brought about by The Smiling God

Possesions

Visera

Advanced Skills

3 Disembowl

42) Librarian

A horrible Beast that lives within the community library. Not many people have seen you long enough to describe you and survive. Your hunger for flesh is constant.

Possesions

Raving Teeth (damage as sword)

Advanced Skills

5 Hunting

43) Masked Warrior of the Desert Otherworld

Giants from another realm that fight in endless wars for no reason, they are some of the most skilled warriors in all of Night Vale.

Possessions

A colorful and elaborate mask

Advanced Skills

5 Sword Fighting

44) Moonlite All-Nite Diner Chef

You work at making food at the best and only 24 hour diner in Night Vale, specializing in food that only sounds good late at night.

Possesions

A Grease Stained Uniform

Skills

2 Spatula Fighting

Special

Plump fruits grow out of the best and neck of chefs, providing 1 fruit per week. 1 fruit counts as one ration.

45) Mudwomb Infant

While many of the gods emerged from the mudwomb long ago but you are different, you have recently emerged. A new god awaits its domain.

Possesions

An Unclaimed Domain

Advanced Skills

6 Godhood

46) Multi Headed dragon

Massive and reptilian you are a 5 headed giant. You breathe fire with reckless abandon.

Possesions

A different personality for all 5 heads

Skills

2 Flight

51) Mysterious Hooded Figure

Your Motives are unknown, who you are is unknown, all that is known is that one cannot see past your robes.

Possesions

Heavy Robes (count as light armor)

Advanced Skills

4 Random Spell

52)Prophet of the Dark Planet

While most people who have gazed upon the dark planet have died upon reaching out you are different. You Survived.

Possesions

Haunted Eyes

Advanced Skills

5 Astrology

53) Radon Canyon Park Ranger

The beautiful canyon is notable for its heavy mysterious lead dors and the abundant amount of radon gas that fills it.

Possesions

A spiffy park ranger Uniform

Advanced Skills

3 Nature

54) Sandwaste Wanderer

For some reason, you are to forever wander the sand wastes. While not the best existence the sandwastes are certainly a place one can live.

Possesions

A canteen full of water

Skills

3 Dune Wandering

55) Scientist

You came here to study the strange phenomenons of this desert town, you have since realized you cannot leave. Luckily there is plenty to study.

Possesions

Science Equipment

Advanced Skill

3 Science

56) Secret Police Officer

You are part of the secrete department ran by the sheriff to perform tasks normal police officers cannot. You are well known for being a member of the secret police.

Possesions