Welcome to Night Vale Inspired Troika Backgrounds

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
Sharp Fangs (damage as small beast)

Advanced Skills

4 Climb
3 Fangs Fighting
3 Reading
1 Spell Web

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
Sharp and Biting Teeth (damage as modest beast)

Advanced Skills

4 Teeth Fighting
2 Awareness
2 Sneak

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
Ceremonial Spiky Coffee Hammer (damage as hammer)
Animal Skin Clothes
Majestic and Large Mustache from Which Many Small Items Hang

Advanced Skills

3 Coffee Making
3 Hammer Fighter
2 Cave Navigation

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.

Possessions

Fusil
3d6 plasma cores
Space Gear (counts as moderate armor)
An Unknown but Important Purpose

Advanced Skills

4 Time Travel
4 Fusil Fighting
2 Astrology

15) Bloodstone Factory Worker

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
An improper Bloodstone
Bloodstone Shaper (damage as maul)
Booklet of Bloodstone Chants

Advanced Skills

3 Bloodstone Lore
2 Shaper Fighting
1 Random Spell
1 Random Spell

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
2 Fly
1 Intangibility

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)
A backpack full of expensive books (counts as 1d6 rations)
A tote bag with your name on it

Advanced Skills

2 False Numbers
2 "Technology"
1 Language Secret English
1 Language Future French
1 Language Weird Spanish

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
A gender-ambiguous voice
Beautiful Pine Needles

Advanced Skills

4 Tree
3 Whispering
2 Complimenting

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
Keys to close up shop

Advanced Skills

4 Music Recognition
3 Scowl
3 Rebellious Attitude

Special

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

24) Deer

Just your average dear

Possesions

Antlers (damage as modest beast)
A real estate agent living inside you

Advanced Skills

2 Anarchist Theory
2 Telepathy
2 Time Travel

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
An Unbreakable Will

Advanced Skills

4 Evaluate
4 Secrets Signs
2 Insistence

26) Doomed Intern

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

Possesions

A horrible yet inevitable untimely death or banishment
Coffee

Advanced Skills

4 Aspiration
3 Busywork
1 Adhere to fate

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
5 Dollars
Shared Memories with all other Angels
A Dark Glow

Advanced Skills

3 Bowling
3 Protect
2 Hear Gender
1 Flight

32) Faceless Old Person

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

Possesions

A desire to enact violence
A faceless Head
Horrible Nails (damage as sword)

Advanced Skills

3 Chaos Sewing
2 Nail Fighting
2 Sneak

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
Packet of imaginary seeds
Pitchfork (damage as Polearm)
1d666 in government money

Advanced Skill

2 Farming
2 Pitchfork Fighting
1 Imagining

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.

Possessions

A sash entailing all of your accomplishments
A decorative Knife (damage as knife)

Advanced Skills

3 Knife Fighting
2 Radiation Immunity
2 Plant Control
1 Random Spell

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 Disastrous Sword (damage as Greatsword)
A constant Aura of Thunder Storm
Ruinous Armor (heavy armor)

Advanced Skill

3 Cruelty
3 Greatsword Fighting
3 Spell Jolt

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
Pistolette
1d6 Plasma Cores

Advanced Skills

4 Rebellious Attitude
2 Knife Fighting
1 Pistolette Fighting

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
Maul

Advanced Skills

3 Disembowl
3 Smiling God Lore
3 Smile
1 Unravel

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
3 Sneak

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
A massive sword (damage as greatsword)

Advanced Skills

5 Sword Fighting
4 Strength

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
A well made burger (counts as 1 ration)
A large Spatula (damage as hammer)

Advanced Skills

2 Spatula Fighting
2 Cooking
2 Staying Awake

Special

Plump fruits grow out of the chest 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
Massive Biting Jaws (damage as spear)
Fire Breath (damage as dragon fire)

Advanced Skills

2 Flight
2 Jaw Fighting
1 Fire breathing

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
3 Random Spell
2 Random Spell
1 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
A book with the meaning of the dark planet and its desires
A Walking Stick (damage as club)

Advanced Skills

5 Astrology
3 Doom Saying
1 Awareness

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
Gas Mask
Pamphlets about the natural beauty of Radiation

Advanced Skills

3 Nature
2 Hiking
1 Climb

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
Clothes to keep the sun off

Advanced Skills

3 Dune Wandering
2 Nature
2 Withstanding Thirst

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 Experimental
Lazer Weapon (damage as pistolette)

Advanced Skill

3 Science
3 Mathmology
3 Note Taking

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

Cape
Badge
Balaclava
Blowdart (damage as bow)
Service Dagger

Advanced Skills

3 Blowdart Fighting
2 Knife Fighting
2 Intimidation

61) Sentient Haze

You are a patch of sentient haze. You have very little interest in the life of humans but you abide by them

Advanced Skills

5 Intangibility
3 Flight

Special

You have no need for food and drink.

62) StrexCorp Synernists Incorporated Company Man

You are responsible for upholding the good image of StrexCorps in the eyes of the lay folk

Possesions

A prepared Speach about virtues of StrexCorp and the Smiling god
A disemboweler (damage as mace)

Advanced Skill

3 Language Business Jargon
3 Smiling God Lore
2 Disembowler Fighting

63)Teen Militia Member

You are a teenaged member of the militia that acts as community protection in night vale

Possesions

Bow
1d6 Arrows
Well-Read Book

Advanced Skills

3 Bow Fighting
3 Literature
1 Explosives

64) Unwilling Mayoral Candidate

You have been nominated by the voices that echo from radon canyon to become the mayor. You have little choice in the matter.

Possesions

Mayoral Responsibilities
Confusion on why you have been chosen

Advanced Skills

3 Responsibility

65) Vague, Yet Menacing Government Agent

Your purpose is unknown to the people of the town, but you know very well why you are here.

Possesions

Pistolette
1d3 Plasma Cores
Wiretap

Advanced Skill

3 Auothrity
2 Spying
2 Sneaking
1 Pistolette Fighting

66) Wearer of the Tan Jacket

You come through town every once in a while. You are very nice and well mannered

Possesions

A Swarm of Flies
Deerskin Suitcase (damage as shield)
Sunglasses

Advanced Skill

3 Etiquette

Special

People who are not interacting with you forget you exist.