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Local Color |
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Jeepo Breeb. A local thug who grew up on the streets of Dust City but was ostracized for psychic reasons. |
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Waldau ar Bilsov & his crew of sludge privateers. They tap toxic crystal coral trees, extract the sludge syrup and turn it into drugs. Well-armed. |
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Submarius Trench, a merfolk scout from the cordillera. The bravest of his people, and most experienced. Offers fermented mercury to those he likes. |
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Jubal Whiffler. Painter from Dust City who only paints Secluda-2. |
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Ee Bop Skee Nop. Spider in a space suit. Obsessed with human tech & infiltrating human society. |
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Kassem Roozich from Kassem's Chasms. |
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Deep Space Interloper |
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Colocata Washington. Assassin from a megacorp. Their target is (1d6) 1-2: one or more PCs, 3-4: random NPC up to 1 hex away, 5-6: already dead. Their power is (1d6) 1: teleportation 2: cloaking 3: persuasion 4: hacking 5: long-range accuracy 6: explosive force. |
| 2 |
Fisher of Men. A Solari robot brought to Dust to preach, but driven insane by the solar storm. Now a dangerous wanderer who fishes the crystal shoals and attempts to blind the non-believers. |
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Ogden Skinderly. A fat nobleman from The Son's Pockets who has a mobile throne, a comfort sphere atop a set of robot spider legs. The legs went insane and he can't control them, nor the comforts dispensed by his sphere. It has kept him alive so far but he's getting desperate. Wants to return to Man-o-War or Pink-Hearted Medusa, will gift the legs to those who help. Involved with the Arachnids somehow, obsessed with their culture but not accepted? |
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Tianshan Stevenson. A trader from an interstellar confederation. Came in a highly advanced cryo pod rocket that can only go straight back to the megacorp. And he would have to fuel it first. An asset with poor understanding of autonomy (thanks to a series of brain & body implants). Resistant to psychic effects. |
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Robo-Ronin Run-in. An antique model built to explore Dust on foot, powered by rare high-density starship fuel. Tanks are low so it will only stride ahead and do that unsheath-kill move that ronin do. Has been on Dust so long because it was one of the initial explorers & cartographers. Lived with the Merfolk but was tricked into betraying them, dooming their empire to fall. Has the respect of the Arachnids. Macros want to use it but it only wants to wander. |
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Meteorite from far off space. (1d6) 1: it strikes the PCs' hex. 2-3: it strikes a random hex feature. 4-5: it strikes a random hex in the backcountry. 6: The Lonely Heart guides it away, turning it into a shooting star. The meteorite contains within it an alien fungus that could subsume all of Dust. |