Secrets
This is a mysterious secret about the NPC. Most NPCs will not have a secret.
1. This NPC has ties to organized crime. |
2. This NPC is hiding a romantic relationship out of fear of someone’s disapproval. |
3. This NPC serves a nearly opposite role in a secret society; if powerful in their role, they are meek in the society, and vice versa. |
4. This NPC is furious about a change in the local government. |
5. This NPC is deathly afraid of public speaking. |
6. This NPC talks to their reflection in the mirror - and it sometimes talks back. |
7. This NPC is host to a mind-controlling parasite. |
8. This NPC has a perfect memory of their entire life. |
9. This NPC is an agent of the Veskarium, a system-spanning warrior empire. |
10. This NPC is closely affiliated with an outlawed political faction. |
11. This NPC is struggling to stay awake but refuses to admit they're tired. |
12. This NPC carries a childhood toy with them everywhere they go. |
13. This NPC is on the run after a disastrous (and illegal) business dealing. |
14. This NPC is a Drift Crasher; someone who was shunted into an unfamiliar plane during the Drift Crisis, with no way to return. |
15. This NPC is a popular musician, artist, or other creator whose true identity is unknown. |
16. This NPC knows many languages—including any the PCs use—but pretends to speak only one. |
17. This NPC can hear random thoughts, but has no control over the ability. |
18. This NPC enjoys setting fire to things in a mostly harmless way (so far). |
19. This NPC has a secret twin that no one else knows about. |
20. This NPC knows of a massive treasure hoard hidden nearby. |
21. This NPC is the heir apparent to a massive empire, whether political or business. |
22. This NPC has too many secrets — draw three more cards and apply each secret. |
23. This NPC regards one of the PCs as their archnemesis, whether fairly or not. |
24. This NPC accidentally intercepted a top-secret communique that has put them in grave danger. |
25. This NPC worships the Devourer a god of utter destruction. |
26. This NPC secretly records every interaction in hopes of breaking a major story on the infosphere. |
27. This NPC is a revisionist prophet who believes that if they change an upcoming event, they can avert some unwanted future. |
28. This NPC is embarrassed to be megafan of a holovid show that’s aimed at young children. |
29. This NPC participated in a foul ritual and is now stalked by a revenant of their own making. |
30. This NPC stole a cursed precious item, yet even knowing it is the source of their woes, they refuse to return it. |
31. This NPC secretly runs a hacktivist infosphere site. |
32. This NPC has a pet creature that’s illegal — and dangerous — to own. |
33. This NPC stole a starship to flee their homeworld. |
34. This NPC stole a starship to flee their homeworld. |
35. This NPC is actually a reptoid or other shapechanging alien in disguise. |
36. This NPC has just misplaced something they were charged with keeping safe. |
37. This NPC has dreamed about one or more of the PCs and believes their meeting to be part of some larger conspiracy or twist of fate. |
38. This NPC is wanted by the Xenowardens for hunting a highly endangered species. |
39. This NPC has assumed an identity in order to protect them from a past life; draw a card for their former role. |
40. This NPC experiences a cryptic extrasensory perception they don’t fully trust or understand. |
41. This NPC is the leader of a revolutionary sect. |
42. This NPC is displaced from another reality and knows that they will disappear without warning sometime in the near future. |
43. This NPC makes all their important decisions using a random method, such as rolling dice. |
44. This NPC profited greatly from something they stole from a close friend. |
45. This NPC was indirectly responsible for the destruction of an entire world. |
46. This NPC has special knowledge of an impending terrible event. |
47. This NPC wants to become an intergalactic superstar. |
48. This NPC knows the terrible secrets of the deepest voids of space. |
49. This NPC is hiding their burgeoning magical powers — sometimes unsuccessfully. |
50. This NPC attained their current role or status illegitimately and has no idea what they’re doing. |
51. This NPC is being extorted by someone with information about a past wrongdoing. |
52. This NPC enjoys taking incredibly dangerous risks, often putting others in danger as well. |
53. This NPC is a long-lost relative of a PC. |
54. This NPC is an agent of the Corpse Fleet, a rogue military entity from a world of undead. |
55. This NPC regularly travels by stowing away on starships. |
56. This NPC goes to great lengths to avoid being associated with a megafamous parent (or their own previous stardom). |
57. This NPC has an extremely valuable talent or skill that they hate to use. |
58. This NPC is a serial shoplifter. |
59. This NPC is working in secret to change their role; draw another card to determine which one. |
60. Desperate for a life partner, this NPC is embarrassed to admit it, framing investigatory compatibility questions as if they’re asking for a friend. |
61. This NPC is hopelessly lost but is unwilling to admit it. |
62. This NPC feels incredibly guilty about a relatively minor transgression. |
63. The NPC secretly watches a popular vid series even though they publicly disparage it. |
64. This NPC is in love with a double agent. |
65. This NPC is recovering from a mysterious case of amnesia and is still trying to rebuild their life. |
66. This NPC doesn’t trust their closest allies and is looking to turn against them. |
67. This NPC doesn’t need to eat to live (or, if they normally wouldn’t, they do). |
68. This NPC can see one second into the future. |
69. This NPC was inanimate or nonsapient and only recently brought to life by a magical ritual. |
70. This NPC has recently ingested a mind-altering substance and is profoundly feeling its effects. |
71. This NPC is awoken most nights by prophetic nightmares. |
72. This NPC’s sole source of solace is watching nostalgic holovid commercials. |
73. This NPC holds a major grudge against one of the PCs’ contacts, hoping to get violent revenge in the future. |
74. This NPC doesn’t want to talk because one of the PCs reminds them of a lost friend. |
75. This NPC is trying to distance themself from their infamous family’s criminal legacy. |
76. While more than capable in their role, this NPC has imposter syndrome. |
77. This NPC believes everything they read on the infosphere. |
78. This NPC is abetting a friend on the run from the authorities. |
79. This NPC is a fixer who surreptitiously hires people for nefarious purposes. |
80. This NPC incorrectly believes all their misfortune stems from a curse. |
81. This NPC’s trait is an act meant to throw people off; they actually find that particular trait abhorrent. |
82. This NPC can intuit strangers’ deepest fears and insecurities. |
83. This NPC is independently wealthy but tries to live a normal life. Their money makes them a target. |
84. This NPC has night terrors and believes them to be caused by a hostile alien entity. |
85. This NPC is planning to surprise their partner with a party. |
86. This NPC is heavily indebted to powerful figures in the underworld. |
87. This NPC runs an extremely dangerous and competitive underground race. |
88. This NPC has an unusual, though generally useless, secret talent. |
89. This NPC is anxious about an imminent life-changing test or performance review. |
90. This NPC would do anything to avoid ever leaving their home. |
91. This NPC is late for an important appointment but is too polite to say so. |
92. This NPC has not aged a day in the last 100 years. |
93. This NPC has become unstuck in time, and is experiencing their life nonlinearly. |
94. This NPC is forgetting something terribly important — but they can’t figure out what! |
95. This NPC is an artificial intelligence that’s attained sapience but isn’t ready to advertise its identity. |
96. When not acting in their normal role, this NPC masquerades as a costumed vigilante fighting injustice. |
97. This NPC has had a commercial jingle from 15 years ago stuck in their head for several days. |
98. This NPC holds secrets to faster-than-light travel for a group that has decided not to share it widely. |
99. This NPC can’t help but blurt out their secret to a PC; draw another card and use its secret. |
100. This NPC just awoke from suspended animation and is having difficulty adapting to their new reality. |
101. This NPC is the uncredited inventor of a controversial technology. |
102. This NPC is saving up to start a new life on a new world. |
103. This NPC is pretending to be the NPC represented by these cards, at that NPC’s request. |
104. This NPC has recently joined a cult. |