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Ordinary Civilian

Archetypal Solace City commuter—barista, clerk, transit rider—with no costumed identity or remarkable trait. Carries no intrinsic power level; narrative function depends entirely o...

The person on the bus. The barista. The clerk behind the bodega counter. Eight million of them live in Solace City, and any one could turn out to be the witness, the casualty, or the friend before the night's over. Everything the team's labels mean gets painted onto somebody like this.

Appearance: Whatever a person wears to buy groceries — nothing costumed, nothing remarkable; the entirely unremarkable face of someone who just wants to get home.

Archetype Civilian Generic · Disposition Varies · Default influence Claims Collective

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Mundane +

Narrative hooks

Is the casualty the team failed to save
Becomes a witness whose testimony matters
Just wants a quiet life and to take a picture for Instagram

Attribution

Narrative Nexus

Original Narrative Nexus content, compatible with Masks: A New Generation. Masks: A New Generation is published by Magpie Games and released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The licence is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This work uses material from The Innocent and The Star, published by Magpie Games in the Halcyon City Herald Collection and written by Brendan Conway; from The Joined, published by Magpie Games in the Halcyon City Herald Collection and written by Jenn Martin; and from The Reformed, published by Magpie Games in the Halcyon City Herald Collection and written by June Shores. Mechanical references and playbook concepts derived under CC-BY 4.0 with attribution. Includes mechanical descriptions paraphrased with the assistance of AI tools.