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Bystander Who Knows

An ordinary civilian who discovered sensitive information (a cape's identity, villain location, or forbidden tech) and cannot let it go despite the danger. Archetype Civilian Witne...

An ordinary person who stumbled onto something the team needs buried — a cape's face, a villain's address, a piece of tech that shouldn't exist. Scared, yes. Blackmailing? No. Letting it go? Also no — it's too big to set down. What the team owes the truth, and what they owe this one witness, is the whole knot to untangle.

Appearance: Plain civilian clothes, a phone clutched face-down, eyes wide and darting; the posture of someone trying very hard to look like they aren't thinking about anything at all.

Archetype Civilian Witness · Disposition Scared Persistent · Default influence Rejects All

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Narrative hooks

Wants the team's protection in exchange for keeping the secret
Slowly leaks the secret to the wrong people
Becomes a target because of what they know

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.