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Field Reference · Backgrounds · No. 04

The Stranded

Disposition
Captive
Origin
Anywhere (originally)
Tier mod
Player choice

You fell through a Path by accident. A door in your bedroom that should have led to the hallway. A maintenance hatch that opened on a sky you'd never seen. A moment of unexplained vertigo that ended somewhere new. Your home world is sealed, lost, or simply not where you can find it. Solace found you, fed you, taught you what the multiverse was, and put you to work, because there is no one else in this reality who would hire someone who didn't exist three months ago. You're slowly building a new identity. Sometimes you dream about home and wake up forgetting which world you're in.

Tier modifier

Player choice — +1 to any one domain, −1 to any one other. Should make narrative sense given your origin world. Your home shaped you. What was it like? What were you good at there? What were you protected from there that you now can't avoid?

Perk · Outsider's Eye

You see what natives stop noticing. Once per session, you may ask the GM to point out something true about the current world that locals would consider unremarkable but that's actually significant — a custom that betrays a deeper history, a building that's older than it looks, a phrase everyone uses that means something specific. The GM gives you a useful answer.

Signature item options

3 options
  1. Opt 01An object from home whose function Solace has never been able to determine
  2. Opt 02A piece of clothing you were wearing when you fell through, now hopelessly out of style or out of place
  3. Opt 03A document — letter, ID, photograph, contract — that proves you came from *somewhere*, even if Solace hasn't been able to verify where

Hooks

4 prompts
  1. H01I want to find a Path home, even if home no longer exists.
  2. H02I want to discover what was happening on the day I fell through.
  3. H03I want to make a place for myself in this reality I didn't choose.
  4. H04I want to find out why Solace keeps me employed when other Stranded ended up in less kind situations.
End of entry · Background No. 04 · Filed by Surveyor Class Personnel