006: Xin Nix

ENTRY 006: Xin Nix

Along the habitats of the Rim, a smooth-talking intersex splicer sealed in a plastic shell wanders a slow route, visiting gamblers and merchants, criminals and financiers. Xin Nix is a slow banker that deals with the personal transfer of debts and obligations outside of formal and recorded channels. As the morph in the middle, Xin trades on their impeccable if shadowy rep. Xin only deals straight, and only with people Xin knows or who are vouched for by people Xin knows, accepting numbers and names and vomiting them back up when the time is right, taking their payment and disappearing to the next stop on they route.

As a consequence, Xin is welcome in nearly every habitat around the Rim, assured of sustenance, shelter, and a very low profile. On the other hand, Xin lives on the monofilament edge—even the indication that Xin is compromised, or has betrayed any of their trusts, and there will be nowhere in transhuman space they can run. So Xin tends to keep others at one removed, and has a tendency to take the self out of the self—to observe events as if they was an observer rather than a participant.

COG	COO	INT	REF	SAV	SOM	WIL	MOX
18	16	15	15	17	12	18	-
INIT	SPD	LUC	TT	IR	DUR	WT	DR
6	1	36	7	72	30	6	45

Morph: Splicer

Skills: Academics: Finance (Black Markets) 65, Free Fall (Microgravity) 56, Infiltration (Blending In) 50, Interests: Gambling 75, Language: Native Vietnamese 85, Language: Cantonese 70, Language: English 70, Language: Japanese 55, Networking: Criminals 6, Networking: Hypercorps 50, Perception (Visual) 70, Pesuasion (Negotiation) 67, Profession: Banking (Shadow Economy) 80, Unarmed Combat 45

Implants: Access Jacks, Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Carapace Armor, Cortical Stack, Eidetic Memory, Emotional Dampers, Enhanced Hearing, Enhanced Smell, Enhanced Vision, Nanoscopic Vision, Oxygen Reserve, Vacuum Sealing

Using Xin Nix

As a shadow banker, Xin is a good NPC to interact with player characters, a blank face that can front for nearly any faction, hiring them for a job, making a payoff, delivering information, etc. Xin can also be a good target, a courier that the players have to intercept, fool, extricate, rescue, or protect. As a one-off, Xin is expendable—should they die or become incapacitated, another morph that looks and acts just like them might be trawling the spacelanes the next hour. As a recurring NPC, gamemasters and players can explore what makes Xin tick, including how they reacts as they becomes attached to the PCs.

Seeds

• Xin Nix has arrived and requires some assistance getting to their target—a child-ego kept away from contact with transhumanity by her extended family. Xin hires the player characters to get them to the child.
• In the middle of a crowded habitat, the player characters are invited to a meet. Xin Nix approaches them, and then a shaft of high intensity coherent light descends—and Xin Nin’s head explodes, sealed gases escaping and splattering the player characters with biological goop… including blood-borne nanites loaded with the information Xin was going to hire the player characters to deliver, including who, what, when, and where. Of course, now they have the choice—deliver the data, knowing someone is already gunning for it, or don’t…and hope whoever fried Xin doesn’t decide to finish the job by zapping them as well.