Registry of Sealed Persons · File 0209

NPXI

“I never lie. I merely rearrange the truth until it flatters you.”

  • Sequence07
  • PathwayThe Fool
  • ClassMage
  • Last seenBacklund
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Portrait of NPXI: a young woman with brown hair, round spectacles and a lace hat trimmed with roses, wearing a silver-grey ball gown embroidered in violet.
Plate I Subject photographed at the Backlund winter ball. Consent not recorded.

Sheet 01 — Identity

The Scribe of the Fog

No one remembers exactly where they first met npxi. Everyone is certain that they have. That, technically, is the ability.

Registry particulars

  • Aliasnpxi — “The Lady of Three Sentences”
  • Known also as“the NPC” — used only behind her back; the clerk who wrote it has transferred
  • True namematches no record on file
  • PathwayThe Fool — divination, illusion, disguise
  • Sealed artefactsRound spectacles “0-09”; one dried lace rose
  • AffiliationChurch of the Goddess of Night (self-declared)
  • Filed byA clerk who has since requested a transfer

Assessment

  • Intuition92
  • Manipulation88
  • Stealth76
  • Performance100
  • Psychic damage137
    The bar overflows its frame. This is a feature, not a bug.
  • Ability to wake up early03
    The only confirmed weakness.

Sheet 02 — Confiscated effects

The Fog Deck

Ten cards taken from the pocket of her gown. She calls them divination tools. Nobody has verified this, because whichever card turns up, it favours her.

Turn any card over to read what she says it means

Sheet 03 — Sequence ladder

The Fool Pathway

Ten rungs from Seer to godhood. Every step is a potion, a role that must be digested, and one more chance to stop being yourself. She is standing on the third.

  1. SEQUENCE 9SeerDigested

    Cards, pendulum, spirit vision. She read other people's futures for a living, and her own only when bored.

  2. SEQUENCE 8ClownDigested

    Nimble fingers, faster feet, and a face built for saying things it does not mean.

  3. SEQUENCE 7MagicianCurrent

    Stage magic made real — flame from nothing, sleight-of-hand displacement, and paper figurines that take the blow meant for her.

  4. SEQUENCE 6Faceless

    Wears a stranger's face, voice and habits until neither of them is entirely sure who is who.

  5. SEQUENCE 5Marionettist

    Threads on everything that still moves, and on several things that have stopped. Consent is a formality.

  1. SEQUENCE 4Bizarro Sorcerer

    Rewrites a ritual halfway through and lets the ritual file a complaint afterwards.

  2. SEQUENCE 3Scholar of Yore

    Speaks a language that edits whatever it names. Sentences here are load-bearing.

  3. SEQUENCE 2Miracle Invoker

    Answers prayers. Reads them first, at length, out loud, to whoever is nearby.

  4. SEQUENCE 1Attendant of Mysteries

    Stands beside the mystery until the mystery becomes uncomfortable and leaves.

  5. SEQUENCE 0The Fool

    Above the grey fog, outside time, uncaptured by fate. This entry cannot be read — only felt, and then forgotten.

Sheet 04 — Recorded abilities

Six Things She Can Do

Five of them are dangerous. The sixth is more dangerous than the other five combined.

Verbal Illusion

Three sentences are enough to convince someone that npxi's idea was theirs all along.

Cost LowCooldown None

Seal of Fog

A thin veil that swallows sound, light, and any question that is difficult to answer.

Cost MediumRadius 12 m

Borrowed Arcana

Draws a card that isn't hers. The card is always right — just right about somebody else.

Cost HighAccuracy 91%

Stolen Identity

Wears a stranger's face for six hours. Remembering who she was afterwards is the difficult part.

Cost Very highDuration 6 hours

Inverted Ritual

Answers first, asks afterwards. Excellent in an interrogation. Catastrophic on a date.

Cost HighRisk Memory loss

Harmless Smile

Physical damage: zero. The target questions every life decision they have ever made for three business days.

Cost NoneReported 14 times

Sheet 05 — Devotional rite

Pray to npxi

Light an imaginary candle, close your eyes, press the button. She always answers. The answer is usually about her.

“Speak. I am listening, which is already generous of me.”

Prayers offered: 0

Sheet 06 — Redacted appendix

What the Church Would Rather You Didn't Know

Internal documents. Lift a redaction bar at your own risk.

0 of 6 records opened

Record 01

Why does npxi always wear spectacles?

Because . The “sealed artefact” line was added by the press office.

Record 02

The correct summoning ritual

Say her name three times before a mirror at 3 a.m. She appears and says:

Record 03

Confirmed fatal weakness

Not holy relics. Not divine light. It is .

Record 04

Why is Sequence 6 taking so long?

The potion was purchased last month.

Record 05

Her catchphrase when cornered

“Hold on — let me rephrase that.”

Record 06 — Classified

What did that silver gown actually cost?

This is the most dangerous secret in the entire file.