NPC: Quincy Adams
Overview
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Role | Bar Owner |
| Alignment | Neutral Good |
| Affiliation | Independent (but indebted to Lanternyard) |
Portrait
Profile
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Quincy Adams |
| Species | Android |
| Age | Consciousness: 35, Shell Age: 5 years |
| Physical Description | A sophisticated synthetic shell with a deep blue, matte skin etched with fine, silver filigree. Her hair is permanently braided into smooth tubes of silicone, and her optical sensors are a soft, observant red. |
| Personality Traits | Quiet, Observant, Expressive Motion |
| Known Weaknesses | Her astronomical debt to Lanternyard Inc. is a constant vulnerability they can leverage. She is also fiercely protective of her bar’s status as neutral ground, and threats to its safety could force her to make difficult compromises. |
Background
There was a time when a social media influencer kicked off a dangerous and irreversible trend of uploading one’s consciousness to the cloud. At 20, Quincy Adams became one of the hundreds of victims, tricked by an illicit hacker into a digital existence. She spent a decade as a ghost in the machine, a disembodied and traumatic experience that nearly shattered her sanity. Her family, refusing to give up, bankrupted themselves to commission a custom android shell from Lanternyard Incorporated, giving her a second chance at a physical life. Now, she runs the “Rebel With a Cause” on the Cephei Trade Ring, a successful but demanding enterprise. Every cilling she earns is a step towards repaying the astronomical debt she owes not just to Lanternyard, but to her family’s memory.
Skills and Abilities
- Banger Mixologist. Her Android body allows her to be mesmerizingly fast and elegant
- Eidiatic Memory. Her Android Brain never forgets a word spoken or face seen.
- Network Perception: A side effect of her time as pure data, Quincy has an intuitive feel for local network traffic. She can often sense active surveillance, hidden data transmissions, or unauthorized devices in her vicinity, making her bar one of the most secure meeting spots on the Ring.
Equipment and Resources
Notable Equipment: Her Android Shell
Resources: “Rebel with a Cause” Bar
Goals and Motivations
- Primary Goal: Achieve financial and personal freedom by paying off her crippling debt to Lanternyard Inc. This is the driving force behind every 28-hour cycle.
- Secondary Goal: Maintain the “Rebel With a Cause” as a true neutral ground, a sanctuary of civility in the cutthroat environment of the Trade Ring.
- Secret Goal: Find the hacker “Zero-Day.” Not for revenge, but for justice—to ensure no one else suffers the fate she did and to reclaim the decade of her life that was stolen.
Key Relationships
Allies
| Name | Reason |
|---|---|
| Morlag | The Cirani union leader is a regular. Quincy quietly sympathizes with his fight against corporate exploitation and ensures he has a safe, private corner for his meetings, trusting him not to bring trouble. |
| Borox | The data broker is a frequent, high-spending client. Their relationship is purely transactional. He uses her bar as a secure office, and in return, occasionally provides her with valuable, off-the-record information. |
Enemies
| Name | Reason |
|---|---|
| Kaelan Rask | Her “account manager” from Lanternyard Inc. Rask is a smug corporate shark who enjoys reminding Quincy of her debt, frequently attempting to leverage it to extract favors or information for his employer. |
| Lax Moritani | A local Gang Leader that frequently tries to get back into the bar even though being banned from it long ago |
Romantic Interest
On her homeworld, she left behind a boyfriend, Leo Vance. That was almost 15 years ago now. She knows he’s still alive but has not dared to contact him, believing she is no longer the woman he loved and fearing that Lanternyard would use him as leverage against her if they discovered the connection. Unbeknownst to her, his sister is Amira Vance, the Badigo agent operating in ARGO.
Typical Activities
Quincy spends most of her 28-hour cycle within the “Rebel With a Cause.” She can be found meticulously cleaning glasses, managing inventory via her internal interface, mixing complex cocktails, and silently watching the ebb and flow of the station’s powerful and powerless. Her movements are economical and purposeful, her attention always divided between her immediate task and the dozen conversations happening around her.
Story Hooks
Ghost in the … Past: Borox discreetly informs Quincy that a hacker with a similar digital signature to the one who trapped her is operating out of the Alberta Labs Deadzones. Quincy is willing to pay handsomely for a team to venture into the dangerous, unmonitored labs and bring back proof of the hacker’s identity—or the hacker themself.
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