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Corporate Spirits

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HR Ghosts

Stamina N/A

Skill 4

Initiative 1

HR Ghosts are disembodied voices in the employ of Post Reality Temporary Employment Services. These ethereal spirits perform job interviews, performance reviews, and explain assigned tasks to PRTES exploitees.

Special: HR Ghosts cannot be harmed by conventional means. HR Ghosts can instantaneously teleport exploitees to almost anywhere in the multiverse, but only so long as the teleportation is work related.

Secret: The spirits of deceased subpar workers serve 77 years in the HR Department. Despite thorough scrubbing, bits and pieces of the worker’s previous personality bleed through in unpredictable and strange ways.

Mien (roll d66):

[11] Robotic

[12] Feigned Enthusiasm

[13] Enthusiastic but Inept

[14] Barely Concealed Contempt

[15] Mumble Grumble

[16] Yeehaw!

[21] Excessively Formal

[22] Saccharine

[23] Bubbly

[24] Too Many Questions

[25] Shouting (Neutral)

[26] Shouting (Drill Sergeant)

[31] Somehow, They Have Indigestion

[32] Doddering Grandmother Vibes

[33] Helium Voice

[34] Pretending to be a Computer

[35] Sassy

[36] Rude

[41] Melancholy

[42] Anxious

[43] Impatient

[44] *honk*

[45] Spooky

[46] Baby Talk

[51] Uhhhhhh…

[52] In Crisis

[53] Bigtime Hippy

[54] Crying

[55] Sports Announcer

[56] Giggly

[61] Hurriedly Speaking Imperial Goblinese

[62] Stoogely

[63] Monotone

[64] Extreme!

[65] Distracted by Sister’s Pending Nuptials

[66] Workin’ Hard or Hardly Workin’?

PS Find out more about the Post Reality here!!  (There is also a cute baby dragon.)

PPS This mien chart could serve pretty well as a general mien chart for incidental NPCs (e.g., innkeepers, parkgoers, gremlin catchers, travelers, travel agents, drug dealers.).

 

Office Supply Poltergeist

Skill 7

Stamina 3, 7, or 15

Initiative 1

Armor 4

Damage as Small or Modest Beast

 Anger animates. It’s motion and fire.

When especially abusive businesses fail all at once*, residual resentment remains in the air. 

That slow deep anger seeps into copying machines, file cabinets, pens, coffee mugs, and more.

Anger animates.

*Natural disaster, negligent disaster, worker walkouts, etc.

Special: Office Supply Poltergeists can only be harmed by wooden weapons, unless in the presence of burning incense.

Copy Machine (Stamina 15) can blind victims for 1d6 minutes with a successful attack.

Complicated Web of Extension Cords (Stamina 7) successful attack holds victim in place.

Coffee Maker (Stamina 3) first attack does double damage from scalding hot, ectoplasmic java.

Secret: Office supply related haunting occur frequently in PRTES’s ever expanding list of corporate properties. Clearing out and cleaning up haunted offices has become one of the most common PRTES exploitee assignments.

Mien:

[1] Raging [2] Resentful [3] Angry [4] Malevolent [5] Confused [6] Bored

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