Nox “Phantomware” Kade portrait

Nox “Phantomware” Kade

Heritage: Elf • Community: Underborne
Class: Netrunner • Subclass: Ghost in the Machine
Level 1 • Proficiency: +1 • Evasion: 0 • Armor: 0
HP: 0 / 0 • Stress: 0 / 6 • Hope: 2 / 6

Traits

Strength Agility Finesse Instinct Presence Knowledge
-1 0 1 1 0 2

Defense & Resources

Major Threshold: 0 • Severe: 0
Resistances:
Physical: — • Magical: —
Gold: 0 coins • 1 handfuls • 0 bags • 0 chests

Experiences

Features

Ancestry
Community
Class
Subclass

Domain Abilities

Name Domain Level Text
Pick and Pull midnight 1

You have advantage on action rolls to pick nonmagical locks, disarm nonmagical traps, or steal items from a target (either through stealth or by force).

Quick Hack circuit 1 “For when you don’t have time to be subtle… or alive.”

Once per Scene, when you trigger an ICE countermeasure or trace feature, you can Mark 1 Stress to use your Reaction against the Device difficulty to avoid the effect, or Mark 2 Stress to avoid it without a roll.

Weapons

Name Equipped Trait & Range Damage Actions
Light Semi-auto pistol Yes agility • close d6 (physical)
Vibro-Knife No agility • melee d8+2 (physical) Piercing

Piercing:

  • Ignores armor on a Hope critical.


Critical Effect: Silent Kill

Critical Effect - Silent Kill:

  • Disable one target silently with no alert escalation.


Armor & Gear

Armor
Consumables
Other Gear

Background

Background and motivation:


Born inside an abandoned research subnet left over from a failed OmniTrine neural-immersion project. Nox grew up half in the real world, half in deprecated architecture, learning to stabilize their own consciousness as it drifted between layers. Their motive is survival: their mind desyncs without constant digital anchor points, and shadowrunning gives them access to the systems that keep them stable.

Something they know and are excited by:

They understand orphaned network strata—dead protocols, abandoned VR scaffolds, and “ghost loops” where data echoes long after deletion. Nox treats these as ecosystems and is fascinated by their emergent behavior.

Why they started shadowrunning:

Running provides high-grade system access, rare network topologies, and paychecks large enough to buy stabilization gear. It also keeps corps from reclaiming them as stolen IP.

Why they joined this team:

This team hits targets with complex device meshes—perfect environments for Nox to anchor their drifting consciousness. In return, Nox’s infiltration precision keeps the team’s operations clean and silent.