2:
Curiocentric Collector
An entire life spent looking at dusty
things and squinting at books.
It’s time to get out there for yourself.
3: Trench Survivor
You survived a Trench Battle with little
to write home about.
Except for that one thing you found in
a strange tunnel.
4: Debt Collector
Someone paid you a pittance to look
intimidating in dark alleyways.
If need be you shed some blood, but
there’s no extra pay.
5: Dead-Shoresman
You died, but found a way back from
where you went.
Nobody believes you, and everyone you
once knew is long gone.
6: Criminal Bureaucrat
The laws of Bastion are written in such
a way that every possible crime has a loophole.
People pay you to perform crimes,
legally.
7: Sanctioned Executioner
You’ve done your time on firing squads,
and now you’re allowed to do a little freelance work.
8: Fringe Investigator
Everything must be revealed, from petty
crime to the secrets of the cosmos.
9: Disinherited Socialite
Whatever happened between you and your
family, you’re out of the will for good.
You took what you could.
10: Professional Verminator
Every type of animal can be found in
some corner of Bastion.
When they are unwanted, you go to work.
11: Lost Expeditioneer
You’ve been on a treasure hunting
Expedition before.
You were the only survivor.
12: Wall Warden
Bastion has rings of walls all the way
to its centre, wherever that is.
You are both their warden and resident.
13: Professional Gambler
You know how to play well honestly, and
how to cheat even better.
14: Integrated Alien
You came to Bastion a long time ago,
passing for human.
Under a Foreign Star. Reached by Sea or
Underground.
15: Thieving Under-Whaler
The biggest catches are deep in ocean
and in ground.
One catch can make a fortune for the
captain, but you got a pittance.
16: Travelling Show-Person
Stunts and tricks are your game.
You’ve got a final trick up your sleeve
if you start to lose the crowd.
17: Gang Whip
Internal threats can tear a gang apart.
Enforcers keep things in order.
18: Qualified Deconstructor
Before the new can arise, the old must
come down.
Doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy it.
19: Street Judge
Bastion has so many courtrooms that the
whole city it effectively legal ground.
With questionable credentials, you
dealt with street quarrels.
20: Urchin Pack
Clinging together is your only hope for
survival.
21: Star Blessed
You don’t just worship the Stars.
One of them has gifted you.
22: Barricade Sapper
Every day a revolution, another
barricade.
Civil flow design demands that somebody
break them up.
23: Human Unionist
The world is full of strange and
powerful things.
None of them deserve our worship.
24: Liberal Engineer
We sit on the spear-tip of modernity.
There’s always the risk of blood.
25: Masked Horrorist
Horrors rise from the Underground.
We must make a friend of fear, and
scare them back down.
26: Rollocker Club Alumni
Good times. Fair play. School spirit!
27: Buckwud-Legionnaire
The future holds only darkness.
BACKWARDS! NEVER FORWARDS!
28: Contract-Castaway
Putting flags on islands isn’t enough,
so you’ve been paid a petty fee to live alone on a desolate rock.
The years have been dull, so you return
to the mainland.
29: Repressed Psionicist
You can’t hold it in any longer.
30: Unlicensed Amputator
Not trained in the finesse stuff.
Major structural work only.
31: Polar Bounty Hunter
The endless polar mists are a great
place to hide.
You did your best to bring the lost
home, one way or another.
32: Mockery
An imitation of life in wood, clay, and
felt. Children love you, animals hate you.
You don’t need to eat, drink, sleep, or
love, but still feel the drives.
33: Prize Breeder
You had a small kennel of finely bred
animals.
Now you’re down to your last breeding
pair.
34: Failed Citizen
None of the Failed Cities could keep up
with Bastion.
You left your pathetic home for the
real deal.
35: Urban Safarist
The human condition makes for
fascinating viewing for those too rich to have worries.
36: Lock Toller
Canal locks charge a toll, but nobody
knows who’s supposed to do that.
You were part of a small group that
held a lock for a while.
37: Repurposed Augmental
Mechanically Adapted for a purpose you
were unable to fulfil.
You found a job somewhere else.
38: Noble-in-Waiting
The chances of you actually inheriting
your title are so low that you decided to take your fate into your own hands.
39: Vault-Cracker
Most vaults are old enough that nobody
can agree who owns them.
40: Revolutionary Duellist
You are the sword tip of change in
Bastion.
41: Newspaper Intern
You were technically paid to write
technically-non-lies.
It never really got off the ground.
42: Rural Tax Collector
You’ve spent more time than you care on
the roads of Deep Country, squinting at obsolete currencies.
43: Academic Debater
Somebody must argue the positions that
nobody cares about.
44: Associated Burglar
You burgled only sanctioned properties.
You don’t fully understand the
legality.
45: Retail Therapist
You help people spend money you have no
hope of ever earning.
46: Apprentice Sweep
Your master died, and took your
terrible career prospects along with them.
47: Shock Trooper
Your shock-academy training was so
intense that the academy closed the day after your graduation.
Now there is no mission, but you still have
your gear.
48: Urbalist
The walls of Bastion have a language of
their own.
The right ones reveal secrets, with the
help of your herbs.
49: Tunnel-Clearer
Despite its lack of regard for time and
space,
construction work on the Underground
continues.
50: Science Mystic
The past was nothing but lies.
There is hidden truth in these modern
ways.
51: Front of House Host
You were the face of a company.
Now you’re a face without a company.
52: Critter Catcher
The gutters and drainpipes of Bastion
are home to every creature you can imagine.
You always wanted to study them all.
53: Practising Pharmacist
A truly modern profession, and you’re
almost qualified to do it.
54: Roof Crawler
There’s a lot of important work that
goes on across the rooftops of Bastion.
Yours is the more shadowy sort.
55: Petty Officer
You held an office of low position, but
were moved to a Special Petty Officer position.
Essentially you kept your badge but
don’t get paid and have no authority.
56: Bailed Prisoner
You just got out.
57: Street Performer
Adored by few, loathed by many.
58: Corpse Collector
More of a Corpse Transporter, but the
other name made it easier for people to despise you.
59: Counterfeit Taxidermist
Fantastic specimens bought you a small
amount of money.
Now that’s gone, and your name is
ruined.
60: Pie-Smuggler
A recent study claims 68% of goods
smuggled into prisons and other controlled areas arrived inside a pie crust.
61: Council-Runner
With so many overlapping councils, your
time as a runner put you in a position of some power.
Now your time is finished.
62: Life Servant
Your masters died. You’re free now.
63: Amateur Dramatist
The whole world is a stage.
But you’re not good enough to get paid.
64: Wilderness Recluse
Modernity gets between us and our
natural instincts.
You’re here begrudgingly after a
lifetime in the wild parts of Deep Country.
65: Squidbagger
A study you read claimed that 97% of
Bastion’s products contain at least some Cephalopod-derived parts.
You keep the city running.
66: Exposed Imposter
You got yourself into quite a powerful
position based on a lie.
Then they found out.
67: Critic-in-Hiding
Everybody loves a scathing critique,
except those under the lens.
For safety, you’ve changed your name
and got a new haircut.
68: Small Town Refugee
Your Deep Country home was awful.
Finally, the railway came, and you
headed to Bastion.
69: Paid Fighter
You’ve been fighting for money, but not
enough to get rich or especially tough.
70: Canal Rover
Bastion’s waterways are no joke.
Something about rails and roads just
seems wrong to you.
71: Experiment Survivor
You were deemed a mixed success.
72: Fashionista
There are none more moronic than those
that lack The Modern Look.
Watch from a distance, lest you become
one of the norms.
73: Human Flotsam
You weren’t raised by Amphibians, but
you can’t blame people for thinking that.
You’re always slightly damp.
74: Master Blender
Some sensory gift allowed you to
rapidly reach a prestigious position.
Prestigious within your trade, worth
nothing outside.
75: Public Nuisance
Something about you has always annoyed
others.
76: Park Steward
Bastion’s parks have grown out of hand.
Yours is one of the worst.
77: Civic Butler
Maintaining the veil of order over
Bastion’s chaos.
78: Estate Squire
The last remnants of rural aristocracy
linger between Bastion and Deep Country.
The past’s long shadow, and you were
born into their service.
79: Machine Whisperer
Industrial machinery sometimes needs a
mallet, sometimes a whisper.
You carry both.
80: Agricultural Saboteur
You carried out dirty jobs for
malicious farmers.
Now you see Bastion is even more
ruthless.
81: Animal Vassal
You are property of an Animal Patron.
You know better than to displease your
liege, but you want to live among humans.
82: Massifist of Massifcountry
Everything is big in Massifcountry.
You stopped growing just below the
ceiling.
83: Divine Prodigy
Raised in a cult retreat for a single
purpose, which didn’t work out.
Cast out into the world.
84: Good Dog
Smarter than many people. Still a dog.
85: Worthless Graduate
You’ve spent a long time in colleges,
arguing about words.
Your career prospects are poor.
86: Alternative-Groomer
You make things pretty and
nice-smelling.
But not people.
87: Avant Guardsman
Not all Militias are Conventional.
88: Factory Orphan
Your family all died in the factory.
Through some small-print in your
contract you’ve been cast out onto the street.
89: Low-Diplomat
A life of carrying bad messages,
managing Expectations, and making people feel heard.
90: Loner Stargazer
You’re not watching for clues, you’re
watching for incoming threats.
Alone in your observatory for too long,
your shift is over.
91: Sub-Person
You wandered the Underground for too
long, tormented.
You came out less than human.
92: Body Jockey
You have a fantastic body, but it is
simply your vehicle.
Keep your fragile-self hidden.
93: Underground Weirdo
Born and raised in the Underground,
below space and time.
You’ve always been odd, and have gotten
much worse.
94: Twins
There are two of you.
Identical in most ways.
95: Constable of Birds and Creeping
Things
Protector of the Laws of Nature.
Courtesy of Arnold Kemp.
96: Exotic Food Supplier
When people tire of sundry dishes, you
step in to serve them new delicacies..
Courtesy of Arnold Kemp.
97: Tactiliator/Tactiliatrix
The power of touch.
Courtesy of Arnold Kemp.
98: Tuk-Tukker
"I'm not going over the water at
this time of night”.
Courtesy of Patrick Stuart
99: Map Thief
"Obviously
I fully intended to return it."
Courtesy of Patrick Stuart
100: Ex-Censor
"Standard
are slipping everywhere."
Courtesy of Patrick Stuart