RPGaDay2026 Day 16: Composure

Now to come up with an female NPC for the Eureka Ruins who is having a hard time with her Composure. If she were having an easy time with her composure, she might be a little too close to Scarlett from back on Day 4, so let's try to keep things interesting.

In fact, to make things a bit more interesting, let's make her human. What is a human doing spending most of her time in the Eureka Ruins? Well, one of the things that I've struggled to incorporate into the setting is one of the Ruin tags that I rolled up for this part of town has been the Hidden Purpose. It doesn't really mesh with how I think of my hometown,

But if we're willing to accept that Hupa developed some sort of black programs that it implemented while everything was falling apart, there are other kinds of developments that very naturally follow. So there may well be something hidden under this portion of Eureka.

So our NPC is Mary Ross (named after a Native American rocket scientist), who has come up from Frisco to try to learn about what happened up here since the Collapse. Since she is Native American, she is interested in Hupa and she might work her way there at some point. But right now, she's interested in what might have happened in Eureka in response.

She's also interested in Tuluwat, the largest island in Humboldt Bay. It's gone by a few names in its history, but it is currently called Tuluwat and is the territory of the local Wiyot tribe. If Hupa was able to militarize, maybe Tuluwat was able to have a small navy controlling the bay. And maybe Eureka was able to work up a response.

So what does Composure have to do with all this? Well, like any post-apocalyptic scientist, she more than a little MAD!

Name: Mary Golda Ross

Appearance: A Native American woman in her 30's with straight dark hair under a kerchief. She wears khaki outdoor gear.

Quote: "How exciting!"

Roleplaying: She is brilliant and very excitable. The prospect of a new discovery will have her clapping her hands and rubbing them together in glee.

Background: Mary is from one of the larger Enclaves in the San Francisco Bay area on a research expedition.

Key Info:

She has some information regarding Hupa, Tuluwat, and even some of the science projects at Calpoly and underneath Eureka from her studies, but she is limited on practical experience, which she is eager to get.

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