Neon Grid — Classes

Survival Doctrine [06] · /docs/classes.txt

Classes in Neon Grid are not jobs. They are procedures for surviving contact with pressure. A Soldier controls the lane. A Hexer teaches systems to fail. A Medic keeps witnesses breathing. A Warden makes the room part of the argument. Pick the method your character trusts when the Grid stops listening politely.

Seventeen doctrines, five families. Some are sanctioned, some are tolerated, and some only stay legal while nobody important is embarrassed. Each doctrine is a story about how your character handles fear, leverage, harm, and responsibility.

DOCTRINE · 01 / 05 // COMBAT 04 classes

CLS-01 // CMB/SOL FIELD CAPTURE · BREACH CORRIDOR / SUPPRESSING FIRE · 02:11 LOCAL

Soldier

lane control // combat · frontline

Soldiers make violence practical: weapon identity, positioning, covering fire, and pressure applied without romance. They decide where the fight happens and make the room pay for disagreeing.

Some learned through guild drill, militia work, pits, courier guard shifts, or gangs. Good Soldiers can be honorable, predatory, traumatized, or paid; all understand distance and consequences.

CODE: CMB/SOL
DOCTRINE: COMBAT
ROLE: LANE CONTROL
RANGE: MID / LONG
METHOD: WEAPON DISCIPLINE
PRESSURE: FORCE WITH A REASON
ENTRY: OPEN · CONTRACTED

CLS-02 // CMB/JST FIELD CAPTURE · BENEDICTION SQUARE / WARRANT SERVED · 04:18 LOCAL

Justiciar

verdict bearer // combat · sanctioned

Justiciars carry law as a weapon when law itself is broken, bought, or missing. They name offenses, bind targets with judgment, and deliver punishment with ritual precision.

They can be corporate warrior-monks, debt executioners, vigilantes, failed idealists, or monsters with paperwork. Their central question is legitimacy: who gave you the right, and what happens when you are wrong?

CODE: CMB/JST
DOCTRINE: COMBAT
ROLE: VERDICT · PUNISH
RANGE: CLOSE / MID
METHOD: JUDGMENT · STRIKE
PRESSURE: LEGITIMACY
ENTRY: SANCTIONED · CHARTERED

CLS-03 // CMB/BLG FIELD CAPTURE · TROPHY YARD / SEVERED VERDICT · 03:04 LOCAL

Blackguard

forbidden chassis // combat · unsanctioned

Blackguards are banned war logic in a walking chassis: harvest routines, illegal plating, hostile code, and weapons that remember synthetic prey. They are strongest when the fight becomes industrial.

Every victory leaves a question inside the frame. A Blackguard can be escaped weapon, penitent monster, mercenary relic, or hunter convinced machines only become honest when dismantled.

CODE: CMB/BLG
DOCTRINE: COMBAT
ROLE: WAR CHASSIS
RANGE: CLOSE / SIEGE
METHOD: HARVEST · HOSTILE CODE
PRESSURE: APPETITE
ENTRY: ROGUE · SELF-COMMISSIONED

CLS-04 // CMB/SNT FIELD CAPTURE · CHECKPOINT 04 / SHIELD POSTURE · 23:48 LOCAL

Sentinel

mandate frame // combat · regulated

Sentinels are abandoned enforcement frames built from pursuit logic, riot firmware, and emergency mandate architecture. They hold lines because the old command voice still knows how.

Some remember being human, some do not, and some are not sure the distinction survived service. Sentinel stories ask what happens when authority outlives legitimacy.

CODE: CMB/SNT
DOCTRINE: COMBAT
ROLE: HOLD · RESPOND
RANGE: CLOSE / MID
METHOD: MANDATE · OVERDRIVE
PRESSURE: AUTHORITY AFTER LAW
ENTRY: REGULATED · LICENSED

DOCTRINE · 02 / 05 // CODE 04 classes

CLS-05 // CDE/HEX FIELD CAPTURE · SIGIL CHAMBER / SKULL-CACHE ACTIVE · 03:11 LOCAL

Hexer

curse logic // code · rogue

Hexers weaponize corruption, recursion, malware, curse logic, and hostile pattern theology. They do not simply hack the Grid; they speak to it like a haunted machine and prove it listens.

They come from black terminals, signal cults, failed universities, old hacker families, and illegal firmware chapels. Their power feels technical until it starts sounding devotional.

CODE: CDE/HEX
DOCTRINE: CODE
ROLE: CORRUPT · CURSE
RANGE: SIGNAL / FIELD
METHOD: MALWARE · RITE
PRESSURE: BELIEF VS TOOL
ENTRY: COVERT · REFERRAL

CLS-06 // CDE/MOD FIELD CAPTURE · ALLEY WORKSHOP / SPINE RE-PATCH · 04:02 LOCAL

Modder

body editor // code · gray-zone

Modders edit bodies under pressure: reinforce, strip, overclock, patch, sabotage, and misalign anything with a nervous system or port. The battlefield is a workbench.

Where Medics heal and Hexers corrupt, Modders revise. Their stories suit kind mechanics, reckless upgraders, black-market surgeons, and anyone who cannot stop improving people who never asked.

CODE: CDE/MOD
DOCTRINE: CODE
ROLE: REWRITE · PATCH
RANGE: SELF · ALLY · TARGET
METHOD: STATE EDIT
PRESSURE: CONSENT
ENTRY: GRAY · LICENSE PENDING

CLS-07 // CDE/CHM FIELD CAPTURE · BACK-LAB BENCH / RIG MID-PUSH · 02:18 LOCAL

Chemjack

combat pharmacology // code · contaminated

Chemjacks read every body as a reaction waiting for the correct trigger. They dose nerves, pressure coolant, audit exposure, and turn chemistry into tempo.

Redline labs, sewer stills, corporate trials, street drug rooms: any of them can teach the doctrine. Chemjack stories live in addiction, control, risk, and the ethics of survival by formula.

CODE: CDE/CHM
DOCTRINE: CODE
ROLE: DOSE · REACT
RANGE: CLOSE / FIELD
METHOD: CHEMISTRY · EXPOSURE
PRESSURE: CONTROL BY FORMULA
ENTRY: LAB · STREET

CLS-08 // CDE/ARC FIELD CAPTURE · HARDLIGHT PROJECTION / INSTANCE LIVE · 01:14 LOCAL

Architect

pattern summoner // code · unstable

Architects impose design on broken reality through hardlight, pattern summons, captured routines, and lattice logic. Their constructs can defend, harry, curse, or buy a second of room control.

They are builders first and combatants second, but the city has learned to fear good design. Every pattern goes home eventually; the dangerous ones start asking why.

CODE: CDE/ARC
DOCTRINE: CODE
ROLE: SUMMON · SHAPE
RANGE: FIELD / PATTERN
METHOD: HARDLIGHT · ROUTINES
PRESSURE: CONTROL OF CHAOS
ENTRY: RARE · GUILDED

DOCTRINE · 03 / 05 // BIOTECH 04 classes

CLS-09 // BIO/MED FIELD CAPTURE · FIELD TRIAGE / HEX-PATCH ACTIVE · 02:31 LOCAL

Medic

field preservation // biotech · sanctioned

Medics are trauma workers in a city where healing creates debt, loyalty, leverage, or witnesses. Every saved life changes who can still testify, fight, love, or owe.

They stabilize, shield, restore, and keep bodies arguing with death long enough for choices. Redline hates them because their care does not always come with an invoice.

CODE: BIO/MED
DOCTRINE: BIOTECH
ROLE: RESTORE · SHIELD
RANGE: CLOSE / FIELD
METHOD: TRIAGE · BIOPATCH
PRESSURE: CARE WITHOUT OWNERSHIP
ENTRY: OPEN · OATH

CLS-10 // BIO/NAT FIELD CAPTURE · GROVE-NODE / BLOOM IN COOLANT · 05:14 LOCAL

Naturalist

old-growth biotech // biotech · sympathetic

Naturalists keep old biology, toxic ecology, garden rites, relic samples, and patient growth alive under concrete. Nature here is not gentle; it is medicinal, hungry, and old enough to hold a grudge.

They come from sewer gardens, wasteland holdouts, greenhouse communes, and biomes that outlived their owners. Their question is what must be preserved, and what deserves compost.

CODE: BIO/NAT
DOCTRINE: BIOTECH
ROLE: GROW · CLEANSE
RANGE: FIELD / GROVE
METHOD: RELIC BIOLOGY
PRESSURE: PRESERVE OR COMPOST
ENTRY: WILD PROCESS · CONTACT

CLS-11 // BIO/NEC FIELD CAPTURE · RAISE CHAMBER / GREEN-CODE LIT · 03:33 LOCAL

Necrotech

death-system engineer // biotech · forbidden

Necrotechs work where corpse logic, memory, machine failure, reanimation, and emergency recovery overlap. They study what remains useful after a system dies and teach it to move.

They can be mourners, ghoulish scientists, caretakers, or grief taken too far. The doctrine asks whether using the dead dishonors them, saves them, or proves the living were never separate from machinery.

CODE: BIO/NEC
DOCTRINE: BIOTECH
ROLE: SHUTDOWN · RAISE
RANGE: CLOSE / FIELD
METHOD: DEATH-CODE
PRESSURE: USE OF THE DEAD
ENTRY: FORBIDDEN · COVERT

CLS-12 // BIO/MRP FIELD CAPTURE · RE-EXPRESSION CHAIR / IDENTITY MID-SHIFT · 03:08 LOCAL

Morph

adaptive flesh // biotech · unstable identity

Morphs are unstable shapeshifters: genome panic, inherited forms, contaminated survival memory, and flesh that refuses one authorized shape.

Some begin ordinary until the first change proves otherwise; others come from labs, toxic zones, or bioweapon lines. Morph stories are body horror, freedom, hunger, shame, and identity as a verb.

CODE: BIO/MRP
DOCTRINE: BIOTECH
ROLE: SHIFT · ADAPT
RANGE: SELF / CLOSE
METHOD: RE-EXPRESSION
PRESSURE: IDENTITY AS BODY
ENTRY: UNSTABLE · SELF-ELECTED

DOCTRINE · 04 / 05 // SPECIALTY 02 classes

CLS-13 // SPC/WRD FIELD CAPTURE · CHOKE GRID / HARDLIGHT BARRIERS LIVE · 01:47 LOCAL

Warden

sector marshal // specialty · adaptive

Wardens read rooms as law: routes, hazards, chokepoints, water pressure, rooftops, alleys, and the social physics of who gets to stand where.

Former marshals, neighborhood defenders, transit officers, gang border-keepers, self-appointed custodians. Wardens protect places, but their danger is confusing protection with ownership.

CODE: SPC/WRD
DOCTRINE: SPECIALTY
ROLE: TERRAIN · CLAIM
RANGE: ROOM / ROUTE
METHOD: CHOKE · TRAP · PREP
PRESSURE: PROTECTION VS OWNERSHIP
ENTRY: OPEN · APPRENTICED

CLS-14 // SPC/VRT FIELD CAPTURE · CONGREGATION FLOOR / CARRIER OPEN · 02:09 LOCAL

Virtuoso

signal artist // specialty · presence

Virtuosos are performers, morale hackers, rhythm duelists, and broadcast pressure specialists. They turn presence into a field condition before anyone admits the room is being played.

The room is instrument and audience; emotion is signal and signal is leverage. Virtuoso stories belong to stages, chapels, riots, clubs, and any crowd that needs to be moved.

CODE: SPC/VRT
DOCTRINE: SPECIALTY
ROLE: PRESENCE · PRESSURE
RANGE: ROOM / BROADCAST
METHOD: SIGNAL · EMOTION
PRESSURE: WHO PLAYS WHOM
ENTRY: AUDITION · PATRON

DOCTRINE · 05 / 05 // COVERT 03 classes

CLS-15 // COV/INF FIELD CAPTURE · SERVICE CORRIDOR / TAP IN PROGRESS · 03:22 LOCAL

Infiltrator

boundary specialist // covert · sanctioned

Infiltrators treat buildings, bodies, networks, and social systems as locks. They use stealth, sensors, devices, venoms, and precision to make a fight unfair before it begins.

Spy programs, courier crews, burglary, corporate audit, survival: all roads teach the same lesson. Their stories ask what it means to know too much and whether any boundary was ever real.

CODE: COV/INF
DOCTRINE: COVERT
ROLE: BYPASS · KNOW
RANGE: CLOSE / MID
METHOD: STEALTH · SCAN · TAP
PRESSURE: BOUNDARIES
ENTRY: CONTRACT · CELL

CLS-16 // COV/ASS FIELD CAPTURE · ROOFLINE EGRESS / CONTRACT CLOSED · 01:47 LOCAL

Assassin

single-strike specialist // covert · contracted

Assassins turn preparation, proximity, and silence into one irreversible moment. The cleanest kill is over before the log finishes opening.

They live by contract, grievance, doctrine, or debt. Their tension is not whether they can end someone; it is what ending someone costs the person who remains.

CODE: COV/ASS
DOCTRINE: COVERT
ROLE: SINGLE STRIKE
RANGE: CLOSE
METHOD: PREPARE · EXIT
PRESSURE: COST OF ENDING
ENTRY: REFERRAL · BOND

CLS-17 // COV/SCV FIELD CAPTURE · SUMPS WIRE-WORK / TRIPLINE LIT · 02:54 LOCAL

Scavenger

salvage fighter // covert · informal

Scavengers are junk fighters, salvage thieves, trap builders, scrap medics, and practical survivors who turn the room itself into inventory.

Broken things are pre-owned weapons with poor marketing. Their stories are poverty, humor, theft, community, improvisation, and dignity built from what cleaner people threw away.

CODE: COV/SCV
DOCTRINE: COVERT
ROLE: SALVAGE · IMPROVISE
RANGE: FIELD / ANY
METHOD: STEAL · ADAPT · TRADE
PRESSURE: DIGNITY FROM SCRAP
ENTRY: OPEN · STREET

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