Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has shaved his head bald. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 2. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he is content

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 400 sp. Brown-green garnet (160 gp).

Description: He stands about 5'3" and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has wavy brown hair. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Cook born in the past three hundred years. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Caeldrim was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Caeldrim has worked very hard to control his curse. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Fletcher again; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Vondal grew up listening to his father's many stories. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Body Guard and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears violet robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a spear, but if one is not available she will default to her greatsword. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Adventurer who has hired her part-time. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A freak accident while working with her Bowyer father left her crippled. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Fearful, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp.