Description: This western woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length brown fur. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 140 gp. Jet (130 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered pastel stockings. Her auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her 14th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This woman wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has wavy black hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. A true patriot, Merla would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Merla was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Unemployed. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Insomniac, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is dressed in an above average manner. His hair is short and silver. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 40 pp. Banded agate (16 gp).