Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has wavy red hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Mary will drive conversation. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Born in the west to a Actor, Mary learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Extrovert, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Amber (120 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She wears her silver crest up. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 2000 cp. Chrysoprase (50 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This malnourished woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Dee lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A freak accident while working with her Guard father left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Golden pearl (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 120 gp.