Description: He stands about 6'1" and wears bulky black painted plate armor. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He has chestnut hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born in the west. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1800 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a simple green robe with violet stripes complete with hood. His hair is short and chestnut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He got into the Layabout business at a young age. At some point he was captured by orcs and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Layabout responsibilities is difficult; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 sp. Peridot (50 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a black shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and red pants. His hair is silver and very short. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tieflings.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He's also a talented Laborer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 140 gp. Carnelian (30 gp).

Description: Standing 5'6", this woman is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and pastel handkerchief worn on her right side. With bright black hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Susannah was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and balancing her hectic life and new blacksmith responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Debt, In love. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 80 gp. 4 Holy water.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She wears a grey collared shirt and red skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. In her 18th 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. Being a Sage kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 6000 cp.