Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her axe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Avice was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Gardener. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Hedonist, Secretive. Bonds: In love, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her silver hair is long and unkept. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Opinionated, Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His black hair is still thick. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she prefers to wear flannel. She wears her chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She got into the Body Guard business at a young age. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Human activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Human doctor. She has achieved small success as a Body Guard.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Shy, Addict, Racist. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Carnelian (50 gp).

Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is typically in her Carter uniform. Her brown hair is well kept. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She tends to her Carter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 120 gp. Amethyst (100 gp).