Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She wears a colorful flower in her black hair. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is a Shepherd first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Melissa is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Melissa was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and expand her business

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. His brown hair is long and unkept. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A gifted student he started as a Scribe, but he got bored and became a Navigator. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: 4'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a shield, but if one is not available he will default to his lance. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is dark but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He wears white robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a shield, but if one is not available he will default to his sickle. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Joser is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (160 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a black tunic with brown highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He got into the Locksmith business at a young age. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has achieved small success as a Locksmith.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he has a crush on the local soapmaker

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Job, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Amethyst (100 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp).