Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a brown tunic with tan highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. Yvonne enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Yvonne abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears just a brown suit. She has done her best to style her black fur to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is typically in his Layabout uniform. His scarlet crest is lengthy. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Layabout for hire.

Motivation: To be a Ploughman again.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 20000 cp. Onyx (50 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Jade (140 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a violet suit, blue shirt, and green tie. Her hair is red and curly. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Oriel alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Optimist. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 800 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). 1 Banded mail.