Description: He is in excellent shape and wears red trousers with green and yellow striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Howard was born the youngest of three triplets. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Howard grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Howard. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: An older woman who is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest, she is not a threatening figure. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her childhood dream was to be a Mayor, but she was a colossal failure. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Ronwe never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Job, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

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

Possessions: 390 pp. Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Malachite (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender woman typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull green iron scale mail. She has wavy black hair. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her small grey hat.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. 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, Torbera is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is content; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Bucklal isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 100 gp. White opal (1500 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.