Description: This woman is very fat, and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her tied-back hair is black. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Melissa was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Melissa 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 Melissa. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Bhevek lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Sailor for the past few years.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Everburning torch. 1 Everburning torch. 2 Thunderstones. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is light but he possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. He very much looks the part of a Unemployed. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He is a Unemployed first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Unemployed. During his travels, Cockaby and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Cockaby discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Cockaby fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 600 gp. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: This late middle aged woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze and is in decent physical shape. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Hillanot lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hillanot fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 190 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a brown costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: The child of a Scribe, who enjoyed hunting, Chad was taken on many hunting expeditions. His childhood dream was to be a Scribe, but he was a colossal failure. He became a Barber soon after.

Motivation: Revenge; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.