Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a fancy brown dress. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She was born into a rich family. She worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Adventurer, Rich, Job, Debt. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 2700 gp. Rose (40 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a simple green robe with tan stripes complete with hood. His blue hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. When Sammal reached his early adolescence his Tiefling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 500 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears an entirely blue suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes, and is pretty ugly. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. The war was a terrible time for her, and Abalaba does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Abalaba was born on a far western mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Mortician. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 pp. Azurite (15 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp).

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He carries with him a set of longbows on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He has moderate length silver hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. 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 bought a longbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Rose (40 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. She has a very tight haircut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Born in the west to a Herbalist, Sumnes learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Sumnes has worked very hard to control her curse. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Layabout again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 sp. Amethyst (100 gp).