Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She carries with her a set of pickaxes on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. She has auburn hair. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Pennie was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Lance hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He dropped out of school to support his sick mother, and resented it. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His hair is black and curly. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: The child of a Cartwright, who enjoyed hunting, Umpen was taken on many hunting expeditions. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Through the years after Pennie was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Pennie's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His brown hair is heavily combed to the left. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Merihim was born on a far eastern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Layabout. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. Onyx (70 gp). Coral (160 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Amber (160 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Peridot (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She is dressed in earthy colors with a green and pastel handkerchief worn on her right side. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nemeia grew up listening to her father's many stories. In her 18th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Nemeia alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Family, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She wears her copper crest down. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Shepherd business.

History: She got into the Shepherd business at a young age. A gifted student she started as a Miner, but she got bored and became a Shepherd. She became a Shepherd soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 19000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (140 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (100 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (140 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (140 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.