Description: This man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: Silaqui is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Silaqui alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, tan shirt, and yellow tie. He is physically well-built. His hair is short and chestnut. His ears are large.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Gerard was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Gerard alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. 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. Gerard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. Her tied-back hair is chestnut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 150 pp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, marred by beers. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears her chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Antagonistic. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 800 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull red iron scale mail. His red fur is singed and shortened. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp. Black opal (1000 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.