Description: She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She is physically well-built. Her long chestnut hair reaches down to her waist. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Cook profession.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gifted student she started as a Cook, but she got bored and became a Map Maker. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To be a Cook again; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Secretive, Mundane, Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She wears a tan vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her tan boots flare out at the collars. She has slicked back brown hair. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Unemployed born in the past three hundred years. Nyx is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Debt. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 25000 cp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). Malachite (15 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a pastel armored body suit, with a simple violet line shooting up and back down. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length red fur. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes goblins are coming to abduct people. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Flame hails from a village terrorized by goblins. In her 14th year, her parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Flame alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new locksmith responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 14000 sp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). White opal (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a black shirt, with a blue mid length shorts with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying north to reunite his family. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Mantus was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'10" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. His red hair is lengthy. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Paelias abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Paelias fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is his passion; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor, and is pretty ugly. He wears his golden hair up. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has achieved small success as a Courier.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soothing and warm

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

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She very much looks the part of a Mercenary. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the west were limited. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 gp.