Description: He wears a grey tunic with green highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around his shoes, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'7" when asserting himself. His brown hair is braided into rings. His ears are large.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He takes great joy in being the best Layabout in town.

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. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Layabout. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Layabout responsibilities is difficult; and he is greedy

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: A 3'3" eastern man, he is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His hair is long and silver with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small white clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Howard was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When Howard reached his early adolescence his Halfling mother 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 became a Gardener soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'10" and muscular, this western man is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Ruler. He keeps his red hair in a flapper bob. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born into a rich family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Shane was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp. Star rose quartz (60 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born in the south. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and a deep hatred of orcs

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 60000 cp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: She is a Cook first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Nyx was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork manacles. 1 Bullseye lantern. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears baggy red pantaloons and a yellow scarf. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She hates Halflings with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Myria was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Myria has worked very hard to control her curse. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Human compassion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is green, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Suhnae 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 Suhnae. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 400 pp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (130 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (130 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (30 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A gifted student he started as a Carter, but he got bored and became a Bowyer. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Many drow want him driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 400 sp.