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).

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 green collared shirt and violet pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His copper crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Gifted from a young age, Srorthen studied abroad. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Attractive. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a worn and beaten armor, and is pretty ugly. Her hair is white and curly. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Baker born in the past three hundred years. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: Expand her business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 4000 gp. Jasper (40 gp). Amber (110 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a black collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length red hair. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Laborer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. During his travels, Nim and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Nim discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Nim fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.