Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and prefers to wear yellow pants and tee shirts. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has achieved small success as a Cook.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (80 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp).

Description: This man wears a worn and beaten armor, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 500 pp. Smoky quartz (80 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Jet (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Amethyst (60 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Coral (60 gp).

Description: He wears a white costume with the symbols of magic on his torso. His hair is blonde and curly. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Miller. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 3000 gp. Coral (140 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a green costume with the symbols of magic on her torso. She is physically well-built. Her blue hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Apothecary but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her mother's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered illithids who tried to eat her hand. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Vapula was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 8000 gp. Violet garnet (900 gp). Iolite (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a black costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. She has slicked back golden hair. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1700 pp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). Silver ewer (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2100 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (80 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (180 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (180 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'1" and wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. He has green eyes and a tan hat with a white feather.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 70. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Rolen is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 600 pp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears yellow leather gloves, a yellow jacket, and tight pants. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 12000 gp. Blue diamond (4000 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). White opal (500 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp).