Description: She wears a fancy black dress. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has done her best to style her rusty crest to look like a famous performer. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

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. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Shepherd arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Nala was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Nala decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He wears his auburn hair up. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Bounty Hunter work with an outfit from a few towns over. Bounty Hunter work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Doctor and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: 3'3" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is wearing a long, blue cloak. With bright white hair. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Virra never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies, Adventurer, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Server

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). 4 Antitoxin.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears tattered old clothes, and is pretty ugly. She has a long black ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'4" when asserting himself. His hair is auburn and curly. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the west. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 100 gp. Amethyst (50 gp).

Description: She prefers to wear flannel, and carries swords. She has a very tight haircut. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Quilla lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: 5'4" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with white slacks. Her red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Joker, Logical, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 30 pp. Malachite (9 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and yellow handkerchief worn on his right side. His black hair is knotted and matted. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He bought a quarterstaff and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Violet garnet (300 gp). White pearl (130 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.