Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she usually wears her pastel robe and has her nunchaku always slung over her shoulder. She wears her auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Melissa was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 90 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Sage. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. She has amber eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep red leather and dull brown iron scale mail. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. A friendly and beautiful Human, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Arnold was born with his mother's beautiful face. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Soapmaker. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Revenge; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 600 gp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears long strands of topaz and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has a long black beard with little hanging trinkets. He has green eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. After months of barely getting by, Geoffrey managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: Golden pearl (100 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.