Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Sailor arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and many illithids want her driven away

Flaws: Secretive, Insane. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has shaved his head bald. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Blacksmith hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 5'2" western woman, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a violet suit, white shirt, and pastel tie. She has slicked back blonde hair. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Melissa hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her dancing career. 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: She got into the Armorer business at a young age. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She sports chestnut long hair. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She became a Locksmith soon after.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Locksmith and was forced into it by her family; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). White opal (1200 gp).