Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he prefers to wear flannel. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 200 gp. Jet (110 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. He wears his black hair down. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. 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 Spice Merchant. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. A freak accident while working with her Body Guard father left her crippled. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 60 pp. Golden pearl (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp).

Description: She wears a green cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. Her hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Jacoba was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 600 gp.