Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She has silver hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Avice 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. Avice decided she wanted neither the life of her father 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. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 600 gp. Star rose quartz (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp).

Description: She prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. She has wavy blonde hair. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Lapis lazuli (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She stands about 4'10" and prefers to wear yellow clothing when she does not wear armor. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a simple brown robe with black stripes complete with hood. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Born to a Bounty Hunter, his father struggled to pay the bills. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Lance grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Lance. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

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: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 800 gp.