Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She keeps her auburn hair in a flapper bob. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Melissa was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Melissa has worked very hard to control her curse. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 4000 sp. Jet (40 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He is wearing a long, yellow, dusty cloak. He has a hunchback. His black hair is braided into rings. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of goblins once and for all.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He worked as a nervous Bather and found it very stressful. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 20000 cp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light green in addition to tight pants. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Born in the north to a Cook, Jacoba learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Jacoba has worked very hard to control her curse. She has achieved small success as a Cook.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears pastel painted combat armor at almost all times. He wears his golden hair down. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Raymond was born the youngest of three triplets. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 100 gp.