Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, black shirt, and tan tie. His red hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Nicholas was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He struck the Fortune-teller job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 20 pp. 3 Antitoxin. 4 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This malnourished man wears a brown shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and white pants. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Human culture. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Human activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Human doctor. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. William was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 6'4" and wears long strands of jet and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. 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. Being a Animal Trainer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and 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

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Amber (100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. He has chestnut hair. He has green eyes and a tan hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In his 14th 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. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1800 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. 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: He seems to be bored by most things; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 3100 sp.