Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 45000 sp. 8 Acid flasks.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'1" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Alex is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born in the west. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he dresses well, wearing grey shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He struck the Courier job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 100 gp. Malachite (12 gp). Moss agate (12 gp).

Description: A 5'3" southern man, he wears a white vest and prefers pastel and violet shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Jade (100 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp).

Description: This eastern man wears silk and lounges about seductively. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Randal lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Randal and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.