Halley

Halley is a Goliath melee class and a main antagonist of the Tier 3 campaign. She is a non-player character.

### Class

Melee, likely either Fighter, Barbarian, or Monk

## Background

Little is known of Halley's background. At some point in her past, she came to Tier 3 to study as a Body fighter, and was assigned Rico and Io as her partners. She quickly surpassed expectations, and her team became legendary among the other students at Tier 3.

Eventually, disillusioned with the principles of valor and honor which Tier 3 waved sappily as their banner, Rico and Halley announced they would leave the organization to found their own, an institution based on ambition and power that would not be hindered by archaic rules or moral pandering. They left Io behind, believing Heart fighters were weak and remnants of the idyllic but quaint Tier system. Io was heartbroken by this loss, as she had trusted the two and believed them to be her friends.

## Bomb Threat

Several weeks after their disappearance, Rico and Halley exploited the Tier 3 communications system, which Rico had tampered with, to announce their placement of a bomb in the facility. If a team was able to successfully follow the trail of puzzles Rico had left encrypted across the organization, the duo would deem that team worthy of induction into Rico and Halley's elite cabal. When Rico and Halley were using the transmission system, the blue and yellow slices of the Tier 3 logo overlapped first the red slice and then each other, forming a green circle and bathing the facility in green light.

Several teams participated, although all with the aim of finding the bomb and saving the organization rather than joining Rico and Halley. The six members of the two teams which progressed the furthest, Bingle, Kefz, Arrick, the Cat, River, and Belle, were all taken by Rico upon discovery of the bomb, and placed into a labyrinth with the goal of determining the most worthy apprentices.

## Rico's Labyrinth

Halley didn't appear in any transmissions during the labyrinth challenge, but is assumed to have been with Rico. She may also have been attending to diplomatic matters. Some of the challenges, especially the physically-oriented ones, likely were made at least in part by her.

At the center of the maze, both teams had to face a Minotaur to win: however, River, Bingle, and Kefz were rescued by Io and Rem, while the Cat died fighting his team's, leaving only Arrick and Belle to join Rico and Halley's organization.

## Diplomacy

Halley journeyed to a meeting of nobles, attempting to gain their trust and eventually be able to exert influence over their kingdoms, utilizing their armies and siphoning their riches. Rico accompanied her on this mission, as did his betrothed Alejandra, who had been arranged to marry him in a loveless political move. Rem and Io attempted to stop Halley by disguising themselves as diplomats and countering her entreaties, and they enlisted Kefz, Bingle, and River to assist them in this task.

Halley was absent for stretches at the castle while she saw to work back at the organization.

Halley's current whereabouts and plans are unknown.

## Personality

Halley is aloof and stern, so she rarely interacted with the others, leaving much of her personal demeanor unknown. She speaks in a deep monotone. Halley appears to place importance on raw, brute, physical strength over everything else, and will do whatever it takes to get ahead, regardless of morality.

## Appearance

Halley is a tall Goliath female with gray skin and tattoos covering the right half of her body. She has a bald head and dark eyes. She has a number of facial piercings as well, including two on her lower lip and one on her ear, and her eyebrows are instead dotted and studded with ink due to her lack of hair.

Halley's age is unknown, but she can be presumed to be in her late teens or early twenties, like most of the students at Tier 3.