Selwyn "Skip" Weathersby

"Hi, name's Skip Weathersby, lead investigative reporter for the Red Dragon Daily. I've got a few questions for you" - Skip to most people she meets

## Selwyn "Skip" Weathersby

Selwyn Weathersby, known to her friends as Skip (most assume to her high energy personality), is the lead investigative reporter for the Red Dragon Daily newspaper. Just recently, she has joined the Adventurer's Guild realizing that the guild seems to be on the forefront of every big story that is happening in the town, and she figures being with the guild on the front lines will get her the first shot at each scoop.

## Background Story

Skip doesn't talk much about her background, but most people would know that she comes from a family of shipping merchants in Stilde who run Weathersby Wares. Her father Sigismund Weathersby was not a good father to her and her brothers, often lost in drink and emotionally abusive. Finally having enough after a drunken rampage about some 'idiotic caravan guards', she left about two years ago and joined on as a junior reporter at the Red Dragon Daily, finding she has a knack for it. This came to her brothers calling her "Skip" for skipping out on her responsibilities. She doesn't harbor much ill will towards her brothers, but she does tend to avoid talking to them or asking them for help unless it's absolutely necessary.

## Personality

Skip's outward personality to most everyone that she meets is high energy and friendly, verging on what some would call "bubbly". Those that don't know her well would assume that she's just a friendly person, but those that do know her are aware that maybe aside for her good friends, each word and turn of phrase is carefully chosen to steer the conversation in her desired direction and to unknowingly squeeze information out of her conversation partner.

From her past in the noble houses, as well as her training at the Stilde branch of the Bardic College of Lore, Skip has become exceptional dealing with people of all walks of life and is incredibly hard not like immediately.

## Appearance

Skip is average height for a human woman and sports a silky brown head of shoulder length hair. Her kind, inquisitive brown eyes match her hair, and her skin tone is an olive tan indicating family lineage from elsewhere in the archipelago. She is conventially attractive, which tends to aid her in getting the information that she needs out of people to investigate her stories. Her build is lean muscle, likely due to the traveling and adventuring she needs to do to get to the places her stories are about.

Her clothing is usually pretty standard, nothing too fancy that she would stick out in a crowd, and if she sports armor its usually pretty light. She prefers tall adventuring boots over the standard footwear of noblewomen and is always seen carrying a book bag full of scrolls, ink, and quills.

## Trivia

* Skip spent a long time investigating the 100th Annual Winter Star Festival incident where three members of the Stilde Warrior's Guild were found dead within a mirror maze. When she finally learned the truth from Rylik, instead of breaking the news she threw her notes into the guild hearth, likely worried that the information would hurt her new friends.
* Skip has a trained owl named Loki that she uses to scout as well as deliver her notes back to the Red Dragon Daily field offices.
* Skip and Calamity have become fast friends, particularly thanks to Calamity saving her life on her very first mission fighting exploding magical kobolds in the crop fields.
* No one has seen Skip Weathersby and The Night Owl in the same room... but they also haven't seen Rylik or The Night Owl in the same room either.