Gwanlen

Gwanlen is a female dwarf with a long flowing beard. She carries a variety of weapons but favors the bow. Of extremely flexible moral character, Gwanlen earned herself the dubious honor of her teammates nickname "human trafficker" due to her actions on her first mission to Fort Plonk.

## Notable Actions

When faced with the Lady Violet Glitterswirl of the Feywilds, the being responsible for the abduction of several citizens of Fort Plonk as well as two of the party members, it was Gwanlen who abruptly announced that the current free party would bring "better servants" to replace them in exchange. The party was stymied into following her lead as she said it without consulting them first, but let her know they were not happy with her decision to essentially trade the lives and freedom of others to suit her needs. Jo Lemonpeele was especially vocal, saying she would never work with Gwanlen again.

Gwanlen tried to persuade Marion Spoonbill, the Shipton representative, to approach her aging friend Tieberius with Gwanlen's proposition to work as an indentured servant "at a neverending party" and to "live forever and never age" as part of this plan, but Marion was so offended she ignored it. Gwanlen also attempted to find an elderly home for this same purpose, but ultimately went back to the fall back plan of procuring marionettes to trade for the hostages instead.

Strangely, she showed oddly misplaced upright moral character when she objected to Margie taking the deceased Jo's possessions, claiming they had to do the right thing, which everyone was quick to point out didn't include not human trafficking according to her worldview.

Gwanlen also appeared to suffer from longterm memory loss, as she completely forgot about Margie taking Jo's possessions when questioned by Peggy Shipton about it. It's more like she forgot about Jo entirely, as well as who her former teammates were. She seemed to think that the pixies were the ones who had stolen Jo's things despite Jo never being abducted by the pixies.

## Death

She also seemed to suffer from narcolepsy, as as soon as she set foot out on Haversport for her final mission she passed out asleep. She was loaded back into the ship by the zombies that manned it for "Dave", and remained asleep there for the whole mission. The party, deciding that it wasn't fair she was even paid half upfront for her services when she ultimately didn't contribute to the mission, took her share of the gold and divided it amongst themselves.

Unfortunately (or fortunately for the party), Gwanlen never discovered she'd been robbed as the ship was sunk by an unknown monster and she wasn't able to escape with the rest of the party, due to being asleep in a pile of zombies. Hopefully she slept peacefully through her last moments, though no one will ever know.

## Return and Subsequent Death

While on route to Mysterio, the ship Boaty McBoatface was set upon by a familiar unseen monster. The ship was surrounded by seaweed, unable to move, and from the water Gwanlen appeared. Held in midair suspended by a tentacle that was attached somehow to her back, Gwanlen greeted the party coldly and accused Dave of abandoning her. Dave had trouble remembering who she was.

Seemingly angry at being left on the 420Blazeit to die from the tentacle creature, Gwanlen had either fused to it or it had absorbed some part of her, allowing it to mimic her or bond with her. Two other tentacles rose from the water and attacked the party, and Gwanlen puked gross seawater that poisoned Dave and Xander.

As Gwanlen took damage, chunks of her fell off, revealing not blood or flesh but dirty seawater. While coordinating the attacks with the tentacles, she eventually came close enough to the ship for Dave's claws to reach her, and with the killing blow of Magic Missle by Juice, Gwanlen and one of the tentacles exploded into sludgey seawater. The other tentacle withdrew, and the creature (whatever it was) retreated.