Thrifty Nuggins

**Thrifty Greggy Nuggins of Sepa-Nuggins** is a Halfling rogue that is currently embarked on *"The Sulphate Coast"* story line in The Sea of Opportunity. Thrifty is also an official Sheriff's Deputy of Tarn Station; acting captain of the *H.M.S Thrifty;* ambassador to the Burning Bush Centaur Clan and prolific letter writer.

Thrifty was born into the Sepa-Nuggins family of the larger Nuggins clan. His father, Greggy Nuggins, was a prolific trader of baked goods and inventor of the Nuggoux; his mother, Veroni Sepa, was the daughter of a well-to-do trading Halfling family based in the United Duchies of Kallstapp. As a young Halfling, Thrifty worked in his fathers bakeries among the immigrant workers, allowing him to become well learned in multiple languages.

## Family and Early Life

Thrifty was born in the Nuggins Warehouse Compound, specifically at *Birthy Nuggins' Discount Family Hospital.* Born a healthy baby, Thrifty was so named for his paternal great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Rifty Nuggins IV, who was known at the time to be the tallest Halfling in all of the Compound (with some reports showing him reaching the heights of 4').

From age 3 to 11, Thrifty was educated in the traditional manner allowed to those with the Nuggins name, and impressed his teachers with his intelligence and wit. However, due to his subversive and annoying nature, Thrifty had difficulty completing the tasks set of him in higher education, and instead devoted his time between stealing staff members property, making grand speeches during lunch time, and haggling with the school tuck shop (the latter culminating in a messy suicide by the tuck shop's owner).

Noticing his favoured skills, Thrifty was placed in the Corporate Espionage Department of the Nuggins Clan for an apprenticeship. Under his various spymasters, Thrifty became skilled in sneaking, disguises and swordplay; and graduated at age 22 as a fully qualified espionage agent. During his time at the department, Thrifty indulged his fascination into the mechanical and explosive, and was known for creating elaborate traps and tricks which both fascinated and infuriated his fellow students.

> *"He is annoying. He is really annoying. His stupid face, his chirpy voice, his constant friendliness. I hate him, I really hate him since the moment I met him, I don't know why he thinks I like him, I'm pushing him through graduation so I no longer have to deal with him.**"*** **- Spymaster Sneaky Nuggins' final comments on Thrifty's Graduation Report**
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## Espionage Career

Given the high demand for espionage in the Compound, Thrifty was swiftly hired and sent on various missions to disrupt, steal and murder in competing businesses for sheer economic gain. Given the nature of the espionage business, Thrifty was often hired by one business one morning, only to be hired by the very business he stole from the next day. Although skilled at his work, Thrifty excelled more at the personable missions, the bluffing, disguising and attacking his way into a company rather than the sneaky hiding and subterfuge. Indeed, it was often considered that he was "too loud" to be sneaky.

Because of this, Thrifty very quickly became very well known when he was on his missions, and had to create increasingly elaborate disguises and back stories in order to penetrate the defences of a company and complete his missions. Notable missions involved him disguising himself as a table lamp, several horses and the mother of a CEO. Astonishingly, Thrifty had a particularly high success rate in his missions.

Thrifty continually became disillusioned with the flux of corporate espionage, being hired to respond to missions that he himself completed only days earlier. He wrote that he found nothing constant, that he was not fixing anything or solving anything, and that he wanted to move on in life. This opportunity came when, at a bi-weekly Nuggin's Family Reunion, Thrifty discussed life plans with his 4th cousin's wife's brother's step-son 2 times removed, Shippy Nuggins. Shippy discussed his plans to find a faster trade route to the The Sulphate Coast, a distant continent awash with riches and adventure. It was said that Thrifty did not even listen to Shippy's full story before leaving part-way through the conversation to pack his bags and leave the Compound.