Nicole

Nicole is one of the six players of the game. She is the owner of the Captain's Hat. She is currently accompanied by Pippin.

 Skills and Equipment

Nicole has demonstrated skill in acting and quick-witted deception, aided by her Captain's Hat. She has also acquired minor skills in knife fighting, trained by Pippin.

Nicole currently has

* A royal seal, which signals her as under the employment of the crown
* A knife, given to her by Pippin
* Money swindled out of the rich woman
* Assorted wooden supplies

## I. The Treasure Room

Nicole used her hat to convince the bandits that she was the most dangerous serial killer in the world and had killed everyone in the treasure room and was willing to do so to anyone who got in her way, causing them to flee in fear.

## II. The Heiress

Used her hat to convince the rich woman she was a master tracker and would find her wagon if she was paid in advance first. Nicole took the advance pay and left.

## III. The Rogue and the Flower

### Part 1

Nicole convinced Agard and his team that she was a relative of a former captain of the royal military police who had died, and they noticed she had 'misplaced' her royal seal so they gave her a new one.

### Part 2

Nicole kept spending time with the royal military police under the guise of the captain's relative, and at the end, Agard assigned an escort, Pippin, to make sure she got home safely.

## IV. Forces of Nature

### Part 1

She and Pippin searched along the cliffside for another bridge, collecting what supplies they could find.

### Part 2

Having followed Nick and the rest of the party upon seeing that they went east, she had Pippin train her in knife fighting.

## V. The Ecstasy of Gold

Nicole told Elijah and Solomon that she was once a traveling performer and understood their difficulties. She offered them a position in her party and said she could protect them from the mine owner. Unfortunately, she used her hat while Pippin was in earshot, leaving him confused as he was following her because he still believed a previous identity. Pippin ran off and Nicole had to hurry to catch him and re-convince him she was the dead captain's relative.

## VI. Wrath of the Sea Dogs

### Part 1

Nicole had Pippin wait outside the Seastone Tower and entered, flashing her royal seal and telling the guards that it would be optimal for the prisoner to be released. The guards said they would consider it, and sent one of them to the top of the tower to check on the prisoner. Upon seeing that the prisoner was in the midst of escaping already due to the actions of Jatin and Solomon, the guards suspected Nicole was a conspirator and ordered her arrested.

### Part 2

Nicoleuses her hat to convince the guards she is a royal affiliate. However, this makes the head guard even angrier, and they commence charging her. Pippin places himself between Nicole and the guards and slays two of them. Already having lost seven guards due to the combined efforts of Lala and Pippin, the guards decide to cut their losses and not pursue them as they flee town.

## VII. The Isle of Bones

### Part 1

Nicole and Pippin gathered wood to make smashing weapons and stayed close to the shore.

### Part 2

Nicole and Pippin sneak onto the ship to hide out the pirate invasion, keeping their weapons close to them.

## VIII. The Tournament

Nicole and Pippin sneak around the dressing rooms of the contestants and local taverns trying to discover if any match fixing is occurring. Her and Jatin compile their information and present it to the palace guards. They are thanked.

## IX. The Adventurer

A rage tonic-empowered Pippin fights Rainer to distract him and gets grievously injured. Nicole helps Jack and Jatin reload their projectile weapons with which they are attacking Rainer. She picks up Nick's crossbow and begins using it when he falls. After the fight, she receives two health potions from Jatin for Pippin in exchange for declaring an alliance with him.

## X. The Green Lady

Nicole helped Solomon prepare potions using the saintgrove petals and practiced knife fighting.

## XI. City of Stone

Nicole encourages depetrified townspeople to accompany her to a safe building. Around half of the freed townspeople follow her. Nicole's breakaway party are ambushed by a gorgon and several of them die.

## XII. The Enemy

### Part 1

Nicole and Pippin join the search party, and she tells Sir Barchus that she is an accomplished tracker in order to gain his trust.

### Part 2

Nicole tells Sir Barchus she is a Thanacross official who has inside knowledge regarding the Black Sword conspiracy that she needs to tell him. Barchus instructs her to get behind him and he'll deal with her after he massacres the rest of the search party. After Barchus' death, a threatened Nicole explains to the survivors that she was just trying to trick Sir Barchus and she is in no way affiliated with Thanacross.

### Part 3

Nicole runs away to the town after Barchus is killed and tries to find Pippin. She eventually locates him in the bar, upon which she tells him she is the important individual he has been tasked with escorting. Pippin leaves with her.