Noonan Lockheed

> *"I'm a bribeable bird."* (Noonan Lockheed, Session 13)
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**Noonan Lockheed** (pronounced /nuː-næn lɒk-hiːd/ *NOO-nan lock-HEED*) is a kenku artificer. He is a Waterdhavian carpenter who, with his friend

## History

### Titles and Aliases

Mahogany "The Hog" (pseudonym)
"Mitube" (insult from Mariss)
"the bird"
Nooban

## Relationships

### Friends

Reverence (roommate)
Mus C'aedus II
Cupcake
Mariss D'Marothek
Izora de'Xvim
Volothamp Geddarm
Renear Neverember
Auxi C'aedus
Pidge the Poltergeist
Poltergeist of the Awning Portal
Krentz
Pog Ger
Krebbyg Masq'il'yr
Felrekt Lafeen (deceased)
Loreloth
Mirt
Mauve Cleats

### Family

Unnamed Mother
Unnamed Father
Twelve unnamed siblings

## Meta

### First Debut

Session 1

and roommate Reverence, got involved in the Awning Portal's affairs after signing on the lease to own the property.

## **Description**

Noonan Lockheed is a kenku that stands at 4 foot 2 inches (127 centimeters) tall and weighs 80 pounds (36.2kg). Despite being a kenku, most of which that resemble crows, Noonan takes the appearance of an anthropomorphic pigeon. His body and face are covered in grey feathers. Noonan has a grey and black beak and amber eyes. Noonan is rather squat and chubby, and more often than not resembles a puffy ball of feathers.

Noonan typically wears brown work pants, a lined brown coat with a fur-lined hood, brown gloves, an aviator hat and goggles, which Noonan usually infuses with artificer magic to glow in the dark. He remains barefoot. He lets his tail feathers stick out over the top of his waistband.

## **Personality**

Noonan is, above all else, big-hearted. His heart goes out to his friends and his gut instincts are to keep them safe and happy. This, as well as his desire to build a flying machine, is the primary motive for what he does. Where Rev and Mus goes, he goes, and he's always willing to lend a hand.

Noonan displays problems with impulsivity, and tends to not think ahead before doing something. When Noonan was gifted a rifle by Jarlaxle, he tested it out by firing it into one of the walls of his apartment, leaving behind a bullet hole, despite prior evidence that that would be the result of his actions. This impulsivity has also gotten him in petty trouble with the law on multiple occasions; he has been accused of conspiracy to loot graves and he has gotten minor punishment for obstructing justice due to his impulsive actions.

He tends to be single-minded when it comes to his projects, particularly those involving construction. He has been known to wander off on his own, abandon his responsibilities and spend several hours, if not days, in solitude or only in the company of tradesmen while working on projects. This has caused him to miss important events that others have witnessed, like Krebbyg shooting Mus. He also works on his projects to the point of disrespecting others' spaces, a notable example being him leaving behind several clumps of wood shavings on Durnan's counters in the Yawning Portal.

## **Abilities**

### Artificer Ingenuity

Noonan is a practiced carpenter and utilizes subtle magic in his craft. He can use his artificer magic to support others in battle and augment his own gear. Noonan also has experience with firearms and contraptions, and utilizes these constructions and artillery in battle. Noonan is an excellent support and augments the combative capabilities of those he fights alongside with.

### Kenku Mimicry

Noonan, like other kenku, has a natural capability to mimic the voices of others around him. He augments this with his magic to disguise himself as others, allowing him to quite easily become a body double of anyone he knows. However, unlike other kenku, he does not primarily use these mimics to speak. He speaks on his own in his own voice.

## **Possessions**

Noonan's go-to weapon is a pistol provided to him by Jarlaxle Baenre as a reward for rescuing Renear Neverember from the Hand of Nessus, the cult that kidnapped him.

Noonan's goggles are infused to provide him darkvision.

Noonan has a *Rope of Climbing*, said rope which he used to climb up the side of the Awning Portal and eavesdrop on Mariss and Krebbyg when Krebbyg shot Mus.

In his possession also is a 100gp pearl, of which Noonan can use to create a construct companion at will.

Noonan has a *Sending Stone.* The other paired stone is in the possession of Mus. Noonan also has a *Deck of Illusions,* a *Potion of Healing,* and a *Bag of Holding,* the bag which he uses to hold extra things the party doesn't have room to carry.

## **History**

### Childhood

Noonan hatched in 1463 to two Kenku parents who lived just outside of Waterdeep. He had 12 nestmates, 3 of which were brothers he hatched with. Compared to his siblings, he was small, young and weak, and due to this, he was unable to participate in the play-fighting his siblings experienced and was fairly alienated from them. He never grew close with any of his family, even his parents, who, despite being protective of Noonan, didn't intervene when his many siblings picked on him and made his life miserable. Noonan retaliated by using his cunning to prank his siblings, settling the score by gaining the intellectual upper hand and setting traps his siblings would attempt to avoid. Despite the teasing, Noonan felt like his siblings may have genuinely liked him, and he felt no resentment towards his childhood.

As Noonan set out to leave the brood come adulthood, his parents revealed he was likely not their biological son. Noonan suspected this, as unlike the crow-like Kenku of his brood, he clearly looked like a pigeon. This knowledge and the harsh brood of his childhood made him eager to carve out a space of his own. He headed towards Waterdeep on his own in 1472.

His travel companion at the time was an injured Aarakocra that stayed with him on the road- however, when he arrived at Waterdeep, a cleric healed the Aarakocra's wing and the Aarakocra flew off, leaving Noonan behind without a second thought. The flightless Noonan learned a special kind of jealousy towards the freedom of flight, birthing a voracious desire to build a machine that could fly. This desire would stick through Noonan's entire life.

### Mauve and the Guild

Noonan's start to city life was funded by Noonan's craft in woodworking. He made the majority of his money street-peddling the handcrafted wooden figurines he made. He mostly stuck to himself until the intervention of Mauve Cleats, who was immediately impressed with his talent, and, at his approval, put in a good word for his name in the Waterdeep Carpenter's Guild. Mauve also introduced Noonan to Reverence, the tiefling that would eventually become his best friend and roommate. The Guild immediately hired Noonan on, solidifying him a liveable, comfortable income, allowing him and Rev to move into a Waterdeep apartment and party at Waterdeep Taverns with Mauve.

### Adventuring, 1492

Noonan and Reverence met Mariss D’Marothek, Izora de’Xvim, and Mus C’aedus II in Durnan’s Yawning Portal in the summer of 1492. Noonan and this new group were asked by Volothamp Geddarm, who Noonan befriends quite easily, to find Floon Blagmaar, who went missing alongside Renear Neverember. Noonan and company rescued both Floon and Renear, destroying an entire sect of the Hand of Nessus on the way, and were rewarded with several hundred dragons and a piece of property, Trollskull Manor, which would then become the Awning Portal.

During this time, Noonan and the party were introduced to Felrekt Lafeen and Krebbyg Masq'il'yr- both of which worked under "J.B. Nevercott" and were instructed to look after Renear Neverember- after the party investigated Renear's home and the latter shot and nearly killed Izora. Additionally, after trapping them in an iron pot, the party was introduced to an imp, who Mus named "Cupcake". Cupcake went on to be Mus's familiar.

After Renear was saved, the party was both rewarded by Nevercott, who provided the party with weaponry and gold, and Mirt, who took interest in the party's abilities and offered to take the party to an opera. Shortly before this opera, the party intended to intercept a discussion of Nevercott's at the dock ward, only to watch in horror as Felrekt was shot and killed, leaving behind a bloody message of warning against intervening in Nevercott's affairs. After the opera was crashed by Loreloth (who Mariss tied up and interrogated), Mirt offered to finance the Awning Portal in exchange for a return on profits. The group agreed to this deal, and Mirt's representative Jethro discussed building plans with the group during this time. Additionally, Loreloth revealed that Nevercott was Jarlaxle Baenre, leader of Bregan D'aerthe, the organization that Felrekt and Krebbyg were members of. The party agreed to keep Loreloth safe in the Awning Portal and allowed him to work there as a barhand for income.

The party then gets into legal trouble as Noonan and Izora talk casually about looting graves, and while Mariss runs off to do damage control, the group has a beach party. Izora also then reveals that she has plans to build a temple to Bane inside the Awning Portal. After following more leads and discussing poltergeist rights, the party returns to the Awning Portal, while Noonan goes off to the Carpenter's Guild to discuss construction on the Awning Portal. He returns to discover that Mus was shot by Krebbyg and the party is in a full-scale argument, with Krebbyg's life at stake.

Arguments continue as the following morning has Noonan climbing up the wall of the building and eavesdropping through the window, which Krebbyg catches immediately. When Noonan leaves, Mariss pulls his Rope of Climbing through the window, holding it hostage, forcing Noonan to try to disguise himself as Mus and persuade Mariss to give it back. Mariss refuses, and the real Mus, Izora, Reverence and Noonan come upstairs, and Izora casts Zone of Truth on everyone in the room. Mariss resists the Zone of Truth, and Izora tells everyone.

Mus reveals to Krebbyg that they are innocent and did not kill Felrekt. Krebbyg, aware that it is a Zone of Truth, is forced to accept the truth that Jarlaxle deceived him and tried to blame the murder of his best friend on a completely innocent and uninvolved person. Mariss appeals to Krebbyg and claims that Jarlaxle's breach of trust, not only to the party but also to Krebbyg himself, warrants his assistance. Krebbyg concedes and gives three names; Soluun Xibrindas, Llorath Pharn and Tylan Ilueph, top recruits of Jarlaxle that need to be taken out before Jarlaxle is challenged. Krebbyg also hypothesizes that Soluun likely is Felrekt's real killer, as Soluun has had a history of killing non-drow elves for fun.

Mariss begins to make preparations for the opening of the Awning Portal, setting up for a grand opening party. During this time, Noonan and Rev go to the Godcatcher Inn to reconcile with Pidge, the library ghost, and provide her with more books. They meet a strange cultist that informs them that Izora has made a deal with Asmodeus. Izora, Mus, Reverence and Noonan then have a slumber party, leaving Mariss alone at the Awning Portal.

During this slumber party, guardsmen arrive at the house, seeking Izora. Noonan lies to the guardsmen and claim Izora is not present, while Izora makes a mad dash for the window. However, Izora is spotted and the guard quickly realizes Noonan has lied about Izora’s whereabouts. Noonan is quickly arrested for obstructing justice, and Izora leaps out the window, killing a guard upon landing. She takes off, and the rest of the guard goes after her, leaving a confused Rev and Mus behind. The pair follow the incarcerated Noonan to the station, and Mus manages to get Noonan acquitted. Izora remains on the run. They later discover Izora has been arrested for the murder of a guard, as she resisted arrest and killed a guard by jumping down on him from the roof wearing full plate armor. Thanks to Mus’s intervention, she is not executed, but will spend the rest of her life in jail.

The next two days, just before the party, see the celebration of Mus's 300th birthday. Their sister, Auxi, supplies Rev and the C'aedus family's butler, Tumbleworth, with the task of lugging a 200-lb cake several blocks to the Awning Portal, taking them over an hour. The cake, being several feet wide and tall, could barely fit through the door, and even though the Awning Portal housed 8 people, they could not eat it all. However, they happily celebrate Mus’s birthday, even with all of the leftovers, which Mariss takes care of.

## **Relationships**

### Reverence

Noonan and Reverence have lived together for around a decade, ever since Mauve introduced them. Noonan and Reverence are best friends, inseparable, and go where the other goes no matter what happens. They have been together through the best and worst of times, and nothing will shake their friendship.

### Mauve Cleats

Mauve provided Noonan his first real opportunity to make a life for himself in Waterdeep. Mauve discovered the young adult Noonan selling wood carvings on the street, and provided Noonan real contacts in the Waterdeep Carpenter's Guild, allowing Noonan to start a stable career and life. Additionally, the two, along with Reverence, would hit up the local gay bar and party quite often. Along with Rev, Mauve is one of Noonan's oldest and most steadfast friends.

### Mariss D'Marothek

Noonan considers Mariss to be a friend, but is deeply concerned for him. Noonan recognizes Mariss's abrasive behavior as evidence of underlying issues, and believes that Mariss should seek some sort of counseling or therapy to deal with the probable emotional hurt that fuels his need to keep everyone at arm's length. Despite this, Noonan likes Mariss and enjoys the candy he gets in return for Mariss's bribes.

### Mus C'aedus II

Noonan truly likes Mus and sees Mus as a perfect addition to the Noonan-Reverence dynamic. Mus is a kind person and Noonan values that, and values Mus as a close friend and comrade. Noonan, Reverence and Mus are a stable and close trio that often act in tandem and easily banter and socialize with one another.

### Cupcake the Imp

Noonan considers Cupcake to be a fun addition to the party, valuing their humor and wit.

### Izora de'Xvim

Despite Izora's crimes, Noonan appreciates Izora as a dear friend. Noonan believes his chaos and Izora's chaos are aligned, and that they share similar vibes and operate on a similar wavelength. While Izora was still traveling with the party, Noonan was the most likely to go along with Izora's sinister plans, and often got into legal trouble on her behalf. Despite the repercussions of Izora's actions, Noonan still cherished her and was distraught when she was incarcerated, risking arrest himself to try to save her.

### Volothamp Geddarm

Noonan considers Volo as a good friend and would not be against pursuing a romantic relationship with him. They are each others' hypemen, and encourage their respective dramatization of their various adventures. Volo's outright bragging in the form of his self-published book, *Volo's Guide to Monsters,* encouraged Noonan to begin writing his own autobiography, and Volo would wholeheartedly encourage it. Out of the entire party, Noonan is the one who is truly closest to Volo.

## **Appendixes**

### **Journal**

The Adventures of Noonan Lockheed

Noonan Lockheed's Journal