Session 2 NPCs

## FEATHERGUARD RESPONDS TO COMMOTION:

#### Ukkendar:

Main investigator to show up after the commotion dies down. Is a duck birdkin with a sharp look to his eye and sleek green feathers. Unlike the enforcers, he wears a tie and a less combative uniform.

“What in all the gate deities happened here. What are you to a bunch of Tauri and an arcanist?”

#### Qlicia:

Female, condor enforcer of the birdkin. Muscular and lithe, she quickly captures the red circle arcanist that tried to escape.

“You won’t escape me you shitstain!”

#### Razzapia:

Brown Eagle birdkin enforcer, and Qlicia’s partner.

“EVERYONE, DROP YOUR WEAPONS! PUT YOUR HANDS UP! FRONT AND CENTER!”

#### Verrela:

Mousekin. Arcanist investigator for the featherguard. Wears a light featherguard uniform.

“It seems they were under the influence of some amiability spell. Nothing so strong as a will break, just enough to make them agreeable.”

#### Adelia, Master Chef:

She runs her restaurant “Adelia’s” in the Residential Heights. She’s a middle-aged half-elf of almost amazonian proportions. She has a fiery attitude and an almost permanent grimace. Her specialty is sea-food and crepes. She spends a premium to make sure only the freshest, safest ingredients enter her kitchen.

“MY PATRONS WERE ASSAULTED! YOU WILL TREAT THEM BETTER THAN THAT!” she says brandishing a ladle in the enforcers face.

## IN THE PIT:

#### Detective Soucntente:

Birdfolk eagle detective, a member of the Featherguard in Teiros. He only wears his uniform during featherguard funerals, opting typically for street leathers. He’s considered somewhat of a black sheep because he spends more time in the Pit working on cases involving the Trowels than on cases involving the good folk of the Residential Heights.

Monologue: He puts down a rancid smelling cigar and takes a device out of his pocket. It looks vaguely like the filter portion of a respirator with two short tubes jutting out of it. He holds it up to his bird nostrils inserting the tubes as he does this and gives it a squeeze compressing a part of the device into itself. You hear a woosh of depressurized air and he breathes in deeply, holds it, then breathes back out into it. A white cloud puffs out of a metallic mesh on either side.

“Do you know what this is? It’s a relatively new invention though the technology has existed for some time now. It’s called a de-respirator. Every screw on this device, and this pressurized canister here was manufactured in the taps. This metal grate on the side and the mesh behind it is made out of a metal doped and refined in the refinery. Both are treated with the harshest chemicals, ironically to make the best purifiers available in the world today.”

He clicks it open and a clump of shiny black and purple gunk flops out onto the table.

“Twenty years of smoking these things and wandering the pits taking cases no one wants. Gone in a moment. Absorbed by a gas only a select few arcanists know how to distill and enchant, and are unwilling to share; my body’s healing activated and enhanced to rebuild the damaged tissue in my lungs; then any sign of abuse exhaled through a filter to keep it out of the atmosphere. A device built on the backs of the people who need it the most and fabricated at a premium only a select few can afford. My precinct commissioned the one I carry with me now, so that I could investigate the pit safely. It could cure the glow lung. There is exactly one of these in the entire smeltery as of last month, the express purpose of which is so the good people of Teiros can ruin their lungs and get right back to work with a fresh pair. I’ve never felt so filthy.”

#### Scratches:

The first member of the Whisker Crew the party is going to meet. He wears a bronze gear on a chain around his neck, and is wrapped in clean, white linen clothing with a simple black cloak around his shoulders. This is Krela’s primary point of contact to the underground. He frequently commissions Krela to fix weapons for the Whisker Crew to sell back into the community at a discount.

#### Mother Riannia:

The de-facto leader of the Ratkin underground. She protects her people and they look to her for advice and aid. On the surface, she has no involvement with the criminal side of the pit. She is secretly the head of “the Whisker Crew.” Her main headquarters is an orphanage for Ratkin where she raises and trains young Ratkin to survive the harshness of the world. They also serve as message carriers between her various associates.