Your party? Not anymore

You are an adventurer. You were born and raised in Willowshire, a small farming town, thriving and peaceful. There, you grew up with your family, friends, and a childhood sweetheart, just like every person your age. At 18, you were a local hero, if helping people with their problems in your free time was heroism.

Then, you decided you had outgrown your town, so you left, promising to visit in two years to share loot and stories. That was ten years ago. You didn’t go back because you heard the news: your town was burned and razed. Nothing remained; all of your loved ones were whisked away, so the only way forward was to move on and so you did, Ten years ago.

Later, you became an adventurer with a small party. A-Tier adventurers. High class, the kind of adventurers bards sing songs about.

As the contracts were getting harsher, you needed an extra hand; then, you found Nylea. She was capable, strong, and charismatic. She was so good that your leadership paled in comparison, and you were found lacking. She was effective, and she got along with the rest of the team.

Nylea started simple and slow: a comment here, a mistake you shouldn’t have made there. After a botched mission to retrieve an artifact ended in an unnecessary fight, the party now feels like Nylea should lead.

The Characters: Maury Venefar Maury was the daughter of an elvish farmer. She worked with farming animals and she became strong enough to tip cows and easily wrangle bulls by her sheer strength. She decided to leave home since she felt like her farm was too small for her. Since she’s very physically strong and she wasn’t as smart to cast magic, her natural affinity made her a good vessel to be a Paladin of the forest. She has nature as a patron god.

Hana Bassett She met you through the guild. Maury was looking for a person to help her to deal with a C-Tier escort mission to protect the daughter of a Merchant. After the mission, she got along with you and proposed to work together. Hana was from the east, land of the beloved sun. She was a street urchin. Her parents were killed to collect a debt and then she found her place in the streets. She traveled to the capital city to find jobs and ended up at the guild hall. There she found jobs related to extraction of items, people, and people’s souls out of their bodies.

Maury, Gricka and you met her when she was trying to retrieve the same artifact they were tasked to retrieve. After some banter, she joined the team. She has a rivalry with Maury over her approach to solve things with strength and no brains. Hana is very protective of the party, that’s why she appreciates good leadership, understanding there are hard choices to be made but they would lead to better outcomes for everyone.

Dr. Gricka Boogerlick Goblins hate creating stuff. They’re intelligent but they viscerally hate creations since for them is an affront to their beliefs. Gricka had been a curious artificer. Gricka since she was very little got ahold of a great artificer’s journal where he detailed how to make constructs and the use of magic stones as energy sources.

She took materials and started creating on her own gadgets, wind-up toys mostly. She kept them hidden far away from the tribe but her clan found her stash and cut her hands. Maury and you found her while retrieving a stolen necklace and sneaked her out of her imprisonment.

At the guild, she managed to get help, some magically temporally conjured hands that would help her build her mechanic hands. These are powered with aether stones and the darksteel used to build them make them feel like living warm hands which she can feel as her own hands. Since she was a scavenger and can’t fight against monsters, she made herself the revolving gun, her signature weapon and other accessories like grappling hooks and flashbangs. Since she’s pioneer in the studies for prosthetics, she makes people call her Dr Boogerlick

Nylea Hailstorm The curse disguised as a blessing. Nylea was available and charmed you into hiring her as a helper for a big mission. She outclasses the party and made it seem like a breeze. After that, she became more vocal, making you look like you were unable to handle the party. Now, she has talked herself into slowly becoming a better option for everyone.