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Caroline is the teenaged daughter of Lady Ekersfeld and has free rein of the community. She has the easy confidence of a young woman who knows everyone and gradually, she is earning their respect.

If she ever washes up she would make quite a leader.

When The Party met her she looked barely 15 and so, so very dirty.

Some say she looks a bit more like Garth than the late Lord Ekersfeld.

In the dim, oil-slicked underbelly of the Docks, where the "metallic tang" of the city’s industry meets the salt of the sea, sits Six-Fingered Larry. He is a relic of a darker era of artifice, a Syndicate Clank who has been modified so many times he is more a collection of "misfiled parts" than a cohesive machine.

Larry is a spindly, skeletal construction of tarnished brass and blackened iron. His chassis is perpetually hunched, as if he is forever leaning over a delicate mechanism. Unlike the robust, red-armored bulk of Kustos-749 , Larry is built for the "clandestine geometry" of theft and replication

His most striking feature is, of course, his hands. Each arm terminates in a specialized, multi-jointed hand featuring six elongated, needle thin fingers. These digits are tipped with fine point calipers, tension wrenches, and optical scanners. When he works, his fingers move with a rhythmic, unsettling speed... a blurring "spirited dance" of clicking metal that sounds like a thousand insects scuttling across glass.

His optical sensor is a single, oversized amber lens that can telescope outward, glowing with a low, predatory intensity when he’s examining a lock. He is perpetually shrouded in a tattered, grease-stained leather apron filled with a dizzying array of "conceptual tools" and blank key-blanks.

This is the adventuring party each with a partial ownership in the Little Shoppe of Curiosities.  Jaimus owes each of them a debt and respected each of them for the things they brought to him in life:

• Calliope (Jill) - Character Sheet - An archeologist/musicologist/appraiser who worked with Jaimus on the provenance of curiosities.

• Dana's Druid - ???

• Katrina (Barbara) - Character Sheet - A Katari gambler with an uncanny knack of winning money from Jaimus.

• Kustos-749 (Calvin) - Character Sheet - A Clank recently liberated from a cursed imprisonment.

• Willow (Dana) - Character Sheet - A druid... perhaps the hippy granddaughter of Jaimus McNulty.

Former Members

• Kaiser (Leland) - Character Sheet - A Katari kid next door who helped Jaimus by chopping firewood.

• Cosma (Griffin) - Character Sheet - A mystic Faun specializing in magics both deep and dark. She was called away to help with an urgent issue in Grellan's Grove.

According to elven scholars, the name was originally "Echoes Field" due to the echoing of the pit, but has changed over time to Ekersfeld. The present, Lady Ekersfeld doesn't believe that, preferring that the mines have been a family venture for hundreds of years.

The village, itself, if mostly built around the outside of the pit, but some have made their homes in the ancient chambers below. Further down are the iron mines, where many of the residents work.

The villagers may know more about the pit than anyone else, but they don't know much. The stairs leading below the mines are closed with a locked gate and no one ventures beyond it.

Still, they do know a few things about what's below.

First, there are bats living down there. Very large ones, which come out at night. For this reason, the villagers tend to stay indoors after dark.

Second, there is-- or at least, was-- somebody living down there. The old folks say their grandparents told them stories about the pit people, who used to come up to trade on occasion. No one alive has seen a pit person, but they were said to be small and strange-looking, but friendly enough. These "pit people" are actually a tribe of goblins, who do still live below.

The villagers don't know anything about the origins of the pit, but they have plenty of theories. Maybe the people were digging something up. Or maybe they just liked the darkness. Or maybe they were demons digging a pit to hell. In any case, the villagers don't believe dwarves built it. Dwarves do build underground cities, but a few dwarves passing through have told them it doesn't look dwarven to them.

The villagers don't know how old the pit is, but they believe it's at least a few thousand years old. They are correct.

A few out-of-towners have gone down into the pit over the years. Most of them didn't return. Those that did weren't down there long and didn't venture very far.

The villagers' shrine is dedicated to the god of mining or smithing.

The villagers don't process the ore they mine. They send it to a nearby mill to be crushed and smelted.

Vatha argues incessantly with her brother Glaber using every tool available to her, be that the Senate where she is "First among equals" or in the streets where she is arguably the most fair-minded person in the city of Kashal.

She may promise to 'paper over' problems for a proper discount at the magic shop. She is a good friend to have.

Willow is the half-sister of Cosma and grew up in the somewhat functional Sablethorn family.