OOC: CtL 2E New Orleans by Night

[Bennosuke]

NPCs New and Old

The Mad
-The Yellow King: Laura's captor and the former king of Carcosa in Arcadia. He is a giant and imposing figure, clad in tattered yellow robes, a booming voice, and an unknowable mercurial demeanor. He either lacks a face, wears a mask, or his countenance is impossible to see or remember; perhaps one's brain is incapable of registering what is really there.

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The Lost
-Giant: A Night Reveler friend of Laura's. His mask shows a smiling and good looking man of 5'7" with a scraggly sand colored beard and thinning hair. But his Mein is that of a towering tree-man with a voice like gravel echoing as it rumbled down the hillside. He is a musician, of the folk singer-songwriter variety, and can be seen playing most nights on Frenchman or in the Quarter, though he can often be met slumming the streets of New Orleans into the wee hours of the morning.

-Bloody Mary: The owner of Mary's Bar and Grill in the Eastern Marigny. She's a gruff, no frills woman, with a rough exterior. Her Mask is that of an overweight and greasy haired woman whose been on hard times. Her Mein appears as a massive and grizzled fur covered monster. Her short black snout was a mess of knotted scars, her maw filled with fangs, and her eyes forever pouring a river of blood tears.

-Wren Lamontaigne: Wren was a fellow courtier, an ancient changeling bent and gnarled like an old tree. She knew everything there was to know, and some Lost even thought she could predict a Changeling's future; you just had to offer her tea and honey to soothe her raspy and ragged voice.

-Old Shadow: A wizened looking Changeling who runs the shop Finders Keepers in the Tumbledown. He is a Darkling who liked to wander The Hedge, collecting all sorts of odds and ends, which he sold to interested hobs and Changelings. Nothing was too strange to sell, and he bartered for all sorts of favors or payments. He had a good view of the open market, and would likely no more about anything happening within the Tumbledown. He appears as an aged man with a bald egg round head and bushy grey mustache. He is tall and thin, long of arm and leg in a way that reminded Laura of a spider, and speaks with a creaky raspy voice.


The Odd
-The Horned Toad: The Horned Toad is a hobgoblin, and a large anthropomorphic frog. He prefers rich traditional clothing that one might find in a lord's manor in Regency era England. The Horned Toad is green and wart covered. A pair of black ram's horns protrude from his flat froggy head, normally around a powdered white wig. The Horned Toad helps delegate where vendors can set up their stalls, and is a useful resource for finding a specific stall or good in The Tumbledown Market.

-Mud: Mud is a feral little hobgoblin that scavenges The Tumbledown Market. Mud is an albino white rodent thing, with bat like ears and a hairless body, except for the long curls sprouting from it's elongated nose. It is a known thief, scurrying around the shadows in a stooped posture, or on all fours till it has found a cart or basket to pilfer from. But, because of its prolific exploration of the Tumbledown, Mud is generally good for a tasty morsel of information or gossip.

-Snigglebutt: Snigglebutt is a hobgoblin that runs a stall on the outskirts of the Tumbledown Marked, selling odds and ends. The hobgoblin is maybe just under five feet tall; a bipedal dog-lizard covered in a mix of soft green scales and shaggy brown fur, and dressed in a pair of tattered and dirty denim overalls. Snigglebutt is rather ornery, and there are rumors that it has dealings with The True Fae. Laura is fairly convinced that Snigglebutt is helping to capture or at least chase humans into The Hedge to become servants of The Gentry.

- Guiseppe: a gangly three foot tall creature with leathery yellow skin, and a round protuberant head that reminds Laura of a thumb. His round eyes are reminiscent of those on a Henson Muppet, and his long black whiskers are waxed into a foppish bike-handle mustache. He speaks with exaggerated facial gestures and a creaky voice. Guiseppe has invited Laura for dinner in exchange for a Goblin fruit, and the hobgoblin runs a fruit stall in the Tumbledown.


The Mundane
-Family:Laura’s parents hold the same jobs as they did when she was taken although are now approaching retirement. Her older sister is also a lawyer and has a well paid career in Philadelphia. Her younger brother is married and still lives in New Orleans. Laura’s fetch is married with one child and works as a defense lawyer. They recently moved back to New Orleans to assist in the care of their ageing parents.

-Monica: Monica can't be any older than 16. She ran away from home to New Orleans with a couple of high school friends, escaping a pair of parents who were so filled with hate and ignorance that her only prior escape had been in sneaking sips from the liquor cabinet and in bribing the homeless to buy her a bottle. Things had gone south pretty quickly once she got to NOLA. The money for alcohol ran out, her friends wimped out and went running home. Monica had been living on the street for a little over a week when she stumbled in a hung over haze through the French Market trying to find a corner to puke in. But Monica slipped down the wrong alley and ended up in The Hedge, surrounded by the raucous sights and sounds of The Tumble Down Market. The smell of fresh human drew the immediate attention of a number of Hobgoblins, but Laura managed to get to the poor girl first. Laura helped Monica escape the Hedge and tried to convince the girl that she hadn't seen anything. But now Monica roams the French Quarter, looking for proof that there is a magical market somewhere, proof that she isn't crazy and that the Tumbled Down is real.

-Sarah: Giant's kid sister. He's shown a picture of a girl maybe 13-14 years old with wiry blond hair and a freckled face. Giant found Sarah's old iPhone being sold by a goblin named Snigglebutt on the fringes of the Tumbledown Market, and is convinced she's been captured by the Fae.